History of the early settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois : "centennial record"

THE UNIVERSITY

OF ILLINOIS

LIBRARY

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HISTORY

OF THE

EARLY SETTLERS

OF

SANGAMON COUNTY, ILLINOIS.

CENTENNIAL RECORD.

ASSISTED BY HIS WIFE,

MRS. S. A. POWER.

UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE OLD SETTLERS' SOCIETY.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.:

EDWIN A. WILSON & CO-

1876.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1876, by

JOHN CARROLL POWER
In the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL.:
E. L. MERRITT & BRO., PRINTERS,

1876.

LIBRARY

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OUR OWN PRELUDE.

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OUR OWN PRELUDE.

It is with unfeigned satisfaction that I write these closing words, for that is what"
they are, although placed at the opening of the volume.

It. will be found, by consulting the book, that in settling Sangamon county every
one of the original thirteen States are represented, also every State organized before
Illinois; and that the descendents of the early settlers of this county may be found in
every State organized since Illinois; also in the District of Columbia, and in every
Territory belonging to the United States government. Remarkable as it may appear,
there is not a State or Territory in our whole nation but has some chord that centers
in Sangamon county. Many European countries might be included also. Thus it
will be seen that the homogeneous character of our whole people could not be more
forcibly illustrated than by this volume.

It is my hope that it will be an educator, in suggesting the idea of how to arrange

o| and continue a family history. There are family histories presented here that will be

'.'• prized for many generations, and yet but few of them would ever have been written

11 up by the families themselves. ' It is surprising that there are not more families who write

up their own histories. Family pride is commendable, and, viewed properly, should

^ be a powerful stimulant to right living, but it can have no reliable foundation without

written history. Let a man rise to eminence and all'are eager to learn something of

>- his origin and history. I could not cite a more remarkable instance of this than has

already been developed in this county, in the history of Abraham Lincoln. There are

I.P hundreds of families in the county from whom, to all human appearance, a great man

} is as likely to spring as in the case mentioned, and yet they have no family records, or

; if they do keep them, they only give dates without locating events. Look at your

y family Bibles and see if you can learn from them where any event connected with

your ancestors took place. You must remember, however, that this all requires labor.

If you wish to test it, go to work and prepare a sketch of a numerous family such as

you find here.

I expected to complete this in one year, but when the magnitude of the work

dawned on me I thought it might take two vt-ais. Nearly that time was >>pent in

collecting the materials. The two years has doubk-d, and with four months added, 1
0 find myself putting on the finishing touches. Thus you have the result of more than
four years labor on my part, and about two years by Mrs. Power. She has, during
that time, written nearly two thousand letters of inquiry to the descendents of early
settlers, and has incorporated the information obtained by their replies, in the family

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sketches to which they properly belong, besides rendering me much other valuable
assistance, in all parts of the book.

To Edwin A, Wilson, not only thanks, but much more substantial tokens of ap-
proval are due. He has done that which none of the early settlers seemed disposed to
do. Without his co-operation, in furnishing the sinews of war, I should not have
undertaken the work.

To Messrs. Preston Breckenridge, N. W. Matheny and N. M. Broadwell, the com-
mittee of the Old Settlers' Society, who have so heartily entered into the spirit of the
work, I not only tender my thanks, but venture to express the hope and belief that
every family represented in the book will feel under lasting obligations to them for the
impartial manner in which they have discharged the duties devolving upon them.

To the families of the early settlers, who so kindly and courteously responded to
my inquiries, and extended to me the hospitalities of their homes, I cannot find words
to express the thanks I feel; but ardently hope that the perusal of the book will
return to you some of the pleasure I enjoyed in visiting your families. In the book we
lay before you, we think all will admit that every pledge has been more than redeemed.
What I say about myself and rny associates will be seen the first time by them, as it is
by you — here in print.

And last, though not least, I reverently bow with thanksgiving and praise to
Almighty God, that He granted to me uninterupted health from the beginning to the
end of this work. J- ^" P-

SPRINGFIELD, ILL., December, 1876.

SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR.

FROM THE

UNITED STATES BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY.

ILLINOIS VOLUME, PAGE 86 — 1876.

TOHN C ^RROLL POWER was born September 19, 1819, in Fleming county, Kentucky,
between Flemmgsburg and Mount Carmel. His grandfather Joseph Power, with
six brothers older than himself, were all living near Leesburg, Loudon county, Vir-
ginia at the beginning of the American Revolution, and all became soldiers m the cause
of freedom Some of the elder brothers served through the whole seven years strug-
<rle for Independence, the younger ones entering the army as soon as they arrived at a
suitable age. Joseph was but sixteen years old when he enlisted, and that was during
last year of the war. He was married a few years later, and, in 1793, started with
his wJfe, children and household goods, on pack-horses, and in company with several
other families crossed- the Allegheny mountains to Pittsburgh They descended he
Ohio river in boats, landing at Limestone, now Maysville, and afterwards settled
what became Fleming county, Kentucky.

John Power, the second son of Joseph, born November, 1787,, in London county,
Virginia, was the father of the subject of this sketch. He was a farmer in comfortable
circumstances and the owner of a few slaves; but with his numerous fam.lv he could
not send his children from home to acquire that education wh.ch ,s now to be obtained
in district schools, within the reach of all; consequently this son of whom we wr
grew to manhood without having mastered more than the simplest rudiment, of the
English language.

Like many other men who have struggled against adverse circumstances, he com-
nftnced his education a, a period of life when he should have been ,n possess,.
He takes pleasure in attributing to a great extent the measure .of success he 1 as attain-
ed both morallv and mentally, to his selection ot a wife. He was marned May ,4,
SS Miss S-arah A. Harris. The marriage was solemnized about ,wenty.s,x miles
betw Cincinnati, in Aurora, Indiana. Miss Harris was born there Octobe, ,,
1824, of English parentage.

Her ^ndfathcr, on the maternal side, was the Rev. John Wadsworth, who was
Rector off single parish of the Protestant Episcopal church near Manchester, England,
more than a Ihiri of a century. His daughter Catalina was the mother ol Mrs.
Power.

On her father's side the history reaches back to her great-grandfather, William
Fox, who was a wholesale merchant in London. He was also deacon of a Bapti
church in that city. By his business travels he became conversant with the i

SKETCH OF THE AUTHOR.

and destitute condition of the poor people of the kingdom, and made an effort to in-
duce Parliament to establish a system of free schools; but failing in that, he next un-
dertook to persuade his friends to unite with him in organizing and supporting a sys-
tem of week-day instruction so extensive that "every person in the kingdom might be
taught to read the Bible." When he had gone far enough to realize that the magni-
tude of the work was almost appalling, his attention was providentially drawn to the
consideration of Sunday schools, in order to determine whether or not thev would an-
swer the same pnrpose. Becoming convinced that they would, he zealously adopted
the latter plan, and on the yth ot September, 1785, he organized in the city of London
the first society in the world for the dissemination of Sunday schools. That society
stood for eignteen years without a rival, and during that time it was instrumental in
establishing Sunday schools ..wherever Christian, missions had unfurled the banner of
the cross.

William Fox had two sons and three daughters- The eldest daughter, Sarah, be-
came the wife of Samuel Harris, a druggist of London. They had a son and daughter.
The son, William Tell Harris, was married April 24, 1821, in England, to Catalina
Wadsworth, daughter of Rev. John Wadsworth, as already stated. They came to
America soon after their marriage, and settled in Aurora, Indiana. They have both
been dead many years. Their only living child, -Sarah A., was educated at private
schools, and a four years' course in Granville Female Seminary, an institution under
the auspices of the Protestant Episcopal church, at Granville, Ohio, from which she
graduated in 1842. After her marriage to Mr. Power, in 1845, a* his request she
directed his studies, and when he began to write for publication she became his critic;
in that way rendering the best possible assistance, which she continues to the present
time.

Mr. Power was brought up a farmer, but engaged in other pursuits a number of
years, always cultivating habits of study and occasional writing, but without any
thought of becoming an author until well advanced in life. He met with serious
reverses about the beginning of the great rebellion; and at its close, finding himself in
possession of a few thousand dollars, determined to return to agricultural pursuits. He
accordingly removed to Kansas, purchased a farm and prosecuted the tilling of it for
three years. The grasshoppers destroyed the crops of 1866 and 1867, and the drought
of 1868 made almost a total loss of those three years, with all the expense of farming.
In April, 1869, he accepted the first and only offer he ever received for his farm,
returned to Illinois, and since that time has devoted himself almost exclusively to
literary pursuits.

His prize essay on Self-Education, for which the Illinois State Agricultural Society
awarded him a premium in 1858, was revised and published in "Harkness' Magazine;"
the editor expressing the opinion that those who read it would find it "one of the most

profitable, instructive and mentally and morally invigorating essays they ever read."

•

His "History of the Rise and Progress of Sunday Schools," published in 1864, by
Sheldon & Co., New York, was his first publication in book form. It is the only con-
nected history of that noble branch of Christian work ever attempted, and appears by
common consent to be accepted as the standard authority on that subject. Mr. Power
has written several books and pamphlets on various local subjects; also magazine
articles on a great variety of topics.

SKETCH OP THE AUTHOR.

An open letter by him to the Postmaster-General, on the subject of addressing mail
matter, is a brief and interesting magazine article. Some of his ideas are quite novel,
and will bear investigation. The main point he aims to enforce is, that all mail matter
should be addressed by first writing the name of the state in full, next the county, then
the postoffice, and end with the name of the person or firm expected to receive it; thus
reversing the order practiced from time immemorial. He considers that essay his con-
tribution to the great American Centennial.

Perhaps his most finished work is the latest — his monumental edition of the "Life
of Lincoln." It is a fitting tribute to the nation's martyred dead. His style is pecu-
liarly clear, concise and original. He treats every subject most thoroughly and com-
prehensively, yet with an ease and grace of manner that charms the reader. A gen-
tleman of the highest literary attainments, connected with Madison University,
Hamilton, New York, in a note to the publishers, says: "I have read your 'Life of
Lincoln' by Power. It has the charm of a novel."

Mr. Power is now engaged on a history of the early settlers of Sangamon county,
Illinois, which, of course, includes the city of Springfield, his place of residence. This
work, upon which he has spent more than four years' constant labor, will be issued in
1876. It is awaited with expectant interest by his numerous friends. He has other
literary work laid out, sufficient to keep him employed for years to come, and will
doubtless continue in that pursuit the remainder of his days.

EARL1 SETTLERS OF

CONTENTS.

PAGE.

Additions, Omissions and Corrections ................................ 16

Letter A .................................................... 73-

B .......................................................... 87

C .......... ..." ............................................. 165

D .................................... ..................... 242

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H ....................................................... 346

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K ......................................................... 42 1

L ......................................................... 435

M ................ ................................... ...... 47i

•J? ............................................... : ....... '537

° ......................................................... 54P

p ..... • ............................ ' ....................... 552

*•••'. .................. . ................................... 59<

o ....................... .............................. . ... 633

T ........................................... • ............. 699

u .............................. • .......................... 733

V- ........................................................ 735

W ........................................................ 745

Y ....................................................... --789

z ......................................................... 796

Deep Snow ........ ............................................... 62

Extract from 111. Vol. United States Biographical Dictionary ........... 5

Historical Prelude ................................................. 25

Long Nine ........................................................ 494

Miscellaneous ..................................................... 62

Note of 101 citizens ....... ............................. ............ 48

Old Settlers Society ................................................ 9

Ordinance of 1787 .............................. . ................. 27

Our own Prelude ...... . .......................... ........... ' ...... 3

Railroads ......................................................... 43

Sangamon County ................................ ................. 31

Springfield. .... ................. . ................................. 44

State Capitals ..................................................... 45

Sudden Change ................................................... 6=5

Trayler Brothers ......................................... . ........ 720

Wars — Black Hawk ............................................... 54

" Winnebago ................................................ 53

OLD SETTLERS'* SOCIETY.

ORGANIZATION

OF THE

OLD SETTLERS' SOCIETY OF SANGAMON COUNTY.

ITS MEETINGS AND MOVEMENTS TO HAVE A

HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS

WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED.

A call for a meeting of the early settlers of Sangamon county, Illinois, was drawn
up May 25, 1859, by Pascal P. Enos, and circulated by him until sixty-one signatures
were obtained, proposing a meeting of all those who were citizens of the county pre-
vious to the winter of the "deep snow," 1830-31; for the purpose of organizing a
society to preserve the history of Springfield and Sangamon county. The call was
published in the Jotirnal and Register of May 27th, and the meeting was held June
1st, and adjourned to June 15, 1859.

The OLD SETTLERS' SOCIETY OF SANGAMON COUNTY was then organized by
adopting a constitution, in which it was declared that all persons were old settlers who
came to the co.untv previous to the "deep snow." Thomas Moffitt was chairman, and
Pascal P. Enos secretary of the meeting. It was declared that October 2oth of each
year should he celebrated as Old Settlers' Day, in honor of the first cabin in the county
having been raised by Robert Pulliam, October 20, 181 7. It was also declared that
until the first Monday in June, 1860, the officers of the society should be Thomas
Moffitt, President, and Pascal P. Enos, Secretary.

The old settlers and their descendents assembled on the morning of Oct. 20, 1859,
in the vicinity, formed in procession, and, headed by a hand of music, marched to
where the first cabin stood. Two wagons had been drawn together on the spot to
serve as a platform. The President, Judge Moffitt, called the meeting to order, and
the exercises were opened with prayer by Rev. Wm. S. Prentice, the presiding elder of
the Springfield district of the M. E. church. The hand then played the red, white and
blue, after which the Hon. James H. Matheny was introduced and delivered an oration,
suitable to the occasion. Several other brief speeches were made after which they
held a festival in picnic style, and thus passed the day, to the general satisfaction
of all who assembled there.

It was fully expected that those meetings would he held annually, but nine long and
eventful years passed before the e arly settlers of the county held another reunion. The
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next year, at the proper time for holding the meeting, the whole country was abla/e
with the political excitement of the campaign that terminated in the election of
Abraham Lincoln — one of the least pretentious of the early settlers of Sangainon
county — to the office of President of the United States. .Then followed war, that
terminated in the abolition of slavery and the death of President Lincoln.

RE-ORGANIZATION OF THE SOCIETY.

July 28, 1868, a call appeared in the Jotirnal and the Register, proposing to hold
a meeting at Clear Lake, seven miles east of Springfield, on the 2oth day of August.
The call was signed by thirty-two of the early settlers.

CLEAR LAKE, August 20, 1868.

The meeting was called to order by the chairman of the committee of arrange-
ments, Strother G. Jones, Esq. Exercises were opened with prayer by Rev. C. B.
Stafford. Speeches were made by Munson Carter, Rev. John England, Gen. M. K.
Anderson, and Samuel Williams, when they adjourned for dinner, which was taken in
pic-nic style. After dinner Preston Breckenridge gave an account of his three first years
in the county, 1834-5-6. The year 1835, 'ias always been remembered as a time of great
suffering. Other speeches were made and the meeting adjourned.

CLEAR LAKE, Aug. 20, 1869.

The annual meeting of the Early Settlers' of Sangamon County was called to
order at 12 o'clock by S. G. Jones, the President. After prayer by Rev. Mr. Holton,
of Springfield, speeches were made by Rev. Dr. Bergen, Revs. C. B. Stafford and
David England, and adjourned for dinner. After that, more speeches by J. Wickliffe
Taylor, P. Breckenridge and J. H. Matheny. The meeting was then closed for the
purpose of effecting a more permanent organization, which was done by enrolling
eighty-six names of early settlers, of both sexes. They provided for future business by
the election of P. Breckenridge, President; Samuel Preston and Strother G. Tones,
Vice Presidents; John F. King, Secretary.

CLEAR LAKE, Aug. 31, 1870.

Mr. Breckenridge not being present, Vice President S. G.Jones called the meeting
to order. Prayer was offered by Rev. Francis Springer, who followed that with an
address. Brief speeches were made by Elisha Primm, David England and Samuel
A. Grubb, and after dinner, Samuel Williams read a paper full of historical reminis-
cences. Speeches were made by Cg>\. Thomas Bond of Taylorville, Joab Wilkinson
of Macon county, and John Fletcher of Sangamon, and adjourned.

IRWJNS GROVE, Sept. 23, 1871.

Mr. Breckenridge called the meeting to order, and the exercises were opened with
prayer by the venerable Daniel Wadsworth of Auburn. Thomas S. Parks, the
secretary, read the minutes, followed by a brief 'speech from Samuel Williams.
Governor Palmer was then introduced and made a speech depicting many scenes

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and incidents in the lives of the early settlers, not forgetting his own experience in
courting, by taking his girl behind him on horseback to camp meetings, picnics, etc. It
was regarded as the most mirth 'provoking speech ever delivered at an old settlers'
meeting. After that came dinner, followed by a letter from General McClernand and
speeches from J. H. Matheny and Hon. John T. Stuart. Then came the election of

officers, as follows:

P. BRECKENRIDGE, President.

NOAH MASON, Vice President.
THOMAS S. SPARKS, Secretary,

Oak Ridge Park, adjoining Springfield on the north, SEPTEMBER 29, 1872.
The meeting of the Old Settlers was called to order at eleven o'clock. As a change
in the usual programme, the Society proceeded at once to the election of officers for
the ensuing year. Job Fletcher was elected President, with seventy Vice Presidents,
and Noah W. Matheny, Secretary. After dinner, General John A. McClernand was
introduced and spoke about three-fourths of an hour in a chaste' and eloquent style.
The next speech was by Rev. William J. Rutledge. He said that thirty-three years
betore he had run a saw mill on Spring creek and sawed stringers used in laying the
track of the first railroad ever built in the State of Illinois. The latter part of his
speech was exceedingly humorous and closed amid a roar of laughter. Major Elijah
lies then took the stand and in a conversational way related many interesting incidents
of his experience among the early settlers. He was followed by Revs. J. D. Randall,
of Edwardsville, and William S. Prentice and F. H. Wines, of Springfield. George
R. Weber made the closing speech, and the meeting adjourned.

PLEASANT PLAINS, August 29, 1873.

The Old Settlers assembled in full force. A long train of cars well filled, came from
Springfield, bringing the old settlers from all other parts of the county. The Presi-
dent, Captain Job Fletcher, called the meeting to order, and an address of welcome
ws delivered by Rev. John Slater, of Pleasant Plains. The exercises were formally
opened with prayer by Rev. Mr. Lyon of the M. E. church. Governor Palmer \v;is
then introd\ ced and made an excellent old settlers' speech in his usual mirth provoking
style. Next came dinner, after which several more speeches, and then the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year: Rev. Samuel M. Wilson, of Pleasant
Plains, President; James Parkinson, Vice President; and N. W. Matheny, Secretary.

Crow's Mill, or Cotton Hill, SEPTEMBER 10, 1874.

The Old Settlers assembled in large numbers to-day, in Stout's Grove, to find that
the most ample provision had been made for their comfort by the local committee,
William Burtle, Philemon Stout, Davis Meredith and Job Fletcher. The President,
Mr. Wilson, not having arrived, the meeting was called to order by Captain Fletcher.
After a few short speeches, dinner was announced and partaken of with H keen relish
by all. More speeches were then made, and a vote of thanks was tendered the retiring
President, Rev. S. M. Wilson. The following officers were then elected: William

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Burtle, President; Alexander B. Irwin and Dayis Meredith, Vice Presidents; Noah
W. Mathenv, Secretary.

CANTRALL, ILL., Aug. 21, 1875.

The Old Settlers' of Sangamon and Menard counties held a union meeting here to-
day. William Burtle, President of the Old Settlers' Society of Sangamon county as-
sumed the chair, and the meeting was opened with prayer by Elder Vawter of Cant-
rail. Speeches and feasting occupied the time until just previous to adjournment,
when the following were elected as officers for the ensuing year: Alexander B. Irwin,
President, E. C. Matheny, Secretary.

Fair grounds, near SPRINGFIELD, ILLS., Aug. 31,' 1876.

The Old Settlers' of Sangamon county, assembled here to-day by thousands. They
came by the Chicago & Alton Railroad, in wagons and carriages, on horseback and on
foot. Alexander B. Irwin, the President, being detained by sickness, the assembly was
called to order by Gen. M. K. Anderson. Brief speeches were made, but the princi-
pal one was by Hon. William H. Herndon. It was rich in incidents and anecdotes,
and flashed with brilliant thoughts throughout. After this speech one hour was de-
voted to dinner in pic-nic style. A few more short speeches were made and then the
following were elected as officers' of the society for the next year: Alexander B. Irwin,
President; Gen. M. K. Anderson, Vice President; E. C. Matheny, Secretary.

OLD SETTLERS HISTORY.

In June, 1872, I was called upon by Hon. Preston Breckenridge, who was then
serving his third term as President of the Old Settlers' Society of Sangamon County.
He stated, in substance, that the early settlers of the county had for some years been
talking of having something written and published that would serve as a history of
the county and biographical sketches of themselves; that thus far they had not found
any person qualified for the work who was willing to undertake it. He further stated
that a copy of the small pamphlet history of Springfield, prepared and published by
myself, under the auspices of the Springfield Board of Trade, had fallen into his hands,
and that after perusing it, and conversing with some of his friends who knew me, he
determined to form my acquaintance, and see if I could be induced to engage in the
enterprise. He very frankly told me there was no fund to defray the expense, that the
only inducement they could offer would be their co-operation in collecting information
and giving their subscriptions for the book. The following communication was the
result of that interview :

Hon. P. Breckenridge, President of the Society of Old Settlers of Sangamon

Cozmty :

SIR: — You, as the representative of your society, having expressed to me a desire
to have a book written and published, to preserve, as far as possible, the biographical,
historical and other reminiscences of the early settlers of Sangamon county, and having
requested me to suggest a plan upon which I would be willing to undertake such a
work, I offer the following as my views upon the subject: The materials are so
abundant, that I would not be willing to engage in it if I were required to compress
all in a very small, cheap volume. I propose to undertake to write and publish a book

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upon that subject, to contain not less than five hundred octavo pages, with a small map,
showing all the townships, villages, towns and cities, with other objects of interest, in
the county — all to he printed on the best quality of book paper, and bound in the finest
of English cloth, provided I can obtain subscriptions for one thousand copies at five
dollars per copy.

If this plan should meet the views of your society, I should expect old settleas to
co-operate with me, by furnishing all the information they may respectively possess.
It would be more satisfactory for those interested, if you would appoint a committee of
three — a majority of whom shall reside in Springfield — to whom I can submit all copy
for their approval, before publication.

J. C. POWER.
Springfield, Aug. 14, 1872.

At a meeting of a committee of the Society of Old Settlers, on the fifteenth of
August, the above communication was laid before them, whereupon the following reso-
lutions were adopted:

Resolved, That this society heartily endorses the proposition of Mr. Power, and
we hereby pledge ourselves, as a society and as individuals, to co-operate with him in
obtaining the requisite number of subscribers and in collecting information and com-
piling the book.

Resolved, That the President of this society, Hon. P. Breckenridge, is hereby re-
quested to appoint two old settlers of this count)-, who reside' in Springfield, to act
with himself, the three to form the committee to point out sources of information to
Mr. Power, and examine his manuscript, for the purpose of correcting all errors before
publication.

Resolved, That for the purposes of this book, all persons are considered old
settlers, who were citizens of Sangamon county previous to December 31, 1840.

Mr. Breckenridge appointed Noah W. Matheny and Judge N. M. Broadwell as
his colleagues so that the committee is composed of Hon. P. Breckenridge, Hon. N.
W. Matheny, and Hon. N. W. Broadwell.

The Old Settlers' Society by this action did all that was necessary to place the sub-
ject in its true light before the public, but the undertaking was one involving so much
time, labor and money, that nearly two months elapsed before I decided to go on with
the work, when the following was added, and the canvassing commenced:

With the view of rendering' the book of general interest to all the citizens, I shall
make the history of the county as full as possible, to the date given in the third resolu-
tion. In this history all old settlers will be incidentally mentioned, but for those who
take sufficient interest in it to subscribe for one or more copies of the book, a concisely
written biographical sketch will be given of themselves and families. The order of
arrangement will be, first, the history, then the biographical sketches.

At a meeting of the Old Settlers' Society in Springfield, August 22, 1874, for the
purpose of agreeing on the time and place of holding the next annual festival, and for
the transaction of any other business that might come before it, the following report of
special committee was read, and on motion ordered to be included as part of the pro-
ceedings of the meeting:

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GENTLNMEN: — We, the undersigned, committee appointed by your honorable body
two years ago this day, to co-operate with Mr. J. C. Power, and so far as necessary,
direct his movements in preparing a history of the old settlers of Sangamon county,
beg leave to report that we have examined his work, and find that he has canvassed
the whole county outside of Springfield, and that we are highly pleased with the pro-
gress made. Mr. Power has collected a much greater quantity of material than we
had expected; and the work, when completed, we believe will be a source of much
pleasure to the surviving Old Settlers, and of increasing interest to their descendents
in all coming time. He is more than redeeming every promise made at the commence-
ment, and it will amply repay all the patrons of the work to wait with patience the
few months longer that will" be necessary to complete it.

In view of the fact that there is such a vast fund of interesting information, we
have advised Mr. Power that if there be any families of old settlers who do not take
sufficient interest in the subject to aid by their subscription in carrying forward the
work, that he omit any extended sketches of them, in order to devote more space to
historical matters of general interest.

PRESTON BRECKENRIDGE,
N. W. MATHENY,
N. M. BROADWELL.

My time was fully occupied for nearly two years in writing up and arrangino- the
materials in my hands, and incorporating additional matter constantlv coming in.
This brought us to our "Centennial" year, and the following Joint Resolution was
passed by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States, and approved
by the President, U. S. Grant, March 13, 1876:

Be it resolved by the Senate "and House of Reprvsentatives of the United States of
America, in Congress assembled, That it be, and is hereby recommended by the Sen-
ate and House of Representatives to the people of the several States that thev assemble
in their several counties or towns on the approaching centennial anniversary of our
national independence, and that they cans* to have delivered on such a day an histori-
cal sketch of said county or town from its formation, and that a copy of said sketch
may be filed, in print or manuscript, in the Clerk's office of said county, and an addi-
tional copy, in print or manuscript, be filed in the office of the Librarian of Congress,
to the intent that a complete record may thus be obtained of the progress of our insti-
tutions during the first centennial of their existence.

Hon.J. L. Beveridge, Governor of Illinois, issued a proclamation April 25, 1876,
recommending to the people in every county and town in the State, that they take
measures to carry out the recommendations of the Joint Resolution of Congress. The
following correspondence was in compliance with the recommendations:

MR. J. C. POWER:

Sir: — As Congress has, by joint resolution, recommended to the people of the
several States, that they cause to be prepared and preserved in a certain manner, histo-
ries of the different places, "to the intent that a complete record may thus be obtained
of the progress of our institutions during the first centennial of our existence;" and as
the Governor of Illinois has by proclamation, called upon the people of this State to
prepare such record, we, as Advisory Committee of the "Old Settlers' Society," of San-

OLD SETTLERS' SOC1ETT.

gam on county, in the absence of any action on this subject by the city or county
authorities, suggest that your "History of Sangamon County" be supplied by you in
compliance with the requirements of the resolution of Congress, as the Centennial
record.

Having examined two hundred and fifty pages of the advance sheets of your work,
it appears to fill the requirements both as to Sangamon county and the city of Spring-
field, and is more complete and full than any similar work could be, if gotten up and
prepared in the brief time yet remaining for such business.

NOAH W. MATHENY,
N. M. BROADWELL,
PRESTON BRECKENRIDGE.
Springfield, 111., May 8, 1876.

On behalf of the officers of Sangamon county we heartily concur in the foregoing
suggestions, believing that the object desired will be completely attained thereby.

JAMES H. MATHENY, County Judge.
JOHN J. HARDIN, County Clerk.

Messrs. Matheny, Broadvcell, Breckenridge^ Matheny and Hardin :

Your note of the 8th instant is before me. In reply, I would say that my work of
nearly four years' incessant toil on the history of the Early Settlers of Sangamon
County is drawing to a close. I very willingly acquiesce in your suggestion that it be
adopted as the "Centennial record." It is passing through the press as rapidly as pos-
sible: two hundred and fifty of the six or seven hundred pages are already printed. It
may not be entirely finished by the arrival of the Centennial anniversary, but when com-
pleted I will have copies bound in the most durable manner, and deposited at the places
designated in the joint resolution of Congress, with special reference to the pleasure it
may afford your descendents in perusing its pages at our second Centennial anniversarv.

Respectfully yours,

J. C. POWER.
Springfield, Ills., May 9, 1876.

SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Dec. 21, 1876.
1. C. POWER, ESQ.:

Sir : — Having given your book entitled, "History of the Early Settlers of Sanga-
mon County, Illinois," a somewhat careful examination, we are free to say that it more
than fulfills the promises made by you in undertaking the execution of the work.

X. M. BROADWELL, J

X. W. MATHKNY, /• Committee.

PRESTON BRECKENRIDGK, \

ADDITIONS, OMISSIONS AND COEEECTIONS.

ABEL, ROSWELL, Sen.,
His wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Abel, died Aug.
9, 1876, in Rochester, 111.

ALEXANDER, JOHN S.,
See his name, page 77. His son WIL-
LIAM, died Aug. 21, 1876, at Williams-
, ville, 111., and was buried at Oak Ridge
vCemetery, Springfield.
N AMOS, Mrs. SARAH Seeker
name, page Si. The name of her son,
Judge Samuel K. Swingley, is there erro-
neous1'// spelled Swinley.

ANBERSON/Gen. MOSES
K.. See iii.3 name, page 82. His son,
WILLIAM WILKES, was married
Aug. 14, 1876, near Hillsboro, Fleming
county, Ky., to Emma L. Jones, a native
of that county. He continues his studies
at Transylvania University, Lexington,
Kentucky.

BEAM, JACOB H. See his name,
page 105. He died Dec. i, 1876.

BENNETT, Rev. WIL-
LIAM T. See page in. His daugh-
. ter, REBIE //., was married June 6,
1876, to Geo. W. Freto, and resides in
Mechanicsburg, Illinois.

BRADLEY, WILLIAM, was
born in 1786, in Gieen county, Kv., and
was married there Sept. 20, 1810, to Eliz-
abeth Crowder. They moved to Sanga-
rnon county, arriving September, 1831, in
what is now Ball township, bringing
eight children, and had three born there.
Of their children, the eldest —

MART, born Aug. 4, 1810, in' Green
county, Ky., was married there to Jacob
Greenawalt. See his name, page JJQ.
He died and she was married Oct. 29, 1863,
to Michael Fay, as his third wife. He
was born July 18, 1824, i n Baden, Ger-
many, and was brought by his parents to
Sangamon county, in 1831. Mr. and Mrs.
Fay reside in Cotton Hill township, south-
west of New City, Sangamon county, 111.
Mrs. Fay is the only one of her father's
family living in the county.

William Bradley died Dec. 20, 1849, in

Sangamon county. His widow lives with
her son, Thomas, near Owaneco, Chris-
tian countv, Illinois — 1874.

BROWN, ROBERT T., See his
name, page 150. His daughter, MAR-
GERY I., was married Sept. 6, 1876, to
Thomas S. Sawyer, and lives near Can-
trail, Illinois.

BULLARD, WESLEY. See his
name, page 158. His son, JAMES R.,
born Oct. 10, 1846, died July" 16, 1876, in
Mechanicsburg, Illinois. His son, JOHN
N., was married May 10, 1876, in Spring-
field, to Lillie May Pinckard, daughter of
Thomas Pinckard, of the State journal
office. .

CALLERMAN, E VAN H., page
169. He died September, 1876, in Wil-
liamsville, Illinois.

CANTRALL, JULIA, was married
June 17, 1876, in Buffalo, 111., to William
Campbell.

CANTRALL, ZEBULON P., died
April 24, 1876, at Chesnut, Illinois.

CLAYTON, JOHN C., was
born March 10, 1810, in Caldwell county,
Ky. He came to Sangamon county in
1829, with his cousin and brother-in-law,
John S. Clayton. See his nume, page
205. John C. Clayton was married Jan.
24, 1^30, in Beardstown, Illinois, to Gin-
sev (jane) Clack, who was born March 17,
18*15, in Caldwell county, Ky., also. They
had four children who lived to maturity.
Mr. Clayton was a soldier in a company
from Saugamon county, in the Black
Hawk War of 1832. Early in 1856, he
moved his family to the vicinity of Urbana,
Champaign county, Illinois. Of their
four children

HUMBERT, born August 17,' 1839,
in Alton, Madison county, 111., brought
up in Sangamon county, married April
14, 1867, in Decatur, Illinois, to Marietta
Fry. They reside near Chatham, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

ELI AS W., born Oct. 6, 1843, in San-
gamon county. In the war to suppress

SANGAMON COUNTY.

the rebellion, he became first lieutenant of
Co. 13, 3d Alo. Cav., and was killed in
battle at Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1864.

JO1L\ HARD1N, born June 16,
18-17, in Sangamon county, brought up in
Champaign county, Illinois, and married
at Neosho, Newton county, Missouri,
May 7, 1875, to Justie E. W» b'ster, who
was born Nov. 19, 1854, at Pleasant .Hill,
Cass county, Missouri. She is a graduate
of Central Female College, Lexington,
Missouri. Since 1874, J. H. Clayton has
been a. member of the mercantile firm of
Whitsitt & Clayton, and resides at Nevada,
Missouri.

ANNA E., born May 26, 1851,111 San-
gamon county, brought up in Cham-
paign county, Illinois, arid in 1868 went to
make her home with an uncle in Missouri.
She was married Sept. 21, 1871, to C. E.
Whitsitt. They have one child, LENA
A. He is a member of the mercantile
firm of Whitsitt & Clayton, and resides at
Nevada, Vernon county, Missouri.

John C. Clayton died April 7, 1856,
near Urbana, Illinois. Mrs. Clayton was
married June 2, 1859, to William Craig.
She died Dec. 18, 1868.

CONSTANT, JONATHAN. His
son, LEWIS A., was married Dec. 17,
1875,10 Augusta J. Elder, and lives in
Springfield, Illinois.

CONSTANT, THOMAS, was
horn August 14, 1776, erroneously printed
i 796, on page 219.

DARNEILLE, JAMES W. See
page 2-1.2. He moved from Chicago to
l>clvidere, Illinois, where his wife, Mrs.
Belle Moulton Darneille, died in Novem-
ber, .1876.

CULLOM, SHELBY M. Sec his
name, page 298. He was elected Gov-
ernor of the State of Illinois Nov. 7, 1876,
and will be inaugurated Jan. 3, 1877.

D 1 XO N , J A M.E S M . See page
252. His daughter —

HBS TER D., married Thomas Sto-
ker. They moved from Buffalo to the
vicinity of Illiopolis, Illinois. His son —

RlCHAj.ll) Dixon, was married May
6, 1874, to Elizabeth E. Logan. They
have one son, and reside near Mechanics-
burg, Sangamon county, Illinois.

'DODDS, F. EW1NG. See page
22j. His daughter, Virginia E., was
married Nov. 15, 1876, to Ninian E. Ken-
ney.

DRENNAN, WILLIAM.
Sec his name, page 264. He ditd Sept.
28, 1876. He had been for several years,
and was at the time of his death, the oldest 1
citi/en of Sangamon county. His funeral
sermon was preached by Rev. J. C. Van
Patten, from Psalms 23-4: "Yea though
I walk through the valley of the shadow
ot death, I will fear no evil; for Thou art
with me; Thy rod and Thy staff they
comfort me."

ELK1N, GARRETT. See page
282. His son, CHARLES N., born
April 12, 1846, near Springfield, Illinois,
enlisted May, 1864, for one hundred days,
in Co. K, I33d 111. inf., ai.<l suved full
term. In June, 1865, he enlisted for one
year in Co. E, I54th 111. Inf., and served full
ttrm. He was married May 16, 1867, to
Harriet Regin, who died Jan. 16, 1873.
He was married Sept. i, 1874, to Ella
Welsh. He is conductor on the Spring-
field City Railway, and lives in Spring-
field, Illinois. EDWARD S. was with
his brother, Charles N., in the three
months service, and after that served two
years in Co. A, loth 111. Cav. He mar-
ried Mary A. Brown, has one child, LKK,
and lives in Springfield, Illinois.

ELLIOTT, TEMPLE, was elected
Nov. 7, 1876, sheriff of Sangamon county
for two years. See page 285.

FERGUSON, Mrs. LUCY.
See her name, page 293. Her son,
WILLIAM //., left four children, J. H.,
ELLEN, WILLIAM and MARTHA,
now living near Decatur, Illinois. Her
daughter, LUCY C., born in 1809, in
Culpepper county, Virginia, married there
in 1831 to Rev. Isaac Haines, of the M.
E. Church, who was born in 1806, in
Rappahannock county, Virginia. They
lived a short time in North Carolina, re-
turned to Virginia, and from there to
Sangamon county in 1836. They had
two children, WILLIAM C., born Sept.
21, 1832, in Wilmington, North Carolina,
brought up in Sangamon county, married
Dec. 14, 1859, in Christian county, Illinois,
to Lucy E. Young, who was born Jan. 12,
1840. She died Dec. 16, 1865, leaving
one child, DORA E. William C. Haines
was married Jan. i, 1866, in Missouri, to
Margaret Hancock, who was born in
1846, in Henderson county, Kentucky.
They have two children, LUCY i:. and
WILLIAM c.. jun., and reside near Taylor-

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EAR LI SETTLERS OF

ville, Illinois. LUCY A. Haines, born in
1835, in Albemarle county, Virginia,
married in 1854 in Taylorville, Illinois, to
J. V. Clark. They have one child, MAKY
.\. In 1859 they moved to Charleston,
Missouri, and now reside in Mississippi
county, opposite Cairo, Illinois. Rev.
Isaac Haines died in 1838, near Rochester,
Sangamon county, Illinois, and Mrs. Lucy
C. Haines died August, 1850, near Tay-
lorville, Illinois. PHILIP C. Ferguson's
son, EZEKIEL, horn August 5, 1839, in
Sangamon county, married January, 1869,
to Htster Kelly. They have two chil-
dren, iVTLip c. and HIRAM K., and live
near Tavlor\ ille, Illinois, Dr. Philip C.
Ferguson died Feb. 28, 1864. His widow
and four children, the eldest of whom is
THOMAS J., reside near Wathena,
Doniphan countv, Kansas.

FORTU'N E, THOMAS E.
S-ee his name, page 306. His daughter,
ELIZABETH, J. B., married Samuel
Odor Butts, who was born in February,
1809, and died August 26, 1840* leaving
three children. JULIA F. was married
in 1852 to Isaac Allen, have four children,

JESSIE, BEXJA.MIX, CHARLES and HKR-

MAN, and live in Jacksonville, Illinois.
ANNA E. married Josiah Burrows, have
three living children, ALBERT s., E. LEE,
and HELEN G., and live near Jacksonville,
Illinois. THOMAS S. lives in Colorado,.
Mrs. E. J. B. Butts married Barnabas Bar-
rows. They had one child, CHARLES,
born Jan. 3, 1854, near Jacksonville. Bar-
nabas Burrows died May 18, 1876, and his
widow and son reside near Jacksonville,
Illinois.

POSTER, JOHN S. See page
His wife's maiden name is erro-
neously spelled. It should be Eliza A.
Corson.

FOSTER, THOS. VEATCH,
was born Sept. 25, 1788, in Harrison coun-
tv, Kentucky. He was a brother to Ivins
Foster. See pzg'e jog. Thomas V. Fos^
ter was twice married and had four chil-
dren who lived to maturity bv each
marriage. He moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, in 1826, and settled
seven miles southvyest of Springfield,
where he died of cholera November 15,
1832. His youngest child by the first
marriage, THOMAS VEA TCH FOS-
TER, Jnn., was born July 29, 1821, in
Harrison county, Kentucky, was married

June 24, 1847, in Sangamon county, to
Polly E., daughter of Augustine E. Fos-
ter, a younger brother of Ivins Foster.
Two years later Thomas V. Foster, Jun.,
and wife moved to the vicinity of Elkhart,
Logan county, Illinois. They had five
children. Their second child, WILLIAM
A. Foster, born June 27, 1849, in Sangamon
county, Illinois, five miles west of
Chatham, and brought up in Logan coun-
ty. He took a three years literary course
in the Illinois Weslevan University at
Bloomington, and graduated Feb. 10, 1876,
at the, Hahnemann Medical College,
Chicago. He is now — December, 1876 —
a druggist in Springfield, Illinois.

FOUTCH, JOHN, was elected Nov.
7, 1876, to represent Sangamon county
for two years in the Legislature of Illinois.
He resides at New Berlin. Page JTO.

GALT, THOMAS, was born
Sept. 12, 1805, in Lancaster county, Penn-
sylvania. He received his literary educa-
tion at Jefferson college, Canonsburg,
Penn., and his theological education at the
Presbyterian Theological Seminary at
Allegheny City, Penn. He was licensed
to preach June 18, 1834, by the Presbytery
of Ohio. He was married Oct. 6, 1834, in
Washington county, Penn., to Sarah
Happer, who was born in that county
Sept. n, 1809. They moved west in the
spring of 1835, anf^ a'ter spending a few
months in Peoria, came to Springfield in
the autumn of that year. Rev. Dr. John
G. Bergen introduced Rev. Mr. Gait to
the Farmington Presbyterian church, of
which he soon after became pastor. Mr.
and Mrs. Gait had four living children,
namely —

JAMES J., born Sept. 28, 1835, in
Sangamon county, was married October,
1857, to Mary A. Brown. They have
eight children, and live near Palmyra,
Nebraska.

JOHN, born Nov. 30, 1838, in Sanga-
mon county, married Feb. i:, 1862, to
Margaret A. Epler, who was born July
30, 1841, in Morgan countv, Illinois. They
had six children, MARTIN E. died
young, WILLIAM A., CHARLES E.,
ANNABEL, CARRIE and LILLIE
live with their parents. John Gait and
family resides at the family homestead
where his parents settled in 1835, and
where he wes born. It is one mile east of
Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois.

SANGAMON COUNTY.

MARTIN H., born Sept. 9, 1841,111
Sangamon county, married Nov. 19, 1865,
to Clara Spillman. They have three
living children, and live near Manti, Fre-
mont county, Iowa.

THOMAS, Jun., born July 10, 1844,
in Sangamon county. He was married
August, 1869, at Otisville, New York, to
Jennie McFarlane. They have three
children. Rev. Thomas Gait, Jun., is
pastor of the First Prcsbvterian church of
Aurora, Illinois, and resides there.

Mrs. Sarah Gait died Jan. 25, 1849, near
Farmingdale, and Rev. Thomas Gait,
Sen,, married Margaret S. Moore. They
had one living child.

ELIHU L., born Feb. 13, 1850, in
Sangamon county, married April 9, 1872,
in Petersburg, Illinois, to Lou Bergen.
They have one child, and reside in Peters-
burg.

Rev. Thomas Gait, Sen., died Sept. 12,
1857, near Farmingdale, Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois. Mrs. Margaret S. Gait re-
sides in Petersburg, Menard county, 111.

GARRETSON, THOMAS P.
See his name, page 324. He was born
Sept. 18, 1818, in Anne Arundel county,
Maryland, came in 1839 to Sangamon
countv, was married July 2, 1845, 'n
Menard county, Illinois, to Martha M.
Harrison, a native of Kentucky. They
had two children, both of whom died in
infancy, and Mrs. Garretson died April
26, 1848, in Springfield. He was married
Feb. 22, 1854, in Menard county to Phebe
Campbell, who was born April 26, 1831,
in Butler county, Ohio. They had ten
children. The three eldest, VINCENT,
AMANDA and ALBERT died of scar-
let fever from the 241)1 to the 28th of
September, 1858. The other seven,
COR Ni. LI US, BEAUREGARD,
L O U R E N A M A Y, J A M E S T.,
SARAH J., WILLIAM L. and AN-
N ETTA, live with their parents.
Thomas P. Garretson is a carpenter by
trade, and was working within six feet of
Winchester House, on the steeple of the
First Presbyterian church in Springfield,
in 1842, when Mr. House was thrown
from the steeple by lightning and killed.
Mr. Garretson and family reside ten miles
west of Lincoln, Logan county, Illinois.

GREENING, ZACHAR? T.
See page Jjp. His wife, Mrs. Marv
Greening, died in February, 1876.

HAINES, CHRISTOPHER.
His son, FRANCIS A., was born March
22, 1832, in Sangamon county. In 1852
he went overland to the Pacific coast, and
in 1856 and '7 was a volunteer soldier
against the Indians in the north of Oregon.
In November, 1858, he started for Illinois,
arriving in Springfield Januarv ist, and
was married in Ihireau county Jan. 17,
18:59, to Zerelda'G. Britt. They had two
children, ELLA BELLE and MINNIE,
both died young. Mr. Haines enlisted
Jan. 13, 1864, in Co. C, 2cl 111. Artillery,
served to the end of the rebellion, and
was mustered out with the regiment Aug.
3, 1865. He and his wife reside at New
City, Sangamon county, Illinois.

HAND, ELI AS, was born about
1770,111 Cape May county, New Jersey.
He was married there to Miss Say re.
They had four children in New Jersey,
and moved to Sangamon county,, arriving
May 30, 1838, in what is now Gardner
township. Of their children —

DANIEL died, aged thirty years.

MARIA married John Robinson, and
lives in Minnesota.

JESSE married Mary Hagin, and
lives in New Jersey.

ELIZABETH,\>Q\n in New Jersey,
married in Sangamon county to Franklin
Bradley. They had one son, FRANK,
who is a minister in the M. E. Church,
and in 1873 lived in Davisville, Michigan.
Franklin Bradley died Sept. 14, 1845, an<^
his widow married John G. Ransom. See
his name.

Elias Hand died November, 1856, and
his widow died in 1869, aged eighty-seven
years.

HARBUR, LEV I. See page
354. He died Nov. 27, 1876.

HARDIN, JAMES T. Page
J56. His son, Benjamin, was married
August 2, 1876.

HARROWER, WILLIAM.
Page j6o. His daughter, A GA'£S //.,
widow of Dr. James B. Smith, died Xov.
5, 1876, in Springfield, Illinois.

HEDRICK, ALFRED, was
born near Greenville, Tennessee, came
with his father, Charles Hedrick, to San-
gamon county among the early settlers.
Alfred Hedrick lives in Taylorville, 111.,
Of his two sons —

\\~1I.LIAM, born Jan. 25, 1844, in
Sangamon county, married April 8, 1865,

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EARLY SETTLERS

o Martha M. Kimball, who was born .
Jan. 1 8, 1844, in Vermont. They now —
^874 — have four children, MARION C.,
NATHAN K., ALFRED C., and
ROBERT A., and live four miles south
of Rochester, Illinois.

HENRT R., born Feb. 25, 1848, in
Sangamon county, married Dec. 30, 1869,
to Laura J. Johnson, has two children
and lives four miles south of Rochester,
Illinois.

HEDRICK, JONATHAN,
born in Kentucky, and married there to
Julian Holland, a native of Maryland.
They had two children in Fleming
county, Ky., and moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of
1830, at Buffalo Hart grove, thence to
what is now Clear Lake township, where
they had four children. Of their six chil-
dren—

REBECCA, born Oct. 8, 1828 in
Fleming county, Ky., was married Oct.
16, 1847, to Joshua Cantrall. See his
name.

ROSETTA, born in Fleming county,
Kv., married in Sangamon county to Ab-
ner Clark. She died, leaving a son,
WILLIAM Clark.

BARTON, died, aged twenty-five
years.

NARCISSA, married McDonald Can-
trail. See his name. •
FLEMING, died aged fifteen years.
MUNSON, iiorn in Sangamon county,
enlisted in 1862, for three years in Co. C,
••h 111. Inf., and died at Vicksburg, a
short time after it was captured in 1863.

Jonathan Hedrick and wife reside in
Athens, Illinois.

HI C KM AN, GEORGE T. His
son, WILLIAM H., enlisted Aug. 5,
1862, in Co. B, i3Oth 111. Inf., and died
Jan. 19, 1863. Another son, JAMES
F., married Sophia C. Burns, and lives
near Buffalo Hart, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois— 1876.

HOUGH.TON, ALVIN, born
June 12, 1810, in Madison, Somerset
county, Maine, was married Sept. 6, 1835,
at Skowhegan Falls, Maine, to Betsy
Hilton, who was born June 17, 1815, at
Anson, Maine. Alvin Houghton came
to S ringfielcl, Illinois., in June, 1837, and
brought his wife in the spring of 1840.
He was a carpenter by trade, and worked
at that business for about twelve years,

after which he kept a dairy until 1851,
when he moved twenty miles east of
Springfield, on a farm, and remained there
until the fall of 1869, and then moved to
Washington county, Kansas.

Alvin Houghton and wife had five chil-
dren—

AMEL1 A, died in her second year.

ERVIN, O., born Dec. 14, 1841, in
Springfield, 111., was married Sept. 13,
1866, in Sangamon county to Sarah Jane
Wall, who was born Feb. 6, 1842, in
Allegany. county, Pennsylvania. They
have two children, LAURA E. and
LILLIAN, and live four and a half miles
northeast of Illiopolis, Illinois.

AUSTIN E\, born May 29, 1844, in
Illinois. Lives with his parents.
> CLIMENA B., died in her second
year.

A VILLIA B., born Jan. i, 1853, lives
with her parents, near Butler, Washing-
ton county, Kansas.

HUDSON, JOHN. See his
name, page 385. His son, JOHN M.,
died Oct. 12, 1876. His son, ANDRE W
J., having been married fourteen years,
has -an only child, MARGARET MA-
RIA, born Feb. :i, 1876.

ILES, ELIJAH, Sen. His wife,
Mrs. Melinda lies, died in May, 1866.

INSLEE, JOSEPH. His son—

NEWTON JASPER, born Dec.
31, 1832, in Sangamon county, married
May 16, 1852, to Eliza A. Keys. They
had five children. ANN E., died in her
second year. EMMA J., MARY L.,
MELISSA and JOSEPH W.; the four
latter live with their parents near Cotton
Hill postoffice, Sangamon county, 111.

JAYNE, Dr. GERSHOM,
page 406. His daughter, JULIA M.,
married Hon. Lyman Trumbull. Their
son, Walter Trumbull, was married Sept.
27, 1876, in Chicago, to Hannah M. Sla-
ter.

JOHNSTON, ADAM, was
born April 14, 1816, in Glasgow, Scotland.
Wh 'n he was four days old his parents
embarked on bo »rd a vessel, and after a
short stay at Belfast, Ireland, sail-, d for
America. Ian ling during the summ r of
that year in Philad Iphia, Prim. I e was
brought up in that city and learned the
busin ss of a marble mason. During that
time he assist' d in building Girard Col-
lege. He went in 1837, to Jefferson city,

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Missouri, and after filling a contract on
the State House, then in course of con-
struction there, he came to Springfield, in
the spring of 1839, and worked as a jour-
neyman on the State House of Illinois.
Mr. Johnson was married July 3, 1846 to
Barbara A. Wolgamot. He has been
continuously and successfully in business
in Springfield, nearly thirty-eight years.
Adam Johnson and wife now — Decem-
ber, 1876 — reside in Springfield, Illinois.

JOHNSON, LUE. See ^ his
name, page 413. His son, ORSON D.,
born April 23, 1827, in Vermont, was
married in Rochester, Sangamon county,
111., to Lydia Eggleston. They have four
living children, ELLEN, born Sept. 16,
1848, in Rochester, was married in Mount
Pulaski, April 16, 1865 to Aaron G.
Given, and have four children, FLORA,
i.i K, GEORGE, and MIXDRED, and live in
Mt. Pulaski, Illinois. OLLIE, born
Aug. 6, 1851, in Rochester, 111., was mar-
ried in Mt. Pulaski, Jan. 6, 1868, to Walter
McGraw, and died April 30, 1874, leaving
one child, RALPH. BET TIE, born July
6, 1858,. and WILLIAM, born Dec. 11,
1861, both in Mt. Pulaski. Orson, D.
Johnson and family, live in Mt. Pulaski,
Logan county, Illinois.

JONES, HASK1NS, was born
in Maryland, and married in JtfFerson
county, Term., to Lucy Tolley, and came
to Sangamon county, in 1835, settling in
Sand Prairie, five miks east of Roches-
ter. Th< y had thirteen children —

JOHN F., married Lucinda Pike
and died, leaving one child, CHARLES
T.

ELIZABETH, married John L.
Firey. See his name.

DA VI D C , married Ann Griffith and
liv» s mar Breckenridge, 111.

NANCY, married James Campbell,
and lives in Edinburg, 111.

MART P., married John B. Eaton.
See his name.

CARTER T., born Aug. 17, 1834, in
Jefferson county, Tenn., married in San-
gamon county, April 23, 1863, to Theiv-
saTalb.rr, has four childr n, FANNY,
LUCY, BETTY and CARTER T.,
Jun., and lives four milts south of Roches-
ter, Illinois.

HASK1NS, Jun., married Lettie
Swe< t, who died, and he married Again,
and lives near Breckenridge, Illinois!

LUCY J., married John H. Martin,
and lives near Taylorville, Illinois.

PR ISC ILL A, married Thomas
Stokes. See his name. He died and she
married James Lay, and lives in Kansas.

Haskins Jones died in 1842, and his
widow died April, 1873, he in Sangamon,
and she in Christian county, Illinois.

KENNET, NINIAN E. See page

425. He was married Nov. 15, 1876,10
Virginia E. Dodds, daughter of F. Evving
Dodds. See his name, page 255.

KEYS, ISAAC, Jim.. See puge

426. His son, EDWARD D., was mar-
ried Oct. 10, 1876, to Lulie Todd, in
Springfield, Illinois. His daughter, AN-
NIE E., was married Dec. 7, 1876, in
Springfield, to Alvin B. Hoblet, of Pekin,
111. Mr. Hoblet is cashier of the Farmers'
National Bank of that city.

KEYES, CHARLES A. See page

427. His infant daughter, ELIZABETH M.,
died July 18, 1876.

LAMB, SUSAN M. See page 435:
Her daughter, Hannah M. Slater, was
married Sept. 27, 1876, in Chicago, to
Walter Trumbull.

LANTERMAN, PEJ^ER. Page
443. He died Oct. 9, 1876, near Elkhart,
Illinois.

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM. Page
456. An attempt was made on the night
alter the Presidential election, Nov. 7,
1876^0 steal his body from the sarcophagus,
in the National Lincoln Monument. The
thieves were detected in the act but
escaped. Two nit n are under arrest.
charged with the crime, and are now —
December, 1876 — in jail at Springfield,
awaiting trial. Their reputed object was
to secure a large reward in money, and the
release of an engraver, who is serving a
ten y<ars term in. the Illinois Penitentiary,
.for engraving and issuing counterfeit
money.

LINDSAY, JOHN, was born in
1773 at Fort Pitt, now Pittsburgh, Penn.
He was taken by his parents to Fleming
county, Kentucky. He was married there
in the year 1800 to Mary Glass. She died
January, 1811, leaving five children, and
Mr. Lindsay was married there in Sep-
tember, 1811. They had one child in
Kentucky, and moved in 181710 St. Clair
county, Illinois, where they had one child,
and moved to what is now Sangamon
county in 1819, settling in what is now the

EARL? SE'lTLBRS OF

vvestern part of Springfield. Of his chil-
li-en—

REBECCA, born September, 1802,
in Kentucky, marriecl in Sangamon coun-
ty to Andrew Orr, and died within one
year.

POLLY, born September, 1804, in
Kentucky, married James Smith, and died
there, leaving one child, AMANDA.

DA VID H., born February, 1807, in
Fleming county, Kentucky, married in
1832, in Sangamon county to Mary A.
Dorrance. They had four children,
MAR\ S., born March, 1833, died Jan.
6, 1869, in Shelby county, Illinois. MAR-
GARET A., born March, 1836, married
B. F. Sinard. She died, leaving a son,
MILTON siiVARD, wholives in Mt. Auburn,
Illinois. fMARQUIS D., born March
23, 1839, enlisted August 9, 1861, for three
years, in Co. B, 3Oth 111. Inf., served full
term, and was honorably discharged Aug.
27, 1864. He was married in Sangamon
county Oct. 31, 1866, to Margaret Kinney,
who was born April 6, 1839, in Cazenovia,
New York. They had two children.
LOGAN L. lives with his parents. IDA
MAY died in her fourth year. M. D,
Lindsay lives near Loami, Illinois.
MARTHA, born March, 1842, married
Daniel Young. Mrs. Mary A. Lindsay
died in 1846, while her husband was in
Mexico. David H. Lindsay was a soldiei
in the 4th 111. Inf., under Colonel E. D.
Baker. He served one year from June,
1846, returned home and died in 1847, °*

: in the army.

ORGE G., born November, 1808,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Margaret Ward, and died there, leaving
one child, JAMES.

AMANDA L., born December, 1810,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-
ty to John Morgan, and died, leaving four
children, ELIZABETH, SALLY ANN,
JOHN W. and SOPHIA S.

Bv the second wife:

JOHN P., born July, 1814, in Flem-
ing county, Kentucky, married in Sanga-
mon county in 1839,10 Virginia B. Young.
They had six children in Sangamon coun-
ty. MARY J., bom July 22, 1840, mar-
ried Seth Moore, and lives in Lawndale,
Illinois. MELISSA G., born. Dec. 23,
1841, married Charlie E. Morton, and
lives near Centerville, Iowa. James N.,
born July 30, 1842, is unmarried, and lives

in Centerville, Iowa. ELIZABETH,
born Feb. i ^, 1846, died aged seven years.
ELIZA ANN, born Sept. 15, 1848," mar-
ried William A. Smith, and lives in Col-
fax county, Nebraska. JOHN W., born
March 22, 1850, is unmarried, and lives in
Russell county, Kansas. Mrs. Virginia
B. Lindsay died May 2, 1850, in Sanga-
mon county, and J. P. Lindsay married
Eliza A. McCandless, and in 1853 moved
to Logan county, where they had five
living children, SOPHIA BELLE, FLO-
RENCE P., ALMA M., CHARLES
E. and WINNIE M. John P.Lindsay
resides near Lincoln, Logan county, 111.

ABRAHAM L., born April to, 1819,
in St. Clair county, Illinois, was married
in Sangamon county to Ann Wise. They
have seven living children. JOHN D. is
married and lives in Ottawa, Kansas.
NANCY J. married B. H. Lake and
and lives in Mount Pulaski, Illinois.
SOPHIA MAY, marrried N. Elkin, and
lives near Elkhart, Illinois. WILLIAM
H., EVA E., GEORGE B. and HAR-
RIET C. live near Elkhart, Logan coun-
ty, Illinois. Mrs. Ann Lindsav died Jan-
uary, 1865, near Elkhart, Illinois, and
Abram L. Lindsay now — 1876 — lives in
Russell county, Kansas.

LORD, JOSEPH T., was an
earlv settler of Sangamon county. His
son," WILLIAM N. Lord, lives near
Breckenridge, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MCCLELLAND, JOHN. His son,

Dr. Robert McClelland, was married
Sept. 8, 1874, to Susan Turley, near Wil-
liamsville, Illinois.

McGINNIS, JOHN J, See his
name, page 499. His widow, Mrs. Eliza-
beth McGinnis, was married in December,
1874, to Y. B. Clark, and lives at Clarks-
dale, Christian county, Illinois.

McGRAW, ABSOLOM D.,
See his name, page 501. He died in the
autumn of 1876 near Springfield, Illinois.

MeKINNIE, WILLIAM A.
'Page 504. His wife, Mrs. Emma Mc-
Kinnie, died Nov. 22, 1876.

McMURltT, ARTHUR B. His
daughter, MARTHA J., marriecl Robert
Elder, and live near Girard, Crawford
county, Kansas. His son, LEWIS S.,
lives near Girard, Crawford county, Kan.

McMURR T, L O GAN. His daughter,
Mary E., married Hiram F. Robhins, who
was born in Warren county, Pennsylvania,

EARLY SETTLERS OF

came to Ogle county, Illinois, enlisted
M-irch, 1862, in Co. A, I2th 111. Cav., for
three years, and was honorably discharged
March. 186^, went to Maple Grove, Kan-
sas, in May, 1866, and was married there
[uly 26. 1868.

NUCKOLLS, JOHN. See his
name, page 548. His widow, Mrs. Ann
Nuckolls, died Sept. 30, 1876, aged nearly
ninety years.

ORR, ROBERT, was born in
Wythe county, Virginia, and was there
married to Sarah Messersmith. They
moved to Ohio in 1817, to Connersville,
Indiana, in 1818, and to Springfield, Illi-
nois, in 1826. They had ten children —

AX DREW, M'E LINDA; ALEX-
AX HER S. married Eliza J. Wallace,
and lives near Auburn, Illinois. ELIZ.A-
BETH, NANCY J.; HIRAM mar-
ried Savilla Ranch, and both died.
ROBERT, MARGARET; SA)[-
UEL married Jane Laswell, and lives
near Auburn, Illinois.

Robert Orr and his wife both died near
Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

POWER, GEORGE. See his
name, page 578. He was awarded the
premium of a gold headed cane for the
most skillful feat of horseback riding, by
an elderly gentleman, at thp fair of the
Sangamon county Agricultural Society,
in September, 1876. He was in his'
seventy-ninth year, and the eldest of five
competitors. The cane was presented in
presence of the largest number of visitors
during the fair, by the president of the
society, ex-Governor John M. Palmer.

PRICKETT, Mrs. CHAR-
LOTTE G. See page 581. She died
Nov. 2, 1876, in Springfield.

PURSELL, WILLIAM. See
Jiis name, page jpo. His daughter,
ALICE BELLE, was married Nov. 2,
1876, to William T. Kincaid, near Farm-
ingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois.

RIDGELY, CHARLES, was born
Jan. 17, 1836, in Springfield, Illinois. He
is the eldest son of N. H. Ridgely — page
616 — by his second witV, who was the
daughter of Jonathan Huntington, and
was born in Boston, Mass. Her brother,
Hon. George L. Huntington, deceased,
was mayor of Springfield in 1 86 1-2.
Charles Ridgely entered the preparatory
department of Illinois College at Jack-
sonville, in October,

March, 1852, withdrew from the col-
lege to accept a position in Clark's Ex-
change Bank, which was organized at that
time in Springfield by his father in con-
nection with some eastern capitalists.
June 22, 1853, he became cashier of the
bank, which position he occupied until it
was wound up, March 29, 1855. His
father, N. H. Ridgely, succeeded to the
business of Clark's bank, as a private
banker. Charles took the place of cashier
with him, where he continued until April
i, 1859, when he was admitted into part-
nership with his father in the banking bus-
iness; the new firm name being N. II.
Ridgelf & Co. Charles' brother, William
was admitted as a member of the firm
April i, 1864, and its business continued
until Oct. i, 1866, when it was^ merged
into theRidgtly National Bank. Chas.
Ridgely became vice president at the
organization, and now — December, 1876
— continues to hold that position. In
1871, he was mainly instrumental in or-
ganizing the Springfield Iron Company,
and building the Rolling Mill at Spring-
field. He bee 'me, and continues to be the
President of that company. As a compli-
ment to the President of the company, the
new postofrice at the mills bears the name
of Ridgely. Charles Ridgely is also a
member of the firm of Beard, Hickox &
Co., proprietors of the North Coal Shaft.
In 1870 he was honored with the nomina-
tion of the Democratic party as candidate
for the office t>f state treasurer of Illi-
nois, but the party being in the minor-
ity, he, in common with the entire ticket,
was defeated. He has served two terms
as a member of the Board of Education of
the city of Springfield. He was married
June 10, 1857, to Jane M., youngest
daughter of James W. Barret. She
was born in Island Grove, Sangamon
county. They have four children ; WIL-
LIAM BARRET, E DWARD,
FRANKLIN and MARY LEE. Chas.
Ridgely, wife and children reside in
Springfield, 111.

SHORT, CALEB. His grandson,
JOHN* K., died Feb. 24, 1876, in Nodaway
county, Missouri.

SMITH, DEWITT C., was elected
Nov. 7, 1876, to represent Sangamon
county two years in the Legislature of Illi-
nois. He resides at Bates.

SANGAMON COUNT?.

SMITH,, GEROGE M. See
his name, page 666. His son, JACOB
H., was marrit d, not in Hennepin, but in
Washington, Tazewell county, Illinois, to
Joanna Higgins, who was born Oct. 26,
1819, in Cumberland county, Ken ucky.
They have eight children, namely,
GEORGE D., was married Sept. 3, 1874,
in Missouri, to Mattie Force, and now
lives in Hope, Hempstead county, Ark.
MARY J. was married June 21, 1866, in
Saline county, Missouri, to Dr. Robert S.
McNutt. They have four children,

SAMUEL, JOANNA, MARY and ROBERT, and

live in Rocheport, Boone county, Missouri.
WILLIAM T., born April 28, ^850, in
Saline county, Missouri, and now — 1876 —
lives in Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois.
MATILDA J. was married Dec. 2, 1871,
to John H. Herring, have one child, WIL-
LIAM s., and reside near Herndon, Saline
county, Missouri. ANNA E., ALICE
W. and MATTIE F. live with their
father, near Marshal, Saline county, Mo.
FREDERICK N. lives with his brother,
George D., in Arkansas. George M.
Smith's son, JOHN W., left five chil-
dren, namely, AMANDA, married
George W. Parrish, and has one child,
DAISEY MAY. MARY M. and CARRIE
live with their sister, Mrs. Parrish, in
Oshkosh, Wisconsin. JOSEPH B. and
WILL A. live with their uncle, Fox, in
Quincy,. Illinois. George M. Smith's
daughter, ELSIE A., born Dec. 20,
1830, in Jennings county, Indiana, married
in Sangamon county, Illinois, July 4,1842,
to Stephen Butler, who was born Nov.
13, 1815, in Adair county, Kentucky.
They have ten children, namely, JOHN,
born May 5, 1843, MARY C., born Oct.
8, 1844, in Sangamon county, was married
May 7, 1864, to D. A. Russell, and live in
Harrrison county, Iowa. H. G., born
Sept. 20, 1846, married March 11, 1876, to
Ida Willes.. MARTHA M., born Feb.
19, 1848, married Dec. 2, 1868, to Alfred
H. Fairchilds, and lives in Jefferson coun-
ty, Iowa. SOPHRONIA, born F^b. 23,
1850; ELIZABETH, born July 1,1852,
in Sangamon county, Illinois. HAR-
RIET, born Sept. 7/1855; OWEN, born
Sept. 16, 1857; BASSETT, bora July
16, 1859, and SAMANTHA, born July
7, 1863, the four latter in Jefferson county,

Iowa. Stephen Butler and family now —
November, 1876 — reside near Missouri
Valley postoffice, Harrison county, Iowa.
Smith, Lawson H. See his name, page
108. He died Dec. 12, 1876, near Roches-
ter, Illinois.

STEPH E N SON, JAMES.
See his name, page 684. He was born
July 3, 1872. His son, WILLIAM C.,
born Oct. 10, 1812. HANNAH A., born
Oct. 12, 1814, married Jacob Zwingle.
He died Feb. 8, 1876. Their son, WIL-
LIAM M. Zwingle, was married May
25, 1876, to Eliza Graham. JAMES
W., born May 20, 1816, moved from
Audrain county, Missouri, to Pike county,
Illinois. FINIS E., born Sept. 29, 1818.
He moved from Chandlerville, Illinois, to
Wichita, Kansas. HARRIET married
William N. Spears. She moved from
Lincoln, in 1876, to Tallula, Menard
county, Illinois.

THAYER, WILLJAM P. See
his name, page 710. His daugh'er,
BERTIE, was married Nov. 30, 1876,
to Lee Hickox, in Springfield, Illinois.

WALLACE, WILLIAM. See his
name, page 747. His son, BENJAMIN
F., moved from Keokuk, Iowa, to Macon,
Macon county, Illinois. His daughter,
JANE ELIZABETH, married Dr. John
F. Sanders. See his name, page 637.

WEBSTER, BE LA C., was
one of the early merchants of Springfield.
A sketch of him was expected but had
not arrived when this record closed, Dec.
15, 1876.

WHITESIDES, NICHOLAS B.
Page 764. His daughter, EMILY C.,
was married Nov. 21, 1876, to James F.
Demmit, of Logan county, Illinois.

W ILK I SON, GARY, was born
in Kentucky, and married there to Nancy
Moon. They came to Sangamon county,
Illinois, among the early settlers. They
had four children. Their son,jREUBEJV,
resides in Taylorville, Illinois.

Cary Wilkison died in 1834, and his
widow married James Snodgrass, Jun.
See his name, page 671.

TOCOM, SAMUEL. Page 792.
His daughter, REBECCA, married John
W. Ham, not Horn. See his name, page
352-

LIST OF POST OFFICES'* SANGAMQH COUNTY ILLINOIS

Cross Plains
Cyrran
Daw son

Berlin

Berry at

Bradforton(not orfan/t. edj

Brekinridge

Buffalo

Buffalo Heart

CanLntt

Chatham

Cotton Hill

lies Junction
III i op olis
Loami
Lowder

Salisbury

Sherman

$f»""i$fielc/

New Berlin
New City
Pawnee

SANGAMON €OUNTY

JOHN CARROLL POWER
SPFVNGflELO /LLINO/S

Ji. Wilson & Co.

«>

HISTORICAL PRELUDE.

THE first white men who explored the upper Mississippi valley were Jesuit mission-
aries from New France — now Canada. They visited the southern shores of the
great northern lakes, for the purpose of communicating a knowledge of Christianity
to the ahoriginal natives.

Jacques Marquette, a Roman Catholic priest, and Louis Joliet, a merchant from
Quebec, with two canoes and five men, left Green Bay and went down the Wisconsin
river to the Mississippi, entering the latter stream June 17, 1673. They floated down
the "father of waters," making frequent stoppages among the Indians, and passed be-
low the mouth of the Ohio river. Here they found the savages disposed to be hostile,
which caused them to return. On approaching the mouth of the Illinois river, on their
way up, they were told by the aborigines, that if they would follow the course of that
stream their route to the lakes wrould be much shorter. Accepting this advice, the
party reached Lake Michigan, at a point where Chicago now stands. Other French-
men came by the way of Canada and the lakes, and in a few years all this region of
country was considered a part of New France. The French being entitled to it by
right of discovery, their possession was undisputed for about ninety years.

Difficulties arising between France and England, at home, the British government sent
an army of one thousand regular soldiers under Gen. Edward Braddock, to make war
against the French and their native allies in the new world. General Braddock landed
at Alexandria, Virginia, and after increasing his army to twenty-two hundred men, by
the addition of provincials, or citizens of the country, he marched to attack Fort Du-
Quesne, where Pittsburgh now stands. Colonel George Washington, who was well
acquainted with the Indian character, accompanied the expedition as a volunteer aid.
General Braddock refused the counsels of Colonel Washington, and the result was the
surprise and defeat of his whole army by the French and Indians. The commander
was slain in the engagement, which took place July 9, 1755-

In 1758 the English government sent another army, which was more successful. It
took Fort Duquesne, and the war raged until 1763, when the fall of Quebec left the
English victorious; and by the treaty which followed, the whole of New France was
ceded to Great Britain.

Previous to the year 1673 the upper Mississippi valley was known only to the abori-
gines or Indians. From the year of its discovery by the explorations of Marquette

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26 HISTORICAL PRELUDE.

and Joliet, for more than half a century there was no attempt at organized government.
The first effort was made in 1718, when the "Company of the West" was formed in
Paris for the government of- the New World. In that year the building of Fort De-
Chartres was commenced, and when completed was occupied as the military headquar-
ters of the French. It was about sixteen miles above Kaskaskia, in the American bot-
tom, three miles from the bluft and three-fourths of a mile from the river. At the
time New France was ceded to England, in 1763, Fort DeChartres was occupied by
M. St. Ange de Bellerive, as commandant and Governor of the Illinois country. He
continued in possession of the fort until 1765, when Captain Sterling, of the forty-
second Royal Highlanders, was sent out and took possession of the fort and country, in
the name of the British government. He died about three months after his arrival.
Fort Chartres continued to be the headquarters of the British until 1772, when part of
the fort was destroyed by a great rise of water in the Mississippi river. The English
garrison was then removed to Kaskaskia.

In 1763 the population of what is now the State of Illinois, did not exceed three
thousand. About one-third left the country upon its change of masters ; so that when
the English took possession, the entire population, including French, English and
negroes, was about two thousand. Speaking of their new seat of government, Rev.
John M. Peck says: "In olden time, Kaskaskia was to Illinois what Paris is at this
day to France. Both were, at their respective days, the great emporiums of fashion,
gayety, and I must say, happiness also. In the year 1721 the Jesuits erected a monas-
tery and college in the village of Kaskaskia, and a few years afterwards it was char-
tered by the French government. Kaskaskia for many years was the largest town
west of the Alleghaney mountains. It was a tolerable place before the existence of Pitts-
burgh, Cincinnati or New Orleans."

The English government became fairly settled in their occupation of the country
wrested from France, and then commenced that series of parliamentary enactments for
the taxation of the American colonies, without permitting them to have any voice in
her national councils, which led to the revolutionary struggle. Open hostilities com-
menced at Lexington, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775. Couriers were despatched, on
the most fleet-footed horses, and in a very few days the infant colonies were ablaze with
excitement, and the call to arms was responded to from Maine to Georgia. The first
Congress met in Philadelphia, Sept. 5, 1774, and continued its meetings by successive
adjournments, until July 4, 1776, when the American colonies were declared to be free
and independent States. The familiar events of the war for independence, followed
each other in quick succession, until all parties were engaged in the conflict along the
Atlantic coast; but there were British outposts in the west which had until 1778 r°-
mained undisturbed. It was known that these posts were depots for supplying the
Indians with arms and ammunition, that they might practice deeds of cruelty and mur-
der against the frontier settlers. The general government had not power to command
without consent of the States, even the limited resources of the country ; but what there
was, in the way of soldiers, seemed imperatively demanded on the seaboard. Under
these circumstances, Colonel George Rogers Clarke, of Virginia, volunteered to lead
an expedition against the British garrison west of the Alleghanies; and the Governor
and Council of Virginia took the responsibility of sending him out. Two sets of
instructions were given him : One, which was public, was for Col. Clarke to raise

HIS TORI CA L PRE L ( 'D /: .

27

se\en companies, and proceed west. The secret and real instructions were for him to
raise seven companies, of fifty men each, proceed to Kaskaskia, and take and destroy
the garrison of Fort Gates at that place; and that the object of the expedition must be
kept a profound secret. The instructions were given January 2, 1778, by the Governor
at \Villiamsburg, then the Capital of Virginia. Col. Clarke left Virginia on the fourth
of February for Pittsburgh. He took with him twelve hundred pounds in depreciated
currency to defray the expenses of the expedition, and raised three companies in Pitts-
burgh. He procured boats, and with his supplies, arms and ammunition, descended the
Ohio river to "Corn Island," opposite the present city of Louisville, Kentucky, where
he was met by Captain Bowman, who had gone down through Kentucky to raise a
companv of men. When all were assembled on the island, Col. Clarke first declared
to them that his point of destination was Kaskaskia, in the Illinois country. From
Corn Island he descended with his forces to Fort Massac, at the west side of the Ohio
river, about forty miles above its junction with the Mississippi. The party left their
boats at this point, and marched across the country to Kaskaskia, a distance of one hun-
dred and twenty miles, through an unbroken wilderness.

Thev arrived within sight of the village on the morning of July 4, 1778. He con-
cealed the main body of his men, and sent out spies to reconnoitre. At night the men
were divided into two bodies, one to take the village and the other, Fort Gage. After
all was in readiness, with the soldiers drawn up in line on the banks of the Kaskaskia,
Col. Clarke delivered a short address to his troops, in which he reminded them that it
was the anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, and that they must take the
fort and village at all hazards. Fort Gage was a work of considerable strength,
mounted with cannon and defended by regular soldiers. So secret had been the move-
ments of the attacking party, and so little were they expected, that they reached the
very gates of the fortifications unperceived. In addition to this, they were so fortu-
nate as to get into communication with an American belonging to the fort, who led a
detachment of soldiers, under the celebrated Simon Kenton, inside, through a back
gate. The first intimation the Governor had of their presence, was by Kenton giving
him a shake to arouse him from his slumbers. The conquest was achieved without the
shedding of a drop of blood. The rhortification of Governor Rocheblave was so great
when he found himself a prisoner in the hands of so small a body of raw malitia, with-
out having an opportunity to fire a gun, that he refused to acknowledge any of the
courtesies extended to him on account of his official position. The only alternative for
Colonel Clarke, was to send him in irons to the Capital of Virginia.

Soon after the capture of Kaskaskia Colonel Clarke communicated the result of his
expedition to the Governor, and expressed a desire to have civil government extended
over the conquered territory. An act was passed by the law-making powers of Vir-
ginia, in October, 1778, to establish the county of Illinois. " It embraced all that part of
Virginia west of the Ohio river, and was probably the largest county in the world,
exceeding in its dimensions the whole of Great Britain and Ireland." To speak more
definitely, the county of Virginia, called Illinois, embraced the territory now included
in the States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and Michigan.

After capturing Fort Gates, the next point to be reduced was Fort St. Vincent, now
Vincennes, Indiana. This fortification, with Governor Hamilton and seventy-nine men,
fell into his hands February 24, 1779.

28 HISTORICAL PRELUDE.

Until this stage of its history, the Illinois country had been successively under savage,
military, and monarchial rulers; but the time for another change was at hand. The
first republican Governor of Illinois was no less a personage than the renowned Patrick
Henry, the great orator of the American Revolution. He became the Governor of
Virginia in 1776, and by re-election continued to hold the office until 1799. The law
of Virginia establishing the county of Illinois having been enacted in October, 1788, it
was in this way that he became the first republican or democratic Governor of Illinois.

On the twelfth of December, 1788, Governor Henry appointed John Todd civil com-
mandant and Lieutenant Colonel of the new county. He wrote Commandant Todd a
lengthy letter of instructions, in which he says : " The grand objects which are disclosed
to your countrymen, will prove beneficial or otherwise, according to the nature and
abilities of those who are called to direct the affairs of that remote country. * * *
One great good expected from holding the Illinois is to overawe the Indians from war-
ring against the settlers on this side of the Ohio." Near the close of his letter, Gov-
ernor Henry says : " I think it proper for you to send me an express once in the month
with a general account of affairs with you, and any particulars you may wish to com-
municate."

The headquarters of Commandant Todd, or the seat of government for the county,
was at Kaskaskia. The stay of Colonel Todd in Illinois was not of long duration.
Being under orders to return to Virginia, he made it convenient to visit his family at
Lexington, Kentucky, on the way. While at Lexington, news came that the Indians
west of the Ohio were crossing over into Kentucky. He returned at the head of his
command, to assist in repelling the savages, and was killed at the battle of Blue Licks.
See sketch of the Todd family in this volume.

In 1 780 Congress recommended to the several States having waste or unappropriated
lands, in the western country, to cede it to the United States government for the com-
mon benefit of the Union. In January, 1781, Virginia responded to the overture of
Congress, by yielding her claims to the territory northwest of the Ohio river, with cer-
tain conditions annexed. By an act of Sept. 13, 1783, Congress proposed to comply in
the main with the wishes of Virginia, but suggested some modification of the terms.
On the 2oth of Dec. following, the General Assembly of Virginia passed an act accept-
ing the modified terms proposed by the United States Congress. By this settlement
the United States was to refund to Virginia all the money that had been expended by
that State in her military operations in conquering and holding the territory. It was
also stipulated that a quantity of land, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand
acres, promised by the State of Virginia, should be allowed and granted by the United
States to General George Rogers Clarke, and to the officers and soldiers of his regi-
ment who inarched with him when the forts, Gates, at Kaskaskia, and St. Vincent,
now Vincennes, were reduced; and to the officers and soldiers who were afterwards
incorporated into that regiment. By this act the representatives of that State, in Con-
gress, were instructed and empowered to transfer the territory, by deed, to the United
States. The deed was executed March i, 1784, and signed by Thomas Jefferson,
Samuel Hardy, Arthur Lee, and James Monroe. By Virginia protecting the frontier
settlers from the cruelties of Indian warfare, she very justly goes down to posterity with
the honor of having donated to the general government, territory from which has grown
five of the very best States of the American Union. But while she was generous to

ORDINANCE OF 1787. 39

the public, she failed to be just to the man who was instrumental in bringing so much
honor upon herself. In Butler's history of Kentucky it is said of George Rogers
Clarke: " The government of Virginia failed to settle his accounts. Private suits were
brought against him for public supplies, which ultimately swept away his fortune, and
with this injustice the spirit of the hero fell, and the General never recovered his ener-
gies, which had stamped him as one of nature's noblemen. At the same time it is feared
that a too extensive conviviality contributed its mischievous effects." The latter was,
most likely, the real cause of his misfortunes.

THE ORDINANCE OF 1787.

July 13, 1787, an ordinance for the government of the Northwestern Territory, ceded
by Virginia to the United States, was enacted by Congress, and General Arthur St.
Clair appeared at Marietta, on the Ohio river, and put the new government in opera-
tion. Washington county was the first organized, and included a considerable portion
of the present State of Ohio. In February, 1790, Governor St. Clair and his Secre-
tary, Winthrop Sargeant, arrived at Kaskaskia and organized the county of St. Clair,
which embraced more than half the present State of Illinois. The first legislative body
for the Northwestern Territory assembled at what is now Cincinnati, September 16,
1789. On the third of October, General William H. Harrison was elected the first del-
egate to represent the Northwestern Territory in the Congress of the United States,
and for more than ten years its government continued without change.

May 7, 1800, an act of Congress provided for the organization of a territorial gov-
ernment to be called Ohio. November 29, 1802, it was admitted to the Union as a
.State, with its seat of government at Chillicothe.

From the time the territorial government of Ohio was organized, the remainder con-
tinued to be governed as the Northwestern Territory. The same year Ohio was
admitted as a State — 1802 — the Territory of Indiana was organized, with William
Ilenrv Harrison as Governor. In 1803 the first legislature of Indiana Territory assem-
bled at Vincennes. Illinois being then a part of Indiana Territory, St. Clair county
sent three representatives. Indiana was not admitted as a State into the Union until
1816, but seven years previous to that time had lost more than half its area.

By an act of Congress, approved February 3, i 809, Illinois was separated from In-
diana, and provision made for organizing a Territorial Government. Hon. Ninian
Edwards, Chief Justice of Kentucky, was appointed by President Madison, to be the
first Governor of the Territory of Illinois. The government was organized, in the
absence of Governor Edwards, by Nathaniel Pope, Territorial Secretary, April 28, 1809.
Governor Edwards arrived at Kaskaskia early in June, and on the eleventh of that
month took the oath of office. He was Governor during the whole territorial existence
of Illinois. His first commission was dated March 7, 1809; re-appointed November

3o HISTORICAL PRELUDE.

12, 1812; again re-appointed Jan. 16, 1816. From 1809 to 1812 all the legislation was
done " By authority of the Governor and Judges." They did not enact laws, hut selec-
ted from the territorial laws of Indiana, and from the State of Kentucky such as were
suitable to the situation, and declared them to be the laws of the Territory of Illinois.
During those three years the Territory was without a voice in Congress.

The first election in Illinois was held by order of Governor Edwards, March 14,
1812, for the purpose of ascertaining if the people generally desired to take part in the
government and relieve the Governor and Judges of so much responsibility. The re-
sult of the election was favorable to the change. That involved the necessity for
another election, which was ordered for October ninth, tenth and eleventh, for the pur-
pose of choosing a delegate to Congress and members of the Territorial Legislature.
The members thus elected assembled at Kaskaskia November 25, 1812, being the first
legislative body in the territory. From that time to 1818, all business was done in the
name of the "Legislative Council and House of Representatives." That body asseni-
bled annually in December.

By an act of Congress, approved April 18, 1818, the people of Illinois were authori-
zed to advance from a Territorial to a State Government. In August an election was
held for State officers and a representative in Congress. The State was admitted into
the Union Dec. 3, 1818. Shaclrach Bond, who had been a delegate in Congress from
1812 to 1815, and receiver in the land office from that time until the State was admitted
to the Union, was elected the first Governor under the State organization. Ex-Gov-
ernor Edwards and Jesse B. Thomas were chosen by the legislature to be the first
United States Senators.

SANGAMON COUNTY.

When Illinois was admitted to the Union it was composed of thirty-three counties,
but Sangamon county and Springfield were unknown. The county was created, by a
law of the State, entitled :

"An act establishing the County of Sangamon" — Approved January 30, 1821.

SECTION i. Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois, represented in
the General Assembly, That all that tract of country within the following boundaries,
to-wit: — Beginning at the northeast corner of township twelve north, on the third
principal meridian, thence north with said meridian to the Illinois river, thence down
the middle of said river to the mouth of Balance or Negro creek, thence up said creek
to its head, thence through the middle of the prairie which divides the waters of the
Sangamon and Mauves Terre, to the northwest corner of township twelve north, range
seven west, of the third principal meridian, thence east along the north boundary of
township twelve to the place of beginning, shall constitute a separate county to be called
Sansramon.

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SECTION 2. Be it further enacted, That so soon as the county commissioners of
said county shall be elected and duly qualified into office, they shall meet at some con-
venient place in said county, and determine on some place as near the centre of the pop-
ulation of said county as circumstances will admit, and such place, when selected by
said county commissioners, shall be the temporary seat of justice for said county, until
otherwise provided by law: Provided, however, that if any settler or settlers, owner or
owners, of the place so selected as aforesaid, shall refuse to ,have the temporary seat of
justice fixed on his, or her or their improvements, then the said commissioners may de-
termine on such other place contiguous thereto as they may deem proper.

SECTION 3. Be it further enacted, That said county commissioners shall be allowed
the same compensation for the time necessarily employed in fixing the temporary seat
of justice as in other cases.

SECTION 4. Be it further enacted, That the citizens of Sangamon county arc here-
by declared in all respects entitled to the same rights and privileges as are allowed in
general to other counties in thus State; Provided, always, that in all cases where free
holders only are capable of performing any duty, or are entitled to any privilege; house-
keepers shall, for all such purposes, be considered as free holders in the said Sangamon
county, and shall and may do and perform all duties appertaining to the different offices
in the county.

SECTION 5. Be it further enacted, That the county of Sangamon shall compose a
part of the first judicial circuit of the State.

That all may understand the difference between the boundaries of the county when
organized, and the present bouadaries, it is only necessary to spread before you any late
township map of the State and trace the following boundaries: Commencing at the
northeast corner of Locust township, in Christian county, thence north to a point on the
Illinois river, about two miles west of the city of Peru, thence down the middle of said
river to what is now the boundary line between Cass and Morgan counties, thence east
to the northeast corner of Morgan county, thence south on the line between Morgan
and Sangamon counties, to the northwest corner of Otter township, in Macoupin county,
thence east to the place of beginning. It will be seen that the boundaries between this
county and Morgan, Macoupin and Montgomery, are unchanged. The original metes
and bounds of Sangamon county, as given, embraced the following counties and parts
of counties, as at present constituted : Part of Christian, a small part of Macon, all of
Logan, part of McLean, all of Tazewell, part of Woodford, part of Marshall, part of
Putnam, all of Mason, all of Menard, and all of Cass.

The territory constituting the county was thus set apart by law, but it was without
officers. For the purpose of supplying them an election was held Monday, April 2,
1821, at the house of John Kelly. At this election William Drennan, Zachariah Peter,
and Rivers Cormack were elected county commissioners. They met the next day,
each took the oath of office, and at once entered upon the discharge of their duties.
The following is a transcript from the original records of their first term of court:

APRIL 3, 1821 :

At a Special Term of the County Commissioners' Court for the County of Sanga-
mon, begun and held at the house of John Kelly, on Spring creek, on the third day of

32 HISTORICAL PRELUDE.

April, 1821: Present, Zachariah Peter, Rivers Cormack, and William Drennan, com-
missioners. Ordered by the Court that Charles R. Matheney be appointed Clerk of
the County Commissioners Court for the county of Sangamon; who thereupon took
the oath prescribed by law, also the oath of office, and entered into bond, as the law
directs, with James Latham his security. Ordered that court adjourn.

ZACHARIAH PETER,
WM. DRENNAN,
RIVERS CORMACK.

The Commissioners met again in Special Session, April 10, 1821, at the same place.
Present: Z. Peter and Wm. Drennan. John Spillers was allowed ten dollars for con-
veying election returns to Vandalia. James Sims was appointed County Treasurer.
John Lindsay, Stephen Stillman, and John Robinson, were appointed to the office of
Justice of the Peace. The following report was made with reference to the location
of the county seat :

WHEREAS, the Act of the General Assembly, entitled An Act, establishing the
county of Sangamo, required of the County Commissioners when elected and qualified
into office, to fix a temporary seat of justice for said county: Therefore, we, the under-
signed, County Commissioners for said county, do certify that we, after full examina-
tion of the situation of the population of said county, have fixed and designated a certain
point in the prairie near John Kelley's field, on the waters of Spring creek, at a stake
marked Z. & D., as the temporary seat of justice for said county; and do further agree
that the said county seat be called and known by the name of Springfield.

Given under our hands this loth day of April, 1821.

•ZACHARIAH PETER.

WM. DRENNAN.

There is no explanation of letters used in marking the stake, but it is probable that
the onlv two commissioners present agreed to use one initial from each of their names.

The point chosen was near what is now the northwest corner of Second and Jeffer-
son streets. The first court house in the county was built on the same spot.

We find the county of Sangamo organized, and the county seat temporarily located
and named. It may be interesting to note some of the incidents that influenced the
selection of that pai'ticular spot. Towns and cities are born, live, and die, subject to the
contingencies of birth, life, and death, analagous to that of human beings. About the
year 1818, an old bachelor by the name of Elisha Kelly emigrated from North Carolina
to this State, stopping first in Macoupin county. Mr. Kelly was exceedingly fond of the
chase, and in prospecting for good hunting grounds, wandered in between two ravines,
a couple of miles apart, running in a northwesterly direction, and emptying into Spring
creek, a tributary of the Sangamon river. The deer with which this country abounded
before the advent of civilization, made their homes in the timber along the larger water
courses. In the morning they would leave the heavy timber, follow up the ravines,
along which the trees became smaller, and finally ran out on the open prairie, They
would pass the day amid the tall and luxuriant grass, roaming about and grazing at
pleasure, and as nightfall approached, return down- the ravines, to the places they had
left in the morning, each to seek its lair for repose. The deer in passing down these
ravines, gave Mr. Kelly an opportunity for the full gratification of his ambition for

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game. It seemed to him so much like a hunter's paradise, that he returned to his old home
and induced his father, Henry Kelly, and his four brothers, John, older than himself,
and Elijah, William and George, younger, to emigrate with him, those who had fam-
ilies bringing them. He induced other families among his acquaintances to emigrate
also. More families continued to move into the country, and generally settled at long
distances from each other, but the principal settlement clustered around the Kellvs.
NVhen the commissioners came to locate the county seat, it was discovered that the
Kellev settlement was the only place in all the county, large as it was, where enough
families could be found in the vicinity of each other to board and lodge the members
of the court and those who would be likely to attend its sessions.

The records do not show that anything more than locating the countv seat was done
that day, but in another part of the book we find a copy of a contract that was evi-
dently entered into after adjournment, and before they separated. There is no evidence
of any advertising for proposals to build a court house, but here is the contract:

Article of agreement entered into the loth day of April, 1821, between John Kelly,
of the county of Sangamo, and the undersigned, county commissioners of said countv.
Tin said Kelly agrees with said commissioners to build, for the use of the said countv,
a court house of the following description, to-wit: The logs to be twenty feet long,
the house one story high, plank floor, a good cabin roof, a door and window cut out,
the work to be completed by the first day of May, next, for which the said commis-
sioners promise, on the part of the county, to pay the said Kelly forty-two dollars and
fifty cents. Witness our hands the day and date above.

JOHN KELLY,
ZACHARIAH PETER,
WM. DRENNAN.

As the temple of justice approached completion the commissioners found that it
would be a very nice summer building, but they evidently had some doubts about it
for winter. So we find another contract, of which the following is a copy :

Jesse Brevard agrees with the county commissioners to finish the court house in the
following manner, to-wit: To be chinked outside and daubed inside. Boards sawed
and nailed on the inside cracks, a good, sufficient door shutter, to be made with good
plank and hung with good iron hinges, with a latch. A window to be cut out, faced
and cased, to contain nine lights, with a good, suificient shutter hung on the outside.
A fire place to be cut out seven feet wide, and a good, sufficient wooden chimney,
built with a good, sufficient back and hearth. To be finished by the first of September,
next.

JESSE BREVARD.

June I, 1821.

June 4, 1821, the court assembled in the court house for which they had signed the
contract twenty-four days previous. A contract was entered into that day to build a
jail, first drawing up the specifications and then writing the contract on the back, of
which the following is a copy:

Robert Hamilton agrees to build the within named jail for the county of Sangamo,
and to have the same completed by the first Monday in September, next, for the sum
of eighty four dollars and seventy-five cents, for which the commissioners agree, on
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34 HISTORICAL PRELUDE.

the part of the county, that the said Hamilton shall be entitled to a warrant on the
county treasury for the sum of eighty-four dollars and seventy-five cents, as aforesaid.

ROBERT HAMILTON.

• June 4, 1821.

The following is a "description of a jail for Sangamo county," to-wit: The timber
to be cut twelve feet long, hewed twelve inches square, raised seven feet between the
floors, the upper and also the under floor to be of the same kinds of timber, hewed
and fit on the sill with a shoulder of at least three inches. The under sill to be let in
the ground so as to let the floor rest on the surface of the earth. The logs to be
matched with a half dove-tail, and made to close. The building to be covered with a
good cabin roof, a window cut eight inches square, half cut out of the timber above
and half below. A bar of iron let into the log above and one below, one-half inch
thick and two inches wide; three bars of iron standing upright one inch square, let in
through the top and bottom bar and into the timber. One door cut three feet in width
and five feet high, to be faced, or cheeked, with good timber, three inches thick, put on
with good spikes; a strong door shutter, made of good oak plank, put together cross-
ing and angling, with rivets, at least four in each cross of the plank, and fourpenny
nails, drove from each side of the door, not more than one-half inch apart. To be
hung with three good, strong, iron hinges, so turned as not to admit of the door com-
ing off, and a good, strong bolt lock. The building to be completed by the first Mon-
day in September, next.

June 4, 1821 :

At the meeting of June 4th John Hamblin and David Black were appointed con-
stables. To this time the records show that the name of the county had been written
Sangamo, but without any apparent reason, we find a letter added, making it Sanga-
mon.

June 5, 1821 :

At a meeting of the commissioners under this date, we find that John Kellv was
allowed $42.50 due him on contract for building the court house, and he was allowed
$5.00 for extra work. At a meeting September I, 1821, Jacob Ellis was allowed $4.50
for Judge's seat and bar in the court house. The meeting of December 4, 1821, shows
that Jesse Brevard was allowed $20.50 for finishing the court house, making a total of
$72.50 as the total cost of the first court house of Sangamon county, but even here we
see that the cost nearly doubled the original contract of $42.50.

Continuing the business done on June 5th, we find that the county was divided into
four election districts, or townships, called, respectively, Sangamon, Springfield, Rich-
land and Union. Overseers of the poor were appointed, two for each township.
and a board of three trustees to look after the overseers of the poor. It does not
appear that any one was appointed to look after the trustees. At that meeting James
C. Stephenson was appointed county surveyor, and George Hay worth county treasurer,
in place of James Sims, who refused to qualify. Provision was made for levying a
tax on houses, neat cattle, wheel carnages, stock in trade and distilleries.

July 1 6, 1821. Ordered, that one-half of one per cent, be levied on all property for
the purpose of paying for the public buildings, and for other purposes.

SANGAMON COUNTT. 35

December 4, 1821. John Taylor came into court and entered his protest against the
sufficiency of the jail. At the same term it was ordered that Robert Pulliam be allowed
to keep a tavern, or public house of entertainment, upon his executing a bond and pay-
ing to the county the sum of three dollars, and that he be allowed to charge the follow-
ing ratc-s, to-wit: Meal of victuals, 25 cents; bed for night, 121^ cents; feed for horse,
121^ cents; keeping horse all night, 37^ cents; whisky, for half pint, 12^.

March term, 1822. Erastus Wright was authorized to keep a ferry across the Illinois
river, opposite Fort Clark, now Peoria. Rates of charges were fixed in the license.
We learn that he never kept the ferry.

Elijah Slater, on filing his bond, with Dr. Gershom Jayne as security, was granted
license to keep a tavern, or public house of entertainment, in the town of Springfield,
and a schedule of charges fixed similar to that annexed to Mr. Pulliam's license.

George Havworth, the county treasurer, made what was probably intended as his
annual report, although the county had been organized only about eleven months. The
amount of taxes collected for 1821 was $407.44; fines collected, $40.00, making the
total receipts $447.44. The amount paid out was $420.183^. This included the pay-
ment of all the officers, and of all bills connected with the building of the court house
and jail, leaving $27.261^ cents in the treasury, and no public debt. From the official
papers it appears that the entire salary of the county treasurer for that year was
$22.26^.

July 29, 1823, the amount of taxable property returned to the court was $129,112.50.
After reducing the territory of the county to about one-seventh of the original area,
we find that the taxable property now — 1876 — amounts to about thirty-five millions of
dollars.

Adam Hamilton, county treasurer, reported at the May term, 1824, total amount of
collections was $875. 87^, and the disbursements $753.90, leaving a balance of $121.97

in the treasury.

•

After the temporary location of the county seat, a contest sprang up, looking to the
permanent location of the same. At an election of members of the legislature, two
opposing candidates went before the people on the merits of two localities. I. S. Pugh
was the candidate for Springfield, and William S. Hamilton, a son of the distinguished
statesman, Alexander Hamilton, represented Sangamo, a beautiful site for a town on
the banks of the Sangamon river, about seven miles west, bearing a little north from
Springfield. Hamilton was elected, but Pugh went to Vandalia, the capital, as a
lobby member, and succeeded in having commissioners — named in the next paragraph —
appointed, who proved to be favorable to Springfield.

An act of the General Assembly, approved December 23, 1824, provided for reduc-
ing the boundaries of the county, and named James Mason, Rowland P.Allen, Charles
Gear and John R. Sloo, as a board of commissioners who should permanently locate the
county seat. A proviso in the law forbade its being located unless thirty-five acres of
land was donated on the spot. The commissioners assembled March 18, 1825, and
confirmed the former location. More than the requisite donation was made, forty-two
acres being conveyed for that purpose by Elijah lies and Pascal Enos. The land con-
veyed was parts of sections thirty-four and twenty-seven, in town sixteen north, range

M7S TOR 1 CA L PREL UDE.

hve west, of the third principal meridian. The work of the special commission wa
consummated when the county commissioners accepted the deeds. They soon afte
ordered all the land to be laid out into town lots, and, after reserving one square to
county buildings, had the remainder sold. Wm. S. Hamilton was appointed to lay oi
and map the town lots. At the same meeting it was ordered that the sale of lots shoulc
begin on the first Monday in May, 1825, and that it should be so advertised in th
Edwardsville Spectator, and in the Intelligencer, at Vandalia. Mr. Hamilton failed to
lay out the lots, and Tom M. Neale did the work. At a meeting of the commis-
sioners, May 2, 1825, Mr. Neale was appointed crier to sell the lots, and Erastus Wright
to clerk at the sale. The following report of two days' sales will show the contrast
between the value of Springfield real estate then and now :

•FIRST DAY.

Lots.

Block.

Amount.

Garret Elkin. bought

i

22

$25 75

James C. McNabb "

-}

] 2 OO

fames Adams . " ....

5

22

17 . 7;

Robert Hamilton ". " ....

7

22

lf>. 5p

SECOND DAY.
Garrett Elkin bought

2

22

71 OO

Elijah lies. '

A

22

20 oo

4

27

40.00

r

27

H.oo

James Adams

6

22

17.25

Garrett Elkin

8

17 5614

T M Neale

21

21 OO

2

' 23

17.25

Thomas Cox. .

I

H.OO

C. R. Matheny ....

8

27

IO. 25

• At the June term, 182=5, of the county; commissioners' court, John Taylor, sheriff,
made the following return or report :

Taxes collected for 1824 $600.00

Fines collected same year 23.00

Total $623.00

Amount paid out 549.97

Balance in favor of the county $73.03

July term, 1825. The county commissioners began to think the time had arrived for
building a larger and better court house. They passed an order that the county pro-
ceed to build a court house, not to exceed three thousand dollars, provided one-half the
expense be made up bv subscription. It was to be of brick, two stories high. The
failure to raise the money bv subscription defeated the whole project.

It will be remembered that the court house built in 1821 cost, on the original contract,
$41.50; for extra work, $5.00; for a seat for the Judge, $4.50; and for finishing the
building, so as to make it habitable for winter, $20.50, making a total of $72.50.

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Coming down from their project to build a $3,000 court house, we next find a con-
tract in the office of the county clerk, made September, 1825. Log buildings could no
longer be tolerated, and this was to be a frame. The contract price was $449.00,
which did not include the flues. That was let to another party for $70.00, making a
total of $519.00. The old log court house was sold at auction to John Taylor for
$32.00, nearly half the original cost. The new frame court house was built at the
north-east corner of Adams and Sixth streets. It must have been a magnificent struc-
ture, judging from the fact that at the term of the court in June, 1826, Robert Thomp-
son was allowed two dollars and twenty-five cents for the plan of the court house.

It may be a matter of some interest to say a few words here about the method of

raising revenue to keep the machinery of government moving. At a term of com-

; missioners' court, March 23, 1827, a schedule was made of the kinds of property to be

taxed, beginning: "On slaves and indentured or registered negro or mulatto servants,

on pleasure carriages, on distilleries," etc., etc.

Only a few years elapsed until the frame court house was thought to be inadequate
i to the growing wants of the people. It is recorded in the county archives that in Feb-
ruary, 1830, the county court appointed three agents or commissioners to superintend
the erection of a brick court house. On the third of March the commissioners reported
to the court that thev had entered into contracts with two parties. One for the brick
work, at $4,641, the other for the wood work, at $2,200, making a total of $6,841.
This edifice was completed early in 1831, and stood in the centre of the public square,
bounded by Washington and Adams, Fifth and Sixth streets. It was a square build-
ing, two. stories high, hip roof, with a cupola rising in the centre. From the time that
court house was erected, all the business of the town collected around the square.

In 1837, wr»en Springfield was selected as the future capital of the state, with a
pledge to raise fifty thousand dollars to assist in building the state house; also to furnish
the site upon which it should stand, it was not an easy matter to agree upon a location.
If land was selected far enough from the existing business to be cheap, the fifty thousand
dollars could not be raised. Those already in business around the square refused to
contribute, because the state house, being so much larger and more attractive, would
draw the business after it, thus depreciating the value of their property. After dis-
cussing the question in all its bearings, it was found that the only practicable way to settle
the matter was to demolish the court house and use the site for the state house. Under
that arrangement the business men around the square pledged themselves to contribute
to the fifty thousand dollar fund to the extent of their ability. The court house was
accordingly removed, early in 1837, anc^ wol"k on tne state house commenced. This
square, with the court house and other buildings on it, were valued at sixteen thousand
dollars, about one-third of which was lost in the destruction, of the buildings.

Having thus summarily disposed of their court house, and having engaged to do so
much towards building the state house, the people of Sangamon countv were unable
to undertake the building of another. In order to supply the deficiency, the county
authorities rented a building that had been erected for a store house by the Hon. Nin-
ian \V. Edwards. It is at the west side of Fifth street, five doors north of Washington,
and was used as a court house for about ten years. Mr. Edwards still owns it, and it
is yet used as a business house. After the state house was built, the fifty thousand

38 HISTORICAL PRELUDE.

dollars paid, and the county emerged from the general wreck caused by the financu
crash of 1837-8, Sangamon county hegan to take measures for erecting another coin
house. In the month of February, 1845, a lot of ground was purchased at the south
east corner of Washington and Sixth streets, as the site for the building. On tht
twenty-second of April a contract was made by the county commissioners for the built
ing, according to plans and specifications previously adopted. The edifice was to cc
$9,680, to be paid in county orders. It was completed according to contract, and w;
used as the court house of Sangamon county nearly thirty-one years, until Januan
1876.

When the movement for building a new state house was made, early in 1867, it w
deemed politic on the part of the friends of Springfield that Sangamon county shoul
purchase the old state house, erected from 1837 to 1840, and make it the court house c
the county. The law providing for the building of a new state house, which was
proved by Gov. R. J. Oglesby, February 25, 1867, with a supplementary act two da}
later, contained a clause for the transfer of the state house to Sangamon county and th
city of Springfield, which was afterwards changed, making the county alone the pui
chaser. It was" stipulated that the Governor should convey the public square, cor
taining two and a halt acres of land, with the state house upon it, to Sangamon count}
in consideration of two hundred thousand dollars, to be paid to the state of Illinoi
and for the further consideration that the city of Springfield and the county cause t
be conveyed to the State a certain piece of land, described by metes and bounds in th
bill, and containing between eight and nine acres, upon which to erect the new stat
house. The law also provided that the state should have the use of the old state hou
until the new one was completed. The land was secured at a cost to the city of sevent
thousand dollars, and conveyed to the state; the two hundred thousand dollars was
paid by the county, and the property conveyed by the state to the county. That was
done in 1867, but the countv did not come into possession of the property for seven
years. During that time the simple interest, at ten per cent., on the two hundred thousand
dollars purchase money, would have amounted to one hundred and forty thousand dol-
lars, making the cost of the old state house to Sangamon county three hundred and
forty thousand dollars. The state vacated the house in January, 1876, and the
county authorities at once took possession. It will thus be seen that in fifty-five years
the county has had five court houses, and been ten years without any. The first one
cost forty-two dollars and fifty cents, and the last three hundred and forty thousand
dollars.

CIRCUIT COURT.

While the commissioners were busy putting the machinery of the county in working
order, we find that the Circuit Court for the county was organized also. The follow-
ing is the complete record for the first term :

Sangamon Circuit, May Term, 1821:

At a Circuit Court for the county of Sangamon, and State of Illinois, begun and
held at the house of John Kelly, on the first Monday of May, (7th day), in the year c
our Lord, one thousand, eight hundred and twenty-one.

SANGAMON COUNTT. 39

Present: JOHN REYNOLDS, Judge.

CHARLES R. MATHENY, Clerk.

JOHN TAYLOR, Sheriff.

HENRY STARR, Prosecuting Attorney, pro tern.

The following list of Grand Jurors were empanneled and sworn:

Daniel Parkinson, foreman. George Hay worth,

Claybourn James, William Eads,

Henry Brown, Thomas Knotts,

John Darneille, James McCoy,

Archibald Turner, James Tweddell,

William Davis, Aaron Hawley,

Abraham Richey, Field James,

Abraham Carlock, Mason Fowler,

Levi Harbour, Isaac Keys,

Elias Williams.

Charles R. Matheny presented his bond and security as clerk, which was approved
y the court.

John Taylor presented his bond as sheriff, with security, which was approved by
the court.

Suit was commenced by Samuel L. Irwin against Roland Shepherd, for trespass,
and dismissed at plaintiff's cost.

The Grand Jury came into court and returned two indictments for assault and bat-
ten and one for riot. Trial deferred until next term, and court adjourned.

The next term was October 8, 1821; held but one day, and proceedings covered
two pages of the record.

Next term commenced May 6, 1822; lasted three days, and proceedings covered
nine pages of the record. Now, in 1876, with the county reduced to about one-seventh
of the territory it then occupied, the Circuit Court continues about eighteen weeks,
annually, or three terms of about six weeks each, and the proceedings of each term
cover from three to five hundred pages of the record.

In those days, when the electric telegraph was unknown, and it required from
twenty days to one month for a letter or newspaper to be brought from the Atlantic
coast, the early settlers were under the necessity of giving an amusing turn to passing
events when it was at all practicable. An incident illustrating this is related by men
who witnessed the facts. When the court was held in the first log court house, an
attorney by the name of Mendel violated the rules of decorum as understood by his
Honor, Judge John York Sawyer, who ordered Mendel to be arrested and sent to
jail for a few hours. On repairing to the court house next morning, the Judge, lawyers
and others were surprised to find the court in session before the hour to which it had
adjourned. A large calf was on the platform usually occupied by the Judge, and a
flock of geese cooped up in the jury box. Mendel, having been released from jail, was
inside the bar; bowing first to the calf and then to the geese, he commenced his plead-
ing: "May it please the Court, and you gentlemen of the jury."

40 HISTORICAL PRELUDE.

The first three or four years of the records of the Circuit Court reveals nothing. •
more than the ordinary routine in such tribunals. The most startling event in the
community occurred August 27, 1826. A murder was committed that day near the
Sangamon river, in what is now Menard county, ahout five miles above where Peters-
burg now stands. A blacksmith named Nathaniel VanNoy had, in a fit of drunken ]
frenzy, killed his wife. He was arrested and lodged in jail the same day. The sheriff,
Col. John Taylor, notified Judge Sawyer, who at once called a special session of the
Circuit Court. A grand jury was empanneled and sworn, consisting of the following \
citizens:

Gershom Jayne, foreman, Jesse M. Harrison,

Stephen Stillman, Robert Cownover,

John Morris, James Turley,

John Stephenson, Jr., Aaron Houton,

James White, John Young,

Thomas Morgan, John Lindsay,

James Stewart, Charles Boyd,

Jacob Boyer, Win. O. Chilton,

Robert White, Job Burdan,

John N. Moore, Hugh Sportsman,

Wm. Carpenter, Abram Lanterman.

Upon hearing the evidence a true bill was found against the accused, and a petit
jury called, consisting of the following persons :

Boling Green, foreman, Wm. Vincent,

Samuel Lee, Philip I. Fowler,

Jesse Armstrong, John L. Stephenson,

Levi W. Gordon, Levi Parish,

Thomas I. Parish, James Collins,

Erastus Wright, Geo. Davenport,

A foreman was appointed, the jury sworn, and the trial commenced on the 28th.
Attorney-General James Turney acted for the people; James Adams and I. H. Pugh,
for the defendant. A verdict of guilty was rendered on the 29th, and sentence was
pronounced the same day, that the condemned man be hung November 26, 1826. Thus,
in less than three days was the murder committed, the murderer tried and condemned
to be hung. The sentence was carried out at the time appointed, in the presence of
almost the entire community. Many are yet living who witnessed the execution.
Having already sold his body, it was delivered to the surgeons, who immediately com-
menced dissecting it in an old open house. The spectacle was so revolting that they
were compelled to desist and remove it to a more private place. In a country so new,
the settlers so widely separated, and so little that was interesting or exciting to furnish
topics for conversation, the excitement caused by that event cannot be imagined by the
people at the present time. The writer has, time and again, had the dates of events,
such as the advent of families in the community, marriages, births, deaths, and incidents
too numerous to mention, all settled beyond a doubt by its having occurred "the fall
VanNov was hunfif!"

SANGAMOX COr.\ V)-. 41

PROBATE COURT.

Having given an account of the organization of the Commissioners' Court and of
the Circuit Court, the department of justice would not be complete without a Probate
Court. The following from its records will show when and by whom that court was
organized :

SPRINGFIELD, SANGAMON COUNTY,

STATE OF ILLINOIS, June 21, 1821.

Agreeable to an act of Assembly establishing Courts of Probate, approved February
10, 1821, the court was opened at Springfield, Sangamon county, an the 4th day of
June, 1821. Present, James Latham, Judge.

The court proceeded to issue letters of administration to Randolph Wills on the
estate of Daniel Martin, deceased. After which the court adjourned until court in
course.

JAS. LATHAM, Judge.

After which court met and adjourned three times without transacting any business,
until August 26, 1821, when the filing and recording the will of Peter Lanterman
occupied the attention of the court one entire term.

October, 1821, we find the following will recorded:

Before the witnesses now present, Louis Bennett, in perfect memory, does give to
the daughters of Kakanoqui, Josett Kakanoqui and Lizett Kakanoqui, two thousand
livres each, and six hundred livres for praies for his father; also, six hundred livres for
him, if for prayes, and thirty dollars for prayes promised, and one hundred dollars for
Kakanoqui, the rest of his money to be given to his brothers and sisters of Louis
Bennett. After duly hearing read over before the witnesses now present, and signing
the same will, he does voluntarily appoint Joseph D. Portecheron and Louis Pencon-

neau, Senr., as exacquators of his will.

His

LOUIS -f BENNETT.

mark.

JOSEPH D. PORTECHERON, 1

JOSEPH DUTTLE, I .....

nlg ^ Witnesses.

FRANCOIS -h BARBONAIS,

mark. J

NEWSPAPERS.

During the winter of 1826-7 tne "Sangamo Spectator'1'' was established in Spring-
field by Hooper Warren. He says, in a letter to tne old settlers' meeting, October 20,
1859: " It was but a small affair, a medium sheet, worked by myself alone most of the
time, until I made a transfer of it, in the fall of 1828, to Mr. S. Meredith." Mr. War-
ren is yet residing at Henry, Illinois.

The Sangamo Journal was, established by Simeon and Josiah Francis. See their
names. The first number of the paper was issued November 10, 1831, and has con-
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42 HISTORICAL PRELUDE.

tinned to the present time, and is now known as the Illinois State Journal, and has
been published weekly and daily since June 13, 1838. Its present proprietors are
the "Illinois Journal Company," composed of D. L. Phillips, Prest.; E. L. Baker,
Sec.; J. D. Roper, Treasurer; and Charles Edwards and A. J. Phillips.

The Illinois State Register, first established at Vandalia, was removed to Spring-
field in 1836, by Walters & Weber. It has been published as a weekly and daily since
January 2, 1849. Its present proprietors are E. L. & J. D. Merritt.

SANGAMON RIVER NAVIGATION.

The transportation question will always be a leading one in civilixed communities,
and especially so in their early settlement. To the first settlers of Illinois it was of un-
usual importance, on account of the vast extent of undrained soil, so rich and soft as to
be almost impassible, in its natural state, for half of every year. For the transporta-
tion of heavy articles long distances, no other mode was thought of except by water.
They could be conveyed three or four times the distance in that way, much cheaper
than on a straight line by any known method. Consequently, efforts were made to
navigate every stream to the highest point possible. In the Sangamo Journal of
January 26, 1832, there appears a letter from Vincent A. Bogue, written in Cincinnati
and addressed to Edward Mitchell, Esq., of Springfield. Mr. Bogue says he will at-
tempt the navigation of the Sangamon river if he can find a suitable boat, and expresses
the opinion that if he succeeds it will revolutionize the freight business. This is an
editorial paragraph from the Springfield Journal of February 16, 1832:

"NAVIGATION OF THE SANGAMO. — We find the following advertisement in the
Cincinnati Gazette of the I9th ult. We hope such notices will soon cease to be novel-
ties. We seriously believe that the Sangamon river, with some little improvement,
can be made navigable for steamboats for several months in the year." Here is the
advertisement : \

" FOR SANGAMO RIVER, ILLINOIS. — The splendid upper cabin steamer, Talisman,
J. M. Pollock, Master, will leave for Portland, Springfield, on the Sangamon river,
and all the intermediate ports and landings, say Beardstown, Naples, St. Louis, Louis-
ville, on Thursday, February 2. For freight or passage, apply to Capt. Vincent A.
Bogue, at the Broadway Hotel, or to Allison Owen." The same boat was advertised
in the St. Louis papers.

After the above notices appeared in the Journal, the citizens of Springfield and
surrounding country held a public meeting, February 14, 1832, and appointed a com-
mittee to meet Mr. Bogue with a suitable number of hands to assist in clearing the
river of obstructions. Another committee was appointed to collect subscriptions to
defray the expense. The Journal of March 8 announces the arrival of the steamer at
Meredosia, where its further progress was obstructed by ice. The Sangamo Journal
of March 29, 1832, says: "On Saturday last the citizens of this place (Springfield)
were gratified by the arrival of the steamboat Talisman, J. W. Pollock, Master, of
i 50 tons burthen, at the Portland landing, opposite this town. (Portland was at the
south side of the Sangamon river, between where the bridges of the Chicago & Alton
and the Oilman, Clinton & Springfield railroads now stand.) The safe arrival of a
boat of the size of the Talisman, on a river never before navigated by steam, had

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created much solicitude, and the shores for miles were crowded by our citizens. Her
arrival at her destined port was hailed with loud acclamations and full demonstrations
of pleasure. When Capt. Bogue located his steam mill on Sangamon river, twelve
months ago, and asserted his determination to land a steam boat there within a year,
the idea was considered chimerical by some, and utterly impracticable by others. The
experiment has been made, and the result has been as successful as the most enthusiastic
could expect; and this county owes a deep debt of gratitude to Captain Bogue for getting
up the expedition, and his never tiring and unceasing efforts until the end was accom-
plished. Capt. Pollock, who is naturally warm and enthusiastic, entered fully into the
feeling of our citizens, who visited the mouth of the river to render any and every
assistance in their power; and much credit is due him for his perseverance and success.
The boat experienced some difficulty from drifts, and leaning timber on shore, which made
her trip somewhat tedious. The result has clearly demonstrated the practicability of navi-
gating the river by steamboats of a proper size; and by the expenditure of $2,000 in re-
moving logs and drifts and standing timber, a steamboat of 80 tons burthen will make
the trip in two days from Beardstown to this place. The citizens of Beardstown man-
ifested great interest for the success of the enterprise, and some of them accompanied
the boat until the result was no longer doubtful. They proposed the cutting of a
communication or canal from the bluffs to their landing — about five miles — whereby
seventy-five miles of navigation may be saved, and offered one thousand dollars to
assist in completing it. It is to be hoped that the next Legislature will afford some aid
in making the river safe and pleasant in its navigation. Springfield can no longer be
considered an inland town. We have no doubt but within a few months a boat will
be constructed for the special purpose of navigating the Sangamo river. The result
which must follow the successful termination of this enterprise to our county, and to
those counties lying in its neighborhood, it would be impossible to calculate. Here is
now open a most promising field for the exercise of every branch of honest industry.
We congratulate our farmers, our mechanics, our merchants and professional men for
the rich harvest in prospect, and we cordially invite emigrating citizens from other
states, whether rich or poor, if so be they are industrious and honest, to come hither
and partake of the good things of Sangamo."

A ball was gotten up in honor of the arrival, and several yards of machine poetry
appeared in the next number of the Journal, detailing the various incidents connected
with the wondrous event. The boat was unloaded, and immediately started on its re-
turn, but the river had so fallen and brought the water within so narrow a channel,
that it was impossible to turn it around, and they were compelled to back it out the
entire distance. The only mention ever made of her afterwards was a newspaper re-
port that the Talisman was burned at the wharf in St. Louis in the latter part of the
next April. No attempt was ever made after that to bring a boat up the river. Thus
ended the dream of navigating the Sangamo, across which a man may walk almost
dry shod for nearly half of every year.

RAILROADS.

The navigation of the Sangamon river being a failure, left the problem of transporta-
tion still unsolved. Brains and hands were at work in another land, that were destined to

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revolutionize all former ideas on the subject in this, but their labors had never been
heard of by the people, with the exception, probably, of an occasional extensive reader
of the news. The railroad was then in its very infancy in England. The steam loco-
motive, about that time, found its way to this side of the Atlantic, but it required a
few yeai's more for it to reach Illinois. The first rail laid in the state was at Mcredosia,
on the Illinois river, May 9, 1838, on what was called the Northern Cross Railroad.
The first locomotive arrived at the same place September 6, 1838, on the steamboat
Chariton, and was put on the track and first turned its wheels on the 8th of November
following. It required more than three years to complete the road to Springfield. The
first locomotive was run into Springfield, February 15, 1842, on what is now the
Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad. George Gregory — see his name — was the
engineer, and Thomas M. Averitt — see his name — was the fireman, both of whom are
yet living in this county. The State of Illinois has now over six thousand miles of
railroad, and Springfield has railroads by which travelers may enter and leave the city
in eight different directions.

SPRINGFIELD.

We have already said that a temporary county seat was chosen for Sangamon count}-,
April 10, 1821, and called Springfield. The first survey of public land in the county
took place that year. The Rev. John M. Peck, in his Pioneer History of Illinois, says
that Springfield was laid out in February, 1822, referring, no doubt, to Calhoun, which
was the name given to the first plat of what is now a part of Springfield. It is in the
northwestern part of the city. The first sale of public lands in Sangamon county took
place November 7, 1823. At that sale the lands were purchased upon which Calhoun
had been laid out. Four different parties entered each a quarter of as many sections
cornering together. The town plat of Calhoun was recorded December 5, 1823. It
was under a law approved December 23, 1824, that the county seat was permanently
located by the commissioners, who assembled March 18, 1825, and confirmed the
former location at Springfield. The land donated by Elijah lies and Pascal Enos was
laid out into lots, making the streets correspond with those of Calhoun. There was
great prejudice against the name of Calhoun, (afterwards the great millifier of South
Carolina,) many refusing to recognize it, and it soon ceased to be used except in the
conveyance of lots.

The first legislation on the part of the state, with reference to Springfield, was ap-
pi-oved February 9, 1827. By this act the court of county commissioners was required
to appoint street commissioners for the town, and levy a tax for improving the same.
A general law for the incorporation of towns was enacted and approved February 12,
1831. April 2, 1832, Springfield was incorporated under that law. October 18, 1832,
the county court ordered a re-survey of the town, in order to adjust the discrepancies
between the plats of Calhoun and Springfield. The survey was made and acknowl-
edged June 1 8, 1833, and recorded November 9, 1836.

The first board of trustees after the town was incorporated, April 2, 1832:
C. R. Matheny, President, Elisha Tabor,

Cyrus Anderson, Mordecai Mobley,

John Taylor, Wm. Carpenter.

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1833: John R- Gray, President.

1834-5-6-7-8: C. R. Matheny, President.

1839: Peleg C. Canedy, President, and Abraham Lincoln a member of the
town board.

By an act of the General Assembly, approved February 3, 1840, a city charter was
granted to Springfield. This law provided for an election to be held the first Monday
in April, being the sixth day, to adopt or reject the proposed charter. It was adopted,
and the first election for city officers was held April 20, 1840.

Benjamin S. Clements was elected Mayor, and James R. Gray, Washington lies,
Joseph Klein and William Prentiss, Aldermen. The following were the successive
Mayors from that to the present' time: For 1841, Wm. L. May; 1842, David B.
Campbell; 1843, Daniel B. Hill, who resigned and Andrew McCormick was elected
to fill the vacancy; 1844, Andrew McCormick; 1845, James C. Conkling; 1846-47
and '48, Eli Cook; 1849-50 and '51, John Calhoun; 1852, William Lavely; 1853,
Josiah Francis. In 1854 the number of Aldermen was increased from four to twelve,
and William H. Herndon was elected Mayor; 1855, John Cook; 1856-57 and '58, John
W. Priest; 1859, William Jayne; 1860, Goyn Sutton; 1861-62, Geo. L. Huntington;
1863, John W. Smith; 1864, John S. Vredenburgh; 1865, Thomas J. Dennis; 1866,
John S.Bradford; 1867, Norman M. Broadwell; 1868, William E. Shutt; 1869, N.
M. Broadwell; 1870, John W. Priest; 1871 and '72, John W. Smith; 1873, Charles
E. Hay; 1874, the wards were increased from four to six, and Obed Lewis elected
Mayor; 1875, Charles E. Hay; 1876, this is printed in February, and the election takes
place in April.

SPRINGFIELD, THE^STATE CAPITAL.

t
From the discovery of the country by the French in 1673, there was no attempt at

organized government in the territory now composing the State of Illinois, until 1718,
when the " Company of the West" was formed in Paris, for the new wrorld. Kaskaskia
had been settled between 1680-90, and is regarded as the oldest permanent settlement
in the Mississippi Valley.

Judge Caton, in his oration at the laying of the corner stone of the new state house,
October 5, 1868, described the building which was used as the capitol when the terri-
torial government was organized, in the following language: "It was a rough build-
ing in the centre of a square in the village of Kaskaskia, the ancient seat of the western
empire for more than one hundred and fifty years. The body of this building was of
uncut limestone, the gables and roof of the gambrel style of unpainted boards and
shingles, with dormer windows. The lower floor, a long, cheerless room, was fitted
up for the House, whilst the council sat in the small chamber above. This venerable
building was, during the French occupancy of the country, prior to 1763? the head-
quarters of the military commandant. Thirty years ago the house was a mass of ruins,
and to-day, probably, there is not a stone left to designate the spot where it stood."
That building was the capitol during the territorial existence of Illinois, and the state
government was organized in it also.

The state constitution of 1818 required the General Assembly to petition Congress
for a grant of land upon which to locate the seat of government for the state. In the

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event of the prayer of the petitioners being granted, a town was to be laid out on said
land, which town should be the seat of government of the state for twenty years. The
land was granted. "At the session of 1819, m Kaskaskia, five commissioners were
appointed to select the land appropriated by Congress for the state capital." The
commissioners made their selections further up the Kaskaskia river. Having selected
the site, the commissioners were sorely puzzled in their efforts to select a name that
should be so euphonious as to attract the attention of the whole world. Governor
Ford, in his history of Illinois, gives the following humorous account of the way it
was done : " Tradition says that a wag, who was present, suggested to the commis-
sioners that the ' Vandals ' were a powerful nation of Indians, who once inhabited the
banks of the Kaskaskia river, and that ' Vandalia,' derived from the name, would per-
petuate the memory of that extinct but renowned people. The suggestion pleased the
commissioners, the name was adopted, and they thus proved that the cognomen of
their new city — if they were fit representatives of their constituents — would better
illustrate the character of the modern, than the ancient inhabitants of the country."

Having located and named their town, it was at once laid out, and the dense growth
of timber cut away and a two story frame building erected on the square set apart for
the State capitol. The building was placed on a rough stone foundation in the centre
of the square, and was of very rude workmanship. The lower floor was for the House
of Representatives, and the upper divided into two rooms, the largest one for the
Senate and the smaller one for the office of Secretary of State. The State Auditor
and Treasurer occupied detached buildings. The archives of the State were removed
from Kaskaskia to Vandalia in December, 1820. That wooden State house was burned
a few years later, and a much larger one built of brick on the same ground. The
rapidity with which emigration filled up the northern portion of the State made it ap-
parent, long before the twenty yeai's it was to remain at Vandalia expired,, that it would
be necessary to remove the capital further north, and as early as 1833 the question be-
gan to be agitated in the General Assembly.

In the Legislature of 1836-7 Sangamon county had two Senators and seven Repre-
sentatives. They were the most remarkable delegation from any one county to the
General Assembly, being much taller than the average of human stature. Some of
them were less and some more than six feet, but their combined height was exactly
fifty-four feet. They were then and are yet spoken of as the " Long Nine." The
names of those in the Senate were Archer G. Herndon and Job Fletcher; in the
House, Abraham Lincoln, Ninian W. Edwards, John Dawson, Andrew McCormick,
Dan Stone, Wm. F. Elkin and Robert L. Wilson. One or two were as tall, but none
taller, than Abraham Lincoln, who, quoting his own language, was " six feet, four
inches, nearly." It was known that a movement would be made to re-locate the State
capital. The "Long Nine" were united for securing it, and nothing could
turn one of them from their purpose. They were ready to yield anything else,
but when any other point was yielded, it secured votes for Springfield as the capital.
Their opportunities were great. The people of Illinois were, at that time, almost in-
sane on the subject of internal improvements. Not one in ten thousand of them had
ever seen a railroad, but they had heard of them, and thought the prairies of Illinois
the best place in the world to build them. The first movements began in the General
Assembly in 1833, but the first charter was: "An act to incorporate the Chicago and

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47

Yincennes railroad company with an authorized capital of $3,000,003," and was approved
January 17, 1835. Within one year and four days from that time, charters were
granted for building railroads in the State, of which the combined capital authorized was
$18,200,000. In this legislation the State did not propose to furnish any capital, only
authorized capitalists to invest their money. Not a mile of railroad was ever built
under any of those charters. Before the next session, the Legislature realized that
there were no capitalists to build railroads, and a new system was inaugurated. The
most remarkable act ever passed by a legislative body in the State was approved Feb-
ruarv 27, 1837, and was entitled "An act to establish and maintain a general svstem of
internal improvements." Two supplementary acts were approved March 4, 1837.
The three acts fill thirty-two octavo pages. The object was to construct public works
at the expense of the State, in all parts of the same. Under this law appropriations
were made for canals, and the improvement of rivers, to the amount of $650,000; also,
for the building of railroads, $9,550,000, making a total of $10,200,000. During the
month of February and March, 1837, bills were passed chartering twenty-two railroad
companies with authorized capital stock to the amount of nearly $8,000,000, making
an aggregate of about $30,000,000 involved in the vain endeavor to legislate railroads
into existence in the State of Illinois before their time.

While the internal improvement bill was pending, the "Long Nine" were busy.
Thev said little or nothing in locating proposed railroads, but would assist other localities,
where votes could be secured for locating the capital at Springfield. The result was
the passage of "An act permanently to locate the seat of government for the State of
Illinois," which was approved at Vandalia, February 25, 1837. This law provided for
a joint session of the two houses, on the twenty-eighth of the same month, to select a
situation. An appropriation of fifty thousand dollars was made, to commence building
the State house. The law also declared that no place should be chosen unless its citi-
zens contributed at least $50,000 to aid in the work, and not less than two acres of land,
as a site for the capitol. W'hen the two houses assembled on the twenty-eighth, the
question was decided by the following —

BALLOTINGS.

Springfield 35

Jacksonville

Vandalia

Peoria

Alton j 15

Scattering •

Illiopolis

(St.

2nd.

3rd.

4th.

35

43

53

73

14

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15

16

15

16

12

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10

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That settled the question, and Springfield was declared to be the future capital of the
State.

A supplemental act was passed on the third of March, authorizing the commissioners
of Sangamon county to convey the land, as a site for the new edifice, to the State. It
also named Dr. A. G. Henry, of Sangamon; Archibald Job, of Cass, Wm. Herndon,
of Sangamon, as commissioners, who were authorized and instructed to superintend the
work of erection. It was expected that the new capital would be completed in time for

48 HISTORICAL PRELUDE.

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the first meeting of the Legislature in Springfield, which was fixed for the special ses-
sion of 1839-40. Finding that the building could not be sufficiently advanced, the Second
Presbyterian church, on Fourth street, was secured as Representatives' Hall. The build-
ing was then quite new, and was, by far, the largest church edifice in the central and
whole northern part of the State. It was built of brick, stood a few feet north of the
site of the present magnificent Second Presbyterian church, until the latter was erected.
The old building was torn down in the summer of 1875. The Methodist church was
used for the Senate chamber, and the Episcopal church for the Supreme Court, both
wooden buildings. The Legislature first convened in special session December 9, 1839.

It was thought by many to be unreasonable to require a little town of eleven
hundred inhabitants, struggling with the disadvantages of a new country, to pay the
$50,000 pledged. During that special session, Hon. Stephen A. Douglas, then a mem-
ber from Morgan county, proposed to bring in a bill, releasing Springfield from the
payment of the same. The sterling honesty of Abraham Lincoln manifested itself on
this, as on all other proper occasions. He interposed his objections, although he fully
appreciated the kindly feelings that prompted the proposal, but he insisted that the
money should be paid. Arrangements were entered into for paying it in three instal-
ments. The two first payments were made without any great difficulty ; but the third
pressed more heavily, as the financial crash that swept over the whole United States,
while the new State house was in course of construction, impoverished many. Under
these circumstances, it became necessary to borrow the money to make the last pay-
ment, from the State Bank of Illinois. A note for the amount was signed by one
hundred and one citizens, and deposited with the bank, the money drawn, with which
internal improvement scrip or stock was purchased and paid into the State treasury,
thus paying the last instalment in the State's own evidence of indebtedness. From
that time it was a matter between the State Bank and the citizens who signed the note.
Soon after the note was given, the State Bank failed, and some of the payments were
made in the depreciated paper of the bank, for which it had received par value when
it was paid out. The original note is preserved in the Ridgely National Bank, but
the following is a copy of the same:

$16,666.67. SPRINGFIELD, March 22, 1838.

One year after date, we, the undersigned, or either of us, promise to pay to the Pres-
ident, Directors and Company of the State Bank of Illinois, sixteen thousand, six. hun-
dred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents, for value received, negotiable and pay-
able at the bank, in Springfield, with interest until paid, at the rate of six per centum
per annum, payable semi-annually.

John Hay, Thomas Mather, C. R. Matheny,

L. Higby, Tho. Houghan, William Butler,

Joseph Thayer, D. Prickett, P. C. Canedy,

William Thornton, J. Calhoun, Jos. Klein.

M. O. Reeves, Josiah Francis, P. C. Latham,

W. P. Grimsley, Washington lies, A. G. Henry,

William Wallace, Joel Johnson, Ninian W. Edwards,

John B. Watson, C. B. Francis, Jonn T. Stuart,

C. H. Ormsby, Wm. S. Burch, Jonas Whitney,

SANGAMON COUNTT.

49

Mosrs ColVman,
Gco. Pasfield,

B. C. Wclister,
S. M. Tinsley,
Ephriam Darling,
Jon:i. Merriam,
Ira Sanford,
Charles Arnold,
John L. Turner,

Joshua F. Amos,
Sullivan Conant,
And. McClellan,
Alexander Shields,
A. Trailor,

C. C. P helps,

R. B. Zimmennan,
William Hall, .
James L. Lamb,
M. L. Knapp,

J. M. Shacklcford,
B. Ferguson,
Benjamin Talhott,
Jesse Cormack,
B. C. [ohnson,
Thomas Moffatt,
John F. Rague,
Simeon Francis,
Nathaniel H«iv,
Robert Irwin,
Virgil Hickox,
George Trotter,
Stephen T. Logan,
Robert Allen,
James R. Gray,
J. Adams,
J. S. Britton,
W. B. Powell,
F. C. Thompson,
E. M. Henkle,
James W. Keyes,
Wm. Porter,
Wm. H. Marsh,
W. Ransdell,
[oshua S. Hobbs,
John G. Bergen,
B. S. Clement,

Erastus \\' right,
John Todd,
E. D. Baker,
A. Lincoln,
Garrett Elkin,
John Capps,
Alexr. Garrett,
( lershom Javne,
T. M. Xeafe,
\\'illiam G. Abrams,
Devvey Whitney,
M. Mobley,
Foley Vaughn,
Abncr Y. Ellis,
X. A. Rankin,
S. H. Treat,
Elijah lies,
Henry F. Luckett,
James P. Langford,
Henry Cassequin,
J. M. Cabaniss,
James Maxcy,
Z. P. Cabaniss,
E. G. Johns,
Amos Camp,
Thos. J. Goforth,
Benj. F. Jewett,
W. M. CoweUl.

From a tooting up of the principal and interest on one side of the note, the final
settlement appears to have been made February 19, 1846. The principal and interest
to that time was $17,918.

Soon after the Legislature adjourned at Vandalia, in March, 1837, and the members
returned to their homes, a public festival was given in Springfield in honor of the new
legislation for the removal of the capital. Among the toasts and speeches that followed
the dinner, were the two following:

By Abraham Lincoln, Esq: "All our friends — they are too numerous to mention
now, individually, while there is no one of them who is not too dear to be forgotten or
neglected/'1

By S. A.Douglas, Esq.: "The last winter's legislation — May its results prove no
less beneficial to the whole State than they have to our town."

A tradition still lingers here that something stronger than water was used in drinking
the toasts on that occasion, as there was not a man to be found after the festival that
could tell who made the last speech, and that important fact is lost to history.

The commissioners appointed to superintend the building at once entered upon the
discharge of their duties, and on the fourth of July, 1837, the corner stone of the State

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50 HISTORICAL PRELUDE,

house was laid with grand civic and military demonstrations. After it had been lowered
to its place in the wall, it 'was mounted by E. D. Baker, afterwards United States Sen-
ator from Oregon, and the lamented Colonel of Balls Bluff memory, who delivered
one of those thrilling and eloquent speeches, for which he was so famous. It was
estimated that the building would cost $130,000, but $240,000 was expended before it
was completed according to the original design. When the State house was completed
it was looked upon with wonder and admiration by the people. It was thought to be
so enormous in size that it would answer all the purposes of the State for all time to
come; but from the time it was built until the breaking out of the great rebellion the
growth of Illinois was beyond anything that could have been imagined by the early
settlers.

When the rebellion came to an end, and what was left of the tivo hundred and fifty-
six thousand men from Illinois, who assisted in carrying the stars and stripes until
there was no armed foe to conquer, returned to their homes, furled their banners, and
assumed their accustomed places in the peaceful avocations of life, it soon became ap-
parent to all who had occasion to visit Springfield, that the building of another State
house could not be delayed for any great length of time. The State had so far out-
grown the edifice, which had been regarded as a wonder of magnificence and archi-
tectural beauty only a brief quarter of a century before, that its records were unsafe,
and many branches of its official business had to be transacted in rented buildings,
where much of its valuable property was exposed at all times to the danger of being
destroyed by fire. The question had been very generally discussed in a quiet way,
and soon after the Legislature assembled in January, 1867, Hon. James C. Conkling
presented a bill providing for the erection of a new State Capitol at Springfield, and
laid it before the House of Representatives. It passed both houses, and was approved
by Governor Oglesby February 25, 1867, with a supplementary act two days later.
That law provided for the conveyance by the Governor of the square containing two
and a half acres of land, with the State house upon it, to Sangamon county, for a
court house, in consideration of $200,000, to be paid to the State of Illinois, and for the
further consideration that the city of Springfield, and Sangamon county, cause to be
conveyed to the State a certain piece of land, described by metes and bounds in the
bill, and containing between eight and nine acres, upon which to erect the new State
house. The law also provided that the State should have the use of the old State
house until the new one should be ready for occupancy. The land was secured at a cost
to the city of $70,000, and conveyed to the state; the $200,000 was paid by the county,
and that amount, with $2^0,000, to be drawn from the State treasury, making $450,000,
was appropriated to commence the work. The total cost of the building was limited
to $3,000,000. The design by J. C. Cochrane was adopted July 15, 1867, and Jan. 14,
1868, he was appointed architect and superintendent. Excavation commenced early in
the spring, and the first stone was laid June n. On the fifth of October the corner
stone was laid by the Grand Master of Free Masons of the State of Illinois, with the
imposing ceremonies of the order, and surrounded by members of the craft from all
parts of the State.

The ground plan is in the form of a great cross. The grand outlines are, total
length from north to south, 359 feet, exclusive of porticos; and from east to west, 266
feet, with twentv feet additional in the grand portico at the east end, which is the prin-

SANGAMON COUNTY.

cipal front. The body of the edifice above ground consists of the, FIRST STORY, PRIN-
cii'Ai. STORY, SECOND PRINCIPAL STORY and GALLERY STORY.

July 2, 1870, the people of Illinois voted on the question of adopting or rejecting
a new constitution, that had been prepared by a convention legally called for that pur-
pose. It was adopted by a large majority. A clause in the new constitution prohibited
the legislature making appropriations for the State house, then in course of construc-
tion, beyond a total amount of three and a half millions of dollars, unless the question
of additional appropriations was first submitted to a vote of the people. The money
within the constitutional limit has all been appropriated. The dates of approval by
the Governor, and amounts, are given below. The fourth appropriation was to be ex-
pended equally in the years 1873-4:

February 25, 27, 1867 $450,000

March 1 1, 27, 1869 650,000

June 14, 1871 600,000

March 19, 1873 ' 1,000,000

March 24, 1 87 =5 800,000

Total $3,500,000

There is much work yet to be done, but whether an additional appropriation, re-
quiring a vote of the people, w^ll be necessary to complete the grand edifice, is a
question for a future legislature to determine. The building was so far advanced that
the State archives were removed thereto, and the State officers took possession of it in
January 1876, and in that way the State of Illinois inaugurated the great American
Centennial.

GOVERNORS OF ILLINOIS.

TERRITORIAL.

Ninian Edwards from 1809 to 1818

STATE.

Shadrach Bond 1818—1822

Edward Coles 1822—1826

Ninian Edwards 1826—1830

John Reynolds 1830—1834

Lieutenant-Governor Casey, elected with Gov. Reynolds in 1830, was elected to
Congress in 1832. Wm. L. D. Ewing, a member of the Senate, was chosen President
of the Senate. Gov. Reynolds was elected to Congress in August, 1834, and left the
State for the national capital about the middle of November. Wm. L. D. Ewing, as
President of the Senate, was Governor fifteen days, until the assembling of the Legis-
lature in December, and the inauguration of the governor elect.

Joseph Duncan from 1834 to 1838

Thomas Carlin . . / from 1838 to 1842

Thomas Ford from 1842 to 1846

The constitution of 1848 changed the time of the assembling of the Legislature
from December to January, and ordered a new election in November, 1848, for four
years. Consequently —

52 HISTORICAL PRELUDE.

Augustus C. French was Governor from 1846 to 1853

Joel A. Matteson from 1853 to 1857

Wm. H. Bissell from 1857 to 1860

He died March 18, 1860, and —

Lieutenant-Governor John Wood from 1860 to 1861

Richard Yates from 1861 to 1865

Richard J. Oglesby from 1865 to 1869

John M. Palmer from 1869 to 1873

Richard J. Oglesby, inaugurated in 1873, but immediately elected to the U. S. Senate,

when the Lieutenant-Governor —

John L. Beveridge from 1873 to 1877

TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION.

A law was enacted by the General Assembly of Illinois, and approved by the Gov-
ernor, February 10, 1849, providing for township organization, but leaving it optional
with counties to adopt it or not. Sangamon county never took any action under that
law.

Another law was enacted and approved February 17, 1851, providing for township
organization, and differing from the law of 1849 in some of its provisions. Under that
law a petition was laid before the commissioners' court, June 5, 1860, praying the court
to cause to be submitted to the voters of the county the question of township organiza-
tion. The court, having heard the petition, ordered that the prayer of the petitioners
be granted, and the subject be submitted at the next general election, which was held
Tuesday, November 6, 1860. The vote was canvassed by the court on the tenth of
December following, when it was ascertained that there was a majority of 859 votes in
favor of township organization, on a total vote of 7,241. The following action was
then taken : " Ordered by the Court, that John S. Bradford, John Gardner, Sen., and
Joseph Campbell be appointed commissioners to divide Sangamon county into towns or
townships, in accordance with the fifth and sixth sections of the General Law of the
State of Illinois, in relation to township organization." March i, 1861, the commis-
sioners submitted their report, and the following are the names of the townships:

Auburn, Island Grove,

Ball, Loami,

Buffalo Heart, Mechanicsburg,

Campbell, now Chatham, Power, now Fancy Creek,

Cartwright, Pawnee,

Clear Lake, Rochester,

Cooper, Sackett, now Salisbury,

Cotton Hill, Springfield,

Curran, Talkington,

Gardner, Williams,

Illiopolis, Woodside.

New Berlin has since been formed from part of Island Grove, and Wheatfield from
part of Illiopolis, making a total of 24 townships.

SANGAMON COUNTY.

An election was held for choosyig supervisors, Tuesday, April 2, 1861. The first meet-
ing of the Board of Supervisors was held April 29, 1861, on a call of eight members,
which was the method pointed out in the law. From that to the present time the bus-
iness of Sangamon county has been transacted by a Board of Supervisors, elected
annually.

POST OFFICES IN SANGAMON COUNTY.

Auburn, Illiopolis,

Barclay, Loami,

Bates,' Lowder,

Berlin, Mechanicsburg,

Berry, New Berlin,

* Bradfordton, f New Harmony,
f Breckenridge, Pawnee,

Buffalo, Pleasant Plains,

Buffalo Heart, Richland,

Cantrall, Riverton,

Chatham, Rochester,

Cotton Hill, Salisbury,

Cross Plains, Sherman,

Curran, Springfield,

Dawson, Wheatfield,

Farmingdale, Williamsville,

lies Junction, Woodside.

* This is a new office authorized by the post office department, but not yet organized. Feb., 1876.

t The original name of this office was New Harmony, but is aboiu being changed to Breckenridge.

SANGAMON COUNTY IN THE INDIAN WARS.

I shall have occasion, all through the biographical part of the work, to make frequent
mention of the part taken in the Winnebago and Black Hawk wars by the early set-
tlers of the county; for that reason I deem it best to give a brief account of them here-.

THE WINNEBAGO WAR: When the war of 1812-14, w'tn England, drew to a
close, there were many Indians in the territory of Illinois. They generally gave way
as civilization advanced, yielding the ground, sometimes reluctantly, but peaceably,
until the summer of 1827. It was known to the white settlers that the different tribes
of Indians along the northern and western frontier were at war among themselves.
After the discovery of lead around what is now Galena, the white people flocked to
that region in great numbers. In their search for minerals they encroached upon the
lands of the Winnebago tribe. Being thus irritated, a small party of their tribe sur-
prised a party of twenty-four Chippeways and killed eight of them. The United
States Commander, at Fort Snelling, on the upper Mississippi, caused four of the offend-
ing Winnebagoes to be arrested and delivered to the Chippeways, by whom they were
shot for murder. Red Bird, the chief of the Sioux, though acting with the Winneba-
goes in an attempt to obtain revenge for the killing of the four members of their
tribe, was defeated by the Chippeways. He then determined to wreak his vengeance
on the white people who had assisted his enemies and invaded his country. June 2yth

54 HISTORICAL PRELUDE.

two white men were killed near Prairie DuChien, and on the thirtieth of July two
keel boats, carrying supplies to Fort Snelling, were attacked and two of the crew
killed. The news soon spread among the settlers, and upon a call from Gov. Edwards,
four companies of infantry and one of cavalry were made up in Sangamon county.
The cavalry company was commanded by Edward Mitchell, and the four infantry
companies by Captains Thomas Constant, Reuben Brown, Achilles Morris and Bowlin
Green. The whole under command of Col. Tom. M. Neale, with James D. Henry as
adjutant, (the latter was at that time sheriff of Sangamon county,) marched to Peoria,
where the regiment was more fully organized, and continued to Galena. Before their
arrival in the Indian country, Red Bird with six of his warriors, voluntarily gave them-
selves up to the U. S. forces under Gen. Atkinson, to save their tribe from the miseries
of war. Thus ended the campaign, and the Sangamon county soldiers returned to
their homes.

Of the six Indians held as prisoners, some were acquitted and others convicted and
hung, more than a year after they were captured. Red Bird, whose proud spirit could
not endure the humiliation and confinement, sickened and died in prison. His fate was
much deplored by the whites, for he had been a true friend to them until the United
States Government compelled his Winnebago friends to give up the four men to the
Chippeways to be shot.

THE BLACK HAWK WAR: The Sac and Fox Indians were first recognized by the
United States Government in 1787, in a treaty at Fort Harmer, negotiated by Gov.
St. Clair, in which the Indians were guaranteed protection. In 1804, in a treaty con-
ducted by Wm. H. Harrison — afterwards President of the United States — their title to
a large scope of country on Rock river was extinguished, but they were permitted to
occupy the country as a hunting ground, their principal village being at the north of
Rock river, near where the city of Rock Island now stands. A third treaty was en-
tered into in 1830, by the terms of which they were to remove from the lands they
had sold, east of the Mississippi, and peaceably retire to the west side of the river.

The two principal chiefs of the nation were Keokuk and Black Hawk, the latter of
whom was born in 1767, at the largest village of their tribe, at the mouth of Rock
river. He had fought on the side of the British in the war of 1812, at the head of 200
savages, for which he annually received payment to the time of their removal west of
the Mississippi. Consequently, their band was always called the British Band. Black
Hawk moved reluctantly, claiming that his tribe had been injured by the people of the
United States. Keokuk determined to abide by the treaty, and drew the larger part of
the tribe after him, but Black Hawk declared all the treaties void, and in the spring of
1831, at the head of 300 warriors, crossed to the east side of the river and engaged in a
series of acts exceedingly annoying to the few settlers who had purchased the sites of
the former homes of the Indians, from the government. The Indians would throw
down fences, destroy grain, throw the roofs from their houses, and declared that if the
settlers did not leave they would kill them. Governor John Reynolds, on being in-
formed of the state of affairs on Rock river, determined to expel the Indians. He
issued a proclamation, May 27, 1831, calling for volunteers, and named June loth as the
time, and Beardstown as the place of rendezvous. More than twice the 700 men called
for volunteered. Finding so many willing to go, it was decided to accept the services

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55

of the whole 1,600 men. They were organized into two regiments, one spy and one
odd battalion. James D. Henry, of Springfield, who had been the adjutant in the
Winnebago Avar, was appointed to command the first regiment. I will now confine
myself to the part Sangamon county took in the campaign. James Campbell, Adam
Smith, and Jonathan R. Saunders each commanded a company. When the Indian
town was reached at the mouth of Rock river, it was found to be deserted. The In-
dians had taken advantage of the darkness and fled to the west side of the Mississippi
river, near where the cities of Davenport and Rock Island now stand. The savages
having escaped, the soldiers took vengeance by burning the village. Gen. Gaines, who
commanded the United States soldiers, sent an order to Black Hawk, requiring him
and his band to return and enter into a treaty of peace. He failed to come, when a
more peremptory order, with the threat of following them with all the troops at his
command, brought in about thirty chiefs, including Black Hawk, and a treaty-
was signed on the 3Oth of June, 1831. By that treaty the Indians agreed to remain
west of the river, and never to cross it without permission from the President of the
I nited States. After distributing the food intended for sustaining the soldiers, among
the Indians, the volunteer army disbanded and returned to their homes, without the
loss of a single person by disease, accident, or otherwise.

Before the Indians were forced to leave their village and return to the west side of
the river, Xaopope, a chief of the British band, and next to Black Hawk in authority,
had started on a visit to Maiden, Canada, to consult his English father — some com-
mander there, probably — concerning the right of the Indians to retake possession of
their lands on Rock river. On his return he also visited White Cloud, the prophet of
the Winnebagoes, at Prophetstown, 3:5 miles from the mouth of Rock river. White
Cloud assured his visitor that not only the British but the Ottawas, Chippewas, Pota-
\\attomies and Winnebagoes yvould assist his tribe in regaining their village and the
lands around it. When Xaopope returned, in the summer, he found his tribe west of
the river, and bound, bv a new treaty, not to interfere \vith the whites in possession of
their former homes. Notwithstanding this, he communicated to Black Hawk the en-
couragement he had received. Black Hawk immediately commenced recruiting to in-
crease the number of his braves, and sent a messenger to Keokuk, requesting his co-
operation. The latter refused, and counseled Black Hawk to abstain from any hostile
movement, assuring him that the promises of support could not be relied on. Black
Hawk rejected such good advice, and resolved to bid defiance to the .whites. He spent
the winter of 1831-2 in recruiting, and raised about ^oo warriors. His headquarters
were at what is now the city of Fort Madison, Iowa. In the spring he started, with
his warriors, on horseback, while the squaws, papooses and baggage were loaded in
canoes, and all moved up the river. April 6, 1832, the whole party crossed the Missis-
sippi, opposite the mouth of Rock river, and commenced ascending that stream, osten-
sibly for the purpose of entering the territory of the Winnebagoes and raising a crop
\vith them, but the real object was to secure them as allies.

Gen. Atkinson, in command of Fort Armstrong, on Rock Island, sent messengers
ordering them to return west of the Mississippi river. Black Hawk positively re-
fused to go. When this became known in the settlement the greatest consternation
prevailed, and the settlers fled from their homes in search of safety. Messengers were
dispatched to Yandalia, and Gov. Reynolds issued a call, on the i6th, for volunteers to

HISTORICAL PRELUDE.

assemble at Bearclstown on the 22(1 of the month. Gen. Atkinson at the same time
called for volunteers to aid the regular soldiers at Rock Island. Gov. Reynolds, at the
time of issuing the call for volunteer soldiers, addressed an open letter to the citizens
in the northwestern counties, and sent influential messengers among the people, and in
every wav endeavored to encourage enlistments. Eighteen hundred men rallied under
this call at Beardstown, on the 22d of April. Among them were three regularly or-
ganized companies from Sangamon county. One was commanded by Thomas Moffitt,
one by Jesse Clay well, of which Rezin H. Constant afterwards became Captain, and
one by Abraham Lincoln. They were divided into four regiments and a spy battalion.
The First regiment was commanded by Col. DeWitt, the Second bv Col. Fry, the
Third by Col. Thomas, the Fourth by Col. Samuel M. Thompson. In the latter
Abraham Lincoln commanded a company. Col. James D. Henry commanded the spy
battalion. The whole brigade was put under the command of Brigadier-Gen. Samuel
Whitesidesr of the State militia, who had commanded the spy battalion in the first
campaign.

On the 2yth of April Gen. Whitesides began his forward movement, accompanied
by Gov. Reynolds. The army proceeded by way of Oquawka to the mouth of Rock
river, where it was agreed between Generals Whiteside and Atkinson, in command
of the regulars, that the volunteers should march up Rock river to Prophetstown,
and there feed and rest their horses. On arriving there the volunteers burned the town,
and Gen. Whiteside continued the march in the direction of Dixon, arriving at the lat-
ter place, the General ordered a halt, and sent out parties to reconnoitre. Here he
found two battalions, consisting of 275 mounted men, from the counties of McLean,
Tazewell, Peoria and Fulton, under the command of Majors Stillman and Bailey.
Major Stillman was from Sangamon county. (See his name.} The officers of this
force had previously been ordered in advance of the main body to protect the settlers,
and now they asked to be put forward on some dangerous service, in which they could
have an opportunity to distinguish themselves. They were accordingly ordered further
up Rock river, to spy out the Indians. The forward movement began on the I2th of
May, Major Stillman being chief in command. He moved up Rock river, on the
southeast side until they came to a small stream that rises in Ogle county and empties
into Rock river. This stream was then called Old Man's creek, but from that date has
borne the name of Stillman's run. There he encamped for the night, and in a short
time a party of Indians were seen on horseback about a mile from the camp. A party
of Major Stillman's men mounted their horses, without orders or commander, and were
soon followed by others, and in this belter skelter manner pursued the Indians, who,
after displaying a red flag, endeavored to make their escape, but were overtaken and
three of them slain. This brought on an attack from the main body of Black Hawk's
army, numbering about 700 warriors. Those who, by their insubordination, brought
on the fight, retreated, and, with their horses on a full run, dashed through the camp
of Major Stillman, who did all that was possible by ordering his men to retreat in
order and form on higher ground, but they never found a rallying point until they
reached Dixon, thirty miles distant. Both Ford, and Davidson & Stuve, in their his-
tories of Illinois, exonerate Major Stillman and his men from all blame, and rightly
attribute the disaster to want of discipline and that experience which is necessary to
"five soldiers confidence in their officers and in each other.

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57

That opened the war, and there could be no cessation of hostilities until one side or
the other yielded the ground. It is not my purpose to attempt following out all the
details of the war, but will hasten to a close. For a time the Indians scattered them-
selves over the country. They would lay in ambush and shoot down detached bodies
of armed men, or murder and scalp unprotected women and children. Men were gen-
erally enlisted for short terms, and sometimes, when the main body of the Indians were
almost in their grasp, the term of enlistment would expire, and they would insist on
being discharged. To fill their places with new recruits required time. At the time of the
repulse of Major Still man and his men, there were about twenty-four hundred men under
arms, including the volunteers from Illinois and the regular soldiers from Fort Arm-
strong, under Gen. Atkinson. They could have killed, or driven every Indian across
the Mississippi river in one month, but the term for which they had enlisted had nearly
expired, and they were anxious to be discharged. The Governor had previously issued
orders for raising two thousand men. He then called for a volunteer regiment from
among those whose time had expired, to hold the Indians in check until the new re-
cruits could be brought to the scene of conflict. It was soon raised and put under
command of Col. Fry and Lieutenant-Col. James D. Henry. Gen. Whiteside volun-
teered as a private. This body of men had a number of encounters with the savages
before the new recruits were brought into the field. The new levy assembled at
Beardstown, and were at once ordered to Fort Wilburn, on the south bank of the Illi-
nois river, about one mile above the town of Peru. There the volunteer forces were
organized into three brigades. The first and second were organized June 16, 1832,
with 1,000 men each. Alexander Posey was elected General of the first and Milton
K. Alexander, General of the second brigade. The third brigade was organized June
1 8th, with 1,200 men, and Col. James D. Henry was elected General. This made the
volunteer force consist of 3,200 men, exclusive of the regular soldiers under Gen. At-
kinson. Many weeks were spent in trying to find the main body of Black Hawk's
warriors. They were all the time working their way further north, hoping to elude
their pursuers. The army was continually undergoing changes. July 15, 1832,
found Gen. Henry, Gen. Alexander and Major Dodge far up in Wisconsin, at a place
called Fort Winnebago. Some Winnebago chiefs came in and reported that Black
Hawk was encamped on Rock river. The three officers above named held a council
and, although it was in violation of orders, they decided to march directly for the Indian
camp, hoping to take them by surprise. General Alexander soon announced that his
men refused to go, and Major Dodge that his horses were too much disabled to go, but
a body of men soon after arrived from Galena to join Major Dodge's battalion, which
made his effective force 120 men. Gen. Henry's brigade was by this time reduced to
between five and six hundred men, but only about four hundred and fifty had horses.
While making arrangements to start, Gen. Henry discovered that his own men, in-
fluenced by association with those of Gen. Alexander, were on the point of open
mutiny. Lieutenant-Col. Jeremiah Smith, of one of his regiments, presented to the
General a written protest, signed by all the officers of his regiment except Col. Fry,
against the expedition. Gen. Henry quietly but firmly ordered the men under arrest
for mutiny, assigning a body of soldiers to escort them back to Gen. Atkinson. Col.
Smith begged permission to consult a few moments with the officers before anything
further was done. In less than ten minutes they were all at the General's quarters,
pleading for pardon and pledging themselves to return to duty. Gen. Henry replied
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in a few dignified and kindly remarks, and all returned to their duty. Gen. Alexanders
men marched back, and the others started in pursuit of the enemy, under the direction
of competent guides. Three days' hard marching brought them to Rock river. Here
three Winnebagoes gave intelligence that Black Hawk was further up the river. Pre-
parations were made for a forced march the next morning, and Dr. Elms Merriman,
of Springfield, in company with W. \V. Woodbridge, of Wisconsin, and a chief called
Little Thunder, for a guide, were started about dark that evening to convey dispatches
down the river to Gen. Atkinson. They had gone but a few miles to the southwest
when they fell into a fresh broad trail of the enemy endeavoring to escape. Little
Thunder hastened back in terror to the camp to warn the Indians that their efforts to
deceive the commanding General were detected. They were all arrested by Major
Murrey McConnell, of Jacksonville, and taken to the tent of Gen. Henry, and confessed
that they had come into camp and given false information to aid the Indians in their
retreat. On the next morning, July 19, a forced march commenced in pursuit of the
Indians. On the third day, about four o'clock in the afternoon, the advance guard was
fired upon by the savages secreted in the grass. The fight continued until dark, and
the men lay on their arms until morning, when it was discovered that the Indians had
all crossed the Wisconsin river during the night. Sixty-eight Indians were left dead
on the field, and twenty-five more were found dead along the line of march. Only one
white man was killed and eight wounded. This has always been known as the battle
of the Wisconsin.

The next dav Gen. Henry found his men too much worn down by fatigue and want of
food to pursue the retreating Indians. After two days march he joined Gen. Atkinson
at Blue Mounds, with the regulars, and Alexander's and Posey's brigades. It was soon
apparent to General Henry and his officers that General Atkinson and all the regular
officers were deeply mortified at the success of the militia, who they did not intend
should have any credit in the war. After two days' preparation, the whole force, under
direction of General Atkinson, took up their line of march, July 25th, in pursuit of the
Indians. Crossing the Wisconsin river, and striking the trail of the Indians, the regu-
lars were put in front, Dodge's battalion and Posey's and Alexander's brigades came
next, and Gen. Henry, with his command, was placed in the rear, in charge of the
baggage. All parties clearly understood this to be an insult to Gen. Henry and his
brave volunteers for having found, pursued and defeated Black Hawk and his warriors,
while the regulars, and Alexander's brigade, who had refused to accompany Henry,
were taking their ease at a long distance from the scene of danger. Gen. Henry's
brigade keenly felt the insult, and claimed the right to be placed in front, but the Gen-
eral never uttered a word of complaint, and his men, following his noble example,
quietly trudged on in the rear. After a full week of weary marching, at ten o'clock on
the morning of August 2cl, the army reached the bluffs of the Mississippi river, which,
at that point, was some distance from the margin of the stream. Black Hawk had ar-
rived at the stream a day or two before, and the Indians were crossing as fast as they
could. On the first day of August the steamboat Warrior, which had been employed
to convey supplies up the river for the army, was coming down, and notwithstanding
the Indians displayed a white flag, the captain affected to believe it was only a decoy, gave
them fifteen minutes to remove their women and children, when he fired a six-pound can-
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than an hour twenty-three Indians were murdered, it might almost be said, in cold
blood. Black Hawk now turned all his energies to reach the opposite bank of the
river. With that object in view he sent twenty warriors to the high bluff. When
Gen. Atkinson reached the bluffs on the morning of August 2d, his men were greeted
by firing from behind trees. The tall grass made it impossible to learn anything of
the force they had to contend with. According to instructions from Black Hawk,
when all became engaged they were to retreat to a point three miles up the river.
Dodge's battalion led in the chase after the twenty Indians, followed by the regulars
and Alexander's and Posey's brigades, all under the immediate direction of Gen. At-
kinson. In the hurried pursuit Gen. Henry was called on for a single regiment to
cover the rear of the pursuing forces. Otherwise his whole brigade was left without
orders.

Despite the intention to disgrace Gen. Henry and his men, fortune now seemed to
favor them. The men under Major Ewing, of the latter brigade, discovered that the
trail by which the main body of Black Hawk's forces had reached the river was lower
down, and that they were much nearer than the point to which the twenty decoy In-
dians were leading the main forces. He who had been placed in the rear as a mark of
special disfavor, by the strategy of a few savages, who had thus far triumphed over the
veteran General, was now thrown again to the front, and well did he make use of this
favorable circumstance. Gen. Henry, being notified of the discovery of the main trail,
descending to the foot of the bluff, and there leaving his horses, prepared for an attack.
The trail from there to the river was through drift wood, brush and weeds. Eight men
were ordered forward to the perilous duty of drawing the fire of the Indians, to ascer-
tain where they were. Fully aware of their dangerous mission, they moved boldly
forward until they were in sight of the river, when they were fired upon by about fifty
Indians. Five of the eight fell, either killed or wounded. Gen. Henry immediately
ordered the bugle sounded for a charge. The fiftv Indians fell back to the main body,
amounting in all to about three hundred warriors. This made the force about equal on
both sides. The fight became general along the whole line; the inspiring strains of the
bugle cheering on the volunteers; the Indians were driven from tree to tree until they
reached the bank of the river, fighting with the most sublime Courage, and contesting
every inch of ground. At the brink the struggle was desperate, but of short duration.
The bloody bayonet in the hands of the excited soldiers drove them into the surging
waters, where some tried to swim to the opposite shore, others only aimed to reach a
small willow island.

All this was done before the commanding General was aware that the volunteer
General and men, whom he intended to punish for having found and defeated the In-
dians at the battle of the Wisconsin river, had again found and almost exterminated the
main body of the enemy, while he was leading the largest portion of his army after
twenty straggling Indians, whom he had not been shrewd enough to detect in their
false movements. After the Indians had been driven into the river, Gen. Henry de-
spatched Major McConnell to give intelligence to Gen. Atkinson of his movements;
but while pursuing the twenty Indians he had heard the firing of Gen. Henry's brigade,
and hastening to share in the engagement, met the messenger near the scene of action.
Some of the newly arrived forces chai'ged through the water to the island and kept up
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shore of the river. It was estimated that the Indian loss amounted to one hundred and
fifty killed, and as many more drowned, including women and children. But fifty
prisoners were taken, mostly squaws and papooses. The largest portion of the Indians es-
caped across the river before the battle commenced. The American loss was seventeen
killed and twelve wounded. This was called the battle of the Bad Axe, because it
was fought in Wisconsin, a short distance below the mouth of the river Bad Axe. It
was above Prairie DuChien.

That Black Hawk brought that great calamity on his people there can be no question,
but that he was devoted to their interests his last move testifies beyond a doubt. Find-
ing himself and followers almost in a starving condition, pursued by a foe well fed, and
otherwise stronger than his own forces, he approached the brink of the river, hoping
to reach the opposite bank before his pursuers could overtake him, His means of
transportation being inadequate, he finds it impossible to escape. Knowing that his
fate is sealed, he doubtless gives hasty orders that the canoes be plied as fast as possible,
and looking for the last time upon many who had trusted their all to his guidance, he
places himself at the head of a handful of faithful followers, and boldly sallies out to
meet the foe one hundred and fifty times stronger than himself, his only hope being to
turn them aside until his own people should escape. How his heart must have sunk
when he heard the firing and knew there was but one way for it to terminate. When
Gen. Atkinson, discovering the ruse, ceased the pursuit of the few and marched to
where the battle was raging, Black Hawk, with his twenty followers, made their es-
cape up the Mississippi and passed over to the Wisconsin river. They were finally
captured, far up that stream, by a party of Sioux and Winnebago Indians, who pro-
fessed to sympathize with Black Hawk and his followers, but were ready, like blood
hounds, to hunt them down when they most needed friendship, and when there was a
seeming opportunity to gain favor with the strong and victorious party. Black Hawk
and his friends were delivered to Gen. Street, the United States Indian agent at Prairie

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DuChien, and sent by Col. Zachary Taylor down to Rock Island. Upon arriving
there the cholera was raging, and they were sent down to Jefferson Barracks, Mo.,
where a treaty was made. Black Hawk and his party were held as hostages for the
good behavior of their tribe. They were taken to Washington City, and from there
to Fortress Monroe, where they remained uutil July 4, 1833. They were then released,
by order of President Jackson, and escorted to Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York,
and other cities, and returned by way of the New York canal and northern lakes,
thence to their own people, west of the Mississippi river. Black Hawk died, October 3,
1840, on the Des Moines river, in Iowa.

Many of the men engaged in that campaign acquired state and some of them national
reputation. Among them may be mentioned Joseph Duncan and Thomas Ford, who
became Governors of Illinois, Henry Dodge, who became Governor of Wisconsin,
and Zachary Taylor and Abraham Lincoln, who became Presidents of the United
States.

The most remarkable man of all engaged in that campaign was Gen. James D.
Henry, and if that had been an age of newspapers and reporters, he would have ac-
quired a national reputation at once. That he was the hero of the two principal bat-
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so well understood by the Illinois soldiers from all parts of the State, that the opinion
was freely expressed that if he had lived he would have been elected Governor by an
overwhelming majority, against any other man. Strange as it may seem, he was
scarcely heard of outside of the State. This was all owing to the fact that there was
but one paper in the State north of Springfield, and that was edited and published by
the kind of man that brings odium on the press whenever he touches it.

Dr. Addison Philleo was one of the men who almost publicly commenced dissecting
the body of VayNoy, who was hung in Springfield in November, 1826. He was
compelled by the citizens to desist from the disgusting spectacle tmtil the body, was re-
moved to a more private place. Dr. Philleo had removed to Galena, and at the time
of the Black Hawk war was publishing a paper there, called the Galenian. He at-
tached himself to the battalion of Major Henry Dodge, of Wisconsin. Major Dodge's
battalion was a part of Gen. Henry's brigade when Black Hawk and his forces were
discovered by Gen. Henry. Gov. Ford, in his history, describing the chase of Gen.
Henry after Black Hawk, says: "On the third day, about noon, also, the scouts ahead
came suddenly upon two Indians, and as they were attempting to escape, one of them
( was killed and left dead on the field. Dr. Addison Philleo, coming along shortly
after, scalped this Indian, and for a long time afterwards exhibited the scalp as an
evidence of his valor."

That was the kind of man the world was dependent upon for a history of the Black
Hawk campaign. He was the only newspaper man with the army. After the battle
of the Wisconsin, Dr. Philleo wrote an account of it for his paper, and that being the
first paper it was published in, was copied all over the United States. He chronicled
the doings of Major Dodge only, and always spoke of him as General Dodge. Gen.
Henry, the real commander, was never mentioned except as a subordinate. By this
deception many histories now assert that Dodge was the commander in that war. Gen-
eral Henry never made a report of any part of the campaign, and those errors were
never officially contradicted. In that campaign he contracted disease of the lungs, and
afterwards went south, hoping that the climate and medical treatment would restore
his health, but he gradually sank until March 4, 1834, when he died in New Orleans.
See his name in the biographical department.

I have been thus minute in this sketch of the Indian wars, because almost even*
family among the early settlers of Sangamon county were represented in the army;
and, although they were at a comparatively safe distance from the scene of conflict,
yet their sympathies were naturally drawn out towards those who were in danger.
Another reason why I have given the subject such prominence is that there is no recent
history of those wars accessible to the public.

The mention I shall make of the part taken by the descendents of the early settlers
of Sangamon county in suppressing the great rebellion will partake of a much wider
range, but the comparatively recent date of that event, and the publications in almost
every house concerning it, precludes the necessity of my attempting any extended ac-
count of it here.

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MISCELLANEOUS.

Under this head I shall record some events that will occasionally he referred to in |
the biographical part of the work. By describing them fully here, a bare reference to
them hereafter will be understood. The two most important were the " deep snow "
and the " sudden change."

THE DEEP SNOW : — What is here spoken of as the " deep snow " must be taken
relatively. Snows fall almost every winter much deeper in New York, the New
England States, Canada and in the northern latitudes generally. This, however, is
distinguished from all others as the "deep snow," because, in this latitude, the like of
it was not known before, and has not been known since. A description of it by Rev.
J. M. Sturtevant, President of Illinois College, in an address before the Old Settler's
Society of Morgan county, at Jacksonville, a few years ago, is the best authority I can
find. Having been brought up where such snows were nothing unusual, he would be
less likely to be deceived in his judgment than one who had never witnessed the like
before. President Sturtevant says:

"In the interval between Christmas, 1830, and January, 1831, Snow fell all over cen-
tral Illinois to a depth of fully three feet on a level. Then came a rain, with weather
so cold that it froze as it fell, forming a crust of ice over this three feet of snow, nearlv,
if not quite, strong enough to bear a man, and finally, over this crust of ice, there was
a few inches of very light snow. The clouds passed away, and the wind came down
upon us from the northwest with extraordinary ferocity. For weeks, certainly not less
than two weeks, the mercury in the thermometer tube was not, on any one morning,
higher than twelve degrees below zero. This snow fall produced constant sleighing
for nine weeks."

The recollection of some of the early settlers is that rain fell for some days, until the
earth was saturated with water, and the day before Christmas the rain turned to snow,
and the flakes were so large that in a few hours it attained a depth of six inches. I
have, time and again, heard this snow described as much more than three feet deep,
and no doubt the experience of those making the statements justified them in it. The
situation was rather alarming, even to a New England man. There, a few hours of
wind blows all the snow from exposed places, and deposits it in valleys and behind hills,
where the wind cannot reach it. It is only where the roads cross these receptacles that
it is necessary to break a track. It is made the occasion for a frolic with New England
people to turn out with ox teams and sleds to break a road, and then thei'e is no more
trouble until the next snow storm. Such work here would have been useless. In this
level countrv the drifting never ceases as long as the snow lasts. Any number of teams
might break a track, but it would fill behind them in a few moments. The only way
they finally made roads here was by wallowing through it, and going as near the same
place as they could, until the snow was trodden hard and rounded up like a turnpike
road. Many instances have been related where teams, attempting to pass each other
on these raised roads, found it too narrow, and the result was that one if not both the
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regain the proper position on the road was not always an easy task. Long after the
great body of the snow melted off, these roads remained. One man, describing them,
said they looked like silver threads, stretching over the prairies as far as the eye could
reach.

Railroads were not then dreamed of, but they would have been, for several weeks, as
utterly useless as though they were sunk out of sight in the earth. Snow plows would
be of no avail in such a storm as that, for the track would fill, in less than an hour,
behind any train that might force its way though. Quoting again from President
Sturtevant, he says: "It is a consolation that such a winter has never occurred but
once in the memory of man. But what has happened once may happen again. If it
docs we shall get a very definite idea how important our railroads are to us, and we
shall be very glad that the snow is not over the telegraph wires." In the latter clause
he no doubt had reference to the fact that in those days, when everything was right,
they did not have or expect a mail more than once a week, but even that was inter-
rupted for several weeks during the " deep snow."

That snow come so early in the season that it caught nearly all their corn in the
fields, and it was very difficult to obtain enough of it to keep stock from perishing.
Few had any milling done, and the devices were numerous to reduce the grain to a
condition fine enough to be baked into something resembling bread. Some of them
will be described. I will here give a few incidents illustrating some of the straits the
people were put to in order to preserve life and property.

Among the earliest settlers on Sugar creek was a man by the name of Stout — no re-
lation to any of that name now in the county. He had raised a family, but his wife

had died, and his children had married and left him alone. He built a small cabin in

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the woods, and in that he did his own cooking, slept, and worked at making bread
trays, wooden bowls, rolling pins, wooden ladles, and such other implements as every
household was in need of. He traded the products of his labor for something to eat or
wear, seldom receiving or expecting any money. He lived very comfortably until the
" deep snow " come. Then his open cabin and scant supply, of bedding was not suffi-
cient to keep him warm. He went around among his neighbors and tried to obtain
some addition to his bedding, but found them all deficient in that respect themselves.
He finally solved the difficulty by felling a large tree near his cabin, took a cut from it
of suitable length, and made a trough inside, the full length of his body, and hewed it
oft" on the outside until it was light and thin enough for him to handle easily. He
would then make his bed on some chips or shavings, as he had done before, first bring-
ing his trough along side, and when snugly covered up, he would take the trough and
turn it over himself for covering. As soon as the warmth of his body filled the space
he would be comfortable, and could lay snug and warm until morning. There was
neither floor nor chimney to his cabin, so he made the fire on the ground. When the
weather was extremely cold he would move his fire just before retiring, scraping the
coals and ashes carefully away, and then make his bed where the fire had been during
the day. This is a new proof of the oft repeated adage, that " Necessity is the mother
of invention."

DEATHS ix THK SNOW: — Very many cases occurred of persons being lost in the
snow, ending in death. I will mention a few here, but others will be referred to in the
succeeding parts of the work.

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A man named William Saxton lived, on Lick creek, above Loami. He went hunt-
ing, and failing to return, his friends and neighbors went in search of him, and found
his body about one mile from his home, where he had sunk down, and appeared as if
asleep.

Samuel Legg started from Sugar creek, not far above where the C. and A. railroad
now crosses, intending to go to Richland timber, near where Pleasant Plains now
stands. He was not heard of until the next April, when the remains of himself and
horse were found, nearly consumed by wolves. He had gone but a few miles, as the
body was found on what is now the farm of John B. Fowler, a few miles west of
Chatham. A bottle with a small quantity of whiskey was found near his remains.

A man started from the timber on Horse creek to chase a wolf while the snow was
falling. He was not seen nor heard of until the next spring, when his body was found
at a place called Willow grove, in Shelby county. His horse and dog were found with
him, and all had perished together. The distance was about forty miles from where
he started. It was thought that he became bewildered by the falling snow, and con-
tinued his efforts until his horse, dog and himself sank down to die.

William Workman w>ent hunting in the Lick creek timber, south of Loami. He
walked on the crust of the snow, and was approaching a deer for the purpose of shoot-
ing it. Without being aware of it, he was over a ravine of considerable depth. The
crust broke and he went down. Raising his rifle gun he could barely reach the crust
with it. By tramping the snow under his feet until it became solid, he found himself
gradually rising with the slope of the ground, and by reaching up with his gun and
breaking the crust, he finally escaped, but he says it was a long and laborious operation.
Simeon Vancil relates an experience very similar.

So completely did the snow cover everything that wild game was accustomed to
feed upon, that the deer, turkey, and some other kinds of game, were almost extermi-
nated. There was another reason why it was destructive to the deer. That animal
runs by a succession of leaps, and, as a natural consequence, the faster they ran the
greater would be the force with which they struck the snow. When pursued by dogs,
a few vigorous leaps would stop them short, their small, sharp hoofs breaking through
the crust, would leave them helpless, with their bodies resting on the snow. At the
same time a dog or wolf of equal weight would pass safely over, because, by their
manner of running, they did not strike the snow with such force, and even if they had,
their soft, pad-like feet would be less likely to break the crust.

It required but a short time, thus shut off from food, for the deer to become too lean
for venison. All thoughtful people then abstained from killing them, but there were
others who thought only of the sport, and destroyed them where and when they could.
Dogs and wolves, learning that they could be made to break through the crust and be-
come disabled, chased down and destroyed great numbers of them. From all these
causes the deer were almost exterminated, and they never become plentiful afterwards.

Mr. Simeon Vancil, who came to the county in the fall of 1818, says that it was
very common to see large quantities of buffalo bones on the highest points of land. In
explanation of that there was a tradition among the Indians who remained in the
country to hunt, after the white settlers come in, that there had been a " deep snow "
about thirty years before, say about 1800, and that the buffalo, herding together on the

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highest ground, because the snow was thinnest, remained there and perished with cold
, and hunger. Of course this was only given as a tradition, coming from the Indians.
There could be no corroborative testimony from civilized men, for the simple reason
that there were none in the country.

THE SUDDEN CHANGE: — Soon after commencing the collection of materials for
this work, I was frequently asked the question, " Has any person told you about the
sudden change?" My answers at first would, for obvious reasons, be in the negative.
The interrogator would then undertake to give me an account of it, but I was never
able to learn that any person in the county had kept a record of the indications of a
thermometer at that time, or that there was a thermometer in the county; and fora
long time I could not ascertain the year in which it took place.

In an interview with Mr. Washington Crowder, the date was settled in his own
peculiar method. Mr. Crowder remembers that on the morning of December 20, 1836,
he started from a point on Sugar creek about eight miles south of Springfield, to the
latter place, for the purpose of obtaining a license for the marriage of himself and Miss
Isabel Laughlin. He had finished his courting on the nineteenth, with the understand-
ing that the marriage was to take place on the twenty-first, leaving the twentieth for
obtaining the license. There were several inches of snow on the ground, but rain was
then falling slowly, and had been, long enough to turn the snow to slush. Every time
the horse put his foot down it went through the slush, splashing it out on all sides.
Mr. Crowder was carrying an umbrella to protect himself from the rain, and wore an
overcoat reaching nearly to his feet. When he had traveled something like half the
distance, and had reached a point about four miles south of Springfield, he had a fair
view of the landscape, ten or twelve miles west and north. He saw a very dark cloud,
a little north of west, and it appeared to be approaching him very rapidly, accompanied
by a terrific, deep, bellowing sound. He thought it prudent to close his umbrella, lest
the wind should snatch it from his hands, and dropped the bridle reins on the neck of
his horse for that purpose. Having closed the umbrella and put it under his arm, he
was in the act of taking hold of the bridle rein, when the cold wave struck him. At
that instant water was dripping from every thing about him, but \vhen he drew the
reins taut, ice rattled from them. The water and slush was almost instantly turned to
ice, and running water on sloping ground was congealed as suddenly as molten lead
would harden and form in ridges if poured on the ground. Mr. Crowder expressed
himself quite sure that within fifteen minutes from the time the cold blast reached him
his horse walked on top of the snow and water, so suddenly did it freeze.

When he arrived in Springfield he rode up to a store at the west side of Fifth street,
between Adams and Monroe, a few doors south of where Bunn's bank now stands.
He there attempted to dismount, but was unable to move, his overcoat holding him as
firmly as though it had been made of sheet iron. He then called for help, and two
men come out, who tried to lift him off, but his clothes were frozen to the saddle, which
they ungirthed, and then carried man and saddle to the fire and thawed them asunder.
After becoming sufficiently warm to do so, Mr. Crowder went to the county clerk's
office, obtained his license, and by driving his horse before him, returned to where he
had started in the morning. The next day he started on horseback, but found the
traveling so difficult on the ice that he dismounted, tied up the bridle, left his horse to
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find the way back home, and went on foot to the house of his affianced, where he was
married at the time appointed. Mr. Crowder admits that it was a very thorough test
of his devotion, but it must be conceded that he proved himself equal to the emer-
gency.

Other evidences of the suddenness and intensity of the cold are numerous. Rev.
Josiah Porter, of Chatham — see his name — remembers that the cold wave reached
Chatham about half past twelve o'clock, noon; that he consulted his watch at the time,
and knows he is correct. His recollection of the suddenness and intensity of the cold
corroborates the account given by Mr. Crowder. Although Mr. Porter was in Chat-
ham at the time of the sudden change, and resides there now, he was then doing the
work of an evangelist, which led to his traveling over a large portion of Illinois and
Indiana. In the discharge of his duties he became acquainted with a remarkable cir-
cumstance that occurred in what is now the west part of Douglas county, near the cor-
ner of Piatt and Moultrie counties. Two brothers by the name of Deeds had gone
out to cut a bee tree, and were overtaken by the cold and frozen to death. Their bodies
were found ten days later, about three miles from home.

The extent of that cold wave may not be generally known. That it first touched
the earth west or north-west of here is highly probable, from the fact that it reached
here at half past twelve, noon, according to the time noted by Mr. Porter. He also
learned that it was nearly sundown when the cold reached the point in Douglas county
where the two brothers perished. I also learned from a gentlemen in this county that
at the fime, his father kept a hotel at Labanon, Ohio, and although his account would
indicate that the cold wave had spent some of its force, yet when it arrived there it froze
some wagons fast in the mud in an incredibly short time, while some travelers were
discussing the terms for staying all night. It reached there at nine o'clock. Putting
the statements as to time and place together, it would appear that the cold wave trav-
eled something near three hundred miles in eight and a half hours, or about thirtv-five
miles an hour. These statements have been given to me altogether from memory,
more than thirty-five years after the event, and no doubt vary greatly from what a
scientific report at the time would have presented.

A great many instances have been related to me, in all parts of the county, of the
suffering by men and animals. It has been told me time and again that chickens and
geese, also hogs and cows, were frozen in the slush as they stood, and unless they were
extricated by cutting the ice from about their feet, remained there to perish.

Andrew Heredith was a merchant miller and pork packer in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Through misfortunes incident to business he failed. Among other misfortunes, he had
a pork house burn there. Preston Breckenridge, of this county, happened to be in
Cincinnati, and remembers being an eye witness to the burning. After his failure,
Mr. Heredith was aided by friends to commence business in Sangamon county. He
built a flouring mill about three miles west of Loami, near what is called Lick creek,
and called the place Millville. He bought wheat and made flour; also bought and
drove fat hogs to St. Louis. In the fall of 1836 he bought and drove two lots to St.
Louis, and made some money each time. He used all the capital at his command, and
all the credit his successes gave him, and collected a third drove of between 1,000 and
1,^00 hogs, and was driving them to St. Louis. The country was so sparsely settled

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that he found it expedient to start with three or four wagons, loaded with corn to feed
the hogs. When a load was fed out there were generally a sufficient number of hogs
exhausted by traveling to load the wagon. Mr. Heredith had reached a point on the
open prairie eight miles south of Scottville, Macoupin county, when the cold wave
overtook him. Finding that men and animals were likely to perish, he called the men
together, upset all except one of the wagons, in order to leave the corn and hogs
together, righted up the wagons, and with all the men in them, drove to the nearest
house, and before they could reach there all became more or less frozen, but none lost
their lives.

The hogs, thus abandoned, piled on each other. Those on the inside smothered, and
those on the outside froze. A pyramid of about 500 dead hogs was thus built. The
others wandered about and were reduced to skeletons by their sufferings from the cold,
the whole proving a total loss. Mr. Heredith was a man of good business qualifications,
and of great energy. He was making superhuman efforts to retrieve his fortunes, but
that blow crushed him; he never rose again, but sank down and in a short time died.
In the biographical part, see his name.

JAMES HARVEY HILDRETH: — At the time Rev. Mr. Porter gave me his recollec-
tions connected with the " sudden change," he told me that some years later he met a
man in DeWitt county, by the name of Hildreth, who was crippled in his hands and
feet. He said Mr. Hildreth informed him that it had been caused by his being caught
away from shelter at the time of the " sudden change." Mr. Hildreth then gave him
a detailed account of his sufferings and experience, which Mr. Porter gave to me from
memory. This made such an impression on my mind that I was anxious to know
more of the incident. In the course of my travels over the county, I was at the house
of Mrs. Thomas J. Turley. See the Turley and Trotter names. How the subject
came up I do not remember, but I learned from Mrs. Turley that Mr. Hildreth was
her cousin. She gave me additional information, and referred me to another cousin —
of herself and Mr. Hildreth — Mr. Moses Kenny, of Kenny, Logan county. I deferred
writing to that gentleman until I was drawing my work to a close, and when I did so,
was answered by Mr. John Kenny, of the same place, who informed me that his
brother Moses was dead. Mr. John Kenny answered all my inquiries, and referred
me to Mr. A. L. Barnett, of Clinton, DeWitt county. He, also, kindly responded. All
the parties consulted bear the very highest character for truthfulness. It is from this
mass of information that I give the following account of the case. Although the par-
ticular event I am about to relate did not occur in this county, it illustrates an atmos-
pheric phenomena that affected this entire region of country j and was so remakable
that the like of it is not on record, nor known by any person now living, and it is to be
hoped that it may never be known again. It is to be regretted that there is no scien-
tific knowledge on record of the event. The country was so new, and the settlers of a
class generally of limited education, so much so that I have been unable to learn of a
family in the county who owned a thermometer at the time. But now to the subject.

James H. Hildreth was born about 1812, in Bourbon county, Ky. He came to Illi-
nois about 1833 or '4, and settled on Vermilion river, near Georgetown, Vermilion
county, and engaged in cattle trading. Mr. Hildreth, then twenty-four or twenty-five
years of age, was a very stout and rugged young man. He left home on the nineteenth

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of December, 1836, in company with another young man by the name of Frame, in-
tending to go to Chicago, both on horseback. On the second day out, December 2oth,
they entered the border of a large prairie, and the next timber was many miles distant,
on Hickory creek, a tributary of Iroquois river, and now in Iroquois county. It
rained all the forenoon, and the earth was covered with water. They encountered a
slough containing so much water they did not like to attempt passing through it. In
order to head the slough they rode some miles in a northeast direction, and having
crossed it, turned northwest to regain their course. That was about the middle of the
afternoon. It suddenly ceased raining and the cold wave came in all its fury from the
northwest, striking them square in the face. They were then out of sight of any
human habitation, and their horses became absolutely unmanageable, and drifted with
the wind, or across it, until dark closed in upon them. How long they were discussing
what to do is not stated, but they finally agi'eed to kill each the others horse. They
dismounted and Hildreth killed Frame's horse. They took out the entrails, and both
crawled into the carcass as far as they could, and lay there, as near as Hildreth could
judge, until about midnight. The animal heat from the carcass having become ex-
hausted, they crawled out, intending that Frame should kill Hildreth's horse, and both
crawl into it. Just then the one having the knife dropped it, and it being dark, they
were unable to find it. Being thus foiled in their purpose, they both huddled about
the living horse as best they could, until about four o'clock in the morning. Frame
by that time was so benumbed with the cold that he became sleepy, and notwithstand-
ing Hildreth used every exertion to keep him up, he sank down in a sleep from which
he never awakened.

The feelings of Hildreth at this juncture can only be left to the imagination. He
managed, by jumping about, to keep from freezing until daylight, when he got on his
horse and started in search of shelter. In mounting he dropped his hat, and was afraid
to get off, fearing he would never be able to mount again. Thus, bare headed, he
wandered about for some time, until he reached the bank of a stream, supposed to be
Vermilion river. Seeing a house on the opposite shore, he hallooed as best he could
until he attracted the attention of the man, who, after learning what he wanted, said
he could not assist him. A canoe was lying at the opposite shore, but he affected to be
afraid of the running ice. Hildreth then offered him a large price if he would cut a
tree and let it fall over the stream so that he could cross. The man still refused, and
directed Hildreth to a grove which he said was a mile distant, where he would find a
house. He went, but it was five miles, and the house proved to be a deserted cabin.
He returned to the river opposite the house, called again for help, and was refused. He
then dismounted, crawled to the bank, and found that the ice had closed and was suffi-
ciently strong to bear him, and he crawled over. Arriving at the fence, the brutal
owner of the place refused to help him, and he tumbled over it, and crawling in the
house, laid down near the fire. Hildreth lay and begged for assistance, and when the
man would have relented and done something, his wife restrained him. The
frozen man lay there until four o'clock that afternoon, when some hog drovers came
along and moved him to another house, where he was properly cared for. The name
of the inhuman wretch was Benjamin Russ. After learning of his inhumanity, a move-
ment was made to punish him, but he fled. Mr. Hildreth always expressed the belief
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that he had a large amount of money, and that if, by their neglect, he perished, they
could obtain it. Such a being was very rare among the early settlers of central Illinois,
who were remarkable for their readiness to divide their comforts with all new comers,
and especially those who were in affliction.

Mr. Hildreth met with a heavy loss, financially, by his failure to go to Chicago. He
was conveyed back to the house of his brother in Vermilion county, where all the toes
were taken from both feet, and the bones of all his fingers, except one joint of the
thumb on his right hand, which enabled him to hold a pen or a drover's whip. Soon
after recovering sufficiently to enable him to travel, he removed to DeWitt county, where
he continued trading in cattle. He was married, April 7, 1847, in DeWitt county, to
Adaline Hall. His left foot never healed entirely, and nearly twenty-two years after
his misfortune, it became alarming, and he had the leg amputated below the knee. It
soon healed, but his lungs, already diseased, caused his death about the middle of June,
1858, near Mt. Pulaski, Illinois.

He has three children now living. Henry resides near Chesnut, Logan county.
John lives in Logan county, near Kenny, DeWitt county. His daughter Sarah mar-
ried William Weedman, and resides near Farmer City. Mrs. Adaline Hijdreth mar-
ried Harrison Meacham, and resides near Clinton, DeWitt county, Illinois.

Notwithstanding his great calamity, James H. Hildreth was a useful man in the
community where he lived. Most men would have given up in despair, and become a
charge upon their friends; but he was active and energetic, and continued in the busi-
ness of a farmer and stock dealer until he was physically unable to do more.

Mr. Preston Breckenridge expresses the opinion that the velocity of the cold wave,
given in another part of this sketch, is too slow. He thinks it must have moved at
least seventy miles an hour, judging from his present knowledge on the subject. He
had just taken his dinner, and was sitting near a window, between one and two o'clock
in the afternoon, in view of a pool of water, ten or twelve inches deep. He heard a
terrific roaring sound. Suddenly the rain ceased, and it became quite dark. The first
touch of the blast scooped all the water out of the pool. Some of it returned, but in
a moment it was blown out again, and scattered in frost and ice, leaving the pool empty,
and the bottom frozen dry. He says it had been raining slowly all the fore part of the
day, and so warm that he thinks a thermometer would have stood as high as forty de-
grees above zero, possibly higher, and that the first touch of the tempest would have
brought it down to zero in a second of time. Mr. Breckenridge is well acquainted
with many incidents illustrating the unparalleled suddenness and severity of the cold.
He relates a case of two young men who lost their lives near Paris, Edgar county,
Illinois, after efforts to save themselves similar to those made by Hildreth and his friend.
I might cite any number of incidents illustrating the intense suffering caused by the
:cold in Sangamon county, but the number of those who perished was comparatively
small, for the reason that jt was more thickly settled than the county north and east.
There must have been about ten thousand inhabitants in the county at the time.

A REMARKABLE INCIDENT: — The following incident was related to me by Benj.
F. Irwin, who received the statement from Rev. John M. Berry, a Cumberland Pres-
byterian Minister, who resided a short distance northeast of Pleasant Plains. Families
coming into the new settlements were many times put to great inconvenience to pro

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cure food, and especially breadstuff. Stealing was seldom resorted to, as there was a
general desire to divide with new comers. A man who owned a mill, occasionally
missed meal and flour, and concluded to lay in wait and see what would be the result.
Soon after dark one evening, he placed himself under the bolting chest, and had not
long to wait. A man entered the mill, and the first thing he did was to kneel down
and pray fervently for pardon for what he was about to do. He laid his whole case
before the Lord; told him of his willingness to work, his inability to obtain employ-
ment by which he could earn bread, and asked the Lord to open the way for him, and
as though he fully expected his prayer to be answered, he took only a sufficient quan-
tity of flour to supply his immediate necessities, and was about to depart. The owner
of the mill recognized the man as one for whom he had formed a feeling of great re-
spect, and would have been willing to help if he had known that he was destitute. He
called out from his place of concealment for the man to stop. A real thief would have
run, but the man with the flour halted without hesitation, when he was told to fill his
sack, and when that was gone to come and get more. They were friends before, but
were much warmer friends after, to the end of their lives. The facts were kept quiet,
and the names of the parties were never known except to a small number of persons;
but the miller ever after asserted that he had more confidence in that man than any
other he ever saw. The sequel proved that the miller must have been a man of sterling
principle, for if he had been like ordinary mortals, the other would have been ruined.

PANTHERS: — -John Harlan was among the earliest settlers. He heard a coon making
a piteous noise, went out with his gun and found a panther trying to catch it. He shot
that and two other panthers in succession, and that gave the name to Panther creek, or
Painter creek, as it was generally spoken.

A boy by the name of Jordan, at the age of 14 years, shot a panther in the Lick
creek timber, in what is now Loami township. When dead it was found to measure
eleven feet from the tip of its nose to the tip of its tail.

A Mrs. Brown, wife of Henry Brown, who was an early settler on Lick creek, in
what is now Chatham township, had been to one of her neighbors, and was returning,
late in the afternoon, on foot, accompanied by two large dogs. The dogs ran to her,
one on each side, which caused her to look, when she saw a huge panther on each side
of the road. She walked quietly forward, the dogs keeping close to her side, and so
passed the danger. She regarded her escape as almost miraculous, and never could
speak of it without a shudder.

MILLS AND MILLING: — Before mills were built here the settlers had to go to
Eclvvardsville for grinding; but sixty or seventy miles was too far to take a grist every
day, and it was necessary that something should be more readily obtained. A piece of
tin that can now be had anywhere for a few cents, was then an object of great interest.
Every old tin vessel was saved, torn in pieces, cut to a suitable size, punched full of
holes, and nailed to a board for a grater. While the corn was. soft, meal could be grated
in a very short time, sufficient to make bread for a whole family, by rubbing an ear of
corn back and forth on the grater. That implement is always pronounced by the old
settlers "gritter"

Mr. William Drennan remembers that the first mill in Sangamon county was built
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on the line between Ball and Cotton Hill townships. It was erected in the fall of 1819,
and was made on the plan known as a band mill. That was a horizontal wheel, with
arms fifteen feet or more in length, and of sufficient height for the horses to pass under
the arms. Several holes would be bored near the outer end of these arms. One wooden
pin was placed in each one of the arms. A band of rawhide stretched around those
pins and the trunnel head would communicate the power to the burrs, which were
usually made of any loose stone picked up on the prairies. A mill of that kind would
grind eight or ten bushels a day. Liles' mill never had any roof, and when it rained
the track became very muddy. If his customers complained, he would assume an air
of injured innocence and ask if they expected him to work in the rain. If they said
no, but that he should do it when the weather was fair, his invariable reply was, that
they did not need it then. The people came to this mill thirty or forty miles, and
although it was kept running day and night, sometimes they would have to wait sev-
eral days for a turn at the mill. One man told me that when he was a boy his parents
started him to mill, supplied with an extra quantity of feed for his horses and some
meat for himself, with the understanding that he was to parch corn as a substitute for
bread. He had to wait so long for his turn that when it came he had nothing to grind,
himself and horses having consumed all the corn, and he would have been compelled
to lose his turn, but the miller kindly loaned him a grist, which he repaid the next time
he went to mill.

The earliest mills were only intended for grinding corn, and at first no effort was
made for bolting flour, but those who raised the first wheat would cut it with the old
fashioned reap hooks, called sickles, thresh it on the ground with a flail, separate the
chaff and wheat by a man taking a measure of wheat, standing on an elevated place,
and pouring it out slowly, with a shaking motion, while two others stood below with a
common bed sheet, folded double, and taking hold of each end and giving it a quick
motion toward the failing wheat, would thus blow the chaff away, while the wheat,
being heavier, would fall perpendicular. The wheat thus cleaned would be taken to
the corn mill and ground, of course very imperfectly. The next point was to separate
the bran from the flour. At first this was done by making a light frame, three or four
feet long, and one and a half by two feet wide, and stretching a piece of the thinnest
cloth that could be obtained, over it. Some of the wheat meal would be put on this
cloth and the frame shaken from right to left, after the manner of a seive or meal sifter,
and the finest part of the wheat meal would go through. That was made into bread,
usually biscuit. That implement was called a search, usually pronounced sarch. Some
of the earliest settlers will tell you that the sweetest morsel they ever tasted in
their whole lives was the first piece of wheat bread thus made, after having been a
whole year, and sometimes longer, living on the coarsest of corn bread.

HONESTY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS: — John Sims remembers that a few years after
they came to the settlement their corn was all frost bitten, and he went to Madison
county to obtain corn for seed and bread. He had to pay $1.00 per bushel for it, and
wishing to haul all he could, he filled some sacks and laid them across the corn in the
wagon bed. He stalled in the mud, in Macoupin county, and left his wagon there,
several miles from any house, and where people traveling hundreds of miles had to
pass it. When he went home for more teams, some unexpected obstacles presented
themselves, and it was two weeks or more before he returned. When he did so, some

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of his corn was gone, but closer examination revealed the fact that money was tied in
the sacks from which the corn was taken. Some was tied with horse hairs and some
with strings, in small bunches, in all between eight and ten dollars; sufficient to fully
compensate for the corn taken. He has hauled dry goods and groceries, in large and
small packages, has stalled and left his wagon for days and weeks, and never knew
anything to be stolen.

When the land office was opened, in 1823, in Springfield, the receiver was ordered to
send the coin to Louisville, Ky. The route was so difficult to travel and so long, that he
was permitted, after one effort, to send.it to St. Louis for safe keeping. Mr. Sims had a
good team, and was called on to do the hauling. On more than one occasion he has
loaded his wagon with boxes of gold and silver, amounting to from thirty to fifty thousand
dollars. He has gone without any guard, been two or three nights on the road, would
feed his horses tied to the wagon, sleep on some straw thrown over the boxes, and was
never molested, and never thought there was danger.

A SNAKE STORY: — Gen. James Adams was bitten by a rattlesnake in 1821, and
wishing to obtain some rattlesnake oil, he advertised that he would pay fifty cents for
the first one brought to him, and in order to make sure of getting one, he offered
twenty-five cents for each additional one. A man by the name of Barnes found a den
near the mouth of Spring creek, killed all he could, loaded them in a wagon, drove to
Springfield, and left his wagon in an out-of-the-way place. He first took one snake
and received fifty cents, then two, and received twenty-five cents each. He then took
Gen. Adams to the wagon and showed him the whole load. Adams refused to pay for
them. Barnes then called his attention to the advertisement, but he still refused.
Barnes then called on two men, Reuben Burden and John White, who counted the
load, and there were 122 snakes. He then demanded his money, $30.75. This brought
the General 'to a compromise, and the matter was settled by his paying $5.00 extra.
Joseph E. McCoy is my authority.

Albion Knotts says that when they come to the country, in 1819, his father soon
learned that the next supply of shoes for his family would have to be manufactured by
himself, although he- had never made a shoe. This discovery was barely made when
he found that he must produce the leather also, as there were no tanners in the country.
He first cut down a large oak tree, peeled off the bark and laid it up to dry. He
dug a trough in the log, as large as it would make, for a tan vat. He then gathered
up all the hides he could obtain. The next question was how to remove the hair. It
was known that it could not be done by regular tanners' process, both for want of the
proper materials, and the knowledge in using them. Some person suggested that it
might be done with water and ashes, but great caution would be necessary, lest the
solution be made too strong. In that event it would ruin the hides. In his extreme
caution he did not make it strong enough, and so removed but a little more than half
the hair. In place of grinding the bark he beat it up on a stump with the poll of an
axe. He then put the hides in the trough, covered them with the pulverized bark, put
on weights to keep the mass down, and filled the trough with water, changing the
bark several times during the summer. As winter approached he took the hides out,
though not more than half tanned, and made them into shoes. He made them on what
was called the stick dou<n plan. That is, in place of turning the upper leather under
the last, it was turned outward and sewed with a straight awl through the upper and

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sole. This would make a walk all around the shoe that a mouse might travel on. It
was frequently the case that awls could not be obtained. Then they would take a
common table fork, break off one of the tines, and sharpen the other for the awl.
Shoes made as I have described, with the upper leather hair side out, not more than
half of it removed, and without any blacking, would certainly look very odd. There
can be little doubt that the above is a fair description of the first tanning and shoe
making ever done in Sangamon county.

When the first settlers came there were no stores filled with dry goods, as there are
now, and if the goods had been in the country there was no money to buy them. The
onlv way families could supply themselves with clothing was to produce the materials
and manufacture their own goods. Those who first came from the Southern States —
as most of them did — brought their cotton, flax and hemp seed, raised the fibre and did
all the work. They at first picked the seed by hand, carded it on hand cards, spun it
on wheels designed for 'spinning wool or flax, wove it into cloth, and made it into gar-
ments for men and women's wear. That which was designed for underclothing was

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prepared without coloring, as a matter of course, but for outer garments, and particu-
larly ladies' dresses, something better was required. Some among the earliest brought
a little indigo, madder, and same other drugs, but for greater variety and economy, a
large number of barks were used, such as black walnut, butternut, several varieties of
oak, hickory, etc. When peach trees grew the leaves were used for making one of the
brightest colors. Some of the cotton yarn, dyed with each of those colors, skilfully
arranged in weaving, and made into dresses, looked remarkablv well. Some of the
old boys now living say that the young ladies of their time, thus attired, looked equally
as charming in their eyes as those of the present era, with their flounces made of goods
from the looms -of Lyons and the shops of Paris, do to our young men. Flax and tow
was never colored, and was mostly used for men and boys' wear in the summer. A
tow shirt, with a draw string around the neck, and reaching below the knees, was a full
dress in summer for boys up to ten or twelve years of age. Some of our most sub-
stantial farmers were thus attired in their boyhood days.

Elisha Primm says that his father built a cotton gin in 1822. He says that from the
time the first settlers came into the county until .the winter of the "deep snow," 1830
and '31, this was as good a cotton country as Georgia. He says that this was attested
by men familiar with cotton growing in the Southern States. Elisha attended the gin
built by his father, which was run by horse power. The people brought cotton to be
ginned, from all distances up to twenty miles. Sometimes it would accumulate on his
hands until he would have as much as 3,000 pounds. The price for ginning was a toll
of one pound in every eight, after the cotton was ginned. It sold from 12 to i6^i cents
per pound, and occasionally higher. After the "deep snow" the seasons appeared to
shorten, and cotton was generally bitten by the frost before it had time to mature, and
cotton raising was finally abandoned. It seemed as though the seasons were overruled
so as to be adapted to the wants of the pioneer settlers, when there was no other wav
for them to be supplied with clothing, but when roads were opened and capital came
in, bringing merchandise, the seasons gravitated back to their normal condition.

FIRST PRODUCE MARKETED: — Mr. William Drennen believes that the first pro-
duce marketed in the county was on Sugar creek, in the Summer of 1818. George
Cox sold half a dozen small green pumpkins to an Indian for twelve and a half cents.
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i
This note was written while 1 was standing on the spot, a few yards north of the

Sulphur Springs, south of Loami, where once stood a sycamore tree in which A. E.
Meacham took a ten foot rail, held it in a horizontal position against his waist, and
turned entirely around inside the tree. It was about eighteen feet in diameter outside,
and was long used as a wigwam by the Indians. The entrance was at the east side.
It was safe when there were only Indians 'in the country, but some vandal, claiming to
be civilized, set fire to it and burned it down.

The Sulphur Spring spoken of above, bubbles up at the foot of a hill near Lick creek,
and in its natural state, when animals approached it to drink the water, was a quag-
mire, but the early settlers made an excavation, eight or nine feet deep, and walled it
up, so that the water flows out over the top of the wall, clear and pure. Soon after it
was thus improved two old topers, on a very hot day, visited the spring, taking with
them a jug of whisky, intending to have a good time laying in the shade near by,
drinking their whisky, and for variety, taking an occasional sip at the sulphur water.
One of them undertook to cool the whisky by holding the jug in the water, and while
doing so let it slip from his grasp. To cut a forked limb from a tree and make a hook
of it would be too much work. In order to rescue the jug, the one who let it slip con-
sented that the other should take him by the heels and let him down head foremost.
The whiskv was secured in that way, at the imminent risk of drowning one or both of
the men. It must have been liberally watered or it would not have sunk.

There are at least one hundred and fifty grave yards and burial places in Sangamon
county, and nine-tenths of them are so much neglected that, so far as marking any par-
ticular locality or grave, the following lines, taken from a Scottish grave yard, are
peculiarly applicable:

" In this church yard lies Eppie Coutts,
Either here or hereabouts;
But whaur it is none can tell,
Till Eppie rise and tell hersel."

The first death of a white man in Sangamon county was that of an Indian ranger.
The Sulphur Spring near Loami was known to the Indians, and was very early a camp-
ing ground for the whites. When the settlements had not extended farther north than
the vicinity of Alton, Indians, according to their custom, killed some of the frontier
settlers, and were pursued by some Rangers. While camped at the sulphur spring
one of them died, and was buried by his comrades on a beautiful knoll near the spring.
It was known to the very earliest settlers as the grave of the Indian Ranger, and was
the nucleus of the present Sulphur Springs Cemetery. The land was entered by
Jonathan Jarrett, who intended a small part of it for a cemetery and church purposes,
but died without making a deed. A regular company has been organized, according
to law, and it is now handsomely fitted up and well cared for. There ought to be a
monument over the grave of the Indian Ranger, to show that it was the first burial of
a white man in the county.

EXPLANATION.

The names of early settlers, or heads of families, in LARGE LETTER ;
Names of the second generation in ITALIC CAPITALS; third, in CAPITALS;
fourth, in SMALL CAPITALS; fifth, in Italics.

A.,

ABEL, ROSWELL, was horn
July 23, 1785, on Sharon Mountain, Litch-
field county, Conn. Three brothers by
the name of Abel came from England
about 1750. One of them settled in Con-
necticut, one in Virginia, and what became
of the other is unknown. Jonathan, who
settled in Conn., brought up a family of
five sons and two daughters. His son
David was the father of the subject of
this sketch. David Abel, and two of his
brothers, William and Andrew, were
Revolutionary soldiers. William settled
in Canada after the Revolution, and
brought up a family there. This branch
of the family has lost sight of Andrew.
David was born on Sharon mountain,
married and lived on the same farm until
four children were born, and then moved
to Washington county, N. Y., where six
children were born. Each brought up
families. David Abel presented the gun
which he carried through the Revolution,
to his son Roswell, with instructions to
present it to his son, if he had one, but if
not, to a brother's son. He has it yet in
his possession, at the home of his son
Roswell P., to whom he bequeaths it.
The brass breech bears the inscription
" Liberty or Death," every letter of which
is yet distinct.

Roswell Abel, whose name heads this
sketch, was married Oct. 22, 1807, to Betsy
Mason. She was born Oct. 22, 1790, at
Fort Ann, Washington county, X. Y.

Her father, Coomer Mason, was a Revo-
lutionary soldier, also. He had two
brothers, Shubal and Hail, who fought at
the battle of Benington. Roswell and
Betsy Abel had three children, born at
Granville, Washington County, N. Y.
They moved to Springfield, 111., arriving
July 15, 1836. Of their children —

LIZETTE, was born December 4,
1809, married Oct., 1829, in Essex county,
N. Y., to Calvin Peabody. They 'came
to Springfield in 1838. They had five
living children, namely: CHARLES
P., born Feb. 25, 1837, married April 5
1866, to Jane Cheeseman. They have
three children, HARRY, IDELLA L., and
MARY. HELEN, born Jan. 28, 1835,
married Oct. 24, 1865, to Amos Atwood.
They have two children, HELEN M., born
Jan. 18,1867, and EMM AC., born August 14,
1869, and reside near Farmington, Daco-
tah county, Minnesota. JOHN C., born
March 13, 1843, married Feb. 4, 1868, in
Enterprise, Mo., to Emily Kinsman.
Thev have four children, BURTON, FRANK-
LIN, WILLIAM and HARRY, and reside in
Brookfield, Mo. SARAH E., born in
Sangamon county, married July 11, 1857,
to Dr. Orlando Lent. They had one
child, CHARLES j. He died Nov. 4,
1874, in his 1 7th year, and Dr. Lent died
while on duty at Paducah, Ky., Military
Hospital, in 1863. His widow married
T. M. Elliott, and resides near Grantsville,
Linn county, Mo. EDWIN R., born
Dec. 12, 1844, enlisted Dec. 14, 1863, in
Vaughn's Battery 3d 111. Art. He was
married Jan. 24, 1867, in Missouri, to

76

EARLT SETTLERS OF

Clara Sockman. They have three child-
ren, ORLEY, FRANCIS and TRUDELLA,

and reside near Browning, Linn county,
Missouri. Calvin Peahody moved from
Sangamon county, Illinois, to Linn county,
Missouri, in 1865, and died there, Sept.
7, 1870. His widow resides near Brown-
ing.

CHLOE E., born April 19, 1812, in
New York. Married Nov., 1839, in
Springfield, to John Armstrong. See his
names.

R OS WELL P., born June 30, 1815,
in Washington county, New York ; came
to Sangamon county, Illinois, with his
parents in 1836. Married September 30,
1846, at Greencastle, Pa., to Margaret J.
Loose. She was born there, Jan. 22, 1820.
They reside at Rochester, 111.

Roswell Abell and wife have been
married more than 69 years. They re-
side with their son, Roswell P., at Roches-
ter, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ABELL, JEREMIAH, was
born in 1770, in Rockingham county, Va.
He was there married to Hannah Aiken,
who was born in 1771. They emigrated
to Adair county, Ky. Mr. Abell was the
owner of some slaves, but he liberated
them "in Kentucky, and moved with his
family to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
hi 1829, in what is now Auburn township.
Their daughter —

PENELOPE, married in Adair
county, Ky., to Samuel McElvain. See
his name. They come to Sangamon
county with her parents.

Their son, Dr. J. R. Abell, resides at
Taylorville.

Rev. Jeremiah Abell was regularly ed-
ircated for the ministry, preached many
years in connection with the Presbyterian
church, and received the title of Doctor
of Divinity. After coming to Illinois he
severed his connection with the Presbyte-
rian church and united with the Methodists.
He moved, about 1846, to McDonough
county, and died there in 1852.

ADAMS, JAMES, was born Jan.
24, 1783, in Hartford, Conn. Harriet
Denton was born Jan. 31, 1787, in
Hartford, also. They were there mar-
ried about 1809, and moved to Os-
wego, N. Y., where they had five child-
ren. They moved to Springfield, Illinois,
arriving in the spring of 1821, soon after
the place was declared to be the county

seat of Sangamon county. Of their four
living children,

LOVENIA E., born May 3, 1813, at
Oswego, N. Y., married, in Springfield,
to Peter Weber. See his name. They
both died in the north part of the State.
She died Sept. 5, 1 838.

CHARLOTTE B., born May 2,
1815, in Oswego, N. Y., and died Jan. 10,
1832.

LUC I AN B., born Dec. 10, 1816, in
Oswego, N. Y.; married in Springfield,
March 14, 1847, to Margery A. Reed,
who was born July 9, 1824, in Williams-
port, Penn. They have four children.
JAMES L., born Jan. 22, 1848, in Spring-
field, graduated in a commercial college in
Chicago, and is employed in a railroad
office in Vallejo, California. ELDORA
J., ENOLA A. and HARRIET L., re-
side with their parents in Springfield.
Lucian B. Adams studied law arid ob-
tained license to practice in 1840. For
twenty years he discharged the duties of a
justice of the peace, and the greater part
of that time acted as police magistrate,
U. S. commissioner and notary public.
He is now U. S. commissioner.

VIENNA M., born July 10, 1818, in
Oswego, N. Y. ; married in Springfield,
to Charles G. McGraw. See his name.

James Adams was a lawyer, and en-
gaged in practice when became to Spring-
field, in 1821. He was elected justice of
the peace in 1823 or '4 and was elected
successively for many years. He took
part in the Winnebago and Black Hawk
Indian wars of 1827, and 1831 and '2. He
was elected Probate Judge of Sangamon
county, and died in office, August n,
1843. His widowr, Mrs. Harriet Adams,
died August 21, 1844, both in Springfield.

ALEXANDER, THOMAS,
was born about 1768, in Ireland, and his
parents came to America when he was
about four years old, landing at Charles-
ton, S. C. Lynna Goodlett was born Oct.
11, 1780, in Greenville District, S. C.
They were there married, and had three
children, all of whom died under eight
years. In 1806 they moved to Christian
county, near Hopkinsville, Ky., where
they had two children, and moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving in Oct., 1828,
three miles east of Auburn. In 1829 they
moved to what is now Chatham township,
south of Lick creek. Of their two children,

SANG AM ON COUNTT.

77

MART ANN, born in 1810, in Ken-
tucky; married in Sangamon county to
John L. Drcnnan. (See his name.}

n.\ VID, born Oct. 3, 1814, in Chris-
tian county, Ky. ; came to Sangamon
county in 1828; married March 13, 1833,
to Catharine Darnielle; had 14 children,
all born in Sangamon county, six of whom
died in infancy, and LYNNA died at 13
years. Of the other seven, JOHN T.,born
Dec. 25, 1835, enlisted on the first call for
75,000 men, April, 1861, for three months,
in Co. A., 2nd Kansas Cavalry, served
full term, and enlisted Nov., 1861, in Co.
D., 2nd Mo. Art., for three years. Re-
enlisted as a veteran Jan., 1864. He lost
his right hand April 13, 1865, at St.
Charles, Ark., by the premature discharge
of a cannon, while firing a salute on hear-
ing of the surrender of the rebel forces
under Gen. Lee. He now (1873) resides
with his parents. DAVID S.,born Nov.
20, 1842, enlisted August 13, 1861, in Co.
B., 3oth 111. Inf., for three years; served
until August 9, 1862, when he was dis-
charged on account of physical disability,
at Memphis, Tenn. He was brought
home, and, after a lingering illness, died,
March 10, 1866. CATHARINE, born
Dec. 20, 1844; married May 29, 1862, to
Lafayette Beach. (See his name.} Had
one child, CHARLES D. HIRAM, born
March 30, 1847; enlisted March 14, 1864,
in Co. C., iith Mo. Inf., for three years.
Served until July 14, 1865, when he was
discharged on account of physical disabil-
ity. He was married March 9, 1873, to
Mary M. VanDoren. They reside five
miles southwest of Chatham. WILLIAM,
born Oct. i, 1849; married March 14,
1872,10 Emma Price, and reside in Chat-
ham township. MARY BELIZE and
CYRUS reside with their parents, six
miles southwest of Chatham, on the farm
where the family settled in 1829.

Thomas Alexander died Dec. 18, 183=5,
and his widow died August 12, 1844, both
in Sangamon county.

ALEXANDER, HENRY,
was born June 10, 1802, in Fleming coun-
ty, Ky. His father moved to the adjoin-
ing county of Bath when he was a child.
He was married June 24, 1827, to Polly
Gragg, of Nicholas county, and lived in
Bath county until 1833, wnen ne rnoved
to Montgomery county. They had four
children in Kentucky, and moved to San-

gamon county, 111., arriving Oct. 22, 1835,
in what is now Rochester township, where
four children were born. Of their child-
ren,

JESSE F., bor.n Dec. 10, 1828, in
Bath county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, 111., March 4, 1852, to Nancy A.
Hendrix, who was born April 22, 1829, in
Fleming county, Ky. They had five
children; one died young. LUCRETIA,
their second child, born June 26, 1855,
married March 12, 1874, to Jame^ A.
Walker. The other three, LAURA,
GEORGE and REBECCA reside with
their parents, near Appleton City, St.
Clair county, Mo.

HIRAM, born in Kentucky; married
in Sangamon county to Eliza Hendrix.
They have seven children, and reside in
Jefferson county, Iowa.

LUC1NDA A., born in Kentucky;
married in Sangamon county to Isaac
Groves. (See his name.} Their daugh-
ter Susan married John W. McClelland.
(See his name.}

WILLIAM G., born in Kentucky;
married in Sangamon county to Julia
Mclntyre. They have four children, and
reside near Illiopolis.

JAMES O., born in Sangamon
county; married Sarah Ham. They have
three children, and reside in Champaign
county.

RE BE C CA and HENR T H., (twins)
born in Sangamon county.

REBECCA married' John W. Smith,
had four children, and she died in 1870.
Two of the children died also, near Wil-
liamsville.

HENRT H. married Emily Sargent,
and resides in Illiopolis.

POLLY S., born in Sangamon coun-
ty; married Benjamin Keck; have three
children, and reside in Illiopolis.

Mrs. Polly Alexander died August 2=;,
1868, and her husband, Henry Alexander,
resides with his children.

ALEXANDER, JOHN S.,
was born Sept. 24, 1793, near Lexington,
Ky.; married Mary Simpson, who was
born April 16, 1799, in Fayette county,
Ky. They were there married, and had
four children. The family moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of
1826, in what is now Fancy creek town-
ship, where six children were born. Of
their children,

EARLT SETTLERS OF

SARAH S., born Nov. 7, 1820, in
Kentucky; married March 6, 1837, to
Samuel D. Cantrall. (See his name.}

JAMES H., born March 19, 1822, in
Kentucky; married in Sangamon county
to Ann E. Hardin. They live in Wash-
ington Territory.

HANNAH //., born June i, 1824, in
Kentucky; married James Kilgour, and
died. (See his name.} '

WILLIAM, born June 12, 1826, in
Fayette county, Ky.; married in Sanga-
mon county to Eveline Lacey; had three
children, and she and all the children died,
He married Catharine Hill. They have
three children, FREDIE, FRANKIE
and a babe, and reside at Williamsville.

ASA C. and MARGARET C.,
(twins), born March 15, 1829, in Sanga-
mon county.

ASA C. married Mary J. Tabor, and
resides in Ford county.

MARGARET C. married Harrison
Blue ; had two children, and he died, April,
1852, and she married George Martin, and
resides in Iroquois county.

GEORGE, born Feb. 13, 1831, in
Sangamon county; enlisted in a Kansas
regiment in 1861 or '2, and died in mili-
tary hospital at Springfield, Mo.

JOHN S., Jun., married Dorcus A.
Mills.

SAMUEL C., born Jan. 31, 1838;
married Amanda Hall, and lives in Ford
county.

MART J., born April 15, 1840, in
Sangamon county; married August 7,
1856, to Andrew J. Hedrick, who was
born August 23, 1834. They had three
children, HARRISON H., RUTH A.
and ALICE V. Mr. Hedrick enlisted
August 15, 1862, in Co. I., 34 Iowa Inf.,
for three years. He was discharged on
account of physical disability, March 13,
and died Mav 8, 1863, in Menard county.
Mrs. Hedrick married, Oct. 12, 1864, to
William Reesburg. They have one child,
WILLIAM H., and reside near Illiopolis.

Mrs. Mary Alexander died Nov. i,

1852, and John S. Alexander died July 15,

1853, both in Sangamon county.
ALKIRE, HARM ON AS, was

born in 1804, in Bourbon county, Ky.
His parents moved, when he was quite
young, to Pickaway county, O. In 1826
he visited Sangamon county on business
for other parties. Returning to Ohio, he

went to -Lafayette, Ind. The next year
he came to Sangamon county again, on
business, and was married in Springfield,
Dec. 31, 1829, to Martha McLemore. She
was born July 10, 1810, in Burke county,
N. C. Her parents moved, in 1811, to
Knoxville, Tenn., and moved from there
to Sangamon coimty, 111., arriving, Dec.
23, 1828, at Springfield. Soon after mar-
riage Mr. Alkire returned to Lafayette
with his wife. They had two children
born there, and then moved to Sangamon
county, arriving, August, 1832, in what is
now Fancy Creek township, where they
had eight living children. Of the other
ten children,

MART ANN, bom at Lafayette, Ind.,
is unmarried, and resides with her parents.

JAMES T., born Feb. 3, 1832, at
Lafayette, Ind.; married, Oct. 4, 1866, to
Addie H. Ross, who was born March 6,
1838, in Miami county, O. They have
two living children, ANNIE ' M. and
MARGARET" A. J. Y. Alkire is farm-
ing and practicing medicine. Resides
three miles west of Sherman.

MARGARET y.,born Dec. 17, 1833,
in Sangamon county ; married Isaac Mull,
who was born March 2, 1820, in Mason
county, Ky. They have five children,
IDA M., HENRY E.JENNIE, MAT-
TIE E. and CHARLES C., and reside
four miles north of Springfield.

CAROLINE M., born Jan. 24, 1835,
in Sangamon county; married April 6,
1865, to Conrad Shamel. They have
three children, CHARLES H., CLAR-
ENCE A. and JOHN Y., and reside
near Springfield.

WILLIAM W., born July 26, 1837,
in Sangamon county; married Judith S.
Lightfoftt. They have three children,
HERBERT, EMMETT and AR-
THUR, and reside four miles southwest
of Troy, Doniphan county, Kan.

DANIEL, born in Sangamon countv,
is a traveling preacher in the M. E. church,
at present, 1873, resides with his parents,
recruiting his health.

ALBERT II., born in Sangamon
county, is a traveling preacher in Illinois
Conference, M. E. church, 1873.

PRISCILLA E., married George
W. Neer, and resides near Taylorville.

MATTIE E., married Edward J.
Myers. They have two children, MARY

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79

A. and EDWARD L., and reside in
Fancy Creek township.

LEANDER died June 5, 1871, in his
i8th year.

Harmonas Alkire and his wife are liv-
ing on the farm where they settled in

1832. It is three miles west of Sherman,
lie confirms the statement of Washington
Crowder that the sudden change took
place December 20, 1836, because he en-
tered a piece of land that day, and the
papers bear the above date.

ALLEN, ROBERT, was born
in the year 1800, in Greensburg, Green
county, Ky. He was married there to a
Miss Anderson, and came to Springfield,
111., in 1831. Col. Allen engaged in the
mercantile business as a member of the
firm of Allen & Blankenship, soon after
coining to Springfield. He also became a
mail contractor on a very extensive scale,
and brought a large number of fine stage
coaches from Nashville, Tenn., being the
first ever introduced into the State. He
made Springfield his headquarters, and on
some occasions had as many as five hun-
dred horses on hand at one time. Col.
Allen was one of the directors of the old
State Bank. He was connected with the
army in the Mormon war in 1845, an<^ U1
the Mexican war of 1846-7. Not long
after coming to Springfield, Airs. Allen
died, and Mr. Allen was married in April,

1833, to Jane Eliza Bergen. They had
two children, one of whom died young.
Their son,

ROBERT, Jun., born Feb. 28, 1837,
in .Springfield, and brought up in the city.
When the rebellion broke out he was
commissioned, August 28, i86i,as Captain
of Co. — , 30 111. Inf., and served as such un-
til May 25, 1863, when he was promoted,
to Major of the regiment, in front of
Vicksburg. He served part of the time
in the Quartermaster's department; also
acted as Assistant Inspector-General of
the 3d Div. 1 7th Army Corps, and re-
signed August 8, 1864. Major Robert
Allen was married Dec. 5, 1865,111 Spring-
field, to Anna M. Purely, who was born
May 12, 1838, in Trenton, N. ]. They
had" three children. GEORGE B., the
youngest, died August 12, 1872, in his
second year. HENRY T. and FAN-
N 1 10 M. reside with their parents in
Springfield. Major Allen is a practicing
attorney.

Col. Robert Allen died Dec. i, 1854,
and his widow, Mrs. Jane Eliza Allen,
died March 18, 1857, both one mile north
of the old State house in Springfield.

ALLEN, WILLIAM S., was
born June 16, 1774, in Bourbon county,
Ky. He was married to Abigail Snede-
gar. They had five children in Kentucky.
Mr. Allen came to Sangamon county in
1835, purchased land and prepared a
house. He returned to Kentucky and
brought his family, arriving Nov. i, 1836,
in what is now Ball township. Of their
children,

MARIA L,., born in Bourbon county,
Ky., was married there to Shelton Watts.
They had three children there, and moved
to Sangamon county in 1839. Of their
children, NANCY J. married John Dren-
nan, and resides near Tolono, Champaign
county, 111. WILLIAM S. married
Sarah Knotts, and resides near Tolono, 111.
BENJ. FRANKLIN married Isabel F.
Thompson. See R. B. Thompson sketch.
Shelton Watts died July 16, 1843, and his

widow married John Brownwell. See

j . J

tits name.

MART E., born Feb. 28, 1819, in
Bourbon county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county, 111., June 16, 1841, to
James W. Stephenson. They had nine
children. MARGARET A., born July
1 6, 1842, was married Sept. 2, 1875, to
Andrew Little. They reside near New
Canton, 111. JAMES A., born June 30,
1843, WILLIAM E., born July 24,
1845, FINIS E., born Oct. 18, 1849, and
PRESLEY B., born March 14, 1851,
reside with their parents. MARY E.,
born Nov. 7, 1854, was married June 6,
1872, and resides in Mexico, Mo., and
ELLEN, born Sept. 9, 1856, resides with
her parents. Two children died in in-
fancy. James W. Stephenson and family
reside near New Canton, 111.

NANCY died in Kentucky, aged 19
years.

WA TERM AN P., born Jan. 8, 1820,
in Bourbon county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county, Feb., 1849, to Louisa
Watts. Thev have four children.
MARIA L. and WILLIAM S. reside
with their father. MARY E. was mar-
ried Oct. 29, 1873, to John L. Clay ton, and
resides in Ball township. JULIA A. re-
sides with her father. Mrs. Louisa Allen
died Nov. 26, 1857, and W. P. Allen was

So

EARLY SETTLERS OF

married Oct. 18, 1858, to Catharine
Vaughn. They have six children, MAR-
GARET E., HARRIET R., LOUISA
J., JOHN, JOSEPH F. and ALPH. R.,
and reside in Ball township, on the farm
settled by Mr. Allen's father, in 1836.

JOHNW.,\)orn in Kentucky, brought
up in Sangamon county, was married in
Menard county, Illinois, to Jane Watkins.
they reside near Atlantic, Cass county,
Iowa.

Mrs. Abigail Allen died Sept. 10, 1843,
and William S. Allen died Dec. n, 1848,
both in Sangamon county, 111.

ALLISON, ISAAC F., was
born July 2, 1801, in Virginia, and his
parents moved to Mason county, Ky. He
was married about 1827,10 Deborah Caller-
man. They lived in Fleming county, Ky.,
a short time, and moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, arriving in the fall of 1829, on Spring
creek, where seven children were born.

JOHN, born in 1828, in Fleming
county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county,
enlisted in the 4th 111. Inf., under Col.
E. D. Baker, in 1846, and died the same
year at Matamoras, Texas.

J OSEPH,\)ov\\ in Sangamon county;
married Hannah Knudson and died, leav-
ing a widow and three children.

SUSANNAH, died, aged twelve
years.

ELIZABETH is unmarried, and re-
sides in Kansas.

JAMES M., born April 13, 1840, in
Sangamon county ; enlisted August 5,
1861, in Co. A., 38th 111. Inf.; discharged
on account of physical disability, March
29, 1862. He re-enlisted, in Sept., 1862,
for three years, in Co. K, 115 111. Inf.;
was transferred, in 1864, to Co. A., First
U. S. Engineers, and was honorably dis-
charged with the regiment, Sept. 19, 1865.
He was married Nov. 18, 1866, in Sanga-
mon county, to Julia A. Dunham. They
have two "children, MARTHA D.- and
ALICE M., and reside five miles north-
cast of Springfield.

ELI J API and MINERVA reside
near Jacksonville, Neosho county, Kan.

JOHN Jf^born in Sangamon county,
died June 29, 1868; aged 21 years.

Mrs. Deborah Allison died May 29,
1860, in Sangamon county, and Isaac F.
Allison died December 22, 1869, in Craw-
ford county, near Jacksonville, Neosho
county, Kan.

ALLISON, MARGARET,
came to Sangamon county as one of the
family of Thomas Black. See his name.
She arrived in 1819. Her parents lived
in Philadelphia. She died within one
year after arrival, in the 29th year of her

*ALSBURY, REV.CHAS. D.,
was born Oct. 25, 1817, in Indiana. He
came to Sangamon county, 111., and was
married March 14, 1839, to Ann Cordelia
Cloyd. They had five living children,
namely :

THOMAS, born Feb. 12, 1840, and
died Nov. 6, 1860.

ANN, born in 1841 or '2; married
April 4, 1 86 1, to John W. Anderson.
They have four children. CHARLES
W., "MINNIE A., JOHN C. and ME-
LISSA J., and reside in Woodside town-
ship.

CAROLINE, married, Dec., 1870, to
Leander L. Little; have one child, and re-
side in Montgomery county.

MARTHA, married, j'an. 3, 1867,10
John D. Smith. -See his name.

JOHN C. resides with his mother.

Rev. Charles D. Alsbury was a preach-
er of the gospel in connection with the
Baptist church. He died, and his widow
resides one and a half miles northwest of
Woodside.

AYLESBURY, CHARLES,
was born in North Carolina and married
in Virginia, to Mrs. Jan,e Huggins. They
moved to Kentucky, and from there to
Springfield, 111., in 1823. Mr. Aylesbury
entered the land south of the public square.
They brought some children with them.
Mrs. Aylesbury's daughter, by her first
marriage,

JANE HUG GINS, born in Virginia,
married William B. Jarrett. Sec his
name.

Of the Aylesbury children,

CHARLES, born in Greenbrier coun-
• ty, Virginia, and married there to Mary
Reav. They had two children, and came
to Sangamon county in 1823, and settled
on Spring creek, where they had nine
children. JOHN, born in Virginia; mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Sarah West,
and reside in Piatt county. ELIZA-
BETH, born Jan. 8, 1822, in Greenbrier
county, Va. ; married in Sangamou county,
August 9, 1849, to George W. Buchanan,
who was born Nov. 27, 1823, in Morgan

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county, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan had
six children. MARY j. married B. F.
Nurbonn, and resides with her father.
JAMES F. died in 1871, aged 19 years.
SUSANNA, ELIZABETH, ALBERT and
ISAAC, reside with their father. Mrs.
Elizabeth B. died, and G. W. Buchanan
resides west of Loami. BRICE died in
Sangamon county, aged 20 years. ED-
WARD and NANCY are married, and
live in Missouri. Charles Aylesbury, wife
and three children reside in Piatt county.

ALEXANDER, born in Virginia;
married in Sangamon county, to Ginsey
Jordan, raised a family, and moved to
Decatur. He enlisted in an Illinois regi-
ment, served three years, re-enlisted as a
veteran, was furloughed home, and died
in Springfield.

LE VI, the youngest son, is married,
and resides in Macon county.

Charles Aylesbury, Sen., died in 1861,
in Loami township. His widow resides
with her son Levi, in Macon county. She
is now — 1873 — more than 96 vears old.

ALVEY. WILLIAM, was born
Sept. 1 6, 1799, in Washington county,
Ky. He came to the southern part of
Illinois in 1824, and to Springfield in May,
1825. He was married Nov. 6, 1825,
near Springfield, to Madaline Watson.
They had six children, all born in Spring-
field.

MEL VINA, born July 22, 1826, in
Springfield; married there to Samuel B.
Fisher. See his name.

SIMON B., born Oct. 16, 1827, in
Springfield, went to Oregon in 1849, was
married in Yamhill county, Oregon,
August 30, -1853, to Dollie V. Elder,
daughter of A. R. Elder, formerly of
Springfield, 111. They have five children,
vi/: ALICE M., born Oct. 10, 1854, in
Yamhill countv; married, August 30,
1873, to James H. Downey, of Steilacoom
City, W. T. WILLIAM A., born June
25, 1864, in Oregon. EDITH S., born
Sept. 17, 1867. EDWARD B., born
Feb. 28, 1873, and JUNIA AFTON,
born June 24, 1874, reside with their
parents in Steilacoom City, Pierce county,
Washington Territory.

Ef.IZA A., born Oct. 17, 1829, in
Springfield; married at Marengo, Iowa,
to Dr. George W. Wallace, who was born
in Columbiana county, Ohio. ' Studied
medicine with Dr. McCook, one of the
— ir

celebrated McCook family. Moved to
Iowa in the spring of 1848. They had
seven children, namely: GEORG.E W.,
MARY E., FLORENCE, WILLIAM
A., CLARA, ALFRED F. and LIN-
COLN. Dr. W. died April 4, 1865, at
Salisbury, Sangamon county. Airs.
Wallace and family reside in Springfield.
^ MART E., born July 12, 1831, in
Springfield, married, about 1859, to J°"
siah Hickel. Thev reside in Kansas.

J. WILLJAM,\)orn March 12, 1834,
in Springfield, was married there, May
20, 1860, to Alzina A. Brown, (daughter
of Ira A. Brown.) They have six child-
ren, viz: MEL VINA; HELEN B.,
JAMES W., HENRY P., HOMER W.

and , — — . Mr. J. Wm. Alvey is a

merchant in Mechanicsburg, Sangamon
county, 111.

ALFRED resides in Springfield.

William Alvey moved to Marengo,
Iowa, in 1848, and Mrs. Madeline Alvey
died there, May 12, 1849. He was mar-
ried April, 1850, to Eleanor Penny. He
died May, 1855, at Marengo, Iowa.

AMOS, MRS. SARAH, was
born June 13, 1793, in Washington countv,
Md. Her maiden name was Friend. She
first married Phillip Swinley; had two
children, and Mr. Swinley died. Mrs.
Swinley was married the second time,
August 2, 1810, to James Amos. They
had two children, and James Amos died
Feb. 6, 1823, in Maryland, also. Mrs.
Amos came with her children to Sanga-
mon county, arriving March i, 1838, in
Springfield. Of her children,

BARBARA E. SWINLET mar-
ried in Virginia to Thomas Lemon, who
died, and Mrs. Lemon came with her
child to Sangamon county in 1839, an<^
died in Decatur, April, 1865. Her daugh-
ter VIRGINIA married Joseph Strong,
in Decatur, moved to Hannibal, Mo., and
died there, June, 1872, leaving three child-
ren.

SAMUEL K. SWINLET, born
April 21, 1802, in Washington county,
Md.; married there to Maria Rice, and
came to Springfield with his half brother,
Joshua F. Amos. Mr. Swinley settled
near where Woodside station now stands.
While there he served as one of the coun-
ty judges with J. Wickliffe Taylor and
Armstrong. His wife died there in the
fall of 1852. Judge Swinley moved to

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

Decatur in 1857 or '8, was there married
to Ruth P rather, of Washington county,
Md. He died early in 1872, and his
widow resides in Decatur.

JOSHUA F. AMOS, was horn Jan.

28, 1812, in Washington county, Md., and
came to Springfield, 111., June 10, 1835.
He was married March i, 1838,111 Spring-
field, to Julia A. Hay, daughter of John
Hay, Esq. They had three children born
in Springfield. SARAH E., born Oct.
30, 1839, married Oct. 30, 1861, to Levin
W. Shepherd, who was born in London
county, Va., Sept. 3, 1836. He served
one year each, 1860 and 1861, as clerk and
comptroller of the city of Springfield;
was a member of the Board of Supervisors
of Sangamon county in 1868 and 1869. In
1862 he was appointed by President Lin-
coln Assistant Quartermaster in the U. S.
Army, and stationed at Fort Ridgely,
Minn. Transferred to Keokuk, Iowa,
where he commanded that Fort for six
months. Thence to Columbus, Ky., as
Depot Quartermaster; thence to Chicago,
as Disbursing Quartermaster; thence to
Tennessee, thence to Fort Kearney, Ne-
braska, at which place he resigned, Oct.,
1865, and became a lumber merchant in
Springfield, 111. Afterwards removed to
Kansas; was first President of Peoples
National Bank of Ottawa. Resides now
in Denison, Texas, which place he laid
out in 1872, and sold the first lot there.
Col. Shepherd was twice brevetted for
faithful services during the war. GEO.
A., born Sept. 4, 1841, married, Oct.
30, 1866, to Josephine A. Andrews,
eldest daughter of Col. George W. An-
drews, at Wapakonetta, Auglaixe coun-
ty, Ohio. She was born there, May

29, 1844. They have two children,
GEORGIA and ROBERTA, and reside in
Humboldt, Kansas. Mr. George A.
Amos is engaged in the practice of law.
JOHN M., born August 18, 1844. He
enlisted in Col. Phillips' three months
regiment. Stationed at Rock Island, 111.,
in 1864. He was married Oct. 30, 1867,
to Caroline J., youngest daughter of Ora-
mel Clark, Esq. They have four child-
ren, JOHN J., GEORGE O., JULIA R., and

CURTIS H., and reside near Springfield.
Mr. Joshua F. Amos and wife reside
adjoining Springfield, on the west. Mr.
Amos spent six years, from 1845 *°
1851, in Lagrange, Mo. In 1852 he, with

Nathaniel Hay, established the well
known firm of Amos & Hay, which con-
tinued until the decease of Mr. Hay. Mr.
Amos has retired from active business.

ROBERT J. AMOS, was born
March 2, 1815, in Washington county,
Md. Came to Springfield June, 183=5,
and settled in Woodside township. He-
went to Decatur in 1850, and was there
married, in 1856, to Mrs. Mary Packard.
They have two children, ANNIE and
ROBERT, born in Decatur. They
moved, in 1869, to Humboldt, Kansas,
where they now reside.

Mrs. vSarah Amos died Feb. 15, 1847.
at the residence of her son, Robert J.
Amos, in Woodside township, Sangamon
county.

ANDERSON, JAMES, was
born in 1784 in Botetourt county, Va.
Nancy Fletcher was born in 1786, in Rock-
bridge county, Va. They were there
married, in 1802, and had two children in
Virginia. They moved, in 1808, to Ken-
tucky, where they had three children,
and in 1813 moved to Indiana, where one
child was born. They moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., in 1820, and settled in
what is now Ball township. Of their six
children —

ROBERT A7;, born in Virginia, mar-
ried, in Sangamon county, to Rebecca
Wilson, who died, and he married Clarissa
Woods, moved to Wisconsin, and both
died there.

MARGARET L., born March 28,
1806, in Virginia, married in Sangamon
county to William Drennan. (See his
name.}

JOB F., born in Kentucky, died un-
married, at 55 years of age.

JOHN N., born in Kentucky, raised
in Sangamon county, married in Arkan-
sas, and died there.

NANCY, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to John Caldwell,
and died in Texas.

REBECCA, born in Indiana, raised
in Sangamon county, went to Arkansas,
married and died there.

James Anderson died in 1828 and his
widow died in 1845, both in Sangamon
countv.

ANDERSON. MOSES K..
was born Nov. u, 1803, in Butler county,
Ky. His parents died when he was ten
or twelve vears of age, and he was taken

SANGAMON COUNTT.

by a relative to that part of Davidson
which is now Cheatham county, on Han-
peth river, Tenn. Cassariller Stroude
was born Nov. 2^, 1812, in Dickson coun-
ty, Tenn. M. K. Anderson and Cassa-
riller Stroude were married in her native
countv, Sept. 13, 1827, and moved to San-
gamon countv. 111., arriving March 2,
1829, in what is now Cartwright town-
ship, four miles east of Pleasant Plains,
and south of Richland creek, where they
had nine children. Of their children —

THOMAS p\, born Sept. n, 1829, in
Sangamon countv, married Dec. 25, 1852,
to Martha L. Child. They had five
children. LAURA died, aged two years.
CHARLES, EDWARD, HENRY and
TAVXER reside with their parents, one
mile north of Richland Station.

WILLIE ANN, born Sept. 17, 1831,
in Sangamon county, married Francis
Corson, who died, leaving one child,
MOSES E, and she married George
Springer. They have five children,
MARY, CLARA, ANNA, REUBEN
and CHARLES, and reside in Parsons,
Kan.

SARAH J., born March 14, 1834, in
Sangamon county, married John D. Mc-
Cullough. They have four children,
LAURA, WILLARD, EDWARD and
LILLIE, and reside at Franklin, Morgan
county.

MART E., born April 17, 1836, mar-
ried John L. Child. See his name.

ME LINDA E., born Nov. 4, 1838,
married Joseph Potter. They have five
children, CHARLES, EUGENE, NEL-
LIE, HATTIE and LULU, and reside
at Palmer 111.

CYNTHIA A., born Dec. 10, 1840,
married Edward D. Ballard. They have
three children, HARRIET, JAMES A.
and CLIFTON D., and reside one and a
half miles north of Richland station.

GEORGE W., born April 3, 1843, in
Sangamon county, married near Athens,
June 12, 1862, to Melinda F. Moran,
who was born May 16, 1845. They have
five children, FRANK, MOSES W.,
JAMES W., JENNIE and GEORGE,
and reside two and a half miles north of
Richland station.

M ARENA A., born July 26, 1845,
married William P. Mitchell. They have
four living children, MINNIE, WILEY,

JOHN, and a boy babe, and reside near
Humboldt, Richardson county, Neb.

WILLARD WICKLIFFE, born
April 28, 1848, married April 8, 1869, to
Susan Moran, who was born Dec. 14,
1848, in Menard county. They have two
children, HARRY and CASSARILLA,
and reside two miles north of Richland
station.

Mrs. Cassarilla Anderson died August
17, 1850, and M. K. Anderson was mar-
ried Dec. 31, 1850, to Mrs. Marena T.
Hall, whose maiden name was Stroude.
They had three children. JOHN T. and
ELIZA F. died between seven and nine
years.

WILLIAM WILKES, born Sept.

8, 1857, resides with his parents in Spring-
field, but is now a theological student at
Lexington, Ky.

Moses K. Anderson taught a military
school in Dickson county, Tenn., and the
old system of military training being in
vogue when he came to Illinois, he was
very soon elected captain of a company,
and in a short time was promoted to Col-
onel and Brigadier-General. He was ap-
pointed, about 1838, by Gov. Carlin, Ad-
jutant-General of the State, and continued
to hold the office by successive appoint-
ments, until 1856. During the time, Gen.
Anderson was called upon to discharge
the duties of his office in connection with
the Mormon war, at Nauvoo, and the
Mexican war.

Wrhen Gen. Anderson came to Sanga-
mon county he borrowed of Eli Blank-
enship the money to enter his first So acres
of land, and paid fifty per cent, for the
use of the money. He has since given
each of his children a good farm, and has
500 acres left. He has been four years
county judge, six years alderman in
Springfield, and 20 years justice of the
peace. He is of the opinion that the
"deep snow" of 1830-31 was five feet
deep on a level in the timber.

ANDERSON, TAVNERB.,
born Nov. 30, 1809, in Butler countv, K\ .,
went with his brother Moses K., to 'lYn
nessee, and from there to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., arriving March 2, 1829, in what is
now Cartwright township. He was in
the Black Hawk war, was married Dec.

9, 1834, to Polly Pirkins. They had six
children, in Sangamon countv.

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

AMERICUS, born Dec. 29, 1835,
was married Oct. 5, 1856, to Emily
Thompson. They had two children, and
one died. Mr. A. died Oct. 2, 1860.

FRANCIS J., born Sept. 28, 1837,
died young.

JOSEPH O., born April 23, 1840,
died April 15, 1847.

RUFUS B., born Oct. i, 1841, in
Sangamon county, married Martha Young.
They have two children, and reside near
Palmer, Christian county.

ME LINDA J/., born May 23, 1844,
married Y. B. Clark. They had seven
children; all died but one. Mrs. Clark
died Sept. 3, 1872. Their child is in
Texas. Mr. C. resides at Clarksdale,
Christian county, 111.

HARRIET F., born Jan. 7, 1846, in
Sangamon county, was married Dec. 5,
1868, to William' H. McDonald. They
had four children, two died. They reside
near Clarksdale.

GEORGE E., born Dec. 24, 1849, in
Sangamon county, was married Sept. 33,
1874, to Mollie Boyd. They have one
child, and reside near Clarksdale, 111.

CHARLES T., born August 4, 1852,
and resides at Williamsville, Sangamon
county.

Tavner B. Anderson and wife reside
five miles southwest of Taylorville, and
near Palmer City, Christian county, 111.

ANTLE, REV. JOHN, was

born April 15, 1789, in Cumberland coun-
ty, Ky. Elizabeth Buchanan was born in
Cumberland county, Pa. Her parents
moved to Lincoln county, Ky., when she
was seven years old. Her father died in
that county, and she went to live with a
married sister in Cumberland county. John
Antle and Elizabeth Buchanan were there
married. They had five children. The
family them moved to Morgan county,
111., in 1829, and from there to Sangamon
county, arriving Jan. 9, 1830, in what is
now Salisbury township. Of their child-
ren—

POLLY, born in 1810, in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Henry
Hadley, and she died.

SALL Y, born Jan., 181 1, in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county, Sept., 1833,
to Marshall Bragg. Mr. Bragg died,
and his widow and three children re-
side in Keokuk county, Iowa. A mar-

ried daughter resides in Logan county,
Illinois.

HENRY, born Sept. 12, 1813, in Cum-
berland county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, Jan. 18, 1837, to Nancy Dun-
can. They have eight living children.
SARAH A. married Charles Bottroff,
and resides in Cartwright township.
SIDNEY D., ELY ANN, JAMES S.,
NATHAN McC., LURANA, MAR-
THA F. and MARSHAL B., reside
with their parents, adjoining Salisbury on
the west.

ANDRE W 7., born in 1815, in Cum-
berland county, Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county to Ann Dardon, Oct.,
1840. They have one child; and reside
near Scio, Linn county, Oregon.

MARTHA, born August 8, 1818, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
March, 1839, to Simon Stevens. Thev
had five children, one died young. JOHN
enlisted August, 1862, in Co. H., 114 111.
Inf., for three years, and died in the armv
in 1863. MARSHALL A., GEO. S.
and WILLARD T., reside with their
mother. Mr. Stephens died in 1863, and
his widow resides in Salisbury township.

Mrs. Elizabeth Antle died Sept., 1844,
and John Antle died August 30, 1864,
she in Menard county and he in Salisbury.

Rev. John Antle preached to five
churches, called Separate Baptists. One
each at Salisbury and McKinnie Settle-
ment, in Sangamon county, Baker's
Prairie and Sand Ridge, in Menard coun-
ty, and one in Morgan county. The only
pay he received or expected was the hope
of reward in a better world.

ARCHER, WILLIAM, was
born July 30, 1793, in North Carolina, and
in 1807 his parents moved to Tennessee,
where he was married to Elizabeth Jack-
son. They had one child, and moved to
Madison county, Illinois, where they had
one child, and Mrs. A. died, and he mar-
ried Elizabeth Holt, Dec. 20, 1818. She
was born Dec. 3, 1793? in Oglethrope
county, Ga., and, losing her parents when
quite young, she was taken by an uncle,
Robert White, to Madison county, 111., in
1811. Wm. and Elizabeth Archer had
twins in Madison county, and moved to
Sangamon county,, arriving April 30, 1820,
in what is now Curran township, where
they had nine children. Of all his child-
ren—

SANGAMON COUNTY.

WINSTON, born Sept. 12, 1814, in
Tennessee, raised in Sangamon county,
married Mary Robinson, moved to Cali-
fornia, and died in 1866, leaving a widow
and six children, near Petaluma, Sonoma
county, California.

MARTHA, born Sept. 24, 1817, in
Madison county, 111., married in Sanga-
mon county to John Riddle. See his
name.

Bv the second wife —

JA CKSON and CARROLL, twins,
born Sept. 30, 1819, in Madison county,
111.

JACKSON, married Oct. 7, 1844,10
Elcy F. Meacham. They had three
children. ELIZABETH J. was killed
in her eighth year by a fall from a wagon.
MARY A. born May 14, 1848, married
Feb. 1 6, 1865, to Andrew Alson, who
was born March 6, 1838, in Sweden, and
came to America in 1855. They had
three children. The second, CHARLES,
died in his fourth year. ANNA E. and
CLARA A. reside with their parents, six
miles west of Springfield. GEORGE
R. born r\.ugust 13, 1851, resides with his
mother. Jackson Archer died April 7,
1852, in southwest Missouri, while on a
journey for his health. His widow mar-
ried Wm. Duff. See his name.

CARROLL married Nov. 24, 1842, to
Delilah Renshaw. They had three child-
ren. MARTHA T., born May 27, 1847,
married to Lorenzo Stillman, have three
children, and reside near Curran. ANN
E., born August 5, 1849, married Sept.,
1870, to Edward Robison, and reside in
Linden, Kan. SARAH C., born Feb. 8,
1851, married November 21, 1872, to
Henry Gaines, and resides near Odell, 111.
Mrs. Delilah Archer died May 31, 1865,
and Carroll Archer was married Sept. 4,
1866, to Elizabeth Houghton, who was
born Oct. 25, 1830,, in Menard county.
They have two children, EDWIN and
MARIA BELLE, and reside three miles
northwest of Curran.

M'ARY, born May 24, 1822, in Sanga-
mon county, married Nov. n, 1840, to
Alexander Penny; had one child, WIL-
LIAM, born Nov. 3, 1844, enlisted August
14, 1862, for three years, in Co. F., 14410
111. Inf., was captured at the battle of Gun-
town, Miss., June, 1864, and died in An-
dersonville prison, Feb. 24, 1865. Alex.
Penny died in 1868, and his widow mar-

ried Mathew Redman, who was born
May i, 1828, in county Wexford, Ireland.
They reside five miles west of Spring-
field"

SARAH, born Dec. 24, 1823, resides
with her mother.

NANCY,\>Qm. Nov. 13, 1825, in San-
gamon county, married Samuel O. Maxcy.
See his name.

JOHN, born Oct. 3, 1826, married
Susan Taylor. They have one child,
AMERICA, and reside in McDonough
county, near Fandon. He was^a soldier
in a cavalry regiment from that county in
suppressing the rebellion.

MADISON, born August 27, 1828,
married Margaret Dixon, who died Dec.
29, 1863, leaving three children, WIL-
LIAM B., MARY J. and SARAH E.

THOMAS J., born August 3, 1830,
and resides near Rossville, Kan.

WASHINGTON J., born July 19,
1832, married Dec. 29, 1861, to Mrs. Me-
linda Hammond, whose maiden name was
Cox. They have five children, GEORGE
W., THOMAS C., MINNIE L., MARY
A. and WILLIAM, and reside three
miles north of Curran.

ELIZABETH, born Nov. i, 1838,
married Jan. 18, 1865, to Peter VanOr-
man. * Mrs. VanOrman and her child,
LIZZIE, reside with her mother.

William Archer died August 31, 1867,
from the effects of being thrown from a
horse, and his widow resides at the farm
where they settled in 1820.

In the fall of 1873 Mrs. Elizabeth Ar-
cher, then eighty years of age, gave to the
writer a piece of a dress made with her
own hands more than sixty years before.
The family of her uncle, with whom she
moved from Georgia to St. Clair county,
111., in 18 1 1, brought some cotton in the
bolls, for the purpose of using the seed in
growing cotton in their new home. Miss
Holt, as her name then was, obtained the
consent of her uncle to apply the cotton
to her own use. She picked it from the
bolls and separated the cotton from the
seed with her fingers, and spun it on a
wheel, borrowed from a neighbor more
than thirty miles distant. She had a rude
loom constructed for the purpose, and had
just commenced weaving, when the first
assassination among the white settlers by
Indians took place, as the beginning there
of the war with England. That occurred

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

in June, 1812. She, with her uncle's
family, fled to Fort Bradsby, a rude wood-
en fortification near by. Appealing- to the
Lieutenant in command for protection,
he reported the case to Governor Edwards,
who authorized him to grant her request.
A guard was accordingly placed around
the cabin,"and kept"there until the weav-
ing was completed. The design was
unique and beautiful. The cloth was care-
fully preserved, some of it bleached to
snowy whiteness, and made into a dress.
She wore it the first time to a quarterly
meeting in 1815, just after the close of the
war, and attracted universal attention as
the finest dressed lady in all that region of
country.

ARCHER, MOSES, came to
Sangamon county with his brother Wil-
liam. He was four times married, and
died at Galena before the rebellion. His
son —

ROBERT, died in 1870 or '71, leaving
a widow and three daughters in Christian
county.

ARCHER, MICHAEL, came
to Sangamon county two years later than
his brother William, and married EfFy
Duff, moved to Missouri, raised a large
family, returned to Sangamon' county
during the rebellion, and Mrs. Archer
died in Sangamon county. He returned
to Jasper county, Mo., and died there in
1871.

ARCHER, ROBERT, was
born Sept. 17, 1801, in Tennessee, and
came with his brothers, Moses, Michael,
Obadiah, their sister Jemima, and their
mother, in 1821, to Sangamon county,
where their brother William had settled
the year before. Robert Archer and
Matilda DufF were married Feb. 6, 1825,
and had three children in Sangamon
county.

ELIZABETH J., born August i,

1827, married Nov. 15, 1850, to Reuben
Brown. See his name.

BENNETT, C. D., born July 13,

1828, died Sept. 28, 1846.

MARTHA T., born April 15, 1830,
in Sangamon county, married Leadbetter
Bradley. See his name.

Robert Archer died*{October 17, 1859,
and Matilda, his wife, died July 20, 1863,
both in Sangamon county.

.

ARCHER, JEMIMA, came
to Sangamon county in 1821 and marrie
George DufF. See his name.

ARCHER, OBADIAH, came
with his mother, sister and brothers to
Sangamon county in 1821. He has been
twice married, and resides at Galena, 111.

Mrs. Martha Archer, mother of William
Moses, Michael, Obadiah and ^e
came with her children to Sangamo
county, in 1821, and died at the house o
her son Moses, several years later.

ARMSTRONG, HUGH M.,
born Feb. 13, 1839, in Warren county
Ky., and moved with his* father and fam
ily to Madison county, 111., in 1816. Hug
came to Springfield Nov. 8, 1829. H
was married in Springfield June 3,
to Lavina M. Dryer, daughter of Joh
Dryer. See his name. They had te
children, in Springfield ; five died young
Of the others —

CATHARINE L., born July 20,
1830, was married in Springfield, July i
1853, to Samuel M. Culver, who w
born in New York. They had five chil
ren. CARRIE M. died aged seven year
CHARLES A., HUGH M., WILLIA
H. and GILBERT R., reside with the
parents in Springfield.

CYNTHIA y., born Nov. i, 183
was married in Springfield, July u, 186
to H. F. Hollingsworth, a native of Ca
roll county, 111. They have one chil
MAHLON F., and reside near Freepo
Stephenson county, 111.

ALBERT H., born July 22, 1845, l
Springfield, was married Dec. 19, 1868, t
Jennie Merriweather, who was born Jul
19, 1845,111 Green county, 111. They hav
four children, KATE M., AXNI"
HARRIS HALE and ALBERT D
and reside in Springfield. Mr. A.
machinist.

JOHN D., born August 7, 1852, an

JULIA M., born August 8, 185
both in Springfield, reside with thei
parents.

Hugh M. Armstrong was brought u
a hatter and engaged in that business wit
his brother Hosea in Springfield, in ] 82
He was afterwards interested in wo
carding, and, in connection with Josep
and E. R. Thayer, originated, and f<
some years conducted, the Springfiel
Woolen Mills. He now resides on a far
near Batavia, Kane county, 111.

SANGAMON COUNTY.

ARMSTRONG, JOHN, was
born Nov. 14, 1814, in Chester county, Pa.,
came to Springfield, 111., August i, 1837,
and was married Nov. 14, 1839, to Chloe
E. Abel. They had eight children, two
of whom died young.

WILLIAM P., born Sept. 7, 1840,
married Frances E. Maxon. He died
I-\-l). i% 1874, and she died in June of the
same year, both in Springfield.

ROBERT R., born Feb. 20, 1844,
died Jan. i, 1860.

/. rCTE.,}wrn Jan. 5, 1846, in Spring-
field, married Jan. 5, 1870, to C. H. Fos-
ter. They have two children, GER-
TRUDE E. and FREDRICK F., and
reside in Pawnee. Mr. Foster is a mer-
chant there.

HENRT JR., born March 27, 1848,

CHARLES A., born Feb. 10, 1850,
and —

EDWARD R., born Feb. 20, 1852;
the three latter reside with their parents.

Mr. Armstrong has been a contractor
and builder for many years. He was ap-
pointed by President Lincoln, in 1861,
to the office of Post Master in Springfield,
and' held the office until August 5, 1865.
He now resides in Springfield.

ARMSTRONG, THOMAS,
was born Jan. 27, 1785, in Augusta
county, Va. He was there married, iSov.,
1815, to Jane Burgess, who was born
[une 3, 1796, in Greenbrier county. They
had seven children in Augusta county, and
moved, in 1827, to Logan county, Ohio,
where they had two children, and moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct. 21,
1840, in what is now Cotton Hill township.
Of their children —

MART W., born March 24, 1816, in
Virginia, married in Sangamon county to
James I. Dozier. See his name.

SARAH J., born May n, 1817, in
Virginia, married Daniel Keys; had one
child, SARAH. She married Robert
Jones, and resides in Kansas. Mrs. Keys
died Sept. 28, 1844. See his name.

ABEL, born Oct. 30, 1818, in Virginia,
came to Sangamon county in 1840. Is
living with his third wife, near Newton,
Jasper county, 111.

ELIZA, born August 8, 1820, in Vir-
ginia, married in Sangamon county, March
i; 1849, to George Brunk. See his name.
She died Oct. 4, 1860.

THOMAS D., born April 4, 1822, in
Virginia, married in Sangamon county,
January, 1849, to Jane Woozley. They
reside in Christian county.

NANCY, born Feb. 13, 1824, in Vir-
ginia, married in Sangamon county, in
1846, to Moses A.Jones. See his name.

CAROLINE A., born Dec. 14, 1826,
in Virginia, married in Sangamon county,
March i, 1849,10 Rape Funderburk. Sec
his name.

ANGELINE, born Nov. 15, 1833, in
Logan county, Ohio, married in Sanga-
mon county, to David Hall. They have
three children, and reside near Nevvtonia,
Newton county, Mo.

JOHN B., born June 9, 1839, in Logan
county, Ohio, raised in Sangamon county,
married near Pana, to Sarah King, and
resides in Christian county.

Mrs. Jane Armstrong died Feb. 13,
1843, and Thomas Armstrong died Feb.
i ^, 18^9, both in Sangamon county.

AVERITT, THOMAS M.
See his name in connection with George
Gregory and the first railroad locomotive
ever run into Springfield.

IB,

BAKER, EDWARD DICK-
INSON, was born Feb. 24, 1811, in
London, England. His father, Edward
Baker, was an educated gentleman, and his
mother a sister of Capt. Thomas Dicken-
son, of the British navy, who distinguished
himself at the battle of Trafalger. Ed-
ward D. was the eldest of five children.
About the close of the war with England,
in 1815, his father and family emigrated
to America, landing at Philadelphia,
Penn. Here Mr. Edward Baker engaged
in teaching. On account of the financial
embarassments of the family, as soon as
Edward D. was old enough, he was ap-
prenticed to a weaver. In 1826 his father
moved to Belleville, 111., where he opened
a select school, and young Edward D.
Baker evinced such a taste' for literature
that the late Gov. Edwards, then a resi-
dent of Belleville, gave him free access to
his library. From Belleville young Baker
went to St. Louis, and to procure funds
for necessary expenses, drove a dray for at
least one season. From St. Louis he went
to Carrolton, 111., and began the study of

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law and at the same time acting as deputy
in the county clerk's office. He was mar-
ried April 27, 1831, to Mrs. Mary A. Lee,
a widow with two children. In the spring
of 1832 Mr. Baker enlisted in the Black
Hawk war, and in 1835 moved to Spring-
Held, and soon after became a law partner
of Stephen T. Logan. He delivered the
oration at the laying of the corner stone of
the- old State house, July 4, 1837. ^n t^ie
latter year he was elected to the General
Assembly to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of Hon. Dan Stone, and
was re-elected the following year. In
1840 E. D. Baker was elected State Sena-
tor for four years, and elected to Congress
in 1845. When the war broke out with
Mexico, Mr. B. hastened home, raised a
regiment, which was accepted by the
government as the 4th III. Inf., Col. E. D.
Baker, commanding. Arriving on the
Rio Grand, he discovered that the troops
were in need of additional tent equipage,
munitions of war, etc., and for a few
months accepted the position of bearer of
dispatches to the war department, and re-
paired to Washington. Congress was in
session, and not having resigned his seat
in the House, availed himself of his priv-
ilege as a member, and made a speech of
great and almost magical power in favor
of a vigorous prosecution of the war, and
in behalf of the volunteers then in the
field, and rejoined his regiment. After
the battle of Cerro Gordo, the term of
Col. Baker's enlistment expired, and his
men not wishing to re-enlist, he reluctant-
ly left the field, and, returning home, re-
sumed the practice of his profession. In
the spring of 1848 he moved to Galena,
111. As one of the Whig electors for the
State at large, he took an active part in
the Presidential campaign of 1848. He
took his seat as Representative in Congress,
the second time, in Dec., 1849. In 1851
he entered into an agreement with the
Panama Railroad Company to grade a
portion of that road, but after several
months exposure to a tropical sun, he and
his men fell sick and abandoned the coun-
try. In 1852 he emigrated with his fam-
ily to California, establishing himself in
practice in San Francisco. There he de-
livered the funeral oration of two of his
early friends, fallen bv the fatal bullet
of the duelist, Ferguson and Broderick.
The latter stands alone as the most bril-

brilliant funeral oration ever delivered on
the continent of America. After the
death of Boderick, Col. Baker moved to
Oregon, and was elected U. S. Senator
from there in 1860. For the first time in
his life he was placed in a position con-
genial to him. The decorum and courtesy
that usually marks the intercourse of Sen-
ators, was most grateful to his habits ot
thought and feeling.

Col. Baker was a man of action as well
as of words, and soon after the fall of Fort
Sumter he recruited a regiment in Phil-
adelphia and vicinity, which was called
the California regiment, and soon after,
President Lincoln tendered him a Briga-
dier-General's commission, but he declined
it, probably because it would have vacated
his seat in the Senate. At the first ses-
sion of the 37th Congress, convoked by
President Lincoln, July 4, 1861, Col.
Baker was in his seat, and participated
prominently in the passage of those im-
portant measures which became necessary
to place the nation on a war footing. On
the adjournment of this special session,
Col. Baker rejoined his regiment, which
was attached to and formed a part of the
army of observation on the Potomac. He,
however, was restless in camp, and a vague
presentiment of his approaching fate
seemed to haunt him wherever he went,
and he said to a friend that since his cam-
paign in Mexico he could never afford to
turn his back on an enemy. He returned
to Washington, settled his affairs, and
called to bid the President and family fare-
well, when the lady of the Executive
Mansion, who, in her, then, high position,
was gracefully mindful of early friendship,
gave him a boquet of late flowers. As
though partially soliloquizing, he said :
" Very beautiful ; these flowers and my
memory will wither together." He pressed
with quiet earnestness on his friend, Col.
Webb, the measures which might become
necessary in regard to the resting place of
his mortal remains, then mounted his
horse and rode gaily awav to his death.
He was leading his men at Ball's Bluff,
and, when ten feet in advance of them,
fell, pierced by eight bullets, Oct. 21, 1861.
His body was borne tenderly away, em-
balmed, and removed to Washington City,
where appropriate funeral honors were
paid to his remains; then sent to New
York City, and from there by steamer to

SANGAMON COUNT)'.

San Francisco, where he was buried in
Lone Mountain Cemetery, of that city.
Of the two children of Mrs. Baker by
her first marriage —

A f ARIA L. LEE, born in 1827, was
married Feb. n, 1845, *° James H.
Matheny. See his name.

FRANK LEE went to California,
and died there.

Hon. Edward D. Baker and wife had
four children, namely :

LUCT S., born about 1832 in Carrol-
ton, 111., brought up in Springfield, was
married in San Francisco to Charles
Hopkins. They have four children,
CHARLES, CAROLINE, ROBERT
and RALPH, and reside at Olympia,
Washington Territory. Mr. Hopkins is
U. S. Marshall for that Territory.

CAROLINE C, born in Carrolton,
111., brought up in Springfield, was married
in San Francisco to Robert J. Stevens.
They have two children, ROBERT and
CARRIE, and reside in Washington
City.

ALFRED W., born in Springfield,
resides in San Francisco.

ED WARD D., Jun., born in Spring-
field, married Saccha Alma Bradshaw.
He is a Captain in the U. S. Army, and
is on duty at some western military post.

Mrs. Mary A. Baker died in San Fran-
cisco.

The great and fatal mistake of Col.
Baker was one that did honor to his noble
and chivalrous spirit. He had fairly and
honorably reached the highest position in
our government that any adopted citizen
could attain. In the Senate of the United
States he was the peer of any man in the
nation, and his counsels there were worth
a hundred fold more than it could have
been in the field. When he volunteered
to lead a regiment, he was liable to be-
come subordinate to men far, very far, in-
ferior to himself, and that proved to be
his destruction ; but he had, no doubt,
weighed well the step he was about to
take, and thereby laid the most costly sac-
rifice on the altar of his adopted country
that it was possible for any citizen to make,
even though he were to the manor born.

BAKER, JOHN L., was born
June 20, 1805, in Campbell county, Ky.
He is a brother of Thomas, and was mar-
ried in 1828, in Butler county, Ohio, to
Rachel Biggs, who was born in that State,
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Oct. 6, 1 804. They had three children there
and moved to Shelby county, Ind., where
they had two children, and from there to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1835,
in what is now Loami township, where
they had two children. Of their eight
children two died young.

MARGARET, born April 27, 1829,
in Ohio, was married in Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., to Henry Westfall. They have
seven children, SMITH M., ANN E.,
HELEN, INA, LEONA, GEORGE and
CHARLES, and reside near Elkhart
Logan county, 111.

THOMAS N., born Jan. 28, 1831, in
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county
to Frances Freddy. They have six child-
ren, all born in Sangamon county, namely:
SIBYL,. JOHN L., ALICE, MARY,
DON CARLOS and ETTA, and reside
near Ottawa, Kansas.

SARAH J., born April 25, 1832, in
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county
to Jonathan Jarrett. See his name.

REUBEN F., born Jan. 24, 1834, in
Shelby county, Ind., was married in San-
gamon county to Elizabeth Mahard. They
have seven children, JOHN, GEORGE,
JAMES, ORTHELLO, HORATIO,
ALICE and ARMINDA, and reside
near Nebraska City, Neb.

EPHRIAM, born March 31, 1835, in
Indiana, was married in Sangamon coun-
ty to Anna Mahard. He died in Sanga-
mon county, leaving a widow and two
children, EBEN and CHARLES. The
widow and children reside in Missouri.

JOHN W., born Dec. 13, 1837, in
Sangamon county, 111., was married there
to Sarah Mahard. They have four child-
ren,J AMES E., ELIZABETH, THOM-
AS *and M. ALICE, who reside with
their parents, near Ottawa, Kansas.

PAULINE L., born Sept. 22, 1844,
in Sangamon countv, married James S.
Cloud. They have four children, M.
ALICE, DORA, MINNIE E. and
JESSE M., and reside in Ottawa, Kansas.
John L. Baker and wife reside in Otta-
wa, Kansas.

BAKER, THOMAS, was born
March 3, 1794, in Campbell county, Ky.;
brother to John L. Nancy Robertson
was born Oct. 9, 1806, in Harrison county,
Va. They were married Dec. 29, 1823,
in Kanawha county, West Va., at the
house of Jonathan Jarrett. Sen. Mr. and

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

Mrs. Baker had two children in West Vir-
ginia, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving Nov. 1826, in what is now
Loami township, where they had eight
children. Of their ten chilldren —

JOHN, born March 16, 1825, in West
Virginia, died in Sangamon county, Aug.

29> l835-

CHARLES, born April 12, 1826, in

West Virginia, married in Sangamon
county, August n, 1844, to Lucretia
Minter. They moved in the fall of that
year to Tarrant county, Texas. He died
there in 1871, leaving a widow and ten
children.

WILLIAM, born Feb. n, 1829, in
Sangamon county, married Jan. 10, 1850,
to Margaret Morris. They have ten
children, and reside near Bancroft, Daviess
county, Mo.

MART A., born Dec. 27, 1831, in
Sangamon county, married Nov. 8, 18^3,
to Barnard A. VanDeren. See his name.
They had two children, THOMAS N.
and MAGGIE L. Mr. VanD. died, and
she married, Nov. 2, 1868, to John Low-
ery, who was born Sept. 15, 1837,111 coun-
ty Down, Ireland. They had two child-
ren, MARY A. and BARNARD A.;
the latter died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs.
Lowery reside four miles south of Loami.

MARGARET, born Oct. 27, 1834, in
Sangamon county, married Dec. 18, 1857,
to James W. Greenwood. See his name.

THOMAS,]\\\\., born Oct. i, 1836, in
Sangamon county, married April 23,
1861, to Mary J. Hall. She died August
21, 1866, leaving one child, GEORGE
W. Mr. Baker was married March 19,
1867, to Mrs. Harriet Cosser, whose maiden
name was Hall. They have two children,
JOSEPH F. and HATTIE, and reside
three and a half miles southwest of Loami.

NANCY, born March 28, 1839, in San-
gamon county, married William G. Mil-
ler. See his name. She died, leaving
two children with their father, who is
married and resides in Loami township.

CYRUS W., born May 19, 1842, in
Sangamon county, married April 13, 1862,
to Sarah A. Jarrett. They have three
children, HENRY, BARNARD A. and
JO. C., and reside one and a half miles
southwest of Loami.

SARAH J., born Dec. 7, 1846, in
Sangamon county, married Nov. 2, 1865,
to Joseph O. Joy. They have three child-

dren, CHARLES W., WILLIE A. and
JOHN W., and reside three miles south-
west of Loami. Mr. Joy was a soldier in
suppressing the rebellion.

ISAAC N., born Dec. 11, 1849, in
Sangamon county, married April 21, 1870,
to Sarah E. Post. They have one child,
HARRY O., and reside at the homestead
settled by his parents.

Thomas Baker, Sen., died Jan. 5, 1852,
and his widow resides at the homestead
settled by herself and husband in 1826.
It is one and a half miles southwest ot
Loami.

BAKER, ISAAC, was born near
Fredericktown, Md. He served as a fifer
in the Revolution, the last two years of
the war. Phoebe Waddell was born near
Baltimore, Md. They were married there
in 1787, and moved to what became Bour-
bon county, Ky., where twelve children
were born, eight of whom married there.
The parents and four youngest children
came to Sangamon county in the fall of
1829, in what is now Rochester township.
Of their children —

JAMES, born July, 1788,111 Bourbon
county, Ky. It is believed he was the first
white child born in the county. He was
married Sept. 17, 1813, in Nicholas coun-
ty, Ky., to Nancy Squires, who was born
Oct. 22, 1794, in Fauquier county, Va.
They had eight children in Nicholas coun-
ty, and moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving Nov., 1828, at Springfield, and a
week later left for what is now Logan
county. In Jan., 1831, he moved to
Rochester, Sangamon county. They
were five days moving twenty miles,
through what is known as the " deep
snow." Mr. B. was a soldier in the Black
Hawk war. Two of his children were
born in Illinois. Of his ten children,
S. WILLIS, born Oct. 10, 1814, in Ken-
tucky, died unmarried, in Illinois, June 25,
1850. THOMAS J., born March i,
1816, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon
county, Oct. 17, 183*2. MARGARET J.,
born Dec. 20, 1817, in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county, Nov. 15, 1838, to
Daniel S. Stafford. She died in less than
a year. MARTIN E., born Jan. 27,
1820, in Nicholas county, Ky., married
March 4, 1852, in Springfield, to Mary
C. S. Williams, who was born Feb. 3,
1826, in Montgomery county, Md., and
came to Springfield in 1839. They have

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eight children, JAMES w., CORNELIA A.,

MARGARET E., MARTIN E., JUH., NANCY
E., HORACE W., MARY F. and CHARLES O.,

and reside four miles southwest of Illiopo-
lis. ELIZA E., born Nov. 7, 1822, in
Kentucky, died July 3, 1835, in Sangamon
county. KITTY *A., born Jan. 22, 1824,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, in 1848, to Oliver Stafford; have seven
children, and reside in Mt. Pulaski. JOHN
S., born Nov. 7, 1826, in Kentucky, taught
school in Sangamon county many years;
went to California in 1854, and died July
30, 1873, in San Francisco. WILLIAM
F., born June 29, 1828, in Kentucky,
brought up in Sangamon county, married,
Feb. 7, 1860, in Christian county, to Eliza-
beth Green ; have four children, and reside
near Grove City. MARY E., born Oct.
22, 1830, in Logan county, married, Nov.
4, 1852, to Leander Green. (See his name.]
MARTHA A., born August 1 1, 1833, in
Sangamon county, married Dec. 29, 1859,
to William Crenshaw; have two children,
and reside in Georgetown, Ky. James
Baker died Feb. 14, 1869, and Mrs. Nancy
Baker died Oct. 3, 1872, both in Christian
county.

JACOB, born August 9, 1790, in
Bourbon county, Ky., was a soldier from
that county in the war of 1812. He was
married in Nicholas county, Ky., to Jane
Branch, sister of Edward Branch. See
his name. Four of their children were
born in Kentucky, and he came to Sanga-
inon county with his father, arriving in
1829, near Rochester, where five children
were born. Of his seven children, JULI-
AN, married first to Alfred Waddell,who
died, and she married Willis Runnels, and
both died. Her sons, ALFRED Waddell,
resides in Greenfield, Mo., JESSE and WIL-
LIS reside near Nashville, Mo. SUSAN,
born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county to James Virden, who died, and
his widow resides seven miles east of
Springfield. They had five children.
PLEASANT, born April 25, 1819, in
Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, June 24, 1846, to Lavina W ad-
dell, who was born in Kentucky. They had
five children ; two died in infancy. JULIAN
and WILLIAM n. reside in Clear Lake
township. ALVIN resides with his father.
Mrs. Lavina Baker died April 20, 1857, and
Mr. B. married Mary E, Cook, a native of
Scinto county, Ohio. They have five

children, MARY, SUSAN j., ELIZA A.,
PLEASANT and LAURA E., and reside in
Clear Lake township. ISAAC, born Oct.
6, 1821, in Kentucky, married in Sanga-
mon county to Almyra Pike. He died,
leaving one child, ISAAC, who resides
south of Rochester. POLLY A., born
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-
ty to Daniel Barr. JANE, born July 15,
1827, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county to John M. McCune. See his
name. ALVIN, born in Sangamon
county, married Hester Hornbaker. He
died in iS56,leavingtwochildren,En\VAKi>
and ALONZO. Mrs. Jane Baker died, and
Jacob Baker afterward married twice, and
died May 18, 1872.

THOMAS, born about 1792, in Ken-
tucky, married there to Sarah Delav.
They had four children, and came to San-
gamon county in 1828, with his brother,
James, and settled near Rochester, where
one child was born. Of his children,
ISAAC resides near Medoc, Mo., ELIZA-
BETH, born in Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county to Jabez Capps. See
his name. JOHN resides near Medoc,
Mo. WILLIAM resides in Virginia City,
Montana. JEMIMA married and died in
Mt. Pulaski. Thomas Baker died March,
1874, and his widow resides near Medoc,
Mo.

yOSEPH,\)OYn in 1796, in Kentucky,
came to Sangamon county in 1828, and
died in Medoc, Mo.

SUSAN, born March 15, 1799, in-
Bourbon county, Ky., married Robert
Bell. See his name.

IS A A C, born in Kentucky, never came
to Sangamon county. He resides near
Medoc, Mo.

SQUIRE, born Jan. 8, 1803, in Ken-
tucky, came to Sangamon county in 1829,
and resides near Mapleton, Kansas.

WILLIAM, born in 1805, in Ken-
tucky, and resides near Mapleton, Kan.

GREE^Bl^RT, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Ann;i
Payne, who died, and he married Mrs.
Mary Johnson, formerly Mrs. Marker,
and whose maiden name was Williams.
They had four children. MOSES was a
Union soldier in the :ith Mo. Inf., and
was killed while aiding in the arrest of a
deserter. THOMAS J. was a member
of the i6th 111. Cavalrv, and died in An-
dersonville prison. S. \YILL1S served

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three years in the nth Mo. Inf.; was
honorably discharged, and married in San-
gamon county to Matilda Mear. He died
early in 1874, leaving a widow and two
children, near Medoc, Mo. EFFIE
was married in Sangamon county, to
Joseph Brunk, and resides near Medoc,
Mo. Mrs. Mary Baker died May 22,
1842, in Sangamon county. Greenhury
Baker died March 4, 1873, in Sangamon
county.

HARRISQN,\K>V* in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, to Nellie Bowles.
They had eight children, born in Sanga-
mon county, and moved to the vicinity of
Medoc, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Baker died
there in 1872, and were buried in one
grave.

POLLY, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Elias Williams.
See his name.

PH(EBE,\>m\\ April 5, i8i6,in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to •
Josiah B. Williams. See his name.

Mrs. Phoebe Baker died July 3, 1845,
and Isaac Baker died in Sept. 1848, both
in Sangamon county, south of Rochester.
He was about 100 years of age.

BAKER, WILLIAM, was born
about 1798, in Sevier county, Tenn. He
came to St. Clair county, 111., when a
young man. Phebe Neeley was born
Dec. 14, 1799, near Nashville, Tenn., and
was taken to St. Clair county, 111., when
she was a young woman. Wm. Baker
and Phebe Neeley were married about
1818, near Belleville. They had one child
born there, and the family moved to Horse
creek, in what became Sangamon county, in
the spring of 1819, in what is now Cotton
Hill township, where seven children were
born. They then moved to a mill on San-
gamon river, three miles north of Roches-
ter, where one child was born. Four of
the children died under two years. Of
the other five —

JAMES, born Jan., 1819, in St. Clair
county, and raised on Horse creek, on the
farm now owned by Samuel ^Galloway.
William Enyert, who went to school with
him, remembers having heard him say
frequently, in their boyhood days, that he
would join some Indian tribe at 18 years
of age. Between 1837 and '40 he went
west, and came back in 1844, to see his
mother, who then lived in Rochester. He
said he had joined the Snake tribe of In-

dians, and after a stay of about six months,
he returned to that tribe. But little was
known of him until 1849, when a party of
eight persons left Springfield for the gold
regions of California. William Enyert
says they found him at the crossing of
Green river, keeping a ferry. He recog-
nized Mr. Enyert readily, and treated him
kindly. Mr. Enyert learned from him
that he was a chief in the Snake tribe;
had two wives, one with him and one at
Foil Bridger, and two children by each.
His daily receipts were from $500
to $600 at the ferry. He is yet living
among the Indians, and is occasionally
heard from by his friends. Mr. Enyert
says that when he saw him he was full
six feet tall, wore his hair long and straight,
stood erect as any Indian, wore buckskin
clothes, and in his general appearance
looked very much like an Indian. Mr.
Enyert had been a school-mate of his in
this county. E. C. Matheny saw him
under similar circumstances.

\DELIA, born in Sangamon county
in 1821, died at 15 years of age.

JOHN, born in Sangamon county, re-
sides among the Indians, near Fort Bridger,
Wyoming territory. Went there a few
years later than his brother James.

ELIZABETH, born in Sangamon
county, Cotton Hill township, is unmar-
ried and resides in Rochester; is the only
member of the family residing in Sanga-
mon county.

ELIZA, born in Sangamon county,
died at 15 years of age.

William Baker went to Texas previous
to 1844, started from there to California
about 1852, and died on the road. Mrs.
Phebe Baker died, August, 1861, in
Rochester.

BALDWIN, JOH IXfSON, was
born March 25, 1797, in Scott county, Ky. ;
was married in Gallatin county, Oct. 24,
1822, to Betsy Kendall. They had one
child born in Kentucky, and moved to
Sangamon county, 111., in company with
her father, William Kendall, arriving Oct.
17, 1824, in what is now Curran town-
ship, where eleven children were born;
one died in infancy. Of their children —

MARY A., born Sept. 19, 1823, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Richard Bradlev. Sec his name.

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ALISSA, or ALICE, born Nov. 17,
1824, in Sangamon county, married John
Wesley Elliott. See his name.

HARRIET, horn March 4, 1827, in
Sangamon county, married John M.
Smith. See his name. Resides near
Curran.

ELIZA, bora Nov. 6, 1828, in San-
gamon county, married Edward D. Camp-
bell, and resides near Lancaster, or Mans-
field, Texas.

WILLIAM, born Jan. 23, 1831, in
Sangamon county, married Dec. 22, 1853,
to Mary J. Parkinson. They had seven
children. ADDIE C. died 'August 22,
1871, in her seventh year. LIZZIE died
in infancy. ELLA M., EUNICE P.,
JAMES O. and OTIS J., (twins), and
WILLIE O., reside with their parents,
six miles west of Springfield.

NANCY, born May 4, 1833, in Sanga-
mon county, married August 20, 1872, to
John Mull, who was born Dec. 5, 1821,
in Kentucky. They reside six miles
southwest of Springfield.

EDITH, born Feb. 26, 1837, in San-
gamon county, married Feb. 13, 1873, to
Win. Dyer, and resides four miles north-
west of Curran.

AGNES,\x>?n Dec. 18, 1838, died Oct.
5, 1864.

E MIL T, born August 15, 1841, resides
with her sister, Mrs. Dyer.

SUSAN, born Sept. 15, 1843, married
Wm. B. Gilbert. They have two children
and reside three miles north of Spring-
field, on Athens road.

ELIZABETHAN August 29, 1856,
in her eleventh year.

Mrs. Betsey Baldwin died August 13,
1847, and Johnson Baldwin died Dec. 4,
1871, both in Sangamon county.

BALL, JOHN S., born about
1795, in Madison county, Ky. Went to
Clarksville, Tenn., and from thei'e to
Eddyville, Ky., from there to Sangamon
county, and after spending several years,
returned to Kentucky ; back to Sangamon
county, then to JoDaviess county ; from
there to Missouri, where he left his family,
went to California, and at the end of three
years returned to his family in Missouri.
Now resides with his sons in Morgan
county. His son —

THOMAS H.., married in Morgan
county to Eliza A. Hodgson, has two

children, COLUMBUS A. and IDA
BELL, and reside in Ball township.

BALL, JAPHET A, was born
July 5, 1800, in Madison county, Ky.
When a young man he went to Clarkes-
ville, Tenn., where he learned the trade of
a blacksmith with his brother John S.
From there he went with his brother to
Eddyville, Caldwell county, Ky., and
from there to Sangamon county, arriving
late in Dec., 1825, in what is now Wood-
side township. He was married Dec. 2,
1828, to Sarah Henderson. They had two
children —

CLARISSA J., born in Sangamon
county, married Jeremiah Penicks. They
had four children, and Mr. Penicks died.
Mrs. Penicks and her children reside at
Palmer, Christian county.

JAMES H., died in his fourteenth
year.

Mrs. Sarah Ball died March 12, 1832.
Japhet A. Ball was married May, 1834,10
Marinda Davis, who died April 12, 1855.
Mr. Ball was married Sept. 30, 1863, to
Melissa Morison. They have two child-
ren—

JOHN M. and

'f ANNIE M., and reside east of Sugar
creek, in Ball township, four miles south-
east of Chatham. x

Japhet A. Ball enlisted July, 1827, in
Col. Tom M. Neal's Battalion of mounted
volunteers, to fight the Indians in the
north part of the State. This was known
as the Winnebago war. He again enlisted,
and was commissioned by Gov. Reynolds
as First Lieutenant, June 18, 1831. A
treaty with Black Hawk, the chief, ter-
minated hostilities. The Indians com-
menced depredations again, in the spring
of 1832. J. A. Ball was commissioned by
Gov. Reynolds, April 28, 1832, as Capt.
of a Company in Long's Odd Battalion of
Inf. It was mustered out in June, 1832,
for the purpose of changing to a mounted
organization, but that ended his military
career. Mr. Ball served from 1843 to
1856 as Justice of the Peace. He was
elected and commissioned by Gov. Bissell,
Nov. 14, 1857, as Associate Judge of San-
gamon county, for four years. The town-
ship organization being adopted in 1860,
terminated his official career. The town-
ship of Ball was named for him.

Judge Ball says that on the first day of
Jan., 1831, while the- "deep snow " was

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falling, he killed fourteen deer. They
would founder in the snow, and were
easily taken. He built a saw mill on
Sugar creek, and sold a large quantity of
lumber at the mill, and at times kept
teams running to Springfield. The scarci-
ty of money for a few years after the
financial crash of 1837, was very severe
on the new settlements. The Judge says
that during one of those years he did an
extensive business in the lumber trade,
and his total receipts in cash was exactly
seventy-five cents.

BALL, SMITH, was born July
10, 1810, in Madison county, Ky., came to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving at the
house of his brother, Japhet A., in 1829.
He was married June 13, 1837, *° Rebecca
Moffatt. They had one child in Sanga-
mon county, and in the fall of 1839 moved
to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. In the spring of
1840 he moved to Jefferson county, where
they had six children. Of their seven
children —

EMILY A., born March 27, 1838, in
Sangamon county, was married in Iowa
to William Case. They have six children,
and reside in Marshall county, Iowa.

MARY M., born March 25, 1840, in
Iowa, was married there to George B.
Phillips. They have six children, and
reside near Wooster, Iowa.

NANCY y., born August 30, 1842,
died aged 22 years.

GEORGE W., born June 7, 1847, in
Jefferson county, Iowa, is a practicing
lawyer, unmarried, and resides at ' Iowa
City.

MARGARET C., born Dec. 10, 1847,
in Iowa, was married there to Richard
Fisher. They have two children, and
reside near Wooster.

LE WIS C., born Jan. 18, 1852, and

FRANK P., born Feb. 25, 1854, re-
side with their parents, near Wooster,
Jefferson county, Iowa.

BALL, WILLIAM, born in
Madison county, Ky., came to Sangamon
county about 1835, and moved to Jo
Daviess county.

BALL, JANE born in Madison
county, Ky., married William Richardson,
came to Sangamon county in 1829, and
died in this county. Lewis B. Richard-
son, of Auburn township, is her son.

BALL, BETHANY, born Aug.
13, 1796, in Madison county, Ky., mar-
ried John Brawner. See his name.

BALL, POLLY, born in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to
John Rames, moved to Missouri, and both
died there.

BALL, ELIZABETH, born
in Madison county, Ky., married William
Brawner. See his name.

BALL, LUCY, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Daniel
Morris, moved to Texas, and after resid-
ing there ten years, returned to Sangamon
county, and both died, leaving several
children.

Mrs. Nancy Ball, mother of John S.,
Japhet A., Smith, William, Jane, Bethany,
Polly, Elizabeth and Lucy, came with
the last of her children to Sangamon
county in 1829, and died at the house 'of
her son, Japhet A., in 1846.

BANCROFT, ISAAC, was
born April 29, 1776, near Boston, Mass.
Mercy Coburn was born March 12, 1781,
in Massachusetts, also. They were mar-
ried March 5, 1799, and had two children
in Massachusetts. They moved to St.
Lawrence county, N. Y., where they had
ten children, and moved to Springfield,
III., arriving August 10, 1839. Of their
children —

BE TS Y married and raised families.
One of them died in Massachusetts. The
other resides in Hainesville, Lake county,
Illinois.

PRUDENCE, born in New York,
died May 3, 1824, aged twenty-four years.

JQNATHANC., born Feb. 2, 1809,
in New York, married Frances Stone.
Mr. Bancroft died June 2, 1845, leaving a
widow and three children in Springfield.
His son, Coburn, died in 1870, in Spring-
field.

ALMA S., born August 20, 1811, and
died aged 23 years.

ISAAC, Jun., born May 6, 1815, in
New York, married Mary Blackman. He
is now e Congregational minister, and re-
sides in Green county, Wis.

JOSEPH, born April 5, 1817, died
Oct. 16, 1851.

TIMOTHY^ born Feb. 26, 1819, in
St. Lawrence county, N. Y.,is unmarried,
and resides in Springfield.

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95

c* March 3, 1821, in
St. Lawrence county, N. Y., married
September 19, 1854,10 Elizabeth C. Cass,
who was born March 13, 1836, in Mont-
gomery county, 111. They had five child-
ren, three of whom died young. ED-
WARD T. and LUCINDA A. reside
with their father. Mrs. E. C. Bancroft
died Feb. 3, 1871, and Benj. Bancroft re-
sides in Fancy Creek township.

HARM AN H., born Feb. i, 1823,
died in Springfield in his 23d year.

Isaac Bancraft died Oct. 8, 1844, and his
widow died Feb. 10, 1868, both in Spring-
field.

BARBRE, ELI, was born July
25, 1 798, in Kentucky. He was married
about 1819, in Posey county, Ind., to
Nancy Wilkinson, a native of Kentucky,
also. They had four children in Indiana,
and Mrs. Barbre died there, in 1828. Mr.
Barbre moved to Edgar county, 111., and
was married there Jan. 17, 1829, to Anna
Wilson. They had two children in Ed-
gar county, and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1835, in
what is now Island Grove township,
where they had two children. Of their
nine children —

ISAA C, born August 10, 1820, in Ind.,
came to Sangamon county with his parents,
returned to Indiana, married Nancy Ben-
nett. He served three years in an Indiana
regiment, for the suppression of the re-
bellion, and resides in Posey county, Ind.

WILLIAM, born Nov. 10, 1822, in
I'nsev county, Ind., married in Sangamon
county, Jan. 15", 1845,10 Rebecca Smith,
and had two children. She died, Oct. 18,
1847, leaving one child. He was married,
Feb. 6, 1849, to Lucy M. Smith. They
had nine children. Of all his children,
NANCY J., by the first wife, married
James McKee, has two children, LUCY A.
and MARY H., and reside in Nodaway
county, Mo. MARY A., married James
A.Trimble. See his name. MARTHA,
the twin mate to Mary, died in infancy.
JOHN E., JAMES W., THOMAS F.,
GEORGE I., RICHARD S., SAMUEL
M. and MARTHA C., reside with their
parents, two miles east of Curran. Wil-
liam Barbre enlisted Sept., 1861, in Co.
B., loth 111. Cav., for three years. He
was wagon master and Veterinary Sur-
geon, and was honorably discharged in
June, 1863.

CHARLOTTE, born 1824, in Indi-
ana, married Wright Miller, has several
children, and resides in Lynn county,
Oregon.

CELIA Z>., born in 1826, in Indiana,
married, successively, Edward Bennett,
Charles Wiggins and James Cleveland, all
of whom died, and she married Henry
Atkinson, and resides in Clark county, 111.

SARAH E., born July 5, 1831, in
Edgar county, married in Sangamon
county, to Harvey Withrow. See his
name.

JAMES L., born March 4, 1834, in
Edgar county, 111., married, Dec. 28, 18=54,
to Lucinda Dixon. They had nine child-
ren, four of whom died under four years.
The latter five, WILLIAM E., AL-
BERT F., MARY E., HARRIET C.
W. and GEORGETTA, reside with
their parents in Cooper township, three
miles southwest of Mechanicsburg.

JOHN A., born Dec. 19, 1835, mar-
%ried March 5, 1857, to Margaret R. Mc-
Kee, had six children, JAMES A., WM.
E., EDWIN H., ANNAH L., JENNIE
and GEORGE, reside with their parents,
two and a half miles south west of Mechan-
icsburg. John A. Barbre enlisted Dec.
23, 1863, in Co. B, loth 111. Cav., for three
years, served until Nov. 22, 1865, and was
honorably discharged at San Antonio,
Texas.

MART C., born in 1837, in Sangamon
county, married Rev. Geo. Keller.

Eli Barbre died in the fall of 1846, and
his widow married Wm. Withrow. (Sec
his natne.) She died in the fall of 1871.

BARGER, ADAM, was born
April 8, 1784, in Botetourt county, Va.
He went, when a young man, to Kanawha
county, West Va., and was there married,
August 12, 1810, to Lucinda Nolan.
They had ten children in Virginia, and
moved in a family boat to Shawneetown,
111. He took a farm wagon and two yoke
of oxen, and hired another team at Shaw-
neetown, and thus brought his family and
two loads of household goods, arriving
Oct., 1826, in what is now Loami town-
ship, but then called Yankee Settlement,
where they had three children. Of their
children —

AL&ARTE.S, born May 26, 1811, in
Kanawha county, West Ya., married, Dec.
23, 1829, in Sangamon county, to Marga-
ret F. Patrick. They had 13 children,

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JOHN A., born July 21, 1831, died in his
2 ist year. MAJOR E., enlisted, May
25, 1861, in Co. I., i4th 111. Inf., for three
years, served full term, and was honorably
discharged, June, 1864, at Springfield.
He is a lawyer, and resides at Loami.
JANETTA, born June 2, 1834, married
James J. Henton. (See his name.)
SOPHIA, born Feb. 10, 1836, married
Robert E. Berry. (See his name?) WIL-
LIAM F., born Dec. 19, 1838, enlisted,
May, 1 86 1, in Co. I, I4th 111. Inf., for
three years, re-enlisted as a veteran in an-
other regiment, served to the end of the
rebellion, was honorably discharged, and
resides near Loami. JULIA A., born
Dec. 18, 1840, married Morrison Brown,
have four children, and reside in Loami
township. JAMES N., born March 20,
1842, enlisted, in i86i,in Co. C, nth Mo.
Inf., for three years, was discharged on
account of physical disability, acted as
deputy provost-marshal at Springfield for
a time, and enlisted in I52d 111. Inf. Served
to the end of the rebellion, married Mar-
garet Hunter, has three children, and re-
sides one mile southwest of Loami.
CHARLES H., born Nov. 18, 1845, en-'
listed in Co. — , i6th 111. Cav., in 1862, for
three years. Served full term, and was
honorably discharged. LEROY, born
Feb. 20, 1847, resides with his father.
GEORGE W., born June 10, 1849, mar-
ried Mollie McKinney, have one child,
and reside near Berry Station, Sangamon
county. ALBERT, LUCINDA J. and
HARRIET E. reside with their father.
Mrs. M. F. Barger died Feb. 25, 1876,
and Albartes Barger resides where he
settled in 1831, near Loami.

JULIA A., born Oct. 18, 1812, in
West Virginia, married in Sangamon
county to Dr. J. R. Abel. (See his name?)
Have three children, and reside in Taylor-
ville.

THERESA, born May 13, 1814, in
Virginia, married Thomas Sowell. (Sec
his name?)

ZEBULON, M. P., born Dec. 14,
181^, died in his 29th year.

6" OP HI A, born April 12, 1817, married,
her husband died, and the family reside in
Cass county.

JOHN, born Oct. 31, 1818, married
Elizabeth Eustace, had four children, and
he died. His widow married and lives in
Wisconsin.

OLIVIA, born Oct. 28, 1820, married
Morris Sweet. (See his name?)

MART A., born July 23, 1822, mar-
ried Wm. Weir. Had five children. She
was killed by a runaway team, in Nebraska
City. Family reside there.

HARRIET, born Feb. 26, 1824, mar-
ried John McClure, who died, leaving a
widow and eight children in Cass county.

JAMES M,, born Jan. 9, 1826, in
West Virginia, unmarried, and resides in
Loami.

LETHE, born March 29, 1831, mar-
ried, March 24, 1856, to Daniel Cuppy,
have two children, MARY E. and HAR-
RIET V., and reside at Loami. Mr. C.
served three years in nth Mo. Inf.

WILLIAM P., born Feb. 12, 1833,
in Sangamon county, went to California,
in 1856, resides in Nevada City, Cal.

Mrs. Lucinda Barger died August 11,
1853, and Adam Barger married Mrs.
Deborah Colburn, whose maiden name
was Phelps. He died August n, 1864, in
Loami township. His widow resides
with her children.

BARNETT, THOMPSON,
was born Dec. 15, 1795, in Kentucky.
Ann Pattei'son was bom Sept. 29, 1803,
in Holston county, Va. When she was
two years old her parents moved to Adair
county, Ky. Thompson Barnett and
Ann Patterson were married there, Jan.
19, 1822. They had three children born
in Kentucky, and moved to Illinois, ar-
riving in the fall of 1829, at Irish Grove,
Menard county, where one child was born.
Thompson Barnett died Dec. 12, 1830, at
Irish Grove. Mrs. Ann Barnett was mar-
ried May 26, 1836, to Levi Cantrall, and
brought her four children to his home in
Fancy Creek township. Of her children
by the first marriage —

NANCT J., born Nov. 25, 1822, in
Aclair county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county to William D. Power. (Sec his
name?)

A Rl TINT A M., born March 27, 1825,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, to Jefferson Vandergrift. They had
four children, and she died. Mr. V. and
his children reside in — , Wis.

MART E., born August 29, 1829,111
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to James Hibbs. Mrs. Hibbs died, leaving
one child, NANCY J., who married Dor-
rell Primm, and resides in Menard county.

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97

J. THOMPSON, born April 20,
1830, at Irish Grove. He married and
has five children, JAMES, EDDIE,
NATHAN, ANN and MARY, and re-
sides in Fancy Creek township.

For Mrs. Ann Barnett's further history,
sec Levi Cantrall.

BARNES, EZRA, was horn
Sept. 6, 1806, at Groton, New London
county, Ct. He started from Hartford
with a team, and, in thirty-one days' driv-
ing, reached St. Louis, Nov. 13, and five
days later came into Sangamon county,
arriving Nov. 18, 1833. For 21 months
he peddled clocks, after which he com-
menced farming, raising his first crop in
1836. He again peddled dry goods, and
came near being drowned while crossing
the Sangamon river north of Springfield.
He was married, Dec. 6, 1838, to Eliza-
beth Mason. She was born Feb. 4, 1818.
They had five children, all born in San-
gamon county, namely :

EZRA, Jun., born April 30, 1842, in
Sangamon county, married in 1872 at
Preston City, Conn., to Prudence A.
Browning. They reside five miles south-
west of Chatham.

SETH A., born in Sangamon county,
is a member of the firm of Barnes &
Simpson, druggists, in Taylorville.

OLIVE F., born in Sangamon county,
married Feb. 10, 1876, to George Bremer.

CHARLEY KK\

A.YGELINE, reside with their par-
ents in Ball township, two and a half miles
south of Chatham.

BARNES, DANIEL, was born
Feb., 1807, in Bucks county, Pa. He was
married in 1832, in Lancaster county, to
Margaret A. Richardson, who was born
Jan., 1810, in that county. Mr. Barnes
kept a book store and bindery in Harris-
burg, and was the State binder for Penn-
svlvania for five years. They had three
children in Harrisburg. Mr. Barnes
closed up his engagement as State binder
in the spring of 1840, sold out his book
store, and came west on horseback, look-
ing for a location. He selected Spring-
field as his future home, and was soon
followed by his family. They had four
children in Springfield, two of whom died
voung. Of the other five children —

ALBERT G., born Sept. 4, 1835, in
Harrisburg, Pa., was with his father in
Springfield from 1840 to 1855, when he

engaged in business in Taylorville. Ik-
was married August 27, 1861, near Mo
chanicsburg, 111., to Henrietta Branson.
They have five living children, BENJ.
LINCOLN, ALBERT G., Jim., MARY
H., CLARA MAY and HARRY R.,
and reside in Taylorville, 111. Mr. Barnes
is engaged in the mercantile business and
banking.

ALMOND F., born in 1837, in Har"
risburg, Pa, raised in Springfield and Tay-
lorville, married in 1863, in Quincy, 111.,
to Nellie Harvey. They reside in Quincy.
HARRIET A., born in Harrisburg
and died in 1859.

CHARLES E., born Dec. 19, 1842,
in Springfield, married in Taylorville, Jan.
25, 1871, to Jeanette Overand, who was
born August 24, 1855, in Hartford, Conn.
They have one child, RALPH, and re-
side in Taylorville. Mr. Barnes was in
business with his father until the death of
the latter, and is now a hardware mer-
chant.

ANNA, born about 1844 or '5, in
Springfield, married in St. Louis, Mo., to
J. H. Pierson, and resides in Hearne,
Robertson county, Texas.

Daniel Barnes sold dry goods in Spring-
field, from 1842 to 1849' He was in busi-
ness with his son, Charles E., until Jan. 10,
1868, when he died, in Taylorville. His
widow resides there.

Gilbert Barnes, the father of Daniel,
was born in 1780, in Bucks county, Pa.
He was a soldier from that county in the
war of 1812. He married and had seven
children in the same county. Gilbert
Barnes, and other members of his family,
came to Springfield with the familv of his
son, Daniel, in 1840, but I have not been
able to obtain a full history of the family.
BARRETT, DR. R. F,, moved
from Green county, Ky., to Sangamon
county about the time of the "deep snow"
of 1830 and '31, and settled on Spring
creek, in what is now Island Grove town-
ship. He had a son born there, and in
1839 Dr. Barrett accepted the position of
Professor of Materia Medica, in the Med-
ical College of Missouri, and moved to
St. Louis. His son —

ARTHUR B., born August 22, 1835,
on Spring creek, Sangamon county, mar-
ried in St. Louis to a Miss Sweringen.
He was for seven years President of the
company managing the St. Louis Fair, and

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it was largely through his influence that
it acquired a reputation unsurpassed by
any other institution of the kind in Amer-
ica. He was also President of the Mis-
souri Life Ins. Co. He was elected Mayor
of St. Louis, was inuagurated April 13,
and died April 24, 1875.

BARROW, ABRAHAM, was
born Oct. 15, 1803, in Frederick county,
Va. Mahala Larrick was born Nov. 14,
1809, in the same county. They were
married there, Oct. 20, 1831. Two of
their children were born in Berkley coun-
ty, Va. They moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., arriving Sept. 19, 1835, in what is
now Cotton Hill township, where they
had four children. Of their children —

JOHN T., born Feb. 27, 1833, in
Berkley county, Va., was married, Dec.
12, 1861, in Christian county, 111., to Eliza
J. Ducker, who was born July 24, 1842,
in Ohio. They had two children in San-
gamon county. They moved to Sarpy
county, Neb., Nov. 6, 1865. Three child-
ren were born in Nebraska. They moved
to Texas in 1870, and settled in Dallas
county, where one child was born. Thence
to Fort Worth, in Tarrant county, where
two children were born. Of their eight
children, six died in infancy. FLORA
A. and CHARLES H., reside with their
parents, at Fort Worth, Tarrant county,
Texas.

ORANGE P., born in Virginia, died
in Sangamon county in infancy.

JOSEPH W., born March 11,1837,
in Sangamon county, was married April
12, 1860, to Susan E. Hardin. They have
four children, MARY V., SARAH E.,
PRESLEY L. and MAHALA D., and
reside near Taylorville.

MART y., born March 16, 1840, in
Sangamon county, married May 3, 1859,
to Thomas W. Fleming. They had two
children. MARY A. died July 27, 1874,
and EMMA L. resides with her mother.
Mr. Fleming died July 26, 1866. Mrs.
Fleming was married Sept., 1871, to John
L. Morgan, who was born in Sanduskv,
Ohio, and served three years in Co. E.,
1 3th U. S. Inf. He was honorably dis-
charged August 6, 1868. They reside
near Zion Chapel, three miles north of
Pawnee.

ANN E., born Feb. 13, 1842,111 San-
gamon county, married John Q. A. Hus-
band. Sec his name.

ELIZA V., born March 30, 1851, in
Sangamon countv, married Feb. 9, 1870,
to Nimrod Vickers. One child, FRANK,
died in infancy. They reside in Christian
county, four miles east of Pawnee.

Abraham Barrows died April 9, 1862,
and Mrs. Mahala Barrows died Oct. 18,
1874, both at the family homestead, six
miles south of Springfield.

BARROWS, JOSIAH, was
born Sept. 17, 1793, in Thompson, Wind
ham county, Conn. In 1798, his parents
moved to Bridport, Vt., where Josiah
was married Feb. 25, 1825, in Lebanon,
New Hampshire, to Joanna Allen. She
died Sept., 1826, in Vermont, and Mr.
Barrows was married Jan., 1829, in Le-
banon, N. H,, to Emily Young. She
died Nov., 1831, in Vermont, and he was
married, July, 1836, in New Haven, Vt.,
to Mrs. T. M. Case, whose maiden name
was Mills. They had two children in
Vermont, and came to Illinois, arriving in
Chatham, Sangamon county, Oct., 1839,
where they had two children, and moved
to Springfield about 1846. Of their child-
ren—

MART P., was born in Vermont in
1837, anc^ was niarried Jan. i, 1861, in
Springfield, to John H. Morse. They have
three children, JOHN, GEORGE and
HORACE, and reside at Morse's Mills,
Jefferson county, Mo. Mr. Morse was
an avowed abolitionist, and during the
war to suppress the rebellion, was much
annoyed by the rebels. His store was
robbed, but being warned, he had time to
remove some of the lighter goods. Amid
all his troubles he continued to flourish,
and has several times represented his dis-
trict in the State Senate of Missouri. He
is always engaged in some public enter-
prise.

SAMUEL M., born about 1838, in
Vermont, raised in Sangamon county, 111.,
married Sept. 1867, in Vineland, Jefferson
county, Mo., to Ellen Morse. They have
four children, JULIA, KATIE, ELLEN
and ARTHUR. S. M. Barrows was a
Union man, and subjected, like his brother-
in-law, to annoyance during the war. He
is Post Master, and resides at Morse's
Mills, Mo.

LUCT, died in Springfield, aged about
sixteen years.

ANNA, born in Springfield, resides
with her sister, Mrs. Morse.

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LOUISA CASE, daughter of Mrs.
Barrows by a former marriage, resides
with her half-sister, Mrs. Morse.

Mrs. T. M. Barrows left Springfield to
visit her daughter, Mrs. Morse, in Mis-
souri, and died there, Nov. 1865.

Josiah Barrows, after the death of his
wife, spent his winters in Missouri, and
summers in Springfield, 111., until 1875.
lie now resides with his children in Mis-
souri.

BARROWS, LUCY, sister of
Josiah and Franklin, was born March 14,
1 797, in Woodstock, Conn. Came west
in 1838. She resided in Sangamon and
Morgan counties until Jan., 1841, when
she was married to Erastus Wright. See
his name.

BARROWS, FRANKLIN,
brother to Lucy and Josiah, came to Spring-
field Nov., 1855. They came too late to
be classed as early settlers, Mr. Franklin
Barrows and family continue to reside in
Springfield.

Prentiss Barrows, the father of Josiah,
Lucy and Franklin, was a soldier of the
Revolution, under command of Benedict
Arnold, and occupied the same building
used as Gen. Arnold's headquarters.
Prentiss Barrows was standing in the yard
when Arnold left the Americans to join
the British, and as he passed, something
heavy in his pockets struck Barrows, and
it was always believed that it was gold, a
part of the price of his treason. Prentiss
Barrows died in 1812, at Bridport, Vt.,
from disease contracted in the army of the
Revolution.

BASHAW, MRS. ELLEN,
whose maiden name was Reed, was born
about 1 774. Her parents were from Penn-
sylvania. Ellen Reed was married in
Bourbon county, Ky., to William Bashaw.
He was a native of Virginia. They had
three children, and Mr. Bashaw died in
Bourbon county. Mrs. Bashaw, with
her three sons, moved to Sangamon coun-
tv, 111., arriving in the fall of 1830, and
settled three miles north of Rochester. Of
her three children —

JAMES, born Jan. 18, 1800, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county, Jan.
17, 1832, to Mary McCune. They had
seven children in Sangamon county,
CINCINNATUS, ELEANOR, EMI-
LY, HIRAM, CORDIANN, JAMES
R. and WILLIAM M. James* Bashaw

died in 1850, and his widow resides two
miles north of Rochester.

WI J.LI AM S., born Nov., 1805, in
Bourbon county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, in 1834, to Isabel McCune.
They had nine children; four died young.
AMANDA, born April 6, 1835, married
James A. James. See his name. JAMES,
born Jan. 27, 1838, married Feb. 20, 1862,
to Mary Bailey, who was born Jan. 26,
1844, m Hawkins county, Tenn. They
have three children, LAURA i., GEORGE A.
and DOKLV, and reside in Clear Lake
township, eight miles due east of Spring-
field. HANNAH, married William
Thomas, and resides one mile west of
Dawson. CHARLES SPENCER and
ALEXANDER reside in Clear Lake
township. Mrs. Isabel Bashaw died July
27, 1861, and William S. Bashaw died Jan.
3, 1874, within one and a half miles of
where he settled with his mother in 1830.
Wm. S. Bashaw had been five years a
Justice of the Peace, and was in office at
the time of his death.

JA^UELIN, born Nov. 24, 1808, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to
Eleanor Poor, had nine children, and he
died in 1868. His widow married James
McQuinn, and resides near Rochester.

Mrs. Ellen Bashaw died Sept., 1852, on
the farm where she settle in 1830.

BATES, ISAAC, was born Oct.
14, 1796, in the town of JafFrey, Cheshire
county, New Hampshire, and when a
young man, went to St. Lawrence count v,
N. Y. CHARLOTTE BRY-
ANT was born Dec. u. 1805, at Shore-
ham, near White Hall, Vt., and taken by
her parents to St. Lawrence county, N. Y.
Isaac Bates and Charlotte Bryant were
married and had six children in St. Law-
rence county. The family moved to San-
gamon county, 111., in wagons, arriving
June 30, 1837, at Springfield, and the next
week (July 4), witnessed the laying of the
corner stone of the State house, the work
on which had just commenced. In 1839
he entered land north of the Sangamon
river, moved there, and made a home in
what is now Fancy creek township. Two
children were born in Sangamon county.
Of their children —

JOSEPH, born June 16, 1822, in St.
Lawrence county, N. Y., married in San-
gamon count}- to Mrs. Rebecca Power,
whose maiden name was Hrown. Mrs.

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Bates had one child by her first marriage,
MARY J. POWER. She married John
B. Brown, and lives in Jefferson county,
Kan. Mr. and Mrs. Bates have six child-
ren. FIDELIA E. married Winfield S.
Hay, and lives in Fancv creek township.
ISAAC D., JAMES \V., JOSEPH F.,
ZIMRI E., and JOHN CARROLL re-
side with their parents in Fancy Creek
township, 12 miles due north of Spring-
field.

ORLANDO,\x>rn March 20, 1824, in
St. Lawrence county, N. Y., married in
Sangamon county to Sarah Brown. They
have three living children, JANE and
CHARLOTTE, (twins.) JANE mar-
ried William Stienberger, and lives near
Mt. Pulaski. CHARLOTTE married
Abram Larue, and lives near Williams-
ville. EMMA lives with her parents in
Williamsville.

NELSON, born April 13, 1826, in
New York. He lost one arm by the ex-
plosion of a gun when he was 14 years
old. He married Melinda Ferguson, has
three children, MINNIE J., WILLIAM,
and FREDERICK, and lives in Peters-
burg, 111.

ALBER T, died, 1829, in infancy.

FIDELIA,&\z<\. August 31, 1845, aged
15 years.

ZIMRI B., born Feb. 28, 1833, in St.
Lawrence county, N. Y., enlisted, Nov.
25, 1861, in Co. G., loth 111. Cav., and was
commissioned as 1st Lieutenant. He was
promoted to Captain, Oct. 20, 1862. He
served about four years, and resigned in
Feb., 1865. He was married Sept. 23,
1866, in Sangamon county, to Hattie
Stockdale, who was born April 2, 1846,
in Pennsylvania. They have two child-
ren, NORA M. and HOWARD R., and
reside in Fancy Creek township, at the
home settled by his parents in 1839.

IRA, died in Sangamon county, Oct.,
1858, in his twelfth year.

PARTHEN1A, born March 12, 1842,
in Sangamon county, married William S.
Constant. See his name.

JAMES J/., born June 19, 1844, in
Sangamon county, married Julia Constant.
They have one child, ETHEL, and re-
side in Williamsville.

Isaac Bates died April 23, 1855, in
Fancy creek township. His widow re-
sides with her daughter, Mrs. Constant.
Mrs. Bates is a cousin to William Cullen

Bryant, the poet, and editor of the NC-JC
Tork Post.

BATES, JAMES, was born
March 2, 1803, in Cheshire county, N. II.,
raised at Potsdam, N. Y., and came with
his brother Oliver to Sangamon county in
1833. He was married in the fall of 1842,
to Eunice Watts who died in June, 1846.
Mr. Bates was married in May, 1852, to
Mrs. Irena Holmes, whose maiden name
was Watts. She died in April, 1865.
James Bates resides one mile northwest of
Farmingdale. He never had any children.

BATES, OLIVER, was born in
1796, in Cheshire county, N. H. Moved,
about 1806, to Potsdam, St. Lawrence
county, N. Y., where he was married to
Charity Buckman, Sept. S, 1824. She is
a sister of Joel Buckman, and was born in
Bethel, Vermont. They had three child-
ren in New York, two of whom died
young. They moved in a colony of 52
persons to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in 1833, and early in 1834 settled adjoin-
ing the present Farmingdale Station, on
the south, where three children were born.
Of the four children —

ROXANA, born Oct. 23, 1832, in
Potsdam, N. Y., was married in Sanga-
mon county, 111., April 6, 1853, to Jacob
Foster. See his name.

ZURA, born Jan. 12, 1836, in Sanga-
mon county, was married to Mrs. Josephine
Ellis. They have three children, CHAS.
B., ELIZABETH A. and ROXANA
L., and reside in Tavlorville, 111.

BUCKMAN, born Nov. 6, 1840, in
Sangamon county, was partially educated
at Jacksonville, 111., and graduated at the
.State University, Bloomington, Indiana.
He began the study of law in Pekin, 111.,
where he died July 13, 1864.

ELIZABETH, born Feb. 25, 1839,
in Sangamon county, died at the residence
of her sister, Mrs. Foster. Oliver Bates
died in 1865, where he settled in 1834.
His widow died in March 1869, at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. Foster.

BATTERTpN, AMOR, was
born May 3, 1772, in Loudon county, Va.
Nancy Guthrie was born about 1776, in
North Carolina, and her parents moved,
when she was a child, to Madison county,
Ky. They were there married and had
one child, who was drowned in Kentucky
river. They moved to Aclair county,
where they had nine children, and moved

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to Madison county, 111., in 1818, and from
there to Rock creek, in what is now
Menard county, in 1820, thence to what is
now Salisbury township, Sangamon coun-
ty, in the spring of 1822, and settled one
and a quarter miles northwest of where
Salisbury now stands. Of their nine
children —

DA VID, born Nov. 5, 1796, in Ken-
tucky, married Nancy Yoakum. They
had eight children, and Mr. B. died in
Menard county. His family moved to
Cass county, and his widow died there.
Their children reside in Menard and Cass
counties, and in Kansas. Mr. B. was 1st
Lieutenant in a Company in the Winne-
bago war.

NELSON, born July 27, 1798, in Ken-
tucky, married Betsv Davenport, had four
children, and Mr. B. died in DeWitt coun-
ty. Their son WILLIAM was a soldier
in an Illinois regiment, and died in 1863,
in the army. MARY and NANCY are
married, and reside in Minnesota. JAMES
W. and his mother live in Missouri.

ANDERSON, born May 3, 1800, in
Kentucky, married Polly Robinson, who
died, and he married again and went to
Arkansas;

WILLIAM, born Dec. 14, 1801, in
Adair county, Ky., married Jan. i, 1833,
in Sangamon county, to Eliza Gaines.
They had twelve children ; two died young.
MADISON, born Oct. 20, 1833, enlisted,
August 13, 1862, for three years, in Co.
B., i I4th 111. Inf., was captured at Gun-
town, Miss., June n, 1864, was taken to
Ander^onville prison and escaped by falling
in with Gen. Stoneman's men when they
were about to be exchanged Sept. 14,

1864, and was mistaken for one of them.
He left them at Atlanta, was furloughed
home from Memphis, joined his regiment
in Jan., 1865, served to the end of his term,
and was honorably discharged, August 3,

1865. He was married April 24, 1864, in
Sangamon county, to Cynthia S. Lemmon.
They have three living children, MINNIE
M., JENNIE, and a boy babe, and reside
four and a half miles north of Salisbury.
RICHARD, born July 19, 1836, married
Permelia Miller, have three children,
ADAM F., MURRAY, and ELIJAH, and re-
side in Menard county. AMY C., born
Feb. 19, 1838, married John R. Wells,
have seven children, and reside in Macon
county, Mo. ROBERT, born August 4,

1839, enlisted for three years, August 13,
1862, in Co. B, i I4th 111. Inf., served full
term, and was honorably discharged at
Springfield, June 29, 1865. He died at
home, August 16, 1868, from the effects of
camp diarrhea and sun stroke. HENRY
CLAY, born Nov. 12, 1843, niarried Jan.
20, 1870, to Maria Maltby, who was born
May 27, 1850, at Petersburg, 111. They
have one child, IDA MAY, and reside one
mile west of Salisbury. MILDRED P.,
born May 4, 1846, married Daniel C. Pel-
ham. See his name. MARIA, SARAH
E., CHARLOTTE and GEORGE W.,
reside with their parents, one and a quar-
ter miles west of Salisbury.

LE TV, born August 20, 1804, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county,
March 3, 1831, to Dorcas Sackett. They
had six children. MARY A. married
Wm. Hines, have ten children, and reside
two miles north of Salisbury. THOMAS
S. married Lucy Duncan, have five child-
ren, JASPER N., ALLIE J., FRANCIS M.,

GEORGE w. and ANDERSON D., and reside
one and a half miles north of Salisbury.
ELIAS married Ellen Duncan; have two
children, HARVEY and ANNIE, and reside
five miles north of Salisbury. AMAN-
DA J. married Ira Brown, and resides two
and a half miles north of Salisbury.
WILLIAM H. married Mary E. Dun-
can, has one child, NORA, and resides with
his parents, two miles north of Salisbury.
Levi Batterton served in a Sangamon
county Company in the Winnebago war,
and drew as a pension, twice, forty acres
of land.

MART, born*Dec. 14, 1804, in Ken-
tucky, married Willoughby Randolph.
They had four children. Their youngest
son, LEVI, was a soldier in an Iowa reg-
iment, was wounded and died at the bat-
tle of Pittsburg landing. The family re-
side at Knoxville, Iowa.

P RISC ILL A,\>vvi\ Feb. 9, 1809, in
Kentucky, married June 16, 1836, to Wil-
liam Yoakum, who was born July 28,
1812, in Claiborne county, Tenn. They
have one son, WILLIAM F., who mar-
ried Mary Adams, and resides with his
parents in Menard count}', two miles
north of Salisbury.

SUSANNAH T., born June 7, 1811,
married Coleman Gaines. See his name.

E. GEORGE, born June 26, 1814, in
Adair county, Ky., married Jan. 19, 1843,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

in Menard county, to Huberty Clark.
They had ten children; one died young.
JOHN C. resides with his parents.
ELISHA C. married Farinda Duncan.
They have three children, EMMA j., ED-
WARD L. and SYLVA v., and reside one
mile southeast of Salisbury. PRISCIL-
LA J. married Wm. Tozer, have three
children, and reside five miles northwest
of Salisbury. MARY A., MARTHA
A., MORRIS M., LAURA A., GEO.
M. and CHARLES L., reside with their
parents, two miles north of Salisbury.

Mrs. Nancy Batterton died July 31,
1835, and Amor Batterton died August 4,
1835, both near Salisbury.

BEACH, J A RED, was born Nov.
24, 1770, in Essex county, N. J., and was
married there, Feb. 13, 1794, to Mary
Harrison, who was born Sept. 18, 1775, in
the same county. They moved to New
York City, where they had five living
children, and in 1835 moved to Spring-
field, 111. Of their children—

ELECT A, married in New York
City to Henry Howell, moved west, and
died, Feb., 1859, in Centreville, Iowa.

CATHARINE, born Sept. 12, 1805,
in New York city, married there, August
3, 1830, to Edmund R. Wiley. See his
name.

RICHARD H., born March n, 1808,
in New York City, married there, in
1832, to Eliza H. Baldwin, who was
born in 1814, in 'Cranberry, Middlesex
county N. J. They had one child, and
moved to Morgan county, 111., where he
taught school one year, and came to
Springfield in 1834, au<^ ni x^35 united
with E. R. Wiley in the mercantile busi-
ness, as Wiley, Beach & Co. They es-
tablished the first clothing store in Spring-
field, which they continued many years.
Mr. and Mrs. Beach had four children in
Springfield. Of their five children,
SARAH, born in 1833, in New York
City, married in Springfield to George
H. Nolte. They had three children,

GEORGE E., RICRARD B. and MINNIE G.

Mrs. Nolte died in 1862, in Beardstown.
CATHARINE E., born in 1835, in
Springfield, died in 1848 in Beardstown.
MARY B., born in Springfield, resides
with her father. MATILDA B., born
Feb. 28, 1839, in Springfield, married,
April 14, 1868, to Rev. William E. Cald-
well, of Lodi, Michigan. They have three

children, JENNIE, MINNIE and EDWARD,
and reside at Clio, Geneseo county, Mich-
igan. Mr. Caldwell is pastor of the Con-
gregational church of that place. ED-
WARD P., born May 27, 1841, in Spring-
field, married Mayji, 1865,10 Julia E.
Cone, and resides in Springfield. Mrs.
Eliza H. Beach died Oct. 31, 1865, and
Richard H. Beach was married, June 27,
1867, to Sarah Lavinia Pearson. They
reside in Springfield.

ELIZA H., died April 14, 1865, in
Centreville, Iowa.

AMELIA, born Sept. 21, 1816, mar-
ried in 1843, in Springfield, to John Har-
ris. She died May 22, 1845.

Mrs.. Mary Beach died Dec. 17, 1836,
and Jared Beach died March 4, 1852, both
in Springfield.

BEACH, JOB A., was born April
5, 1780, in Morris county, N. J. Susan
Hathaway was born Oct. 12, 1782, in the
same county. They were married and
had eight children in New Jersey, and in
1817 moved to Butler county, Ohio, and the
next year to Dearborn county, Ind. Of
three children born in the latter county,
one died in infancy. Mrs. Susan Beach
died there in Oct., 1822, and Job A. Beach
was married, August 26, 1824, to Judith
Connelly, who was born Dec. 2, 1805, in
Washington county, Pa. They had five
children in Indiana, and the family moved
to Sangamon county, 111., in the fall of
1835, and settled south of Spring creek,
in what is now Gardner township, where
five children were born. Of the twenty
children of Job A. Beach — •

CHARLES, born Dec. 16, 1801, in
New Jersey, married in Ohio to Elizabeth
McGilvey. She died, leaving one child,
and, when last heard from, he lived in
Rockville, Ind.

E UNICE, born April 7, 1803, in Nc-\\
Jersey, married in Indiana to Enoch Con-
ger. They had six children, and moved
to Oquawka, 111., where the parents died.

y. MUNSON, born May i, 1806, in
Morris county, N. J., married near Carth-
age, Hamilton county, Ohio, August 27,
1835, to Christiana M. Robinson. They
came to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
Sept. 19, 1836, in what is now Gardner
township, where they had eleven children ;
two died young. CAROLINE, born
Tune 3, 1837, married Jan, 15, 1857, to
George Carr. She died April 5, 1860,

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leaving one child, BENJAMIN, who resides
with his father, in Wisconsin. MARY
A., born Jan. 23, 1839, married August
20, 1862, to Henry P. Hart. They have
six children, HENRY E., WILLIAM M.,

MAKY C., BENJAMIN S., JULIA P. and WAI.-

TKR A., and reside five miles northwest of
Springfield. Henry P. Hart enlisted
August 9, 1862, for three years, in Co. H.,
95th 111. Inf., was corporal and postmas-
ter in the Company, served until June 6,
1863, when he was promoted to Captain
of a Company of U. S. colored troops.
CORNELIA, born Jan. 15, 1841, mar-
ried April 3, 1860, to Samuel Cook. They
have four children, JAMES E., WILLIAM M.,
IOHN and JENNIE, and reside in Chandler-"
ville, 111. EDWARD M., born Oct. 6,
1843, enlisted August 20, 1862, for three
years, in Co. B., I3oth 111. Inf. He was
corporal and fifer the greater part of the
time, served full term, and was honorably
discharged August 15, 1865. He was
married June 3, 1869, to Maggie Frazee.
They have one child, LIIIRIE G., and reside
eight miles west of Springfield. VIR-
GINIA, born July 8, 1846, married Oct.

3, 1872, to Charles W. King. See his
name. JULIA D., born April 6, 1848,
married Oct. 24, 1870, to Hiram McC.
Reed. Who was born Aug. 26, 1846, in
Butler county, Ohio. They have one
child, MAGGIE c., and reside near Berlin.
JOSHUA M., born Oct. 4, 1852, died in
his seventh year. JOSEPH W., born
Dec. 14, 1855, and ALICE J., 'born Jan.

4, 1859, reside with their parents, eight
miles west of Springfield.

MILTON, born April 25, 1808, in
New Jersey, married, raised a family, and
resides in Lawrenceburg, Ind.

P2.\fELlXE, born May 8, 1810, in
New Jersey, married in Dearborn county,
Ind., to Ezekiel Pettigrew, and both died
in Park county, leaving seven children.

NANCY, born June 26, 1813, in New
Jersey, married in Indiana to Jacob Daisy,
moved to Arkansas, where he died, and
she married again.

JANE, born August 24, 1814, in New
Jersey, married Ephraim Lawler. She
died in Clay county, 111., leaving four
children near Louisville.

1> RUDE NCE, \MV\\ Sept. 25, 1816, in
New Jersey, married Wm. Bullion, in
Park county, Ind., and died there.

22, 1818, in
Indiana, died unmarried in 1869, at the
house of her sister, Lavina, near Yan-
dalia.

LA VINA, born Nov. 30, 1820, in
Dearborn county, Ind., married in Spring-
field, 111., to Stephen D. Perry. They
have nine children, and reside near Shabo-
nier, Fayefte county. Of the second
marriage —

ELIZA, born August 4, 1825, in In-
diana, died, aged two years.

JOB ALLEN, Jun., born March i,
1827, in Dearborn county, Ind., came
with his parents to Sangamon county in
1835. He enlisted August, 1862, for three
years, in Co. I, 130111 111. Inf. He was
under Gen. Banks in his expedition up
Red River, was captured and taken to
Camp Ford, at Tyler, Texas, and after
six weeks imprisonment, news came that
they were to be exchanged, and the rebel
guards becoming less vigilant, he escaped
and wandered 26 days before reaching the
Union lines. His comrades remained
fourteen months in the rebel prisons. Mr.
Beach served to the end of the rebellion,
and was honorably discharged in August,
1865. He is unmarried, and resides with
his mother, eight miles west of Spring-
field.

MARY A., born June 25, 1829, in In-
diana, raised in Sangamon county, mar-
ried in Knox county, 111., to Jonathan
Cacebeer, have one child, and reside at
Wilton Junction, Iowa.

LUCY, born April 29, 1831, in Indiana,
died in Sangamon county, aged sixteen
years.

BENJAMIN P., born May 31, 1833,
in Indiana, raised in Sangamon count},
married in Knox county, 111., enlisted at
Moline, served three years, re-enlisted as
veteran, served to the end of the rebellion,
and was honorably discharged. He moved
to Springfield, Mo., and died there, May
1 8, 1869, leaving a widow and four child-
ren.

SUSAN, born March 17, 1836, in San-
gamon countv, resides with her mother.

HARLAN P., born Nov. 20, 1838, in
Sangamon county, married in Fayelte
county, to Ellen J. Tharp. He served as
First Sargeant three years in the iiith
111. Inf., was with Sherman in his march
to the sea, served to the end of the rebel-
lion, was honorably discharged, and died

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

March 13, 1870, leaving a widow and one
child in Fayette county.

MARTIN L., born Feb. n, 1841, in
Sangamon county, enlisted May, 1862, for
three months, in Co. G., 68th 111. Inf., and
died of disease, Sept. 10, 1862, in Wash-
ington City.

FRANCIS, born Oct. i, 1843, died in
infancy.

LOUISA R., born May 10, 1846, in
Sangamon county, married Thomas D.
Barnhart, had one child, and Mrs. B. died,
Nov. 28, 1871, in Kansas.

Job A. Beach died April n, 1849,511
Sangamon county, and his widow resides
eight miles west of Springfield, with her
unmarried children.

BEARDON, SAMUEL L,,
was born Feb. 27, 1827, in Christian coun-
ty, Ky. His father moved to Christian
countv, 111., in 1828. His mother dying
soon after, his father gave him to John
French, a friend of the family, who had
moved to Chatham township, in Sanga-
mon county. He was brought up by Mr.
French. Samuel L. Beardon was married
April 10, 1852, in Sangamon county, to
Susan Gofor. Thev have four children —

GEORGE 7\," ISAAC N., SAM-
UEL E., and IRA, and reside two and
a half miles northeast of Auburn.

John French died in 1854, in Chatham
township.

BEAUCHAMP, JpSHUA,
was born about 1782, in Washington coun-
ty, Ky. He was married there to Catha-
rine Payne. They had seven children in
Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., arriving in what is now Woodside
township, in the fall of 1827, where two
children were born. Of the children —

MARIA R., born in Kentucky, mar-
ried James H. Withrow. See his name,

The other children —

HENRT N., ED WARD, ELIZA,
WILLIAM, JOSEPH and AMAN-
DA, ail married, some died, and the living
are in Kansas and Missouri.

Joshua Beaucharnp moved to Missouri,
and died April i, 1842, in the Platt pur-
chase. His widow resides in Doniphan
county, Kansas.

BEAM JACOB, was born about
1762, in N. J., and when he was a youth,
went to Lexington, Ky., which he found
to be a very small village. Rachel Mc-
Clure was born in Huntington county, Pa.,

in 1775* and taken by her parents to Fay"
ette county, Ky., when she was quite
young. Jacob Beam and Rachel McClure
were married at Lexington, and had two
children there. They moved to Manches-
ter, Ohio, where they had eleven children,
and from there to Clarke county, Ind.,
where one child was born, and from there
to what is now Lincoln, Logan county, 111.,
arriving the day before the election which
made Andrew Jackson President, in 1828.
Finding it impossible to obtain food and
shelter for his family through the winter,
after a stay of two weeks, Mr. Beam
moved to Rochester, Sangamon county,
in the latter part of Nov., 1828. Of their
children —

JA MES, born near Lexington, Ky.,
married in Sangamon county to Susan
Hyner, who was born Oct. 15, 1810.
They had nine children, all of whom are
dead, except RACHEL, born May 15,
1831, married Jacob Rape. See his name.
James Beam died in 1855, in Sangamon
county, and his widow died in 1858, at
Mt. Auburn, Christian county.

J OHN, born in Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county, to Ellen Williams.
They have three children, and reside at
Boscobel, Grant county, Wis.

ELIZABETH,^™ at Manchester,
O., married in Sangamon county to Har-
vey Summers. They had six children.
SIMON P. was accidentally shot in
Marysville, California, about 1860. JOHN
WESLEY, was a member of a California
Cavalry regiment, and was killed by his
horse running away with him on the march
to the field of conflict, in 1862. GEORGE
W. was a soldier in an Illinois regiment,
captured and died in a rebel prison in
South Carolina. MARY E. married a
Baptist minister, and resides in Iowa.
WILLIAM resides near Rockbridge,
Green county. SARAH E., resides with
her father. Mrs. E. Summers died, and
Harvey Summers resides in Alton.

MART, born in Ohio, is unmarried,
and resides with her brother, Joseph
Beam.

DA VID, born in Manchester, Adams
county, Ohio, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, to Rosanna Ebey, who was born near
Columbus, Ohio. They had eleven child-
ren in Sangamon county, five of whom
died young. GEORGE W. went to
Washington Territory in 1854, married

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there to Sarah Wright, a native of Mis-
souri. They went over the plains to-
gether. Mr. Beam died March, 1865, on
Vancouver's Island, leaving a widow and
three children. She is again married,
and resides in San Francisco. JACOB
H., born April 28, 1834, married Jan. 19,
1865, to Amanda Cummings, and resides
in Springfield. LOUISA J. married
Emery Raymond, and died March i 7, 1863,
leaving two children. NANCY A. mar-
ried Lewis Williams, who died, and she
married Geo. W. Dugger, and resides in
Virden. WILLIAM T., born Sept. 22,
1844, married Sept. 25, 1872, to Margaret
A. Sanders. They have one child, COR-
DELIA A., and reside in Rochester town-
ship, near where his grandfather Beam
settled in 1828. JAMES HARVEY,
born July 24, 1849, married Oct. 23, 1873,
to Eliza J. Sanders, and resides on part of
the farm near where his grandfather set-
tled in 1828. It is in Cotton Hill town-
ship. David Beam died Feb. 28, 1853.
His widow died April 16, 1860. Mr.
Beam acted as Justice of the Peace for
many years; was a farmer and miller.

SARAH, born in Ohio, married in
Sangamon county, to John A. Maxcy.
They have two children, and reside in
Alton.

NANC Y, born in Ohio, married in
Sangamon county, to Jacob Miller, and
both died. They left six children in De-
Witt county.

THOMAS, born at Manchester, O.,
and came to Sangamon county with his
parents. Some of his friends here relate
an incident in his life that illustrates real
life among the early settlers. He raised
a good crop of corn in the summer of
1830, and in the fall determined to sell it
and go to the Galena lead mines. After
making it known in all the settlement,
he was unable to get an offer for his crop
at any price in money, but he traded it for
a barrel of whisky, traded that for a
three year old steer, and finally sold that
for $10.00. He took a vow to use that
for paying his expenses .out of the county,
and never to live in it again. He went to
the lead mines, was married in Wisconsin
to Catharine Reed. They had six child-
ren In Wisconsin, and moved to California
in 1863. He is now a wealthy man, and
resides at Crescent City, Del Norte coun-
ty, California.
— 14

JANE A., born in Ohio, married in
Sangamon county to William Cable, moved
to Wisconsin, and after spending twenty-
four years there, moved to Iowa, and died
there in 1872, leaving several children.

WESLE Y, born in Ohio, married in
Sangamon county, Dec. 25, 1840, to
Amelia Rape. They had five children in
Cotton Hill township; one died in infancy.
NANCY J. married W.T. Williams; had
two children, ALBERT L. and THEODORE L.
Mrs. W. died and they live with their
father, who married and resides in Cotton
Hill township. MARY A. married
James M. Sankey, have three children,
and reside near Fairbanks, Ind. AMAN-
DA E. married Wm. Z. Williams, have
one child, and reside near Shelbourn, Ind.
JOHN L. is unmarried, and resides in
Cotton Hill township. Wesley Beam
died in 1852, in Cotton Hill township, and
his widow married Mr. Hewlett. See
Rape family name.

CORDELIA, born in Ohio, married
in Sangamon county, to Daniel Fetters.
They had four children, and she died in
Cotton Hill township.

JOSEPH, born July 27, 1820, in
Clarke county, Ind., married in Sangamon
county to Mary P. Spicer. They had
two children. NANCY J. A., married
Henry Hertel, have one child, ADA LIL-
LIAN, and reside three miles north of Paw-
nee, in Cotton Hill township. SARAH E.
married Isaac Porter, who was born Dec.
29, 1836, in Monroe county, Ohio. They
moved to Kansas City, Mo., and she died
there, May 21, 1869, one month after mar-
riage. Mr. Porter brought her remains
back to the family cemetery for interment.
He has since married Maggie Caldwell,
and resides in Pawnee. Mrs. Mary P.
Beam died Oct. 16, 1850, and Joseph Beam
was married April 25, 1854, to Barbara
Deardorff. Thev had four children.
THOMAS W. and LINDSAY C., the
eldest and youngest, died under three
years. JOSEPH L. and WALDO P.
i-esitle with their parents in Ball township,
ten miles southeast of Springfield. He
has acted as Justice of the Peace for sev-
eral years.

Jacob Beam died March 24, 1838, and
his widow died April 21, 1851, both
near where they settled in 1828.

BEDINGER, CHRISTIAN,
was born Dec. 24, 1774, in Bcrklev conn-

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ty, Va. Sophia Taylor was born Sept.
24, 1776? in Maryland, they were mar-
ried about 1798, in Maryland or Virginia,
and made their home in Berkley county
for a short time, then moved to Harrison
eounty, near Cadiz, Ohio, where nine
children were born. The parents and
three of the children came to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1836, in
Island Grove. Of all their children —

PHILIP, born Nov. 8, 1799, in Ohio
married in Cadiz to Sarah Hartman
raised a large family, and resides near
Nova, Ashland county, O.

JOSEPH, born June 16, i8oi,in Ohio,
married there to Deborah Metcalfe, had
four children, and Mrs. B. died. Their
daughter SOPHIA came to Sangamon
county with her grandparents, and mar-
ried James N. Eckler. JENNIE resides
with her uncle, Wm. Bedinger. Joseph
Bedinger has not been heard from for
many years.

ISAAC, born June 18, 1807, married
in Ohio, to Sarah Brown, came to Sanga-
mon county, and died near Berlin, in 1851,
leaving a widow and four children.

GEOR GE, born Feb. n, 1810, came
to Sangamon county with his parents, re-
mained four or five years, went to Mis-
souri, married there to Eliza Carver.
Both parents died, leaving four children
near Lockridge, Jefferson county, Iowa.
WILLIAM, born June n, 1812, near
Cadiz, Ohio, came to Sangamon county in
the spring of 1837, man~ied Nov. i, 1839,
to Martha Carver, and had three children
in Sangamon county. ELIZA J., born
March 3, 1843, married in 1860 to George
Wolfe, have four children, and reside near
German Prairie Station. SARAH E.,
born Feb. 25, 1846, married in 1860 to
John C. Robinson. They have one child,
MARTHA A., and reside half a mile south
of Camp Butler. ALBERT, born April
25, 1849, resides with his father. Mrs.
Martha Bedingfer died Nov., 18^2, and
Mr. B. was married Feb. 9, 1863, to Mrs.
Sarah M. Greenslate, whose maiden name
was Oliver. They reside half a mile south
of Camp Butler.

HENRY, born June 5, 1814, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county to Sophia
Carver, had one child, and he died. She
married Job Dickenson.

MARY, born Jan. 6, 1818, in Ohio,
arried in Sangamon county to Joseph

Bumgardner. They had six children,
four of whom died young. ADDISON
and MATILDA F. reside with their par-
ents, five miles east of Springfield.

Mrs. Sophia Bedinger died in 1840, and
Christian Bedinger died Oct., 1851, both
in Sangamon county.

BELL, ZEBULON, was born
Nov. 1 8, 1799? m Gerrardstown, Berkley
county, West Virginia. His grandfather,
James Bell, was born and educated in
Scotland. The exact date of his coming
to America is unknown to his descendents.
. He landed in Philadelphia, and being a mill-
wright, built a snuff mill in that city, said
to have been the first machine of the kind
in America. He went from Philadelphia
to Frederick county, Va. According to
traditions in the family, he must have been
almost a Hercules in physical strength.
In connection with his business as a mill-
wright and miller, he is said to have car-
ried nine bushels of wheat up three flights
of stairs at a single load. James Bell was
married in Scotland to Ellen Nelson.
They brought two children with them to
America, John and James. The latter, born
March 18, 1770, in Scotland, was too young
to remember crossing the Atlantic ocean.
This would imply that they came before
or during the Revolution. He married
Margaret Fulton, a native of Chester
county, Penn. She was of Irish descent.
They settled in Gerrardstown, Berkley
county, West Va., where they had nine
children, three, only, of whom are living.
John, born March 23, 1798, resides in
Quincy, Logan county, Ohio. Launcelot,
born Dec. 5, 1801, resides near Taylorville,
Christian county, Illinois, and Zebulon, in
age between the two latter, is the one
whose name heads this sketch.

Zebulon Bell was married Sept. 20,
1821, in Gerrardstown, Berkley county,
West Va., to Rachel Swingle, who was
born Dec. 20, 1801, in the same county.
They had five children there, and moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving May 6,
1834, in what is now Woodside township,
west of Sugar creek, and six miles south-
east of Springfield, where five children
were born. Of their ten children- —

BENONI, born July 24, 1822, in
Berkley county, West Va., married in
Sangamon county, March 21, 1847, *°
Eliza J. Wills. They had two living
children. MARGARET C., born March

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15, 1848, married, Nov. 25, 1868, to John
M. Doake, who was born Oct. 3, 1844.
They have three children, IVA, BENONI M.
and MARY A., and reside six and a half
miles southeast of Springfield. WIL-
LIAM S. resides with his father. Mrs.
Eliza J. Bell died Jan. 22, 1857, and Mr.
Bell was married Oct. 12, 1859, in Madi-
son, Ind., to Mrs. Anna Settle, whose
maiden name was Taylor. She was born
Dec. 17, 1833, m Lancaster county, Penn.
They had five children, three died in in-
fancy. CHARLES E. was killed by the
kick of a horse, July 31, 1873, in his fifth
year. ADA H. resides with her parents.
Benoni Bell and wife reside within half a
mile of where his parents settled in 1834.
It is six and a half miles southeast or
Springfield.

JAMBS T., born Dec. 15, 1823, in
Berkley county, West Va., enlisted in
Sangamon county, Aug. 27, 1862, for
three years, in Co. E., 114 111. Inf., served
his full term, was honorably discharged,
and now resides near Fountain, Colorado.

MARIA C., born June 29, 1825, in
Berkley county, Va., married in Sanga-
mon county, July i, 1847, to John Bell,
who was born Jan. 28, 1813, in. Pittsburg,
Penn. They have one child, RACHEL
A., born April 9, 1848, married John H.
Shoup. See his name. John Bell and
wife reside with their daughter, Mrs.
Shoup, in Cotton Hill township.

JOH^V W., born May 2, 1828, in
Berkley county, Va., married in Sanga-
mon county, to Sarah E. Gatton. They
have seven children, viz: MARY C.,
SAMUEL L., JOHN W., ALICE J.,
RACHEL E., EMILY E. and CARY
L., and reside near Fountain, Colorado.

ZEBULON N., born April 19, 1830,
in West Virginia, brought up in Sanga-
mon county, is unmarried, and resides in
Christian county, near Old Rienzi, San-
gamon county.

MARGARE 7^., born May 31, 1834,
in Sangamon county, was married Feb.
23, 1857, to Andrew Anderson, who was
born in Garrard county, Ky., April 29,
1832. They have seven children, ARA-
BEL, AGNES M., RICHARD Y.,
ZEBULON J., MARY S., JAMES and
RACHEL, and reside in Cotton Hill
township.

LAUNCELOT,\)ovn March 17, 1837,
in Sangamon county, went to Pike's Peak

in 1860, married there, March 21, 1865, to
Lydia E. Roberts, who was born in Bour-
bon county, Ky., Dec. 26, 1846. Of their
children, MARY M., CLARINDA M.,
IVY FORREST, GEORGE S. and
FLORA E. The two latter died young.
Launcelot Bell and wife reside near Foun-
tain, El Paso county, Colorado.

STEPHEN, born April 19, 1839, in
Sangamon county, enlisted August 27,
1862, for three years, in Co. E., i i4th 111.
Inf., was taken prisoner June 10, 1864,
at the battle of Guntown, Miss. He
spent four months in Andersonville prison
pen, two weeks at Savannah, Ga., one
month at Millen, Ga., and was exchanged
at Savannah, Nov. 24, 1864. He rejoined
his regiment, served full time, and was
honorably discharged with the regiment.
He was married in Sangamon county,
Jan. 20, 1869, to Louisa L. Womack.
They have three children, CORA G.,
MAY S. and JAMES E., and reside
five miles south of Springfield.

An incident, said to have taken place in
Andersonville prison, went the rounds of
the papers at the time, but its truthfulness
was doubted. It had almost passed from my
mind, until it was revived by Stephen
Bell, who says that he was an eye-witness
to the breaking out of a spring of pure
water, und.er circumstances that seemed
almost miraculous. It is not necessary to
repeat the description of the prison, as
that has been so often done. It is well
known that inside the stockade there was
a line, sometimes imaginary, called the
"dead-line." If a prisoner crossed that
line approaching the stockade, he was
almost sure to be shot dead. A stream of
water ran through the stockade from north
to south. All the offal and filth from the
camp of the rebel guards entered the
stream above the stockade, and that was
the only supply of water for the prisoners.
About i oo yards east of and on ground 15
or 20 feet above that dirty slough, and four
or five feet inside the dead-line, or between
that and the stockade, a stream of water
spouted up ten or fifteen feet, where there
was not the least appearance of water be-
fore. Troughs were put up, and it was
conducted inside the prison bounds. It
took place about two o'clock in the after-
noon, on a bright day in August, 1864.
There had been a heavy rain the day be-
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storm. The torrents of water broke
down the stockade where it crossed the
slough. The opening was so wide that
the rebel authorities feared the prisoners
would attempt to escape. They caused
cannon to be fired and their soldiers to
shout and halloo, and make all the noise
they could, and in every way present as
great an appearance of force as possible.
No effort was made to escape, the breach
was mended, the waters subsided, the
clouds passed away, and it was the next
day, when all was bright and clear, that
the stream of pure water spouted up from
the earth. Stephen Bell says he was as
near it at the time as any other person.
He thinks that of the 28,000 prisoners con-
fined there at the time, the larger portion
of them regarded it as a direct interposi-
tion of Providence in their behalf. Each
one had his own way of expressing his
feelings, some of them neither refined nor
reverential, but none the less heart-felt and
sincere.

James H. Pulliam and Benj. F. Fletcher,
whose histories may be found in this book,
were in the prison at the time, and testify
to the truthfulness of the above statement.
Mr. Samuel Lewis, of Auburn, was not
there at the time, but saw the spring after-
wards.

MART L., born March 30, 1842, in
Sangamon county, married Samuel Rea-
ton. They have three children, IDA,
JAMES E. and FRANK, and reside
near Fountain, Colorado.

ARTHALINDA, bom Sept. 2, 1844,
in Sangamon county, married Jan. 7, 1859,
to Alexander Shoup. See his name.

Mrs. Rachel Bell died Dec. 15, 1852,
in Sangamon county, and Zebulon Bell
moved west in 1859, and resides with his
children, near Fountain, El Paso county,
Colorado.

BELL,, ROBERT, was born
March 8, 1795, in Bourbon county, Ky.
His father was born in Ireland, and had
but four children, Robert, and three sisters.
After his sisters were married, he had no
knowledge of any relative in America,
bearing his family name. He was a sol-
dier from "Bourbon county in the war of
1812. Robert Bell and Susannah Baker
were married Feb. 12, 1818, in that coun-
ty, and moved to Nicholas county, and
from there they moved with their three
children to Sangamon county, 111., arriv-

ing in the fall of 1830, and settled four
miles south of the present town of Roch-
ester, where they had six children. Of
their nine children —

ISAAC B., born June 25, 1820, near
Carlisle, Nicholas county, Ky., married in
Sangamon county, March 28, 1840, to
Susan Stokes. They had six daughters
in Sangamon county. CAROLINE M.,
born April 18, 1842, married March 29,
1868, to Lawson H. Smith, who was
born Feb. 20, 1831, in Carlisle, Ky. They
have three children, CORDELIA A., \VM.
RILEY and ANNA BELLE, and reside three
miles southeast of Rochester. LOUISA
J. resides with her parents. MARGA-
RET A., born Sept. 30, 1846, married
Jonathan G. Crouch. See his name.
MARY E., EMILY T. and DEBORAH
S. reside with their parents, one and a
quarter miles west of Clarkesville.

JAAfES H., born Nov. 30, 1822, in
Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, May 7, 1843, to Milla Dot-
son, who was born Nov., 1822, in Loudon
county, Va. They had four children.
JOHN W., the second child, died under
two years. ELIZA A., born Feb. 25,
1844, married Sept. 4, 1864, to Benj. C.
Gray, who was born August 12, 1832,
near Hopkinsville, Ky. Mr. Gray has one
child, CHARLES Y., by a former marriage.
Mrs. Gray died Dec., 1874, and B. C.
Gray resides near Clarkesville. HIRAM
F., born Dec. 17, 1852, resides in Califor-
nia. JAMES M., born August 6, 1836,
lives with his father. Mrs. Milla Bell died
March 16, 1870, and James H. Bell resides
in Springfield.

MART y., born June 6, 1828, in
Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, August 31, 1847, to John S.
Dickerson, who was born April 2, 1824,
in Nicholas county, Ky., and came to San-
gamon county in 1851. They have six
children. JAMES H., born June 24,
1848, in Daviess county, Ind., raised in
Sangamon county, graduated at the Eclec-
tic Medical College of Philadelphia, and
is a practicing physician near Taylorville.
Dr. Dickerson was married in 1875 to
Miss Humphreys. See Humphreys' fatu-
ity sketch. ISAAC S., born August 28,
1850, in Daviess county, Ind., married
March 11,1873,111 Sangamon county, to
Mary E. Bomhoff, who was born Sept.
20, 1848, in Sangamon county. They

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have one child, SINAI, and reside one mile
west of Clarksville. ROBERT P., born
Dec. 4, 1852, SARAH E., born Nov. 14,
1854, MARY S., born Nov. 2, 1856, and
ALMARINDA, born Jan. 29, 1859, the
four latter in Sangamon county, reside
with their parents, one and a quarter miles
west of Clarksville.

PHCEBE E., born Nov. i, 1830, in San-
gamon county, married March, 1849, to
John Johnson. See his name.

ALMARINDA, born Sept. 25, 1832,
in Sangamon county, married March 28,
1 850, to James S. Galloway, who was born
May 7, 1819, in Bath county, Ky. They
had four children, two of whom died
young. WILLIAM N. resides near
Taylorville, and LIZZIE A. resides in
Cotton Hill township. J. S. Galloway
died Sept. 14, 1861, and his widow mar-
ried, Nov. 7, 1865, to Benj. L. Auxier,
and resides four miles south of Rochester.

SQUIRE J., born August 10, 1834,
died July 17, 1847.

PRESTON B., born Feb. 26, 1837,
in Sangamon county, married, August 9,
1863, to Mary Bond, and resides in Roch-
ester township.

AUSTIN, born Feb. 13, 1839, was
killed by the kick of a horse, March 10,
1850. ,

MEL VIN, born Feb. 9, 1843, in San-
gamon county, married, Oct. 12, 1865, to
Rachel Martin, have two children, WIL-
LIAM J. and ALICE, and reside at the
Bell family homestead. He is a cripple
for life, caused by a runaway team.

Robert Bell died June 25, 1872, near
IHiopolis, from injuries caused by a runa-
way team four days previous. Mrs. Sus-
annah Bell was made a cripple for life by
the same accident. They Jiad lived more
than 54 years as man and wife. She re-
sides on the farm where they settled in
1830, four miles south of Rochester.

BELL, BAILEY, was born Nov.
2, 1776, in Fauquier county, Va., and was
there married to Nancy Foxworthy, who
was born April 3, 1785. They had three
children, and moved to Clarke county,
Ky., in 1818, where two children were
born, and thence to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in Nov., 1834, at Buffalo Hart
Grove. Of their five children —

BAILEY F., born Dec. 30, 1807, in
Fauquier county, Va., was married in
Clarke county, Ky., Nov. 27, 1827, to

Mahala Burns. They had one child in
Kentucky, and the family moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of
1831, in Buffalo Hart Grove, where they
had six children, and reside near Knox-
ville, Marion county, Iowa.

ARIE,\)om Oct. n, i8n,in Fauquier
county, Va., was married in Clarke coun-
ty, Ky., Sept., 1834, to Thomas McGowan.
They had five children, and reside near
Buffalo Hart station.

JAMES, born Sept. 13, 1814, in Vir-
ginia, was married in Logan county, 111.,
to Nancy Brown. They have seven
children, and reside in Rosemont, Jasper
county, Iowa.

BENJAMIN, born May 1 6, 1818, in
Clarke county, Ky., was married in San-
gamon county, Sept. 26, 1840, to Amanda
Starr. They had six children. MARY
E., born April 9, 1843, married Hugh
McGorey, and died Oct. 14, 1865. EMI-
LY, born Dec. 7, 1845, died Sept. n,
1862. THOMAS J., born Sept. 28, 1848,
died in his third year. WILLIAM, born
Nov. 29, 1851, BENJAMIN, Jun., born
March 29, 1856, and FLORENCE, born
August 20, 1860, reside with their parents,
in Logan county, three miles east of Buf-
falo Hart station.

THOMAS J., born June 1 8, 1821, in
Clarke county, Ky., was married in Illi-
nois to Ann Allen. They have six child-
ren, CHARLES, ALBERT, CLARA,
EMMA, ARTHUR, died in his tenth
year, and LESLIE. Thomas J. Bell and
family reside at Cornland, 111.

Mrs. Nancy Bell died August 6, 1843,
in Logan county, and Bailey Bell died
Feb. 6, 1846, in Sangamon county, at
Buffalo Hart Grove.

BENHAM, JOHN T., born
August 21, 1789, in Cheshire, New Haven
county, Conn. In 1805 or 1806 his par-
ents moved to Ferrisburg, Addison coun-
ty, Vt. He was a soldier in the war of
1812, and was in the battle at Vergennes,
early in 1814. John T. Benham was mar-
ried Jan., 1818, at Ferrisburg, to Catharine
Porter. They had six children ; two died
in Vermont. Mr. Benham moved with
his family to Sangamon county, 111., in
wagons, arriving in the fall of 1830. He
entered land, and settled two and a half
miles northeast of Rochester, where seven
children were born. All except five died
unmarried. Of those five —

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

POLLT A., born Jan. 15, 1819, in
Vermont, married Jonathan S. Rogers,
and she died in Sangamon county.

JOHN W., born Oct. 10, 1824, in
Vermont, married Mrs. Melissa E. Porter,
and resides in Pontiac, 111.

CATHARINE, born July 23, 1826,
in Vermont, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, Oct. 3, 1843, to John Robinson. They
had four children ; three died young.
JOHN, Jun., accidentally shot and killed
himself. John Robinson went to Cali-
fornia in 1849, and was never heard of
after 1851. His widow married Amos C.
Derry. They have two children, and re-
side in Illiopolis.

HENRY W., born Oct. 30, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married A-lmena Staf-
ford. She died, and he married Mrs.
Frances Austin, whose maiden name was
Wood, and resides in Charlotte, 111.

NOAH P., born April 14, 1836, in
Sangamon county, was married March 9,
1861, to Elizabeth Stevens, who was born
Feb. 4, 1847, near Sandusky, Ohio. They
have four children, MARY C., ERMIN-
NIE W., GERTRUDE J. and JOHN
O., and reside two and a half miles east of
Rochester.

Mrs. Catharine Benham died June, 1852,
in Sangamon county, and Mr. Benham
was married Sept. 7, 18^2, to Mrs. Mary
Rakestraw, formerly Mrs. Seavers, and
whose maiden name was Wallin. She
was born July n, 1816, in Columbiana
county, Ohio, and came to Illinois in 1837.
Mr. Benham was in the Black Hawk war.
Mr. and Mrs. B. reside two and a half
miles northeast of Rochester.

BENNETT, WILLIAM A,,
was born Nov. 5, 1803, near Shepherds-
town, Va. His father, Van Bennett, died
in Virginia, and his two sons, William A.
and Thomas L., with their three sisters,
Luranah M., Ann Elizabeth and Mary,
with their widowed mother, Mrs. Phoebe
Bennett, all left Virginia, Oct. 2, 1833, for
Illinois, arriving at Paris on the second of
November. The two brothers came on
to Springfield, bought land three miles
east of the city, and returned to Paris just
in time to be present at their mother's
death, Dec. 12, 1833. The two brothers
and three sisters moved to their farms in
Sangamon county in March, 1834. The
youngest sister, Mary, who was born
Nov. 12, 1815, in Virginia, died April 17,

1834, near Springfield. William A. Ben-
nett was married August 19, 1843, in
Morgan county, to Sarah A. Stevenson.
She was born Oct. 2, 1819, in Scott coun-
ty, Ky., and was taken bv her parents in
1829, to that part of Morgan county which
is now Cass county. Mr. and Mrs. Ben-
nett had three children, namely —

MARY E., born March i, 1844, in
Sangamon county, married May 26, 1869,
to Charles F. Mills, who was born May
29, 1843, at Montrose, Pa. They have
two children, MINNIE and WILLIAM
HENRY, and reside with Mrs. Mills'
parents, three miles east of Springfield.
Charles F. Mills was attending Shurtleff
College, at Alton, 111., when the rebellion
commenced. He enlisted August, 1862,
for three years, in Co. C., H4th 111. Inf.
He was soon after appointed by President
Lincoln, hospital steward at Camp Butler,
and remained there nearly three years,
when, at his own request, in the fall of
1864, he was ordered to Nashville, Tenn.
Being in the regular service, his term did
not expire with the suppression of the re-
bellion, but he continued until the fall of
1866, when he resigned, and was mustered
out at Nashville, Tenn.

WILLIAM A., Jun., and

CHARLES S. died in infancy,

William A. Bennett and his wife reside
on the farm where he settled in 1834,
three miles east of Springfield.

BENNETT, LURANAH
M., born March 7, 1807, in Jefferson
county, Va., came with her brothers and
sisters to Sangamon county, in 1834, re-
mained several years, and returned on a
visit, in 1842, to her native place, where
she was married to Rev. Thomas P. W.
Magruder, "of fche Presbyterian church,
who moved with his family to Illinois in
the spring of 1844. They have three
children —

ALFRED W., resides at Central City,
Colorado Territory.

CHARLES V. resides with his par-
ents.

LIZZIE C. married Samuel S. Smith.
They have two children, a son and a
daughter, and reside near Rushville, 111.

Rev. Thomas P. W. Magruder and
wife reside near Rushville, Schuyler coun-
ty, Illinois.

"BENNETT, THOMAS L.,

was born July 6, 1809, in Jefferson county,

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i ii

Va. — For family history, see the sketch of
his brother, William A. — Thomas L. Ben-
nett arrived in Sangamon county first in
the fall of 1833. He was married Nov. 6,
1842, at Jubilee College, Robins' Nest,
Peoria county, 111., to Jeanetta S. Ingra-
ham, a native of New York City. They
had four children in Sangamon county —

AGNES, the youngest, died at ten
years of age.

HENRT, V. S., visited Greenwood
county, Kansas, in the autumn of 1868,
where his father and family joined him in
the spring of 1869.

SUSAN C. and

SOPHIA went with their parents.
The latter was married Oct. 12, 1871,
in Kansas, to Alexander F. Crowe.
They have one child, THOMAS B., and
reside in Kansas, also.

Thomas L. Bennett and family reside
near Line Postoffice, Lyon county, Kan-
sas.

BENNETT, ANN F., born
Dec. 10, 1813, in Jefferson county, Va.,
came to Sangamon county with her bro-
thers and sisters, in 1834, was married in
the Episcopal church, at Jacksonville, 111.,
to Samuel H. Treat, now Judge of the
United States District Court, and resides
in Springfield.

BENNETT., REV. WM. T.,
was born Nov. 30, 1805, in or near Shep-
herdstown, Jefferson county, Va. He
united with the M. E. church in Shepherds-
town, in 1828, was soon after licensed to
exhort, came to Springfield, 111., in com-
pany with his brother, Van S. Bennett, in
Dec., 1834. He was married June 6,
1836, in Ottawa, 111., to Rebecca J. Rob-
erts, who was born Oct. 5, 1811, in Vir-
ginia. When she was an infant her father
liberated his slaves and moved to Wash-
ington county, Pa. She came with the
family of her uncle, Dr. James Roberts,
to Jacksonville, 111., in 1833, and from
there to Ottawa in 1834. Mr. and Mrs.
Bennett made their home in Springfield.
He was licensed as a local preacher, and
in 1849 was appointed to take charge of
the M. E. church in Springfield, to fill a
vacancy. In 1850 he entered the travel-
ing connection. They had seven children,
all born in Sangamon county, namely —

ED WARD If'., born August 5, 1837,
in Springfield, enlisted at Danville, in
April, 1 86 1, on the first call for 75,000

men, in Co. E., I2th 111. Inf., and served
nearly six months. He enlisted June 24,
1862, at Mechanicsburg, for three years, in
Co. A., 73d 111. Inf.; was commissioned as
ist Lieutenant. After the battle of Stone's
river he was transferred, Jan. 8, 1863, and
promoted to Capt. of Co. F, same regi-
ment. He served as such to the end of
the rebellion, and was mustered out with
the regiment at Springfield, June 15, 1865.
He was married at Mechanicsburg, Dec.
23, 1869, to Harriet N. Fullinwider. They
have two children, ANNA N. and
JACOB H., and reside near Mechanics-
burg.

EMMA R., born Dec. 18, 1838, in
Springfield, married August 14, 1861, to
Stephen A. Short, who was born Oct. 7,
1836, in Pickaway county, Ohio. He en-
listed a few days before his marriage, for
three years, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf.; was
appointed Sergeant, and was wounded
July 20, 1864, at the battle of Peach Tree
Creek, Ga., which terminated in the am-
putation of his right leg, above the knee.
Mr. and Mrs. Short have two children,
LULU and EDITH L., and reside in
Mechanicsburg.

ANN T., born Dec. 1 6, -1841, died in
her second year.

ANNA L., born Nov. 13, 1842, in
Springfield, died suddenly, Oct. 28, 1866,
in Mechanicsburg.

JOHN A., born Dec. 28, 1844, in
Springfield, enlisted Dec., 1863, in Co. F,
73d 111. Inf., for three years. He was
killed June 24, 1864, at Kennesaw moun-
tain, Ga., by a stray shot, while sitting in
his tent writing a letter. His remains
were brought home in 1866, and interred
at Mechanicsburg.

JULIA A. died Feb. 5, 1849, in her
second year.

REBIE H., born in Sangamon coun-
ty, June 30, 1850, resides with her parents.

Rev. Wm. T. Bennett continued in the
effective work of the ministry until 1867,
when he assumed the superannuated re-
lation to 111. Conf., and in 1871 was super-
annuated, and now resides in Mechanics-
burg.

Edward Bennett, the father of Rev.
Wm. T. Bennett, liberated his slaves and
sold his land, with the intention of mov-
ing west, but died in Virginia in 1833.
Edward was brother to Van S., who was
the father of Win. A. Bennett. See his

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name. It will thus be seen that Rev.
Wm. T. Bennett and Mr. Win. A. Ben-
nett are cousins.

BENNETT, VAN S., was born
Dec. 9, 1802, near Shepherdstown, Va.,
came to Springfield in 1834, with his bro-
ther, Rev. Wm. T. He never married,
and died in Sangamon county, Aug., 1873.

BENNETT, MARGARET
E., sister to Rev. Wm. T. Bennett, was
born Dec. 24, 1800, near Sheperdstown,
Va., came to Springfield, 111., in 1836, re-
mained five years, returned to Virginia,
and came back to Sangamon county in
1841. She never married, and resides
with her sister, Mrs. Kalb.

BENNETT, ELIZA, (sister of
Rev. Wm. T. Bennett,) was born Dec. 27,
1810, near Hagerstown, Md. Her par-
ents moved, when she was five years old,
to Shepherdstown, Va., where they had
previously resided. She was there mar-
ried, May 20, 1832, to George W. Shutt.
They had one child born in Shepherds-
town, and Mr. Shutt died there in 1835.
Mrs. Shutt, with her child, moved to
Springfield, 111., arriving in May, 1836.
After a residence of five years in Spring-
field, she returned to Shepherdstown, Va.,
and was there married, Jan. 17, 1841, to
Daniel G. Kalb, who was born Dec. 4,
1815, in Frederick City, Md. They had
two children in Shepherdstown, and
moved to Washington count}-, Md., where
they had one child; thence to Loudon
county, Va., where they had one child,
and from there to Springfield, 111., arriv-
ing in October, 1849, where one child was
born, and in 1856 moved to Round Prairie,
four miles east by south of Springfield.
Of her children by her first marriage —

GEORGETTA, born July 18, 1835,
in Shepherdstown, Va., was married Jan.
i, 1853, in Springfield, 111., to Philip L.
Shutt, who was born Nov. 18, 1829, in
Loudon county, Va. They had eleven
children, five of whom died young. The
other six, FRANKLIN, MAGGIE,
CHARLES, PAUL, HARRY and
LAURA, reside with their parents in
Paris, Edgar county, 111.

Children of her second marriage—

MARTABNER,\>oi-n Dec. 12,1841,
in Shepherdstown, Va., resides with her
parents.

ETHELBERT, born Sept. 18, 1843,
in Shepherdstown, Va., brought up in

Sangamon county, and enlisted at Spring-
field, August 20, 1 86 1, for three years, in
Co. B., 33d 111. Inf. He served more than
his full time, and was honorably dis-
charged, Oct. u, 1864. He is now in
business in St. Louis.

WILLJAM E. B., born August 2,
1846, in Washington county, Md., brought
up in Sangamon county, 111., enlisted at
Springfield, March 26, 1864, for three
years, in Co. G., H4th 111. Vol. Inf., and
was killed in battle of Guntown, Miss.,
June 10, 1864.

GEO. BROOK, born Dec. 4, 1848, in
Loudon county, Va., is a dealer in musical
instruments in Springfield.

JULIA M., born Nov. 16, 1854, in
Springfield, died June 10, 1859.

Daniel G. Kalb and wife reside at Wil-
low Dale, one mile northeast of Sanga-
mon Station. Mr. Kalb was a local
preacher in the M. E. church from Feb.
6, 1847, until 1864. His license was signed
at eight annual renewals by Rev. Peter
Cartwright, but when it expired in 1864,
he declined to have it renewed. He was
engaged in teaching from 1837 to 1854.
Mr. Kalb enlisted August n, 1862, in Co.
G., ii4th 111. Vol. Inf., for three years.
Finding it quite oppressive to march with
his knapsack and haversack, he obtained
a wheelbarrow, and not meeting with op-
position from officers, ran it hundreds of
miles, and often carried the baggage of
sick and disabled comrades. He has the
wheelbarrow yet, and it will doubtless be
handed down as a memorial of the war to
suppress the rebellion, and the part he
acted in it.

BENNETT, JOHN A., (bro-
ther to Rev. Wm. T. Bennett,) was born
near Shepherdstown, Va., came to Spring-
field in 1835, with George R. Weber, and
died Dec. 23, 1841.

BENNINGTON, JAS. M.,
was born May 20, 1826, in Owen county,
Ind. His father died in 1838, and in his
1 3th year, he came to Sangamon county
with his half brother, John Hartsock.
They arrived Feb. 22, 1839, in what is
now Ball township. James M. Benning-
ton was married Sept. 30, 1869, to Mrs.
Nancy Nuckolls, whose maiden name was
Drennan. They have one son, JOHN,
and reside four miles west of Pawnee.

John Hartsock, half brother to Mr.
Bennington, married Susan demons, who

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died, and he married Mrs. Mary A. Pul-
liam, whose maiden name was Levi. They
reside in Christian county.

Two brothers of Mr. Bennington, Sam-
uel and Harrison, came to Sangamon coun-
ty with their mother in 1841, and were
consequently too late to be included as
early settlers.

B E E RS, PHI LO, was born July
1 6, 1793, in Woodbury, Conn. When he
was about fifteen years old he was put
to live with an elder brother, probably
on account of the death of his parents.
They could not agree, and he ran
away, and was gone twelve or thirteen
years, without his relatives hearing from
him. During his ramblings he become
acquainted with Doctor Joseph Bennett
Stillman, who introduced him to his
mother and sisters, at Morganfield, Ky.
Mr. Beers always said that he made
up his mind, on their first acquaintance, to
have Miss Martha Stillman for a wife.
The Stillman family moved to Sangamon
county, 111., and Mr. Beers went to Car-
lyle, Clinton county, same State. He was
first elected a justice of the peace, and
after serving for a time, was elected to
represent Clinton county in the Legisla-
ture of Illinois, when it assembled in Van-
dalia. While residing at Carlyle he was
married in what is now Williams town-
ship, Sangamon county, on the farm of
John Poorman. In response to a letter of
inquiry, the author of this book received
from the clerk of Madison county, 111., a
reply, dated April 29, 1874, in which it is
stated that a license was issued at Ed-
wardsville, Oct. 27, 1820, for the marriage
of Philo Beers and Martha Stillman; that
it was returned, endorsed by Elder
Stephen England, with the statement that
he had solemnized the marriage Nov. 2,
1820. The clerk also stated that it was
the 279th license issued from that office.
They are believed to have been the first
couple ever married north of the .Sanga-
mon river in the State of Illinois; certainly
the first in what is now Sangamon county.
The first marriage under a license from
Sangamon county was between Wm.
Moss and Margaret Sims, April 20, 1821.
Mr. Beers took his bride to Carlyle, where
they had two children. They moved to
Sangamon county, and settled three miles
southwest of Williamsville, where one
child was born. Of their three children —

JOSEPH B., born and died at Car-
lyle in infancy.

HENRY CLAT, born in 1824, at
Carlyle. Philo Beers was the only man
living in Carlyle who voted for Henry
Clay for President of the United States
that year, and the citizens insisted that the
babe should be named for his father's can-
didate. Henry Clay Beers was married
in 1848, in Sangamon county, to Adelaide
C. McNabb. They had one child, WM.
PHILO, who died, aged two years. H. C.
Beers died in 1851, in Springfield. His
widow married Adolphus Rogers, and
resides near Cincinnati. He is a merchant
there.

CAROLINE M., born Feb. 20, 1827,
in Sangamon county, married in Spring-
field, May 13, 1847, to Elder Andrew J.
Kane. See his name.

Mrs. Martha Beers died in 1845, an(^
Philo Beers died March, 1858, both in
Springfield. Mr. Beers moved into Spring-
field and built a brick dwelling house at
the northwest corner of Madison and
Fifth streets, about 1830. It was among
the first, if not the first, brick dwelling
erected in Springfield.

BEERUP, ANDREW, born
Dec. 12, 1812, in Canandagua county, N.
Y., and raised in Canada, came to Spring-
field, 111., in 1837 or '8. He was married
July 2, 1840, in Sangamon county, to Mary
A. Maltby, who was born Nov. 27, 1819.
They had nine children in Sangamon
county, five of whom died young. Of
the other four —

CHARLES A., born April 27, 1841,
married Jan. 14, 1864, to Mary Babcock,
who was born Jan. 22, 1844, in Musking-
um county, Ohio. They have three
children, John R., ALICE J. and LEE
C., and reside six miles west of Spring-
field.

THOMAS A., born June 27, 1843,

GEORGE E., born Oct. 10, 1854, and

WILLIA I/ //., born June 10, 1858,
all reside with their brother, Charles A.

Andrew Beerup died Nov. 26, 1872, and
his widow died Sept. 27, 1873, both in
Gardner township.

• BEERUP, THOMAS, brother
of Margaret, Andrew and William, was
born Sept. 17, 1819, in Canandagua coun-
ty, N. Y. Came to Springfield June 3,
1840, and witnessed a grand log cabin
demonstration of the political campaign of

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that year to elect a President of the United
States, as his introduction to the city.
He was married July 26, 1843, to Sinai A.
Neale. They had seven children born in
Sangamon county, namely —

THOMAS N., born Oct. 12, 1844, in
Sangamon county, enlisted Aug. 9, 1862,
in Co. B, 114 111. Inf., at Springfield. He
was wounded at the battle of Jackson,
Miss., May 14, 1863. A rebel musket
ball broke his arm (being the first man in
the regiment to receive a wound). He
was captured in hospital two days later,
paroled at Richmond, Va., a month later,
and was honorably discharged at St. Louis,
Nov. 17, 1863. He now draws a pension,
and resides with his parents.

HALL IE E., born April 15, 1846, in
New Castle, Henry county, Ky., married
Nov. 30, 1865, to Edward B. Winslow.
They have two children, BDWIN M.
and PRESTON A., 'and reside in Girard,
III.

GEO. N., born June 20, 1848, in New
Castle, Henry county, Ky., died Sept. 15,
1850.

PRESTON J., born Jan. 21, 1851, in
Springfield, Sangamon county, 111., died
March i, 1872.

ED WIN M., born in Waverly, Mor-
gan county, Sept. 13, 1855, died Jan. 8,
1864.

MERRIAN E., born Jan. 1 1, 1858, in
Waverly, 111., died Oct. 8, 1869.

NE VILLE B., born Nov. 3, 1859, in
Waverly, 111., resides with his parents.

Thomas Beerup and wife reside one-
half mile south of Chatham.

BEERUP, WILLIAM W.,

was born Sept. 6, 1822, at Sidney, Cana-
da, and came to Sangamon county in 1843
to join his brothers, Andrew and Thomas.
He married Catharine E. Tolley, See
the Tolley name.

BEERUP MARGARET, sis-
ter of Andrew, Thomas and William W.,
was born June 18, 1829, at Beamsville, Can-
ada, came to Sangamon county, 111., June,
1844, and was married at Havana, 111.,
June 18, 1849,10 Levi Harpham, who was
born Dec., 1821, at Hartford, Ohio coun-
ty, Indiana. They have five children,
namely —

GEO. E., ALICE J., CHARLES
F., LEE W. and SILAS ELMER,
and reside near Havana, 111.

BEERUP, JANE, sister to An-
drew, Thomas and William W. Beerup,
and to Mrs. Margaret Harpham. She
married Marvin Pond. See his name.

BERGEN, REV. JOHN G.,
D. D.,was born Nov. 27, 1 790, at Hights-
town, Middlesex county, N. J., ten miles
east of Princeton, N. J. Of his ancestors
the history is preserved for seven genera-
tions, which will be found designated by
numbers, ist. Hans Hansen Bergen was
born in Bergen, Norway. He was a ship car-
penter, and went to Holland; from there
he emigrated to New Amsterdam, now
New York city, arriving in 1633. In
1639 he was married to Sarah Rapalje
(now Rapalye). She was born June 9,
1622, about where Albany, N. Y., now
stands, and is believed to have been the
first child of European parentage born in
in the colony of New Netherlands, which
then included the present States of New
York, New Jersey and part of Connecti-
cut. Hans Hansen Bergen and Sarah
Rapalje, his wife, had four sons and four
daughters. 2nd. Joris, Jores, or George,
their fifth child, was baptized in New
Amsterdam, July 18, 1649, and married
Aug. n, 1678, to Sara Stryker. They
had nine children, and their fourth child.
3rd. Hans Jorise Bergen was baptized
Aug. 31, 1684, and married Aug. 16, 1711,
to Sytje Evert Van Wicklen. They had
five children. Their eldest son (4th), Jores,
or George Bergen, married Miss Hoag-
land. She had three children, and died.
He married a second time, and had nine
children. His eldest son (5th), John B.
Bergen, born March 27, 1739, married
June 8, 1763, to Sarah Stryker, who was
born August 25, 1745. They had eight
children. Their eldest son (6th), George I.
Bergen, born June 16, 1 764, married in 1 789
to Rebecca Combs. They had ten child-
ren, all born in New Jersey. Their eldest
son was (7th) John G., whose name heads
this sketch. Both his parents being con-
sistent Christians, he, under their training
and example, became a member of the
Presbyterian church, at thirteen years of
age. He attended Baskingridge Acade-
my, and when properly prepared entered
the junior class at Princeton College, and
graduated at seventeen years of age.
Having chosen the ministry, he com-
menced a theological course of study un-
der Rev. Dr. John Woodhull, who had

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been appointed by the Synod of New
York and New Jersey, Professor of The-
ology, in the absence of a seminary for
that purpose. At 20 years of age he was
licensed to preach the gospel. It was his
desire to mount his horse, go to the west
and commence preaching, but he was in-
duced to accept the position of tutor in
Princeton College in 1810. In Sept.,
1812, he resigned that position, and in Oct.,
1812, accepted a call as pastor of the Pres-
byterian Church at Madison, N. J. Rev.
John G. Bergen was married Nov. 10,
1812, at Freehold, N. J., to Margaretta
M. Henderson, vyho was born in 1793 in
that city. Her father, Dr. Thomas Hen-
derson, was a Judge, member of Con-
gress, and a ruling Elder in the old Ten-
nent church at Freehold. The pastor of
that church, Rev. William Tennent, to all
human appearance died, and after laying
three days in what proved to be a trance,
he opened his eyes just as they were clos-
ing the coffin for the last time.

Rev. J. G. Bergen was pastor of the
church at Madison for about 16 years,
during which time his labors were greatly
blessed. They had five children born at
Madison. George I. Bergen, the father
of Rev. J, G. Bergen, was a merchant,
and sustained such losses during the war
with England, beginning in 1812, that he
closed hig business, and in the summer of
1818 emigrated to Woodford county, Ky.
In 1824 Mr. G. I. Bergen, in company
with a married son and daughter and their
father-in-law, Major Conover, six persons
in all, set out to explore Indiana, and
camped near where Indianapolis now
stands. They made up their minds to
remain there, and one night while they
were around their camp-fire, they were
startled with the cry of "Who's here!"
coming out of the darkness. The words
were run together, and seemed like a sin-
gle word, " Hoosier, " and this circum-
stance is believed to have been the origin
of that appellation for citizens of that
State. The traveler who had thus uncer-
emoniously approached them remained all
night, and before he left next morning
had convinced them that it was better to
go and see the .prairies of Illinois. The
result was that they settled in Jersey
prairie, twelve miles north of Jacksonville,
in Morgan, now Cass, county, 111. George
I. Bergen died in 1625, and his widow

married Rev. Mr. Kenner, in 1827, and
they visited Mrs. Kenner's old home in
New Jersey. While there her son, Rev.
J. G. Bergen, resigned his pastorate of the
church at Madison, Sept. 10, 1828, for the
purpose of accompanying his mother to
Illinois. The party started Sept. 22, 1828,
going b)1 the way of Lexington and
Frankfort, Ky., to visit friends. After a
journey of nearly 1,500 miles, they arrived
at Springfield, Nov., 1828, bringing their
five children, namely —

JANE ELIZA, born 1813, in Madi-
son, N. J., came with her parents to
Springfield. Soon after their arrival, her
father built a house on his own lot at the
south side of Washington street, between
Fourth and Fifth streets, and in that she
taught school in 1829. That was believed
to have been the first school taught by a
lady in Springfield. She was married in
April, 1833 to Col. Robert Allen. See his
name.

CATHARINE H., born Sept. 21,
1816, in New Jersey, married in Spring-
field to Edward Jones. See his name.

AMELIA M., born July, 1818, in
New Jersey, married in Springfield, May,
1840, to Joshua G. Lamb, a cousin of
James L. Lamb. They are without fam-
ily, and reside in Alton.

THOMAS H., born Dec. 15, 1820, at
Madison, Morris county, N. J., brought
up in Springfield, married March 29, 1849,
at Trenton, N. J., to Mary G. Cooley.
She was born in that city, July 20, 1823.
Soon after they were married they left for
Springfield, and while on board a small
steamboat on the Ohio river, near Wheel-
ing, West Va., it blew up, killing 17 per-
sons. They escaped with their lives, but
lost their entire baggage. They are with-
out family, and reside one mile east of
Springfield.

GEORGE, born April 5, 1824, at
Madison, Morris county, X. J., brought
up in Springfield, 111., is unmarried, and
resides one mile east of Springfield.

Mrs. Margaretta M. Bergen died Oct.
1 8, 1853, near Springfield, 111. Dr. Ber-
gen was married at the latter place, Nov.
9, 1857, to Mrs. Susan A. Vunhoff. Rev.
Dr. J. G. Bergen died Jan. 17, 1872, and
his widow resides in Springfield.

Dr. Bergen, describing Springfield as
he first saw it, said it was composed of
about thirty-five log cabins, two or three

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small frame houses, without a place of
divine worship other than a log school
house just built. That school house stood
in the street at the crossing of Adams and
Second streets, in a thicket of hazel and
brier bushes, and a few tall oaks. It was
built in the street because (he says) the
town authorities and owners of the lots
were too penurious to donate the land.
Rev. J. G. Bergen found a Presbyterian
Church that had been organized Jan. 30,
1828, by Rev. John M. Ellis, a missionary
from the southern part of the State. It
was without a house of worship. He
took charge of the church, and on the
second Sabbath after his arrival he gave
notice to the little church and the people
generally, that he came to Springfield,
not to make an experiment, but to live,
labor and die on the field with his armor
on, and then said: " Come, let us rise up
and build a house for God. " A brick
house was accordingly built at the east
side of Third street, between Washington
and Adams. He says that was the first
church built in the central part of the
State for any Protestant denomination.
The Methodists of Springfield were build-
ing a frame house of worship at the same
time, but they were a few weeks later in
finishing it. The original members of the
First Presbyterian Church were Mrs.
Elizabeth Smith, widow of Rev. John
Blair Smith, D. D., mother of Mrs. Dr.
John Todd. The Presbyterian Church of
Springfield was organized in her house.
The other members were John Moore,
John N. Moore, Andrew Moore, Mary
Moore, Elizabeth Moore, Margaret
Moore, Catharine Moore, Phoebe Moore,
James White, Elijah Scott, Jane Scott,
Samuel Reed, Jane Reed, William Proc-
tor, Sarah Stillman, Nancy R. Hum-
phreys, Ann lies and Olive Slater, nine-
teen in all ; five only lived in Springfield.
Some lived forty miles distant. The
Ruling Elders were John Moore, John
N. Moore, Samuel Reed and Isaiah Still-
man. Rev. J. G. Bergen preached, as
stated supply, until 1835, when he received
a formal call to become Pastor of the
church, and was installed Nov. 15 of that
year. That was the only Presbyterian
Church in the country at that time. Six
churches have been organized by colonies
from that church (two of them in the
city). During the ministry of Rev. Mr.

Bergen, from 1828 to 1848, when he re-
signed the pastorate, five hundred were
added to the church. When he came to
Springfield he was the eighth Presbyte-
rian minister in the State, and the farthest
north of any of them. There were
twenty-five churches under the care of
these eight ministers. He lived to see,
including both branches of the Presbyte-
rian and the Congregational churches, 600
ministers and 800 churches in the State.
He assisted in forming the first Presbytery
and first Synod in the State; was the first
Moderator of each. When the Old and
New school churches were reunited in
1869, he was the first Moderator of the
United Synod.

In 1854, without any previous intima-
tion of their intentions, Center College, at
Danville, Ky., conferred on the Rev..John
G. Bergen the Degree of D. D.

After his resignation as pastor of the
First Church, he devoted much of his
time to writing for the religious press,
over the signature of " Old Man of the
Prairies." He has left two large scrap
books full of these writings.

BERRY, ROBERT E., was
born Dec. 3, 1823, in Davidson county,
near Nashville, Tenn. When a child his
parents moved, first into Madison, and
then into Gibson county,- in the same
State. From there they moved to Wil-
liamson county, 111., and from there to
Christian county, in 1844. Robert E. left
his parents in Williamson county, and
come to Sangamon county, in what is
now Cooper township, in Dec., 1840. He
was married Sept. 8, 1850, to Elizabeth
Stokes, who was born Aug. 6, 1832.
They had one child —

AMANDA M., who died at the age of
seven years. Mrs. Berry died Sept. 25,
1853, and Mr. Berry was married Oct. 8,
1856, to Sophia Barger. They have seven
children, namely —

WILLIAM, FRANCIS M. and
BENJAMIN F., twins— F. M. died in
his sixth year— LA URA E., EMMA D.,
LIZZIE and CHARLES-, the six liv-
ing, reside with their parents.

Robert E. Berry resides at Berry post-
office, Clarksville, Sangamon county.

BETTIS, JAMESH., was born
Oct. 18, 1811, in Lincoln county, Ky.
His parents moved to Hamilton county,
O., in 1818. James H. came to Sangamon

SANGAMON COUNTT.

county in 1839. He was married July 28,
1844, in what is now Auburn township, to
Elizabeth Fletcher. They had six children
in Sangamon county, and in 1855 moved
to Missouri. In 1864 they moved back to
Sangamon county. Of their children —

OLIVER F., born in Sangamon
county, married June 20, 1866, to Jane
Patterson. They reside in Auburn town-
ship.

REBECCA J., born in Sangamon
county, married Franklin Nicholson, and
reside near Virden.

JAMES W., MARTHA E., NAN-
CY A. and JOHN JR., the four latter
reside with their parents in Auburn town-
ship.

The parents of J. H. Bettis moved
from Ohio to DeWitt county, 111., before
he came to the State. After his father's
death, his mother came to Sangamon
county, in 1842, and died in 1850. She
was born in Garrard county, Ky., in 1780,
and is believed to have been the first
white child born in that county.

BEVANS, JpHN, was born in
Maryland, and married, near Snow Hill,
to Mary Rounds. They had six children,
and she died. He married Margaret
Jones, and had one child in Maryland.
The family moved to Woodford county,
Ky., and from there to Sangamon county,
111., arriving, in 1828, in Island Grove,
south of Spring creek. Of his seven
children —

MARl^HA, born in Maryland, mar-
ried in Kentucky to Alexander Mont-
gomery, came to Sangamon county in
1828. They had six children, and the
parents died in Berlin. Their only child
living in Sangamon county, MARTiN,
resides in Springfield.

WILLIAM, born in Maryland, mar-
ried, had two children, and died near
Chillicothe, O.

DRUZILLA, born in Maryland, mar-
ried at Island Grove to Fielding Jones,
have six children, and reside near As-
sumption, Christian county 111.

BARSHEBA, born" in Maryland,
married in Kentucky to Hiram Bailey,
and died in Indiana.

JOHN D., born Oct. 5, 1813 in Wor-
cester county, near Snow Hill, Md., came
to Sangamon county in 1828. married at
Island Grove, Jan" 2, 1842, to Nancy
Foutch. They had eight children:

THOMAS F., born in Sangamon county
June 19, 1843, married March 27, 1870, at
Carbondale, to Carrie L. Collins, who
was born Oct. 3, 1850, at Wheeling, Va.
They have one child, EDDIE F., and reside
in Berlin. The other seven were born in
Wapello county, Iowa, two of whom
died young. MARY R., born Sept.
24, 1847, in Iowa, married Hawes
Yates. See his name. JOHN D., Jun.,
born Nov. 10, 1850, and HENRY K.,
reside with their mother. MARTHA
resides with her sister, Mrs. Yates.
RACHEL lives with her mother. John
D. Bevans died Jan. 13, 1858, in W'apello
county, Iowa. His widow resides in Ber-
lin.

NANCY, born in Maryland, was mar-
ried at Island Grove to Amon Blaney.
Both died in St. Clair county.

By the second marriage —

SARAH, born in 1824, in Maryland,
married near Berlin to Thomas G. Men-
denhall, and reside at Berlin.

John Bevans died in March, 1837, an<^
Mrs. Margaret Bevans died April, 1859,
both in Island Grove township.

BICE, JOHN, born Nov. 4, 1808,
in Henry county, Ky. He came to San-
gamon county in 1834, and was married
May 5, 1835, near Mechanicsburg, to
Mary A. Pickrell. They settled in what
is now Williams township, one and a half
miles north of the present town of Bar-
clay. They had six children there —

SARAH E., born Feb. 8, 1836, mar-
ried James F. Hickman. See his name.

JESSE W., born Oct. 21, 1837, en'
listed in Co. A. 3rd 111. Cavalry, Aug. 14,
1 86 1. He was promoted for meritorious
conduct at Pea Ridge, to Lieutenant,
afterwards to Captain, and the last ten
months he served with the rank of Major.
He was honorably discharged in Nov.,
1865. In Dec. following he was appointed
assistant assessor of internal revenue, until
the office was abolished by Congress, May
20, 1873. J. W. Bice was married Sept.
19, 1872, to Belle Wrarinner, daughter of
the late Dr. Warinner, of Bloomington.
They have one child, JESSIE BELLE.
Major Bice is now Deputy Sheriff of
Sangamon county, and resides in Spring-
field.

BENJAMIN F. born June 28, 1840,
enlisted in Co. B, i3Oth 111. Vol. Inf., and
was mustered in at Camp Butler, Aug. i,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

1862. He was appointed 2nd Sergeant
of same company, at Memphis, Tenn.,
Nov. 26, 1862, and served until Aug. n,
1865, when he was mustered out by spe-
cial order at New Orleans, La., for the pur-
pose of accepting a commission from Gov.
R. J. Oglesby, dated July 26, 1865, as
2nd Lieut. Co. D, 3Oth 111. Vol. Inf. He
was honorably discharged Aug. 12, 1865.
B. F. Bice was married in Dec., 1867, to
Bertha Owen. They have three children,
MARY, EMMA G. and EVA, and re-
side near Elkhart, Logan county, Illinois.

ABEL P., born Dec. 3, 1842. He was
married in 1863 to Melissa C. Blue. They
have three children, JOHN H., AR-
THUR L. and NETTIE B., and reside
two miles north of Barclay.

SUE E. resides with her sister, Mrs.
J. F. Hickman, at the homestead where
her parents settled in 1835.

JOHN H., born Feb. 1 1, 1848, enlisted
in 1863 in i6th United States Inf. Served
three years, and was honorably discharged
in 1866. He was afterwards employed on
the Toledo, Wabash & Western railroad,
and was killed by an accident Jan. 31,
1871.

John Bice, died March 14, 1848, at the
family homestead, and his widow resides
with her sister, Mrs. Hall, at Buffalo.

BICE, SUSAN, born in Henry
county, Ky., married there to Elijah
Utterbach. See his name.

BILLINGS, ROBERT, was
born Jan., 1801, in Dorchester county,
Md. Mary Dean was born April 6, 1810,
in Somerset county, Md. They were
married Oct., 1829, in Sussex county, Del-
aware, and had two children born in Sum-
mit county, Md. They moved into
Baltimore county, where one child was
born and died, and then moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving Oct. 1840, in
what is now Rochester township, and had
nine children in Sangamon county. Of
their children —

NANCT E., born July 15, 1830, in
Maryland, married in Sangamon county
to John Short, had one child, and Mrs.
Short died.

MART E., born Feb. 15, 1833, in
Maryland, married in Sangamon county
to James Wilson, have two children, and
reside in Cotton Hill township.

WILLIAM EDWARD, born in
Sangamon county, died in his 23d year.

GEORGIANN, born in Sangamon
county, married Samuel Long, had one
child, and Mr. Long died, and she married
Win. Thompson. They have three
children, and reside near Lincoln.

SUSAN JANE,\)o\:n in Sangamon
county, married John Popp, have three
children, and reside in Cotton Hill town-
ship.

CHARLES //"., born in Sangamon
county, married Mrs. Martha Mortar.
He died July 31, 1871.

JOANNA, born in Sangamon county,
resides with her parents.

CHARLOTTE married John Miller,
have two children, and reside two and a
half miles south of Rochester.

CAROLINE married William Glenn.
They have two children, and reside three
miles south of Rochester.

JENNIE, born in Sangamon county,
Oct. 29, 1853, resides with her parents.

Robert Billings and his wife reside two
and a half miles south of Rochester.

BILLINGTON, JOHN, was
born Sept. 29, 1819, in the town of
Shrewsbury, Shrophshire, England. He
came to the United States, landing in New
York in June, and arrived early in Aug.,
1840, at Springfield. He lived several
years in the family of Willard Tinney, on
Richland creek, to learn farming. He
had learned the business of baker and
confectioner in England, and established
himself in that business in Springfield.
He was married, in Springfield, to Eliza-
beth A. Cannon. She died Nov., 1851,
not leaving any children. He was married
March 24, 1853, at Buffalo Hart grove, to
Rachel Constant. They have one child —

MART J., and reside at Dawson.

Mr. Billington erected a residence for
hirnself, where Dawson now stands, in
1854, before there was any station or town
laid out. When the postofHce was estab-
lished in that year, he was appointed Post-
master, which he held about seven years.
He was also the first station and express
agent at that place, and is yet (1874) acting
in that capacity. Mr. Billington's parents,
four brothers and one sister, came later.
These were William, the civil engineer,
now deceased. Thomas resides at
Mt. Pulaska, Henry at Waynesville,
James and Mary A.

BILYEU, PETER, was born
in 1777, in Alleghany county, Md., and

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was taken by his parents to Green river,
Ky. He was there married to Diana
Blackwill. They had two children in
Kentucky, and moved to Overton county,
Tenn., where twelve children were born;
two died young. The family moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct. i,
1829, in what is now Loami township,
where one child was born. Of their
children —

SARAH, born Nov. 26, 1801, in Ken-
tucky, married March 23, 1819, to William
Workman. See his name.

JOHN, born in 1803, in Kentucky,
married Elizabeth Workman in Tennes-
see, came to Sangamon county, raised a
large family, moved to Christian county,
and died there in 1867.

L YDIA, born in Tennessee, married
David Workman. See his name.

NANCY, born in Tennessee, married
Jacob Teeple, moved to Missouri, raised
a family, and he died there. She died in
Christian county, 111.

IS A A C, born in Tennessee, married
Polly Bilyeu, raised a family, and resides
in Missouri.

GEORGE, born in Tennessee, mar-
ried Elizabeth Workman, raised a family,
and resides in Christian county.

E LIZ ABE 777 married Richard Bil-
yeu. He was killed in time of the rebel-
lion, in Miller county, Mo., leaving a
widow and several children there.

POLLY married James McMullen,
have children, and reside in Missouri.

DIANA married Thomas Greening,
who died, and she married Stephen Work-
man, Jun. He died, leaving a widow and
four children in Christian county.

HANNAH married John WyckofT.
He died in Christian county. His family
reside in Missouri.

CYNTHIA, born Aug. 29, 1827, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county
to Levi Harbour, Jun. See his name.

MINER VA married Robert Fowler,
and resides in Kansas.

Peter Bilyeu died July 7, 1863, and his
widow died Sept., 1865, both in Christian
county, 111. ,

BIRD FAMILY, John Bird was
born Jan. i, 1767, in Essex countv, N. J.,
and when a young man, went to Wash-
ington, Mason county, Ky. Abigail Au-
ter was born May 26, 1780, in Essex
county, N. J., also, and in 1798 went with

her widowed mother and two sisters to
Washington, Ky. John Bird and Abigail
Auter were married there in 1801. They
had ten children in Mason county, Ky.,
and the entire family moved, in 1825, to
Harrison county. John Bird died there,
of cholera, July 15,1833. Their daughter,
Sarah, who was married to Jesse Folks,
died six days before her father, and their
son John, in his thirteenth year, died seven
days after his father, all of the same
disease. Mrs. Bird, with some of her
children, came to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving Sept. 6, 1835, 'n wnat 's n°w
Mechanicsburg township. Her other
children came the next vear. Mrs. Abi-
gail Bird died in Sangamon county. Of
her eight children who came to the
county —

BIRD, MORRIS, was born Feb.
19, 1803, in Mason county, Ky., married,
March 29, 1827, in Harrison county, to
Sarah Brannock, who was born July 24,
1808, in Bourbon county, Ky. They had
four children in Harrison county; one died
in infancy, and they moved to Sangamon
county, 111., in 1835, an<^ settled near Me-
chanicsburg, where they had twelve child-
ren, eleven of whom died in infancy, and
Margaret died, aged nine years. Of the
other three —

MARY A. C., born Nov. 5, 1828, in
Harrison county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, Feb. 21, 1856, to Miles H.
Wilmot, who was born Jan. 5, 1825, in
Caswell county, N. C., and came to San-
gamon county in 1854. He has three
children by a former wife; two daughters,
married, and a son. All reside near Shel-
by, Iowa. M. H. Wilmot and wife have
no children except an adopted daughter,
ELLA WILMOT. They reside half a
mile east of Illiopolis. Mr. Wilmot has
been elected five years in succession, to
represent Illiopolis township in the Board
of Supervisors of Sangamon county, be-
ginning with the election of April, 1870.
He was chairman of the board for 1872
and '3. He also served five years as Justice
of the Peace and Police Magistrate in
Mechanicsburg and Illiopolis.

JOHN M., born April 23, 1834, in
Harrison county, Ky., raised in Sangamon
county, married in Griggsville, Pike coun-
ty, 111., Oct. 6, 1859, to Frances E. Green-
leaf, daughter of Rev. Calvin Greenleaf,
of the Baptist church. She was born in

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

Pike county, June 15, 1841. Mr. and
Mrs. Bird had three children, CLAR-
ENCE I. died in his third year. NEL-
LIE M. and CALVIN MORRIS reside
with their parents, in Mechanicsburg.

GEORGE W., horn Nov. 16, 1849,
in Sangamon county, resides with his par-
ents.

Morris Bird and wife reside at Mechan-
icsburg. He was commissioned as Post-
master at Mechanicsburg, March 28, 1848,
during the administration of President
Taylor, and has held the office under all
administrations to the present time.

BIRD, RICHARD, was born
Nov. 19, 1804, in Mason county, Ky. He
united with the M. E. church, in 1824, and
commenced preaching in 1827. His first
circuit was in the southern part of the
State, and extended into Tennessee. By
a singular coincidence, his colleagues bore
such names as to indicate that the trio be-
long to the feathered species of animated
nature, Crow, Martin and Bird. Rev.
Richard Bird was married, March 8, 1832,
in Shelby county, Ky., to Lucinda N.
Fullinwider. They had two children in
Kentucky, and came to Sangamon county,
111., settling near Mechanicsburg, and at
once united with the 111. Conf. M. E.
church, and commenced the work of a
traveling preacher. They had seven
children in Illinois, three of whom died
under seven years. The two born in Ken-
tucky died in Illinois, one at five and the
other at two years of age. Of the other
four —

FRANCES M., born Aug. 23, 1836,
in Sangamon county, married Thomas
Scott, and had four children ; two died in
infancy. CHARLES W. and HAR-
RIET B. reside with their mother. She
was married Jan. 10, 1867, to Rev. Reuben
Gregg, of the M. E. Church. They have
three living children, ARTHUR B., EDA F.,
ALLEN c. and LURA R. They reside at
Augusta, 111.

RICHARD C, born August 8, 1838,
in Tazewell county, 111., married, Sept. 26,
1860, at Chatham, Sangamon county, to
Addie Hesser. He enlisted in 1862, for
three years, in Co. A., 730! 111. Inf. He
was injured, Sept. 26, 1862, in Louisville,
Ky., by a drunken driver upsetting an
army wagon, which fell upon him and
came near causing his death. He was dis-
charged on account of physical disability,

Feb. 23, 1863. He lost his right hand by
firing a salute at Mechanicsburg, July 4,
1864. Mr. and Mrs Bird had three child-
ren in Sangamon county, and in the fall of
1866 moved to Kansas, where they had
four. Their names are EDWARD T.,
ALLISON E., HENRY E., RICH-
ARD N., JOHN M., LUCINDA A.
and HARRIET F., and reside near
Ottawa, Kansas.

JACOB F., born August 5, 1846, in
Sangamon county, married Sept. 16, 1873,
at Payson, 111., to Mrs. Anna E. Vickers,
whose maiden name was Hughes. She
was born Dec. 31, 1849, in Butler county,
Ohio. They reside at the family home-
stead, adjoining Mechanicsburg on the
south.

THOMAS J/., born Sept. 10, 1848,
in Sangamon county, married, Oct. 19,
1871, at Decatur, to Florence M. Wood,
who was born Sept. 10, 1851, at Clarence-
ville, Lower Canada. They have two child-
ren, JOHN RICHARD and ETHEL
LUCINDA, and reside one and a half
miles southwest of Mechanicsburg.

Rev. Richard Bird considers the vicinity
of Mechanicsburg his home, but continues
to travel as a preacher in the M. E. church,
in the Illinois Conference. His residence
for the conference year of 1875-6 is
Easton, Mason county, 111.

BIRD, JOANNA, was born
Nov. 20, 1807, in Mason county, Ky.,
married to James M. Dixon. See his
name. He died and she married John C.
Eckel. See his name.

B I R D, T H O M AS, was born Dec.
25, 1809, in Mason county, Ky., came to
Sangamon county in 1835. He never
married, and died Sept. u, 1858, near
Mechanicsburg.

BIRD, A BRA HAM, born Aug.
30, 1813, in Mason county, Ky., came to
Sangamon county in 1836, married, May
9, 1839, to Nancy Riddle. Thev had one
child—

DA VII) /?., born April 26, 1841, in
Sangamon county. He enlisted; was
with his cousin, Dr. Riddle, all through
the war to suppress the rebellion. Present
residence not known.

Mrs. Nancy Bird died April 26, 1841,
and Abraham Bird died Feb. 19, 1853,
both in Sangamon countv.

BIRD, HENRY, was born Dec.
15, 1815, in Mason county, Ky., came to

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121

Sangamon county in 1836, was married
Sept. 30, 1841,10 Margaret J. Hussey,who
was born April 5, 1821, in Sangamon
county, 111. Two children were born
there, and in 1845 they moved overland in
wagons, to Yamhill county, Oregon. Five
children were born there, and they moved
to Portland, Multnomah county, Oregon,
where one child was born. Of their nine
children —

CLARISSA, born August 30, 1842,
in Sangamon county, 111., married in Or-
egon, July 30, 1861, to Hiram Ransom,
and resides in California.

MART E., born June 23, 1844, in
Sangamon county, married in Oregon,
Dec. 29, 1869, to W. S.James. She died
Feb. 19, 1874, in Portland, Oregon, leaving
two children, viz: ELLA and MARY,
the latter died August 9, 1874. Mr. James
resides in Portland.

NATHAN H., born Dec. 12, 1846, in
Yamhill county, was married March 15,
1870, to Alice Talbot. They have two
children, WALTER and VIOLA, and
reside near Bellvue, Yamhill county, Ore-
gon.

RICHARD, born April 5, 1848, in
Yamhill county, is unmarried, and resides
in Portland.

JOHN, born Sept. 20, 1851, in Yam-
hill county, is unmarried, and resides in
Portland.

CORXELIA E., born Nov. 20,
1853, in Yamhill county, resides with her
mother.

STEPHEN, born Oct. 9, 1855, in
Yamhill county, resides near Sheridan,
Yamhill county, on a farm.

BENJAMIN M., born April i, 1858,
in Yamhill county, resides with his mother.
WILLIAM ^born Dec. n, 1862, in
Portland, resides with his mother.

Henry Bird died August 20, 1873, in
Portland, and his widow resides there.

BIRD, HETTY E., was born
July 9, 1818, in Mason county, Ky., came
with her mother to Sangamon county in
1835. She was married near Mechanics-
burg, Feb. 25, 1845, to Samuel Powers,
who was born April 28, 1797, in Hamp-
shire county, Va. They had one child,
and Mrs. Powers died, March 16, 1851, in
Sangamon county. Mr. Powers moved
to Iowa with his daughter —

RHODA A., born Sept. 19, 1848, in
Sangamon county, and married in Iowa,
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July 22, 1865, to Barzilla Reeves, who
was born April 5, 1841. They had five
children in Iowa. Their second child,
ISAAC N., died in his fourth year. AN-
DREW J., DAVID M., GARRISON
B. and HESTER A., reside with their
parents, near Sidney, Fremont county,
Iowa.

Samuel Powers resides in Atchison
county, Mo.

BIRD, ABIGAIL, was born
Sept. 27, 1824, in Mason county, Ky.,
came with her mother to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., in 1835, married, Oct. 12, 1843, to
Hugh Sutherland. He was born May 4,
1816, in Edinburgh, Scotland, came to
America in 1827, remained in the Atlantic
States until 1841, when he came to San-
gamon county. Mr. and Mrs. S. had nine
children, Charles W., next to the young-
est, died in his third year. Of the other
eight —

HESTER J., born Dec. 21, 1844, in
Sangamon county, married March 17,

1869, to Joseph N. Burcham, have two
children, REUBEN and JOHN L., and
reside three and a quarter miles east of
Mechaniscburg.

BETST J., born Sept. 17, 1846, died
Sept. 2, 1858.

JOHN G., born April 28, 1848, in
Sangamon county, married, August 31,

1870, in his native county, to Mary J.
Peak. They had two children, AR-
THUR CLARK and CARLOS B.
The latter died in his second year. Mrs.
S. died March 12, 1875, in the twenty-
seventh year of her age. John G. Suther-
land resides at Warrensburg, 111.

ELLEN R. born Jan. 30, 1850, in
Sangamon county, married Feb. 14, 1875,
to William Upton, and resides three and
a half miles east of Mechanicsburg.

ABIGAIL ANN, born Dec. 23, 1851,
in Sangamon county, married Feb. 7,
1875, to Charles Mussenden, and resides
four miles east of Mechanicsburg.

THOMAS M., born Sept. 8, 1854,

J IIJGH A., born Dec, 12, 1856, and

CHAR LET B., born Dec. 29, 1861.

The three latter reside with their par-
ents, adjoining Illiopolis on the east.

BLACK, SAMUEL, was born
July 2, 1798, in Augusta county, Va.
Mildred Gaines, a niece of Mrs. Peter Cart-
wright, was born Oct. 4, 1802, in Char-
lotte county, Va. They were married,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

Feb. 20, 1822, near Hopkinsville, Ky..
where their parents had emigrated when
they were quite young. They had one
child in Kentucky, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving Nov. 19, 1825,
in what is now Cartwright township,
where they had two children, and in 1828
moved to Morgan county, where seven
children were born. Of their children—

ELIZA, horn Dec. 31, 1824, in Ken-
tucky, married George Ragen, have seven
children, and reside in Cass countv, Iowa.

JAMES R., born July 5, 1826, in
Sangamon county, married Dec. 13, 1863,
to Arvilla M. McMurphy, who was born
Nov. 25, 1833, in St. Lawrence countv,
N. Y. They have four children, VIC-
TOR C., JENNIE M., IONA C. and
ALBERT C., and reside one and a quar-
ter miles north of Pleasant Plains, with-
in half a mile of where he was born, on
the farm of his grandfather, Rev. Richard
Gaines.

WILLIAM, born April 5, 1828, in
Sangamon county, married Jane Short,
and died in three months after marriage.

SARAH B., born May i, 1833, m Mor-
gan county, married Til man Sharp, has
one child, and resides in Morgan county.

JOHN, born Dec. 3, 1830, just before
the "deep snow," married Sarah Vaughn,
have three children, LOU ELLA, J. W.
and J. R., and reside in Morgan county.

AMY, born Feb. 5, 1839, died Sept. 8,
1869.

MARTHA G., born Feb. 4, 1835, is
unmarried, and resides with her parents.

SAMUEL, Jim., born June 27, 1837,
married, Dec. 2, 1860, to Mary Self, have
two children, W. E. and C. S., and reside
in Morgan county.

MARY J,, born March 9, 1842, mar-
ried, Sept. 20, 1 86 1, to James Phillips,
who died, and she married Wm. Self, and
resides in Cass county.

MILDRED, born Jan. 7, 1845, mar-
ried Samuel T. Mattix, has one child, and
resides in Morgan county.

Samuel Black and his wife reside six
miles north of Jacksonville, surrounded
by most of their children. Mr. Black
made his first trip to Sangamon county to
move the mother of Rev. Peter Cart-
wright. He made, altogether, seven
round trips with a six horse team, when
there were no roads,' in moving the Cart-
wright, Gaines and Black families.

BLACK, WILLIAM, born
about 1793, in Edinburgh, Scotland. lie
came to America when young, landing at
Philadelphia. A stone cutter by trade, he
was employed on some of the banks and
other public buildings in that city, finish-
ing with a contract on Girard College.
Anna Young was born April 6, 1 798, in
the city of Philadelphia. William Black
and Anna Young were there married,
Dec. 7, 1820. Their nine children were
born in Philadelphia, one of whom died
young. Mr. Black came to Springfield
in the fall of 1839, and April, 1840, his
family arrived and moved to a farm he
had purchased, six miles northeast of
Springfield. Of their eight children—

JOHAr, born April 12, 1822, is unmar-
ried. He went to California in 1849, and
now resides in San Francisco.

WILLIAM,]m\., born April 21, 1824,
in Philadelphia, was drowned, April 9,
1849, in a slough near where the Gilman
and Clinton railroad crosses the Sangamon
river.

HENRY,\>orn July 23, 1826, in Phil-
adelphia, married, May 3, 1871, in Hum-
boldt, Kansas, to Mrs. Artenecia A. Cham-
bers, whose maiden name was Braclshaw.
They have two children ANNA A. and
BLANCHE, and reside at Humboldt,
Kansas.

JAMES, born July 8, 1828, in Phila-
delphia, was married March 2, 1852, to
Amanda A. Cartmell. They had one
child, and Mrs. Black died, Jan. u, 1854.
Mr. Black was married, Feb. 5, 1862, to
Eliza A. Cartmell. They have four child-
ren. Of his five children, WILLIAM
L., by the first marriage, and the other
four, Wr ALTER B., ALVIN F., AMAN-
DA M. and EMMA T., reside with their
father, on the farm settled by his father in
1840, six miles northeast of Springfield.

GEORGE W., born August 15, 1830,
married Sept. 21, 1858,10 Sarah A. Mann.
They had eight children, two of whom
died young. MARY E., ELIZABETH,
ANNIE L., HENRY F., THOMAS
M. and CHARLES W., and reside on
Round Prairie, five miles east of Spring-
field, between the mouth of Spring Creek
and South Fork.

ANNA E., born Sept. 26, 1832, mar-
ried, Jan. I, 1852,10 Marion F. Whitesides.
(See his name.')

SANGAMON COUNTT.

FRANCIS G., born Feb. 27, 1835,
married, Oct. 4, 1859, to Elizabeth Ham-
mond. They had two children, JOHN
W. and ELIZA J., and Mr. Black en-
listed August, 1862, in Co. G., i I4th 111.
Inf., for three years, and died of disease at
Vicksburg, just after the surrender by the
rebels, July 4, 1863. His remains were
brought home and interred near German
Prairie Station. His children reside with
their mother, who married A. R. Welch.

WALTER C., born Sept. 22, 1837,
enlisted in Co. G., i I4th 111. Inf., for three
years, August =5, 1862, was twice slightly
wounded, served full time, and was honor-
ably discharged, August 10, 1865. He
was married, Feb. 5, 1866, to Permelia F.
Cartmell. They have three children,
ANNA C., FRANCIS E. and ORA
EVA, and reside two miles southeast of
Riverton. *

Margaret Allison lived as one of the
family of William Black, in Philadelphia.
She came with the family to Sangamon
county, and died Sept. 20, 1840, aged 29
years.

William Black died Dec. 15, 1858, and
his widow died July 25, 1874, both on the
farm where they settled in 1840. Mr.
Black became a member of the Scots
Thistle Society soon after his arrival in
Philadelphia, and remained a member as
long as he lived.

BLACK, THOMAS, was born
Oct. 25, 1768, and went from South Caro-
lina to Christian co'unty, Ky., where he
was married to Edith A. Pyle. They
moved to southern Illinois just before the
"Shakes" — meaning the earthquake of
1811, that sunk New Madrid, Missouri.
They fled in terror back to Kentucky ;
but finding the earth did not all sink, they
returned to southern Illinois, and moved
to what became Sangamon county, arriv-
ing April 9, 1819, in what is now Auburn
township. Of their children, vix —

.SARAH, born July 3, 1796, in Ken-
tucky, married there to a Mr. Edwards.
They had one child, SUSAN, who mar-
ried W m. Woods. Mr. Edwards died, and
his widow married Bailey Taylor. They
had three children, viz: AMANDA mar-
ried Peter Wheeler. EMMA married Mil-
ler Bagby. THOMAS B. was married
in"i866. He had three children ; one is dead.
Mr. Taylor died, and the family moved to

McDonough county, 111., and from there
to Iowa, where she died.

DA I ID, born Sept. 17, 1798, in Ken-
tucky, married Jan. 2, 1823, in Sangamon
county, to Sarah Moffitt. They had six
children. WILLIAM married Millie
Moore, and live near Belleville, St. Clair
county. GEORGE married Viney
Broom, and resides near Blue Mound,
Macon county, 111. EDITH A. married
Wm. Simmons. He died, and Mrs. S.
married Mr. Brown. They reside in
Texas. The others are ANN E., LEAN-
DER and FRANCIS. David Black
died Oct. 7, 1856, in Chatham township,
and his widow resides with her youngest
son, in Macon county, near Blue Mound.

ELlZABETH,\>orn March 6, 1803,
in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county to John Harris. They had one
child, JAMES, who was drowned in a
mill pond while fishing, aged fourteen
years. Mr. and Mrs. Harris both died in
Macoupin county.

NANCT, born Aug. 4, 1806, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county, Aug.
1 8, 1833, to John N. Viney, who died
Jan. 5, 1871, and Mrs. Nancy V. died
May 23, 1871, without children. See his
name,

JOHN, born Aug. 8, 1809, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county, Aug.
4, 1831, to Sarah Myers. They had nine
children; three died young. Of the other
six, ELMINA died Feb. 23, 1858, aged
22 years. DRUSILLA, born Aug. 30,
1837, m Sangamon county, married June
:o, 1856, to James Babcock. They had
nine children; one died young. RICHARD
j. o. died Aug. 4, 187^. WILLIAM died

Aug. 23, 1875. LAURA, ELLEN, ALI5KRT
M., ADDIK M., IRA J. and ANNETTA E.

The family reside near Oreana, Macon
county, 111". THOMAS, born Oct. 6,
1839, in Sangamon county, was married
April 12, 1863,10 Mary M. Leu is, who
died Dec. 21, 1865, and he was married
Feb. 3, 1868. to Emily C. (Irave>, who
died Aug. 10, 1871, leaving one child,
FLOSSIE L. Mr. Black \vas married Apul
6, 1873^, to Martha J. Dodds. They have
one child, a son, and reside two miles east
of Auburn. ALBERT M., born Sept.
14, 1843, in Sangamon county, was mar-
ried June 24, 1 86^, to Salome T. Ham.
Thev have two children, and reside near
Pawnee. ADALIXE M., born May -'5,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

1847, married Aug. 2, 1865, to Wm. D.
Patton. See his name. She died Jan.
26, 1875, leaving two children. JOHN
W., born Sept. 29, 1851, in Sangamon
county, married Feb. 2, 1873, to Susan R.
Kimble. They have two children, JOHN
D. and EMILY, and reside three miles east
of Auburn. John Black died Aug. I,
1855, and his widow, Mrs. Sarah Black,
died March 18, 1858, both in Auburn town-
ship.

THOMAS, born Sept. 3, 1813, in
Christian county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, March 7, 1855, to Mary J.
Wallace, who was born Nov. i, 1831.
They have three children, EDITH,
MARY F. and MARCHIE, and reside
in less than half a mile of where his father
settled in 1819, about three and a half
miles east of Auburn.

CARTER T., born Jan. 24, 1818,
was married Oct. 8, 1840, to Mary C.
Coberly, who was born Nov. 7, 1820. Of
their six children, namely: ELLEN E.,
born in Auburn township, July 12, 1841,
married July i, 1858, to J. T. Graves.
They have six children, ROBERT L., MARY

N., ZILDAH S., WILLIAM J., MARK and

CATHARINE, and reside in Butler, Bates
county, Mo. JOSEPH C., born Aug.
29, 1843, in Auburn township, 111., died in
Missouri. CHARLES C., born Aug. 22,
1845, in Andrew county, Mo., died in
Nodaway county, Mo. WILLIAM T.,
born May 21, 1848, in Andrew county,
Mo., married in Nodaway county to Mary
C. Crabtree, Dec. 29, 1869. They had
one child, JAMES T. Wm. T. Black and
son died in Bates county, Mo. GEORGE
H., born March n, 1858, in Nodaway
county, Mo., and JOHN D., born Sept.
16, 1860, in Nodaway county, reside there.

Mrs. Carter Black died May 14, 1875,
in Nodaway county, Mo. Carter Black
is now (1876) in Sangamon county.

Mrs. Edith A. Black died April 15,
1822, and Thomas Black was married in
1823 or '4 to Mrs. Rebecca Viney, whose
maiden name was Shiles. She died Feb.
13, 1851, and Mr. B. died Nov. 3, 1851,
aged 84 years, both where he settled in
1819.

BLUE, JOHN, was born Sept. 9,
1777, in South Carolina. His father was
a soldier in the Revolutionary army, and
was taken prisoner by the British the
very day of his birth. His parents moved

to Fleming county, Ky., when he was
quite young. Elizabeth McNary was
born in South Carolina, and taken by her
parents to Fleming county, Ky., also.
They were there married about 1806, had
seven children in that county, and then
moved to Hopkins county, where they
had four children. About 1823 they
moved to Green county, O., where they
had two children, and then moved to San-
gamon county, arriving in the fall of 1830,
in what is now Clear Lake township.

MARTHA married Robert Blue, had
six children and died.

SAMUEL married Isabel Webb, had
eight children, and resides in Missouri.

DA VID H., born Sept. 23, 1816, in
Fleming county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county May 19, 1844, to Fannie
Webb. They had two children, one of
whom died young. MELISSA C. mar-
ried Abel P. Bice. See his name. David
H. Blue resides two miles north of Bar-
clay.

ELIZA married Adolphus Jones, had
one child, and all died.

WILLIAM M., born in Fleming
county, Ky., married in Sangamon county
to Adaline.Cline. They had five child-
ren. JAMES H. married Catharine
Dunlap, had one child, DORA E., and live
in Fancy creek township. GEORGE
W., LUCY, DAVID and PARTHEN-
IA, live with their mother. William M.
Blue enlisted in Aug., 1862, in Co. C, 114
111. Inf., for three years. He was killed
at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10,
1864. His widow married M. Hardman,
and lives near Cantrall.

HA RRISON married Margaret Alex-
ander. They had three children, and he
died in Fancy creek township.

CAROLINE married Stephen Can-
trail. They have six children, and live
near Kansas City, Mo.

AMOS went to Oregon when a young
man, and resides in Jackson county.

John Blue died in 1842, and his widow
in 1848, both in Sangamon county.

BONDURANT. The first known
of the name in America was Dr. Joseph
Bondurant, a Huguenot, who was ban-
ished from France on account of his relig-
ion, during the reign of Queen Anne,
about the year 1700. He was wealthy in
France, but could only bring his library
with him. He and his companions, Ford,

SANG A MON COUNTT.

Agee, O'Briant and Shatteen, all settled
in Virginia.

BON DURA NT, JOSEPH.
The fourth generation from Dr. Joseph
Bondurant, was born Sept. 15, 1801, in
Bedford county, Va., moved to Kentucky
in early life, and was married Oct. 27,
1823, to Martha Sharp. They moved to
Sangamon county Oct., 1828. He was
one of the early school teachers in the
Dickerson neighborhood. They had
eleven children, namely —

JOHN T., born June 5, 1824, in Ken-
tucky, raised in Sangamon county, mar-
ried near DesMoines, Iowa, in 1848, to
Virginia Cooney. In 1850 he emigrated
to California, and died in Sacramento,
Dec. 23, 1850, of disease contracted while
crossing the plains, leaving a childless
widow.

LUCRE TIA y., born Nov. 4, 1825,
in Kentucky, married Nov., 1845, in San-
gamon county, to Joel Churchill. See his
name. They reside at DeLand, Piatt
county, 111.

ELIZABETH T., born April 28,
1827, in Kentucky, married in Athens,
111., May 15, 1842, to William Miller, of
that place, where they resided until 1852,
when they moved to Mechanicsburg.
They had nine children, namely: MAR-
THA E., married Jan. 16, 1872, to T. P.
Lofland. She died June 14, 1873, leaving
a son six months old, to be brought up by
her aunt, Margaret D. Underwood. AN-
NIE M., JOHN T. and THOMAS B.
died under ten years. ALBERT D.,
JOSEPH W., SARAH J., AMANDA
B. and GEORGE L. live with their
mother. William Miller died July 17,
1868. His widow and children live in
Mechanicsburg.

ALEXANDER C., born Sept. i,
1829, in Sangamon county. He went to
Iowa in the winter of 1856, and was mar-
ried there Oct., i86i,to Margaret Brooks,
of DesMoines. They had seven child-
ren, namely: EMMA, FANNIE, LIZ-
ZIE, FRANK, FLORENCE, BUR-
TON and NELLIE, and reside near
Altoona, Polk county, Iowa.

THOMAS C., born Dec. 29, 1831, in
Sangamon county, settled in Piatt county
in 1856, near DeLand, Piatt county, 111.

SAMUEL T., born Dec. 9, 1834, in
Sangamon county, married Nov. 15, 1860,
in Douglas county, to Sarah Ellen Barnett.

They have two living children, and reside
near Wabash, Wayne county, 111. He en-
listed August 7, 1862, for three years, in
Co. E., ^th 111. Inf. Dec. 2, 1862, he
was detailed to the Pioneer Corps depart-
ment of the Cumberland. March 19, 1863,
he took charge of- four saw mills, on
Stone's river, Tenn., and put them in or-
der. Sept. 15, 1863, he was ordered to
Chattanooga, where he took charge of
building water-works, on the 8th of Octo-
ber, doing the civil engineering with a
common spirit level. He remained in
charge until May 15, 1865, when he re-
signed for the purpose of perfecting some
inventions of his own. He is now en-
gaged in the lumber trade.

MAR G ARE 7\/?.,born Jan. 31, 1837,
married Oct. 28, 1858, to Thomas Under-
wood. See his name.

MART E., born Feb. 3, 1840, is un-
married, and resides with her brother
Thomas, near DeLand, Piatt county, 111.

MARTHA K, born March 24, 1842,
in Sangamon county, married Jan., 1864,
to William Thornton, of DesMoines,
Iowa. They have three children, namely :
LILLIE, LUCY and HARRY, and re-
side near DesMoines.

JOSEPHN., born May 2, 1844. He
went to Iowa in 1866, and married in 1867
to Sarah DeVore. They had three child-
ren, WILLIAM, EARNEST and
FRANK. In 1871 Mr. J. N. Bondurant
returned to DeWitt county, 111., and re-
sides near Farmer City.

AMANDA E., born April 25, 1847,
in Sangamon county, died Oct. 4, 1858.

Mr. Joseph Bondurant died April 30,
1864, at his daughter's, Mrs. Lucretia
Churchill, near Mechanicsburg. Mrs.
Martha Bondurant resides with her son
Thomas, near DeLand, Piatt county, III.

BOLL, VALENTINE J., was
born April 22, 1807, at Flersheim, Nas-
sau, Germany. He came to America in
1833, arriving June 29, at Baltimore, being
forty-four days from Bremen. He went
to New Philadelphia, O., to see a relative,
thence to St. Louis, and from there to
Sangamon county, and made pottery for
Chistopher Newcomer two years. In the
fall of 1836 he started back to Germany
by way of New Orleans, and arrived at
his native town Jan. 2, 1837. He was
there married, April 2, 1837, to Elizabeth
C. Heller. She was born Feb. 13, 1819,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

in the same town. They embarked June
12, 1837, at Amsterdam, and were forty-
nine days on the passage to New York.
He went via Albany, Buffalo, Cleveland,
thence to Portsmouth, on the Ohio river,
thence to St. Louis and back to Sanga-
mon county, late in 1837. His father,
step-mother and five children, a married
sister and her husband, Garred Young,
and others, making a total of seventeen
persons, came with him. He made pot-
tery in Ball township for about eighteen
years, and then engaged in farming exclu-
sively. They had nine children, all born
in Sangamon county, two of whom died
young. Of the other seven —

GARHARD, born Nov. 2, 1838, in
Sangamon county, married Jan. 5, 1862,
to Mary J. Greenawalt. They had five
children, THOMAS H. and JAMES-A.,
the first and fourth, died young; MARY
E., AMANDA F. and SARAH M., re-
side with their parents, one mile northwest
of Pawnee.

ELIZABETH, born in Sangamon
county, married John T. Burtle, Jun. See
his name.

PAUL A., born in Sangamon county,
resides with his parents.

GEORGE P., born in Sangamon
county, married Mary M. Mollihorn.
They had two children, WILLIAM A.
and CHARLES V., and reside in Ball
township.

CATHARINE J. married Patrick
McAnanry, have two children, MAT-
THEW and ROSA, and reside at Tallula.

MARGARET and E VA reside with
their parents in Ball township, five miles
southeast of Chatham.

BALL, JACOB born about 1829,
at Flersheim, Nassau, Germany, came to
America, and to Sangamon county, with
his half-brother Valentine, in 1837. He
was married in 1867 to Sarah Conner.
They have two children —

E LIZ ABE TH and THOMA S, and
reside in Ball township, six miles south-
east of Chatham.

BOWEN, ZAZA, was born Oct.
24, igo6, in Guilford county, N. C. His
father died when he was two years old,
and his mother, with her four children, the
eldest of whom was married, moved to
Cabell county, West Va., in 1817. Zaza
Bowen and Mary Knight were married
June 25, 1827, in that county, and hi the

fall of that year moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving Dec. 4, 1827, in what
is now Loami township. They had seven
children in Sangamon county. The two
eldest died under five years. Of the other
five children —

REBECCA J., born June 28, 1831,
married in 1850, to James W. George.
They have three living children, and re-
side near Mt. Auburn, Christian county.

ABNER, born Feb. 24, 1833, in San-
gamon county, married March 16, 1856,
to Frances A. Cutter. They have four
children. WALTER, N. C., and JOHN
CALHOUN, twins; ZAZA A. and
WILLIAM J. Not having a daughter,
they adopted one, whom they call KATIE
BOWEN. They reside on the farm set-
tled in 1828 by Mrs. B.'s father, S. R.
Cutter. It is two and a half miles north-
west of Loami.

ELIZABETH, born Nov. 13, 1834,
in Sangamon county, married Robert M.
Park. See his name.

ISABEL A., born Dec. 26, 1836, mar-
ried in 1855, to Charles W. Fisher. They
had five children, MARY E., NANCY
E., ELIZABETH C., WILLIAM Z.
and JOHN N. Mrs. F. and her children
reside three miles west of Loami.

WILLIAM A., born July 28, 1838,
died Oct. n, 1860.

Mrs. Mary Bowen died Dec. 31, 1839,
and Zaza B. married, Jan. 7, 1841, to Sarah
Park. They had four children; all died
under nine years.

Mrs. Sarah Bowen died Sept. 28, 1860,
and Zaza Bowen was married, Sept. 17,
1863, to Mrs. Lydia M. Light, whose
maiden name was Patterson. They reside
three miles west of Loami, on the farm
where he settled in 1836. Zaza Bowen
remembers Springfield when it was a col-
lection of round log huts, covered with
clapboards held on by weight poles. He
remembers seeing the jail covered with a
stack of hay.

BOWLING, JAMES, was born
March 8, 1790, in Fauquier county, Va.,
was taken by his parents to Tennessee
when he was nine years old, and from
there to Logan county, Ky., in 1808. He
was there married, Oct. 17, 1817, to Mar-
garet Jones, who was born Nov. 18, 1793,
in Mercer county, Ky. James Bowling
and wife left, the day after their marriage,
for Bond county, 111. They moved on

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horseback, each riding a horse and leading
a pack horse, to carry their goods. One
child was born in Bond county, 111., and
they moved to Sangamon county, arriving
in 1819, in what is now Rochester town-
ship, on the farm now owned by R. P.
Abel, adjoining Rochester on the west.
In 1830 they moved one mile north. They
had six children in Sangamon county. Of
their seven children —

ELIZABETH W., born Sept. 22,
1818, in Bond county, 111., was married in
Sangamon county, April 27, 1843, to
lames M. Logan. See his name. '

EL}'IRA /*., born Feb. 25, 1820, in
Sangamon county, was married April 28,

1844, to Daniel Barr. They had three
children. JAMES THOMAS married
Elizabeth Atkinson. They had two child-
ren, LOUIE and MATTIE, and Mr. Ban-
died, March 13, 1875, leaving his widow
and children in Rochester. MARGA-
RET E., born Oct. 16, 1846, married
Samuel West. See his name. CHAS.
E. born August 18, 1850, married, Dec. 2,

1873, to Louisa D. West, and lives in
Rochester. Daniel Barr and wife reside
in Rochester.

JOHN P., born Jan. 12, 1822, in San-
gamon county, was married Oct. 14, 1846,
in Green county, to Maria Lorton. They
had three children. Their second child,
SARAH M., died at Mt. Auburn in 1854,
in her fourth year. WILLIAM K. was
born Jan. i, 1849, and married August 27,

1874, to Alice Jernigan, who was born in
Greenville, Ky., and resides near Virden,
111. JAMES R., born Aug. 10, 1859, re-
sides with his parents, near Virden, 111.

JULIAN F., born Feb. 5, 1824, in
Sangamon county, was married Sept. 6,

1845, to Abraham E. Nickolls. He had
previously been married, and had two
children. They had seven children, and •
Mrs. Nickolls "died, Feb. 28, 1867, Of
their children, ANDREW T. resides at
Rochester, 111. MARGARET A. mar-
ried William Morgan,1 and resides near
Mt. Auburn. EMILY S. married John
Shewmaker, and resides near Decatur.
MARY J. married William Murphy, and
resides at Topeka, Kansas. ELIZA-
BETH A. married Wm. Meek, and re-
sides at Central City, Colorado. JAMES
B. and ELVIRA M. reside with their
father, at Kingsville, Kansas.

JANE A., born Oct. 6, 1826, adjoin-
ing Rochester on the west. She was mar-
ried, Feb. 2, 1854, to John Cassity, who
was born Jan. 12, 1821, in Bourbon coun- ,
ty, Ky., and came to Sangamon county in
the fall of 1830. They had five children,
three of whom died in infancy. WIL-
LIAM, born May 4, 1857, and FRANK,
born March 21, 1867, reside with their
parents, in Rochester, within 200 yards of
where Mrs. Cassity was born.

ARMIZA T., born Jan. 30, 1830, in San-
gamon county, was married, Mar. 10, 1853,
to John S. Highmore, who was born Sept.
22, 1828, in Somersetshire, England. He
came to America in 1849, and to Sanga-
mon county in March, 1850. They had
two children. LAURA, born Jan. 27,
1854, married John F. Miller, (see his
name^) and resides in Edinburg. AR-*
MIZA resides with her aunt, Jane A.
Cassity, who brought her up. Mrs.
Highmore died August 27, iS=;6, and Mr.
Highmore was married March, 1860, to
Mary A. Cloyd. See name of Cloyd.
They had three children, and Mrs. H.
died, and Mr. Highmore was married the
third time, to Mrs. Mary Price, widow of
Dr. Price, who was born in Virginia.
They reside in Rochester. He has been
a member of the county board of super-
visors from 1863 to 1867, and from 1872
to 1875.

Mrs. Margaret Bowling died Nov. 14,
1846, and James Bowling died April 12,
1853, both near Rochester.

BOYD, JOHN, was born Feb. 13,
1777, in Pennsylvania, and went to Bote-
tourt county, Va., when a young man.
Susannah Hiner was born Dec. 22, 1780,
in Botetourt county, Va., and they were
there married June 26, 1802. Two child-
ren were born in Virginia, and they
moved to Franklin county, O., about 1806,
where six children were born. The fam-
ily then moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in the fall of 1819 in what is now
Ball township, where one child was born.
Mr. Boyd was a millwright, and his ser-
vices were in great demand. In the fall
of 1830 he was at work on a mill on the
Sangamon river north of Rochester,
known afterwards as Baker and Darling's
mill. Wishing to visit his family, and
having some business at Springfield, he
went there first, and then started home.
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EARLT SETTLERS OF

which proved to be the precursor of the
deep snow. The walking was laborious,
and the next day his body was found by
his neighbor, Christopher Newcomer. It
was six miles southeast of Springfield, on
what is now the farm of William South-
wick. He was found just as the snow
began to fall, and if he had lain another
day would not have been seen until
spring. Of his children —

HANNAH, born in Botetourt county,
Va., was married in Sangamon county,
111., to John Dillon. They botii died near
the town of Dillon, in Tazewell county,
leaving six children residing there. JESSE
went to Arkansas, married and died there.
SUSANNAH was married Aug. 24,
1848, to Joseph Meredith, and died Dec.
24, 1868, in Christian county. MARY
•married Timothy Larramore, and resides
near Tremont, Tazewell county, 111.
WILLIAM died in Sangamon county.
JANE resides with her sister Mary.
DANIEL served four years in an Illinois
regiment, and died in Tazewell county.
JOHN married, and resides in Iroquois
county, 111. ISAAC died in the Union
army.

MARY, born Jan. i, 1806, in Bote-
tourt county, Va., was married to George
Brunk. See his name.

JA C OB, born Oct. 30, 1 807, near
Columbus, O., married in Sangamon
county, 111., Sept i, 1833, to Rebecca
Royal. They had nine children in San-
gamon county. JOHN T., born in 1835,
married Sarah E. Clayton. They had
two children, GEORGE E. and EMERY A.,
and Mr. B. died April 5, 1874, in Taylor-
ville. WILLIAM H., born May i, 1837,
was married March 31, 1859, to Mary A.
Vigal. They have one daughter, FRAN-
CES D., and reside in Cotton Hill town-
ship, between Brush and Horse creeks.
GEORGE B., born Dec. 25, 1839, enlist-
ed Aug., 1862, in Co. E, 114 111. Inf., for
three years; served full time, and was
honorably discharged at Springfield. He
married Harriet Williams. They have
three children, CLARENCE E., SUSAN R.
and PHCKBE c., and reside in Cotton Hill
township. MARY married Alonzo
Sparks. They have two children, MAUD
and RAY, and reside near Girard, Kan.
SUSAN married Harvey Alexander.
They have four children, CHARLES M.,
JACOB w., LULIE M., and HATTIE E., and

reside near Girard, Kan. JAMES O.
served in Co. I, 7th 111. Inf., from Feb.,
1865, to the close of the rebellion. He
married Marietta Reed. They had two
children, REBECCA j. and JESSE M., and
reside in Cotton Hill township. SARAH
J. married Elijah D. Lawley. See his
name. They have two children, LOUIS E.
and FREDERICK G. DAVIS O. married
Sarah A. Campbell. They have two
children, OLIVE and CLARA A., and reside
in Cotton Hill township. VINCENT
C. died Aug. 22, 1871, in his eighteenth
year. Jacob Boyd and his wife reside in
Cotton Hill township.

THOMAS, born Oct. 25, 1809, was
married, and resided in St. Louis at the
close of the rebellion. He died about 1869.

JOHN, born Aug. 5, 1811, in Ohio,
married in Iowa to Elizabeth Dyer. They
reside near Ozark, Jackson county, Iowa.
He was a soldier from Sangamon county
in the Black Hawk war, and served in an
Iowa regiment during the rebellion.

BENJAMlN&\z& in his ninth year.

JOSEPH, born April i, 1816, in
Ohio, brought up in Sangamon county,
was married in Iowa to Anna Ray. He
enlisted in an Iowa regiment, and died at
Louisville, Ky., leaving a widow and
three children near Ozark, Iowa.

CA THARINE, born Oct. 26, 1818,
in Ohio, died in Sangamon county, aged
seventeen years.

SAMUEL,t\)oi-n Aug. 25, 1823, in
Sangamon county, died in his seventeenth
year.

Mrs. Susannah Boyd died Aug. 9, 1848,
in Sangamon county.

BOYER, WILLIAM T., was
born April 4, 1817, in Adair county, Ky.
Sarah A.Jackson was born Dec. 7, 1820,
in the same county. They were married
Oct. 24, 1839, near Franklin, Morgan
county, 111. They had one child in Mor-
gan county, and moved to what is now
New Berlin township, arriving in 1840.
They had ten children in Sangamon coun-
ty. Four of their children died under ten
years. Of the other six children —

SARAH A., born Oct. 19, 1843, in
Sangamon county, married March 14,
1867, to John Mitchell. They had four
children, EMMA M. and LAURA A.
died under five years. RHODA E. and
ANNIE, and reside in Talkington town-
ship, seven miles west of Auburn.

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129

]\IART F., born Sept. 8, 1845, in San-
gamon county, married, March 30, 1863,
to John H. Cox. They have three child-
ren, WILLIAM H., GEORGE W. and
CHARLEY, and reside near Franklin,
Morgan county.

WILLIAM A., born Dec. 5, 1849, re-
sides with his parents.

ELIZA J., born March H, 1851,
married William A. Young, Nov. u,
1869, have one child, IN A, and reside in
Talkington township, six and a quarter
miles west of Auburn.

ANNIE M. and

JACOB C. reside with their parents,
six miles southwest of Loami.

BOZARTH, WILLIAM H.,
was born about 1796, in Grayson county,
Ky. Elizabeth Stewart was born in 1797,
in the same county, and they were there
married in 1819. They had four children
born in Kentucky, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., in Oct., 1825, on Spring
creek, west of Springfield about two and
a half miles. Mr. Bozarth was killed by
a fall from a horse in December follow-
ing, only two months after coming to the
county. His widow returned to Ken-
tucky, was there married to Rawley Mar-
tin, returned to Sangamon county in the
fall of 1830, and settled on .Lick creek.
In 1840 Mr. .Martin moved to Warren
county, lo.wa. Of the four Bozarth
children —

HIGGJNSONmi\\-r\e& Mary Bozarth,
in Grayson county, Ky., and remained
there.

OLVER H. P. married Elizabeth
Brooks, and resides in Grayson county,
Ky.

ELI L., born in Grayson county, Ky.,
married in Sangamon county to Artelia
Peddicord. They had five children. AR-
MINDA and MINERVA P. died young.
Eli L. Bozarth died Oct. 29, 1868. His
son, WILLIAM W., was drowned in
Sugar creek, April 21, 1869. The other
two children, VIOLA E. and PHCEBE,
reside with their mother at the house of
her father, Jonathan Peddecord, in Ball
township.

ISAA C H., born in Grayson county,
Ky,, married Rhoda Seybold, and resides
at Blandinville, McDonough county.

BRADFORD, JAMES M.,
was born Sept. 28, 1795, in Culpepper
county, Va. His parents moved to Scott

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county, Ky., when he was twelve years
old. His commencement in business was
trading down the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers. He was married July 4, 1820, at
Port Gibson, Miss., to Ann E. Barnes,
who was born Sept. 10, 1802, in North
Carolina, and in 1807 was taken by her
parents to Mississippi, where they settled.
She was educated at Port Gibson in a
French Catholic convent. After a resi-
dence of three years there, they moved to
Scott county, Ky., where they remained
one year, and moved to Franklin county,
near Frankfort, and within three miles of
Dick Johnson's Indian school. They had
four children in Kentucky, and moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall
of 1834, in what is now Gardner town-
ship. Of their four children —

THOMAS A., born August 2, 1821,
at Port Gibson, Miss., brought by his par-
ents to Sangamon county, was educated at
McKendree College, Lebanon, 111., grad-
uated at that institution, and was mar-
ried in Lebanon to Jane Baker. He went
to Missouri and there enlisted in Co. B.,
Col. Doniphan's regiment, and marched
overland to Mexico, in 1846. Col. Doni-
phan had orders, on arriving at Chihuahua,
to report to Gen. Wool. He was unable
to learn the whereabouts of Gen. Wool,
and Thomas A. Bradford was one of six
men who volunteered to carry through the
dispatches, which they delivered to Gen.
Wool at Saltillo, having gone the distance
of three hundred miles, through an ene-
my's country, without the loss of a man.
He was, with John Calhoun, engaged in
the survey of public lands for the U. S.
Government, and died Dec. 25, 1856, near
Wyandotte, Kan., his wife and only child
having died before.

ELIZABETH E., born July 31,
1823, in Scott county, Ky., was married
in Sangamon county, May 24, 1840, to
David Madison. He died two years later,
leaving a son, JAMES B., who died at
fourteen years of age. Mrs. Madison re-
sides near Bradfordton, Sangamon county.

SUSAN, born May 25, 1825, in Ken-
tucky, married June n, 1858, in Sanga-
mon county, to William G. Hawkins,
who was born Sept. 14, 1827, in Boone
county, Ky., but resided in St. Louis at
the time of his marriage. They live in
Sangamon county.

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

MARTHA A., born May 26, 1832, in
Kentucky, died while attending school in
Springfield, August, 1848. Mrs. Ann E.
Bradford died in Sangamon county, July
8, 1835, and James M. Bradford was mar-
ried, Dec. 27, 1836, to Arsenath Talbott.
They had six children in Sangamon coun-
ty, one of whom died in infancy. Of the
other five children —

WILLIAM T., born June S, 1838,
was married Oct. i, 1861, to Grizella A.
Parkinson. They had six children. The
eldest, JAMES, and the fifth one, SUE
H., died under three years. ELIZA-
BETH A., THOMAS P., LAURA M.
and WILLIAM A., reside with their par-
ents, in Gardner township.

HARRIET E., born Feb. 3, 1841,
in Sangamon county, married Hiram E.
Gardner. See his name,

ISABELLA M. resides with her
mother in Springfield.

SARAH y., born Nov. 3, 1845, mar-
ried William H. Parkinson. See his
name.

EDWARD T., born May 19, 1850,
was married, Feb. 17, 1870, to Carrie M.
VanPatten. They have one child, ED-
WARD M., and reside at Bradfordton.
James M. Bradford died March 3, 1852,
and his widow resided on the farm which
has become Bi'adfordton, on the Ohio and
Mississippi railroad, until April, 1874, when
she moved to Springfield, and lives on north
fifth street. James M. Bradford was a
soldier in the war of 1812, from Scott
county, Ky. He served one term in the
General Assembly of Illinois, elected in
the fall of 1840.

BRADFORD, JOHN S., was
born June 9, 1815, in Philadelphia, Pa. His
father was a native of Delaware, and died
in Philadelphia in 1816. John S. learned
the trade of a book-binder in his native
city, and in 1835 started on foot for the
City of Mexico. He walked to Pitts-
burg, thence to Cincinnati by steamboat,
from there to Dayton, O., and Rich-
mond, Incl., working at his trade in all
the places he passed through. At Rich-
mond he was induced, in 1837, to join a
corps of United States engineers who
were then engaged in constructing what
was called the National Road. It was a
wagon road, built at the expense of the
United • States government. The law
authorizing its construction was enacted

when the Democratic party was in power,
with one of its cardinal tenets: opposition
to all internal improvements by the gov-
ernment; but President Jackson favored
this because it was a military necessity.
The road commenced at Cumberland,
Md., crossed the Ohio river at Steuben-
ville, passed through Columbus, O., Rich-
mond, Indianapolis and Terre Haute, Ind.,
thence to Vandalia, 111. At the latter
point a determined contest arose between
the people of the States of Illinois and
Missouri, whether the point for crossing
the Mississippi river should be Alton or
St. Louis, the contestants fully believing
that the future great city of the Mississippi
valley depended on the decision of that
question. Before it was settled the public
mind became interested in railroads, and
the National Road ended at Vandalia. The
corps of engineers disbanded at the latter
point. The State capital was then in
transit from Vandalia to Springfield, and
Mr. Bradford came here, arriving Decem-
ber,' 1840. In the spring of 1841 he
bought the interest of Mr. Burchell in the
book-bindery of Burchell and Johnson,
and became one of the firm of Johnson
and Bradford.

John S. Bradford was married July 15,
1841, in Brandenburg, Ky., to Adaline M.
Semple, who was born O.ct., 1817, in
Cumberland county, Ky. He.r brother,
Hon. James Semple, was at that time
Charge de Affaires to New Grenada,
afterwards United States Senator from
Illinois, and still later one of the Judges
of the Supreme Court of the State.

Soon after coming to Springfield, J. S.
Bradford became Lieutenant in the
" Springfield Cadets. " They were or-
dered to Nauvoo by Gov. Ford in 1845,
serving two months in the " Mormon
war. " In 1846 Mr. Bradford enlisted in
Co. A, 4th 111. Inf., under Col. E. D.
Baker, and was appointed Quartermaster
by Gov. Ford. As such he accompanied
the regiment to Mexico, where he started
to go twelve years before with a book-
binder's outfit. After his arrival in Mex-
ico he was commissioned as commissary in
the United States army. He was at the
bombardment and capture of Vera Cruz,
battle of Cerro Gordo and others, return-
ing with the regiment to Springfield in
1847. The result of that war securing to
us California and the discovery of gold,

SAN GAM ON COUNTY.

'3'

Mr. Bradford started from Springfield
Jan. i, 1849, by the Isthmus of Panama
to California, and was eighty-seven days
on the Pacific ocean, reaching San Fran-
cisco May 20, 1849. He made Benicia
his headquarters, and when the military
commander of the department- of the
Pacific ordered a government to be
formed for a new State, Mr. Bradford
was elected to represent the district bound-
ed by Oregon on the north, Sacramento
river on the east, Bay of San Francisco
on the south, and the Pacific ocean
on the west. That Legislature organized
the State without ever having gone
through a territorial probation, and divided
it into counties. Mr. Bradford was elected
in 1850 to represent a district composed
of the five counties of Solano, Napa,
Sonoma, Mendocino and Marin, being
a portion of the district he represented
in the first Legislature. His family re-
sided in Springfield, and he retained
his business relations with Mr. John-
son also. He returned to Springfield
in 1851, and since that has served the
county of Sangamon, in 1857, as Superin-
tendent of Public Instruction ; was one of
the Commissioners to divide the county
into townships and name them, served the
city of Springfield as Treasurer, Alder-
man and Mayor. When Illinois was
calied on for 6,000 of the 75,000 men to
meet the rebels, Mr. Bradford was ap-
pointed by Gov. Yates as commissary,
with the rank of Lieutenant- Colonel, his
commission bearing date April 16, 1861,
being the first commission issued by Gov.
Yates in connection with the war to sup-
press the rebellion. He prepared quarters
for the first soldiers rendezvoused by the
State, and called it Camp Yates.

J. S. Bradford severed his connection
with the firm of Johnson & Bradford in
1869, and opened a book store in Spring-
field, which he sold out in 1873, and
moved to Aberdeen, Miss., returning to
Springfield in Nov., 1875, where he now
resides.

Mr. and Mrs. Bradford had seven child-
ren in Springfield, namely —

WILLIAM, resides at Lake Station,
Newton county, Miss.

OSCAR, born Sept. 28, 1845, m
Springfield, was married in 1871, in
Owensboro, Ky., to Mary Crutcher. They
reside in St. Louis, Mo.

SUSAN A. resides with her parents,
in Springfield.

EUGENE S. resides in St. Louis,
Mo.

JOHN, ANTRIM C. and DON-
ALD, reside with their parents in Spring-
field.

BRADLEY, TERRY, was born
in Rutherford county, North Carolina,
and married there to Chloe Elliott, a sis-
ter to Andrew Elliott. See his name.
They had eleven children born in Ruther-
ford county, N. C., and moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving in what is now
Gardner township, south of Spring creek,
in 1834. Of their children —

SIMMONS, born March 3, 1811,
in North Carolina, married March 28,

1839, in Sangamon county, to Jane Doug-
las. They had six children; three died
young. WILLIAM H., born Jan. 5,

1840, married March 6, 1862, to Mary
Rannebarger, who was born Jan. 13,1842,
near Columbus, O. They had three
children. ELLA j. died, aged two years.
EDWARD E. and LOTTIE B. reside with
their parents, seven miles west of Spring-
field. THOMAS LEVI and JOHN
ELI, twins, born Nov. 22, 1842.
THOMAS L., married Nov. 24, 1864, to
Hannah J. Smith, have two children, and
reside in Curran township. JOHN E.,
married July 9, 1868, to Nancy A. Sims,
had one child, HIRAM j., and she died
April, 1869. He was married Dec. 16,
1869, to Sarah O'Hara, and reside at Phil-
adelphia, Cass county, 111. Simmons
Bradley died Nov. 18, 1866, and his wid-
ow resides seven miles west of Spring-
field.

WILLIAM, born March 26, 1812, in
Rutherford county, N. C., and came with
his parents to Sangamon county in 1834.
He was married Aug., 1846, in Jasper
county, Mo., to Elizabeth Ragan, a native
of Kentucky. They came to Sangamon
county and had six children, one of whom
died young. In 1857 they returned to
Missouri, where two children were born.
Of the seven children, three are married ;
MOLLIE, the third child, born in Sanga-
mon courrty, and married in Missouri,
July 4, 1875, to J. J. Gates, a native of
Pike county, 111. William Bradley died
Dec. 13, 1875. His widow and seven
children, married and unmarried, reside
near Carthage, Jasper county, Mo.

EARLT SETTLERS OF

SARAH, born in North Carolina,
married in Sangamon county to Caleb
Darden. They had three children. Their
son THOMAS was a soldier in an Illinois
regiment, and died at Memphis, Tenn.
The entire family are dead.

WINNIE, born in North Carolina,
married in Sangamon county to William
Brundage. They had three children, and
moved to Dallas county, Tex., in 1854.

RICHARD, born in Rutherford coun-
ty, N. C., came with his parents to San-
gamon county, was married about 1844 *°
Mary A. Baldwin. They had four child-
ren born in Sangamon county. Mrs. B.
died Sept. 10, 1852, and the youngest child
died soon after. Mr. B. moved in the fall
of 1866, with his three children, to Kan-
sas. Of his children, RICHARD J., born
Dec. 8, 1845, m Sangamon county;
SARAH C., born Feb. 9, 1848, in San-
gamon county, married in 1870, in Kan-
sas, to Franklin Campbell, and has one
child, MARY E. WILLIAM B., born in
Sangamon county. Richard Bradley and
his three children reside near Fredonia,
Wilson county, Kan.

JONATHAN, born in North Caro-
lina, raised in Sangamon county, went to
Texas, was pressed into the rebel service,
and died there.

MELINDA, born in North Carolina,
and died in Sangamon county at 26 or '7
years of age.

RHODA, born in North Carolina,
married in Sangamon county to John
Brundage, moved to Texas and died there,
leaving two children, who reside in Kan-
sas.

ELIZABETH, born in North Caro-
lina, married in Sangamon county to
Abraham Duff, son ot Charles Duff, re-
sides since 1866 near Neodesha, Wilson
county, Kan.

LEADBETTER, born March 17,
. 1826, in Rutherford county, N. C., came
with his parents in 1834 to Sangamon
county, married April 22, 1856,10 Martha
J. Archer. They have seven children,
BENNETT C., ANNA, ELIZABETH,
LOUIE, WALTER L.,LAURIETTA
and JACKSON, and reside four and a
half miles west of Springfield, on the
farm settled by his father in 1834.

MTRA, born in North Carolina, mar-
ried in Sang'amon county to William

King, who died, and she married Henrv
Morgan. See his name.

Terry Bradley died in 1835, and Mrs.
Chloe Bradley died July 20, 1865, both in
Sangamon county.

BRANCH, EDWARD, was
born Dec., 1795, in Virginia, and when he
was a child his parents moved to that part
of Bourbon, which afterwards became
Nicholas, county, Ky. He was there
married Dec. 2, 1818, to Rebecca Cassity.
They had four children in Kentucky, and
the family moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving late in Oct., 1830, in what is
now Rochester township, where they had
two children. Of their six children —

ZERELDA E., born Nov. 19, 1821,
in Nicholas county, Ky., married in San-
gamon county May 16, 1839, to Joel Can-
trill. See his name.

MARY J., born April 22, 1824, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Robert Archer, son of Moses. See
his name. He died April, 1872, leaving a
widow and three daughters near Grove
City, Christian county.

HONOR A., born March 24, 1827, in
Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to William A. Whitesides:
See his name.

ELIZABETH A., born Jan. 9, 1830,
in Nicholas county, Ky., married in San-
gamon county, Sept. 25, 1848, to Joshua
Graham. See his name.

LOUISIANA, born July 16, 1832, in
Sangamon county, married Joseph Miller.
See his name.

WILLIAM, born Feb. 28, 1835, in
Sangamon county, died April 2, 1845.

Edward Branch died Aug. i, 1835, and
his widow resides with her daughter and
son-in-law, Wm. A. Whitesides.

BRANSON, JOHN, was born
Jan. 12, 1 764, in North Carolina. He em-
igrated, when a young man^to the vicinity
of Charleston, S. C., and married Sarah
Jones. They had six children in South
•Carolina, and moved to Ross county, O.
From there to the vicinity of Xenia,
Green county, Ohio, before the Indians
had entirely left. They had five children
there. Some of the elder children mar-
ried and remained in Ohio, but Mr. Bran-
son with the younger members of his fam-
ily, moved to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving Oct., 1822, in what is now Fancy
Creek township. Of all his children —

SAN GAM ON COUNT?.

ELI, born in South Carolina, married
three times, died, leaving a family in Ful-
ton county. His son, CALVIN, resides
near Ipava, Fulton county.

ANDRE W, born in South Carolina,
and married Susannah Wilkinson. They
both died, leaving several children near
Athens, Illinois.

WILLIAM, born Jan. 9, 1791, in
North Carolina, and was taken by his par-
ents to South Carolina, in 1793. In 1811
the family moved to Chilicothe, Ohio,
where he was married to Sally M. Graves,
in 1815. He moved to Indiana, and from
there to Sangamon county, 111., about the
time his father came ; moved to Galena,
and from there to DeWitt county, 111.
They had seven children, and Mrs. Sally
M. Branson died May 10, 1840, in DeWitt
county. In December, 1840, he was mar-
ried to Martha Cooper^ in Sangamon
county. In March, 1847, he moved to
Sangamon county, and March 28, 1848,
he started overland with his family and
arrived Sept. 15, 1848, in Polk county,
Oregon. He had eight children by the
second marriage. He died Nov. 16, 1860.
His widow married Michael Shelley, and
dfed Dec. 24, 1868, near Independence,
Polk county, Oregon. Nearly all the de-
scendents of William Branson reside in
the vicinity of Sheridan, Yamhill county,
Oregon. His son, B. B. BRANSON,
Jun., born Sept. 4, 1830, went with his
father to Oregon, in 1848, married there,
Sept. 15, 1854, to Eliza' E. Dickey, who
was born Jan. 19, 1834, in Tenn. They
have eight living children. SARAH A.,
born July 3, 1855, married Nov. 6, 1873,
to C. O. Burgess, and resides near Sheri-
dan. JOSEPHINE, ELIZA JANE, EPHRIAM

N., ELNORA SHERMAN, LAURA V., IDA M.

and ORLEY R. reside with their parents,
near Sheridan, Yamhill county, Oregon.

CA THARINE, born in South Caro-
lina, married in Green county, Ohio, to
Frederick Stipp. They came to Sanga-
mon county, and two of their daughters
reside in Springfield, namely: Mrs. Wood
and Mrs. Moody. Mr. and Mrs. Stipp
died several years since.

KEZIAH, born in South Carolina,
married in Green county, Ohio, to Jesse
Sutton. They came to Sangamon county
in 1823, moved to Iowa, and both died,
leaving several children in VanBuren
county, Iowa.

JOHN, Jun., born Oct. 15, 1795, near
Charleston, S. C. He was a teamster
from Ohio during the war of 1812, and
has a crippled hand from an injury re
ceived while on duty. He was married,
Sept. 12, 1817, in Clarke county, Ohio, to
Ann Cantrall, daughter of Zebulon Can-
trail, who was a brother of William G.,
Levi and Wyatt. They had one child,
ZEBULON, born June 20, 1818, in Clarke
county, Ohio, married August, 1840, in
Sangamon county, to Rachel Braugher,
and soon after moved to Fulton county,
where five children were born, namely:

EMILY, CAROLINE, ISAAC, MARION and

ZEBULON, jun. Zebulon Branson enlisted
in the K>3d 111. Inf. for three yeare, in
1862. He was ist Lieut., and was killed
June 27, 1864, while leading his company
in a charge on the rebel fortifications at
Kennesaw Mountain. His family reside
near Ipava, Fulton county. Mrs. Ann
Branson died, and JOHN Branson was
married, Sept. 12, 1822, in Champaign
county, Ohio, to Miriam Thomas. They
had five children, namely: THOMAS
and CATHATINE, twins, born Dec. i,
1823; THOMAS married, Feb. 4,1847,
to Eliza C. Kiger, who was born March
13, 1830, in Winchester, Va. They had
three children. MARIA T. died, aged ten
years. CATHARINE w., born May 25,
1850, married March 25, 1869, to Thomas
Neal. They had three children, namely :
Charles TV., died in infancy ; Thomas and
Coke reside with their parents, in Mitchel
county, near Cawker City, Kansas.
CHARLES, born March n, 1852, re-
sides with his mother. Thomas Branson
died March 5, 1864, and his widow resides
eight miles northwest of Springfield.
CATHARINE, the other twin, married
Rev. Hardin Wallace. They have two
children, namely: Mrs. E. M. Sharp, of
Mason City, 111., and Mrs. Carlton Gatton,
of Middletown, 111. Mr. and Mrs. Wal-
lace reside at Bath, Mason county, 111.
CAROLINE married Giles Woods.
They have seven children, and reside near
Waverly. MARIA married Samuel C.
Woods. They have one child living, and
Mrs. W. died, August 20, 1875. Mr.
Woods resides near Waverly. EMILY
married Rev. Joseph H. Hopkins. Thev
had one child, and mother and child died
in 1848, at Whitehall, 111. Mrs. Miriam
Branson died, and John Branson married,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

Nov. 8, 1840, to Mrs. Mary Humphreys,
whose maiden name was McKinnie.
They had two children. MINNIE mar-
ried George P. Brahm. They had one
son CLAUDE, and Mrs. B. died, May 17,
1872. Mr. Brahm, with his son, resides
at Kinney, Logan county, 111. JOHN L.
enlisted in 1862, for three years, in the I3th
111. Inf. Served about one year, and was
discharged on account of physical disabil-
ity. He married Nellie Cain. John
Branson and wife reside one and a half
miles northwest of Salisbury. He is in
his eighty-first year.

THOMAS, born Feb., 1798, in South
Carolina, was married Aug. 12, 1829, in
Cla*k county, O., to Eleanor Thomas, and
came to Sangamon county with his father
in 1822. They had three children, and
Mrs. B, died in Sangamon county Jan 24,
1840. Thomas Branson married Louisa
Cole. They had five children, and in
1857 moved to Texas. Of Mr. B.'s
children by the first marriage, ADA-
LINE, born Oct. 9, 1833, was married
Oct. 3, 1849, to W. S. Dunham, of
Waynesville, DeWitt county, 111., where
she died May 29, 1852. ALIDA, born
Sept. 21, 1837, in Sangamon county, 111.,
is unmarried, and resides in Mansfield,
Texas. REBECCA, born Nov. 30, 1839,
in Saugamon county, married Lieut.
Frank King, U. S. A., in Dallas county,
Texas, Oct. 14, 1-862. Lieut. King was
killed in Louisiana, May 8, 1864. Mrs.
King was married Nov. 2, 1865, to Rev.
D. D. Leech, in Dallas county, Texas,
and she died Aug. 23, 1866, in Ellis coun-
ty, Texas, leaving one child, FRANK K.,
born Aug. 22, 1866, in Ellis county, and
resides with his aunt Alida, in Tarrant
county, Texas.

Of the children of the second marriage,
ELEANOR, born March 10, 1842, was
married Dec. 24, 1862, to Samuel Uhl, of
the 1 2th Texan Dragoons. They have five
children, viz: SUE E., ADDIE c., LOUISA,
CHARLES and ALMA, and reside in Dallas
county. Texas. EMILY, born May 21,
1844, in Sangamon county, married April
10, 1867, to Thomas Uhl, in Dallas coun-
ty, Texas. They have one child, WIL-
LIAM s., and reside in Dallas county.
THOMAS C., born April 27, 1848, in
Sangamon county, 111., was married July
i, 1875, to Virginia Hill, in Dallas county,
where they now reside. BENJAMIN

L., born Oct. 7, 1850, in Sangamon coun-
ty, is unmarried, and resides in Lancaster,
Dallas county, Texas. AUGUSTA, born
June 13, 1853, in Sangamon county, mar-
ried Aug. 24, 1873, to F. Fox, and resides
in Slate Spring, Miss. Thomas Branson
died Oct. 21, 1864, and Mrs. Louisa Bran-
son died July 5, 1865, both near Lancaster,
Dallas county, Texas.

MART, born in Green county, O.,
married in Sangamon county, 111., Sept.
23, 1824, to Abraham Onstott. They
have five children. Mrs. Onstott died
June, 1875. The family reside in Clinton,
BeWitt county.

REBECCA, born in Ohio, married
Elijah Harper, and died, leaving several
children in Clark county O.

BENJAMIN B., born Feb., 1810, in
Ross county, O., married in Mechanics-
burg, Sangamon county, 111., May, 1837,
to Mary Thompson. They have two
children, viz: HENRIETTA, born Aug.
27, 1839, on Fancy creek, Sangamon
county, married in Mechanicsburg, Aug.
27, 1 86 1, to A. G. Barnes. See his name.
HENRY, born Dec. 2, 1842, on Fancy
creek, married June, 1867, in Jacksonville,
111., to Clara L. Lathrop. They have two
children, and reside at Ottawa, Kan.
Benj. B. Branson and wife reside in Jack-
sonville, 111.

NANCY, born June 4, 1806, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county to Dr.
Charles Winn, who was born Aug. 13,
1800, in Virginia. He received his medi-
cal education at Transylvania University,
Lexington, Ky. He came to Sangamon
county and practiced his profession on
Fancy creek ; moved from there to Waynes-
ville, 111., and from there to Spring-
field, O. They had seven children.
GORILLA died Nov. 8, 1855, aged
twenty-five years. BYRON died March
1 6, 1854, at McKendree College, in his
twenty-first year. RICHARD D. died
in St. Joseph, Mo., March 15, 1872, in his
thirty-eighth year. CHARLES L., born
Nov. 11, 1838, married July 22, 1859,511
Jackson county, Mo., and died, leaving a
widow and two children in Kansas City.
ROBERT B., born July n, 1840, resides
in Chicago. EMMA H., born Dec. 29,
1842, near Springfield, O., married in San-
gamon county to A. G. Pickrell. See
his name. FLORENCE M., born June
12, 1846, near Springfield, O., married

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'35

William T. Hall. Sec his name. Dr.
Charles L. Winn died Aug. 17, 1847, near
Springfield, O., and Mrs. Nancy Winn
died Nov. 4, 1852, at Columbus, Adams
county, 111.

Mrs. Sarah Branson died in Ohio, and
her husband, John Branson, Sen., died in
1845, m Sangamon county, 111., aged
eighty-one years.

BRAUGHTpN, PETER, was
born July 6, 1812, in Worcester county,
Mass. His parents moved to Ross county,
O., in 1816, and a few years later to Pick-
away county, about ten miles south of
Columbus. In 1836 Peter came to Spring-
field, 111., and soon after settled in what is
now Williams township. He was married
in Sangamon county Sept. 30, 1846, to
Mary D. Utterback. They have four
children, all born in Sangamon county,
namely —

SUSAN E., NANCT A., EMILT
J. and THOMAS J.

Peter Braughton resides in Williams
township, three miles each from Sher-
man and Barclay.

BRAUGHTON, JACOB, an
elder brother to Peter, came with him to
Sangamon county in 1836. He never
married, but was engaged in farming for
several years. He started overland to
California, and died on the road, between
1850 and 1855.

BRAUGHTON, WILLI AM,
a brother to Jacob and Peter, came to
Sangamon county in 1846, too late to be
included as an early settler. He resides
one and a half miles north of Barclay.
His son Adam married into the family of
Simeon Taylor. See his name.

BRAWNER, JOHN, a twin
brother to William, was born Aug. 9,
799, in Maryland. His parents moved
to Fayette county, Ky., when he was a
child. He was married May 20, 1819, in
Madison county, to Bethany Ball. Thev
had four children in Kentucky, and moved,
in connection with her mother, brothers
and sisters, to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in the fall' of 1829 in what is now
Woodside township, where they had three
children. Of their seven children —

NANCY, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to R. M. Thompson.
They moved to Iowa, had nine children,
and she died. Of their children, HENRY
resides with his aunt, Mrs. J. B. Ogden.

JOHN was a soldier in an Iowa regiment,
and died in the army. THOMAS E.
served three years in the 55th 111. Inf., re-
enlisted, and served to the end of the
rebellion. He is married, and resides in
Alton. The other children are scattered.

BASIL, born in Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county to Sarah Pulliam, and
live in Iowa. See Pulliam.

ELI Z ABE TH A., born in Madison
county, Ky., married in Sangamon county
to Thomas Knotts, have six living child-
ren, and reside in Ball township.

MARY E., born in Madison county,
Ky., married in Sangamon county to
Joseph B. Ogden. See his name.

JOHN S., born in Sangamon county,
married and died, leaving a widow and
seven children.

LE WIS, born in Sangamon county,
married Hannah Dragoo. He died, leav-
ing a widow and three children in Cotton
Hill township.

MARTHA J. married Abraham Ben-
nington. They have four children, and
reside in Montgomery county.

Mrs. Bethany Brawner died about 1839,
and John Brawner died in 1841, both in
Sangamon county.

BRAWNER, WILLIAM T.
was born August 9, 1799, in Maryland.
His father died when he was seven years
old, and his mother moved to Madison
county, Ky., when he was eighteen years
old. He was there married, Dec. 25, 1822,
to Elizabeth Ball. They had three child-
ren in Kentucky, and the family moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in Oct.,
1829, in what is now Curran township,
where they had seven children, namely :

JOHN S., born Nov. 18, 1818, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, to Nancy Mc-
Credy; have eight children, and reside in
Ad air county, Mo.

MAR Thorn Oct. 23, 1825, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to
William C. Hillerman ; had six children,
THOMAS A., JACOB, RUTH, HUL-
DAH, FRANKLIN and MARY, and
Mrs. Hillerman died, March 18, 1869,
Mr. H. married in 1870 to Rebecca Dren-
nan. They have one child, ANN E., and
reside in Chatham.

COLUMBIA,^™ Dec. 18, 1827, in
Kentucky, is unmarried, and resides with
her mother.

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EARLY SE TTLERS OF

MINERVA, born May n, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married William Duval,
have eight children, and reside in Khox
county.

JAMES H., born March 23, 1833, in
Sangamon county, married Martha A.
McGinnis. They have three children,
SALLY, ROBERT S. and WILLIAM
P., and reside in Chatham township.

ELIZA H., born Oct. 28, 1835, in
Sangamon county, is unmarried, and re-
sides with her mother.

CLARISSA,\>orv. April i, 1838, mar-
ried Nelson Combs, and died in March,
1864, about five months after marriage.

WILLIAM M., born Sept. 27, 1840,
in Sangamon county, married April 7,
1870, to Isabel Works, who was born
August 12, 1847, in Owen county, Ky.
They have one child, JOHN H., and re-
side in Curran township.

LE WIS B., born Jan. 20, 1843, in
Sangamon county, married April 18, 1872,
to Laura F. Tippitt, who was born Sept.
12, 1856, in Owen county, Ky. They
.have one child, ELIZABETH, and reside
in Curran township.

ISAAC, born Nov. 5, 1845, died at ten
years of age.

William T. Brawner died Nov. 12,
1846, and his widow resides in Curran
township, south of Lick creek.

BRECKENRIDGE, PRES-
TON, was born Aug. 5, 1807, near
Paris, Bourbon county, Ky. The name
of Breckenridge originated in a singular
manner. In one of the wars in Scotland
between the Protestants and Roman
Catholics, a family by the name of Mcll-
vain particpated on the side of the Pro-
testants, who were defeated. Some of the
Mcllvain brothers saved their lives by
taking refuge under a low shrub, called
brack, which grows on the ridges in the
Highlands of Scotland. This circum-
stance so impressed them, that they deter-
mined to give themselves a new name,
hence Brack-on-ridge. As Protestants,
the Breckenridges took part in some of
the wars in Ireland at a later period, in
which the great, great grandfather of
Preston was a leader. The Protestants
being again defeated, two of the Brecken-
ridge brothers fled to America. One of
them settled in Pennsylvania, and the
other in Virginia. Their first names are
not preserved, but the descendants of the

one who settled in Pennsylvania have re-
tained the original spelling : Brackenridge.
The brother who settled . in Virginia
raised a family, among whom was one son
Alexander, who had a son Robert, who
had a son John, who had two sons, Rob-
ert Jefferson, known as the late Rev. R.
J. Breckenridge, D. D., of Kentucky, and
Joseph Cabell, the latter of whom was the
father of John C. Breckenridge, ex-Vice-
President of the United States. The first
Alexander also had a son George, who
had a son Alexander. He was twice mar-
ried, and the eldest child by the second
wife was Preston, whose name heads this
sketch. Preston Preckenridge was mar-
ried in Nicholas county, Ky., Nov. 17,
1827, to Catharine Moler, who was born
in that county Aug. 30, 1804. They had
four children born in Kentucky, and the
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving Oct. 16, 1834, in what is now
Cotton Hill township, east of Sangamon
river, where eight children were born, one
of whom died in infancy. Of their eleven
children —

ALEXANDER, born Oct. 31, 1828,
in Nicholas county, Ky., married May 25,
1852, to Martha H. Barnhill, who was
born Aug. 19, 1833, in Wayne county,
111. They had eight children, two of
whom died in infancy. The other six,
ELIZABETH C., MARY A., FELIX
H., NANCY L., CHARLES A. and
ROBERT CARROLL, reside with
their parents, half a mile east of Brecken-
ridge.

HUGH, born Dec. 9, 1829, in Ken-
tucky, married Feb. 22, 1855, to Sarah M.
Randolph, who was born June 20, 1837,
in Logan county. They have two child-
ren, HERBERT C. and EDITH A.
Hugh Breckenridge enlisted Oct. 10, 1861,
in Co. B, loth 111. Cav., for three years;
re-enlisted as a veteran Jan., 1864, served
full term, and was honorably discharged
Jan. 6, 1866, at Springfield. He resides at
Breckenridge.

CORJVELIUS,\>oi-n March 12, 1831,
in Kentucky, married Sept. 4, 1855, to
Elizabeth L. Barnhill, who was born May
29, 1838, in Wayne county. They had
five children, two of whom died in in-
fancy. The other three, ELIZABETH
F., WILLIAM R. and GEORGE E.,
reside with their parents near Brecken-

IffllVERSiTY

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'37

JOSEPH, the last in Kentucky, born
July 17, 1832, married M arch 28, 1855, to
Sarah J. Matthew. They had two child-
ren; one died in infancy. The other,
PRESTON, resides with his mother.
Joseph Breckenridge enlisted Sept., 1862,
in Co. E, H4th 111. Inf., for three years.
He was taken sick at Camp Butler, and
died at home, Nov. 29, 1862.

ELMORE, born Nov. 4, 1834, the
first of the family born in Sangamon
county, married Nov., 1857, to. Susannah
Randolph, had six children, two died in
infancy, and Mrs. B. died. The four
children, LEANOR, MARY A., EL-
MER P. and SIMON F., live with
their uncles and aunts in Missouri. He
resides at Forest Citv, Neb.

CLEOPHAS, born Aug. 7, 1836, in
.Sangamon county, enlisted Aug. 18, 1861,
for three years, in Co. D, 33d 111. Inf. He
was dangerously wounded at the siege of
Vicksburg, but recovered, served to the
end of his term, and was honorably dis-
charged Oct. 18, 1864, at Springfield. He
was married Jan. 30, 1868, to Lilian T.
Cave. They have two children, INEZ
and IDA, and reside with his father, three
and a half miles west of Breckenridge.

CATHARINE* born June 19, 1838,
in Sangamon county, married Jan. 30,
1856, to Simon P. Randolph. They had
six children, three of whom died in infan-
cy. The other three, PRESTON B.,
MAY and EDITH, reside with their
parents at Seattle, Washington Ter.

E L IZA BE TH and MAR T (twins),
born Jan. 13, 1841,111 Sangamon county.

ELIZABETH, married April, 1862,
to James H. Abell. They had four child-
ren, EMMA J., WILLIAM A., JOHN
P. and HENRY E., reside with their
parents in Taylorville.

MART, married March, 1863, to
Thomas Rishton, and resides at Council
Bluffs, Iowa.

PRESTO A7, Jun.,born Dec. n, 1842,
enlisted Aug., 1862, in Co. E, H4th 111.
Inf., for three years; served full term; was
honorably discharged at Vicksburg, Aug.
3, 1865; \v-as sick at the time, but returned
home with his comrades, arriving at his
father's house .on the 7th, and died the
8th of August, 1865, seventeen hours
after his arrival.

JA^VE, born F.^b. 9, 1845, in Sanga-
mon county, v\as married August, 1864,

to William Kamlage. They have three
children living, LUCY J., ANNIE M.
and WILLIAM, and reside at Lincoln,
111. Mrs. Catharine Breckenridge died
Feb. 4, 1847, ant* Preston B. was married
March 29, 1849, to Lucy Robb/ They
had two children —

DA VID, born Dec. 28, 1850, in San-
gamon county, is unmarried, and resides
near Cedar Hill, Dallas county, Texas.

LUCY D., born Aug. 13, 1854, in
Sangamon county, was married Oct. 13,
1874, to William H. Hunter, who was
born Dec. 10, 1848, in Muskingum county,
O. His grandfather, Charles Hunter, was
born and married in Scotland; came to
America, and settled in Muskingum coun-
ty, O. His eldest son, William, was the
father of William H. Hunter, the latter of
whom, with his wife, reside in Cotton
Hill township.

Mrs. Lucy Breckenridge died Nov. 18,
1854, and Preston Breckenridge resides on
the farm settled by him in 1834. It is in
the northeast corner of Cotton Hill town-
ship, three and a half miles west of Breck-
enridge.

Preston B.'s father was sixty-five years
old when he was born. Their united
ages to the present time (1876) is one hun-
dred and thirty-four years. Preston
Breckenridge was one of the representa-
tives of Sangamon county in the State
Legislature of 1851 and '2. Abraham
Lincoln was a candidate before the con-
vention, but Mr. B. beat him. Mr. B.
was a member of the Sangamon county
Board of Supervisors for 1873.

Preston Breckenridge remembers that
the fall of 1834, when he came to the
county, was dry, and continued dry
through the winter; that May 12, 1835, a
great rain storm set in, and rain continued
to fall for about forty days and nights,
which so seriously interfered with plowing
and planting that but very light crops
were put in. When the rain ceased, and
hot weather set in, the stagnant water and
decaying vegetation poisoned the- atmos-
phere, and chills and bilious diseases pre-
vailed to such an extent that in many
cases there were not enough well persons
to take care of the sick and bury the dead.
That year has ever since been spoken of
as the wet and sickly summer and fall.

The wheat crop looked well in the fall
of '34, but it nearly all froze out, and in

EARL? SETTLERS OF

1835, '^ and '7, the wheat crop was a total
failure, and wheat bread was so scarce
that a hiscuit became an object of interest,
so much that women would send them
to the children when visiting took place
between* the families.

The difficulty of obtaining food during
the winter of 1835 anc^ '^ was verv great»
there being nothing for bread in Central
Illinois except frost-bitten corn. Good
crops were raised in the southern part of
the State, and those who could pay for it
went there for corn. That is believed to
have been the origin of calling the south-
ern part of the State Egypt, and not be-
cause of any unusual darkness prevailing
there.

BRIDGES, GEORGE, was
born in 1793, in Montgomery county, Ky.
He was married there in 1816, to Rebecca
Lockridge. They had four children in
Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., arriving Nov. 3, 1835, *n wnat is
now Ctirran township, eight miles south
of Springfield, where they had five child-
ren. Of their children —

JOHN M., born in 1819, in Kentucky,
died unmarried, in Sangamon county,
Nov. 14, 1865.

WILLIAM, born July 15, 1821, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
Sept. 2, 1852, to Mary E. White. The'y
had two living children, HORACE W.
and ALICE M., and Mrs. Mary E. Bridges
died Sept. 17, 1871, and William Bridges
was married in Feb., 1873, to Mrs. Helen
Bird, whose maiden name was Ransom.
The family moved west in Sept., 1873,
and William Bridges died, Jan. 30, 1874,
at Grass Valley, Nevada county, Califor-
nia, leaving his widow and two children
there.

MARGARET H., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to J. M.
Richardson, moved to Iowa, and died
there, leaving three children.

ELIZABETH, born Oct. 14, 1827,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, to William Brownell. See his name.

MIRANDA, born March 27, 1831, in
Kentucky, married George Brownell. See
his name.

GEORGE H., born Nov. 14, 1840, in
Sangamon county, married Nov. 22, 1860,
in Sangamon county, to Rebecca Pyle,
who was born in Sangamon county, July
6, 1850. They have four children, JOHN

H., LAURA M., ADA A. and NORA

L., and live in Springfield.
^ MARTIN €., born May 16, 1842, in
vSangamon county. He enlisted August
15, 1862, in Co. B., ii4th 111. Inf., for
three years. He was detailed as drummer
at the organization of the regiment, pro-
moted, Jan. I, 1865, to drum-major, and
was honorably discharged, Aug. 15, 1865.
He was married, Oct. 3, 1866, in Sanga-
mon county, to Sarah E. Drennan. They
have one child, DAVID JOSEPH, and
reside near Woodside, on the farm where
his parents settled in 1835.

Mrs. Rebecca Bridges died in 1848, and
George Bridges died in 1849, both in San-
gamon county.

BRIDGES, MILTON A., was
born July 20, 1810, in Montgomery coun-
ty, Ky. He was there married to Mary
Foster, and had two children in Kentucky.
The family moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving Sept. 25, 1833, in what is
now Chatham township, preceding his
brothers, George and William. They had
two children in Sangamon county. Of
their four children —

THOMAS J., born Dec. 22, 1831, in
Kentucky, died unmarried, in Springfield,
Sept. 19, iS^o.

AMANDA M., born July 10, 1833, in
Kentucky, married Robert Crowder.
He died, leaving a widow and three child-
ren in Christian county, two "miles east of
Pawnee.

CHARLES H., born Jan. 27, 1837,
in Sangamon county, married to Frances
A. Matthews. They had four children.
MARY, the second child, died in her
second year, JOSEPH M., MAR-
SHALL and MONTE MAY, and reside
in Illiopolis. Mr. Bridges is a merchant
there.

MARTHA, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, April 30, 1842, died in infanov.

Mrs. Mary Bridges died, and Milton A.
Bridges married Mrs. Ellen H Hatchet,
who had previously been Mrs. Trumbo,
and whose maiden name was Hill. Mil-
ton A. Bridges and wife live in Pawnee.

BRIDGES, WILLIAM, was
born May 5, 1793, in Montgon ery coun-
ty, Ky. Isabella K. Lockridge was born
in the same county, Nov. 10, 1796. They
were there married, Julv 4, 1815, and had
nine children in Kentucky. The family
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving

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J39

in the fall of 1835, in what is now Wood-
side township, where they had two child-
ren. Of the eleven children —

MELINDA, born August 15, 1817,
married H. Hathaway, who died, and she
married Richard Wilkins, and they both
died.

JOHN W., born June 4, 1819, died in
his twentieth year.

BETST A., born July 20, 1821, mar-
ried Henry Gillen, and she died, Nov. 25,
1838.

AMANDA M., born Sept. 25, 1823,
in Kentucky, married Alfred C. Malone.
(See his name.)

MARILDA J., born Feb. 23, 1826,
married Jacob C. Mitts. They had seven
children, namely : WILLIAM, born Dec.
9, 1845, married Sarah Stroude, who was
born August 24, 1844, in East Tennessee.
They had two children, FRANK E. and
WILLIAM j., and reside in Curran township,
south of Lick creek. Of the other six
children, COLUMBIA, died at eighteen
years. HELEN V. and JAMES W.
reside at the homestead, in Curran town-
ship. EMMA lives with her uncle, David
Hermon. MARY and JOHN live with
their aunt, Lucinda Neal. Mrs. Mitts
died Nov. 6, 1862, and her husband died
Nov. 12, 1865, both in Sangamon county.

LUCINDA, born Feb. 4, 1828, mar-
ried June 14, 1849, to Erastus R. Whited.
They had four children; two died young.
ISABEL K. married, Dec. 29, 1869, to
Jesse J. Martin. They have one child,
JULIA M., and reside in Loami township.
Mr. Martin was born Feb. 21, 1843, in
Harrison county, West Va., enlisted Aug.
17, 1862, for three years, in i2th West Va.
Inf. Served until the suppression of the
rebellion, and was honorably discharged,
June 16, 1863. FANNIE WHITED
died Jan. 21, 1873, in the seventeenth year
of her age. E. R. Whited died Jan. 4,
1860, and his widow married, April 8,
1862, to Stephen B. Neal. See his name.

EMMA B., born August 19, 1830, in
Kentucky, married Isaac H. Trumbo.
See his name.

JAMES M., born in Kentucky, Dec.
15, 1832, married Jan. 10, 1866, to Mary
F. Drennan. They have three children,
WILLIAM F., MARTHA A. and
EVA MAY, and reside on the farm
where his parents settled in 1835, in the
southwest corner Woodside township.

WILLIS, born Oct. 20, 1836, in San-
gamon county, enlisted in Co. B., ii4th
111. Inf., August, 1862, for three years.
He was discharged on account of physical
disability, in 1863, and died of disease con-
tracted in the army, March 20, 1864, at
home.

WILLIAM L., born Sept. 3, 1839,
married Sarah Card. He died Oct. 6,
1867. His widow and one child, WAL-
TER, reside in Menard county.

William Bridges died Jan. 3, 1873, and
his widow died June 24, 1873, both on the
farm where they settled in 1835. Mr.
Bridges was a soldier from Kentucky in
the war of 1812, and drew a pension to
the end of his life.

The date of birth of William Bridges
and his brother George indicates that they
must have been twins, or there has been a
mistake in giving me the dates.

BRIDGES, WILLIAM, wa*
born April 28, 1787, in South Carolina.
The family moved to Tennessee, and
when William was a young man, to Green
county, O. Martha Martin was born
March 11, 1784, in Clarke county, Ky.
She was the third child of her parents.
When they had two children the family
were, with many others of the settlers, in
Strode's Station, for protection against the
Indians. When the savages attacked that
fortification, which terminated in its de-
struction, the men were in the fields. The
women and children collected in one of
the block-houses. The men finding the
fort at the mercy of the Indians, thought
it would be impossible to save their fami-
lies, and each one looked out for his own
personal safety. Mr. Henry Martin, of
all the men, went alone to the block-
house, and by his earnest entreaties in-
duced them to open the door. He then
compelled his wife, against her protesta-
tions, to accompany him with their two
children, and they at once entered a cane
brake, eluded the Indians, and thus saved
their lives. One old lady followed them un-
til they crossed a stream, and when she could
travel no further, concealed herself in a
cave until the danger passed. The fort
was burned, and all the others were slain.
Henry Martin remained in Kentucky un-
til after the birth of his daughter Martha,
when he moved with his family to Green
county, O. William Bridges and Martha
Martin were married near Xenia, and re-

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

sided in that city until they had two child-
ren. Mr. Bridges served one year in the
war with Great Britain, from the summer
of 1812 to 1813. He then moved to Fay-
ette county, Ind., where they had one
child, and next moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., arriving about 1824 in Buffalo
Hart Grove. Of their three children —

SARAH, born Nov. 14, 1812, in Xenia,
O., married in Sangamon county Feb. 12,
1829, to John Ridgeway, a cousin to
Lindsay. See his name. He died, and
she married Jonathan Constant. See his
name.

MARGARET, born Feb. 15, 1816, in
Xenia, O., married in Sangamon county
to James Hill. They had two children.
MARY M. married Mr. Harris, and re-
side at Staunton, Miami county, Kan.
WILLIAM married Harriet Stafford,
and reside at Clarksville. James Hill died
April 17, 1844, and Mrs. Margaret Hill
died Jan. 23, 1845.

ELIZABETH, born Nov. 9, 1819,
near Connersville, Ind., married in Sanga-
mon county t© John C. Morgan. See
his name.

William Bridges died March 12, 1833,
and Mrs. Martha Bridges died Jan. 31,
1865, both in Sangamon county. They
were not related to any other family of
Bridges in the county.

BRITTIN, EVANS E., was
born Oct. 28, 1791, in Bucks county, Pa. His
father died when he was quite young. His
mother, with her seven children, moved
to Virginia, and from there to Ross coun-
ty, O., in 1800. Evans E.was there mar-
ried, Sept. 18, 1818, to Mary J. England.
They had one child, and moved to what
became Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the spring of 1820, in what is now
Fancy creek township, where they had
eight living children. Of their children —

STEPHEN, born Aug. 20, 1819, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Jane McClelland. He died Nov. 28/1862,
and she died in 1864, both in Sangamon
county, leaving several children.

MIRANDA, born Jan. 12, 1824, in
Sangamon county, married John Canter-
berry. See his name.

ELIJAH, born Nov. 12, 1825, in
Sangamon county, married Martha Can-
terberry. He died March 5, 1873, leaving
a widow and two children in Marion
county, Iowa.

JAMES M.

EVANS E., Jun.,born Nov. 26, 1829,
married Melissa Peeler, had two children,
and she died. He married Elizabeth
Ridgeway. They have four children, and
reside near Williamsville.

WASHINGTON, born July 4, 1832,
married Eliza Mallory. He died, leaving
one child, LAURA E., and his widow
married Thomas Glascock. See his
name.

HENRT, born Jan. 8, 1835, in Sanga-
mon county, married Dec. 9, 1856, to
Nancy Mallory. They had twelve child-
ren, six of whom died young. JOHN
E., HENRY E., ALBERT L., EMMA
N., WILLIAM A. and ROGER E., re-
side with their parents. Henry Brittin
lives near Cantrall, on the farm settled by
his father in 1820.

MART J., born Aug. 3, 1837, married
Thomas Glascock, and she died. See his
name.

ELEANOR.

Mrs. Mary J. Brittin died Aug, n,
1846, and Evans E. Brittin resides with his
children. He has twice been a pioneer.
He remembers that when his mother's
family moved to Ohio, they had to go into
Kentucky, sometimes a hundred and fifty
miles, for breadstuff. After raising grain,
it was three years before they had a grist
ground. All that time they beat hominy,
and sifted out the finest for bread, or
grated the corn and made bread in that
way. Coming to Sangamon county was
a renewal of that kind of life. St. Louis
was the nearest point at which they could
buy farming tools, salt and all other arti-
cles. For grinding meal and flour they
went to the American bottom, east of St.
Louis. Mr. Brittin has hauled wheat to
Springfield and sold it for twenty-five
cents per bushel, and has known corn to
be hauled twenty-five miles and sold for
six and a quarter cents per bushel in trade.

The Christian Church, organized May
15, 1820, the first in Sangamon county,
built its first house of worship on Mr.
Brittin's farm, near the present town of
Cantrall.

BRITTON, BENJAMIN, was
born June 2, 1797, in Virginia. When
he was a" youth his parents moved to
Franklin county, Ohio. He was there
married, in April, 1816, to Elizabeth
Brunk. She was a sister to George Brunk,

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141

and was born Oct. 13, 1800, in Franklin
county, Ohio. They had four children in
Ohio, and moved to Indiana in 1824,
and from there to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in Oct., 1825, in what is now
Cotton Hill township, where they had
seven children. Of all their eleven child-
ren—

JOSEPH, born in Ohio, died in San-
gamon county unmarried, at about fifty
years of age.

REBECCA, born in Franklin county,
Ohio, married in Sangamon county, to
Nathaniel Duncan. Mr. D. died, and his
widow married Joel Vandever, and resides
in Pana. See his name.

James I. Dozier relates an anecdote illus-
trative of life among the early settlers.
He remembers that Benjamin Britton
hired Nathaniel Duncan to haul a load of
corn to Springfield, which would be a
day's work for the team. The price agreed
upon was $1.371^. Twenty bushels was
all he could haul. Mr. Britton went along
to do his own selling. Arriving there,
with all his efforts, Jive cents per bushel
was the highest price he could obtain. He
sold the load, paid over the whole proceeds,
$1.00, but how they settled the other thirty-
seven and a half cents, he does not re-
member. That was in 1836.

ELEANOR died, aged fourteen years.

MARGARET, born in Franklin
county, Ohio, married in Sangamon coun-
ty to Oscar F. Matthew. See his name.

HANNAH, born in Sangamon county,
married Sterling Clack, moved to Nevada,
Vernon county, Mo., where he died, leav-
ing a widow and five children.

DA I ID B., born and died in Sanga-
mon county, aged 21 years.

ANDRE W J., born in Sangamon
county, married Sarah McDaniel, have
four children, and reside near Princeton,
Colusa county, Cal.

MARIA J. died at twelve years of age.

CAROLINE E., born June 6, 1834,
in Sangamon county, married Geo. W.
Spicer. See his name. He died, and she
married Nathan Plummer, and resides in
Cotton Hill township.

LORENZO D., born in Sangamon
county, married Melissa Barfield. They
had five children, and Mr. Britton died,
Dec., 1872, leaving his widow and child-
ren near Clarkesdale, Christian county,
Illinois.

LOUISA, born in Sangamon county,
married Philip Clark, and died in Mis-
souri.

Mrs. Elizabeth Britton died August 18,
1854, and Benjamin Britton died Jan. 21,
1868, both in Sangamon county.

BRITT, JOHN P., was born
July 4, 1804, in Greenbrier county, Va.
He came to Sangamon county in 1832,
and was married, Dec. i, 1833, to Sarah
B. Wilson, who was born Feb. 17, 1815,
in Union county, Ky. They had five
living children, namely:

ZERILDA A., born Oct. 15, 1835, in
Springfield, was married, Jan. 17, 1859, in
Princeton, 111., to Francis A. Haines.
See his name.

MART J., born August 24, 1840, in
Springfield, married Feb. 19, 1868, to John
G. English. They have two children,
GRACE and PEARL, and reside near
Taylorville, 111.

JOHN W., born Oct. 22, 1842, in
Hancock county, was married, August 17,
1862, in Springfield, to Caroline Haines.
She died, and he went to China. He re-
turned to America, and was last heard
from in California.

^ JULIA A., born Nov. 3, 1846, in
Springfield, and resides with her mother.

SARAH H., born Jan. 21, 1849, m
Springfield, was married March 18, 1868,
in her native city, to John Branch Gilli-
land, who was born Feb. 29, 1848, in
Decatur, Ala. They have two living
children, ALICE BELLE and MARY
JOSEPHINE, and reside in Springfield.
Mr. G. is a printer, and has been ten years
employed in the Journal office. His
father, Wm. A. Gilliland, is a printer in
the Register office.

John P. Bntt died July 7, 1852, in
Springfield, and his widow married Wm.
B. Yeamans, who died August 30, 1860,
and she married, Jan. 19, 1863, to Larkin
Bryan, who died in 1874, and Mrs. Sarah
B. Bryan resides in Springfield.

Obadiah and William Britt, brothers to
John P., came to Sangamon county, and
a few years later moved to Bureau county,
111. Mrs. Jemima Britt, mother of the
three brothers, came with them to Sanga-
mon county, and went with two of them
to Bureau county, where she lost her life
by falling from a wagon and the wheels
passing over her.

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

BROADWELL, JOSIAH,

was born July 14, 1795, in Morris county,
N. J. His father, Simeon Broadwell, was
a brother to Moses Broadwell, represented
in this book. A cousin to Moses and
Simeon — Baxter Broadwell — was the
father of Judge Norman M. Broadwell, of
Springfield, a sketch of whom may be
found in connection with the name of his
father-in-law, Washington lies. Josiah
Broadwell went to Dayton, O., in 1815,
and married near the city May 31, 1827,
to Priscilla Custid. She died, leaving one
child. Mr. B. married the second time
in Dayton, Jan. 13, 1835, to Ann Comfort
Custer. She died June 5, 1836, without
children. Josiah Broadwell came to San-
gamon county about 1840, bringing his
only son —

OLIVER, \v\\o remained two or three
years in Sangamon county, went to Iowa,
married there to Rachel Pearson. They
had six children, and he died May 12,
1873, at Pleasant Hill, Saline county, Neb.
His widow and children reside there.

Josiah Broadwell was married in Sanga-
mon county, Oct. 25, 1842, to Mrs. Rachel
L. Moore, whose maiden name was Mc-
Carty. They had five children, two of
whom died young —

CTRUS .P., born March 16, 1846, in
Sangamon county. He was married Sept.
i, 1867, in Denver, Col., to Ella Goff, who
was born Oct. 18, 1850, in St. Louis, Mo.
They have four children. GEORGE W.,
born June 13, 1868, in Sangamon county;

RACHEL A., bom Aug. 25, 1870;

DELIA E., born April 9, 1872 — the two
latter in Missouri — and CLINTON, born
Feb. 24, 1874, near Guide Rock, Webster
county, Neb., where the family now re-
side.

GEORGE and JOS I AH, Jun., live
with their parents.

Josiah Broadwell and wife reside four
miles west of Springfield.

BROADWELL, MOSES,
was born Nov. 14, 1764, near Elizabeth-
town, N. J. Jane Broadwell was born
Feb. 6, 1767, in the same neighborhood,
and was Moses' second cousin. They
were there married Nov. 5, 1788, and soon
after moved to Hamilton county, O., to a
fort situated where Columbia now stands,
five miles above Cincinnati. In 1804 they
moved to Clermont county, O. They had
twelve children in Ohio, three of whom

died young. They moved in a keel boat
from Cincinnati to St. Louis in the spring
of 1819, and the next spring came up the
Illinois river on a steamboat, said to have
been the first that ever ascended the latter
stream. They landed at Beardstown in
June, 1820, and came to Sangamon county
in the latter part of June or early in July
of that year, settling on the south side of
Richland creek, about one mile east of
where Pleasant Plains now stands. Of
their nine children —

MARY, born April 27, 1791, in New
Jersey, was married Dec. 19, 1807, to
Henry S. Sweet, a native of New York.
They had one child, and all the family
died.

DA VID, born June 1 1, 1794, in Ohio,
was married to Mrs. Mary A. Drake.
She died in Menard county, 111., and he
died May 18, 1858, in Iowa.

SARAH, born Feb. 16, 1796, in Ohio,
was married in Sangamon county, in 1837,
to David Van Eaton. They had no fami-
ly, and she is now a widow, residing with
her niece, Mrs. A. B. Irwin.

JOHN B., born Sept. 27, 1797, in
Hamilton county, O., was married March
29, 1817, in same county, to Betsy Pratt.
They had one child at that place, and
moved with his father to St. Louis, where
one child was born, and from there to
Sangamon county, arriving in Dec., 1819,
on the south side of Richland creek, one
mile east of where Pleasant Plains now
stands, where one child was born. Of
their three children, JANE S., born Dec.
19, 1817, in Clermont county, O., married
in Sangamon county to John S. Seaman.
They had six living children. JONATHAN
went to New Orleans in 1857 with a drove
of horses. He sold out, and expected to
leave for home in a few days, but his
friends never heard of him afterwards.
DANIEL married in Indiana, moved to
Iowa, and died May 28, 1871, in Michi-
gan, while on his way to Mineral Springs
for his health. WILLIAM enlisted at
Springfield, in 1861, in what became the
nth Mo. Inf., for three years. Both his
lower limbs were broken by a falling tree,
while he was lying sick in tent; one limb
was amputated. He went to Iowa, mar-
ried, had one child, and his wife died.
He resides near Jefferson, Green county, la.
ISAAC was a sergeant in the 64th 111. Inf.
Served three years, re-enlisted as a veter-

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an, served to the end of the rebellion, and
was honorably discharged, and resides
near Jefferson, Iowa. CHARLES was a
Union soldier in two Illinois regiments;
served out his enlistments with honor, and
resides near Fredonia, Kan. CALISTA
married Charles R. Pratt, and resides
near Fredonia. John Seaman died in
1850, and his widow married Alexander
B. Irwin. See his name. CINTHELIA,
born Oct. 17, 1819, in St. Louis, was mar-
ried in Sangamon county, 111., to Alexan-
der B. Irwin. See his name. DANIEL
P., born Sept. 17, 1821, in Sangamon county,
was married to Irene Holcomb. They
had six children born in Sangamon coun-
ty. EMMA c. married in Springfield to
Benjamin Trumbull, and resides in Em-
poria, Kan. ALONZO was married March
6, 1874, in Bloomington, 111., to Clara
Furrow, and resides in Denver, Col.
WILLIS married in Springfield to Sophro-
nia Burge, and resides in Emporia, Kan.
CHARLES resides near Pleasant Plains.
HERBERT and ETTA reside with their
father. Daniel P. Broad well moved to
Topeka, Kan., thence to Emporia, Kan.,
where Mrs. B. died, Dec. 25, 1869. Mr.
B. married Mrs. Mary Kingston, and re-
sides near Emporia. Mrs. Betsy Broad-
well died Sept. 30, 1823, and John B.
Broadwell was married March 10, 1825,
to Elizabeth King, sister of John and
Jeremiah King. They had six children.
WILLIAM married Cynthia McMurphy,
and died, leaving a widow and three
children in Sangamon county. They re-
side in California. MOSES J., born
March 6, 1827, was married in Iowa to
Mary A. Cann, in Sept., 1862. They re-
side "in Denver, Col. MARTHA mar-
ried William Macon, and died in Califor-
nia. HARRIET married A. Poppeno,
and died, leaving three children in Sanga-
mon county. FRANCIS M., born May
15, 1836, in Sangamon county, was mar-
ried in Davis county, Iowa, to Sarah
Allen, moved to Denver, Col., and died
there. HENRY C. is on the Pacific
coast. Mrs. Elizabeth Broadwell died
July 23, 1840, in Sangamon county, and
John B. Broadwell resides partly near
Fredonia, Kan., and with his daughter,
Mrs. Irwin, in Sangamon county.

WILLIAM, born April 27, 1799, in
Hamilton county, O., was married in San-
gamon county, Dec. 15, 1821, to Margaret

Stevenson. They had one son, WIL-
LIAM B., born Jan. 3, 1825, in Sanga-
mon county. He laid out the town of
Broadwell, in Logan county. He was
married, and resides in Hutchinson, Reno
county, Kan. William Broadwell was
killed at Old Sangamo, in Sangamon
county, 111., Nov. 22, 1824, while assisting
in raising a barn. His widow married
Richard Latham. See his name.

CHARLES, born Dec. 3, 1800, in
Hamilton county, O., was married Jan. 9,

1825, in Sangamon county, to Ellen Car-
man, daughter of Jacob Carman. They
had eight children, JACOB, SILAS,
RACHEL, HELEN, ADELIA, MAR-
GARET and MARY A. The latter
married A. P. Brereton, and resides in
Pekin. Charles Broadwell moved to
Pekin, and died in 1854. His widow re-
sides there.

JEFFERSON, born June 9, 1805,
in Clermont county, O., died Dec. 10,
1830, in Sangamon county.

CTNTHIA, born Nov. 2, 1807, in
Clermont county, was married, May 21,

1826, in Sangamon county, to William
Carson. See his name.

EUCLID, born Oct. 7, 1809, in Cler-
mont county, O., was married in Sanga-
rnon county Dec. 12, 1833, to Laura Far-
rington. They had eight children, some
died young, and the family moved to Iowa.
LOUISA, born Aug. 27, 1836, was mar-
ried Feb. 21, 1 86 1, in Van Buren county,
Iowa, to D. S. Jamison, who was born
Aug. 25, 1822, in Westmoreland county,
Pa. They have four children, ELSWORTH,
CORA, SHERMAN and BOB. They reside
at Keosauqua, Van Buren county, Iowa.
ROSALINE, born March i, 1839, was
married Feb. 16, 1860, to Rev. J. W.
Roe. They had six children, ALLEN,

CLARA, WILLIAM, LAURA, CHARLES and

JOHN. Mrs. Rosaline Roe died July 30,
1874, at Malvern, Mills county, Iowa.
MARIA, born Sept. 21, 1841, married
Aug. 3, 1863, to Ephriam Farrington.
They have two children, ELSIE and EVA,
and reside at Belle Plain, Sumner county,
Kan. CHARLES, born April 28, 1846,
died Oct. i, 1875, in Denver, Col. MIL-
LIARD F., born Aug. 16, 1850, resides
at Niles, Van Buren county, Iowa. EL-
LA, born Aug. 5, 1853, in Macon county,
111., was married March 31, 1872, to Dr.
C. L. Crooks. They had two children,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

CLARK and BESSIE, and reside at Cantril,
Van Buren county, Iowa. Euclid Broad-
well died Feb. 12, 1874, at Niles, and his
widow resides there.

Moses Broadwell is said to have built
the first brick house in Sangamon county.
He died April 10, 1827, and his widow
died March 8, 1836, both in Sangamon
county, 111., where they settled in 1820.

BROOKS, REV. JOHN F.,
was born Dec. 3, 1801, in Oneida county,
N. Y. His parents were of New Eng-
land origin, but emigrated to New York
in 1792, when the whole region was a
forest, with here and there a small settle-
ment. Mr. Brooks graduated at Hamil-
ton College, in that county, in 1828, and
afterwards studied three years in the theo-
logical department of Yale college, New
Haven, Conn. Be was ordained to the
gospel ministry by Oneida Presbytery, in
the autumn of 1831, and was married soon
after to a daughter of Rev. Joel Bradley.
They immediately left for Illinois, under
a commission from the American Home
Missionary Society. They traveled by
canal, lake and stage to Pittsburg, thence
by steamboat, down the Ohio river to
New Albany, Ind. Any route to Illinois
by way of Chicago, in those days, was
not to be thought of, as that place was
just emerging from the condition of an
Indian trading station. At New Albany
Rev. Mr. Brooks purchased a horse and
" Dearborn," as it was then called, which
was a one horse wagon with stationary
cover. In this they continued their jour-
ney, crossing the Wabash river at Vin-
cennes. After passing a skirt of timber
on the west side, they entered the first
prairie of Illinois, in the midst of a furious
storm. They were far from any house,
with only the carriage as a protection, and
that in danger of being upset by the gale.
They weathered the storm, however, by
turning the back of their carriage to it,
but the prairie was covered with water,
and they could only disern the path by
observing where the grass did not rise
above the water. They sought a house
to dry their garments, and that night ar-
rived at Lawrenceville, where Rev. Mr.
B. preached his first sermon in Illinois,
the next day being Sabbath. About three
days after they arrived at Vandalia, the
State capital, having been five weeks on
the way from the vicinity of Utica, N. Y.

After visiting several towns and villages,
Rev. Mr. Brooks located for the winter
at Collinsville, in the southern part of
Madison county, preaching, alternately,
there and at Belleville. In the spring of
1832 he moved to the latter place, where
he continued five years, preaching there,
and at several other points in St. Clair
and Monroe counties.

About the second year of his residence
at Belleville, he and his wife opened a
school, which increased so rapidly they
employed an assistant. They taught all
grades, from A, B, C, to the classics and
higher mathematics. Several attended
that school, who afterwards entered the
halls of legislation, and other departments
of public life. In 1837 Mr. Brooks was
chosen principal of a Teachers' Seminary,
which benevolent individuals were en-
deavoring to establish in Waverly, Mor-
gan county. He taught there with suc-
cess, but the general embarrassment of the
country, caused by the financial disasters
of 1837, compelled a relinquishment of
that enterprise. During the time he was
teaching he endeavored to preach one ser-
mon every Sabbath, but the double labor
induced bronchial affection, from which
he has never fully recovered. In 1840
Mr. B. was called to Springfield to take
charge of an academy for both sexes,
though in different apartments, to be
taught in a newr brick edifice erected for
that purpose on the west side of Fifth
street, between Monroe and Market.
Here he continued his labors, with the aid
of two assistants, for two years and a half.
Many persons now prominent in business
or in domestic life, received a portion of
their education there. After this he
labored for two years under direction of
Presbytery supplying vacant churches in
this and adjoining counties. His health
was now much impaired, and designing
light labor, he opened a school for young
ladies in a small room near his own house.
The applications soon outran the size of
the room, which he enlarged, and his
wife again assisted him. His school in-
creased, his health improved, and he pur-
chased the property on the corner of Fifth
and Edwards streets, re-arranging the
two-story frame building internally to suit
the purposes of a school. This he opened
as a Female Seminary, the Autumn of
1849, with three assistants, and Mrs.

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Brooks in charge of the primary depart-
ment, held in the room he previously
occupied. In addition to the usual course,
Mr. Brooks added drawing, painting and
music; two pianos were introduced, and
this is believed to have been the first effort
at teaching music in the schools of Spring-
field. This Seminary prospered for four
years, when Mrs. Brooks' health failed,
and it became necessary to close the insti-
tution. Since her death in 1860, Rev.
Mr. Brooks has devoted a large part of
his time to hearing classes, and giving
private lessons.

He was one of seven young men who
banded together, while in their theologi-
cal course in New Haven, for the estab-
ment of a college in this State. Illinois
College, at Jacksonville is the result of
their exertions. Mr. Brooks has been one
of its trustees from the first.

He relates, as an illustration of the
change of times in attending Presbytery
in the State since he entered it, that a
clergyman in those days must have his
horse and saddle as certainly as his Bible
and hymn book. The settlements were
remote from each other, and a ride of
three or four days to a meeting of Pres-
bytery was a common experience. Once,
in attending such a meeting, Mr. Brooks
traveled in an easterly direction from Bell-
ville, for two or three days, and found a
sparse settlement, mostly of log cabins.
They had erected a frame church building
and roofed it, without siding or floor, with
only a few rough boards for seats. The Pres-
bytery opened its sessions, several sermons
were preached, the sacrament administered,
but rain came on before that body ad-
journed, and they moved to a private
house, with only one room and a small
side appartment. At meal time Presby-
tery adjourned, that the table might be
spread, and after evening service, six or
seven members lodged in the same room,
on beds spread on the floor. People, in
sustaining religious worship under such
circumstances made as great sacrifices,
according to their means as those who
build their $50,000 churches do now. At
this meeting Mr. Brooks was entertained
at a cabin where the only light admitted
was through an open door, or one or two
sheets of piled paper, in place of glass
windows. He met a man, however, in
that settlement, from his native town, in
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New York, and he had two glass win-
dows, but his neighbors thought him ex-
travagant, and somewhat aristocratic to
indulge in such a luxury. Rev. Mr.
Brooks resides west side of Fifth, between
Edwards and Cook streets, Springfield,
Illinois.

BROWN ELL, JOHN, was
born Aug. 14, 1800, in Rhode Island.
During his infancy his parents moved to
Seneca county, N. Y. He came west
with the family of William Seely. Mr. B.
and the other members of his family came
by water to Shawneetown, and from
there in wagons, arriving in what is now
Ball township, July 5, 1819. John
Brownell was married to Nancy Pulliam,
in 1821. Of their eleven children born
in Sangamon county, two died in infancy.
Of the nine living —

WILLIAM, born Dec. 10, 1822, in
Sangamon county, was married Jan. 20,
1848, to^ Elizabeth Bridges. They had
four living children, and Mrs. B. died,
Feb. 17, 1869. Mr. Brownell was mar-
ried in Sangamon county, Dec. 29, 1869,
to Sarah E. Vaughan, who was born Mar.
3, 1840, in Kentucky. Thev had two
children. Of the children by his first
marriage, MARGARET J., born Nov.
24, 1848, in Sangamon county, was mar-
ried Nov. 3, 1866, to John M. Sutton,
who was born July 29, 1845, in Michigan.
They have three living children, WILLIAM

N., DELLA M. and BURTIE E. J. M. Sut-

ton resides in Auburn. JOHN W., MI-
RANDA I. and COLUMBUS V., and
by the second marriage, ORAH V. and
EDWARD, reside with their father.
William Brownell and family reside in
Auburn.

WILSON A'., born Jan. 18, 1825, in
Sangamon county, was married May 17,
1855, to Sarah Murphy, a native of Maine.
They had two children, ELIZA and
SARAH, and Mrs. B. died, Feb., 1859.
Wilson K. married Polly A. Lawson.
They had four children, who all died.
Mrs. Polly Brownell died, and Wilson K.
resides in Ball township.

GEORGE W., born July 16, 1827,
was married Jan. 20, 1848, in Sangamon
county, to Miranda Bridges. They had
ten children. MARY ISABEL, born
Nov. 5, 1848, was married May 26, 1864,
to Henry Willard, who was born in Mis-
souri in 1841. They had two children,

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IDA A. and GEORGKTTA. Mr. W. died, and
she married May 20, 1869, to Calvin Mc-
Clure, who was born in Ohio Feb. 10, 1829.
They had one child, GERTRUDE. Mr.
McClure died March 15, 1873, and Mrs.
McC. married James McCulley, who Was
born Aug. 18^ 1848, in Sangamon county.
They have one child, ISAAC F., and reside
in Chatham township. JOHN I., born
June 7, 1850, was married Aug. 27, 1873,
to Susanna Graves, who was born Feb.

14, 1849, in Macoupin county. They have
one child, CLARENCE H., and reside near
Taylorville, 111. WILLIAM W., born
Aug. 2, 1852. BEBECCA E., born Jan.

15, 1855, in Sangamon county, was mar-
ried Nov. 13, 1872, to James Hurst.
They have one living child, WILLIAM.
MELISSA M., born Jan. 25, 1856, mar-
ried Nov. 20, 1873, to Isaac Bowls, who
was born in Ohio, in Dec., 1852.
JOSEPH S., NANC Y J., GEORGE H.,
VIOLA M. and CHARLES E.; the
latter died in infancy. All the other un-
married children reside with their parents,
near Taylorville, Christian county, 111.

MARY A., born Dec. 12, 1829, was
married March 13, 1849,10 Pleasant Kent,
who was born in Ohio. They had twelve
children, seven living. One child, ELIZA,
married William Miller. They have two
children, and reside in Woodside town-
ship, Sangamon county.

IRRILDA y., born June 26, 1832, in
Sangamon county, was married Feb. 22,
1853, in same county, to L. T. Porterfield,
who was born May 16, 1833. They had
eight children; two died young. Of the
other six, JOHN H., MARIA M.,
AMANDA^J., FRANCIS L., MARY
L. and HATTIE J. L. T. Porterfield
died April 26, 1869. His widow and
children reside in Auburn, Sangamon
county, 111.

ELIZABETH M., born Dec. 9, 1835,
in Sangamon county, was married July
29, 1856, in same county, to Milton Pike,
who was born June 5, 1823. See his
name. They had eight children; one
died in infancy. ALICE and LILLIE,
twins, born June 5, 1857; Lillie died June
13, 1867, and Alice died April 9, 1872.
MARY M., EDDIE F., HATTIE T.,
FREDDIE B. and MINNIE A. Mr.
Pike and family reside in Auburn, Sanga-
mon county, 111.

MARIA L., born July 24, 1838, was
married June 2, 1857, m Sangamon coun-
ty, to Joseph C. Campbell, who was born
in Wayne county, 111. He enlisted Sept.
6, 1861, in Co. I, 29th Reg. 111. Vol. Inf.,
died Sept. 15, 1864. His widow married
James Rape, and they reside near Taylor-
ville, 111.

FRANKLIN, born Aug. 23, 1843,
married Sarah Reed. They had four
children; two died young. They reside
in Ball township.

FRANCIS M., born April 3, 1846, in
Sangamon county, was married Sept. 4,
1871, in Macoupin county, to Emma
Brooks, who was born Jan. 28, 1844, in
Kent county, Delaware. They reside in
Auburn.

Mrs. Nancy Brownell died Aug. 28,
1856, and John Brownell was married
March 29, 1860, to Mrs. Maria L. Watts,
whose maiden name was Allen. They
reside in Ball township, on land entered
bv Mr. Brownell in 1822.

"BROWN, WILLIAM, was
born April 19, 1779, in Frederick county,
Virginia. The family have a record
reaching back through his father, James
Brown, born April 19, 1742, O. S., in
Spotsylvania county, Va., to his father,
James Brown, born April 29, 1708, O. S.,
in Middlesex county, Va., whose parents
emigrated from England. James Brown,
the father of the subject of this sketch,
emigrated from Virginia to Bourbon
county, Ky., in 1784. William Brown
was married in 1805, in Fayette county,
Ky., to Harriet B. Warfield, who was
born March 3, 1788. They had ten child-
ren; one died in infancy; all born at the
family residence except the eldest, who
was born at the Warfield homestead, near
Bryan's Station, Fayette county, Ky.
William Brown was a successful lawyer,
and for several years before leaving Ken-
tucky, his home was a country seat, over-
looking the town of Cynthiana, and the
valley of the Licking. He led a company
of volunteers from Kentucky, in the war
of 1812, in which he won the title of Col-
onel. He represented Harrison county
in the Legislature of Kentucky, and later
represented his district in Congress. He,
in company with his son-in-law, James D.
Smith, explored the central region of Illi-
nois, and in 1832 made large purchases of
land in and around Island Grove, in San-

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gamon county. He brought his family
the year following, and after providing
for the erection of a country residence,
made his home in Jacksonville, Morgan
county, where, after a brief illness, he
died, Oct. 6, 1833. Of their nine children
who accompanied them to Illinois, four
never resided in Sangamon county, viz:
ELISHA W., ELIZA .C. and SARAH
If. reside at Boonville, Cooper county,
Mo. WILLIAM made Jacksonville his
home, brough up a family of children,
and died there, after a life full of useful-
ness and honor, in 1871. Of the other
five children —

JAMES N., born Oct. i, 1806, at
Bryan's Station, Fayette county, Ky., was
married near Cynthiana, Ky., to Polly A.
Smith. They had three children in Ken-
tucky, all of whom died in infancy. They
moved to Sangamon county, 111., where
six children were born, one of whom died
in infancv. JAMES N., Jun., born Julv
13, i836;died Feb.' 8, 1851. WILLIAM,
born June n, 1839, was married, Oct. 18,
1865, in Covington, Ky., to Sail}- R.
Smith, who was born Feb. i, 1847, *n
Harrison countv, Kv. They had three
children, all of whom died in infancy.
Mrs. Sally R. Brown died May 6, 1870,3!
Island Grove. Mr. B. resides at the fam-
ily homestead. CHARLES S., born
Oct. n, 1841, was married Jan. i^j, 1874,
in Middletown," Butler county, Ohio, to
Sarah E. Bonnell, who was born there,
May 30, 1843. They reside at the family
homestead. BENJ/WARFIELD, born
Oct. 10, 1844, resides at the homestead,
three miles west of Berlin, Sangamon
county. MARY H., born March 19,
1848, and was married Jan. 4, 1872, at Is-
land Grove, to Samuel N. Hitt, who was
born Sept. 20, 1834, in Bourbon county,
Ky. He enlisted Sept. 21, 1861, at Camp
Butler, in the loth 111. Cav., and was
elected ist. Lieut., was promoted through
all the grades to Col., and was honorably
discharged, Dec., 1866. Mr. and Mrs.
Col. Hitt had two children; one died in
infancy. MARY B. resides with her par-
ents, half a mile east of New Berlin, San-
gamon countv. Capt. James N. Bi-own,
* Sen., represented Sangamon county in
the Legislature of Illinois for the years
1840, '42, '46 and '52. During the session
of the last named \ ear he drafted a bill
and secured its passage, which led to the

organization of the Illinois State Agricul-
tural Society. He was elected its first
President, Jan. 5, 1853, and re-elected in
1854. He held, to the day of his death,
offices of public trust, but whilst giving
much of his time to the State, his love for
agriculture was not abated, nor his active
duties in her pursuits neglected, and to his
sagacity and persistant life-time efforts is
Illinois largely indebted for her promi-
nence as a producer of short horn cattle.
For more than a third of a century he
was a member of the M. E. church, and
his active Christian life closed Nov. 16,
1868. His widow, Mrs. Polly A. Brown,
died May 18, 1873, both where they set-
tled in 1833. Their remains are interred
in Wood Wreath Cemetery.

RUTH ANN, born April 29, 1812,
married James D. Smith. See his name.

MARY, born March 3, 1814, was mar-
ried in 1831, in Kentucky, to Barton S.
Wilson. They moved from Jacksonville,
111., to Island Grove, in 1835, and thence,
in 1837, *° Boonville, Mo., where Mrs.
Wilson died, in 1858, but three children
survive her, viz: Mrs. REBECCA
Brand, JOSEPH and JOHN, all of
whom, with their father, reside in Neosho,
Newton county, Missouri.

REBECCA, born Jan. 4, 1819, was
married in Jacksonville, 111., to Charles
W. Price. See his name.

LLOYD W., born Feb. 22, 1824, in
Kentucky, graduated in arts at McKen-
dree College, in 1842, and in medicine,
from the University of Maryland. In
1847 he married Rebecca P. Warfield, of
Lexington, Ky. He practiced medicine
in that city one year, and came to Illinois
Dec., 1848, and settled near the town of
Berlin, in 1849, practiced medicine there
until 1857, when he abandoned his pro-
fession for other pursuits, and moved to
Boonville, Mo. He returned to IHinois
in 1858, and after a brief stav in Jackson-
ville, settled on his farm at Lost Grove^on
the line between Sangamon and Morgan
counties. Of Dr. L. W. Brown's ten
children, five died in infancv. The others
are: HARRIET ,B., born May i, 1852,
died July n, 1867, at her grand-father's,
(Dr. Warfield) in Lexington, Kv. She
is buried in Wood Wreath Cemetery,
111. WILLIAM B., EDWARD F.,
REBECCA C. and LLOYD W., Jun.

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Dr. L. W. Brown is a banker, and, with
his family, resides in Jacksonville, 111.

BROWN, WILLIAM B.,
was horn Feb. 2, 1802, in Greensburg,
Green county, Ky. Harriet L. Allen was
born Dec. 17, 1804, in the same place.
She was a daughter of Col. David Allen,
a pioneer from Virginia. He took an ac-
tive part in the Indian wars of Kentucky.
William B. Brown and Harriet L. Allen
were married in Greensburg, Dec. 31,
1822. They had five children in Ken-
tucky, and moved to Athens, 111., in Nov.,
1833, where they had one child, and Mrs.
Brown died Oct. 7, 1835. Wm. B. Brown
was married in Athens, June 20, 1837, to
Laura B. Buckman. They moved to San-
gamo, in Sangamon county, in 1839.
They had four living children. Of all his
children —

DANIEL C. and DA VID A., twins,
were born Sept. 27, 1824, at Greensburg,
Ky., and brought by their father to San-
gamon county. At fifteen years of age
they sawed all the lath used in building
the first State House in Springfield, now
the Sangamon county Court House.

DANIEL C. then served an appren-
ticeship to the drug business. He was
married June 30, 1852, in Petersburg, to
Catharine L. Cowgill. They have three
living children, HARRIET CLEMAN-
TINE, JOHN H. and ELIZA B. Dan-
iel C. Brown has been for many years,
and is now, a druggist in Springfield.

DA VID A., was reading law with
Col. E. D. Baker in 1846, when the war
with Mexico commenced. At the suggest-
ion of Mr. Baker, Mr. Brown commenced
raising a company. Before it was full, it
was consolidated with another part of a
company from Logan county, and became
Co. I, 4th 111. Inf. Mr. Brown was elect-
ed Second Lieutenant. He was with the
regiment at the bombardment of Vera
Cruz,' and at the battle of Cerro Gordo,
April 1 8, 1847. The next day Lieut.
Brown was promoted for gallantry, as aid
de camp to Col. Baker, then commanding
the brigade. On returning from Mexico,
Mr. Brown read law in the office of Lin-
coln & Herndon, and was admitted to the
bar. He was then appointed Clerk of the
Circuit Court of Menard county, to which
office he was afterwards elected, and served
in all six years, when he returned to
Springfield, and practiced law for six

years. He abandoned the practice, and in
1859 engaged extensively in farming at
Bates, in this county. He was elected
Vice-P:-esident of the State Board of
Agriculture, and served four years, eroding
Sept., 1870, when he was elected Presi-
dent of the Board for two years. He was
appointed by Gov. Beveridge as one of
the three Railroad and Warehouse Com-
missioners, March 13, 1873, confirmed by
the Senate the same day, and commis-
sioned by the Governor on the I7th of the
month. David A. Brown was married
Dec. 8, 1852, in Sangamon county, to
Eliza J. Smith. They have six living
children, SALLIE C., WILLIAM J.,
HARRIET J. MARY E., JAY T. and
CARRIE A., and reside at Bates.

WILLIAM J., born March 23, 1827,
in Greensburg, Ky., raised in Sangamon
county, was married at Clinton, 111., Nov.
22, 1854,10 Elizabeth M. Smith, and moved
soon after to Decatur. They have three
living children, HATTIE J., ANNIE
and CHRISTOPHER N. In 1862 Wm.
J. Brown became Capt. of Co. A, 116 111.
Inf. He served through the battles of
Chickasaw Bluff, Arkansas Post, and the
siege and capture of Vicksburg. Capt.
Brown resigned in 1863 on account of
physical disability, took a trip to California
for recruiting his health, and from that to
the present time has been in the drug bus-
iness in Decatur.

MARTHA T., born and died in Ken-
tucky, in her sixth year.

JOHN H., born Feb. 17, 1832, in
Greensburg, Ky., raised in Sangamon
county, married in Decatur, Jan. 2, 1856,
to Clara A. Stafford. They had three liv-
ing children, DANIEL A., HARMON
and MARY. John H. Brown was a
druggist at Cairo, and was Treasurer of
the city while residing there. He removed
to Springfield, and continued in the same
business, until failure of health induced
him to visit California, where he died, at
Grass Valley, April n, 1866. His widow
married Dr. Justus Townsend, and resides
in Springfield.

CHRIS7^OPHER C., born Oct. 21,
1834, at Athens, 111. He was married in
Springfield to Bettie J. Stuart. They
had three children, ^STUART, ED-
WARDS and PAUL. Mrs. Bettie J.
Brown died March 2, 1869. Part of the
buildings now occupied by the Bettie

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149

Stuart Institute had been her home, and
the institution was so named in honor of
her memory. C. C. Brown was married
June 4, 1872, in Chicago, to Mrs. Carrie
Farn'sworth, whose maiden name was
Owsley. They have one child, ELIZA-
BETH J., and reside in Springfield. Mr.
Brown is a member of the law firm of
Stuart, Edwards & Brown.

JOEL B., the eldest child of the sec-
ond wife, was born March 9, 1840, at San-
gamo, Sangamon county. He was mar-
ried Jan. 12, 1865, to Ella S. Saunders.
They have one child, BETTIE J. Mr.
Brown was in the drug business in Deca-
tur, from 1859 to 1864. He is now a
member of the firm of D. & J. B. Brown,
booksellers and druggists, in Springfield.

MART L. was born Sept. 7, 1844, 'n
Sangamon county, and married Albert H.
Cowgill. See his name.

FRANKLIN B. was born Nov. 28,
1848, in Sangamon county, and resides at
Minneapolis, Minn.

JAMES B. was born July 24, 1851,
in Sangamon county, and resides in Spring-
field.

William B. Brown was a merchant in
Kentucky, but on coming to Illinois he
engaged extensively in land speculations.
In connection with others, he took part in
laying out many of the important towns
in Illinois and Iowa. He died Dec. 14,
1852, in Petersburg, and his widow, Mrs.
Laura B. Brown, resides with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Cowgill, in Springfield.

BROWN, REV. JOHN H.,
D. D., brother to William B. Brown,
came to Springfield too late to be included
as an early settler. His son, Dwight
Brown, is a member of the firm of
D. & J. B. Brown, of Springfield. Dr.
John H. Brown was Pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church of Springfield for a
number of years, and at the time of his
death was pastor of a church in Chicago.*
He died in Chicago, Feb. 23, 1872, and
was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery. His
widow resides on North Grand Avenue,
Springfield.

BROWN, JAMES L., was born
Oct. 20, 1786, in South Carolina. He was
married there May 28, 1806, to Jane M.
Berry, and soon after went to Union
county, Ky., where they had eight child-
ren, and the family moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving, in 1824, in what is

now Fancy Creek township, where they
had three children. Of their children —

NANCT H., born Nov. 28, 1808, mar-
ried George Levan,who died in 1843, and
she married John D. McCumber, and she
died March 6, 1872.

WILLIAM N., born May 25, 1810,
in Kentucky, married Sarah Kilgour, who
died, and he married Lucinda Ensor, and
he died Feb. 19, 1872, in Sangamon coun-
ty. His widow and six children reside in
Montgomery county.

ELIZABETH C., born Dec. 23,
1812, married Enos Darnall. They had
six sons, two of whom, JAMES L. and
WILLIAM, are deaf and dumb, and
were educated at Jacksonville. Mr. Dar-
nall died near Wintersett, Iowa. His
family reside there.

BENJAMIN F., born March 28,
1815, in Kentucky, married May 15, 1835,
to Susannah Dunlap. They had seven
children. MARY C. married George
W. McClelland. See his name. AR-
MINDA M. married Owen G. Allen, and
reside in Sullivan county, Mo. JOHN J.
married Mary A. Short, have one child, and
reside at Heyworth, McLean county.
EDNA D. died Feb. r, 1866, aged eighteen
years. JAMES T. died Dec. 30, 1865,111
his fifteenth year. ANNA F. married
Martin McCoy, and reside in Fancy Creek
township. Benjamin F. Brown died Feb.
21, 1866, and his widow resides four miles
northwest of Sherman.

MART H., born June 23, 1817, mar-
ried James T. Dunlap. See his name.

THOMAS C.,born Nov. 2, 1819, died,
aged eleven years.

SARAH B., born April 3, 1821, mar-
ried Orlando Bates. See his name.

E MILT A.^ born May 12, 1823, mar-
ried John R. Dunlap. See his name.

MARTHA y., born April 29, 1825,
married George Groves. See his name.

S US AN F., born Aug. 27, 1827, mar-
ried G. Willcockson, have six children,
and reside in Lawrence county, Mo.

REBECCA H., born Feb. 24, 1832,
married William D. Power, Feb. 8, 1847.
They had one child, and he died March
15, 1848. His widow married March 22,
1849, to Joseph Bates. See his name.

James L. Brown died April 18, 1854,
and his widow died twenty-seven days
later — May 15, 1854. He was a soldier in

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

the war of 1812, and was at the battle of
New Orleans.

BROWN, THOMAS, was born
Feb. 4, 1792, in South Carolina. Martha
Thaxton was born May 4, 1791, in South
Carolina also. They were married there,
and moved to Allen county, Ky., where
they had five children, and moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving Oct 7, 1827,
in what is now Fancy Creek township,
where they had one child. Of their six
children —

JEMIMA, born June i, 1811, in Allen
county, Ky., married in Sanganion county
to Thomas Sales. They had two children.
MARGARET married William McClel-
land. See his name. GEORGE T.
married Susannah Gardner. She died,
and he married Mrs. Elizabeth Turley,
whose maiden name was Cline. They
have two children, THOMAS and MAR-
GARET. George T. Sales enlisted in 1861
for three years, in Co. C, 7th III. Inf. He
was a Lieutenant, served full term, and
was honorably discharged. He lives near
Athens, 111. Thomas Sales died, and his
widow married Philip Crickmour, who
also died. Mrs. Jemima Crickmour now
(1874) lives with her sister, Mrs. Tames
McClelland.

Aunt Jemima — as she is called by the
young people — related to the writer a
good joke on herself, which serves to illus-
trate the manners and customs of the peo-
ple at the time she come to the country.
She says that when the weather was suffi-
ciently warm to admit of it, the young
people, upon going to any public meeting,
would carry their shoes and stockings un-
til they approached their destination, when
they would stop and put them on. As
soon as they passed out of view, on leav-
ing, they would again stop, take them off,
and carry them home in their hands.
This was done in order to make them last
as long as possible. She thought it a sin-
gular custom ; but after seeing her associ-
ates practice it a few times, decided to try
it herself. She was then about sixteen
years of age. Religious meetings were
held at private houses. She started on a
Sunday morning to attend a meeting at
the house of a neighbor, carrying her
shoes and stockings in her hands. A shoil
distance from the house she put them on,
entered the meeting, and all passed off
well until she started on the return, when

a young gentleman accosted her at the
door, and asked permission to accompany
her home. This placed her in a quan-
dary. If she wore her shoes the entire
distance, it would wear them out so much
earlier; if she stopped and took them off,
there was reason to fear it would frighten
her beau away. She was not long in de-
ciding to wear the shoes and keep the
beau. Economy in that line was thus
brought to a sudden termination.

JAMES, born Nov., 1813, in Allen
county, Ky. He was married in Sanga-
mon county to Elizabeth Scott. They
have three children, and live in Kansas.
At the time of -the " deep snow " he was
but sixteen years old. It became neces-
sary for him to carry a grist to mill on
horseback. He found the traveling quite
difficult, in consequence of the crust on
the snow cutting the legs of his horse.
A shawl belonging to some of the
female portion of the familv had been
wrapped about his person to keep him
from freezing. He tore that in two pieces,
took off his suspenders, and with them
tied a half of the shawl on each of the
forward legs of the horse, about where the
snow crust would strike them. In that
way he was enabled to bring home a sup-
ply of breadstuff for the family.

JOHN, born March 4, 1815, in Ken-
tucky, died in Sangamon county in 1842.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to William
Cutwright. She died, leaving one son,
DANIEL, who enlisted in the first call
for 75,000 men, in 1861, and died m the
armv.

MART, born Dec. 25, 1818, in Allen
county, Ky., married in Sangamon county
to James McClelland. See his name.

ROBERT T., born Aug. 21, 1831, in
Sangamon county, married Dec. 28, 1848,
to Edna M. Dunlap, who was born Jan.
J3, 1832. They had seven children; the
eldest died young. THOMAS, born Oct.
10, 1851, married Oct. 23, 1872, to Hattie
L. Short, and live in Fancy Creek town-
ship. MARY E'., JAMES F., ALEX-
ANDER, MARGERY I., ROBERT
U. and JOHN A., live with their mother.
Robert T. Brown died Feb. 6, 1866, and
his widow lives near Sherman.

Mrs. Martha Brown died Sept. n,
1862, and Thomas Brown died July 23,
1868, both in Saugamon county. Their

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children remember that the first corn Mr.
Brown raised in the county for sale, was
hauled away by Abraham Lincoln, as the
hired man of John Taylor, who owned
the land where they lived.

BROWN, JAMES M., was
born Sept. 28, 1812, in Davidson county,
near Nashville, Tenn. He came to San-
gamon county, arriving March 31, 1831,
at the house of Gen. M. K. Anderson,
east of Pleasant Plains. He was married
Aug. 7, 1832, to Elizabeth Willis. They
had eight living children in Sangamon
county. Of their children —

MARTHA J., born Oct. 6, 1833, was
married Sept. 14, 1856, to Daniel T.
Hughes. They have three living child-
ren, ADA, LULIE and ARTHUR, and
reside at Greenview, III.

CLARISSA M., born July 18, 1835,
was married June 13, 1852,10 J. S. Young,
a native of Somerset county, Penn. They
have seven living children. JOSE-
PHINE, born August 23, 1854, was mar-
ried Nov. 20, 1873, to Charles A. Robin-
son, a native Michigan. They have one
child, GERTRUDE i., and reside near Oak
Grove, Seward county, Neb. JEREMI-
AH S.JAMES M., ROSA B., MARY
F. DORA E. and CLARA M., and re-
side near Valparaiso, Saunders county,
Neb.

SARAH E., born Dec. 5, 1837, was
married April 20, 1856, to James K. Van-
Demark, a native of Ohio. They have
one child, ROSA S., and reside near
Valparaiso, Neb.

MART y., born Sept. 20, 1841, mar-
ried George W. Sampson. He died Oct.,
1874, near Fail-field, Iowa. Mrs. Samp-
son and her children, JAMES and NEL-
LIE, reside with her parents.

JOHN H., born Jan. 29, 1846, was
married, August 13, 1865, to Adaline K.
Adams. He is now (1875) a widower,
with three children, CHARLES N.,
JAMES W. and ZACHEUS K., and re-
sides at Crowder, Saunders county, Neb.

JAMES T., born Dec. 13, 1848, mar-
ried Amanda A. Pierce. They have one
child, CHARLES E., and reside near
Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county.

LA VINA F., born Jan. 19, 1854, was
married Sept. 25, 1873, to Thomas Brode-
rick. They have one child, and reside
near Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

JOSEPH C., born March 7, 1853,
was married, Sept. n, 1873, to Sarah A.
Snook. They have one child, THEO-
DORE O., and reside near Crowder,
Saunders county, Neb.

James N. Brown and wife reside two
and a half miles west of Pleasant Plains,
Sangamon county, 111.

BROWN, JOSHUA, was born
May 20, 1792, in Davis county, Kv.
Nancy Wilcher was born Dec., 1789, in
the same county. They were there mar-
ried, early in 1812. They had three child-
ren in Kentucky, and in Nov., 1818,
moved to St. Clair county, 111., and from
there to what became Sangamon county,
arriving April 18, 1819, in what is now
Curran township, east of Archer's creek,
and south of Spring creek, and later en-
tered one hundred and sixty acres of land
south of Spring creek, in Gardner town-
ship. They had five children in Sanga-
mon county. Of their eight children —

REZIN D., born May 6, 1813, in
Davis county, Ky., was married in Sanga-
mon county, 111., May 15, 1834, to Rachel
Earnest. Thev had twelve children in
Sangamon county. CATHARINE F.,
born March 7, 1835, was married Nov. 6,
1855, to John Childs, who was born Dec.
25, 1829, in Burlington, N. J. They had
ten children, LEONA L., JOSEPH n., NOAH

H., KATIE A., JOHN D., TIMOTHY S., ANNIE
R., CHARLES F., JESSIE B. and HATTIE,

and reside near Warrensburg, Macon
county, 111. MARTIN V., born March
4, 1837, the day VanBuren was inaugura-
ted President of the United States. Ho
was married Sept. 26, 1869, to Helen M.
Cecil. They have one child, and reside
near Rose Hill, Henry county, Mo.
MARY A., born May 7, 1838, was mar-
ried Oct., 1857, to James M. Gait. They
have eight children, and reside near Pal-
myra, Otoe county, Neb. CHARLOTTE,
born Dec. 19, 1839, marrted Feb. 23, 1864,
to Thomas B. Ray. See his name. She
died Jan, 9, 1836, leaving one child, CHAR-
LOTTE, who resides with her grand-pa-
rents, Brown. JOHN D., born March i,
1842, married Nov. 6, 1867, to Louisa J.
Cecil. They have one child, GERTIE, and
reside near Mt. Rose, Mo. CHARLES
F., born Sept. 14, 1843, died Sept. 30,
1853. PETER, born Atlg, 6, 1845, re-
sides in Alta City Utah. ANNIS, born
Aug. 1 6, 1847, ni:in"ied Nov. 10, 1869, to

EARLY SETTLERS OF

John Happer. They have two children,
HOWARD H. and NELLIE, and reside near
Maroa, Macon county, 111. LUANNA,
born April 8, 1849, married Oct. 17, 1872,
to Frank Leverton, and reside five miles
west of Springfield. EDWIN, born May,
1851, died Feb. 5, 1862. CHARLES,
born Sept. 16, 1853, resides with his par-
ents. JACOB J., born Jan. 15, 1856,
died Jan., 1865. Rezin D. Brown and
wife reside in the southeast corner of Cart-
wright township.

WILLIAM W. was born Feb. 6, 1815,
in Kentucky, married in Illinois, Feb. 13,
1844, to Phoebe Poole. They had four
living children. CLARINDA J., born
Jan. 12, 1845, man"ied William Ankrom,
and reside in Curran township. ZILLA
A., born July 5, 1848, married Henry
Dewall. They have one child, and reside
at Falls City/Neb. JOSHUA T., born
Feb. 28, 1851, resides in Sacramento, Cal.,
(now, in 1873). MARY M., born Dec.
23, 1858, resides with her father. Mrs.
Phoebe Brown died May 14, 1863, and
William W. Brown was married Nov. 16,

1869, to Mrs. Almeda DeLaughta, whose
maiden name was Parker. She was born
in Livingston pai'ish, near Lake Pontchar-
train, La. They reside five miles east of
Berlin.

JOHN B., born Oct., 1816, in Ken-
tucky, brought up in Sangamon county,
and died unmarried, in the spring of 1869,
in Wisconsin.

JAMES M,, born Jan. 1820, in San-
gamon county, married Abigail Gilison.
They had two children in Sangamon
county, moved to Iowa, and from there to
Portland, Oregon, thence to Silver moun-
tain, California, where he was robbed and
murdered, about 1867, leaving a widow
and two children.

Z.ILLAH, born Nov. 14, 1821, in San-
gamon county, was married, Jan. 12, 1840,
to John Hillis, who was born April 30,
1814. They had four living children.
JOSHUA W., born April 5, 1843, was
married near Mt. Rose, Mason county, in

1870, to Birdie Meleane. They reside in
Alma county, Colorado. MARY A.,
born June 29, 1845, was married April 17,
1870, to Byington Owens. They have
two children, and reside in Waynesville,
111. JAMES E. and JOHN R., born
Sept., 1849. JAMES E. was married
Oct. 24, 1871, to Frances N. Jennings.

They reside in Waynesville, 111. JOHN
R. is unmarried and resides in Waynes-
ville. John Hillis died April 30, 1849,
and his widow was married Dec. 30, 1856,
to James Large. They had two children.
Mr. Large died April 18, 1864, and Mrs.
Zillah Large and family live in Waynes-
ville, DeWitt county, 111.

JOSHUA M., bprn July, 1825, in
Sangamon county, married Elizabeth A.
Brown. They had six children, and he
died Jan. 7, 1867. His widow married
William Mercer, and resides near Ham-
burg, Iowa.

ELM ORE S., was born in 1827, in
Sangamon county, enlisted in 1847, 'n ^e
4th 111. Inf. Served one year in the Mex-
ican war, returned home, and died in
1848.

REUBEN M., was born in Jan. 1829,
in Sangamon county, was married Nov.
15, 1850, to Elizabeth J. Archer. They
had six children, and Mrs. Brown died,
Sept. 20, 1864. Mr. B. married Mrs.
Jerusha Smith, whose maiden name was
Sturtevant. The family reside in Fredo-
nia, Kansas.

Mrs. Nancy Brown died June 2, 1847,
and Joshua Brown was married May u,
1848, to Mrs. Mary Robinson, whose
maiden name wasMayhew. She died May
12, 1861, and he died Sept., 1863, on the
farm where they settled in 1824.

BROWN, JACOB J., was born
August 15, 1781, in Vermont. He was
married Feb. 24, 1803, in Hartford, jConn.,
to Ann Bacon, who was born there, Sept.
19, 1786. They had four children in
Hartford, and moved to Green county,
Penn., where they had four children, then
moved to the State of New York, and
from there to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving in 1823 or '4, in what is now Gard-
ner township, north of Spring: creek,
where they had two children. Of their
children —

DEL OS W., born Oct. 28, 1803, in
Hartford, Conn., married in Sangamon
county, to Ruth Morgan, and had three
children. ELIZABETH married Abner
Wilkinson, and died. Mr. W. and his
children reside in Springfield. D. W.
Brown moved, about 1856, to Atchison
county, Mo., and from there to Fremont
county, Iowa. He died, and his widow
and two children reside near Sidnev, Iowa.

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AMOS W., born March n, 1807, in
Connecticut. He married three times.
His second wife was Sophia Earnest. She
died, leaving one child.

JAMES J/., born May 16, 1809, in
Connecticut. He was a soldier from San-
gamon county, during the Winnebago
war, came home sick, and died August 22,
1827.

MARY A., born April 27, 1811, in
Connecticut. She was married three
times, is now a widow Elliott, and, with
two of her children, resides in Grundy
county, Mo.

JULIA ANN, born August 9, 1812,
in Green county, Pa., married in Sanga-
mon county, to Jeremiah King. See his
name.

LEANDER J., born March 19, 1815,
married twice, and died, leaving a widow
and five children near Oakford, Menard
county.

HULDAH M., born April 18, 1817,
in Green county, Pa., married in Sanga-
mon county to Jesse Ankrom, and lives in
Springfield.

LUCY M., born Feb. 13, 1820, in Pa.,
married twice, and died August 4, 1852,
in Beardstown.

JACOB y., Jun., born March 8, 1825,
in Sangamon county, married Nov. 4,
1850, to Emily M. Ralston. They have
seven children, and live near Farming-
dale.

ELIZABETH A., born Nov. 9,

1829, in Sangamon county, married Joshua
M. Brown. See his name. He died and
she married Wm. Mercer, and lives near
Hamburg, Iowa.

Jacob J. Brown, Sen, died Oct. u, 1839,
and his widow died Oct. 21, 1873, both in
Sangamon county.

BRUCE, BENJAMIN P.,
was born May 21, 1826, in Carroll county,
Tenn. His parents moved to Morgan
county, near Jacksonville, in the spring of

1830. His father died there, of cholera,
in 1833. His mother, with six children,
moved to Springfield in 1834, and in 1836
moved back to Morgan county, where she
was married to George R. McAllister.
While she lived in Springfield her son,
whose name heads this sketch, was bound
to Rev. Joseph Edmondson, of the M.
E. Church, and taken to St. Clair county,
thence to Bond county. In 1843 ^e went
to Memphis, Tenn., and returned to

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Springfield in 1852, and was married June
18, 1854, t° Ann Gunn, in Morgan coun-
ty. He enlisted for three years, Aug." 6,
1862, in Co. H, 114 111. Inf. He was
wounded in the right eye at the battle of
Nashville, Dec. 15-16, 1864, recovered,
served full term, and was honorably dis-
charged Aug. 3, 1865. Mr. and Mrs.
Bruce had four children; two died in in-
fancy. SARAH A. died, aged twelve
years. WILLIAM T. resides with his
parents. Benjamin P. Bruce and wife re-
side three and a quarter miles northwest
of Springfield.

His mother, Mrs. Mary W. McAllister,
whose maiden name was Gunn, resides
with him.

BRUNK, DAVID, was born
Dec. 17, 1819, in Ohio, came with his
brother George, his mother and step-
father, Thomas Royal, to Sangamon coun-
ty, in Dec., 1824. He was married Nov.
5, 1833, to Maria Shoup. They had four
children in Sangamon county, namely —

JACOB, born Nov. 5, 1834, married
Emily J. Mason. They have three child-
ren, THOMAS M., CHARLES A. and
ELIZABETH M., and live one half
mile east of Crow's mill, in Ball town-
ship.

SARAH J. married Wm. H. South-
wick. See his name.

ELLEN E. married Walter S. Car-
penter. They had three children,
CHARLES B. died, aged eight years,
JACOB H. at three years. MARIA
CATHARINE lives with her parents, in
Ball township.

ANN MARIA married - - South-
wick. See his name.

David Brunk died Jan. 23, 1855. His
widow lives near Crow's mill, in Ball
township.

BRUNK, GEORGE, was born
Dec. 22, 1804, in Miami county, Ohio. At
seventeen years of age he came to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving in the fall of
1821. He entered eighty acres of land in
what is now Ball township, returned to
Ohio, and brought his mother, and step-
father, Thomas Royal, with his brothers
and sisters, to Sangamon county, and set-
tled them on the land he had entered,
where Dr. Shields now resides. He en-
tered more land, built for himself a hewed
log house, and was married Dec. 30, 1827,
to Mary Boyd. She- was horn Jan. i,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

1806. They had eight children, three of
whom died young.

AMANDA T., born April 7, 1830,
married Daniel G. Jones. See his name.

MART E., born Dec. 17, 1831, mar-
ried Eugene Owens. They had six child-
ren. The third one, JOHN F., died at
two years of age. The other five, GEO.
B., DANIEL G., EMMA E., ULYS-
SES GRANT and ARTHUR R. re-
side with their mother, in Cotton Hill
township.

SUSANNAH, born May 28, 1833,
died March 1=5, 1847.

MARIA C., born Nov. 23, 1835, mar-
ried Dow Newcomer. See his name.

EVELINE, born March 26, 1844,
married Lockwood Rusk. See his name.
She died, and left one child in Cotton
Hill township.

Mrs. Mary Brunk died March, 1847,
and Mr. Brunk was married March i,
1849, to Eliza Armstrong. They had
three children, namely:

MARTHA yl.,born Jan. 8, 1850, mar-
ried Thomas J. Nuckolls. See his name.

THOMAS ALBERT, born July 30,
1853. He was educated under the guard-
ianship of Philemon Stout, at Shurtleff
College, and resides in Ball township.

GEORGE A., died at six years of
age.

Mrs. Eliza Brunk died Oct. 4, 1860,
and Mr. B. married Dec. 12, 1861, to
Emily Talbott. They had two children,
viz.: TALBOTT F. and JOSEPH
C., who reside with their mother.

George Brunk died Sept. 2, 1868, near
where he settled in 1824. His widow
married Lindsay H. English, and resides
two miles southeast of Springfield.

The first entry of land in Sangamon
county was made Nov. 6, 1823, by Israel
Archer, being the west half of the north-
west quarter of section eight, town four-
teen north, range fourteen west. It is in
Cotton Hill township, and the Prot. M.
E. church stands on a part of it now.

The second entry was made the same
day, Nov. 6, by Mason Fowler. It was
the east half of the southwest quarter ot
section twenty-seven, town fourteen, range
four west, and is on Horse creek.

The next day, Nov. 7. Elijah lies,
Thomas Cox, John Taylor and Paschal
P. Enos, entered the four quarters on
which Springfield was laid out. This is

from a newspaper article written by Geo.
Brunk.

BRYAN, GEORGE, was born
Feb. 15, 1758, in North Carolina. He
went, or may have been taken by his par-
ents, to Virginia, and from there to Ken-
tucky with Daniel Boone, about 1780.
There he either founded, or by his bold
daring as a leader, gave the name to a
primative fortification called Bryant's Sta-
tion, in what became Fayette county, Ky.,
a few miles from where the city of Lex-
ington was afterwards established. %It
will be observed that in applying the
name to the fortification a letter has been
added, making the name Bryant, which is
erroneous. There is a tradition preserved
by his descendants, that soon after the fort
was established, the young women belong-
ing to the families connected with it were
washing clothes at a stream of running
water on the outside of the stockade.
George Bryan and some of the other
young men stood guard. Not being ap-
prehensive of danger, they permitted the
Indians to place themselves between the
girls and the fort. The guard quickly
secured a position between the girls and
the savages, and a skirmish ensued. After
making the way clear, Bryan, in a loud
voice, announced that he would marry the
girl who would enter the fort first. They
all escaped, and he, true to his word, after
gaining the consent of the young lady,
was married in the fall of 1781 to Eliza-
beth Ragan, who was born in 1760, in
South Carolina. Mr. Bryan always
claimed that it was first marriage of a
white couple in what became the State of
Kentucky. That was before the era of
mills in that region of country, and his
descendants have handed down the state-
ment, in connection with the wedding
festival, that he paid ten dollars for a
bushel of corn meal, to make bread for
the occasion. They had at least raised
one crop, and Mr. Bryan rolled pumpkins
into the fort as a substitute for chairs to
seat the guests. They had ten or eleven
children, four of them sons, and Mrs.
Bryan died. Mr. Bryan was married in
1829, to Mrs. Cassandra Miller, who died
in Kentucky, in 1833. In 1834^1'. Bryan
came to Sangamon county with some of
his children and grand-children. Of his
children, who came to this county —

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NICHOLAS, born March 24, 1794, in
Bourbon county, Ky. He was a soldier
in the war of 1812, and was in the battle
of New Orleans, Jan. 8, 1815. Soon after
the close of the war, and within that year,
he was married in his native county to
Mary Delay Scott, who was horn there
Dec. 24, 1800. They had four children
in Kentucky, and came to Sangamon
county in 1833, settling in what is now
Woodside township. Their son GEO.,
born in 1818, in Kentucky, married near
Elkhart, Logan county, 111., in 1839,
moved to Texas and died there, leaving
two children. ELIZA C., born Feb. 17,
1820, in Bourbon county, Ky., married
July 25, 1837, near Springfield, 111., to
James Taylor. See his name. MARY
J., born May 22, 1822, in Bourbon county,
Ky., married in 1840 in Springfield, 111.,
to Milton H. Wash. See his name.
ROBERT A., born July 13, 1833, in
Kentucky, married in Springfield, 111., to
Hannah Sperry. She died, and his resi-
dence is unknown, but it is somewhere
South. Mrs. Mary D. Bryan died Dec.
25, 1843, in Springfield, 111., and Nicholas
Bryan was married in 1845 to Adelia
Trumbull. They had one child, BRY-
ANAH, and moved to the Pacific coast.
Nicholas Bryan died in 1855, in San Jose,
Santa Clara county, Cal., leaving his
widow and daughter there.

MB LINDA W., born April 11,1797,
in Bourbon county, Ky., married there in
1815 to Abraham Todd, who was born in
Woodford county, Ky., in 1792. They
had three children in Kentucky, and Mr.
Todd died. Mrs. Todd married Thomas
P. Pettus. See his name. Mr. Pettus
and wife, with her three daughters by the
first marriage, came to Sangamon county
in 1838, and settled near what is now
Woodside Station. Of the three children,
ELIZA J. TODD, born April 29, 1816,
in Woodford county, Ky., married in
Sangamon county, April 16, 1840, to
Stephen S. Ferrell. They have a family,
and reside at Boscobel, Grant county,
Wis. MARY A. TODD born Jan. 12,
1819, in Woodford county, Ky., married
Aug. 12, 1835, in Sangamon county, to
Thomas B. Morris. They have children,
and reside near Wyoming, Iowa county,
Wis. ANNA MARIA TODD, born
Jan. 19, 1823, in Woodford county, Ky.,
married in Sangamon county to John B.

Wolgamot. See his name. Also, see
T. P. Pettus.

POLLY, born Aug. 20, 1797, in Bour-
bon county, Ky., married there to Thomas
Jones. See his name. She died in Ken-
tucky, but her family came to Sangamon
county.

When George Bryan came to Sanga-
mon county, in 1834, he was in his seventy-
sixth year, but he continued visiting Ken-
tucky, riding each way on horseback, an-
nually for eleven years. He died Nov.
22, 1845, and was buried near Woodside
Station, Sangamon county. He was
eighty-seven years, nine months and seven
days old.

It seems almost incredible that a man
who was of sufficient age to have been a
soldier in the American Revolution, and
who took an active part in the stirring
scenes of the frontier settlements in the
second State admitted to the American
Union, should have become an early set-
tler of Sangamon county, and witnessed
some of its earliest strides towards civili-
zation : but the life of George Bryan ex-
tended over this long and eventful period.
His grandson, William T. Jones, has a
great fund of reminiscences of the life of
his grandfather Bryan, as he received
them from the lips of the venerable
patriarch while living. I can only give
place to two incidents, both of which oc-
curred in Kentucky.

On one occasion, when the forests were
swarming with hostile Indians, Mr. Bryan,
with six other men, left the Station for a
scouting expedition. Proceeding cautious-
ly, they had gone but two or three miles
when the seven white men were fired up-
on by just twice their number of Indians,
who lay in ambush until the white men
were very near them. The Indians were
good marksmen with bows and arrows,
but they had not been sufficiently accus-
tomed to fire-arms to become expert in
using them. In their haste they over-
shot their marks, and never hurt a man.
The advantage would then have been
decidedly in favor of the whites, but at
this juncture three of the latter, supposing
there was a large force of Indians, took
to flight. The other three, with Bryan at
their head, each took to a tree, and com-
menced firing at the Indians. The fight
continued ^the whole day, and as the sun
was sinking to rest, it was discovered that

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EARL 7 SETTLERS OF

there were but two men on each side in
fighting condition: the chief on one side,
and Bryan on the other, with a single
man each. The others were all killed or
severely wounded. A parley ensued,
which ended in an agreement that the one
subordinate on each side should cease hos-
tilities, for the purpose of taking care of
the dead and wounded, and that the two
leaders should fight until one or the other
conquered. Each kept behind a tree,
with his gun loaded, while they were
parleying, and when ready to renew hos-
tilities, each called the other by every
epithet expressing cowardice that they
could respectively command, and each
dared the other to come out and engage
in open combat. As it was growing dark,
Bryan put his cap on the end of his ram-
rod, and moved it from the tree as though
he was very cautiously preparing to shoot.
The Indian fired at the cap, and finding
himself deceived, he ran in a zig-zag
course, cautiously looking back until he
thought himself at a safe distance, when
he took to a tree and began to load his
rifle. The moment the chief fired, Bryan
sprang from his tree, and, instead of fol-
lowing direct, he ran at an angle of about
forty-five degrees from the course of the
Indian, and was soon out of the line
where the latter expected to see him.
Bryan thus had the Indian in plain view,
while the latter thought himself secure.
As the chief raised both arms to ram
down the load, Bryan fired, the ball enter-
ing under one arm, it passed out under the
other, and he fell dead. His clothes
were covered with silver brooches and
other ornaments, that were kept in the
families of Bryan's descendants for many
years.

As the increasing number of the whites
convinced the Indians that they must
eventually give way, they became less
hostile. About this time Bryan and a
comrade spent several weeks in hunting,
and had taken a large number of skins
and furs. While the two were alone in
camp, a considerable number of Indians
encamped near them ; and very soon two
of the Indians came to their camp, and,
without the least ceremony, commenced
opening and examining the goods belong-
ing to the two white men. Mr. Bryan
made up his mind that the result of their
winter's work was lost, for if the Indians

chose to take their goods, it would be
madness to resist with such odds against
them. Unknown to Bryan, his partner
was an expert in legerdemain, and the
thought occurred to him that the Indians
might be driven off by some deceptive
movement. He asked one of the savages
for his butcher knife, and at once went
through all the motions of swallowing it.
The other Indian handed out his knife,
which was swallowed with violent contor-
tions. The two hurried away to their own
camp, and soon returned with their chief,
who held in his hand a much larger knife,
having a very rough buck-horn handle,
with a horn spike about three inches long
at one side. The white man shook his
head, make signs that the knife was too
large, that the little horn on the side of
the handle would be more than he could
swallow. They insisted, and he made
signs that he would try. He then in-
dulged in contortions so violent as to bring
tears to his eyes; but the knife disap-
peared. The red men felt of his body,
and came so near finding where the
knives were hidden, that he thought it
would be safer to return them, and com-
menced casting up and handing each In-
dian his knife. They, one after another,
received their knives, each taking his own
very carefully by the point, between the
thumb and finger, would smell of it, make
a wry face, and throw it on the ground.
The three savages withdrew together,
leaving their knives where they had fallen,
and before morning the whole company,
afraid to steal anything else, stole them-
selves away.

Having said so much about his pioneer
life, in which he was brought in contact
with wild beasts, savages, and white men
unused to the restrains of civilized life as
we now enjoy it, would probably lead the
reader to infer that he was a rough and
harsh man; but such was not the case.
He embraced Christianity in early life, and
•was one of the most steadfast supporters
of the ordinances of religion. He aided
in building a Baptist church at Bryan Sta-
tion, which a grand-daughter of his, now
living in Springfield, visited in 1860, and
found it still in use. He was a member
of that church, and worshipped there as
long as he remained in Kentucky. He
always held family worship, in which the
colored servants were expected to unite.

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He continued the practice to the day of
his death.

BRYAN, LARKIN, was born
Nov. 2, 1800, in Woodford county, Ky.
He was married thei'e in 1820 to Mrs.
Harriet Chapman, whose maiden name
was Thornberry. They moved to the
Missouri lead mines, and from there to
Sangamon county, in the fall of 1821, and
settled five miles northeast of Springfield.
They had seven children in Sangamon
county. Of their children —

WILLIAM C, born Jan. 29, 1822,
married Anna Brennan, have three child-
ren, and reside near Charleston, 111.

MART F., born July n, 1824, married
Presley Chrisman. She died, leaving her
husband and three children near Promise
Citv, Wayne county, Iowa.

RACHEL J., born Dec. 7, 1825, mar-
ried Willis Chrisman. They have four
children, and reside in Sangamon county,
near Waverly.

JAMES H., born March 7, 1827, is
unmarried, and resides in Springfield. He
has a saw mill on South Fork.

C1NTHIA A., born Oct. 18, 1829,
married John Kline, and resides in St.
Joseph, Mo.

LARKIN A., born March "3, 1830,
married Nov. i, 1860, to Sarah A. Mitchell,
who was born April 16, 1842, in Finedon,
Northamptonshire, England. They had
five childen. HARRIET E. died in her
seventh year. JAMES W., JESSIE H.,
LAVINIA A! and CHARLES W. re-
side with their parents, near Waverly, 111.

HARRIET M., born July 3, 1832,
married DeWitt C. Marsh. See his
name.

Mrs. Harriet Bryan died April 4, 1862,
and Larkin Bryan was married Jan. 14,
1863, to Mrs. Sarah Yeamans, who had
previously been Mrs. Britt, and whose
maiden name was Wilson. He died two
miles north of Springfield, in 1874. His
widow resides in Springfield.

BUCHANAN, REUBEN,
was born March 20, 1809, in Woodford
county, Ky. His father moved, in 1819
or '20, to Morgan county, 111. Reuben
remained there until 1834, when he came
to Sangamon county, settling at Salisbury,
where he was married to Barbara Duncan,
a step-daughter of Solomon Miller. She
was born March 15, 1812, in Cumberland
county, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Buchanan

had four children, three of whom died
young. The only one living —

HARRIET A., born Dec. 3, 1838, at
Salisbury, married Jan. i, 1857, in Spring-
field, to Lafayette Smith. See his name.

Mr. Buchanan moved from Salisbury to
Springfield in April, 1847, and was en-
gaged in the grocery business until his
death, which occurred Nov. 14, 1861. His
widow resides with her son-in-law, Lafa-
yette Smith, in Springfield.

BUCKMAN, JOEL, born Nov.
6, 1790, in Bethel, Vermont. He was the
second child of Jeremiah Buckman and
Ruth Banister, his wife. They were born
in Springfield, Mass; he Sept. n, 1762,
and she March 20, 1771. Joel Buckman
and Huldah Tilley were married in Ver-
mont, and moved to Potsdam, N. Y., had
six children, and Mrs. B. died, Dec. 17,
1828. He was married June 19, 1829, to
Hannah Bowker. They had one child,
and moved to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving Sept., 1834, at Old Sangamo. Mrs.
Hannah B. died Nov. 6, 1838. Joel
Buckman and Sally Watts were married
in Sangamon county, March 5, 1839.
They had one child. Of all his child-
ren—

JOEL, born Dec. 2, 1813, died July 5,

l835-

L ORENDA,\>orn Sept. 9, 1815, in Pots-
dam, N. Y., married in Sangamon county,
June 20, 1837, to William B. Brown.
•See his name.

LE VINIA, born Dec. 22, 1819, in
New York, married in Sangamon county,
Dec., 1835, to Waters Carman. They
had four • children, and she died. He
moved to Oregon.

CAL VIN, born Jan. 31, 1822, in New
York, married in Sangamon county, Nov.
1843, to Sophia Eastabrook. They have
seven children, and reside at Delavan,
Tazewell county.

HULDAH S., born Feb. 16, 1824, in
New York, married in Sangamon county,
Oct. 20, 1842, to Lucius Seeley. See his
name.

SILAS L., born Feb. 19, 1828, in
New York, married Anna Clemens. He
resides near Farmingdale.

HANNAH W., born March 26, 1832,
died in her third year.

BENJAMIN, born Sept. 6, 1841, in
Sangamon county, resides with his mother,
near Farmingdale.

EARLY SETTLERS OF

Joel Buckman died March 13, 1872, in
Sangamon county, and his widow resides
two miles southwest of Farmingdale.

BOLLARD, REUBEN, was
born Dec. 22, 1792, in Caroline county,
Va. He went to Woodford county, Ky.,
in 1787, and to Shelby county in 1790. He
was there married in 1803, to Elizabeth
Gill, who was born Oct. 30, 1779, near
Charlestown, Va. They had eight child-
ren in Kentucky, four of whom, Eliza,
Lucinda, Richard and Nancy J., died
there, between the ages of fifteen and
twenty-five years. Mrs. Elizabeth Bui-
lard died Jan. 6, 1835, and Reuben Bui-
lard, with three of his children, came to
Sangamon county, arriving in Nov., 1835,
in what is now Illiopolis township, one
son having come before. Of the four
children —

JOHN, born Feb. 10, 1805, in Shelby
county, Ky., came to Sangamon county
April 6, 1830, and made his home partly
at Buffalo Hart Grove and partly in the
vicinity of Mechanicsburg, and returned
to Kentucky in 1833. Sarah S. Fallis
was born Feb. 3, 1812, in St. Louis coun-
ty, Mo., her parents having moved there
from Kentucky. During the war with
England the Indians became troublesome,
and the family moved back, in 1813, to
Henry county, Ky. John Bullard and
Sarah S. Fallis were there married, Sept.
4, 1834, and came at once to Sangamon
county, where they had ten children.
JOHN W., born Oct. 21, 1836, died May
6, 1856. NANCY F.,born May 29, 1838,
married April 30, 1873, to Charles How-
ard, and reside near Neola, Iowa. WIL-
LIAM S., born Jan. 7, 1841. He enlist-
ed August 7, 1862, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf.
for three years, was wounded at the battle
of Franklin, Tenn., Nov. 30, 1864, served
until the end of the rebellion, and was
honorably discharged. He was married
• Dec. 28, 1871, to Elizabeth S. Zane. They
have two children, LETHE IRENE and
MARY, and reside four and a half miles
east of Mechanicsburg. REUBEN S.,
born August 31, 1842, married Sept. 23,
1873, in Shelbyville, Ky., to Marian
Saunders. She was born there, May 8,
1849. They have one child, ANNIE, and
reside four and a half miles east of Me-
chanicsburg, where his father settled in
1834. EDNA E., born April 12, 1844,
married Oct. 16, 1867, to Charles C. Rad-

cliflfe, a native of Frederick county, Md.
They have three children, NOR A A., AUBRA
L. and SALLIE F., and resides in Mechan-
icsburg. JOSEPHINE, born Dec. 17,
1845, was married at Mechanicsburg,
May 27, 1875, to Capt. George Ritchey,
and reside in Boonville, Mo. MARY J.,
born Dec. 17, 1847, died Feb. 14, 1875.
WILBER C., born Sept. 19, 1850;
JACOB B. born Jan. 20, 1854; HENRY
S., born March 18, 1858, all reside with
their mother, except WILBUR C., who
lives in Decatur. John Bullard died Dec.
26, 1872, and his widow lives in Mechan-
icsburg.

MART A., born Sept. 25, 1810, in
Shelby county, Ky., married there to
Benjamin Fortune. See his name.

SARAH AGNES, born March 24,
1814, in Shelby county, Ky., married
Jacob N. Fullinwider. See his name.

WES LET, born July 28, 1816, in
Shelby county, Ky., married March 23,
1843, in Sangamon county, to Sarah A.
Foster, who was born July 18, 1824, in
Montgomery county, Ky., and came to
Sangamon county on a visit in 1842. Her
parents lived, at the time, in Putnam, Ind.
Mr. and Mrs. B. had eight sons in San-
gamon county. WILLIAM H., born
August 16, 1844, enlisted August 4, 1862,
for three years, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf., was
slightly wounded at the battle of Frank-
lin, Tenn. He served to the end of the
rebellion, and was honorably discharged,
June 24, 1865, married in Sangamon
county, Sept. 13, 1866, to Abbie P. Bald-
win, who was born Nov. 21, 1847, near
Monticello, Madison county. They have
three children, SARAH L., WESLEY c. and
MARY B., and live five miles east of Me-
chanicsburg. JAMES R. resides (1874)
in San Francisco, Cal. JOHN N.,
FRANCIS B., SAMUEL A., GEO.
W., BENJ. F. and SAY A. FOSTER;
the six latter live with their father. Mrs.
Sarah A. Bullard died Feb. 13, 1861, and
Wesley Bullard was married August 6,
1863, m Sangamon county, to Mrs. Eliza-
beth Holsman, whose maiden name was
Kidd. She was born May 7, 1828, in
Fluvanna county, Va. Her home was in
Circleville, Ohio, but she was on a visit to
Sangamon county at the time of her mar-
riage. They have two children, JULIA
and ROBERT A., and live four miles

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159

east of Mechanicsburg, where he settled
in 1835.

Reuben Bullard died Sept. 6, 1836, in
Sangamon county.

.His father's name was Reuben Bullard.
He was in the Revolutionary army as a
non-combatant, and lost his life by drink-
ing too freely of cold water while he was
over-heated. He made a gun, which he
gave to his son, whose name heads this
sketch. It is now (1874) in possession of
a son of John Bullard — Reuben S. — the
fourth generation from the man who made
it. The brass plate opposite the lock
bears the inscription, R. B., J772- It is a
smooth bore ; the barrel is four feet eight
inches long, and the whole gun is six feet
one inch. An anecdote is related of
it, that when the boys of a former genera-
tion used the gun, they always hunted in
pairs, one to do the shooting and the other
to see that the marksman did not get the
muzzle beyond the game.

BURCH, JOHN, was born about
1770, in Georgia. He was married in
1800, in Gallatin county, Ky., to Elizabeth
Hampton, who was born in 1780, in Lou-
don county, Va. They had six children
in Kentucky, • and Mr. Burch came to
Sangamon county in the fall of 1828, with
his son-in-law, James McKee. He went
back to Kentucky for his family, and died
there May 10, 1829. In the fall of that
year his family moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, and settled near Mechanicsburg. Of
their six children —

SARAH, born about 1801, in Ken-
tucky, married there to William Jack, and
moved to Sangamon county. See his
name.

BENJAMIN, born Aug. i, 1803, in
Gallatin county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon to Mary Smith. He died in McLean
county in 1863. His widow married
James Waite, and lives, in Bloomington.

JANE, born in 1805, in Gallatin coun-
ty, Ky., married there. Jan. 9, 1828, to
James McKee, and came to Illinois in the
fall of that year, and settled near Mechan-
icsburg.

PRESTON H., born in 1807, in Gal-
latin county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county in 1831, to Elizabeth Suter. They
had five children in Sangamon county.
SARAH E. married William H. Green,
and lives at Dubuque, Iowa, with her onlv
child, I.ULU. LEVARIAN, born Dec.

25
N

m Sangamon county, enlisted at
ewport Barracks, April, 1861, in Battery
G, 2nd Reg. U. S. Art. He was promo-
ted to Second Lieutenant, was wounded
at the battle of Gettysburg, and died of
his wounds, late in 1863, at Washington
City. JAMES M.,born Feb. 18, 1839, in
Sangamon county. He graduated at St.
Louis Medical College in 1859, and en-
listed as a private, June 20, 1861, in Co.
C, 8th Mo. Inf.; was promoted in July,
'6 1, to Asst. Surg., which he resigned in
Aug., 1862, and was commissioned Cap-
tain of Co. K, 94th 111. Inf. He resigned
that office in Sept., 1863, and was promo-
ted Lieutenant Colonel of the i6th U. S.
Colored Troops, at New Orleans, which
he resigned at Brazos, Texas, in Sept.,
1864. Dr. J. M. Burch was married Oct.
8, 1860, at Bloomington, to Jennie L.
McClunn, a native of that city. After the
close of the rebellion he practiced medi-
cine at Illiopolis, and died there July 26,
1874, leaving a widow and four children,.

FRANK P., ED. R., LEVARIAN and CORA.

Mrs. Jennie L. Burch and children reside
at Bloomington. JOHN S., born July
1840, in Sangamon county, went to
California in 1861, and was drowned
March 3, 1865, at San Juan, Nicaragua,
while on his way home. ELIZA J,, born
March, 1842, in Sangamon county, is a
teacher at Mt. Sterling. Preston H.
Burch enlisted in 1862, at Peoria, in Co.
— , io8th 111. Inf., and died of disease at
Young's Point, near Vicksburg, Miss.,
Feb. 1 8, 1863. His widow died at Mt.
Sterling, Brown county, 111., Dec., 1865.

ELIZA, born in 1810, in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to James
Smith. They had one child, MARY,
born in Sangamon county, married Oct.
8, 1860, to Dr. Edward Stevens, and re-
side in Bloomington. James Smith died
Sept., 1845, m Springfield, and his widow
married Josiah Green. She died Feb., •
1852, and he died July, 1855, both in
Mechanicsburg.

WADE S., born Oct. 14, 1815, in Gal-
latin county, KV., married in Sangamon
county Jan. 8, 1845, to Mary E. Young.
They had ten children, seven of whom
died under seven years. SUSAN B.,
born July 26, 1850, married Jan. 8, 1868,
to James Newton Moreland, who was
born Dec. 17, 1840, in Bath county, Ky.,
served nearly four years — from Aug. i,

EARLT SETTLERS OF

1862 — in Co. B, loth Ky. Cav. (Union),
and was honorably discharged in 1865.
Mr. and Mrs. Moreland live in Illiopolis
township. WERTER P., born March
n, 1861, and HARRY, born Feb. 10,

1864, live with their parents — W. S. Burch
and wife, reside two miles south of Lanes-
ville.

Mrs. Elizabeth Burch died Sept. 20,

1865, in Curran township.
BURKHARDT, JOHN M.,

was born Feb. 2, 1807, in Schwarzenberg,
county of Neuremberg, Kingdom of
Wurtemberg. He came to America in
1832, and spent two summers in Pennsyl-
vania, and as many winters in Mississippi.
He came to Springfield in 1836, and was
there married, Aug. 18, 1843, to Mary E.
Nagle, who was born June 24, 1827, in
Bavaria, Canton Bergzabern. She sailed
Oct. 20, 1841, in the ship Oceana. The
vessel was wrecked off the island of
Jamaica, Dec. 3, 1841. The passengers
were all saved, but lost their baggage.
They were transferred to another vessel,
and arrived at New Orleans Jan. 8, 1842,
to find the city in holiday attire in honor
of Gen. Jackson's victory over the British,
Jan 8, 1815. Her father died in St. Louis,
while she was detained by shipwreck.
She came on to Springfield, arriving in
March, 1842, and joined her sister, Mrs.
Catharine Lorch, then and now the wife
of Charles Lorch. Mr. and Mrs. Burk-
hardt had eleven children ; two died under
three years, and Charles A. died, aged
seven. Of the other eight —

JOHN, born May 20, 1844, enlisted
July 4, 1862, for three months, in Co. D,
7oth 111. Vol. Inf., and served five months
as a Corporal. He again enlisted March
22, 1864, in Co. G, ii4th 111. Vol. Inf., for
three years. He was killed June 10,
1864, at the battle of Guntown, Miss.

BERTHA, born June 23, 1847, was
married March 6th, 1874, to Walter F.
Swift, who was born in New Bedford,
Mass. They reside in Ottawa, Kan.

CHARLES A., EMMA, ANNIE
L., JENNIE C., IDA B. and LIL-
LIE E., live with their mother.

John M. Burkhardt died Aug. i, 1868,
and his widow resides one mile east of
Springfield, 111.

BURNS, THOMAS, was born
August i, 1773, at Alexandria, Va. His
father was a native of Scotland, and was

killed by his team running away when
Thomas was a child. Elizabeth Ridge-
way was born Nov. 25, 1775, in Berkley
county, Va. Thomas Burns and Eliza-
beth Ridgeway were married March 1 1^,
1794, and had one child in Berkley coun-
ty; and then moved to Washington coun-
ty, West Va., where they had three child-
ren. They then moved to North Caro-
lina, and after a short stay, moved to Jes-
samine county, Ky., where they had one
child, and from there to Clarke county,
where they had seven children. The
family moved from there to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1829,
in what is now Mechanicsburg township.
Some of their children had preceded them.
Of their children —

RACHEL, born Jan. 30, 1795, in
West Virginia, died Jan. 30, 1816, in Ken-
tucky.

ELIZABETH, born Nov. 28, 1796,
in West Virginia, died Feb., 1840, in San-
gamon county.

ROBERT E., born March 28, 1799,
in Washington county, West Va., mar-
ried in Clarke county, Ky., Sept. 15,1825,
to Patsy Cass, and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving Oct., ,1825, in Buf-
falo Hart Grove. They were the first of
the family to come to the county. They
had four children in Sangamon county,
two of whom died young. ROBERT
FRANKLIN, born Dec. 9, 1830, died
July n, 1852. ELIZABETH C., born
June 7, 1838, married April 16, 1854, to
John T. Constant. See his name. Rob-
ert E. Burns and his wife reside at Buf-
falo Hart Station, very near where they
settled in 1825. Mr. Burns had a neigh-
bor, Wm. Bridges, who was a blacksmith
and gunsmith. Wm. and Hiram Robbins
came to Mr. Bridges to have work done,
and he had no coal. They told him that
they had seen coal cropping out of the
ground in their hunting excursions, and
gave him directions so that he could find
it. Mr. Burns took his wagon and team,
went with Mr. Bridges to the place and
'dug out a load, and found it good for black-
smithing. It was in a ravine about three-
fourths of a mile northwest of where Bar-
clay now stands. That was in 1826, and
was the first coal found in that part of the
country. Mr. Burns raised cotton for
clothing, and it matured perfectly before
the "deep snow" of 1830-31. After that

SANGAMON COUNT*.

he tried frequently, bringing seed from
Tennessee several times, but all his
efforts proved to be such failures that the
seed ran out and was lost.

ANN T., born May 27, 1801, in West
Virginia, married in Kentucky, August 6,
1817, to Abner Enos. See his name.
She died there, June 13, 1829.

JOHN /?., born Oct. 19, 1803, in Jes-
samine county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, April 17, 1828, to Lucy A. Cass.
He was a soldier in the Black Hawk
war. They had twelve children, all born
in Sangamon county, three of whom died
under five years. MARY J., born Mar.
26, 1831, married Feb. 28, 1847, to J°^n
Cass. See his name. THOMAS F.,
born Jan. 9, 1833, married Sept. 30, 1856,
Ursula Greening. Thos. F. Burns en-
listed July 25, 1862, in Co. F., ii4th 111.
Inf., for three years. Served about one
year, and was honorably discharged
on account of physical disability. He
now resides in Mt. Pulaski. WILLIAM
A., born Nov. 28, 1839, married Dec. 24,
1867, to Lucy E. Jones. They have two
children, WM. ELMER and IVA MAY, and
live near Buffalo Hart Station. MAR-
THA A., born Feb. 27, 1843, lives with
her parents. ARMINTA, born Dec. 30,
1844, married Feb. 21, 1867, to Wm. B.
Robinson. See his name. SOPHIA,
born Feb. 13, 1849, married Dec^27, 1871,
to James F. Hickman. See his name.
IVA, born March 18, 1851, married Oct.
25, 1871, to James L. Wright, who was
born in Lockmaben, Scotland, and resides
in Buffalo Hart township. JOHN T.,
born Jan. u, 1854, and ROBERT B.,
born Oct. 26, 1856, live with their parents,
one mile south of Buffalo Hart Station.

Mrs. Lucy A. Burns says that they
raised cotton in the summer of 1828; that
she picked it from the bolls, picked
the seed out with her fingers, carded it
with hand cards, spun and wove it, and
made it up into garments of various kinds.
In 1829 they raised a much larger quanti-
ty, and had it ginned on a machine owned
by William G. Cantrall. They paid toll,
or part of the cotton, for ginning, the
same as grinding is done by custom mills.
When all was done they had eighty
pounds of ginned cotton left. She says
that after the " deep snow " it never would
mature.

MAHALA, born May 10, 1806, in
Clarke county, Ky., married there Nov.
27, 1827, to Bailey F. Bell. See his
name.

M BLIND A and LUCINDA, twins,
born July 23, 1808, in Clarke county, Ky.

MELINDA, married in Sangamon
county, Jan. 17, 1830, to Ambrose Bowen
Cass. See his name.

LUCINDA, married in Sangamon
county, Sept. 20, 1832, to John W. Rob-
ison. See his name.

EM1L Y, born June 14, 181 1, in Clarke
county, Ky., married in Sangamon county,
Jan. 17, 1830, to Clemmon Strickland.
They had three children. The parents
and two of the children died. JOSEPH,
the only living member of the family,
married Emilv Chance, and lives at Buf-
falo.

REBECCA, born Feb. 16, 1814, in
Clarke county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Bennett Wood, a native of
Kentucky. They lived in Green county,
111., until they had two children, namely:
BAZZLE or BASIL M., born June 16,
1835, in Green county, enlisted July, 1862,
for three years, in Co. E., n6th 111. Inf.
Served full term and was honorably dis-
charged with the regiment, in 1865. He
was married in Sangamon county, Jan. 25,
1866, to Nannie J. Graham, who was born
July 4, 1843, in Morgan county. They
had two children, FLORA and GRACIE, and
Mrs. Wood died, Jan. 6, 1872. Mr. Wood
resides one and a quarter miles east of
^Illiopolis, with his father-in-law, Mr.
'Graham. SARAH Wood, born March,
1834, in Green county, married in Sanga-
mon county to John Stall. They have
four children, and live at Niantic. Ben-
nett Wood died in Green county, and his
widow married James McGee. Mrs. Mc-
Gee died in Sangamon county, leaving
two children: JOHN T. and WILLIAM R.
McGee reside in Williamsville.

FRANKLIN, born August 6, 1816, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
March 3, 1836, to Louisa Ridge way.

They had children. THOMAS

J. married and resides in Kansas. PAR-
THENIA married George Sensbaugh,
and lives near Whiterock, Jewell county,
Kansas. LOUISA J. married Daniel
Redman, and lives near Lone Oak P. O.,
Bates county, Mo. MAHALA resides
with her sister, Louisa J. B. HARDIN

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EARL? SETTLERS OF

lives with his uncle, Robert E. Burns.
Franklin Burns and his wife are both
dead.

PATST, born Feb. 20, 1819, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county, Dec.
26, 1837, to Baldwin Harper. They had
one child, EVELINE. She married
Theophilus Kirwood, and lives near
Warrensburg, Macon county. Mr. and
Mrs. Harper are both dead.

Mrs. Elizabeth Burns died Oct. 5, 1830,
and Thomas Burns died August n, 1836,
both in Sangamon county.

BURTLE, WILLIAM, born
July i, 1780, near Montgomery Court
House, Md. His parents moved, when
he was a boy, to Washington county, Kv.
Sarah Ogden was born in 1786, in St.
Mary's county, Md. Her father died when
she was a child, and her mother moved,
with several children, to Washington
county, Ky. William Burtle and Sarah
Ogden were there married, about 1805.
They had nine children in Kentucky. The
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving October, 1826, in what is now
Ball township. Mr. Burtle entered land,
and made improvements for a permanent
home,, about two hundred yards east of
where St. Bernard's Catholic Church now
stands, and moved on it in the spring of
1828. Of their nine children —

JOSEPH,\>Qvn. in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Mrs. Maria Mil-
ler, whose maiden name was Gatton.
They both died in Sangamon county,
without children.

JOHN, born in Kentucky, was mar-*
ried there to Matilda Simpson. They
had two children, one of whom died in
infancy. His daughter married, moved to
Texas, and died there. John Bnrtle died
in Ball township. His widow married,
moved to Missouri, and died there.

JAMES, born May 25, 1811, in Ken-
tucky, was married in SangaVnon countv
to Elizabeth Gatton. They had six child-
ren. JOHN T. married Eliza J. Simp-
son. They have six children, JAMES R.,

JOSEPH E., EMMA, SAMUEL, ANNA and

JEROME. Mrs. Eliza J. Burtle died in
May, 1875, and John T. Burtle and fami-
Iv reside in Ball township, seven miles
southeast of Chatham. WILLIAM O.
married Mary M. Speak. They have
three children, MARIA, OSCAR E. and
MARY M., and reside with his mother"*at

the family homestead. SARAH E. mar-
ried John Simpson. Thev had one child,
and mother and child died." JOSEPHUS
died in his twenty-fourth year. MARY
A. died, aged nineteen years. James
Burtle died, and his widow resides in Ball
township, six and a half miles southeast of
Chatham.

THOMAS, born Aug. 12, 1815, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Louisa Simpson. They have four
children. JAMES H. married Sarah E.
Gatton. They have six living children:
LOUISA A and MARY L. (twins), ANNA E.,

MARTHA F., WILLIAM J. and THERESA II.

Mrs. Sarah E. Burtle died in Sept., 1873,
and James H. Burtle resides in Ball town-
ship. JOHN T., Jun., married Elizabeth
M. Boll. They have three children, ED-
WARD A., JACOB R. and ANN N., and live
in Ball township. MARY A. married
Joseph H. Berry. They have five daugh-
ters, SARAH L., ELIZA C., MAGGIE A.,

MARY A. and ADA F., and live in Ball
township. ELIZA J. married John A.
White. They have two children, JOSEPH
H. and WILLIAM T., and reside with her
father. Mrs. Louisa Burtle died April 2,
1875, and Thomas Burtle resides near St.
Bernard's Catholic Church, in Ball town-
ship.

ELLEN died, aged fourteen years.

MART, born in Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county, 111., July 24, 1834, to
Josephus Gatton. See his name.

BENJAMIN, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Monica
Gatton. They have six children living.
MARY E. married William R. Green-
await. See his name. The other children
reside with their parents, in Pawnee town-
ship.

y&WILLIAM, Jun., born Aug. 9, 1822,
in Grayson county, Ky., came with his
parents to Sangamon county in Oct., 1826,
was married Sept. 4, 1856, to Mrs. Eliza-
beth A. Simpson, whose maiden name
was White. Mrs. Burtle had one child
by her former marriage, JEROME
SIMPSON. Mr. and Mrs. Burtle had
two children. IDA F. died March 9,
1875, in her fourteenth year, and CHAS.
E. lives with his parents. William Burtle
has been a school teacher, Justice of the
Peace, and for more than twenty years
Treasurer and Collector of Ball township;
also a member of the Board of Supervis-

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ors of Sangamon county. He was also
elected President of the Old Settlers'
Society, in 1874, for one year. He now
lives in Auburn, engaged in mercantile
business with his step-son, Jerome Simp-
son.

William Burtle, Jun., remembers that
his father and James Simpson sent a re-
quest to St. Louis that a priest visit their
neighborhood. Rev. Mr. Dusuaswa came
in 1829, and held services at the residence
of Joseph Logsdon. That was the first
service ever held by a Catholic priest in
Sangamon county, and long before any
thing of the kind took place in Spring-
field. William Burtle remembers that
there were then but two Catholic families
in Springfield. The next services were at
the house of Wm. Burtle, Sen., by Rev.
Joseph A. Lutz. The next priest to visit
them was the Rev. Mr. Van Quickenbon.
Services were held at the house of William
Burtle, Sen., until 1849, when St. Bernard's
Church was built. One edifice was burned,
and the present one was built on the same
ground. St. Bernard's church is associated
with that at Virden in sustaining a priest.

Mrs. William Burtle relates, in a very
amusing manner, some of her experience
on coming to the county. She had list-
ened to the descriptions of the flowers
blooming on the prairies, and made up
her mind that it would lend additional
charms to those she was acquainted with
to cultivate them on the prairie where the
wild flowers could grow around them.
She came prepared with seeds, and at the
proper season armed herself with a hoe
and sallied forth to indulge her taste for
horticulture on the raw prairie. The
romance all vanished at the fir§t blow, as
the hoe rebounded without making the
slightest impression. Until that time she
thought plowing with large ox-teams was
overdoing the work, but then became fully
satisfied that it was indispensable as a pre-
paration for the cultivation of the soil.

ZACHAR1AH, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth
J. Harper. They have five living child-
ren, JAMES W:, SARAH E., EDGAR
A., MARY M. and ROBERT E., and
reside on the farm settled by his father in
1828, about two hundred yards east of St.
Bernard's Catholic Church.

William Burtle, Sen., died July 24,
1860, and Mrs. Sarah Burtle died Feb. n,

1868, and both were buried near St. Bern-
ard's Church. About the time William
Burtle, Sen., came to Sangamon county
with his family, his father, Benjamin Bur-
tle, came, and after remaining two or
three years returned to Kentucky, and
died there.

BURTON, EDWARD, was
born Oct. 13, 1796, on Roanoke river,
Va., and went to Rutherford county,
Tenn. He was there married to Frances
Hudson, who was born April 10, 1797, in
Virginia also. They had five children in
Tennessee, and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., in 1825 or '6, and settled on
Lick creek, in what is now Chatham
township, where they had four children.
Of their children —

JOHN A., born in Tennessee, married
in Sangamon county, Aug. 8, 1844, t°
Elizabeth H. Park. He died March n,
1859, leaving two children. MARY F.
married July 31, 1861, to William H. H.
Harris, who was born July 8, 1841, in
Macoupin county. They have three
children, ALLIE F., VINETTIE and ZELMIE,
and live four miles southwest of Loami.
LEONARD F., lives with his sister, Mrs.
HaiTis. Mrs. E. H. Burton married Wm.
S. Morris. See fark family.

El Z ABE TH G. died, aged twenty-
five years.

ELLEN married Blaney Pitts, have
nine children, and reside near Centralia.

MART, born Dec. 21, 1822, in Ruth-
erford county, Tenn., married in Sanga-
mon county, Oct. 18, 1840, to William
Edwards. See his name.

PERMELIA A., born Aug. i, 1826,
married Oct. 13, 1840, to Henry Edwards,
who was born Jan. 6, 1820, in Garrard
county, Ky. He is nephew to his brother-
in-law, William Edwards. They had
twelve children; nine died under seven
years. GEORGE D. died at nineteen.
ERVING lives with his parents.
RICHARD S. married Margaret E.
Adams, have two living children, HENRY
p. and ADA M., and live in Talkington
township. Henry Edwards and wife re-
side in Talkington township also (1884).

RICHARD S. married Sarah J. Ed-
wards. He enlisted in an Illinois regi-
ment, and died at home on sick furlough,
leaving three children. His widow mar-
ried, and resides in

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BARLT SETTLERS OF

yULIETTE married James Jordan
Edwards. See his name.

BENJAMIN W. married Rachel G.
Park. They have two children, NEL-
SON M. and NANCY E. Mr. Burton
died Jan. 4, 1861. His widow and child-
ren reside two and three-quarter miles
west of Loami (1874).

LUCINA married James A. Edwards.
See his name.

Edward E. (or D.) Burton died at
Girard 111., April 8, 1859, while attending
Sangamon Presbytery of the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church, to which he was a
delegate. Mrs. Margaret Burton died
Sept. i, 1859, in Sangamon county.

BUTLER, NATHAN M.,
born Jan. 30, 1795, in Adair county, Ky.
He was married in Green county, to Mary
Harding, who was born in 1795, in that
county. They made their home in Adair
county until they had four children, when
they left for the west, and after a deten-
tion of seven months in Indiana, arrived,
Oct. 7, 1824, in Morgan county, 111.,
where they had two children. In the
spring of 1831 they moved to Sangamon
county, and settled on the south side of
Island Grove, two miles northeast of
where Berlin now stands. Of their six
children —

WILLIAM A., born July 23, 1817, in
Adair county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, to Mrs. Jane Clark, whose maiden
name was Trotter. She was born Feb.
2, 1827, in Ifcdiana, and raised in Sanga-
mon county. Mr. Butler was city Mar-
shal of Springfield in 1861, and '2; is now
farming four miles east of Springfield.

STEPHEN H., born Nov. 12, 1818,
in Adair county, Ky., brought up in San-
gamon county, married in Menard county
Feb. 27, 1845. to Nancy J. Coats, who
was born Dec. 6, 1825, in Warren county,
Ky. They had twelve children; five died
under six years. ISAAC E., born Jan.
27, 1846, married Feb. 13, 1873, to Emma
J. Clark, and resides five miles east of
Springfield. JULIA B., ,born Dec. 4,
1847, married Nov. 6, 1868, to James
Simpson. See his name. MARY L.,
born June 5, 1849, married Joseph Don-
ner. See his name. WILLIAM, born
April 12, 1856, JOHN D., born Dec. 5,
1859. IRA and IDA, twins, born July
19, 1861, live with their parents. S. H.

Butler resides four and a half miles east -of
Springfield.

JOSHUA C., born Nov. 26, 1820, in
Adair county, Ky., brought up in Sanga-
mon county, married April, 1857, in Jef-
ferson county, Iowa, to Margaret J. Ris-
tine. She died in Springfield in 1859,
leaving one child. J. C. Butler was mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Elizabeth
Stitt, and has three living children, viz:
CHARLES B., born June 6, 1850, mar-
ried June 14, 1871, in Sangamon county
to Ann Owen. They have one child, and
live near Virginia, Cass county. MAR-
GARET J., MARY E. and ROBERT
L. live with their parents, two and a half
miles northeast of Berlin. Joshua C. But-
ler was a member of Co. A., 4th 111. Inf.,
and served under Col. E. D. Baker, in the
Mexican war, from June, 1846, to June,
1847.

ELIZABETH E., born August 4,
1823, in Adair county, Ky., married in
Sangamon county to William T. Barrett.

JOHN C, born April, 1825, in Mor-
gan county, 111., enlisted in the same com-
pany and regiment with his brother,
Joshua C., and was discharged on account
of physical disability. He married Fran-
ces Brown. They had two children, both
of whom died, and Mr. Butler died in
Springfield. His widow married John J.
Hardin. See his name.

RA CHEL R. born in Morgan coun-
ty, married in Sangamon county to E.
Riley Pirkins. See his name.

Mrs. Mary Butler died, and N. M.
Butler married Mrs. Martha H. Stone,
whose maiden name was Hunter. They
had three children, viz —

SALL T H., born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married Edmond E. Butler, of Ken-
tucky. They had one child, and mother
and child died at DesMoines, Iowa.

SAMUEL H., born in Sangamon
county, enlisted in 1861, for three years,
in the loth 111. Cav. Served until Nov.,
1864, when he was honorably discharged
at San Antonio, Texas. He remained
there in the employ of the government
and married in March, 1870, to Matilda
Ann Blair. They had two children, a
son and daughter. He was shot by an
assassin, and died in the year 1872 or '3,
in Texas.

JAMES E., born in Sangamon
county, married March 31, 1869, to Molly

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E. Oglesby. They have three children.
He enlisted in 1861, for three years, in the
roth 111. Cav., at Springfield. Re-enlisted
as a veteran, promoted to First Lieut.
Served to the end of the rebellion, and
was honorably discharged. He resides
near Dayton, Cass county, Mo.

Nathan M. Butler died April 4, 1842,
in Sangamon county, and his widow died
Oct. 14, 1851, in Menard county. N. M.
Butler was a soldier in the war of 1812,
and was in the battle of New Orleans.
He was Col. of a regiment in the Black
Hawk war of 1831-32.

BUTLER, WILLIAM, was
born Dec. 15, 1797, in Adair^ county, Ky.
During the war of 1812 he was selected to
carry important dispatches from the Gov-
ernor of Kentucky to Gen. Harrison, in
the field. He traveled on horseback, and
made the trip successfully, although he
was but fifteen years of age. When a
young man he was employed in the iron
works of Tennessee, and after that was
deputy of the Circuit Clerk for Adair
countv, Ky. While thus engaged, he
made the acquaintance of a young lawyer,
now the venerable Judge Stephen T.
Logan, of this city. The friendship thus
formed continued through life. Mr. But-
ler spent a portion of his time as clerk on
a steamboat. In 1828 he came to Sanga-
mon county, and purchased a farm in Is-
land Grove. On that farm his father,
Elkanah Butler, lived and died. William
Butler came to Springfield, and' was soon
after appointed Clerk of the Circuit Court,
by his early friend, Judge Logan, March
19, 1836, and resigned March 22, 1841.
He was appointed, by Gov. Bissell, State
Treasurer, August 29, 1859, to fill the
vacancy occasioned by the resignation ot
State Treasurer Miller. He was elected
to the same office in 1860 for two years.
William Butler and Elizabeth Rickard
were married Dec. 18, 1832. They had
three children, namely —

SALOME E., born in Springfield,
and now resides on South Sixth street, at
the family homestead.

SPEED, born Aug. 7, 1837, in
Springfield. He graduated at the Luther-
an University in Springfield, in- 1854,
studied law, and was admitted to practice
in 1860. When the rebellion came upon
the country in 1861, Speed Butler was
selected by the Governor of Illinois to

carry a dispatch to Washington City, ask-
ing for an order to remove the United
States arms from the Arsenal at St. Louis
to Alton, 111. Railroad and telegraphic
communication to the Capital was cut off,
but he managed to make his way through,
obtained the order, and returned in safety.
The arms were removed just in time to
keep them from falling into the hands of
the rebels. Soon after completing that
service he was appointed Commissary,
with the rank of Captain, but was at once
assigned to duty on Gen. Pope's staff, and
was with that officer during his campaign
in North Missouri, at Island No. 10, &c.
In Sept., 1 86 1, he was appointed Major of
the 5th' 111. Cav. For gallantry on the
battle-field at Farmington, Miss., in June,
1862, he was promoted to Colonel in the
regular army ; but still, by permission from
Gen. Wool, he remained on duty with
Gen. Pope. He shared the fortunes of
that officer during the Virginia campaign,
as also in Minnesota against the Indians.
He served until the close of the rebellion,
in 1865.

Col. Speed Butler was married May 26,
1864, in Milwaukee, Wis., to Jeannie
McKenzie Arnold, who was born Sept.
4, 1845, *n Poughkeepsie, N. Y. They
have three children, ANNIE L., ELIZ-
ABETH and ARNOLD W., and live
near Springfield, on the southwest.

HENRT WIRT, born Feb. 11, 1840,
in Springfield, graduated in 1859 at Brown
University, Providence, R. I., and was
married May 9, 1867, to Helen McCler-
nand, daughter of Gen. John A. McCler-
nand. She was born irj Springfield, and
died April 26, 1870, leaving one child,
WILLIAM J. H. W. Butler and son
live in Springfield.

Mrs. Elizabeth Butler died March 2,
1869, and Hon. William Butler died Jan.
11, 1876, both in Springfield.

o,

CALDWELL, WILLIAM,
was born Dec. 15, 1779, in Nansemond
county, Va. His father, Thomas Cald-
well, was born in Ireland, and married
there to Betsy Harris, a Welch lady.
They emigrated to America, and landed
at Charleston, South Carolina, where they
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Virginia. At the time of Thomas Cald-
well's death, he and his wife had a home
in the family of the son William. John
C. Calhoun was related on the side of his
mother to the Caldwell family, and there
is the source from which that distinguished
statesman obtained his middle name : John
Caldwell Calhoun. When William Cald-
well was a youth, his parents left Virginia
and moved to Jessamine county, Ky.
Nancy Roberts was born Sept. 24, 1782,
in Goochland county, Va., and when
young, went to Jessamine county, Ky.
William Caldwell and Nancy Roberts
were married Feb. 7, 1804. They had six
living children in Jessamine county, and
the family moved to Green county, 111., in
1831, and in 1836 moved to Sangamon
county, 111., and settled in what is now
Auburn township. Of their children —

GEORGE L., born Dec. 6, 1804, in
Kentucky, married Sept. 10, 1829, to Polly
Roberts. She inherited two negro slaves
(a man and woman) from the estate of her
father. On May 7, 1830, they took ad-
vantage of the absence of Mr. Caldwell,
who was Sheriff of the county at the time,
and strangled his wife to death with a
small cord. They then placed her in a
natural position in bed, bandaged her head,
and placed such medicines on a stand,
within her reach, as she would have been
likely to use if she had been indisposed, and
left her until it was discovered by other
members of the family. The bruises on the
neck excited suspicion, and the blacks being
charged with the crime, confessed that
they had taken her life, hoping by that
means to be sent to their former home.
The man was an old, trusted carriage ser-
vant, an.d forced the woman to assist him.
They were tried, and, upon their own con-
fession, convicted and hung. George L.
Caldwell was married Sept. 27, 1831, to
Eliza McDowell. They had one son, and
Mrs. Caldwell died June 18, 1839, and
Mr. Caldwell died Sept. 30, 1840.
Neither of them ever came to Sangamon
county. Their son GEORGE M. CALD-
WELL is the extensive stock-raiser near
Williamsville, in this county.

JOHN, born Jan. 21, 1807, in Ken-
tucky, came to Carrollton, 111., in 1827.
He was married there Jan. 23, 1834, to
Mary J. Davis. She was born near Dan-
ville, Ky., Jan. 16, 1815. When a young
lady, she rode on horseback from Danville,

Ky., to Tallahassee, Florida, and returned
to Danville, and after a short visit, con-
tinued her journey to Carrollton, 111., a dis-
tance of at least two thousand miles.
John Caldwell and wife had five children,
namely: WILLIAM C., born March
15, 1835, married Jan. 14, 1864, to Sarah
C. Baucom, who was born Nov. 16, 1840,
in Sangamon county, They reside eight
miles southwest of Springfield. JANE
Y. died in her eleventh year; BETSY in
her seventh year; HENRY died in in-
fancy. BENJAMIN F., born Aug. 2,
1848, in Greene county, 111., was married
May 27, 1873, to Julia F. Cloyd, who was
born March y, 1856, in the southeast corner
of Curran township, Sangamon county.
Immediately after their marriage they left
for New York, via Detroit and Suspension
Bridge. At New York took steamer
(June 4th) for Queenstown, Ireland,
where they landed June 141!!. Passed
through Ireland to Belfast; thence to
Scotland, down through the centre of
England to London; from there through
Holland, Belgium and smaller German
States, to Berlin, in Prussia; thence to
Vienna Exposition, across the Alps into
Italy, meeting with the unexpected pleas-
ure of an audience with Pius the IX.
Returning, passed through Mt. Cenis tun-
nel, thence by Geneva to Paris; from Paris
back to London, thence to Liverpool,
taking steamer for Boston, where they
arrived Oct. 6th, same year. Distance
traveled in round trip, 14,000 miles. Mr.
and Mrs. B. F. Caldwell have one child,
MARY JANE, who was born March 20,
1874. They reside near Chatham, Sanga-
mon county, 111. John Caldwell died of
heart disease j Aug. i, 1863, after a painful
illness, and his widow resides eight and a
half miles southwest of Springfield, and
one and a half miles north of Chatham.

JANE R., born April 15, 1809, mar-
rifed in Kentucky to Minor T. Young.
Came to Illinois, and she died Jan. 21,
1844, in Curran township.

ELIZABETH, born Aug. 17, 1812,
married Jan. 12, 1831, to Albert G. Tal-
bott. She died April 29, 1838, leaving
three children in Kentucky, namely: •
MARY A. married Dr. William Tomlin-
son. The sons are WILLIAM P. and
ALBERT G.Jun.

CHARLES H., born March 18, 1818,
in Kentucky, died May 24, 1833, at Jack-

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sonville, 111., while a student at Illinois
College.

WILLIAM, Jun., horn Aug. 14, 1820,
in Kentucky, married Sept. 30, 1842, in
Mercer county, Ky., to Mary J. Camp-
bell. Mr. Caldwell died June 29, 1844.

His widow married Mr. Moore, and

resides at Pleasant Hill, Cass county, Mo.

William Caldwell, Sen., died Aug. i,
1844, and his widow died Dec. 19, 1858,
both at the southeast corner of Curran
township.

When he moved from Auburn to Cur-
ran township, in 1841, there was not a
place for holding religious worship near
him. In order to afford temporary accom-
modations, he constructed his residence in
such a manner that it could be used for
that purpose. It consisted of a large cen-
tral room, with three other large rooms
opening into it. Plans were laid, before
his death, for building a church, and on
his death bed he requested that it be called
Bethel, which was done, as the Christian
Church near where he lived bears that
name. Mr. Caldwell was a man of great
public spirit all his life. He was Captain
of a company from Jessamine county, Ky.,
in the war of 1812. A younger brother
was a member of his company, and was
taken prisoner at the battle of the river
Raisin. He came near freezing to death
while confined in a rail pen in Canada.
William Caldwell was Sheriff of Jessa-
mine county, Ky., and represented the
county several times in the State Legisla-
ture. He represented Sangamon county
two terms in the Legislature of Illinois.

CALHOUN,— The origin of the
family in America was with Andrew Cal-
houn, who was born March 27, 1764, in
Rye, Ireland. The family record speaks
of his birth place as " Heland." That
may have been a provincial name, or the
original Gaellic name for Ireland. An-
drew Calhoun was a near relative of the
father of John C. Calhoun, of South
Carolina. He came to America about
1792, and made his home in Boston, Mass.
March 15, iy9S5 he was married at Chelms-
ford, Mass., to Martha Chamberlin, who
was born at the latter place, Feb. 20, 1 770.
She was a descendent of the Puritans.
They had eight children, all born in Bos-
ton. Their sixth child, JOHN, is the
one of whom we wish to speak particularly,
but will first brieflv mention his brothers

and sisters, that the reader may under-
stand the character of the family.

WILLIAM B., was a lawyer, and
stood high in the profession. He lived in
.Springfield, Mass.; was speaker of the
house of representatives eight years, and
President of the Senate a number of
years. He represented the Springfield
district in Congress eight years. CHARLES
was, for twenty consecutive years, Secre-
tary of the Senate of Massachusetts.
ANDREW H., left his native State and be-
came connected with journalism in the
State of New York. He served seven
years on the Board of Canal Commis-
sioners, and one term as Clerk of the State
Senate. HENRY was a merchant in Mont-
gomery county, New York. Later in life
he was, for many years, Deputy Collector
of United States Customs in the city of
New York. SIMEON HOWARD, born
August 15, 1804, was educated at Harvard
College, became a Christian minister, and
joined a mission at Mount Lebanon, Syria.
He was entrusted with translating the
Bible into the native language, and
subsequently established a native col-
lege near Beirut, of which he is now —
1875 — t*16 President. JAMES, younger
than John, was for thirty years an active
business man in Cincinnati, O. There
were two sisters, SUSAN, older, and MAR-
THA, younger. The father, Andrew
Calhoun, after spending the prime of his
life as an extensive merchant in Boston,
retired to a farm in Montgomery countv,
N. Y., where he lost his wife, returned to
Boston, married again, and died April 14,
1842.

CALHOUN, JOHN, was born
Oct. 14, 1808, in Boston, Mass., and in
1821 accompanied his father to the Mo-
hawk Valley, in New York. After fin-
ishing his studies at the Canajoharie
Academy, he studied law at Fort Plain,
both in Montgomery county. In 1830 he
came to Springfield, 111., and resumed the
study of law, sustaining himself by teach-
ing a select school. He took part in the
Black Hawk war of 1831-2, and after its
close, was appointed by the Governor of
the State, Surveyor of Sangamon county.
He induced Abraham Lincoln to study
surveying, in order to become his deputy.
From that time the chain of freindship be-
tween them continued bright to the end
of their lives, although they were ardent

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partizans of different schools in politics.
John Calhoun was married Dec. 29, 1831,
in Sangamon county, to Sarah Cutter.
See Cutter sketch. They had nine child-
ren in Sangamon county, and in 1854 Mr.
Calhoun was appointed by President
Pierce, Surveyor-General for Kansas and
Nebraska, and he moved his family to
Kansas. Of all their children —

JOHN, Jun., born Nov. 15, 1832, died
in his third year, in Sangamon county.

ANDREW, born June n, 1835, in
Sangamon county, was killed Jan., 1860,
by the explosion of a steam saw mill in
Leavenworth county, Kansas.

ELIZABETH, born March 18, 1835,
in Sangamon county, was married March
i, 1870, in the Catholic church at Leaven-
worth, Kan., to Henry Jackson, a native
of England. He is a Lieutenant in the
yth Reg. U. S. Cav., and is now — 1876 —
on detached duty in the signal service at
Washington, D. C.

SETH y. was born March 4, 1839,
in Springfield, 111. He went with his
father to Kansas in 1854, and when the
rebellion commenced he enlisted in Battery
H, ist Mo. Art., It had been an infantry
regiment under Col. Frank P. Blair, and
after the battle of Wilson creek, changed
to artillery. It was under Gen. Grant
from the siege of Fort Donelson to the
evacuation of Corinth, and under Sher-
man in his " march to the sea." SethJ.
Calhoun was wounded July 22, 1864. in
the battle of Atlanta, Ga., and soon a er
promoted to second Lieut, of his Battery.
He served one full term, re-enlisted as a
veteran, served to the end of the rebellion
and was honorably discharged. He now —
1875 — lives in Leavenworth, Kan.

ALBERT, born Feb. 10, 1841, in
Springfield, and died in his fourth year.

MARTHA, born Jan. 9, 1843, in
Springfield, resides with her mother.

6* US AN, born Sept. 8, 1844, in Spring-
field, 111., married, August 29, 1866, in
Leavenworth, Kansas, to Virgil W. Par-
ker, who was born Dec. 16, 1840,511 Rome,
N. Y. They have one child, ADELIA,
and reside in Atchison, Kansas.

MAR T, born May 25, ,1847, and

JAMES, born Nov. 30, 1852, both in
Springfield, 111., live with their mother.

John Calhoun died Oct. 25, 1859, at St.
Joseph, Mo. His widow and unmarried

children now — 1876 — reside in Leaven-
worth, Kansas.

Hon. John Calhoun deserves more than
a passing notice. He entered the political
field in 1835, being the Democratic candi-
date that year for the State Senate of Illi-
nois, but there being a large Whig major-
ity in the county, he was defeated by
Archer G. Herndon. In 1838 he was
elected to represent Sangamon county in
the State Legislature. In 1841 he, with
^ John Duff, completed the railroad from
• Jacksonville to Springfield, being the first
to reach the State Capital. In 1842 he was
appointed Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Sangamon county by Judge Treat. In
1844 he was one of the Presidential
Electors of Illinois for President Polk.
In i849-'5<>'5i, he was successively elected
Mayor of Springfield. In 1852 he was
one of the Presidential Electors of Illinois
for President Pierce, and was selected by
his colleagues to carry the vote to Wash-
ington City. In 1854 he was appointed,
by President Pierce, Surveyor General of
Kansas and Nebraska, and moved his
family to Kansas.

Here he entered a political field with
new and exciting sectional elements. He
was elected a delegate to the convention
that framed what has passed into history
as the Lecompton Constitution. He be-
came the President of that body, which
was composed of unscrupulous pro-slavery
adventurers, with a small number of con-
servative members, among whom was the
President. That odious instrument would
have been adopted by the convention with-
out submitting it to a vote of the people,
had it not been for the determined opposi-
tion of President Calhoun, who threatened
to resign, and opposed it by every method
in his power, unless it was submitted; and
when it came to the polls he voted against
adopting the pro-slavery clause. That
instrument provided that the President of
the Convention should count the vote and
report the result.

Soon after this duty was discharged he
started for Washington City, leaving all
the returns and papers relating to the elec-
tion with one L. A. McLane, Chief Clerk
of the Surveyor General's office. He has
been described as " A brilliant clerk, but
vain, vacillating, and ambitious of doing
smart things, and economical of the truth
generally. " The instructions given to

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him by Gen. Calhoun before starting east,
was to afford every facility to any body of
respectable men to examine the returns, as
evidences of dissatisfaction were already
apparent, and the conviction soon became
general that a stupendous fraud had been
committed against the ballot. Soon the
excitement became intense, endangering
the lives of some of the conspicuous
actors, and McLane became alarmed.
Gen. Thomas L. Ewing, Jun., and Judge
Smith called upon him, with a letter from
Mr. Calhoun, instructing the clerk to let
those gentlemen examine the returns.
Mr. McLane falsely stated to Messrs.
Ewing and Smith that the returns were
not in his possession; that Gen. Calhoun
had taken them with him when he left for
Washington. A few evenings later, Mc-
Lane attended a ball at Lawrence, where
he was plied with good cheer, attentions
and flattery, so grateful to his appetite and
vanity, and after becoming mellow by the
occasion, a Lawrence belle, acting the
part of Deliah, drew from him the secret
of the coveted papers. The next day he
was called upon by a committee of the
territorial legislature, who demanded the
returns, when he again denied having
them in his possession. He was then
summoned before a committee of the leg-
islature, and there stated under oath that
Gen. Calhoun had taken the returns with
him. The cross-questions revealed to him
the fact that the Lawrence belle had be-
trayed him. Realizing his position, he
returned that night to Lecompton, and
with a few cronies, put the returns in a
candle box, and buried it under a wood
pile. A porter in the Surveyor-General's
office, by the name of Charles Torrey,
who had for a long time acted as a spy
for the enemies of Gen. Calhoun, watched
the operation, and gave the information.
A company of men from Lawrence soon
after unearthed the box, and bore away
the prize.

The exposure of McLane's villainy was
now complete, and he precepitately fled
the Territory, with a mob in close pursuit.
Thus the odium of the dastardly acts of
this man were unjustly visited upon
Gen. Calhoun. Unqualified abuse and
misrepresentations were heaped upon him,
and spread broadcast over the country by
the press. That broke down his spirits,
and he soon after left the Territory, went

to St. Joseph, Mo., and died there. He
deserved a better fate. He was a man of
genial, hopeful, generous temperament;
ever ready to serve or defend a friend, but
rarely defending himself, except on the
spur of the moment; of great ability, and
for a time was the best political orator in
the State of Illinois. He was brilliant,
but deficient in practical application.
President Lincoln has been heard to say
that John Calhoun was the strongest man
he had ever met on the stump; that he
could manage Douglas, but that Calhoun
always gave him his hands full.

CALLERMAN, DANIEL
K., was born Dec. 10, 1806, in Fleming
county, Ky. He came to Sangamon
county, 111., in company with his widowed
mother, arriving Nov. 14, 1828, at Spring-
field. He was married Sept. 29, 1833, to
Allie M. Henton. They had ten children
in Sangamon county, two of whom died
young. Of the other eight —

JOHN, born Aug. 9, 1834, married
Nov., 1855, in Missouri, to Elizabeth
Bunn. He is supposed to have lost his
life in time of the rebellion, leaving a
widow and three children in Vernon
county, Mo.

E VAN H., born Oct. 2, 1836, in San-
gamon county, and married Henrietta
Drake. They had three living children,
WILLIAM "H., CHARLES M. and
CORA. Mrs. C. died June 9, 1873, and
he was married March 15, 1876, to Nellie
Elder, of Sangamon county, a daughter
of Dr. A. W. Elder, an early settler of
Morgan county. E. H. Callerman lives
in Williamsville.

l^RIAH W., born Jan. 14, 1839, in
Sangamon county, married May 30, 1875,
to Mary Curries. They live near Garnett,
Anderson countv, Kansas.

BARBARA ELEANOR C., born
March 21, 1841,111 Menard county, married
March u, 1860, in Sangamon county, to
Andrew M. Whitenack, who was born
Aug. 9, 1830, in Somerset county, N. J.
They have one child, DANIEL C., and
live near Edinburg, 111.

MARTHA A., 'born Sept. 17, 1843, in
Menard county, married Nov. 27, 1860, in
Sangamon county, to Minard A. McClel-
land. They have five children, FRAN-
CIS A., IDA A., MARSHAL A.,
MAUD M. and MATTIE, and live near
Garnett, Kansas.

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EARL? SETTLERS OF

MARY, born Dec. 19, 1848, in Menard
county, married Sept. 24, 1868, in Sanga-
mon county, to John R. W. McNeill.
They had two children. GEORGE died
young. WALTER lives with his pa-
rents, near Edinburg, 111.

GEORGE W., born Dec. 24, 1851,
and

ANN, born June 20, 1857. The two
latter live with their mother.

Daniel K. Callerman died Dec. 2, 1873,
and his widow lives near Williamsville.

CALLERMAN, URIAH, was
born Dec. 31, 1798, in Fleming county,
Ky., and was married there to Eleanor
McKinnie. They had one child in Ken-
tucky, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the fall of 1822, four miles
north of Springfield, where they had
three children. Of their children —

JOHN L., born June 2, 1822, in Flem-
ing county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, Sept. 18, 1845, to Frances Cole.
They had one child, JOHN L., Jun., born
in Sangamon county, married Jan. 8, 1874,
to Susan M. Lightfoot, and live five miles
northwest of Springfield. John L. Cal-
lerman died August 26, 1846, and his
widow married Levi Branson, and lives
near Cincinnati, Neb.

ELIZABETH, born Dec. 26, 1823,
in Sangamon county, died Sept. 21, 1845.

NANCY, born March 3, 1826, in San-
gamon county, married Goodrich Light-
foot. See his name.

JAMES W., born April 19, 1828, in
Sangamon county, married March, 1856,
to Emma Ash. They have six children,
and live ten miles southeast of Spring-
field.

Uriah Callerman died Sept. 13, 1828,
and Mrs. Eleanor Callerman died August
26, 1846, both in Sangamon county.

CAMPBELL, ANTRIM, was
born Aug. 5, 1814, in New Jersey. He
came to Springfield about 1838, and en-
gaged in the practice of law. He was
married May 12, 1841, to Mrs. Ann Far-
quar, whose maiden name was Cranmei.
Mr. Campbell was appointed, Jan. 24,1849,
Master in Chancery for the circuit court of
Sangamon county, and resigned the same,
Oct. 28, 1861. He was appointed by the U. S.
Circuit Court, Master in Chancery for the
Southern District of Illinois. He died in
office, August u, 1868. His widow re-
sides at the Leland Hotel, Springfield.

CAMPBELL, DAVID B.,
came to Springfield with his brother An-
trim. He was Attorney-General from
1848 to 1856, and died in office, in Spring-
field.

CAMPBELL, ENOS, born
about 1758, either in Scotland or near
Trenton, N. J., soon after the arrival of
his parents in America. He enlisted in
the Revolutionary army at seventeen years
of age, and served six or seven years, un-
til the British army left the American
shores. Mr. C. drew a pension to the end
of his life. Enos Campbell and Damaris
Nowee were married in New Jersey, and
moved to Uniontown, Fayette county,
Penn., where they had nine children, and
moved, about 1806, to Butler county, O.,
where they had one child, and the family
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1835, in what is now Gard-
ner township. Some of the children had
arrived before, and some never came. Of
their children —

SARAH, born in Pennsylvania, mar-
ried in Ohio to William Gard. They
raised a family, and both died in Preble
county, Ohio.

JOHN N., born April 10, 1794, in
Uniontown, Fayette county, Pa., married
Oct. 12, 1818, in Butler county, Ohio, to
Phrebe Clarke, who was born April 30,
1791, in Uniontown, Pa., also. They had
five children in Ohio, and moved to San-
gamon county, arriving Oct. 3, 1824, in
what is now Salisbury township, where
they had four children. Of their children,
ISRAEL, born in Ohio, married in San-
gamon county to Mary Jacks, and lives in
DeWitt county. CHRISTIANA, born
Tune 27, 1819, in Ohio, married in Sanga-
mon county, to Philip Clark, Jun. See
his name. CLARKSON, born March
3, 1821, in Ohio, married in Sangamon
county, to Ann Kyles. They had two
children, and live in Minnesota. He
was Lieutenant in an Illinois regiment in
suppressing the rebellion. ENOS, born
Nov. 22, 1822, in Ohio, married in Sanga-
mon county, Feb. 12, 1851, to Rachel
Duncan. They have two children, both
married, and live near Clinton. BAR-
ZILLA, born July 22, 1824, in Ohio, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, to Rosanna
Sackett, moved to Clinton and was Sheriff
of DeWitt county and Quartermaster of
the ic>7th Illinois Infantry. They have

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five children, and live at Twin Springs,
Lynn county, Kansas. LEWIS, born
Nov. 17, 1826, in Sangamon county, mar-
ried in Clinton to Philena Argo. They
have six children, and live at Clinton, 111.
JOHN N. Jun., born March 24, 1829, in
Sangamon county, married June 29, 1852,
to Susan Hendel. He died Aug. n, 1856,
near Clinton. SARAH A., born May
30, 1831, in Sangamon county, married
Sept, 21, 1854, to Robert Boyd, who died
leaving one child, ADA. Mrs. Boyd mar-
ried Albert Williams, and both died, leav-
ing one child in Clinton. MARY A.,
born Dec. 22, 1824, in Sangamon county,
married James Willis. They have four
children, and live near Clinton. John N.
Campbell was a soldier in the war of 1812,
from Ohio, and the Black Hawk war from
Sangamon county. He and his wife live
in Clinton now — 1874 — both over eighty
years of age.

LE WIS, married in Ohio to Leah
Weaver, came to Sangamon county before
the " deep snow," moved back to Ohio in
1832, where he lost his wife, returned to
Sangamon county in 1836, married Clar-
issa Willis, had eight children, and lives
near Athens, Menard county. His
daughter, Leah, married John Slater. See
his name.

RA CHEL, married in Ohio to Henry
Price, moved to Sangamon county, in
1835, moved, in 1841, to Iowa, and from
there to the Pacific coast in 1854. They
had ten children, and live in California.

ABIGAIL, married in Ohio to Jacob
Mann, raised a large family, and lives near
Paris, Edgar county, 111.

MART, born in 1790, or '91, in Union-
town, Penn., married in Ohio to William
H. Fitz Freeman. They had five child-
ren in Ohio, and came to Sangamon coun-
ty in 1837. She died July 21, 1854, in
her 64th year, and Mr. Freeman died Jan.
19, 1856, in the 77th year of his age.
Their son, Abraham Freeman, married
Margaret Penny, has several children, and
lives in Springfield.

JANE, born April 27, 1808, in Butler
county, Ohio, married Jacob Gard. See
his name.

Mrs. Damaris Campbell died April 23,

1837, and Enos Campbell died June 2,

1838, both in Sangamon county.

CAMPBELL, JOHN, was
born Nov. 4, 1790, in Carter county, Tenn.
His father, Jeremiah Campbell, settled
there before the American Revolution,
and was a soldier during the Revolution,
under Gen. Francis Marion. He lived to
be about 100 years old. His youngest
son, Jackson, was the owner of the old
homestead at the beginning of the great
rebellion. The farm had then been in the
family about 100 years. John Campbell
enlisted in a company from Carter county,
in the war with England, served six
months, re-enlisted and served until March,
1815. He was an ensign in the last cam-
paign, and drew a pension to the end of
his life. He remained in Tennesssee un-
til 1818, when he went to Madison coun-
ty, 111., and was there married Nov. 6,

1818, to Lavina Parkison, who was born
Feb. 21, 1803. They moved to what be-
came Sangamon county, arriving March
22, 1819, on Lick creek, in what is now
Chatham township, and had seven child-
ren there, namely —

ALFRED C., was born July 22,

1819, in Sangamon county, 111. He was
the first white child born on Lick creek,
and but two are known to have been born
earlier in the county. They were Samuel
Drennan, born May 5, 1819, on Sugar
creek, and Joseph E. McCoy, born March
13, 1819, on Horse creek. Alfred C.
Campbell was married May 3, 1838, in
Sangamon county, to Polly Foster, a
daughter of Peyton Foster. They had
seven children, one of whom, WM. P.,
died young. JOHN P., born August 4,
1839, in Sangamon county, married Aug.
26, 1858, in Shelby county to Sarah Elliott.
They have three children, POLLY, WILLIS,
and ELEANOR G., and reside near Mowe-
qua, Shelby county, 111. John P. Camp-
bell enlisted Oct. 2, i86i,in Co. E, 32d 111.
Inf. He arose by regular grades to the
rank of Captain, was wounded at the bat-
tle of Hatchie, honorably discharged, and
now draws a pension. ELZIRA, E., born
April 23, 1844, in Sangamon county, mar-
ried in 1862, to James W. Clark. They
have one child, POLLY, and reside near
Mow.equa, Shelby county. SARAH C.,
born Mar. 27, 1846, in Sangamon county,
married in 1865, in Champaign county, to
F. Bechtel. 1 hey have one child, POLLY.
LEONORA J., born April 15, 1848, in

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Sangamon county, and reside near Mo-
wequa. ALFRED C., Jun., born May
26, 1850, in Sangamon county, married in
1873 to Maggie Hunter. They have one
child, CARRIE D., and live near Mowequa,
111. GEORGE W., born May 9, 1853,
in Shelby county, is a sailor, and when
lest heard from was in Germany. Mrs.
Polly Campbell died Jan. 9, 1858, and
A. C. Campbell was married June 17,
1859, to Miss Jane Hunt. They are with-
out family, and reside near Mowequa,
Shelby county, 111. Capt. A. C. Camp-
bell enlisted June 10, 1846, in Co. D., 4th
111. Inf., under Col. E. D. Baker. He
was commissioned 26. Lieut., and after the
death of Capt. Achilles Morris, at Tam-
pico, Mexico, Lieut. Campbell commanded
the company at the siege and capture of
Vera Cruz, and the battle of Cerro Gordo.
When the rebellion broke out he raised a
company, Oct. 2, 1861, and became Capt.
of Co. E., 32d 111. Inf., under Col. John
Logan, and fought in all the battles from
Fort Donelson to the sea. At Pittsburg
Landing his company lost thirty-two men,
killed and wounded, out of fifty-six in
action. He served three years and four
months, and was honorably discharged.
Capt. Campbell moved, in 1851, to the
vicinity of Mowequa, Shelby county,
where he now resides.

WILLIAM P., born Nov. 4, 1820, in
Sangamon county, married, March 12,
1843, to Elizabeth Carson. They had
fourteen children, five of whom died in
infancy, and one, JOSIAH W., was killed
in May, 1859, by becoming entangled in
the harness on a mule, which ran away
with him as he was leaving his plow to
escape from an approaching rain storm.
Of the other eight, JEREMIAH, born
Jan. i, 1843, married Mary Wheeler,
have two children. EARNEST L. and EAR-
LEN R., and reside in Loami township.
WILLIAM P., Jun., born April 7, 1846,
married Sarah Dodd, who was born Dec.
11, 1847, in Bradley county, Tenn. They
had one child, AMANDA, who died July 18,
1873, in her second year. They reside
in Talkington township. JAMES
S., twin to Josiah WT.. was born June 5,
1 848, married Rebecca A. Hunter, who was
born August 15, 1852, in Jersey county.
They had two children; one died in in-
fancy, and ETTIE MAY resides with her
parents, in Talkington township. SIM-

ON P., born May 17, 1854, married Mar.
6, 1873, to Kate A. Workman, and resides
four miles south of Loami. LONELY
ARIZONIA, ISAAC H., JACKSON
and BEATRICE, reside with their
mother. Wm. P. Campbell died August
24, 1868, and his widow resides three
miles south of Loami. Mr. Campbell
was a soldier in the Mexican war, where
he contracted chronic diarrhea, which
caused his death more than twenty years
after.

JEREMIAH, born Dec. 22, 1822,
married Luro Combs, and died in 1853,
leaving a widow and two children in Shel-
by county. Mrs. Luro Campbell mar-
ried Abner Smith, and resides near Mo-
wequa, Shelby county, 111.

JOSIAH W., born April 5, 1828,
married Elizabeth Workman. They had
two living children, and Mrs. C. died and
he married Angeline White. They have
three children, and reside in Vernon
county, Mo.

PETER C., born Jan. 19, 1832, mar-
ried May 5, 1852, to Amanda E. Carson.
They ^iad three children, two of whom
died in infancy. RACHEL C. resides
with her parents. Peter C. Campbell
and wife live in Chatham township, with
in one mile of where he was born.

CAROLINE, born Oct. 23, 1834,
married John Workman. See his name.

Mrs. Lavinah Campbell died Dec. 13,
1853, and John Campbell was married in
1855 to Mrs. Margery Carson, whose
maiden name was Parkison, a sister of
his first wife. She died March 5, 1870.
John Campbell died Feb., 1875, on the
farm where he settled in 1819, five miles
west of Chatham, leaving a large estate
which he had accumulated by industry and
economy. He, as nearly all the earliest
settlers, took part in the Black Hawk war.
The first mill in the county, built by Daniel
Lisle, was sold by him, and after changing
hands once or twice, was bought by Mr.
John Campbell, and moved to his farm on
Lick creek, where he put it up and ran it
for years, each customer bi'inging his own
horses to run it. That kind of mills went
out of use long ago, and one of the burrs
was used by Mr. Campbell as a doorstep,
to the day of his death.

CAMPBELL, LE VI, was born
May i, 1818, in Madison county, 111., and
came to Sangamon county when he was

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quite young. He was married March 4,
1841, to Susannah Staley. They had
three living children, namely —

SARAH J. married John Hudson.
See his name.

MART F., married Kirk Lacey. They
have three children, and live in Waverly.

STALET D., lives west of Loami.

Levi Campbell was a soldier from San-
gamon county, in the war with Mexico,
in 1846 and '7. He died May 22, 1851,
and his widow married Wm. B. McCray.
They have three children —

ROBERT D., JAMES A. and
STEPHEN W., and live west of
Loami.

CAMPBELL, MAXWELL,
was born Oct. 29, 1795, in Cabarras coun-
ty, N. C. His grandfather, Robert
Campbell, came from Scotland, bringing
six sons: Robert, James, John, William,
Samuel and George. Their arrival in
North Carolina was not long before the
American Revolution, and all the six bro-
thers were soldiers in the Revolutionary
army. The second Robert was the father
of the subject of this sketch. Maxwell
Campbell was married July 25, 1822, in
North Carolina, to Nancy Plunkett. She
was born June 15, 1806, in the same coun-
ty. They came to Sangamon county, ar-
riving in May 1823, and settled at the
north side of Richland creek in what is
now Cartwright township. They had
six living children in Sangamon county —

ROBERT R.,\>orn August 13, 1823,
married Dec. 13, 1847. to Cynthia S. Pen-
ny. They have eight children. SAM-
UEL lives with his parents. NANCY
C. married J. Harnsberger. See his name.
MATILDA C., GEORGE B., PETER
A., IDA JANE, JOHN D. and CHAS.
A., live with their parents, two and a half
miles northeast of Pleasant Plains.

JOHN H., born May 19, 1828, mar-
ried Feb. 28, 1851, to Minerva E. Bum-
gardner. They have three children.
ISABEL M. married Aaron Thompson.
NANCY E. and WILLIAM J. live with
their parents. John H. Campbell enlisted
Sept. 18, 1862, for three years, in Co. F,
H4th 111. Inf. Served his full term and
was honorably discharged in July, 1865,
at Trenton, N. J. He lives east of Pleas-
ant Plains.

JAMES E., born Oct. 8, 1830, mar-
ried Oct. 4, 1865, to Cordelia Valentine,

who was born Dec. 20, 1847, in Pickaway
county, Ohio. They live near Pleasant
Plains.

MATILDA D., born April 3, 1833,
married Jan. 25, 1851, to Wm. F. Irwin.
See his name.

WILLIAM V., born May 2, 1836,
married Feb. 13, 1862, to Mary E.Valen-
tine, who was born Dec. 14, 1843, in Pick-
away county, O. They had four children.
OLIVER H. died young. MAXWELL
M., JASPER S. and CORA V. live
with their parents, at the family home-
stead settled in 1823.

JASPER J., born May 22, 1839,
enlisted Sept. 18, 1862, for three years, in
Co. F, 1 1 4th 111. Inf. He was captured
at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10,
1864, remained in Anderson ville prison-
pen until near the close of the rebellion,
and was marching under rebel authority
to the Mississippi river for the purpose of
being exchanged. On the second day's
march, he being emaciated by starvation,
fell out of the ranks, and was never heard
of after.

Maxwell Campbell and his wife live
on the farm where they settled in 1823.
It is four miles northeast of Pleasant
Plains.

Maxwell Campbell says he raised the
three first crops after he came to Sanga-
mon county, with an ox. He used the ox
for riding and all other purposes, the
same as a horse. In working he used
harness instead of a yoke. He could
carry a grist of com on the ox to mill,
hitch him in, do his own grinding, and
then carry it home. He made a cart, each
wheel of which was a solid piece of wood,
and with the ox, did his first hauling. Mr.
Campbell says that for the first five years
after coming to the county he never had
a cent of money. He first built a very
small cabin, then prepared hewn logs for
a much larger house. They were hauled
together and lay two years because he
had no money to buy whisky for the rais-
. ing. He then bought a blind horse for
five dollars in trade. It had a bell on it,
which Mr. Campbell sold for two gallons
of whisky, and was thus enabled to raise
the house in which he has lived more than
forty years. Soon after trading for the
blind horse,- he put a sack of corn and a
boy on the ox, and rode the horse to mill,
hitched the horse and ox together, ground

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out the grist, and then started home. The
ox threw the boy and sack off. The boy
caught one foot in the traces, and the ox
dragged him among the trees and stumps,
and was likely to kill him. Mr. Camp-
bell, seeing the perilous condition of the
boy, ran ahead of the ox, caught it by the
horns — and knowing him to be its master,
rather than the physical strength he ex-
erted— enabled him to hold it until help
came and extricated the boy. At this
point in the story, the old gentleman
paused, looked wise, and with a comical
expression of countenance, added in a
trembling voice : " The neighbors always
said they knowed that ox afterwards by
the prints of my fingers in his horns?"1

CAMPBELL, ROBERT, was
born in 1798, in Caborras county, N. C.,
and married there to Mary Hill. They
moved to Sangamon county, 111., about
1828, and settled on Richland creek. They
brought two children with them, and had
eight in Sangamon county. In 1868 the
family moved to Kansas. Of their child-
ren—

JAMES married Nancy H. Stubbs,
and has two children, ALBERT T. and
OSCAR, and live in Kansas.

NANCT married John E. King, and
live in Kansas.

SAMUEL, WILET, GREEN,
JAMES, FRANKLIN, JOHN and
CARROLL, the two latter twins, all,
married and unmarried, live near Fredonia,
Wilson county, Kansas.

Robert Campbell died Sept. 12, 1872,
near Fredonia, Kansas, and his widow
lives with their children.

CAMPBELL, HUGH, twin
brother to Robert, was born in 1798, in
North Carolina, married there and came
to Sangamon county, 111., in Sept., 1830,
on Richland creek. They had nine child-
ren, and Hugh Campbell died August 28,
1865, and his widow died July 26, 1869,
both in Rochester.

CAMPBELL, NELSON,
youngest brother to Maxwell, Robert and
Hugh. He was born in North Carolina,
married in Tennessee to Themy Grady,
and came to Sangamon county in 1830.
They had three children. Their eldest
son —

ROBERT, married Mrs. M. Gale, and
had two children. He enlisted in 1862,
for three years, in the H4th 111. Inf.

Served full term and was honorably dis-
charged. He died Jan., 1873 near Roch-
ester.

Nelson Campbell and wife died in San-
gamon county.

CAMPBELL, ROBERT, was
born Sept. 9, 1783, in Kanawha county,
West Va. Mary Griffith was born there,
Sept. 15, 1791. They were married June
30, 1808, and some of their children were
born in that county. The family moved
to Cincinnati, and from there to Sanga-
mon county, arriving previous to 1835,
near Loami. Of their children —

SIDNEY S., born May 4, 1810, in
West Va., married in Sangamon county,
March 30, 1836, to Barbara A. Neal.
They had six living children in Sanga-
mon county. ROBERT D., born Jan.
27, 1840, enlisted July 15, 1861, in Co. C,
nth Mo. Inf., for three years; i"e-enlisted
as a veteran, Jan., 1864, served until Jan.
15, 1866, when he was honorably dis-
charged. He was married Sept. 2, 1868,
to Sarah Shryer. They have one child,
JAMES E., and live one mile south of
Bates. MARIA N., born Feb. 9, 1842,
married Wm. H. Sowell. See his name.
SAMUEL, born March 12, 1844, en-
listed Sept., i86i,in Co. B, loth 111. Cav.,
for three years. He was wounded in the
battle of Little Rock, Ark., from which
he recovered, but died of disease in hospi-
tal at that place, Sept., 1863. .HARVEY
G. born July 7, 1846, lives with his
mother. AMARINE, born Nov. 7,
1848, married Morris Lee. They have
two children, and live near New Berlin.
ELIZABETH, born Sept. 2, 1856, mar-
ried James M. Williams, who was a
Union soldier, also. They have two
children, and live in Pleasant Plains.
Sidney S. Campbell died in 1874. His
widow resides at Loarni.

HAMILTON, born June 12, 1812, in
West Virginia, married in Sangamon
county to Harriet Riddle. They moved
to Oregon, where he was murdered.

MART E. V., born Oct. 4, 1814, mar-
ried Woodford Turpin, who died while a
soldier in the Mexican war, leaving two
sons, CHARLES and HAMILTON. Mrs.
Turpin married Walter Nicholls and re-
side near Dundee, Rice county, Minne-
sota.

JOHN A., born Sept. 30, 1816, in
Kanawha county, West Va., came with

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his parents to Sangamon county, and after
spending a few years near Loami, came to
Springfield. He was married Oct. 4, 1838,
to Susan C. Short. They had five child-
ren, four of whom died young. MARI-
ETTA, born July 25, 1841, in Spring-
field, 111., was married there, Oct. 28,
1860, to Daniel Myers. They had one
child, CAROLINE, and Mr. Myers died
Oct. 30, 1863. Mrs. Myers lives with her
father, in St. Louis. Mrs. Susan C.
Campbell died April 3, 1852, and John A.
Campbell married Mrs. Elizabeth Rusk,
whose maiden name was Hawker. She
died, and he married Nov. 9, 1856, to
Elizabeth T. Rich. They have one liv-
ing child, CYRUS W., and reside, at 921
North Tenth Street, St. Louis, Mo.

CHARLES /?., born Nov. 17, 1821,
in West Virginia, married in Sangamon
county to Mary Gibson. They have two
children, and live at Oswego, Labette
county, Kansas.

WILLIAM P., born Nov. 24, 1826,
married Julia Slater. They have three
children, and live in Springfield.

NANCT A., born April 27, 1830,
married George Underwood, and both
died, leaving three children in Buchanan
county, near St. Joseph, Mo.

Robert Campbell died Dec. 10, 1845,
and his widow died Jan. 26, 1862, both in
Loami township.

CAMPBELL, THOMAS, was
born Oct. 31, 1786, in Yorkville District,
South Carolina. His father, James Camp-
bell, was born in county Antrim, Ireland,
and emigrated to South Carolina. Thos.
Campbell went, in 1807, to visit his bro-
ther David, in Caldwell county, Ky. He
was married in that county, March 22,
1810, to Elizabeth Robinson, a sister to
Edward Robinson. See his name. She
was born May 3, 1788, in Nelson county,
Ky. Her father, George Robinson, was
born in Bucks county, Pa., married in
Maryland, to Elizabeth Griffith, moved to
Loudon county, Va., and from there to
Nelson county, Ky. Thomas and Eliza-
beth Campbell had eight children in Ken-
tucky. He moved with his familv to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving about
Nov. 10, 1823. The first land sales took
place in Springfield on the sixth of that
month, and a few days later he entered
some land south of Little Spring creek,
and there made a home for his family. It

is now in Island Grove township, three
miles northeast of Bates, where they had
four children. Of their twelve children —
JAMES R. was born March 4, 1812,
in Caldwell county, Ky. He enlisted in
a Sangamon county Light Horse Co. in
the spring of 1831, for the Black Hawk
war: served three months, enlisted in
another Sangamon county company, in
1832, was in the battle of Wisconsin, and
served until the surrender of the Indian
chief, Black Hawk. Mr. Campbell en-
listed at Galena in Co. K, ist 111. Inf., in
1846, for one year. He was in the battle
of Buena Vista, Mexico, Feb. 22, 1847,
in which Col. J. J. Hardin was killed.
J. R. Campbell never married, and resides
at the family homestead near Bates.

MARGARET A., born Nov. 8, 1813,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, to Allen Short. See his name. They
had three children, and she died Sept. 23,

J., born July 18, 1815, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Pinckney Hughes. They had four
children. MARY E. married Thomas
Baker, and lives at Nilwood. THOMAS
P. married Amanda Ross, and lives at
Nilwood. ANNIE and NETTIE live
with their mother. Mr. Hughes died in
1860, and his widow resides at Nilwood,
Macoupin county, 111.

NARCISSA D., born Dec. 9, 1816,
is unmarried, and resides at the family
homestead, near Bates.

DOROTHY M., and POLLY M.,
twins, born Oct. 9, 1818, in Kentucky.

DOROTHT J/., married in Sanga-
mon county, to Benj. T. Renshaw, moved
to Iowa, and had three children, ELIZA-
BETH L., MORGAN and ELIJAH C.
Mr. Renshaw was a soldier in an Iowa
regiment, and died in St. Louis. His
family live near Clio, Wayne county,
Iowa.

POLL!' .]/., married in Sangamon
county to Robert Wiggins. They have
one child, CHARLES, and live near
Nilwood, 111.

WILLIAM />'., born Jan. 28, 1821, in
Kentucky, married Oct. n, 1849, to
Sarah L. Dunbar, who was born June I,
1825. Thev have five living children,
CHARLES V., MINNIE A. and
WALTER L., (twins), VELMA A.

EARLT SETTLERS OF

and WILLIAM LINCOLN, and live
near Oskaloosa, Iowa.

EDWARD DODDS, born May 29,
1825, in Sangamon county, married Eliza
Baldwin. They have two children,
ELIZABETH and CHARLES J., and
reside near Hutchins, Dallas county,
Texas.

JULIETTE, born June 13, 1827, in
Sangamon county, married Solomon
Brundage, moved to Texas, and died in
time of the rebellion.

JOHN B., born Oct. 26, 1829, in San-
gamon county, went to Oregon, about
1853, and from there to California. Last
heard from in 1867, at Petalouma, Cal.

THOMAS, Jun., born Nov. 2, 1834,
in Sangamon county, married Sarah A.
Selby. They have one child, THOMAS
H., and reside near Hutchins, Texas.

Thomas Campbell was licensed to
preach the gospel in 1818, by Logan
Presbytery, of the Cumb. Presb. church,
in Kentucky, and was ordained after com-
ing to Illinois. He preached at Irish
Grove, Menard county, to the church on
Sugar creek, Sangamon county, and
preached in his own neighborhood as long
as he lived. Rev. Thomas Campbell died
May 11, 1850, at the place where he set-
tled in 1823, and his widow died there in
Feb., 1876.

CAMPBELL THOMAS H.,
was born May 21, 1815, in Pennsylvania,
came to Henderson county, 111., from
there to Chester, in Randolph county,
thence to Springfield. He came by the
invitation of his old friend, Gen. James
Shields, to discharge the duties of his
office, Gen. Shields being then Aditor of
State. Mr. Campbell was married Oct.
21, 1845, in Jacksonville, 111., to Catharine
E. McDougall, a native of New York,
and sister of the Hon. James A. McDou-
gall, late U. S. Senator from California.
Mr. and Mrs. Campbell had four children
in Springfield, namely —

JEANE7^TE, born Feb. 18, 1847,
and died Feb. 16, 1862.

THOMAS H., born Dec. i, 1849, in
Sangamon county, is a lawyer, and resides
in Springfield.

JAMES W., born Dec. 29, 1851, in
Springfield, is a farmer, and lives with his
mother.

TREAT, born Jan. 23, 1855, in
Springfield, is a student, and lives with
his mother.

Mr. Campbell continued in the auditor's
office until the expiration of Mr. Shield's
term, and the election of Gen. W. L. D.
Ewing, who died in 1846. Mr. C. was
appointed to fill the unexpired term. He
was elected to the same office in 1848, and
again in 1852, thus serving in the State
Auditor's office nearly twenty years, be-
ing the chief officer ten years of that
time. Mr. Campbell was appointed by
Gov. Yac :s, special commissioner to audit
accounts between the U. S. Government
and the State of Illinois, in which work
he was engaged at the time of his death,
Nov. 22, 1862. His widow resides east
side of Second, near Edwards street,
Springfield, 111.

CANFIELD, JOHN E., was
born Jan. 12, 1802, in Morristown, N. J.
He came to Sangamon county in 1831, re-
turned to New Jersey, and was married in
New York City, April 14, 1834, to Susan
LaTourette, who was born Feb. 21, 1806,
at Somerville, Somerset county, New
Jersey. In May, 1834, they came to Illi-
nois, and settled west of Springfield, in
what is now Curran township. They
had five children, one of whom died in
infancy. Of the other four —

DANIEL L., born August 29, 1838,
in Sangamon county, enlisted April 23,
1861, for three months, in Co. G, 7th 111.
Inf. He was commissioned ist Lieut, at
its organization, and afterwards appointed
Quartermaster of the regiment. Served .
full time, re-enlisted Nov. 25, 1861, in Co.
I, loth 111. Cav. He was appointed ist
Lieut., and afterwards made Battalion
Quartermaster. That office was abolished,
and he was mustered out, April 4, 1862,
He resumed his position as ist Lieut, of
Co. I, and died May 7, 1863, at St. Louis,
of disease contracted in the army.

HELEN M., born Dec. n, 1840, in
Sangamon county, was married in June,
1868, in Morristown, N. J., to Thomas H.
Taylor, a son of the Rector of Grace
church, New York City. They have one
child, THOMAS H., Jun., and reside
near Plainfield, N. J.

JOHN C., born Oct. 8, 1842, in San-
gamon county, was married Feb. 15, 1865,
in Springfield, 111., to Ella L. Todd, who
was born August 27, 1846, in Lexington,

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Ky. They have two children, ELLA S.
and MAI L. Mr. Canfield has been a
merchant in Springfield for the last seven-
teen years, where he and his family re-
side.

JAMES F., born Nov. 4, 1844, in
Sangamon county, is a clerk in the U. S.
Postofrice department, at Washington,
D. C.

Mrs. Susan Canfield died April 6, 1846,
in Springfield, and John E. Canfield died
Jan. 7, 1866, in Jacksonville, 111.

John E. Canfield was one of the original
members in the organization of St. Paul's
Episcopal church, in Springfield, and con-
tinued a member of the same until ' his
death.

CANEDY PELEG C., son of
Capt. Peleg ana Silence Fobes Canedy,
was born August 25, 1803, in Enfield,
Hampshire county, Mass., partly raised at
Middlebury, Vt., and spent most of his
early manhood in Washington City, where
he was accustomed to see Webster, Clay,
Calhoun, and their comp'eers. There he
also saw for the last time, his brother,
Lieut. Philander F. Canedy, of the U. S.
Navy, who, after having done important
service in the harbor of Charleston, S. C.,
during the nullification excitement, and
acted as sailing master of the sloop of
war Florida, died Jan. 2, 1834, at Pensa-
cola, Flcrida. Mr. P . C. Canedy visited
New Orleans, Nachitoches and St. Louis,
at the latter of which he engaged in busi-
ness for a time, and came to Springfield,
111., in Dec., 1830, just in time for the "deep
snow." He began the drug business, and
still later added books to his stock. This
was the first establishment of the kind in
Springfield. He was married in Morgan
county, Illinois, August 8, 1838, to Sarah
Camp, who was born Jan., 1815, in Ver-
mont. They had three children —

CHARLES FOBES, born June- 4,
1847, *n Springfield. His early education
was received in the preparatory depart-
ment of Illinois University, and at the
Central High School, both in Springfield.
His preparation for college was continued
by his private tutor, Rev. John F. Brooks,
of same city. He graduated at Yale col-
lege, July 22, 1869, and graduated at the
General Theological Seminary, New
York City, June 27, 1873. While a stu-
dent he had charge, as lay reader, of St.
Mark's church, Baskingridge, N. J. He

was ordained Deacon in the Protestant
Episcopal church, by Bishop Potter, of
New York, June 29, 1873. He was or-
dained Priest by the aforesaid prelate,
Nov. 23, 1873, and Yale college conferred
the degree of Master of Arts on him,
June 25, 1874. Rev. C. F. Canedy is un-
married, and Rector of St. John's church,
Monticello, N. Y.

GEORGE />.died in his third year.

MART P., born March 31, 1852, in
Springfield, was partially educated there,
but finished her education at the Chegaray
Institute, Philadelphia, and St. Mary's
school, New York City. She resides
with her brother, the Rev. C. F. Canedy,
at Monticello.

Mrs. Sarah Canedy died Jan. 12, 1855,
in Springfield. P. C. Canedy was for
many years deacon and trustee in the
second Presbyterian church, Springfield,
111., and before the latter place adopted a
city government, was member and Presi-
dent of the Board of Town Trustees. He
was also one of the committee to receive
President Lincoln's remains. He has
always been active and energetic in every
undertaking which had in view the wel-
fare and happiness of his fellow citizens.
A local paper of March, 1863, speaks of
him as an example of uprightness and
integrity. Mr. Canedy travels much, and
is often at Springfield, but considers his
son's house his home. He is now, March,
1876, in Springfield.

CANTERBURY, ASA, was
born March 7, 1788, in Virginia. His
father died when he was a child, and his
mother moved to Bath county, Ky. He
was married to Peggy Hornback, who
was born Feb. 6, 1791. She lived in
Fleming county, on the opposite side of
Licking river. There being opposition
to their marriage, they went to Aberdeen,
O., and were there married. It could
there be solemnized on short notice, as no
license was required by the laws of Ohio
at that time, and runaway wedding parties
from Kentucky were quite popular. They
had four children in Bath county, and
moved to the Fleming side of Licking
river, where they had three. The family
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1826, in what is now Fancy
creek township, where they had four
children. Of their eleven children —

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

JSAAC,born in 1810, in Bath county,
Ky., married in Sangamon county, July,
1830, to Elizabeth Morgan. They, with
four other families, moved, in 1832,10 Des-
Moines county, Iowa, crossing the Missis-
sippi river at Flint Hills, now Burlington.
They were said to be the first white fam-
ilies that ever moved into Iow;i. They
had six children, and Isaac Canterbury
died there in 1848. His widow and child-
ren still live in DesMoines county, Iowa.

MARIA, born in 1812, in Bath county,
Ky., married in Sangamon county, May
14, 1829, to William Primm. See his
name.

CARLISLE H., born Dec. 5, 1814,
in Bath county, Ky., married, August n,
1836, to Emily Morgan, who was born in
Sangamon county. They had thirteen
children, four of whom died under six
years. Of the other nine: ASA mar-
ried Margaret England, and lives in Ford
county. SARAH married William
Fuquay, and lives in Ford county.
WILLIAM M. enlisted August, 1861,
for three years, in Co. F, 28th '111. Inf.
He was sick when he left Camp Butler,
and died at Camp Holt, Ky., Nov. 7,
1861. RUTH A. married Wm. H. H.
Holland. See his name. OLIVER P.,
JOHN C., CARLISLE N., LINCOLN
G. and LAURA E. live with their pa-
rents, in Menard county, two and a half
miles west of Cantrall.

VALENTINE, born in 1816, in Bath
county, Ky., died in Sangamon county,
aged seventeen years.

JOHN I7., born August 27, 1820, in
Fleming county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, Feb. 22, 1842, to Miranda M.
Brittin. They had six children. JOHN
B., born March 24, 1843, died March 19,
1864. ASA M. married April 19, 1866,
to Lucinda Fisk. They had five children;
three died in infancy. The other two,
MATTIE E. and ELLIS, live with their pa-
rents, at Cantrall. MARY J. married
John J. Stevens. They have three child-
ren, CHARLES A., JOHN E. and FRANK E.,

and reside at Cantrall. MARGA.RET
A. married Joseph S. Cantrall. See his
name. EVANS E. resides with his
father. WM. H. died in infancy. Mrs.
Mhranda M. Canterbury died Sept. 22,
1853, and Mr. C. married Sept. 24, 1854,
to Harriet E. Purkins, of Menard county.
They live near Cantrall. John F. Can-

terbury raised a good crop of wheat in
1842. He hauled sixty-five bushels of it
to St. Louis, one hundred miles, and sold
it for thirty-seven and a half cents per
bushel. He drove three yoke of oxen,
was twelve days, and his total receipts
were $24.371^."

ELIZA J., born in Fleming county,
Ky., married in Sangamon county, to
William Cline. See his name.

OLIVER P., born July 21, 1824, in
Fleming county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Elizabeth Council. They
have nine children. MARY E. resides
with her parents. MARGARET J.
married William Vandergrift. He served
three years in an Illinois regiment in aiding
to suppress the slaveholders' rebellion.
They live in Fancy creek township.
MARIA F., MELISSA M.JOHN H.,
ANNIE F., JULIA E., WILLIAM R.
and NELLIE E. live with their parents,
in Menard county, two and a half miles
southwest of Cantrall.

MARTHA A., born in 1827, in San-
gamon county, married Elijah Brittin.
See his name. He died March 5, 1873,
in Iowa.

MARGARE7\ born about 1829, in
Sangamon county, married Stephen Eng-
land. See his name.

ABRAHAM,\>v\v\ in 1831,511 Sanga-
mon county, died aged twelve years.

JULIA A., born about 1834,111 San-
gamon county, married Agustus J. Bron-
son, and reside in Menard county, six
miles northwest of Williamsville. Mr. B.
enlisted August, 1862, in Co. C, 114 111.
Inf. for three years. He was a hospital
steward from 1863, served more than full
term, and was honorably discharged in
1865.

Asa Canterbury died Oct. 16, 1856, and
his widow died July 8, 1857.

CANTRALL.— The origin of the
family in America was with Zebulon Can-
trail, who came from Wales, and settled
in Philadelphia, Penn., about the year
1700. There is a tradition in the family
that he built the first brick house ever
erected in that city. Zebulon Cantrall
had a son, Joseph. He had a son, Joshua,
who was born August 8, 1748, either in
Pennsylvania or Virginia, most probably
the latter. He was a soldier in the war
for American Independence. This Joshua
Cantrall married and had nine sons, but

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no daughter. Four of his sons died with-
out families. Of the other five, Joshua,
horn in Virginia, raised a family, and died
August 11, 1840, in DeWitt county, 111.
The other four, Zehulon G., William G.,
Levi and Wyatt, are the suhjects of the
following sketches.

CANTRALL,ZEBULON G.
was born June 29, 1773, in Botetourt
county, Virginia. He was a brother of
Joshua, William G., Levi and Wyatt.
The family moved in 1789, to Bath coun-
ty, Kv. Zebulon G. was married there,
August 31, 1797, to Sarah McCallum.
They moved to Clarke county, Ohio,
from there to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving in the fall of 1833. In the spring
of 1834 they moved to DeWitt county,
111. They had fourteen children; two
died young. Of the twelve —

ANN, born August 31, 1798, in Bath
county, Ky., married John Branson. See
his name. She died May 16, 1822.

JOSHUA,\yovn April 3, 1802, in Ken-
tucky, was married in 1828, in Butler
county, Ohio, to Eliza Scott. He died
Oct. 12, 1860, in DeWitt county, and Mrs.
C. resides with her daughter, SARAH,
the wife of Irvin Daniels, near Warrens-
ville, 111. Her son, John S., lives in
Kansas.

AGNES M., born Sept. 12, 1806, in
Kentucky, married John Mclntire. She
is a widow, and resides with her brother
William.

JOHN J/., born Feb. 22, 1808, in
Kentucky, was married in Champaign
county, Ohio, Nov. 13, 1830, to Joanna
M. Jones. They had eleven children; two
died in infancv. Of the nine children:
WILLIAM J., ZEBULON D., ELIZA-
BETH, IRA J., MARY A., (the latter
died in Nov., 1875.) MILES T., ALMA
J., EFFIE and JOHN C., the latter died
in the spring of 1872. John M. Cantrall
died Feb. n, 1863, and his widow died
Sept., 1870, both in DeWitt county, 111.

JAMES M., born April 10, 1810, in
Kentuckv, was married August 9, 1832,
to Eliza McLaughlin. They had three
daughters; one died young. ELMIRA
married Abner J. Lutz, and lives near
Lincoln, 111. ELIZA J. married Mr.
Piatt, and lives in Lincoln. James M.
Cantrall died April 27, 1866, and his
widow lives in Lincoln, 111.

SARAH, born March 14, 1812, in
Clarke county, Ohio, was married in San-
gamon county, 111., Jan. 14, 1834, to
Joshua M. Cantrall. See his name.

ZEBULON P., born Jan. 17, 1814,
in Clark county, Ohio, was married in
what is now Logan county, 111., Oct. 16,
1838,10 Elizabeth Paulk. They had six
children; two died young. AMOS A.,
born May n, 1845, in Logan county, en-
listed Sept., 1861, in Co. L, 4th Ill.'Cav.
Served until June, 1866, when he was
honorably discharged. He lives near
Cisco, Piatt county. MARTHA J., born
Oct. 3, 1842, was married June 9, 1862, to
Samuel Mott. They have six children,
GEORGE A., SARAH E., LEWIS
A.JAMES A., EFFIE C. and ALVA,
and live near Argenta, Macon county, 111.
SARAH A., born Dec. 25, 1844, was
married March 23, 1871, to Theodore A.
Funk. She died April 30, 1872. MARY
E., born Jan. 8, 1848, was married Jan.
12, 1871, to Edwin C. Hunsley. They
have two children, LAURA A. and INEZ,
and live near Cisco, 111. Mrs. Elizabeth
Cantrall died June 12, 1852, and Z. P.
Cantrall was married to Mrs. Rachel
Doyle. She died Oct., 1865, and Z. P.
Cantrall was married March 14, 1872, to
Mrs. Mary Harp, whose maiden name
was Everly. They reside near Chesnut,
Logan county, 111.

ELIZA, born July 4, 1816, in Clark
county, Ohio, was married Oct. 5, 1834,
to Jeremiah Duncan. She died Jan. 29,
1854, leaving seven children. MARY
L., HELEN A., the latter born in 1840,
in Logan county, was married to George
Whiteman. They live at Waynesville,
111. AMY L. married Mr. Condell, and
he died. WILLIAM W. married Rox-
anna Cushman. They had two children.
REBECCA S. married Mortimer Samp-
son. They have one child, and live in
Waynesville. JEREMIAH P. livc-s in
Waynesville.

REBECCA and RACHEL, twins,
born July 25, 1818, in Ohio. REBECCA
married in June, 1836, to Jacob F. Samp-
son. They had three children. Mrs. S.
died March 24, 1849. The children live
in Kansas.

RA CHEL was married in 1842 to Chas.
Graves, and resides with her daughter,
FANNIE Storer, near Plum Grove,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

Butler county, Kansas. Her son, John
W. Graves, resides at Centralia, 111.

WTA TT, born May 1 1, 1821, in Ohio,
married Louisa Stevens. She died, and he
married Mary A. Day. He died Jan. 7,
1875, leaving a widow near Lane, Frank-
lin county, Kansas.

WILLIAM L., born May 15, 1823,
in Ohio, was married Oct. 26, 1843, to
Melinda Stout. They had eight children.
ANN, born in 1844, was married in De-
Witt county to Joel Hopesberger. They
have four children, and live near Ken-
ney station. EMELINE, born in 1846,
married Thomas Watson. They have
three children, and live near Kenney
Station. JOHN K., JESSE, WIL-
LIAM and ADDIE. Mrs. Melinda
Cantrall died March 10, 1864, and W. L.
Cantrall was married in 1865 to Christine
Everly, and lives near Chesnut, Logan
county, 111.

Mrs. Sarah Cantrall died May 26, 1843,
and Zebulon G. Cantrall died Sept. 11,
1845, both in DeWitt county, near
Waynesville.

CANTRALL, WM. G., was
born Sept. 6, 1784, in Botetourt, Va. His
parents moved to Bath county, Ky., in
1789. He was there married, in 1804, to
Deborah Mitts, who was born Nov. 16,
1785, in Virginia. Soon after marriage
they moved from Bath county to the vi-
cinity of New London, Huron county,
O., and then moved to Pickaway county.
They had ten children in Ohio, and the
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving Nov. i, 1824, in what is now
Fancy creek township, on what was then
called Higgins creek, but now called Can-
trail's creek. Two children were born in
Sangamon county. Of all their children —

DOROTHT, born March 15, 1805, in
Ohio, married iri Sangamon county to
Charles Snelson. They had seven child-
ren, moved to DesMoines county, near
Burlington, Iowa, where Mrs. Snelson
died. The family live there.

ANN, born Aug. i^ 1806, in Ohio, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to John W.
Snelson. They had eight children, and
moved to Keokuk county, Iowa, where
Mrs. Snelson died. The family live there.

ELIZABETH, born Aug. 29, 1808,
in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Joseph D. Langston. See his name.

JOSHUA M., born Dec. 17, 1810, in
Pickaway couaty, O., was married in San-
gamon county, Jan. 14, 1834, to Sarah
Cantrall. She was born March 14, 1812,
near Urbana, O. They had eight child-
ren in Sangamon county; six died under
eight years. Of the other four: ZEBU-
LAN G., born May 7, 1835, married
Elizabeth J. Lillv, a native of Augusta
county, Va. They have six children,

MARY A., MELISSA E., ARMINTA and

AMELIA (twins), CELIA j. and NOAH
MATHENY, and live in Fancv creek town-
ship. WILLIAM G., Jun., born Feb.
20, 1837, married Mary J. Randall. They
have four living children, MARCUS x.,
SARAH M., MARY L. and LOUISA M., and
live in Fancy creek township. JACOB
M., born Dec. 25, 1841, married Marian
J. Tufts., who was born near Buffalo, N.
Y. They have one child, ADDIE E., and
reside in Fancy creek township. MAHA-
LA E., born Oct. 4, 1845, married Oct.
9, 1873, to George W. Bailey, being his
second wife. He was born in Hawkins
county, Tenn. He was a soldier in the
5th Tenn. Inf. in the Mexican war, in
1846 and '7; came from Mexico to San-
gamon county in 1848. He enlisted in
1862 for three years, in Co. H, 114111.
Inf.; was commissioned as Captain at the
organization of the regiment. His health
failing, he resigned in May, 1863, and
lives in Salisbury township. Joshua M.
Cantrall resides in Fancy creek township,
eight miles north of Springfield.

TH2RZA, or THERESA, born
Nov. 8, 1812, in Ohio, married in Sanga-
mon county, to Edward Guyott. She
died Oct. 7, 1851, three months after mar-
riage. He married again, and lives in
Springfield.

ADAM M., born Feb. 27, 1815, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon countv to
Delilah Smith. They had nine children.
JEREMIAH married Etta Drone, and
live in Fancy creek township. HAR-
RIET married Wm. Brisentine; moved
to Dallas county, Texas, in 1853. She
died there, leaving one child. W M. L.
BRISENTINE lives with his grand-
uncle, Joshua M. Cantrall. See his name,
Adam Cantrall and his wife live at River-
ton.

DEBORAH, born Feb. 16, 1817, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Marshal S. Randall. They have twelve

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children, and reside near Blue Mound,
Christian county. Their daughter, Mary
J., married Wm. G. Cantrall, Jun. See
his name.

MAHALA, born Dec. 4, 1818, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Newton Street. She died, and he resides
in Montgomery county.

SUSANNAH, born Nov. 23, 1820, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Leonard Mitts. See his name.

WILLIAM M., born Dec. 22, 1822,
in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Adaline Claywell. They had nine child-
ren; two died under six years. JULIA
A. married Leander Jones, have three
children, and reside in Salisbury township.
MIRANDA married Rollin V. Mallory.
See his name. JAMES M., PERCY-
DEBORAH J. is a cripple, having had
eight inches of bone taken from one ot
her lower limbs -- LEWIS E. and
SARAH E. The latter is a deaf mute,
and is being educated at the State Institu-
tion at Jacksonville. The five unmarried
reside with their mother. William M.
Cantrall enlisted July, 1862, for three
years, in Co. C, 114 111. Inf.; was appoint-
ed Sergeant at the organization. Disease
was brought on by over-exertion at the
battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864,
and he died in hospital at Memphis,
Tenn., July 9, 1864. His widow ancl un-
married children live in Fancy creek
township, eight miles north of Spring-
field.

MIRANDA J., born May 12, 1826,
in Sangamon county, married William
Snelson. They had one child, CHAS.
H. SNELSON, and William S. died
March 9, 1853. His widow was married
March 4, 1858, to Samuel Mellinger, who
was born Jan. 27, 1832, in Franklin
county, Pa. They have four children,

WILLIAM C., MAHALA A., DEBORAH A.

and LUCY E., live with their parents in
Fancy creek township. Mr. Mellinger
had one child by a former wife, SAMUEL
i. He lives with his father. Samuel
Mellinger enlisted Aug. 12, 1862, in Co.
C, 114 111. Inf., for three years; served full
term, and was honorablv discharged Aug.
3, 1865.

ANDRE W y., born Jan. 4, 1829, in
Sangamon county, died March 15, 1842.

Mrs. Deborah Cantrall died March 15,
1856, and William G. Cantrall, Sen., died

March 6, 1867, on the farm settled by
them in 1824, in Fancy creek township.

CANTRALL, LEVI, was born
Oct. i, 1787, in Botetourt county, Va. He
was taken by his parents in 1789 to that
part of Mercer which afterwards became
Bath county, Ky. He was there married
Nov. 30, 1809, to Fanny England. They
had one child in Kentucky, and the family
moved, in 1811, to Madison county, O.,
where five children were born. They
then moved to Madison county, 111., in
Oct., 1819; moved on and arrived where
Springfield no-v stands, Dec. 4, 1819, and
reached the north side of the river, in
what is now Fancy Creek township, on
the fifth, made the selection of a location
on the seventh, and commenced building
a cabin Dec. 8, 1819. They had seven
children in Sangamon county. Of their
thirteen children —

THOMAS, born Oct. 1 1, 1810, in Bath
county, Ky., married Oct. 3, 1831, in San-
gamon county, to Priscilla D. McLemore,
who was born Sept. 14, 1814, in Tennes-
see. They had nine children, namely:
CLARISSA, born Jan. 20, 1833, unmar-
ried, and resides at the house of H. H.
Holland. TURNER H., born May 9,
1834, last heard from in Alabama.
YOUNG M.,born April 30, 1836, married,
1 86 1, to Ellen Graham; had one child,
THOMAS E., and Y. M. Cantrall enlisted
in 1862 for three years, in Co. C, 114 111.
Inf., and died in the army. His widow
and son reside in Athens. LEVI, born
July 1 6, 1838, died, aged nineteen.
NANCY A., born March 25, 1840, mar-
ried Egbert Mallory. See his name.
THOMAS J., born Dec. 21, 1842, served
three years in the loth 111. Cav., was hon-
orably discharged, and lives in Nebraska.
FANNY P., born March 2, 1843, mar-
ried James D. Mallory. See his name.
MARY E., born Dec. 8, 1844,18 a teacher
in Springfield. Mrs. Priscilla D. Cantrall
died, and Thomas C. married June 12,

1848, to Elizabeth Estel. They had four
children. MARTHA E., born June 12,

1849, married and died in Logan county.
ROBERT H., born July 16, 1851, mar-
ried Miss GofF, has one child, and resides
near Athens. WILLIAM M., born
April 16, 1853, and CHARLES H., born
Dec. 29, 1855, reside with their mother.
Thomas Cantrall lost his life by a run-
away team dragging a saw-log over him,

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in 1858. His widow and unmarried
children reside near Athens.

ANN, born July 17, 1812 in Madison
county, O., married in Sangamon county
to Edward Ridgeway. They had three
children, and Mr. R. died in 1834. His
widow married F'erdinand Meeker, and
had several children. She died in Logan
county. Her daughter, NANCY
RIDGEWAY, married James Milam,
and resides in Buffalo Hart, 111. Her
daughter, DULCIXA MEEKER, married
Jeremiah Lashbaugh, and resides in Illi-
opolis township.

NANCT, born Sept. 15, 1813, in Madi-
son county, O., married in Sangamon
county to Turner Holland. See his name.

STEPHEN L., born April 4, 1815,
in Madison county, O., married in Sanga-
mon county to Mary Ridgeway. They
had three children. FANNY married
George Provines, has seven children, and
reside near Clinton. ALMYRA mar-
ried Samuel Mellinger, and died, leaving
one child. Samuel Mellinger married
Mrs. Miranda Snelson, whose maiden
hame was Cantrall. GEORGE W. en-
listed Aug., 1862, for three years, in Co. I,
114 111. Inf., and died in the army. Mrs.
Mary Cantrall died in Buffalo Hart grove,
and Stephen L. Cantrall died in 1874, at
the house of his brother Joshua.

SELINDA, born Nov. 14, 1816, in
Ohio, died in Sangamon county, at twelve
or thirteen years of age.

ELEANOR, born Oct. 17, 1818, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
John Jordan, and resides near Olathe,
Kan.

ELIZABETH, born May 26, 1820,
in Sangamon county, married James Dris-
kell. Mrs. Driskell died. One son,
DAVID, enlisted in Co. C, 1 14, 111. Inf.,
in Aug., 1862, for three years, and died at
home of disease contracted in the army.
Another son, LEVI, resides in Menard
county.

LE VI, Jr., born March 17, 1822, in
Sangamon county, married to Elizabeth
C. King, who was born July n, 1828, in
Tennessee. They had four children.
JASPER H., born March 23, 1847, mar-
ried Sarah E. Wagner, has three children,
WILLIAM H., BERTRAM and JOSEPH, and
resides near Paxton. WILLIAM M.,
born March i, 1849, married Minnie
Wells, has. two children, ALVIN N. and

WILLIAM v., and resides near Illiopolis.
MARY E. married Sept. 2, 1874, to Ben-
jamin F. Warren, has one child, HARRY
N., and resides near Illiopolis. ALFRED
N. resides with his mother. Levi Can-
trall, Jr., died March 14, 1868, and his
widow married Sept. 2, 1874, to Enoch
Primm.

RA CHEL, born Feb. 29, 1824, in San-
gamon county, married John Overstreet.
See his name.

CHARLES S., born Jan. 6, 1826, in
Sangamon county, married Jan. 7, 1845,
to Emily M. Vandergrift, who was born
Oct. 6, 1830. They had two children.
MARY E., born June 13, 1848, married
Jan. 25, 1866, to Stephen O. Price, has
two children, and resides near Lincoln.
MACDONALD, born Aug. 22, .1851,
married Aug. 4, 1870, to Margaret Peden,
has two children, and resides in Spring-
field. Mrs. Emily M. Cantrall died Jan.
29, 1852, and C. S. Cantrall married June
20, 1852, to Lucy Swearengin, who was
born Oct. 15, 1828. She died April 14,
1853. C. S. Cantrall married April 26,
1855, to Harriet A. Graham, who was
born Feb. 17, 1836, in Athens. They
have nine children, CHARLES H.,
THOMAS D., ALICE, JOHN W,,
LEVI G., WILLIAM H., FANNY A.,
HOMER E. and IDA. Charles S. Can-
trall had one leg amputated, caused by
disease. It was done in Sept., 1871. He
resides two miles west of Illiopolis.

JOSHUA, born July 28, 1828, in San-
gamon county, married Rebecca Hedrick.
They had thirteen children; three died in
infancy. Of the other ten, LAFAY-
ETTE was married July 23, 1874, to
Gussie Chambers, and lives in Illiopolis
township. FANNIE SELINDA mar-
ried Benjamin Capps. See his name.
CARLISLE, BARTON R.JULIA A.,
MACDONALD, LAURA E., CLARA
P., LEVI and BENJAMIN, and reside
one and a half miles west of Illiopolis.

JESSE, born April 7, 1830, in San-
gamon county, married Eliza J. Humes.
They had ten children. He enlisted
Aug., 1862, for three years, in Co. C,
ii4th 111. Inf. He was commissioned 2d
Lieut, at the organization, promoted to
Captain, and served as such to the end of
the rebellion, and was honorably dis-
charged. He moved with nis family to
Black Bob, Johnson county, Kansas.

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MACDONALD,\>O™ April 5, 1833,

in Sangamon county, married Narcissa
Hedrick. They had one child, and Mr.
Crantrall died Sept. 15, 1872. His widow
and son, CHARLES, reside in Menard
county, five miles northeast of Cantrall.
Mrs. Fanny Cantrall died Sept. 10,

1835, and Levi Cantrall married May 27,

1836, to Mrs. Ann Barnett, whose maiden
name was Patterson. They had five
children, three of whom died in infancy.
Of the other two —

FANNT L., born Oct. 9, 1838, in
Sangamon county, married Jan., 1857, to
Henrv Graham. They have four living
children, MARY A., WILLIAM, AR-
MINDA D. and JOSEPH, and reside
near Athens, Menard county.

JOSEPH S., born Oct. 16, 1841, in
Sangamon county, married Jan. 14, 1869,
to Margaret A. Canterbury. They have
one child, DAISY E., and reside at Can-
trail. He is one of the proprietors of the
new town of Cantrall.

Levi Cantrall died Feb. 22, 1860, and
his widow resides with their son Joseph
S., at Cantrall. The town of Cantrall
was laid out on land he entered soon after
coming to the country, and was named in
honor of his memory.

INCIDENTS.

From a statement in writing made by
Levi Cantrall a few months before his
death, I learn that in building the cabin he
commenced Dec. 8th, 1819, about half a
mile west of the present town of Can-
trall, the mortar froze so that he could not
plaster it. December 24, 1819, snow be-
gan to fall, and continued one snow after
another until it was two feet deep on a
level. The weather continued intensely
cold, and 'a company of seven men started
to the American Bottom for provisions.
They were Levi and Wyatt Cantrall,
Alexander and Henry Crawford, M. Hol-
land, a Mr. Kellogg and John Dixon,
who afterwards founded the city of Dixon,
111. Thev loaded their wagons with flour
and meal and started home on the eight-
eenth, and on the twentieth rain com-
menced falling. The rain and melting
snow set the whole country afloat, and
when they reached the Sangamon river it
was too full to cross. They sent back to
Kelly's — where Springfield now stands —

for tools, and obtained an axe and grubbing
hoe. With these they made a canoe, and
reached home twenty-one days from the
time of starting. On the 6th of May,
1820, the frost killed their growing corn.
The settlers thought of moving back
south, but they hauled up provisions before
the next winter and lived through it.

Levi Cantrall built a horse mill in the
fall of 1820. It was a band mill, with a
wheel forty feet in diameter. It was the
first mill ever built north of the Sanga-
mon river, and people came thirty miles or
more to mill. Mr. Cantrall built a water
mill on Cantrall's creek, near the present
town of Cantrall. It did sawing and
grinding. He says the snow of 1830-31
was four feet on a level. Levi Cantrall
kept a tannery where he lived for more
than forty years.

CANTRALL, WYATT, was
born Dec. 20, 1790, in Bath county, Ky.,
the same year that his parents moved from
Botetourt county, Va. He was married
in Bath county to Sally England, and
moved to Clarke county, O., where they
had three children, and then moved, in
company with Mrs. Cantrall's father,
Stephen England, to St. Clair county, 111.,
in the fall of 1818, and in the spring of
1819 to what is now Fancy Creek town-
ship, in Sangamon county, where they had
six children. Of their nine children —

ELIZA, born Sept. 3, 1813, in Ohio,
married in .Sangamon county to John
McLemore. He died in 1871, leaving a
widow and two children at Stirling,
Whiteside county.

SAMUEL D,, born Feb. 9, 1816, in
Clarke county, O., married in Sangamon
county, March 6, 1837, to Sarah S. Alex-
ander. They had six living children.
ALBERT A. married March 6, 1862, to
Martha Hunt. He enlisted in Aug., 1862,
in Co. C, 1 14 111. Inf., for three years, and
was appointed Sergeant. He was captured
at the battle of Guntown, Miss., in June,
1864, and was placed in the Andersonville
prison pen, where he remained about five
months, and after that was taken from one •
prison to another to prevent being released
by the Union forces, and was paroled
Marcn i, 1865, and died of starvation and
exposure March 5, 1865, at Wilmington,
N. C. WYA.TT E. married Grizella
Holland. LUCINDA J. married B. F.
Horn. HEXRY married Emma E. Gra-

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ham. ELIZA married Henry Lake, son
of Bayless, and MARGARET A. mar-
ried Isaac Bates, son of Joseph. S. D.
Cantrall lives two miles north of Cantrall.

DA VI D 7>.,born May 7, 1818, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county to Eleanor
McLemore, had three children, and she
died. He married Ursula Bull, has three
children, and lives in Iowa.

ZEBULON, born Aug. u, 1823, in
Sangamon county, and died in 1840.

WIATT E., born March 22, 1825, in
Sangamon county, died in 1841.

STEPHENS., born April 20, 1827,
in Sangamon county, married Caroline
Blue. They have seven children, and live
at Black Bob, Johnson county, Kan.

WILLIAM J., born July 28, 1829, in
Sangamon county, married Lucy Kings-
bury, who died, and he married Calista
Neil, have three children, and lives at
Black Bob, Kan.

POLLY ANN, born Sept. 17, 1832,
in Sangamon county, married Thomas
Hethcote, have one child, and live at Stir-
ling, Whiteside county.

JOHN H., born Oct. i, 1834, in San-
gamon county, married Eleanor Stratton,
have six children, and live in Iowa.

Mrs. Sally Cantrall died Aug. i, 1840,
in Sangamon county, and Wiatt Cantrall
married in the fall of 1841 to Mrs. Polly
Kingsbury, whose maiden name was Fos-
ter. They had one child —

JOSHUA P., born in 1843 in Sanga-
mon county, married Grace Winters.
They have one child, and live in Chase
county, Kan.

Mrs. Polly Cantrall died about 1859,
and Wiatt Cantrall resides at Stirling,
Whiteside county.

CANTRILL,, THOMAS, was
born April 4, 1775, and Elizabeth Murray
was born Sept. 19, 1774. The place of
their birth is not known, but probably in
Orange county, North Carolina, where
they were married and had one child.
They then moved to Green county, Ky.,
•where they had five children, and moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct.,
1828, in what is now Rochester township,
three and a half miles east of Springfield.
Of their children —

MARY, born in North. Carolina, mar-
ried in Kentucky to Thomas Perry, and
came to Sangamon county before her pa-

rents. They had six children, but all the
family are dead.

WILLIAM, born Jan. 17, 1800, in
Green county, Ky., came to Springfield,
111., in March, 1825, was married in San-
gamon county Feb. 14, 1828, to Elizabeth
Hall, who was born Dec. 8, 1809. They
had two children, and moved to Decatur,
April, 1833, where'they had two children.
Of their children: THOMAS H., born
Nov. i, 1829, in Sangamon county, raised
in Decatur, and died in the spring of 1864,
at Walla Walla, Washington Ter. JANE
ELLEN, born Oct. 27, 1832, in Sanga-
mon county, married in Decatur, April 4,
1857, to A. S. Keller, and lives at Sulli-
van, Moultrie county, 111. MARY E.,
born Sept. 27, 1835, in Decatur, married
Dr. William Dillon. See his name. SU-
SAN L., born July 3, 1844, married Feb.
3, 1863, to Harl P. Christie, and lives in
Decatur. Mrs. Elizabeth Cantrill died
August 4, 1868, and William Cantrill
lives in Decatur.

SUSAN, married Robert Bird, had
two children, and the parents died.

ANNA married William Black. They
had six children. The parents and two
of the children are dead.

ZEBULON, born April 8, 1807, in
Green county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county in 1829, to Elizabeth Enyart.
They had four children, and he died Jan.
8, 1840. His widow lives near Mechanics-
burg.

JOEL, born Jan. 8, 1811, in Green
county, Ky., married in Sangamon coun-
ty, May 16, 1839, to Zerelda E. Branch.
They had ten children in Sangamon
county; two died in infancy. LEWIS
M., born April 9, 1840, married July 23,
1863, to Elmira M. Lee, who was born
Oct., 1839, in the State of New York.
They live at Joliet, 111. EDWARD T.,
born Dec. 27, 1842, enlisted August, 1862,
in Co. E, U4th 111. Inf., for three years,
and died July 11, 1863, at Vicksburg,
Miss. His remains were brought home
and buried near Rochester. LAURA J.,
the fifth child, died in her fifteenth year.
WILLIAM B., JAMES N., HENRY
A. and HENRIETTA, twins, and EM-
ILY, live with their mother. Joel Can-
trill died Sept. 4, :866, and his widow
lives on the farm where his parents settled
on coming to the county, near Sangamon
Station.

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Mrs. Elizabeth Cantrill died Oct i, and
Thomas Cantrill died Oct. 3, 1836, both
near what is now Sangamon Station.

CAPPS, MRS. MARY, whose
maiden name was Devas, was a native of
London, England. Her husband, Charles
Capps, was for many years a merchant in
London, and died there. His widow,
whose name heads this sketch, came to
America with her sons, John, Benjamin
and Charles, leaving one son (Thomas) in
England. They arrived in Springfield,
111., Nov., 1830. Her sons Jabez and
Ebenezer having preceded the other
members of the family several years, Mrs.
Capps brought some of her daughters, and
others came later.

Mrs. Mary Capps died Nov. 8, 1857, at
the residence of her son-in-law, Dr. Alex-
ander Shields, in Sangamon county. Of
her nine children who came to America,
eight are now living.

CAPPS, JABEZ, born Sept.
9, 1796, in the city of London, England,
came to America in the summer of 1817,
arriving near what is now Springfield, 111.,
in the spring of 1819, and is believed to
have been the first school teacher in San-
gamon county. He was married in 1828,
near Rochester, to Prudence A. Stafford,
who was born in Vermont. They had
three living children, and Mrs. Capps
died May 13, 1836. Jabez Capps was
married near Rochester, 111., Sept., 1836,
to Elizabeth Baker. They had ten child-
ren, one of whom died young. Of all his
children —

CHARLES S., born Jan. 31, 1830, in
Springfield, was married May 3, 1854, to
Eliza McGraw. They live in Mt. Pu-
laski.

EBENEZER S., born Feb. 15, 1834,
in Springfield, was married in 1856 to
Eliza Freeman, and live in Mt. Pulaski.

OLIVER T., born Feb. 13, 1836, in
Springfield, was married in 1856 to Eliza
Bush, and live in Mt. Pulaski.

By the second marriage —

JOHN H., born Nov. 15, 1839, in Mt.
Pulaski, married Martha Pumpilly, and
live in his native town.

PRUDT A., born Dec. 18, 1841, in
Mt. Pulaski, was married March 8, 1860, to
S. Linn Beidler, who was born June 23,
1837, at Mt. Joy, Lancaster county, Pa.
Of their seven children, one died young.
MONITOR C., FRANK X., JOHN

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LINN, SNOW FLAKE, IMOGENE
and RELL C., live with their parents at
Mt. Pulaski, 111. Mr. Beidler is a drug-
gist, and with the exception of one year
during President Johnson's administration,
has been Post Master there since 1857.

MART, born Oct. 8, 1844, in Mt.
Pulaska, married Michael McNattin.

WILLIAM, BENJAMIN, JA-
BEZ B., ED WARD, HARRIE B.
and MA UD, all live with their parents.

Mr. Jabez Capps was a merchant in
Springfield from 1827 to 1836, when he
formed a company and laid out the town
of Mt. Pulaski. Brought his goods from
Springfield, and continued in business un-
til 1870. He is now engaged with his
son in the nursery business. Mr. Capps
was Post Master at Mt. Pulaski for fifteen
years, and County Recorder four years.
He and his family reside in Mt. Pulaski.

CAPPS, EBENEZER, was
born May, 1798, in London, Eng. Came
to Springfield in 1820. He returned to
Europe in the spring of 1830. On his
return he went to Vandalia, 111., in the
fall of same year. He was married in
Morgan county, 111., March i, 1835, to
Ann Norwood. They have five living
children, namely —

SARAH, HANNAH, MART A.,
CHARLES E. and THOMAS.

Mrs. Ann Capps died Sept., 1855, and
Ebenezer Capps was married May 29,
1860, in Springfield, to Rosetta lies. They
had one child —

ROSETTA.

Mrs. Rosetta Capps died in Dec., 1861.
Ebenezer Capps was married to Mrs.
Elizabeth Snyder, at Lincoln, 111., Oct.,
1863. They had two children —

GEORGE B. and SUSAN.

Ebenezer Capps and family reside in
Vandalia, 111.

CAPPS, MARY, was born in
1801, in London, Eng.; died unmarried at
Vandalia, 111., Dec. 3, 1858.

CAPPS, ANN, was born in 1803,
in London, Eng. She was married there
to William Salisch. They came to
America, arriving at Vandalia, 111., in 1833,
where Mr. Salisch died the year follow-
ing, leaving a widow and two children,
viz —

SALINA died, aged twelve years.

CHARLES W., born Jan. 24, 1832,
in London, Eng., came with his parents

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EARLT SET7LERS OP

to Vandalia, and after the death of his
father, was brought by his mother to
Springfield, 111., where he was married,
Oct. 31, 1 86 1, to Anna C. Hughes. They
had four children. CHARLES F. died
in his fourth year. RALPH E., CHAS.
E. and SCOTT A. C. W. Salisch is
Post Master at Cotton Hill, Sangamon
county.

Mrs. Ann Salisch was married in 1837,
in Springfield, to Dr. Alexander Shields.
See his name.

CAPPS, SUSAN, was born in
1805, in London, Eng. She was married
in Springfield, 111., to James Gobbett.
He went to California, and died on his
way home on the steamer, of Asiatic
cholera. Mrs. Gobbett lives with her
sister, Mrs. Dr. Shields.

CAPPS, SARAH, was born in
1807, in London, Eng., is unmarried, and
lives with her sister, Mrs. Dr. Shields.

CAPPS, JOHN, was born Dec. 16,
1810, in London, Eng. Came to America
with his mother, brothers and sisters,
arriving at Springfield, 111., in Nov., 1830.
He was married there Sept. 5, 1833, to
Nancy Clements, who was born Oct. 2,
1817, in Lincoln county, Ky. (She is a
cousin of Mrs. Mathew Cloyd.) Mr.
and Mrs. John Capps had five children in
Springfield, and in 1844 moved to Mt.
Pulaski, where they had four, and about
1855 moved to Decatur, where they had
three; thence to Illiopolis, Sangamon
county. Of their twelve children two
died young —

MART M., born Oct. 6, 1834, was
married Jan. 19, 1853, to James Sims.
They have six children, ADA, JOHN F.,
ELLA, HATTIE,RALPH LINCOLN
and FANNIE, and live in Mt. Pulaski.

THOMAS W., born Dec. 26, 1838, in
Springfield, enlisted in 1862 for three
months, in Co. I, 68th 111. Vol. Inf.;
served full term, and enlisted in the
United States Navy. He was married
Dec. 29, 1869, to Nellie Van Hise, in Mt.
Pulaski. They had one child, EARL,
Mrs. Nellie Capps died, Oct. 23, 1873.
Mr. T. W. Capps lives in Mt. Pulaski.

CHARLES R., born March ii, 1841,
in Springfield, was married in Mt. Pu-
laski, May 29, 1862, to Lizzie Lushbaugh.
They have four children, LOUIE E.,
ELMER LINCOLN, FRANK and
MABEL, and live in Mt. Pulaski.

ALEXANDER S., born May 2,
1843, in Springfield, enlisted Aug. 9, 1862,
for three years, in Co. B, io6th 111. Vol.
Inf., served until Aug. i, 1865, when he
was honorably discharged. He was mar-
ried Sept. 3, 1867, to Maggie Ishmael.
They have one child, KATIE E., and
live in Illiopolis.

JABEZ J/., born Aug. 19, 1845, in
Mt. Pulaski, enlisted in 1863 for one hun-
dred days, in Co. D, I45th 111. Inf., served
more than full time, and was honorably
discharged. He was married June 17,
1867, to Sallie Bechtel. They have three
living children, LONE, PEARL and
GERTRUDE. J. M. Capps is engaged
in milling at Mt. Pulaski, and lives there.

ANN S., born Jan. 22, 1848, in Mt.
Pulaski, was married May 5, 1868, to
James W. McGuffin. She died in Illiop-
olis, April 7, 1874, leaving three children,
BENJAMIN F., WALTER and JOHN
C.

BENJAMIN F., born July 21, 1850,
in Mt. Pulaski, was married Aug. 12,
1870, to Fannie S. Cantrall. She was
killed Oct. 8, 1870, near Illiopolis. She
was mounting a horse, when it took
fright, drew the rein in a noose around
her hand, and dragged her until she was
dead. B. F. Capps married Emma Snv-
der. They live at Mt. Pulaski.

ALBERT B., JOHN C. and
BUNN, live with their parents. John C.
had a twin mate, who died young.

John Capps and family reside one and
a half miles west of Illiopolis.

CAPPS, CHARLES, was born
Feb. 7, 1814, in London, Eng. Came
with his mother, brothers and sisters to
America, arriving at Springfield, Nov.,
1830, and moved to Vandalia in December
of the same year. He was married Nov.
n, 1852, in Sangamon county, 111., to
Elizabeth A. Gobbett, who was born Oct.
27, 1836, in Missouri. They had four
living children —

MART A., born Dec. 3, 1854, was
married March 13, 1872, to George R.
Wylie. They have one child, MAUDE
E, and live in Mt. Pulaski.

SARAH F., JAMES A. and AMT
G., reside with their parents in Mt. Pu-
laski.

CAPPS, BENJAMIN, was
born June 24, 1820, in London, England.
Came to Springfield in 1830, and to Van-

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dalia in 1831. He returned to England in
1844, and remained there until 1852, when
he went to Australia, and returned to
Vandalia in 1856. He was married in
Mt. Pulaski in May, 1862, to Lucy Mc-
Graw. They have four living children —

IDA, JENNIE, BENJAMINS
HANNAH ' N.

Benjamin Capps has always faithfully
served his adopted country, and votes the
straight Republican ticket. He, with his
family, reside in Vandalia, 111.

CARPENTER, WILLIAM,
born July 3, 1787^ in the city of Philadel-
phia, Penn., was the eldest son of Samuel
and Catharine Carpenter. He had two
brothers, Charles and Samuel, Jun.; also
two sisters, Elizabeth and Catharine. His
father died when William was quite
young, leaving the family dependent en-
tirely on their own exertions for a liveli-
hood. William was baptized in the Ger-
man Lutheran church in Philadelphia,
Sept. 23, 1787. Carl Linnensheet and
Margreth, his wife, (grandparents), spon-
sors. Arrived at manhood, he and his
brother Samuel came to Licking county,
Ohio, then the " far west." In the fall of
1819 William C. was married to Margaret
Pence, who is still living. She was the
daughter of Peter and Catharine Pence,
and was born Feb. 5, 1803, in Shenandoah
county, Va. Her mother's maiden name
was Godfrey,- whose father fought in the
Revolution, under Gen Wayne, and was
killed by the Indians, near Wheeling, Va.,
in the summer of 1820. William Car-
penter, his wife and Samuel, started for
Illinois. The time occupied in coming
was six weeks. They passed through
what is now Springfield, crossed the San-
gamon river, and built a cabin about two
miles north of it. At that time the "Kel-
ly cabins" constituted all the settlement
at what is now the city of Springfield.
Samuel C. soon tired of the west, and re-
turned. When land came into the mar-
ket, Wm. C. entered the land upon which
he had settled, and erected a two story
log house, which is still standing, although
dilapidated. This afterwards became an
important point for the stage line on the
State road leading from Springfield to
Peoria, and called the " six mile house."
Their nearest neighbors then were three
or four miles distant, and the Indians
(friendly tribes) frequently visited the

house for something to eat, and a matter
of considerable alarm to the females when
the men were away, as was frequently the
case, "to mill," or "on a hunt." They
grew cotton, picked, carded, spun and
wove it into cloth for family use. These
cards are still in the possession of some of
the family. For a long time Edwards-
ville, Madison county, 111., was the nearest
mill and postoffice. It took two weeks
to go and return with a grist, usually a
sack of corn, on horseback. St. Louis,
Mo., was the nearest market. About the
year 1828, William Carpenter, with a
family of five children, moved to Spring-
field, then grown to the dignity of a town,
and called Calhoun. He there engaged
in merchandizing. The farm was after-
wards rented, and occupied by Hon. S. T.
Logan, then just arrived from Kentucky.
Six children were born in Springfield. Of
their eleven children —

CATHARINE, born Sept. 28, 1820,
in Sangamon county, was married June
8, 1843, in Springfield, to Adolphus Wood,
who was born Nov. 8, 1806, in Chenango
county, N. Y. They had six children;
the two eldest died young. Of the other
four, WILLIAM C., born in Springfield,
111., Dec. 28, 1848, was married August
29, 1874, in Chicago, to Emma E. Wood,
who was born in Springfield, Jan. 2, 1851.
They have one child, CHARLES o., and
live on the farm with his mother. ELIZA-
BETH and GEORGE live with their
mother. CHARLES is clerk in Diller's
drug store, Springfield, 111.

Mr. Wood died Jan. 12, 1861, and his
widow resides three and a half miles north
of Springfield.

CHARLES, born Nov. 12, 1822, in
Sangamon county, was killed in Spring-
field by a fall from a horse, March 17,
1833.

SAMUEL, born Nov. 12, 1824, in
Sangamon county, was married Nov. 27,
1851, to Mary E. J. Kerns, who died
March 16, 1853, an(' Samuel C. was mar-
ried Dec. \6, 1858, to Mrs. Martha J.
Black, whose maiden name was Short,
daughter of Rev. Daniel Short. She was
born Sept. 25, 1831, in Butler county,
Ohio. They had six children born in San-
gamon county. ANNA S., WILLIAM
D.,CARRIEE., MARTHA L,MAKY
M. and LENA L. Mrs. Martha J. Car-
penter died July 17, 1873. Samuel Car-

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

penter and his children resides five miles
north of Springfield, adjoining the farm
where he settled in 1820.

ELIZABETH, born Jan. 19, 1826,
in Sangamon county, was married Nov.
27, 1851,111 same place, to Richard Cobbs,
who was born in Cynthianna, Harrison
countv, Ky., May 22, 1822. They have
four children, MARIETTA, JOHN W.,
ALBERT R. and MARGATET A.
Mr. Cobbs is a tailor, and resides in
Springfield.

WILLIAM, Jun,, died in his third
year.

MARGARET, born Feb. 27, 1830, in
Springfield, was married June 5, 1848, to
William A. Browning, who was born
April 23, 1825, in Licking countv, Ohio.
They have seven children living; three
died in infancy. AMELIA E. was mar-
ried Dec. 28, 1871, to R. F. Gailey. Their
only child, WILLIAM A., died in infancy.
They reside in Pana. EVA O., MAR-
GARET L., MARY J., WILLIAM O.,
LOUISA B. and FLORA M. reside
with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Brown-
ing reside in Pana, 111.

JOHN, born Nov. 2, 1832, and .-

GEORGE, born March 28, 1835, in
Springfield, both reside with their mother.

EMILY A., born August 8, 1837,
died Oct. 5, 1854.

MARY E., born March 28, 1843, and

SARAH J., born Jan. 26, 1846. The
unmarried children reside with their
mother.

William Carpenter died August 30,
1859, in Springfield, and his widow re-
sides at the corner of Seventh and Car-
penter streets, Springfield, 111. William
Carpenter was elected Justice of the
Peace in Ohio in 1820, held the same
office in Sangamon county about fourteen
years, and was the second Justice of the
Peace in Sangamon county. May 15,
1830, he was appointed Quartermaster
20th Reg. 111. Millitia, Col. T. M. Neal
commanding. April 12, 1832, he was ap-
pointed Paymaster 4th Reg. Mounted
Vol. Inf., by Col. Samuel M. Thompson.
In 1834 was elected to represent Sanga-
mon county in State Legislature, when
the Capital was at Vandalia. He was
subsequently a member of the city coun-
cil for a number of years. In 1837 was
appointed by President Van Buren, Post-
master at Springfield, which office he re-

signed in 1840. In 1844 anc^ '5 Mr. C.
with his son-in-law, Adolphus Wood,
erected a saw and grist mill on the San-
gamon river, on the Peoria road, which
has always been known as Carpenter's
mill, although christened Rock Dam
Mills.

CARSON, JOHN, was born
Aug. 8, 1794, on Saluda river, S. C., and
raised in Campbell county, Tenn. He
was in a Tennessee regiment in the war
of 1812. After the war he came to Mad-
ison county, 111., with his father, and was
there married to Margery Parkison, in
1818. She was born Oct. 19, 1799. They
came to Sangamon county in 1820 or '21,
and settled on Lick creek, in what is noW
Chatham township. They had ten child-
ren, all born in Sangamon county except
one. Of their children —

JAMES S., born Oct., 1819, married
Permelia Swanson. They had fire child-
ren. He was accidentally shot and killed
April 12, 1859, by another hunter mistak-
ing his call for that of a turkey. That
was in Fayette county. His only two
surviving children, WESLEY McD. and
ISAAC M,, reside in Loami township.

RA CHEL,\>orn. in 1823, in Sangamon
county, married Ransom Youtsler. They
both died, leaving five children. Her
death took place Nov. 9, 1863.

ELIZABETH, born Dec. 25, 1824,
in Sangamon county, married William P.
Campbell. See his name.

AMANDA E., born April 17, 1829, in
Sangamon county, married May 5, 1852,
to Peter C. Campbell. See his name.

WILLIAM P., born Dec. 25, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married April t$, 1855,
to Minerva Workman. They have seven
children, DAVID, SARAH, JOHN C.,
ELIZABETH, LYDIA A., LEE and
AMANDA, and live in Loami township.

ISAAC C., born Feb. 7, 1833, in San-
gamon county, married Martha Lawson,
have one child, and live in Crawford
county, Kan.

JOHN M., born March, 1836, in San-
gamon county, married Elizabeth Work-
man. They have six children, and live in
Crawford county, Kan.

LOUISA, born April n, 1840, in
Sangamon county, married William A.
Barnes. He was born Aug. 2, 1836, in
Talladega county, Ala. She died May
27, 1872, leaving four children with their

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relatives in Chatham and Loami town-
ships. W. A. Barnes married Lucy A.
Allen, and live in Chatham.

John Carson died in Fayette county,
Nov., 1844, and his widow married John
Campbell. See his name.

CARSON, WILLIAM, born
July 8, 1799, in Westmoreland county,
Pa. When he was four years old his
father moved to Hamilton county, Ohio.
William was never out of that county un-
til he was twenty-six years old. He then
came to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
Nov. i, 1825, at Springfield. He walked
the whole distance from Cincinnati to
Springfield in eleven days. He spent the
first winter at Sangamo, and was married
May 21, 1826, to Cynthia Broad well.
They had fifteen children, seven of whom
died young. Of the other eight —

SARAH J., born March 2, 1828,
married Aaron Thompson. Mrs. T. died
Oct., 1855, leaving two children in Mis-
souri.

LEAH A., born July 30, 1829, married
William De Armand, have nine children,
and live in Atchison county, Kan.

ELIZABE7^H A., born Oct. 6, 1831,
married Oct. 2, 1856, to Jacob King, and
live in Nodaway county, Mo.

RACHEL C., born Dec. 22, 1832,
married Nov., 1863, to Joshua Short, have
one child, and live in Nodaway countv,
Missouri.

MART M., born July 26, 1834, mar-
ried Jacob Shawver. He was a soldier in
an Iowa regiment, and died at Helena,
Ark., in April, 1863. She married Josiah
Culver, and live In Marion county, Iowa.

HELEN B., born April 30, 1837,
married Feb., 1860, to Charles B. Miller,
have six children, and live in Marion
county, Iowa.

WINFIELD S., born May 27, 1843,
married March 27, 1866, to Emma J. Tay-
lor, who was born Oct. 30, 1844, in Somer-
set county, N. J. They have three child-
ren, WILLIAM E., JENNIE A. and
CHARLES F., and live near Pleasant
Plains.

WILLIAM L., born Nov. 6, 1846,
married March 12, 1868, in Hamilton
county, O., to Ella Carson, who was born
there Sept. 17, 1844. They have three
children, ROBERT B., ALICE M. and
NELLIE B., and reside one and a half
miles east of Pleasant Plains.

William Carson and his wife are living
on the farm settled by her brother, John
B. Broadwell, in 1819. Mr. C. has lived
nearly half a century within one mile of
where he now resides, one mile east of
Pleasant Plains.

CARTER. PLATT S., was
born June 29, 1815, in Warren, Litchfield
county, Conn. He came to Waverly, 111.,
in Nov., 1836, and in Jan., 1837, began to
improve the farm where J. Milton Lock-
bridge now resides, one mile west of Au-
burn. He was advised to abandon the
project, lest he should freeze to death,
and was solemnly warned that he would
be compelled to live without neighbors,
his improvements being more than two
miles from the timber. He returned to
his native town, and was there married,
July 25, 1839, to Flora M. Carter, who
was born in the same place, July 25, 1815.
They came at once to their new home,
near Auburn, traveling the entire distance
in wagons. At that time there were no
improvements southwest nearer than fif-
teen miles, and the whole area a natural
meadow. There was an abundance of
grass ,for thousands of cattle and sheep.
A year or two later Mr. Carter bought a
flock of sheep, and that caused great un-
easiness to some of the neighbors, who
had a few head of cattle, lest the sheep
would eat all the grass. Mr. and Mrs.
Carter had four children in Sangamon
county, namely —

ADONIRAM, born Nov. 5, 1842, en-
listed August, 1862, in Co. C, 101 111. Inf.,
but was discharged on account of physical
disability, without fully entering the arinv.
He graduated at Michigan University, in
the class of 1868, and is now a practicing
attorney at 157, south Clark street,
Chicago.

DARIUS, born June 6, 1845, enlisted
May 2, 1864, in Co. C, I45th 111. Inf., for
one hundred days, and was honorably dis-
charged, Sept. 28, 1864. He was married
April 6, 1869, to Avice Pickett, who was
born Nov. 9, 1848, at Hartland, Conn.,
and died May 14, 1870. He was married
April 29, 1873, to Sarah Poor, who was
born Oct. i, 1850, in Sullivan county,
Tenn. They reside in the southwest part
of Loami township.

LUC1NDA A., born August 31, 1848,
in Sangamon county, married June 25,
1874, to Dr. Albert Brown, who was born

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June 25, 1849, in Chicago, Illinois. He
graduated at Bellevue Hospital Medical
College, New York City, March, 1873,
and resides in Waverly, 111.

PLA TT S., Jun., born Dec. 6, 1850,
in Sangamon county, married near
Waverly, Morgan county, Nov. 20, 1873,
to Belle Woods, and resides in Sangamon
county, near Waverly, 111.

Platt S. Carter, Sen., is one of the many
successful farmers of this county. He has
always taken an active interest in every
movement calculated to develop the re-
sources of the country, and to elevate the
intellectual standard ot the cultivators of
the soil, and has several times represented
Loami township in the Board of county
Supervisors. He has been an energetic
worker in the interests of the Sangamon
county Agricultural Society, and was
President of the same for the year 1875.
He resides in Loami township, two and a
half miles north of Waverly.

CARTWRIGHT, PETER,
was born Sept. i, 1785, on James river,
Amherst county, Va. His father was a
Revolutionary soldier, and soon after our
independence as a nation was acknowl-
edged by Great Britain, his parents moved
to that part of our country known as
Kentucky, then inhabited by hostile In-
dians. There not being any wagon roads,
the moving was done on pack horses.
Their's was one of two hundred families
that moved in a body, guarded by one
hundred young men, well armed. On the
night of the first Sunday after their de-
parture, and while they were encamped
with the women and children in the cen-
ter, surrounded by part of the men guard-
ing, while others slept, the father of Peter
Cartwright heard something moving to-
wards him and grunting like a hog.
Knowing there was no swine with the
company, Mr. C. had his suspicions
aroused and kept a sharp look-out. He
soon perceived a dark object much nearer
him than the sounds at first indicated, and
readily made up his mind that it was an
Indian aiming to get as near as possible,
and then spring upon and murder him in
the dark. Mr. Cartwright took aim and
fired. The crack of the rifle raised a
great commotion in camp, and as soon as
a light could be procured, an Indian was
found dead, with a rifle in one hand, a
tomahawk in the other, and a bullet-hole

through his head. Their line of travel
was marked by the dead bodies of white
people slain by the Indians, with other
evidences of hostility. As the moving
party approached Crab Orchard, where a
temporary fortification had been* erected,
the last day's march was a very long one.
Seven of the two hundred families fell
behind the main body, and worn down
with fatigue, they encamped and went to
sleep without guards. In the night they
were attacked by twenty-five Indians, and
all except one of them slain. The Cart-
wright family first settled near what after-
wards became Lancaster, Lincoln county,
Ky. After a stay of two years, in the
fall of 1793 Mr. Cartwright moved his
family to a place nine miles south of
Russelville, Logan county, Ky., and with-
in one mile of the Tennessee line.

While the family resided there Peter
entered into the spirit of the rude sports
and vices that prevailed in the community,
such as horse-racing, card-playing and
dancing. His mother had long been a
member of the M. E. Church, and prayed
for and plead with her son to turn from
the error of his ways. He was converted,
and united with the Ebenezer M. E.
Church in June, 1801. He displayed
such talents and fervor in speaking, that he
very unexpectedly received the following
paper :

"Peter Cartwright is hereby permitted
to exercise his gifts as an exhorter in the
Methodist Episcopal Church, so long as
his practice is agreeable to the Gospel.

"Signed in behalf of the Society at
Ebenezer.

" JESSE WALKER, A. P."

J/oy, 1802.

In the fall of that year his father de-
termined to move to Lewiston, near the
mouth of the Cumberland river. Peter
applied for letters for his mother, sister
and himself. Upon receiving his own he
found that it was not only a letter of dis-
missal to a sister church, and to exhort,
but that it gave him authority to hold
meetings, organize classes, and form a cir-
cuit. It also required him to report at the
fourth quarterly meeting of Red river cir-
cuit the next fall.

In his new home he found an academy,
or school of a high grade, and for a time
prosecuted his studies with great success;

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but in consequence of persecutions that
arose, he abandoned the school and com-
menced organizing the circuit, which he
reported in the fall of that year — 1803.
In October he became a regular traveling
preacher, with a colleague, on the Red
river circuit. His first sermon led to the
conversion of an infidel. He " received
twenty-five members during the first quar-
ter, and six dollars for his support at the
end of the same. For the years 1805 and
'6 he was appointed to Sciota circuit, in
the State of Ohio.

At the meeting of the Western Confer-
ence, held in East Tennessee, Mr. Cart-
wright was ordained Sept. 15, 1806, as a
Deacon in*the M. E. Church, by Francis
Asbury, the first Bishop of the church in
America. He was next appointed to
Marietta circuit. In the fall of 1806 he
left that circuit, with a blind horse, almost
destitute of clothing, and seventy-five
cents in money, started to travel more than
five hundred miles to see his parents. The
next meeting of Conference was held
Sept. 14, 1807, at Chillicothe, O. His ap-
pointment for 1807-8 was to Barren cir-
cuit, in Cumberland district, Ky. About
the close of his labors in that circuit —

Rev. Peter Cartwright and Frances
Gaines were married Aug. 18, 1808. She
was born Aug. 18, 1789, in Charlotte
county, Va. When she was in her seven-
teenth year her parents moved to Lincoln
county, Ky. Her father died there, and
her mother moved two years later to Bar-
ren county, where Frances was married.

The Conference was held at Liberty
Hill, Tenn., commencing Oct. I, 1808. At
that meeting Mr. C. was ordained — Oct.
4, 1808— to the office of Elder of the M.
E. Church, by William McKendree, who
had become one of the Bishops of the M.
E. Church. The ordination took place
Oct. 4, 1808. His next appointment was
to Salt Creek circuit, Ky. During that
year his father died, and some time was
spent in settling the estate. The next
Conference was held at Cincinnati in the
fall of 1809. His appointment was to
Livingston circuit. Cumberland district,
Ky. Mr. C. continued to preach in Ken-
tucky until thev had seven children.
During that time he saw and understood
the pernicious influence of slavery, and
after consulting with his wife, who was of
the same mind, they determined to remove

to a free State. In the spring of 1823, he,
in company with two friends, started to
explore Illinois in search of a home. They
ascended the Wabash valley, and crossed
the prairie to the Illinois river above Fort
Clark, now Peoria. They went west and
south and then east, crossing the Illinois
river at what is now Beardstown, where
there was but one family in a small cabin.
From there they ascended the valley of
the Sangamon river to a settlement in
Sangamon county, on Richland creek,
where he found a family living in a double
log cabin, with a few acres of land under
cultivation. Mr. C. bought the claim, and
entered the land when it came into market.

He returned to Kentucky and brought
out his family, arriving Nov. 15, 1824, at
the place he had purchased the year be-
fore, in what is now Cartwright town-
ship, three-quarters of a mile north of
Pleasant Plains. They had two children
in Sangamon county. Of their nine
children —

ELIZA B., born in Livingston coun-
ty, Ky., May n, 1810, married Peyton
L. Harrison. See his name.

MARIA H., born Sept. 20, 1812, in
Christian county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, July 28, 1833, *o R-ev- W-
D. R. Trotter, who was born near Bowl-
ing Green, Ky., and came to Sangamon
county in 1830 or '31. Mr. Trotter was
a traveling preacher in the M. E. church
from the time he came to the State until
1872, when he became superanuated, and
resides in Jacksonville. They have fivo
children, all married.

CYNTHIA, born March 27, 1815, iri
Christian county, Ky., was killed Oct. 23,
1824, by a tree, near which they had en-
camped and kindled a fire, falling on her
while they were all asleep on the ground.
They carried the corpse of their child
twenty miles, and buried it in Hamilton
county, 111.

MADISON A., born July 4, 1817, in
Christian county, Ky., married Dec. 29,
1835, 'n St. Louis, to Matilda Purvines,
both of Sangamon county. They had
six children, namely: WILLIAM T.
married Emma Slater; had one child,
EVA A., and he married Florence Moore;
had two children, EDGAR EVERETT and
ASBURY i.., and reside in Cartwright
township. MARTHA J. married Daniel
Harnett, and died August 8, 1862, at

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Pleasant Plains. PETER S. married
Frances Maria Irwin ; have two children,
JENNIE E. and ROBERT A., and reside near
Chanute, Kansas. ELIZABETH F.
married Peter L. Harrison. See his name.
JOHN M. and ANNIE M. reside with
their parents at Pleasant Plains.

WEAL THT M. J., born August 9,
1819, in Christian county, Ky., married
March 17, 1840, to Gorham Eaton, who
was born in Merrimac county, N. H. They
had three children, EMILY F. married
William G. Purvines. See his name.
MARY A. married A. S. Nottingham.
See his name. HORACE G. married
Ella Allen, had one child, ELLEN, and
Mrs. Eaton died. He resides near Pleas-
ant Plains. Gorham Eaton died August
26, 1846, and his widow married March
26, 1850, to Elmer Mickel, who was born
in Cape May county, N. J. They have
six children, ANNIE, CHARLES H.,
CAROLINE M., ARMINDA B.,
MYRA E. and EDWARD LINCOLN,
and reside two miles northwest of Pleas-
ant Plains.

VALENTINE C, born May 19,
1821, in Christian county, Ky., married in
Sangamon county, Feb. 9, 1841, to Cin-
thelia Scott. They have nine children.
SARAH F. J. resides with her parents.
THOMAS B. married Mary E. Cloud,
daughter of Rev. Newton Cloud, of Jack-
sonville; have two children, MAUD and
CLAUD, and reside near Waco, Sedgwick
county, Kansas. CARRIE E. married
Samuel D. Pallett, and resides near Waco,
Kansas. HATTIE J. married David O.
Williams; has one child, LESTER, and re-
sides near Waco, Kansas. CHARLES
A. resides near Waco, Kansas. ALBERT
B., MINNIE P., NEWTON C. and
WALTER D., reside with their parents.
V. C. Cartwright lived near Pleasant
Plains until 1874, when he moved to
Sedgwick county, near Delano, Kansas.

SARAH M., born July 2, 1823, in
Christian county, Ky., married Sept. i,
1841, to Henry Smith, who was born in
Cape May county, N. J. They had ten
children; two died in infancy. MARIA
F. married Frank N. Elmore. See his
name. PETER C., born Oct. 24, 1844,
married Margaret McDonnell, who was
born Nov. 17, 1844, at Lexington, Ky.
They have four children, HENRY, MARY
o., NETTIE and CARROLL, and reside at

Pleasant Plains. WILLIAM T. died
Feb. 22, 1869, in his twenty-third year.
MADISON N. resides west. CARO-
LINE E., HENRY D. and EDWARD
P. reside with their mother. Henry
Smith died March 20, 1873, and his fam-
ily reside at Pleasant Plains.

CAROLINE M., born Sept. 9, 1826,
in Sangamon county, married August 30,
1848, to Rev. Benjamin Newman. They
had one child, PETER C., who married
and resides at Mattoon. Mrs. C. M.
Newman died May 23, 1853.

ARMINDA F., born Oct. 3, 1828, in
Sangamon county, married Aug. 30, 1848,
to Rev. Levi C. Pitner. They have one
son, LEE PITNER, and reside at Evan-
ston, 111.

Rev. Peter Cartwright, D. D., died
Sept. 25, 1872, and his widow died Feb.
7, 1876, both near Pleasant Plains, Sanga-
mon county, where they settled in 1824.
Mr. Cartwright had been a member of the
M. E. Church more than seventy-one
years, a preacher nearly three score and
ten years, and a Presiding Elder more
than half a century. To attempt a de-
scription of the man and his labors would
be useless in a sketch like this. Nothing
but his own " Autobiography " and
"Fifty Years a Presiding Elder" could
do justice to the subject. His system of
theology does not admit of a belief in
special providences; and yet, it would ap-
pear to others as though he was especially
raised up to illustrate what one man can
accomplish in mental and physical labors
in a good cause, sustained by the power
of God. He had just entered upon his
eighty-eighth year, and his wife in her
eighty-seventh year. At the time of her
death she had fifty-three grand-children,
sixty-two great-grand-children, and five
great-great-grand-children, a total of one
hundred and twenty-nine descendants.

The circumstances of her death were
exceedingly impressive. She was attend-
ing a religious meeting at Bethel Chapel,
about one mile from her home, in the op-
posite direction from Pleasant Plains.
The minister conducting the services
called on her as the first to give her testi-
mony, which she did, remaining seated.
She spoke with much feeling, closing with
the words: "The past three weeks have
been the happiest of all my life; I am
waiting for the chariot. " The exercises

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continued until sixteen persons had risen
and spoken a few words each, the last of
whom was her eldest son. The lady sit-
ting nearest her thought she had fainted,
and the windows were thrown open to
admit fresh air; but "The chariot had
arrived. "

CARTMELL, ANDREW,
was born March, 1766, in Greenbrier
county, Va. He went to Bath county,
Ky., when he was a young man. Nancy
D. Brown was born Oct., 1772, in Cul-
pepper county, Va.,and in 1780 was taken
by her parents to Bath county, Ky. A.
Cartmell and Nancy D. Brown were mar-
ried and had eight children in Kentucky,
and they moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving Oct. 10, 1829, six miles northeast
of Springfield. Of their children —

WILLIAM W., born Oct., 1800, in
Bath county, Ky., married there in 1832,
to Mary Crockett, moved to Sangamon
county, and from there to Rails county,
Mo., raised a family of six childi'en, and
lives near Merton, Grundy county, Mo.

LUCINDA married in Kentucky to
John Rudder, had two children, and died
there. Her children came to Sangamon
county with their grandfather Cartmell.
LUCRETIA married Samuel Houston.
See his name, THOMAS was a soldier
in the 4th 111. Inf., and was killed in 1847,
in the Mexican war.

JOHN M., born August 25, 1802, in
Bath county, Ky., was married there
March 23, 1829, to Mildred R. Tacket,
and came with his parents to Sangamon
in the fall of that year. They had five
children. AMANDA A., born April 29,
1830, married March 2, 1852, to James
Black. See his name. JOHN W., born
May 19, 1833, married in Missouri to
Mary E. Chipps, have four children, and
reside near Merton, Mo. He served three
years in Co. C, 23d Mo. Inf., from Aug.,
1861. JAMES H., born Oct. 14, 1837,
married Martha Crane, who died April
19, 1871, leaving four children. He mar-
ried Nov. 19, 1872, to Mrs. Zilpha Hal-
bert, whose maiden name was Taylor.
They live four miles east of Springfield.
ELIZA A., born August 30, 1842, mar-
ried James Black. See his name.
MARION, born July 19, 1845, married
Feb. i, 1872, to M. O. James, have one
child, ANNIE E., and live six miles north
east of Springfield. Mrs. M. R. Cart-

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mell died April 14, 1875, and John M.
Cartmell lives where his father settled in
1830. It is six miles northeast of Spring-
field.

JAMES H., born in 1804, in Ken-
tucky, married there to Elizabeth Duval.
He died in Sangamon county, July 17,
1839, and his widow returned to Ken-
tucky.

EVELINE, born July 22, 1807, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
Oct. 25, 1830, to Charles Harper. They
had one child, and she died May 6^1845.
Her son ULYSSES lives in Texas.

NANCY, born August 11, 1810, in
Bath county, Ky., married there to Willis
Cassity. See his name.

ELIZA, born in Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county, to Alex. Rigdon, who
died, leaving a widow and seven children
near Mt. Pulaski.

MART A., born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Samuel Harper,
have four children, and live in Caldwell
countv, Texas.

ANDRE W J., born in Bath county,
Ky., came to Sangamon county with his
parents, married in Logan county, in 1843,
to Nancy Edwards. They had six child-
ren. LOUISIANA married P. O'Bran-
non,and resides near Mt. Pulaski. PER-
MELIA F., born Nov. 29, 1846, married
Walter C. Black. See his name. MARY
E. married George Hickman, and live
near Lincoln. JAMES H. lives near Mt.
Pulaski. TIMOTHY L. lives near WTil-
liamsville. ALVIN resides near Mt.
Pulaski. Mrs. Nancy Cantrall died Sept.
6, and her husband Oct. 20, 1856, both in
Logan county, p ^.f •fw^.U .

Andrew Gantraii died bept. 12, 1832,
and his widow died Dec. 5, 1858, both in
Sangamon county.

CARVER, JACOB, born March
10, 1787, in Pennsylvania. Elizabeth
Hoover was born Dec. 8, 1784, in Virginia.
They were married near Dayton, O., and
had nine children there. The family
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1830 in what is now Clear
Lake township, four miles northeast of
Springfield. Of their nine children —

WILLIAM, ELIZA and JOHN
died between thirteen and eighteen years
of age. The other six are —

H1GHLT, born Jan. 13, 1806, near
Dayton, O., was married there April 20,

EARL? SETTLERS OF

1826, to Philip Shaffer; came to Sanga-
mon county with her parents; moved the
same fall to Cass county, where Mr.
Shaffer died, August 28, 1843, leavmg six
children. The widow married Feb. i,
1846,10 Daniel Lahmon. They have one
child, and reside near Virginia, Cass
county.

SARAH, born Nov. 26, 1810, near
Dayton, O., married there to Jesse Smith,
came to Sangamon county with her par-
ents, had three children, moved back to
Ohio, where two children were born and
Mr. Smith died. The family reside at
New Carlisle, Clarke county, Ohio.

REBECCA, born Sept. 21, 1812, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Benjamin Hooton, had four children, and
moved to Ozark county, Mo., where she
died.

SOPHIA, born Aug. 19, 1820, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Henry Bedinger. They had one child,
and Mr. B. died, and she married Job
Dickson. They had two children, and
both parents died. Their son, JOHN
DICKSON, married Mary Collins, and
resides in Sherman. SARAH DICK-
SON married Edward Workman. He
was shot dead, Oct. 4, 1865, by a drunken
man, because he would not drink with
him. The widow married Wm. Howard.
She had one child by each marriage —
WM. H. WORKMAN and JOHN E.
HOWARD. Mr. and Mrs. Howard live
four miles east of Springfield.

JAMES, born Dec. 13, 1825, near
Dayton, Montgomery county, O. He
was married in Sangamon county, Jan.
1 6, 1863, to Martha Workman, who was
born May 23, 1847, m R-usn county, Ind.
They have four children, WILLIAM
W., JOSEPH B., JAMES F. and
GEORGE H., and live at the homestead
settled by his parents in 1830. It is four
miles nortbeast of Springfield.

FELIX, born Oct. 4, 1828, near Day-
ton, O., married in Sangamon county,
Jan. 22, 1857, to Rachel Donner. They
had five children. FLORA died young.
LIZZIE, ALBERT, HENRY and
FRANK. The four latter live with
their parents, near where Mr. Carver's
parents settled in 1830.

Jacob Carver died in 1833, in Ohio, hav-
ing returned there on business. Mrs.

Elizabeth Carver died Nov. 8, 1857, on
the farm where the family settled in 1830.
CASSITY, ALEXANDER,
was born in 1793, in Bath county, Ky.
The father of Alexander and Willis Cas-
sity built a stockade with block houses
inside, on Slate creek, in Bath county, in
the early settling of Kentucky. It was
called Cassity's station, and was a place of
refuge from the Indians until thev were
forced out of the country. Remains of
that station are yet visible. Alexander
Cassity was married in Bath county to
Eliza B. Groves. She died there in 1832,
leaving three children. He was married
in the same county to Elizabeth Lock-
ridge, had one child, and moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving Oct. 26, 1835,
and purchased a farm in what is now the
southeast corner of Chatham township,
where they had five living children. Of
their children —

JOHN F., born in 1826, in Bath
county, Ky., enlisted in Sangamon coun-
ty, Aug. 10, 1 86 1, for three years, in Co.
B, 3oth 111. Inf., and was promoted to
Sergeant-Major. He was mortally wound-
ed at the battle of Atlanta, Ga., July 22,
and" died July 26, 1864.

WILLIS H., born March 23, 1828, in
Bath county, Ky., married Sept. 26, 1865,
in Sangamon county, to Ella McGriff, a
native of Preble county, Ohio. They had
two children. CARRIE E. died young,
and MINNIE L. lives with her parents,
in Auburn.

JAMES L., born in Kentucky, raised
in Sangamon county, and died in Iowa.

MARGARET" E. married Andrew
Ranch. See his name.

EMMA C. married Jacob Ranch. Sec
his name.

FRANCIS M. born in Sangamon
county, and died unmarried.

AMANDA I., born in Sangamon
county, married James T. Hutton. See
his name. They live on the farm where
she was born, in Chatham township.

ALEXANDER M., born in Sanga-
mon county, and enlisted July, 1862, for
three years, in Co. I, 73d 111. Inf., was
wounded Dec. 31, 1862, at the battle of
Stone's river, and discharged on account
of physical disability. He was married
to Mary A. Hutton, and lives in Gentry
county, Mo.

LOUISA G. died young.

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MARTHA L. born in Sangamon
county, married Sept. 5, 1866, to John T.
Welch. The have two children, ED-
WIN H. and HARRY K., and reside
in Auburn. Air. Welch was born June
30, 1842, in McDonough county, 111. He
enlisted April, 1861, for three months, in
Co. D, i6lh 111. Inf. May 24, 1861, the
whole regiment enlisted for three years.
Dec. 23, 1863, the regiment re-enlisted as
veterans. J. T. Welch served through
all the enlistments to the end of the re-
bellion. He is now a merchant in Au-
burn.

Alexander Cassity died March 12, 1851,
and his widow died Nov. 16, 1861, both on
the farm where they settled in 1835.

CASSITY, WILL IS, brother to
Alexander, was born Jan. 2, 1805, in Bath
county, Ky. He was married there Jan.
24, 1827, to Nancy Cartmell. They had
two children in Kentucky, and moved to
Sangamon county, arriving at Springfield
Oct. 10, 1829. They had one child in
Sangamon county. Of their children —

JAMES W., born in Kentucky, died
at twenty years of age.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky,
married John Parsons. He died August,
1872, leaving a widow and six children,
near Salisbury.

LEV I, born Jan. i, 1836, in Sanga-
mon county, enlisted Oct. 20, 1861, in Co.
B, loth 111. Cav., for three years. As a
non-commissioned officer he commanded
a section of one of the batteries attached
to the regiment at the battle of Prairie
Grove, Ark., Dec. 7, 1862, and lost his
left arm in that engagement. He was
discharged on account of physical disabil-
ity, Dec. 31, 1862. Lev! Cassity was
married April 23, 1863, to Nancy Dren-
nan. They have one child, JOHN F.,
and live three and a half miles southeast
of Chatham.

Willis Cassity, after coming to Sanga-
mon county, lived a few years in Logan
county, and a few years in Missouri. He
and his wife now live in Ball township.

CASSITY WILLIAM, cousin
to Alexander and Willis, was born in
Bath county, Ky. He was married in
Nicholas county, Ky., to Honor Wells, a
native of Pennsylvania. They had five
living children in Kentucky, and moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the

fall of 1830, in what is now Rochester
township. Of their children —

GEORGE died in Kentucky, at twen-
ty-two years ot age.

JEREMIAH died in Kentucky, at
sixteen years of age.

REBECCA, born Feb. 14, 1802, in
Nicholas county, Ky., married Edward
Branch. See his name.

LE WIS, born in Kentucky about 1805,
and died in Sangamon county, unmarried,
in 1852.

MAR T, born Aug. 28, 1806, in Nicho-
las county, Ky., married there Jan. 4,
1827, to James W. Neill. See his name.

William Cassity died in 1844, and Mrs.
Honor Cassity died Aug., 1854, both in
Rochester township.

CASS, ROBERT, was born in
1768 or '9, in Iredell county, N. C. His
father, James Cass, was born in England,
and when he was six or seven years of
age was pressed into the British navy, and
trained to a sea-faring life. Being separ-
ated from his relatives at so early an age,
he never understood his own name, and
called himself James Cast. He came to
Philadelphia, and finally settled in Iredell
county, N. C. After raising a family
there, he moved with his children to
Clarke county, Ky., and there met two
Englishmen by the name of Cass. After
becoming acquainted, he found that one of
them was his brothei', and the other his
cousin, and for the first time learned that
the family name was not Cast, but Cass.
His son Robert, whose name heads this
sketch, having always been called Cast,
did not think it prudent to resume the
original name, but related the facts in the
case to his children, and his descendants
have very generally returned to it. Rob-
ert Cass was married Feb. 26, 1790, in
Iredell county, N. C., to Lucy Rik-v.
They had one child there, and moved to
Clarke county, Ky., where they had four
children, and Mrs. Lucy Cass died, Feb.
13, 1809. Robert Cass was married in
Clarke county, April 26, 1810, to Mary
Boggs, and had two children there. The
family then moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving Oct. 2, 1826, in Buffalo Hart
grove. Of his seven children —

AMON, born Sept. 6, 1792,511 North
Carolina, married March 18, 1813, in Ken-
tucky, to Patsy Simpson. He raised a

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family, and remained in Clarke county,
Kentucky. -7

JAMES, born Aug. 12, 1397, m
Clarke county, Ky., and married there
Nov. 20, 1817, to Ann Hood. They had
eight children, and came to Sangamon
county in 1829. Mrs. Ann Cass died, and
James Cass married Amanda McKinney.
They had four children, and he died. His
widow and living children reside near
Mt. Pulaski. His son JOHN, born Sept.
22, 1820, in Kentucky, was married Feb.
28, 1847, in Sangamon county, to Mary J.
Burns. They had thirteen children.
ARTANECIA, born Feb. 5, 1849, was mar-
ried April 15, 1873, to G. \V. Edwards,
and lives at Buffalo Hart Grove. AMON,
born Sept. 3, 1851, lives with his mother.
ALEXANDER, born Nov. 6, 1853, was
married near Springfield, 111., Nov. 3,
1875, to Delia Fenton, and lives at Farmer
City, DeWitt county, 111. LUCY A., born
April 30, 1855, was married March 13,
1872, to Herbert White. They have one
child, Olive May, arid live at Farmer
City. ALVI, JOHN L., ISABEL, IDA, ANNA

E., SOPHIA, ROBERT F., HATTIE J. and

TROMAS F. w., live with their mother.
John Cass died Jan. 17, 1872. His widow
and children live near Buffalo Hart station,
or Farmer City, 111. FRANK D, born Dec.
6, 1832, in Sangamon county, was married
April 29, 1858, to Sarah G. Landis, who
was born April 8,1833, m Indianapolis,
Ind. They have one child living, ED-
WARD K. F. D. Cass studied medicine in
Mt. Pulaski, teaching school in the mean-
time. He graduated at Rush Medical
College in 1864. Was appointed assistant
surgeon of the I5ist 111. Inf. in 1865,
served a short time and resigned. Dr.
Frank D. Cass resides at Mt. Pulaski, 111.,
and is engaged in practice there.

ARCHIBALD, born Dec. i, 1799, in
Clarke county, Ky., married there to
Deborah Mershon. They had three
children in Kentucky, and came to San-
gamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct.,
1828, at Buffalo Hart Grove, where they
had three children. Of their children:
ROBERT, born Nov. 20, 1821, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county,
Aug. 20, 1840, to Sarah J. Lawson. They
had four children. MINERVA j. and OR-
LANDO w. died under two years. FLOR-
ENCE F., born May 17, 1852, died August
24, 1869. NOAH MATHENY, born July 9,

1857, lives with his parents, near Buffalo
Hart Station. SARAH J., born Oct. 27,
1826, in Kentucky, married m Sangamon
county, in 1842,10 George Ridgway,have
four living children, MARY c., ROBERT,JOH \
and ALLEN, and live near Lockhart, Texas.
WILLIAM L., born Aug. 15, 1829, in
Sangamon county, died Aug. 20, 1846.
The other children all died under six
years. Archibald Cass died Sept., 1852,
and his widow died later, both in Sanga-
mon county. He was a soldier from San-
gamon county in the Black Hawk war in
1831-2. He was also a member of Co.
D, 4th 111. Inf., and served one year- in
1846-7, in the' war with Mexico. He was
a nurse in the army, and practiced medi-
cine the latter part of his life.

PATSr,born Dec. 28, 1802, in Clarke
county, Ky., married there Sept. 15, 1825,
to Robert E. Burns. See his name.

NINIAN R., born April 8, 1806, in
Clarke county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Mary Wade, They had
seven children. THOMAS F. died in
1849 at Mt. Pulaski, aged twenty-three
years. GEORGE W., married Martha
J. Turley, have nine children, and live
near Lincoln. EMILY married Daniel
Dunn, had two children, and died in Mis-
souri. Her children: THOMAS A., resides
at Mt. Pulaski. MARY E. resides with
her aunt, Mrs. Jones. LUCY E., born
March 28, 1836,111 Logan county, married
Strother G. Jones. See his name. CAR-
OLINE A., born August 16, 1838, is un-
married, and resides at Lincoln. SARAH
AGNES, born in 1840, married Simpson
Constant, had one child, CASS CONSTANT,
and she married Frederick Bush. They
have two living children, NELLIE E. and
CARRIE B., and reside at Mt. Pulaski.
ROBERT enlisted for three years, in
1862, in an Illinois regiment, and died
August, 1863, at Murfreesboro, Tenn.
Mrs. Mary Cass died Dec. 31, 1848.
N. R. Cass married Mrs. Elizabeth
Swing, whose maiden name was Laugh-
ney. She had one child, Belle W. Swing,
by a former marriage. She married
T. T. Beach, who is a practicing lawyer,
and lives in Lincoln. Ninian R. Cass
died August, 1872, at Mt. Pulaski, and his
widow resides with her daughter, Mrs.
Beach, at Lincoln.

A. 'BO WEN, born Feb. n, 1811, in
Clarke county, Ky., came with his parents

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to Sangamon county in Oct., 1826, mar-
ried Jan. 17, 1830, to Melinda Burns.
They had nine children in Sangamon
county, namely: ELIZABETH E.,
born Nov. 14, 1830, married Nov. 8, 1849,
to Michael Finfrock. He was born May
3, 1820, in Chambersburg, Pa., went to
Miami county O., with his parents in 1836,
and came to Saugamon county in 1843,
Mr. and Mrs. Finfrock have seven child-
ren, BOWEN C., HELEN M., CHARLES M.,
PAUL H., IRVING G., WILLIS and ERNEST

s. reside with their parents, four miles
southeast of Buffalo Hart Station. Mr.
•Finfrock was a member of the Sangamon
county Board of Supervisors at the first
term in 1861-2, and again from 1872 to
1876. MARY C., born May 8, 1833,
married March 31, 1858, to Benjamin F.
Edwards, who was born July 12, 1823, in
Madison county, N. Y. They have four
children, GAYLORD c., JOHN p., BENJA-
MIN F., Jim., and MARY B., and reside two
miles southeast of Buffalo Hart Station.
LUCY A., born August 31, 1835, mar-
ried April 20, 1869, to Dr. Leslie Gillette.
They have three children, LESLIE B.,
FANNIE T. and CEOGIANA, and reside at
Buffalo. LEWIS, born March 10, 1838,
married Dec. 24, 1862, to Christiana Law-
son. They had four children. The
eldest, WILLIAM s., and the youngest,
ALFRED, died in the second year of their
ages. CLARENCE F. and ARTHUR F. re-
side with their parents, five miles south-
east of Buffalo Hart Station. PAULI-
NA J., born Oct. 4, 1843, married Oct. 13,
1864, to Alfred Shrieve, and resides near
Elkhart. HARDIN, born Sept. 16,
1845, married Oct. 10, 1866, to Hattie N.
Landis, have two children, PHILIP and
LEWIS B,, and reside one and a half miles
southwest of Buffalo Hart Station.
SCOTT, born Nov. 20, 1847, MARION,
born April 12, 1850, and HARRY, born
born Feb. 3, 1854, live with their parents.
Ambrose Bowen Cass and his wife reside
half a mile southwest of Buffalo Hart
Station, and within one fourth of a mile
of where his father settled in 1826. He
was a soldier in the Black Hawk war,
both in 1831 and 1832, from Sangamon
county, and was in the battles of Bad Axe
and Wisconsin.

LUCY A., born Jan. 15, 1813, in
Clarke county, Ky., married April 17,
1828, to John R. Burns. See his name.

Mrs. Mary Cass died Sept. 14, 1840,
and Robert Cass died July 9, 1852, both
near where they settled in 1826.

CHAMBERS, HENRY B.,
born Jan, i, 1809, near Dover, Del. He
was married in Delaware to Elizabeth
Bodie, and moved to Adams county, 111.,
in 1831, and from there to Springfield, in
1840, where Mrs. C. died, April, 1854.
He was married Jan. 25, 1855, to Mrs.
Elizabeth A. Turner, whose maiden name
was Earnest. They had seven children —

ELIZABETH E., JAMES H.,
JOHN B., WILLIAM R., JACOB
J., KENDALL and MAGGIE J.

H. B. Chambers died May 26, 1871,
and his widow resides four miles west of
Springfield.

CHANDLER, ROBERT, was
born about 1812, in Kentucky. He was
left an orphan at eight years of age, and
was bound to Russell Fletcher, who took
him to Overton county, Tenn., and from
there to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the spring of 1832. He married Ellen
Parmenter, who died, and he married
Elizabeth Carter. They had eight child-
ren in Sangamon county —

LUCY J. married Christopher Whee-
lan, and live in Riverton.

REBECCA died, aged eighteen.

MARY E. married Stephen Huntsley,
and live in Christian county.

MARTHA W., FRANCIS J/.,
GEORGE H., CHARLES O. and
ED WARD, reside with their parents,
half a mile from Sherman.

CHERRY, BENJAMIN, was
born Jan. 26, 1790, in Franklin county,
Ga. VVhen he was seventeen years old
his parents moved to Overton county,
Tenn. Benjamin was a soldier from Ten-
nessee in the war of 1812. In the fall of
1819 he came to Sangamon county, and
soon after went to work for Edward
Clark, who came about the same time.
Elizabeth Strickland was born May 12,
1799, near the sea coast, south of Charles-
ton, S. C. Her parents moved to Tennes-
see, and from there to St. Clair county,
111., thence to Sangamon county in 1819,
and Elizabeth came in the spring of 1820.
Benjamin Cherry and Elizabeth Strick-
land made arrangements to celebrate the
4th of July, but could not obtain the li-
cense from Edwardsville in time, and they
were married July n, 1820. They had

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seven children in Sangamon county,
two of whom died young. Of the other
five —

WYATT, born Nov. 9, 1821, married
in Sangamon county to Susan Hall, have
several children, and reside near Blue
Mound, Macon county.

MARTHA, born in 1826, married
William Allen, had seven children, moved
to Missouri, and died near Carthage.

C LEMON died at twenty-three.

ALMYRA, born March 20, 1830, mar-
ried David Huckleberry. See his name.

BENJAMIN, Jun., married Eliza
Barnes. They had four children, and
moved to Pike's Peak. Mr. Cherry died
there. His widow and only living child,
CHARLES, live in Springfield. He is
employed at the watch factory.

Benjamin Cherrv died in 1874, near
Riverton.

CHILD, STEPHEN, was born
June 12, 1802, in Waitsfield, Vt. His
parents moved to Barnstown, Lower
Canada, in 1806, and in 1815 to Hartland,
Windham county, Vt., where they both
died. In 1820 Stephen went to Potsdam,
St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and engaged
in teaching. He was there married, March
<j., 1826, to Hannah Lyman, who was born
Sept. 15, 1808, in Brookfield, Vt. They
had two children in New York, and came
to Sangamon county as part of a colony
of fifty-two persons, arriving Oct. 26,
1833, in the village of Sangamo. They
had three children in Sangamon county.
Of their five children —

JOHN L., born March 23, 1827, in
St. Lawrence county, N. Y., married in
Sangamon county, Feb. 17, 1859, to Mary
E. Anderson. They have two children,
FRANKIE and CHARLEY, and reside
near Farmingdale.

MARY L., born Sept. 27, 1831, in St.
Lawrence county, N. Y., married in San-
gamon county to George B. Seeley. See
his name. They reside in Abilene, Kan.

MARTHA, born Dec. 8, 1833, in San-
gamon county, married Thomas Frank
Anderson. See his name.

STEPHEN, Jun., born April 14,
1848, in Sangamon county, resides with
his mother, near Farmingdale.

HANNAH, born Nov. 29, 1850, died
in her third year.

Stephen Child died Sept. 4th, 1875, and
his widow resides near Farmingdale.

Mr. Child was a farmer and teacher all
his life. He was an original abolitionist,
and as an agent of the underground rail-
road, he assisted hundreds of colored peo-
ple in their flight from bondage. He
conducted a company of twenty-one at
one time. It was his custom to go as far
as he could travel in one night and return,
but on some occasions he has gone as far
sixty miles, and then left them in the
hands of friends who would conduct them
onward. The last time the writer of this,
conversed with Mr. Child, he expressed
special satisfaction that he had assisted so
many human beings on their way to
freedom, and gratitude that he had lived
to see the day that there was not a slave
in the United States of America.

CHURCHILL, GEORGE,
was born about 1766, in Virginia. His
parents died when he was quite young,
and he went to Woodford county, Ky.,
where he was married to Sarah Arnold,
who was born in that county about 1 780.
They had eleven children in Shelby
county, Ky., and the family moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall
of 1827, near what is now Mechanicsburg.
Of their children —

MARY, married in Kentucky to Wil-
liam Threlkeld, brought up in large family,
and never moved to Illinois. Their
daughter SARAH J. is the wife of Wil-
liam P. McKinnie. See his name.
MARIETTA, born Jan. 31, 1829, in
Shelby county, Ky., married there, Jan.
14, 1847, t° Joseph H. Agee. They had
two children born there, and in the fall of
1851 moved to Sangamon county, where
seven children were born. Of their child-
ren: EDWIN ii., born in Shelby county,
Ky., resides with his mother. 4 MAUY H.,
born Jan. 29, 1851, in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county, Oct. 3, 1871, to
Ambrose B. Cass, Jun. They live at
East Lynn, Cass county, Mo. ALICE A.
married Jan. 16, 1873, to Robert W.Jess,
a native of Bellfast, Ireland. They live
at Riverton. LIZZIE T., EMMA and j. AL-
VEY reside with their mother. The sixth,
seventh and eighth children, viz: LUCYJ.,
WILLIAM s. and CEPHAS L., all died under
eight years. Joseph H. Agee died Sept.
25, 1865. The father and three children
all died within nineteen days. Mrs.
Marietta Agee and her family reside two
miles east of Riverton.

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LUC1NDA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried there to William Crimm, and both
died in Southern Illinois, leaving seven or
eight children. The three eldest were

WIM.iAM, ABSALOM and MARTHA.

JOHN A., born March 6, 1800, in
Shelby county, Ky., married there to
Sarah Scoggin. They had three children,
came to Sangamon county, and settled
near Mechanicsburg, where they had six
children. Of their children. JOEL,
born July 19, 1823, in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Lucretia J. Bondu-
rant. They had eleven living children.
MARTHA A., MARY L., ELIZABETH j.,

JOHN T., THOMAS A., JOSEPH W., JESSE,
EDGAR, HARVEY, ETHA G. and ARTHUR.

Mr. C. and family moved to Kansas in
1865, an(^ m x^75 ^turned to Illinois, and
live in DeLand, Piatt county. WIL-
LIAM, born April 4, 1825, in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Eliza-
beth Lemon. They reside in Monmouth,
Polk county, Oregon. ANN, born Jan.
22, 1827, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon
county in her eighteenth year. GEORGE,
born August 15, 1829, in Sangamon coun-
ty, went to Oregon, and there married
Hannah E. Sherel. They have three
children, and live in Linn county, Oregon.
WILLOUGHBY, born Dec. 23, 1831, in
Sangamon county, went, when a young
man, to the Pacific coast, and lives in
Oregon. SARAH E., born Jan. 4, 1834,
in Sangamon county, resides with her
sister, Mrs. Smith, in Illiopolis. JOHN,
born Feb. 15, 1836, in Sangamon county,
enlisted July 19, 1861, for three years, in
Co. I, 41 111. Inf., re-enlisted as a veteran,
Jan., 1864. He was promoted to Sergeant,
July, 1863, an<^ to 2<1 Lieut., Nov., 1864.
Was with Sherman in his " march to the
tea," and was honorably discharged, June,
1865. He was married Feb. 14, 1867, in
Sangamon county, to Mary M. Graham.
They have one living child, ANNA, and
live three miles north of Illiopolis.
LOUISA, born April 25, 1838, in San-
gamon county, married April 10, 1860, to
Reuben Smith, who was born Nov. 4,
1833, 'm Duchess county, N. Y. They
have three living children, GEORGE, ADA
and HERBERT, and live in Illiopolis.
MARY, born Dec. 17, 1840, died in her
eleventh year. Mrs. Sarah Churchill died
Dec. 30, 1840, and John A. Churchill
married July 3, 1842, to Mrs. Elizabeth

Underwood, whose maiden name was
Lemon. She was born March 29, 1808,
in Georgetown, Ky. They had two
children, JULIA, born July 1 2, 1843, in
Sangamon county, lives with her mother.
LEMON P. died in his sixth year. John
A. Churchill died Feb. 4, 1845, anc* n's
widow and daughter reside in Mechanics-
burg.

AL VAH, born in Kentucky, married
there to Burnetta Samples, moved to In-
diana, and from there to Sangamon coun-
ty, in 1832, settling near Mechanicsburg.
They had four children, and moved to
Iowa; from there to Oregon in 18^53,
where he died.

LR WIS, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Mary A. Cooper.
They had eleven children and moved to
Iowa; from there, in 1853, to Oregon,
with his brother Alva. He died Jan. 13,
1869, leaving a widow and children.

WILL O C GHB T, born Feb. 1 5, : 809,
in Shelby county, Ky., married Oct. 6,
1834, in Sangamon county, 111., to Eliza-
beth J. Humphreys. They had six child-
ren in Sangamon county, and in 1851
moved to the Pacific coast. Mrs. Churchill
died at Delles, foot of Cascade mountains,
in Waco county, Oregon, and Mr. C. mar
ried in Oregon, August 1 1, 1852, to Matil-
da A. Price, who was born Jan. 12, 1828.
They had six children. Of his children
by the first marriage, GEORGE H., born
May 13, 1837, in Sangamon county, mar-
ried Catharine Reed, in Oregon. OWEN
H., born June 16, 1845, in Sangamon
county, 111., is in Montana. DAVID H.,
born March 31, 1843, in Sangamon coun-
ty, married July 23, 1875, to Minnie Lord.
They live in Helena Citv, Montana Ter.
MARY J., born Oct. 21, 1845, m Sanga-
mon county, was married in Oregon to
John M. Roach. They live in Clackamas
county, Oregon. MARTHA A., born
August 22, 1848, in Sangamon county,
died April 18, 1864, in Oregon. Children
of the second wife, all born in Oregon:
OLIVER D., born May 19, 1853,
JAMES E.,born May 18, 1854, LAURA
B., born May 8, 1856, near Harrisburg,
was married June 18, 1874, to George
Jordan. They live near Harrisburg, Or-
egon. THOMAS A., born July 27,
1857, and MINNIE D., born July 6,
1859, lives with her parents. Willoughby

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Churchill and family reside near Harris-
burg, Lynn county, Oregon.

ELIZABETH,\3orn Sept. n, 1811,
in Shelby county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Jesse Pickrell. See his
name.

MAJR7WA, born July 16, 1815, in
Shelby county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, June 16, 1833, to Griffin
Fletcher, who was born Dec. 23, 1810,
near Mt. Sterling, Montgomery county,
Ky. They had ten living children.
MARY A., born Sept. 20, 1836, married
H. C. Stiver, Sept. 28, 1855, in Sangamon
county. They have four living children,

KATIE, NELLIE, CARRIE and CHARLES.

Mr. Stiver moved to Texas in Dec., 1872.
SARAH J., born Nov. 15, 1838, married
Zachariah Pope, in 1854, in Sangamon
county, and died May 3, 1857. RHODA
E., born Jan. 4, 1841, married Levi S.
Ridgeway, in Sangamon county, Feb. 16,
1857. They had four children, IRA H.
and IDA s. (twins), CATHARINE E., ABBIE
and LOR A. Mr. Ridgeway died August
30, 1868, and Mrs. R. and family live
near Decatur, 111. DAVID C., born
March 3, 1843, m Christian county,
married in Sangamon county to Mary
A. Garvey. See sketch of the Garvey
family. JAMES L., born Nov. 3, 1845,
is a grocer in Decatur. JOHN W\,
born Dec. 2, 1847, married May 10,
1869, to Emma Clevenger, in Abington,
Knox county, 111. They have three
children, MAY D., THERON and STELLA,
and live in Decatur, 111. ABEL P., born
Feb. 15, 18^2, and MARTHA J., born
May 24, 1854, live with their parents.
Griffin Fletcher and wife reside in Deca-
tur, 111.

EL VIRA A., born Sept. 24, 1817, in
Shelby county, Ky., was married Feb. 6,
1834, in Sangamon county, to John Gar-
rett. They moved to the vicinity of
Pittsfield, Pike county, 111., in 1834, and
had seven living children. BENJ. F.,
born in 1835, married in Pittsfield to
Anna E. Adams, June, 1867, and live in
Newton county, Kansas. MARY E.,
born in 1838, resides with her mother.
LOUISA A., born in 1843, married S.
Woolfolk. MARTHA A., born in 1846,
lives with her mother. SARAH E.,
born in 1848, married July, 1872, to Rob-
ert Howard. They have one child,
FLORENCE B., and live in St. Louis, Mo.

LOTHARIO, born in 1850, and ELIZA
J., born in 1853, live with their mother in
Pittsfield, Pike county, 111. In 1866 Mr.
Garrett sold out, with the intention of
moving to Kansas. He left home alone
with a load of goods, and was murdered
in Bates county, Mo., in Nov., 1866.

DAVID B., born in 1821, in Ken-
tucky, was killed by lightning in Sanga-
mon county, May 7, 1842.

CC7L VI N S., born June 30, 1824, in
Kentucky, married July 31, 1845, m San-
gamon county, to Hester F. King. They
had nine children; three died in infancy,
and GEORGE W. died, aged ten years.
HENRY H., born Jan. 14, 1847, married
in 1873 to Lizzie Grubb, and resides neat-
Baldwin City, Kansas. PERMELIA A.,
born June 5, 1849, married William Hous-
ton. See his name. FIELDING A.,
SALLIE and AMANDA P., reside with
their parents, near German Prairie Sta-
tion.

George Churchill died May 15, 1837,
and Mrs. Sarah Churchill died Oct., 1847,
and both were buried near German
Prairie Station, Sangamon county, 111.

CLARK, DAVID, born Aug.28,
1776, in Essex county, N. J. Came to
Kentucky in 1798, and was there married
in 1800, to Rachel Rutter. They had
two children; one died in infancy, and
Mrs. Rachel Clark died in 1804. David
Clark moved to Cincinnati, O., in 1805, and
made brick for the first brick house built
in that city. He returned to Somerset
county, N. J., in the same year, and was
married there in Feb., 1806, to Sallie
Winans, who was born Oct. 25, 1788, in
that county. They moved to Miami
county, O., in 1809, and from there to San-
gamon county, 111., in 1829, settling on
Sugar creek. After two years they
moved to Wolf creek. They had six
children, one of whom died in infancy.
Of the other five —

Rev. RICHARD W., born June 16,
1808, in Somerset county, N, J.. was
married in April, 1828, to Margaret Clark,
a native of Fayette county, Ky. They
have five children living. SALLIE A.,
born Jan. n, 1831, in Sangamon county,
was married in 1848 to Ezra Clark. They
have six children, HATTIE A., LODORSKA

J., PERMELIA A., DAVID M., IRENA and

NELLIE, and live in Chesnut, Logan
county, 111. DAVID, born Jan. 2, 1834,

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in Sangamqn county, is married, and re-
sides in New Mexico. ELIZA, born
Nov. 9, 1841, in McDonough county, was
married in Logan county, 111., to Jonas
Shupe, May 13, 1858. He was a native
of Ohio. They had one child, MARY E.,
who resides with her uncle, Dr. John
Clark. Mr. Shupe died Jan. 13, 1865,
and Mrs. Shupe was married Feb. 5, 1871,
to John R. Ayers. They have one child,
LENA, who resides with her parents in
Mt. Pulaski. JOHN W., born Nov. 13,
1845, *n Logan county, 111., was married
Dec. 28, 1874, in Chesnut, Logan county,
to Emma Sterritt, a niece of Enoch
Moore, of Springfield, recently deceased.
Dr. John W. Clark is a practising physi-
cian at Milford, Iroquois county, 111.
MARY E., born Oct. 16, 1847, was mar-
ried March 31, 1866, near Mt. Pulaski, to
Benjamin Harding. They have four
children, MAY, ELIZA, ELLIS and RICH-
ARD, who reside with their parents near
Mt. Pulaski. Rev. Richard W. Clark
died Aug. 29, 1854, and his widow died
Dec. 21, 1867, both in Logan county, 111.

JOHN, born Nov. 25, 1810, in Miami
county, O., studied medicine there. Came
to Sangamon county with his father, re-
mained one year, returned to Ohio, where
he was married, Aug. 29, 1830, in Miami
county, to Eliza Tremain, who was born
May 24, 1810, in New York. They came
to Sangamon county, and followed farm-
ing until 1842, when he moved to Mt.
Pulaski and engaged in the practice of
medicine. He was County Commissioner
four years for Logan county, and Justice
of the Peace seventeen years, during
which time he married eighty-four couple.
He has, since 1828, been a member of the
M. E. church, and a trustee of the same,
in Mt. Pulaski, from the time the church
was organized at that .place. Dr. John
Clark and wife reside in Mt. Pulaski.

CARMAN W., born May 20, 1815,
in Miami county, O., married March 29,
1838, in Sangamon county, to Harriet
Crocker, step-daughter of David Riddle.
She was born Aug. 2, 1817, in Leba-
non, St. Clair county, 111. They had seven
children; one died in infancy. MARY
W., born March 24, 1842, in Sangamon
county, was married Oct. 17, 1866, to
Alfred C. Wilson. They have four child-
ren, HARRIE, HARRIET H., CARMAN R.

and ALFRED, and reside in Mt. Pulaski.
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JOHN, born April 22, 1848,111 Sangamon
county, died July 29, 1866. DAVID T.,
born June 27, 1850, in Sangamon county,
was married Jan. 27, 1876, to Lucy Powel.
They reside in Mt. Pulaski. RICHARD
H., born March 26, 1854, in Sangamon
county, was married Dec. 22, 1875, to
Mary E. Boggs. They reside in Mt.
Pulaski. ALFRED R., born July 31,
1857, in Sangamon county, and MARION,
born July I, 1862, in Logan county, reside
with their parents in Mt. Pulaski.

SALLY H., born Sept. 27, 1817, in
Miami county, Ohio, was married Oct.,
1834, to John Riddle, in Sangamon coun-
ty. They have four children, all born in
Sangamon county, ELIZA C., MARY
E., FRANCIS A. and SALLIE W.,
and reside near Barclay, Sangamon
county.

ELIZABETH, born Dec. 15, 1830,
in Miami county, Ohio, was married Dec.,
1847, to Alfred Gideon, who was born in
Champaign county, Ohio. They have
one child, DAVID C., born Nov. 27,
1847, was married Sept., 1868, to Sallie
Row, a native of Ohio. David C. Gideon
is a practicing physician at Watseka, Iro-
quois county, 111.

David Clark was a local M. E. preacher
for about forty years. His wife died Dec.
3, 1843, and he died Jan. 6, 1847, both on
the farm near the present town of Bar-
clay, Sangamon county, 111.

CLARK, BARZILLA, and his

wife, Nancy, came to what is now Salis-
bury township, Sangamon county, in
1821. They brought seven children, all
of whom married and raised families.
Their eldest daughter, Phebe, married
John N. Campbell. See his name. Bar-
zilla Clark died Sept. 23, 1840, and his
widow died April 19, 1843, both in San-
gamon county.

CLARK, ELISHA, was born in
1797, married in Indiana to Sarah Gard.
They had three children in Indiana, and
came to Sangamo, Sangamon county, in
1823. They had nine children in Illinois.
Their daughter —

HUBERTY, born July 30, 1824, at
Sangamo, Sangamon county, married
E. George Batterton. See his name.

Mrs. Sarah Clark died in 1853, in Mason
county, and Elisha Clark died in 1869, at
Pekin, 111.

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CLARK, PHILIP, was born
March 25, 1787, at Rye, England. He
was married there to Elizabeth Gravett.
They had five children, and Mrs. Clark
died. Mr. Clark left his children there,
and came -to America in 1817, landing at
Boston, Mass., and traveled by land and
water to New Orleans, returned to Eng-
land, and in company with his brother
Edward, embarked at London in August,
1818, and landed at Baltimore in October
following. They traveled on foot from
Baltimore to Pittsburg, and from there to
New Orleans by water. They returned
the same way to the vicinity of Harmony,
Ind., to visit the family of a relative by
the name of Morris Burkbeck, who had
emigrated from England a year or two
before. He afterwards came to Illinois,
and was Secretary of State under Gov.
Coles. The Clark brothers went up the
river to Shawneetown, and from there
across the country to St. Louis. They re-
crossed the river into the American bot-
tom and stopped with an Indian ranger,
who told them about the Sangama coun-
try. They started for it, and arrived in
November, 1819, on the Sangamon river,
two miles north of Rochester. Philip
Clark was married in 1823, in Indiana, to
Martha Jessup, an English lady, who
died without children, in Sangamon coun-
ty. He married in Sangamon countv to
Polly Whitford, in 1835. Philip Clark
had his five children sent from England.
They embarked at London May i, 1824,
and were received in New York by an
aunt on the iSth of June. The three
daughters and one son arrived in Sanga-
mon county in February, 1825. Of those
five children —

MARrE.,\>orn in i8io,at Rve, Eng.,
arrived in Sangamon county February,
1825, married in. 1832 to Samuel Hines.
They had three children in Sangamon
county, and moved to Iowa, where they
had three children. They reside near Cox
Creek Post Office, Clayton county, Iowa.

PHILIP, Jun., born Feb. 20, 1812, at
Rye, Eng., embarked at London May i,
1824, landed at New York city June iSth,
was bound — by an aunt who came before
them — apprentice in New York to a tailor,
who treated him cruelly, and he ran away,
went to Boston, obtained employment in a
glass factory, saved some money, went by
water to Philadelphia, walked from there

to Wheeling, Va. ; worked his way down
the Ohio river, and up the Mississippi
river to St. Louis, on a keel boat. At St.
Louis he fell in with Elijah lies and Rich-
ard Smith, both of whom knew his father,
and he came with them to Spr -igfield, ar-
riving Oct. 15. 1824, to the surprise of his
father. He was married May 19, 1836, to
Christiana Campbell, on Richland creek.
They had four children near Rochester,
Sangamon county. He went to California
in 1849, and returned in March, 1850,
moved to Clinton in November of the
same year, where three children were
born. Of their seven children, MARY,
born Dec. 18, 1839, married in Clinton,
Jan. 19, 1857, to Robert Millard, have five
children, and live in Clinton. JOHN G.,
born August 28, 1842, died in his twenty-
second year. PHEBE, born March i,
1847, married John Armstrong, and died
July 5, 1868, in Clinton. SARAH F.
lives with her parents. LOUIS P. died,
aged four years. CHRISTIANA and
MATTIE F. live with their parents, in
Clinton, 111.

MAR CARET, horn March 28, 1814,
at Rye, England, married in Sangamon
county, about 1834, to Daniel McClees.
They had seven children in Sangamon
county; four died in the same county, all
grown, or nearly so. JOHN and HENRY
were both Union soldiers. MARY J. mar-
ried John Spence, who died of disease con-
tracted in the army. She lives in Spring-
field. CHRISTIANA married Mr.
Pettv, and resides in Round Prairie, San-
gamon county. CHARLES resides with
his parents. Mr. McClees went to Cali-
fornia in 1849, came home in 1853, re-
turned, and his wife did not hear from him
for fifteen years. They now reside at
Port Angelos, Washington Territory.

SELINA, born July, 1816, in Rye,
England, married in 1838, in Sangamon
county, to John H. McMinany. She died
in Fannin county, Texas.

HENRTR., born April, 1818, at Rye,
England, married in Sangamon countv, in
1842, to Jane Trotter. They had two
children ; both live in Sangamon county.
Henry R. Clark resides near, Bolivar, Mo.

Philip Clark died in February, 1853, in
Sangamon county. His widow married
again, and resides in Missouri.

The object of the Clark brothers in
coming to the country was to engage in

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the milling business. The site they select-
ed was a favorable one, on the main San-
gamon river, about two miles north of the
present town of Rochester. The Legisla-
ture passed an act declaring that rive
navigable, and they abandoned the mill
site. They went to a point on the South
Fork, near where Edward Clark lived and
died, and put a saw mill in operation in
1824, and a flouring mill in 1825. That
was the first mill that did good work in
this part of the country. Soon after they
came to the country, Philip went to
Lisle's band mill, and remained three days
and two nights to get two bushels of corn
ground. They then bought a hand mill
in St. Louis for their own use, but it kept
about thirty families in bread for two
years, until their own mill on South Fork
was completed.

CLARK, EDWARD, was born
Feb. 16, 1790, in the ancient town of Rye,
Eng. It was the principal one of the three
independent ports, which, together with the
Cinque, or five ports, obtained charters
granting special privileges from the
British Sovereigns, in consequence of
their having fitted out a fleet and con-
quered the Danish and Scandanavian free-
booters, thus breaking up the system of
piracy which had for years been devastat-
ing the English coasts. The office of
Lord Warden of the Cinque ports, is one
of the most ancient in the kingdom, reach-
ing back to the time of Edward the Con-
fessor, about the year 1050. Edward Clark's
grandfathers on both sides were named
Clark, but were no relation to each other.
They were both sea captains, and his
father, Henry Clark, was intended for the
sea, but could never overcome the tenden-
cy to sea sickness, and engaged in other
pursuits, chiefly mercantile and milling, to
which the subject of this sketch was
trained in early life. His brother Philip,
having visited America in 1817, Edward
sailed with him from London in August,
1818, and landed in October following.
They arrived in what became Sangamon
county in Nov., 1819, and located on the
Sangamon river, about two miles north of
the present town of Rochester. For the
route traveled, see his brother Philips
name.

Edward Clark was married March 4,
1821, to Sarah Viney. Mr. Clark went to
Edwardsville to obtain a license, and when

he arrived there, learned that a law had
been enacted by the legislature, in session
at Vandalia, and approved by Gov. Bond,
Tan. 30, 1821, providing for the organization
of a new county, to be- called Sangamon.
The clerk declined to issue a license, and
Mr. Clark insisted that as he was ready to
marry he did not like to be delayed. The
clerk told him that if he was determined
to marry, he could go home, have the
marriage ceremony solemnized, and after
the county was organized, have it done
again. The county was organized April
10, 1821, and after that a license was ob-
tained and the marriage again solemnized
by the same minister who officiated the
first time, Rev. Rivers Cormack, of the
M. E. Church. They had eight children,
all in Sangamon county, namely —

ABRAHAM V., born April 9, 1822.
He was never married, but went to Cali-
fornia in 1849, and died Dec., 1850, at
Sacramento City.

HENRT P., born Nov. 2, 1823. He
was married Dec. 15, "1853, to Nancy T.
Williams. They have four children,
MARY J., SARAH V., EDWARD S.,
and WILLIAM T., the three eldest in
Rochester, and the fourth in Oskaloosa,
Iowa. Henry P. Clark lives one and a
half miles southeast of Rochester.

MART JANE, born Feb. 25, 1825,
married Feb. 25, 1845, to James Richard-
son. They had three children. Mrs. R.
died Sept. 6, 1857. Mr. Richardson is
married again, and resides in Taylorville.
Her youngest son, Abraham V. Richard-
son, lives at the homestead, near Roches-
ter.

REBECCA S., born May 15, 1827,
died unmarried, March 18, 1856.

GEORGE W., born Nov. 11, 1829,
died Dec. 15, 1855.

EDMUND J. and CHARLES A.,
twins, born Aug. 27, 1831.

CHARLES A., died Oct. 25, 1852, in
Oregon.

EDMUND J., married Feb. 19,
1857, to Cassander Lovelace, who was
born Sept. 9, 1838, in Shelby county.
They have six living children, WILLIAM
F., LOUISA J., REASON E., JAS-
PER N., JOHN S. and ALVIN W.,
and live at the family homestead, two
miles west of Rochester.

SARAH A., born Feb. 2, 1835, died
Jan. 26, 1856.

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Mrs. Sarah Clark died March 26, 1837,
and Edward Clark was married Jan. 10,
1838, to Nancy Trotter. They had three
children.

BENJAMIN F., born Oct. 15, 1838,
enlisted July 25, 1862, in Co. I, i I4th 111.
Inf., for three years. At the battle of
Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864, he brought
on disease by excessive fatigue, and died
March i, 1865, in military hospital at
Memphis, Tenn. His brother, Henry P.,
brought his remains home, and they were
interred near Rochester.

WILLIAM T., born Nov. 16, 1842,
enlisted Sept. 28, 1861, in Co. G, loth 111.
Cav., for three years, re-enlisted as a vet-
eran, served to the end of the rebellion,
and was honorably discharged Nov., 1865,
at San Antonio, Texas. William T.
Clark lives in Oregon.

NANCT ANN, born March 16, 1845,
and died Jan. 21, 1856. By looking back
at dates it will be seen that four members
of the family died from Dec. 15, 1855, to
March 18, 1856. Disease, typhoid fever.

Mrs. Nancy Clark died Sept. 26, 1853,
and Edward Clark died Jan. 10, 1875,
both on the farm two miles west of Roch-
ester, and within five miles of where he
settled in 1819.

Wellington was in command of the
district where Edward Clark lived when
both were young men, and Mr. Clark
knew him well. Mr. Clark witnessed the
launching of the British ship, Victory, at
the Chatham dock yarks. It was on
board that ship that Admiral Nelson was
slain at the battle of Trafalgar, after
promulgating the famous order which has
became historic: "England expects every
man to do his duty."

Edward Clark was a man of precise
business habits, better suited to an older
community than the one in which he
spent the greater part of his long life.
He was just in all his dealings, and was
a model Christian gentleman. He was
a man of varied and extensive reading,
and had accumulated a miscellaneous
library from the standard works of the
most distinguished authors in the English
language.

CLARK, O RAM EL, was born
August ii, 1792, in Lebanon, Connecti-
cut, taken by his parents to Berk-
shire county, Mass., in 1797, and from
there to Cooperstown, N. Y. He enlisted

and served as a non-commissioned officer
in the war of 1812, and moved to St. Law-
rence county ^N. Y., in 1817. He emigra-
ted in 1818 to Kaskaskia, 111., and in 1819
removed to where Athens, Menard coun-
ty, now stands* He was the third man
who settled on the north side of Sangamon
river. In 1820 he returned on foot to visit
his parents in New York. On returning
to his home in Illinois, he married Jane
C. Stewart, on Fancy creek, in Sanga-
mon county. In 1821 he bought the
preempted right to a -farm from John
Dixon (afterwards founder of Dixon, 111.,)
on Fancy creek, ten miles from Spring-
field. He remained here until the death
of his wife, in 1832, when he again visited
his parents in New York, returning to
Illinois in 1834. Of his five children —

MARIA died, aged four years, at
Athens.

MART J., born Nov. 5, 1824, in San-
gamon county, was married March, 1842,
to Abner Riddle. See his name.

RUSSELL W., born in 1827, in San-
gamon county, died, aged twenty-one
years. He was a medical student at the
time.

WILLIAM A., born Jan. 4, 1829, on
Fancy creek, Sangamon county, was ap-
prenticed to the drug business in Spring-
field. Was a salesman from 1851 until 1853,
when he emigrated to California, crossing
the plains. He was married in Redwood
City, Cal., Sept. 18, 1866, to Rebecca E.
Teague, who was born July I, 1849, in
Springfield, Mo. They had two children,
viz: GEO. W. and EDWARD O. The
latter died June 16, 1875. William A.
Clark and family reside at Redwood City,
San Mateo county, California.

EDWARD O., born Dec. 3, 1831, in
Sangamon county, married Feb. 14, 1855,
in Waverly, 111., to Virginia F. Harris,
who was born March 8, 1835, in Morgan
county, 111. They have one child,
ESTHER C., and reside near Carlinville.

Oramel Clark was married the second
time, Oct. 28, 1836, to Judith W. Davis,
of Elkhart, 111. She was born August
12, 1802, in Union county, Ky. They
moved to Springfield in 1838, and had
five children, viz —

E ME LINE, born August 20, 1838, in
Sangamon county, was married in Spring-
field, March 23, 1863, to Col. N. Martin
Curtis, who was born May 21, 1835, in

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205

De Peyster, N. Y. He enlisted April,
1861, was mustered into the United States
service May 15, 1861, as Gaptain of Co.
G, i6th N. Y. Inf., and became Lieuten-
ant Colonel of the 1426. N. Y. Inf., Oct.
21, 1862, and Colonel -Jan. 21, 1863;
Brigadier General by brevet Oct. 27, 1864;
Brigadier General, Jan. 15, 1865, and
Brevet Major General. The last two pro-
motions were for gallantry displayed in
leading the troops in the capture of Fort
Fisher, Jan. 15, 1865, where he lost his left
eye. General Curtis was several times
severely -wounded. The Legislature of
New York passed resolutions, April 5,
1865, thanking Gen. Curtis and the officers
and men of his command (who were all
New York troops), for their achieve-
ments on that occasion. Gen. Curtis was
appointed, August 14, 1866, Collector of
Customs for the District of Oswegatchie,
and Special Agent Treasury Depaitment
March 4, 1867, which position he still
holds. They have three children, EM-
MA P., MARY W. and FLORENCE
R. Gen. Curtis is a breeder of fine stock,
and resides on his farm near Ogdensburg,
N. Y.

MARTHA and S (7SAN(tvf'ms),})orn
Sept. 23, 1840.

MARTHA married George W. Burge.
They have two living children, GEO. C.
and FRANK F., and reside at Ottawa,
Kansas.

SUSAN\?> unmarried, and resides with
her sister, Mrs. Burge.

CAROLINE y., born March 5, 1845,
in Springfield, married Oct. 30, 1867, to
John M. Amos. See his name,

Oramel Clark died Sept. 9, 1863, in
Springfield, and his widow resides with
her children.

CLAYTON, JOHN S., was
born August 2, 1802, in Caldwell county,
Ky. Elizabeth Clayton was born May,
1806, in the same county. They were
there married in 1824, and had one child
in Kentucky. The family moved to Mor-
gan county, 111., where one child was born,
and moved back to Kentucky, where two
children were born, and they again moved
to Morgan county, 111., in 1833 or '4, and
after a few years spent there, moved to
Sangamon county, in what is now Ball
township, where they had seven children.

FKANKLIX JEFFERSON^Q^
Feb. 13, 1827, in Caldwell county, Ky.,

married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth
Scott. They have six children, RUTH
JANE, GILBERT, AMANDA E.,
PERLEASY, EMMA and SHELTON
L., and reside in Ball township, near
Chatham.

ALEXANDER, born Sept. 16, 1829,
in Morgan county, 111., married in Sanga-
mon county to Mary A. Marshall. They
had two children, CHARLES E. and
HENRY N., and Mrs. Mary A. Clayton
died, and he married Theresa J. Penix.
They have four children, MELISSA J.,
ADA M., MARY A. and JACOB B.,
and live in Ball township, four and a half
miles southeast of Chatham.

MINERVA y., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to John Og-
den, who died, and she married William
Smith, and lives near Moberly, Randolph
county, Mo.

MARQUIS D., born March 16, 1834,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, August 29, 1860, to Susan A. Matthew.
They had eight children, three of whom
died young. The other five, CHARLES
A., SARAH E., FRANKLIN L.,
THOMAS E. and MANFORD E. live
with their parents, three miles north of
Pawnee.

ELZIRA, born in Illinois, married
William Easley, have six children, and
live in Clark county, Mo.

MARY A., born in Illinois, married
Simon T. Matthew. See his name.

GEORGE M. married Miss J. Pat-
terson, who died, and he married Harriet
E. Debow. They have .one child, NET-
TIE FLORENCE, and live in Cotton
Hill township, three miles north of Paw-
nee.

MARfETTA, born in Sangamon
county, married George Lamb. See his
name.

JOHN Z., born in Sangamon county,
married in 1873 to Mary Allen, and lives
with his mother.

John vS. Clayton died Sept. 7, 1861, and
Mrs. Elizabeth Clayton resides in Ball
township, four and a half miles southeast
of Chatham.

CLAYTON, JOHN C., was
born about 1808, in Caldwell county, Ky.
He came to Sangamon county in 1829,
with his cousin and brother-in-law, John
S. Clayton. He was married at Alton to
Ginsey Clack. He moved his family to

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

Champaign county in 1856, and died there
the same year, leaving a widow and four
children. His son Elias was a. member of
an Illinois regiment, and was killed in
battle at Little Rock, Ark., in 1864. A
daughter is married, and lives in Missouri.

The widow, with her son Hardin and
another child, live near Urbana, 111.

CLEMENTS, GEORGE, was
born in Amherst county, Va. ; was mar-
ried to Lizzie Holliday, who was a native
of Virginia also. They had six children
in Virginia, and the family moved to Gar-
rard county, Ky., and from there to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving early in 1830
in what is now Woodside township. Of
the children —

WILLIAM, born Oct. 14, 1797, in
Virginia, married in Kentucky and died,
leaving a family there.

JOHN, born May 13, 1800, in Vir-
ginia, married in Kentucky to Elizabeth
Turpin, came with his father to Sanga-
mon county. They had three living
children. HENRY D. married Eliza
Skane, had two children, and she died.
He lives in Sangamon county. LUCIN-
DA married William Barger, and resides
in Mechanicsburg. ELIZA married
Isaiah Pryor, and live in Missouri.

THOMAS, born Nov. 22, 1802, in Am-
herst county, Va., married Sindicey Harris,
August 2, 1822. They had eight children.
AMERICA, born July 21, 1823, married
John C. Cloyd. See his name, LOU-
ISIANA, born July 16, 1826, married
John A. Miller. See his name. JAMES
A., born Nov. 18, 1828, in Ky., married
Permelia Hatten, who was born in 1826,
in Garrard county, Ky. They reside four
miles southwest of Chatham. ELIZA
A., born in Sangamon county, Oct. 22,
1832, resides with her sister, Mrs. Matthew
Cloyd. FANNY, born Oct. 13, 1833, in
Sangamon county, married Oct. 18, 1848,
to Matthew Cloyd. See his name. GEO.
W., born Oct. 14, 1835, died, aged ten
years. SINDICEY J., born August 28,
1837, died March, 1854. THOMAS R.,
born May 6, 1839, married Sept. 4, 1861,
to Elizabeth Ellison, who was born in
Carthage, O. They have two children,
ADA and JAMES H., and live in Chatham
township. HENRY H., born Jan. 3,
1841, married Emily Sparks, has three
children, and live near Topeka, Kansas.
Mrs. Sindicey Clements died Feb. 21,

1842, and Thomas Clements married in
1844 t° Mrs. Alcey Baucom, whose maiden
name was Neville. Thomas Clements
died March, 1855, and his widow resides
with her daughter, Mrs. T. Gordon Cloyd,

SINDICET married Henry Collier.
They have one child, LOUISIANA, and live
in Rochester.

ELIZA A., born March 29, 1811, in
Amherst county, Va., married Samuel
Cloyd. See his name.

FANNY, born July 17, 1808, married
May 19, 1844, to John Levi. He died
Dec. 23, 1872, and his widow- lives in
Rochester.

George Clements and his wife both
died in Sangamon county.

CLIFTON, ELIAS, was born
in Sussex county, Delaware, and married
there to Sally Carlisle, a native of the
same county. They had five children in
that county, two of whom died young.
The family moved, in 1802, to Fayette
county, Ky., where one child died, and in
1816 they moved to Clarke county, Ind.,
and from there to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving Dec., 1834, in what is now
Rochester township. Of their two child-
ren—

CLEMENT, born about 1794, in
Delaware, married in Clarke county, Ind.,
to Nancy Martin. They came to Sanga-
mon county a few years later than his
father. Mrs. Clifton died in 1845. He
went back to Indiana, and married Mrs.
Susan Williams, whose maiden name was
Huckleberry. They had one child,
ELIAS, who died aged fifteen years.
Mrs, Clifton died, and he married Melin-
da Alsop. She died in 1855, and he in

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NANCY, born Oct. 31, 1800, in Sussex

county, Delaware. She was married in
Fayette county, Ky., April 27, 1816, to
Uspshear D. Spicer. See his name. He
died, and Mrs. Spicer married Adam
Saftly. See his name.

Mrs. Sally Clifton died March 25, 1346,
and Elias Clifton died Jan. 3, 1852, both
in Sangamon county.

CLINE, JOHN, was born Jan. 2,
1798, in Frederick county, Va. His pa-
rents died when he was quite young, leav-
ing four children. Their grandfather,
George Sutherland, took them with him
to Madison county, near London, Ohio, in
1802. In 1819 he prepared to visit the

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western country on horseback. Levi
Cantrall wa* about moving to Illinois, and
Mr. Cline engaged to drive his four-horse
team, and they arrived in the American
bottom in November. Mr. Cantrall pur-
chased a supply of corn there, and moved
to what became Sangamon county, arriv-
ing in Dec., 1819, in what is now Fancy
Creek township. Mr. Cline drove the
team, and arrived at the same time. He
intended returning to Ohio in the spring,
but when the time came he decided to
raise a crop, and while thus engaged he
was married, July 20, 1820, to Mrs. Lucy
Scott, whose maiden name was England.
He made arrangements to visit Ohio in
fall of 1820, but his wife being sick, he
deferred it, and has not yet made his visit.
Mrs. Cline had one child by her first mar-
riage—

ELIZA SCOTT, born Feb. 15, 1816.
She is married, has three children, and
lives in Kansas.

Mr. and Mrs. Cline had ten children in
Sangamon county —

WILLIAM, born Oct. 8, 1821, mar-
ried Sept. 6, 1842, to Eliza Canterberry.
They had four children. MARIA L.
married August 14, 1862, to Charles S.
Jones, who was born July 19, 1844, in
Ohio. He enlisted a few days before his
marriage, in Co. C, H4th 111. Inf., for
three years. He was wounded June 10,
1864, at the battle of Tupelo, Miss., and
was discharged on account of physi-
cal disability. Mr. and Mrs. Jones
have one child, SCOTT, and live in the ex-
treme southwest corner of Logan county,
Post Office, Williamsville. JOHN N.,
born August 23, 1846, married July 29,
1867, to Dulcina E. Primm. They have
one living child, NINIAN o., and live five
and a half miles west of Williamsville.
ASA M. married March 12, 1873, to
Melissa McClelland, and live in Fancy
creek township. WILLIAM F. lives
with his father. Mrs. Eliza Cline died
vSept. 7, 1871, and William Cline married
in 1872, to Maria J. Purkins. They have
one child, EDWARD E., and live in
Menard county, near Cantrall.

GEORGE W., born April 8, 1823,
married Elizabeth Primm, and died Aug.
14, 1845, about four months after marriage.
His widow married Jacob Barnsback, and
resides near Edwardsville.

MATILDA A., born May 3, 1825,
married Andrew Lynch, had seven child-
ren, and he died, and she married David
Jones. They have two children, and re-
side in Menard county.

E LIZ ABE TH, born August 24, 1826,
married James A. Turley, and he died
Jan., 1852, leaving one child, ALMEDA,
whe married Joseph M. Smith, and re-
sides near Cantrall. Mrs. Turley married
George T. Sales. See his name.

JOHN, born August 30,1828, married
Jane Council, have six children, and live
in Menard county.

DA VID, born June 17, 1830, married
Jane Hornback, and both died, leaving
three children.

ADALINE, born April 25, 1832, mar-
ried William M. Blue. See his name.

STEPHEN E., born Nov. i, 1834,
died August 15, 1853.

JAMES, born July 17, 1837, mar-
ried Eliza Hall, have four children,
MARY E., IDA F., LUCY O. and
HENRY A., and reside in Fancy creek
township.

HENRr,\*orn Oct. 8, 1839, married
Mary Primm. They have three children,
WILLIAM A., ALLEN C. and JEN-
NIE, and live near Cantrall.

Mrs. Lucy Cline died June 4, 1875, and
John Cline lives in Cantrall.

CLJNKENBEARD, WM.,
was born Feb. 12, 1808, in Clarke county,
Ky. He came to Sangamon county in
1825, remained one year, returned to Ken-
tucky, and came back to Sangamon county
in 1829. He was married April, 1835, to
Lavina Elder. They had ten children in
Sangamon county. The fourth, fifth and
seventh died under six years. Of the
other seven —

JULA A., born Sept. 15, 1836, mar-
ried Edward L. Robinson, have three
children, and live near Berry, Sangamon
county.

WILLIAM H., born August 13, 1838,
in Sangamon county, married August 14,
1864, to Ann J. Brachear. They have
two children, HARVEY and LESLIE,
and live near Pleasant Gap, Bates county,
Missouri.

MART, born in Sangamon county,
married Henry Bryant, have five children,
and live near Pleasant Gap, Mo.

THOMAS married Martha Robbins,
and r<esides near Pleasant Gap, Mo.

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JOS I AH, born March 12, 1852, re-
sides in Buffalo, Sangamon county.

y. ALBERT and LEV I F. live
with their parents.

William Clinkenbeard lived in Sanga-
mon county until March, 1873, when he
moved to Missouri, and resides near Pleas-
ant Gap, Bates county.

CLOYD, DAVID, was born
about 1766, in Botetourt county, Va. He
was married there, moved to Culpepper
county, and from there to Washington
county, Ky., about 1815. He moved in
company with his sons Thomas and Sam-
uel, and his daughter Polly — who married
Henry Lucas — to Sangamon county, ar-
riving October, 1825, in what is now Cur-
ran township. David Cloyd died about
1839, and his widow in 1844 or '5, both in
Sangamon county.

CLOYD, THOMAS, son of
David, was born Jan. 14, 1798, in Bote-
tourt county, Va., and went with his par-
ents to Washington county, Ky., in 1815.
He was married there April 27, 1820, to
Ann Withrow. They had three children
in Kentucky, and in 1824 moved to
Fayette county, 111., where they had one
child, and from there to Sangamon county,
arriving October, 1825, in what is now
Curran township, north of Lick creek,
where they had two children. Of their
six children —

ANN CORDELIA, born June 29,
1820, in Washington county, Ky., married
in Sangamon county to Rev. Charles D.
Alsbury. See his name.

JOHN CAL VIN, born Sept. 6,1821,
in Washington county, Ky. He was
married in Sangamon county to America
Clements. They had two children, one
of whom died young. DICEY married
James H. Jones, and lives in Henry coun-
ty, Mo. Mrs. America Cloyd died, and
J. C. Cloyd married September, 1848, to
Sophia L. Lanterman. They have eight
children. CHARLES married Elizabeth
J. Branham, has one child, ELIZA M., and
live in Curran township. ELEANOR
married Asbury M. Branham. They
have three children, WILLIAM c., CORD F.
and a daughter, and live in Curran town-
ship. NANCYJ., CORDELIA, WAL-
LACE R., GORDON, AMANDA M.
and JOHN C., Jun., live with their par-
ents, three miles southeast of Curran,

NANCY, born Dec. 25, 1823, in Ken-
tucky, married Jan. 2, 1840, to Robert
Cummings. See his name. ,

MATTHEW,\>ovn Sept. 10, 1825, in
Fayette county, 111., married in Sangamon
county, Oct. 18, 1848,10 Fanny Clements.
They have nine children. ROBERT T.
lives with his parents. ELIZA J. married
William F. Smith. See his name. WM.
O. lives with his parents. JULIA F.
married May 27, 1873, to Benjamin F.
Caldwell. See his name. MATTHEW
F., ANN M., HENRIETTA, ALICE
and SAMUEL, live with their parents in
Chatham township.

THOMAS GORDON, born June 7,
1827, in Sangamon county, married Sept.
27, 1849, to Priscilla J. Baucom, who was
born Dec. 31, 1831, in Madison county.
They have three children, THOMAS,
JOHN C. and ANNIE E., and live near
Chatham. Although Thomas G. Cloy
was but three and a half years old at the
time, he remembers one incident connected
with the " deep snow" of 1830-31. That
was seeing his father drive' a team over a
stake and ridered fence, and it troubled
him greatly, fearing that the team would
go down through the snow and become
stranded on the fence.

JOSEPH D., born Dec. 5, 1831, in
Sangamon county, married Dec. 16, 1852,
to Sarah M. Byers, who was born Oct. 13,
1833, in or near Shepherdstown, Va. They
had nine children; one died young.
MARY E., SARAH E., VIRGINIA
B., JOSEPH D., Jun., THOMAS E.,
WILLIS, MARGARET F. and
LAURA reside with their parents, half
a mile north of Chatham.

Thomas Cloyd and wife now — June,
1873 — reside near Woodside Statron.

CLOYD, SAMUEL, brother to
Thomas, was born Nov. 20, 1802, in Cul-
peper county, Va. He was taken by his
parents to Washington county in 1815, and
to Sangamon county in 1825. He was
married May i, 1832, in Sangamon county
to Eliza Clements. They had but one
child—

MARY A., born Oct. 15, 1832, on Lick
creek, Sangamon county, married March,
1860, to John S. Highmore. She died
Sept. 9, 1872, leaving two children,
ELIZA A. and MARY E., who live
with their father in Rochester. See
Bowling family.

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Samuel Cloycl died August 5, 1872, in
Rochester, and his widow resides there.

COATS, RALPH J., born May
3, 1817, in Wyoming county, New York,
came to Springfield Oct. 9, 1840. He was
married in Livingston county, Michigan,
May 14, 1845, to Amanda N. Wood, who
was born in Wyoming county, New York,
April S, 1823. They returned to Spring-
field, 111., where they had two children —

ABEL A., born August 4, 1846, in
Springfield, enlisted May, 1864, in Co. E,
1 33d 111. Inf., for one hundred days. He
served full term and was. honorably dis-
charged with the regiment, Sept. 24, 1864.
He was married in Springfield; Oct. 30,

1867, to Charlotte E. Gardnier, who was
, born April 30, 1850, in Carrolton, Green

county, 111. They have four children, all
born in Springfield. NINA B., RALPH
W., CHARLES A. and MERWIN W.
Abel A. Coats is in the grocery business,
with his father, and resides in Springfield.
PERSfS E., born Jan. 6, 1849, in
Springfield, was married there, Nov. 19,

1868, to Charles D. Timothy, who was
born Jan. 3, 1842, in Franklin Grove, Lee
county, 111. They have three children
living, CLARA I., WARREN A. and
NETTIE B. Mr. Timothy enlisted Feb.
3, 1864, in Co. G, 75th 111. Inf. On ar-
riving at Springfield he was detached under
Gen. Oakes in the mustering in and out
department, and was honorably discharged
March, 1866. He was elected a member
of the Board of Supervisors for 1875, and
resides two and a half miles north of
Springfield.

Ralph J. Coates was elected Alderman
of Springfield in 1857, for three years,
was re-elected in 1860, 1864 and 1871. He
' is now, and has been in the grocery busi-
ness in Springfield, 111., for eighteen years,
and resides there.

R. J. Coates' father was a soldier in the
war of 1812, for four months. He died in
Springfield, 111., August 9, 1874, at the
age of eighty-seven years.

COE, EBENEZER, was born
August 25, 1812, in Loudon county, Va.,
and came to Sangamon county, 111., with
George M. Gi'een, in 1839. He went
back to Virginia in the fall of 1843, and
was married in Loudon county, Sept. 17,
1844, to Jane Grubb, a native of that
county. He returned to Sangamon coun-
ty in 1851. Mrs. Coe died near Roches-
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ter, May 10, 1860. Mr. Coe was mar-
ried March 26, 1861, in Loudon county,
to Mrs. Julia A. Edwards, whose maiden
name was Conard. They came soon after
to Sangamon county, and Mrs. Coe died
Dec. 22, 1869, leaving four children —

JOSEPH H., SAMUEL B., WIL-
LIAM C. and MART C.

Ebenezer Coe was married Dec. 13,
1870, in Decatur 111., to Harriet Lanham,
who was born July 25, 1830, in Sangamon
county. They live one mile east of
Rochester.

COLEMAN, MRS. ABI-
GAIL, whose maiden name was Rob-
ertson, was born in Surry county, N. C.,
and was married there to Theophilus
Coleman, who was born in Virginia.
They had four children in North Caro-
lina. Mr. Coleman became a soldier in
the war with England in 1812. He nevei
returned, and his family never knew his
fate. Mrs. Coleman, with her four child-
ren, moved in 181510 Cumberland county,
Kv., and to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
rived in the fall of 1820 on Richland creek,
in what is now Salisbury township. Of
her four children —

SARAH, born Jan. 6, 1801, in North
Carolina, married in Kentucky to Joshua
Crow, came with her mother to Sanga-
mon county. They moved to Cass county,
where she died many years ago, leaving
seven children.

ELIZABETH, born May 19, 1804,
in North Carolina, married John G. Pur-
vines. See his name.

JANE, born Jan. 28, 1806, in North
Carolina, married George K. Hamilton.
See his name. He died, and she married
Alexander C. Purvines. See his name.

JOHN /?., born Feb. 29, 1808, in
North Carolina, married Nancy Harris,
had two children in Sangamon county,
and moved to Crawford county, Mo.,
where they had four children, and Mrs.
Coleman died. He married again, had
four children, and is now a widower and
resides in Missouri.

Mrs. Abigail Coleman was married in
Sangamon county in 1824, to Robert
Hamilton. They had two children in
Sangamon county —

MAHAL A married Mr. Rice, had one
child, and Mr. Rice died. She married
James Pease, had three children, and he

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died. Mrs. Mahala Pease resides near
Cuba, Mo.

JAMES C. married in Missouri, en-
listed in a Union regiment from that
State, and died in the army.

Mrs. Abigail Hamilton died in Sanga-
mon county, and Robert Hamilton died
in Arkansas.

COLEMAN, JONATHAN
B., was born Nov. 16, i8n,in Ruther-
ford county, Tenn. When he was about
seventeen years old he came to Sangamon
county with his uncle, Charles K. Hutton,
arriving in what is now Auburn township
Oct. 15, 1827. He was married Nov. 10,
1835, to Mary Dodds. They had five
living children, all born in Sangamon
county, namely —

JAMES W., born Nov. 21, 1838,
married Margaret Bowman, had two
children, CHARLES U. and BELLE,
and Mrs. C. died. Mr. Coleman mar-
ried Elizabeth Mengle. They have two
children, and live in Christian county.

JOSEPH E., born March 5, 1841,
enlisted July 15, 1861, in Springfield, for
three years, in what became Co. B, nth
Mo. Inf. He served full term and was
honorably discharged Aug. 12, 1864. He
married Lydia Dawson. They have one
child, LETA, and live in Springfield.
Mr. Coleman is a traveling salesman for
a queensware house in St. Louis.

WILLIAM H. married Fanny B.
Taylor, and lives in Ball township.

ELIZABETH A. and
MARGARET E. live with their pa-
rents, near the Sugar creek Cumb. Presb.
church, in Ball township.

COLEY, WILLIS, was born
Feb. 14, 1792, near Ballston Springs,
N. Y., and when he was a child his pa-
rents moved to Cazenovia, Madison coun-
ty. Willis was there married in Feb.,
1818, to Lucinda Chapin. His father
owned some land in the military tract be-
tween the Illinois and Mississippi rivers.
Soon after Willis was married his father
sent him out to see it. He came on a
raft down the Alleghany and Ohio rivers
to Shawneetown, thence to St. Louis by
keel boat. He went on foot to the mili-
tary ti'act, and returned to Edwardsville
July 4, 1819, he started from that place, on
foot and alone, for his home in New York.
At Terre Haute, Ind., he secured cooked
food, and traveled two hundred miles to

the Maumee river, without seeing any
other human beings but Indians. He ar-
rived at Cazenovia August 7, 1819.
March 4, 1820, he started with his family,
consisting of himself, wife and two child-
ren, accompanied by five or six other fam-
ilies. They moved by water fo Shawnee-
town, 111., where Mr. Coley lived three
years. He then moved in a wagoi. drawn
by two yoke of oxen, and in March, 1823,
arrived in what is now Loami township,
where they had three children. Of their
five children —

ROBERT W., born in New York,
married in Sangamon county to Rebecca

A. Jarrett. She died Feb. 13, 1870, and
Robert W. Coley died March, 1872.
Their daughter LA VINA is the wife of
John A. DeWitt, and lives in Springfield.
Their son WILLIS lives in Loami.

CHARLOTTE, born August 15, 1819,
in New York, married in Sangamon
county to Reuben Moore, and moved to
Texas in 1852. Reuben Moore died in
1863, leaving a widow and seven children.
LUCINDA, ROBERT E., ELLEN
and POLLY are married, and live in
Texas. LAURA, their third child, mar-
ried Lott Mason, and lives in Auburn,
Sangamon county. EDGAR and WIL-
LIE, the two youngest, live with their
mother, near McKinney, Collin county,

HUBBARD S., born in Sangamon
county, married March 4, 18^2, to Susan
Jacobs. They have two children, AN-
NIS and MAY, and live in Oswego, La-
bc'tte county, Kansas.

JAMES M., born August 23, 1832^11
Sangamon county, married Oct. 28, 1858,
to Caroline Greenwood. She died six
weeks after they were married. Mr.
Coley married April 19, 1860, to America
Gibson. They had two children, LEWIS

B. and MARY F., the latter of whom
died in her third year. J. M. Coley and
wife live in Loami.

ANGELINE, born in Sangamon
county, married Hugh Forrest, and both
died.

Mrs. Lucinda Coley died at Loami, and
Willis Coley was married Sept., 1851, to
Mrs. Philena Jenkins, who was previous-
ly Mrs. Kidder, and whose maiden name
was Sprague, a native of Windham coun-
ty, Vt. After a residence of just half a

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century at Loami, Willis Coley moved, in
1873, to Oswego, Kansas.

COLBURN, PAUL, was born
about 1761, in Hollis, Hillsboro county,
New Hampshire. He was married in
Massachusetts, to Mehetibel Ball, who
was born about 1757- They had eleven
children born in Sterling, Worcester
county, Mass. In 1809 the family moved
to the vicinity of Hebron, Grafton county,
N. H., where they remained until Sept.,
1815, when Paul Colburn and his wife,
his son Isaac with his wife and two child-
ren, his son William and his wife, they
having been married but a few days, and
his unmarried daughter, Isabel, started
from Hebron in wagons to seek a new
home in Ohio, at that time the " far west."
On reaching Olean, at the Alleghany
river, they found the river too low to
bring all their goods on boats, as they had
intended. They sold their wagons and
teams, put their remaining goods and their
families on a raft, and started down the
river, reaching Pittsburg on the evening
of Dec. 24, 1815. Ice was forming in the
river, and they were compelled to stop
there for the winter. While they were in
Pittsburg, Paul Colburn was joined by
his son Ebenezer, who had been serving
in the United States army in the war with
England, then just ended. In the spring
of 1816, Isaac and Ebenezer went up the
Alleghany river and made a raft of logs
suitable for making shingles, and partially
loaded it with hoop poles. They expected
to have gone down the Ohio river in
June, but the whole season was one of un-
usual low water, and December ar-
rived before they reached Pittsburg
with their raft. The whole party went
down on the raft to Marietta, O., where
they engaged in farming and other pur-
suits. Ebenezer was married in Marietta,
and in the spring of 1820 Paul Colburn
and his wife, Isaac and his family, and
Ebenezer and his wife, embarked on a
raft, leaving William to close up the busi-
ness at Marietta. They landed their raft at
Louisville, Ky., and left Isaac there to
work up and sell their lumber. The other
members of the family continued down
the river to Shawneetown; Paul Colburn,
his wife and daughter remained there.
Ebenezer and his wife went on to join
some relatives of her's in Monroe county,
111., about fifty miles south of St. Louis.

In August of that year Isaac Colburn
and his wife died at Louisville within two
days of each other, leaving six children
among strangers, and on the first of No-
vember Mrs. Mehitibel Colburn died at
Shawneetown. About the time of her
death William Colburn embarked with
his family on a boat at Marietta, floated
down to Louisville, and took on board four
of his brother Isaac's children, one having
died, and another been placed in a good
home. He then went to Shawneetown
and joined his bereaved father and sister,
arriving Dec. 24, 1820.

In March, 1821, Paul Colburn, his
daughter Isabel, William Colburn, wife
and three children, the four orphan child-
ren of Isaac Colburn, and a Mr. Harris,
started in a wagon drawn by four oxen for
Morgan county. They traveled through
rain, mud and unbridged streams for
about five weeks, which brought them to
the south side of Lick creek, on what is
now Loami township, where they found
an empty cabin. From sheer weariness
they decided to stop, and Mr. Harris, the
owner of the wagon and oxen, went on
to Morgan county.

Soon after their arrival Wm. Colburn
gave a rifle gun for a crop of corn just
planted, and in that way began to provide
food. He secured a team and went after
his brother Ebenezer, and brought him
and his wife to the settlement, arriving
in October, 1821.

Having succeeded in bringing so many
of his descendants to the new country, and
witnessed their struggles to gain a foot-
hold and provide themselves with homes,
Paul Colburn died Feb. 27, 1825, near the
present town of Loami. Of his children
who came to Sangamon county, we will
notice each under separate heads, begin-
ning with the daughters —

COLBURN, SALLY, born
June 15, 1789, in Sterling, Mass., married
there to Daniel Woodworth. They came
some years after the first of the family
arrived. They lived many years in
Springfield, and both died in Sangamon
county. Their daughter —

LOUISA H., married Gershom Dor-
ranee. See his name.

SARAH, has been twice married, and
lives in California.

An account is preserved of a ludicrous
incident that transpired while Mr. Wood-

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worth lived in Springfield. A rain storm
came on suddenly and caught him away
from home. He started on a run, with
his head down, hat drawn over his
eyes, and body bent forward. It so
happened 'that Governor Ford found him-
self away from home in the same shower.
Throwing himself in a similar attitude, he
started on a run also; but there was this
difference, they were running in opposite
directions, and when both were at full
speed, they came together with a square
butt, like a couple of sheep. Each, on
the spur of the moment, thought it was
intentional on the part of the other, and
each assumed a belligerent attitude, but
before a blow was struck, both discovered
that it was an accident, and with a hearty
laugh, hurried on.

COLBURN, MARY, born Feb.
23, 1792, at Sterling, Mass., married Adna
Phelps. See his name.

COLBURN, ISABEL, born
Feb. n, 1796, in Sterling, Mass., married
in Sangamon county, to Adin E. Meacham.
See his name.

CpLBURN, ISAAC, born in
Sterling, Mass., married in New Hamp-
shire, and himself and wife died at Louis-
ville, Ky., in 1821, leaving six children,
one of whom died in infancy.

AZUBA remained in the vicinity of
Louisville, and married a Mr. Summers.

ASA came to Sangamon county in
1832, went to Galena in 1836, and two or
three years later was killed by a lead mine
caving in on him.

LA VINA came to Sangamon county
in 1836, married in Springfield to Jacob
Nott, who died, and she married John
Letterhose, and died in Loami.

LUCY, married in Sangamon county
to Levi Sweet. He died, leaving her a
widow with five children at Scyene,
Dallas county, Texas.

COLB'URN, WILLIAM,

brother to Isaac, Abel and Ebenezer, was
born June 3, 1793, at Sterling, Mass.,
married Aug. 15, 1815, at Hebron, N. H.,
to Achsa Phelps, who was born at that
place July 9, 1 796. They came to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving April 5, 1821,
in what is now Loami township. They
had three children before moving to San-
gamon county, and eleven after, the
youngest of whom died in infancy. Of
the thirteen children —

CLARISSA, born Oct. 27, 1816, at
Pittsburg, Pa., married in Sangamon
county, Dec. 3, 1831, to William S.
Walker. See his name.

ABIGAIL, born April 29, 1818, at
Marietta, O., married April 9, 1835, to
Lawrence Underwood. See his name.

FANNY,\K>rn Jan. 4, 1820, at Marietta,
O., married in Sangamon county, Jan. 28,
1843, t° David Phelps. See his name.

MEHEJ^IBEL, born Dec. 5, 1821,
in Sangamon county, married Dec. 16,
1838, to David Phelps. See his name.

SAMUEL PAUL, born Sept. 15,
1823, in Sangamon county, married Oct.
23, 1845, to Melinda Colburn, had one
child that died in infancy, and Mrs. Col-
burn died Dec. 23, 1865, and he married
Nov. 14, 1866, to Mrs. Isabel Lucas, whose
maiden name was Colburn. They reside
in Loami.

MARGARETP.,\)orn April .7, 1825,
in Sangamon county, married Sept. 21,
1845, to Lewis Cotterman. They had
two children, WILLIAM A. and FAN-
NIE, and Mrs. Cotterman died Sept. 6,
1853. Her children reside with their
father near Linden, Osage county, Kan.

ISAAC, born Feb. 22, 1.827, in Sanga-
mon county, married August 17, 1854, to
Julia A. Ensley. They had three child-
ren. ACHSA E., born July 24, 1855,
died in her eighth year. CHLOE E. and
CHARLES E. live with their father.
Mrs. Julia A. Colburn died Dec. 25, 1859,
and Mr. C. married Sept. 20, 1863, to
Mandana Phelps. They had three child-
ren, CORA A., CLARENCE E. and
MARY O.; all died in infancy. Isaac
Colburn and wife reside in Loami.

DANIEL W., born July 2, 1829, mar-
ried Nov. 28, 1849, to Lucinda Huffmaster.
They have eight children. SARAH
married William Greer, has one child, and
resides with her parents. FANNY mar-
ried Christopher McLaughlin, who was
born Feb. 10, 1846, in Montgomery
county, Ky. They have two children,
MINNIE and ANDREW, and reside at
Loami. Mr. McLaughlin enlisted Feb.
22, 1864, in Co. A, io6th 111. Inf., for three
years; was honorably discharged at
Springfield, August i, 1865. SUSAN
M. married Thomas Huggin, and resides
in Curran. JAMES E., MARY M.,
WINJEIELD S., DAVID L. and

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LAURA A., reside with their parents,
thi'ee miles south of Curran.

WILLIAM S., born Feb. 20, 1831, in
Sangamon county, married July 8, 1853,
in Fulton county, 111., to Mary Ensley, who
was born May 23, 1831, near Chillicothe,
O. They had four children. MILLARD
F. died in infancy. LINDA A., born
March n, 1856, married Dec. 26, 1872, to
Lycurgus L. Smith, who was born June
20, 1849, at Mt. Pleasant O., and reside at
Martin's Ferry, Belmont county, O.
LUELLA R. and WILLIAM H. reside
with their parents at Loami.

W. S. Colburn enlisted at Jacksonville,
111., July 16, 1847, in Co- G> l6th United
States Inf., for five years or during the
war with Mexico, and was honorably dis-
charged August, 1848, at Cincinnati, O.
In the spring of 1850 he started for Cali-
fornia, via the Isthmus of Panama. The
vessel was bestormed and becalmed, so
that he was on the Pacific ocean seven
months from Panama to San Francisco.
He has traveled in twenty-four States of the
Union, and been on fourteen sea voyages.
William S. Colburn enlisted June 27,
1864, in Co. F., 28th 111. Inf., for three
years; was honorably discharged August
2, 1865. He was detailed as clerk in the
medical department soon after entering the
army, was promoted to hospital steward,
and served as such to the end of the rebel-
lion.

EBENEZER, born April 9, 1833, in
Sangamon county, married August 17,
1854, to Nancy A. Huffmaster. They
had two children, ADNA P. and CLAR-
ISSA A., and Mrs. Colburn died August
10, 1859, and Mr. C. was married August
8, 1862, to Elizabeth Davis. They have
five children, DANIEL W., HENRY
W., ALPHA D., JULIA A. and INA
A., and live in Loami.

LE VI O., born Nov. 13, 1835, in San-
gamon county, enlisted July 13, 1862, in
Co. F, 5 ist 111. Inf., for three years. He
was ist Sergt., and as such, commanded
the company part of the time. He was
wounded in the arm at the battle of Chick-
amauga, served until June 27, 1865, when
he was honorably discharged. lie was
married July 7, 1867, to Christiana Kin-
ney. They have two children, BERTHA
O. and WILLIAM E., and live at
Loami.

DA VI D P., born Oct. 5, 1837, in San-
gamon county, enlisted August 9, 1861,
in Co. B, 3oth 111. Inf., for three years,
re-enlisted as a veteran, Jan. i, 1864. He
was appointed 2nd Sergt. at the organiza-
tion of the regiment; promoted to ist
Sergt.; commissioned ist Lieut., Jan. 20,
1865; commissioned Capt., May, 1865.
Commanded the company from Oct. 4,
1864. He served until July 17, 1865, when
he was honorably discharged. He was
married April 12, 1866, to Tirzah Mengel.
They have one child, LEONARD L.,
and reside at Loami.

JOHN 7\, born Nov. 23, 1840, mar-
ried June 23, 1 86 1, to Martha J. Back,
who was born April 9, 1845, a' Loami.
They had four children. JAQUETTA
and LILLIE died in infancy. MARY
A. and MILLIE A. live with their pa-
rents in Loami.

William Colburn died June 10, 1869, at
Loami, and Mrs. Achsa Colburn resides at
Loami, on the same place settled by her-
self and husband in 1822, one year before
the land was brought into inarket. Wil-
liam and his brother Ebenezer entered
land together, and cultivated it for several
years. About 1836 they built a steam
saw and grist mill at the north side of
Lick creek, and machinery for grinding
was soon added. It was the first mill of
the kind within a radius of ten or twelve
miles, and around that mill the village of
Loami grew up. They continued in that
business for many years, three mills hav-
ing burned on the same spot. They were
not always the owners, but their families
were always connected with such enter-
prises. The sons of Wm. Colburn are
now — 1874 — the owners of a mill within
one hundred yards of where the first mill
was built. One mill has burned where
the new one stands.

The hardships endured by them and
their families would be difficult to relate.
Mrs. Achsa Colburn, now seventy-eight
years old, has an unlimited fund ot remi-
niscences connected with their advent into
the county, and the difficulties of raising
a large family. A loom was an indispen-
sible article where all were dependent on
the work of their own hands for the en-
tire clothing of themselves and families.
Mrs. Colburn tried all the men in the set-
tlement, those of her own family included,
in order to find some person who could

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make a loom, but all declined to under-
take it, some for want of skill, and all for
want of tools. Mrs. C. then procured an
axe, a hand saw, a drawing knife, an
auger and a chisel, and went to work.
She made with her own hands a loom,
warping hars, winding blades, temples for
the lateral stretching of the cloth, and for
spools she used corn cobs with the pith
pushed out. With these appliances she
wove hundreds of yards of cloth, and
made it up into garments for her family.
This she did while caring for her family
of fourteen children.

COLBURN. EBENEZER,
brother to Abel, Isaac and William, was
born Dec. i, 1794, at Sterling, Mass., mar-
ried in 1817, at Marietta, Ohio, to Julia
Smith, who was born April 17, 1797, in
Suffolk county, Long Island, N. Y. They
came to Sangamon county and joined the
other members of the family in Oct., 1822,
in what is now Loami township. They
had two children before their arrival, and
five after coming to Sangamon county.
Of the seven children —

ADNA A, born August 12, 1818, at
Marietta^ Ohio, married April 27, 1839, in
Sangamon county, to Lodasca Sweet.
They had three children, and Mrs. Col-
burn died, and A. P. Colburn was mar-
ried July 28, 1844, to Macca M. Sowell.
They had seven children, one of whom
died in infancy. Of all his children:
ALVA married Hannah VanPelt, and
resides at Seneca, Nemaha county, Kan.
URSULA, married Charles Jarrett. See
his name. GILBERT, enlisted in 1862, in
Co. I, 73d 111. Inf., for three years. He
was captured at the battle of Chicka-
mauga, Sept. 19-20, 1863, and died in
prison at Andersonville, Ga., July I, 1864.
THOMAS B. and WILLIAM R. en-
listed Sept. 20, 1862, in Co. G, i6th 111.
Inf., for three years. They were cap-
tured while scouting near Dalton, Ga.,
May 22, 1864, and taken to Andersonville
prison also. . THOMAS B. died June 19,
1864, and WILLIAM R.died August 12,
1864. Thus the three brothers died in the
same prison in less than two months.
STEPHEN E.,died in infancy. CHAS.
C., born Nov. 22, 1849, married Miss
Coverdale, and lives at Loami. JULIA
J., born May 24, 1851, married Nelson
Elmoi^e. See his name. They live in
.Sangamon county. JAMES B. resides

with his mother. Adna P. Colburn died
Feb. 26, 1867, and his widow resides ad-
joining Loami on the west.

WILLIAM, born in Monroe county,
111., married in Sangamon county to
Eliza Porter; had four children, and Mrs.
C. died, and Wm. C. married Mrs. Ellen
Smith, whose maiden name was Clover.
They have one child, and reside in Chris-
tian county, at Smith's mill, on the San-
gamon river, near the line of Sangamon
county.

CHARLOTTE, born Jan. 19, 1824,
in Sangamon county, married Jonas
Smith. See his name.

MARIA, born in Sangamon county,
married Peyton Foster; has a family of
children, and lives at Atchison, Kan.

MART P., born in Sangamon county,
married David Greening. See his name.

BURFITT G., born in Sangamon
county, married to Lucy Large, have six
children, and live in Cooper township.

ELLEN, married Ebenezer Colburn,
Jun., and she died.

Mrs. Julia Colburn died, and Ebenezer
Colburn, Sen., died April 12, 1864, both
at Loami.

COLBURN, ABEL, was born
Sept. 20, i79°» m Sterling, Mass., a
brother to Isaac, William and Ebenezer.
He was married in April, i8n,at Hebron,
N. H., to Deborah Phelps, who was born
at Hebron in July, 1794. Mr. Colburn
was a soldier from that place in the war
of 1812. They had nine children, all born
at Hebron, and in 1839 Mr. Colburn came
to Sangamon county, and afterwards
brought his family. Of their children —

JOSEPH R., born August, 1812,
married in Massachusetts, to Ruth Fowler,
and moved to Springfield, 111., in 1838.
He aided in building the State House,
then in course of construction. They had
six children; two died under seven years.
Of the other four, ABNER K. married in
Minnesota to Phebe Walters, and resides
in Portland, Oregon. IRA is married,
and lives in Minnesota. CHARLES
lives with Adna Phelps, near Springfield.
FREMONT lives with his mother. Jo-
seph R. Colburn died in December, 1870,
and his widow resides at Preston, Minn.

EL VIRA M., born April 18, 1814, at
Hebron, N. H., married at that place
March 7, 1832, to Stephen F. Fowler. He
died Jan. 21, 1845, at Quincy, Mass., and

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Mrs. F. was married Oct. 8, 1845, at Troy,
Wis., to Jeremiah D. Sanborn, who was
born Feb. 7, 1818, at Franklin, N. H. Mrs.
S. traveled across the American continent
on wagons, except in crossing Lake Mich-
igan, and spent five years in Nevada and
California, and Mr. S. spent three years
there. They reside at Loami.

ISABEL,\*o™. April 17, 1816, at He-
bron, N. H., married Sept. n, 1838, to
Thomas Lucas, who was born June 19,
1811, at Romney, N. H. They had five
children. GEORGE M. went from
Loami to Springfield, and enlisted July,
1861, in what became Co. -C, nth Mo.
Inf., for three years; was ist Sergeant; re-
enlisted as a veteran Jan. I, 1864, and died
of disease at Jefferson Barracks, Mo.,
Nov. 14, 1864. He was commissioned ist
Lieutenant, to date from August 18, 1864,
but the com mission, did not reach the hos-
pital until the day after his death. FRAN-
CEN*A I. died at thirteen. EDWARD
W. enlisted Nov. 20, 1861, for three years,
in Co. B, 3Oth 111. Inf.: re-enlisted as a
veteran Jan. i, 1864; was with "Sherman
in his march to the sea;" served to the
end of the rebellion, and honorably dis-
charged July, 1865; was married October,
1866, to Mary A. Starr, has one child,
VALLIE M., and resides at Loami. ISA-
BELLA E. died at seven years. LUEL-
LA A. married August, 1867, to James L.
Mahard, and died March, 1873, leaving
two children, MARY j. and GEORGE M.
Thomas Lucas died March 4, 1851, at
Loami. His widow married Samuel P.
Colburn. See his name.

IRA C., born in 1818, married at
Quincy, Mass., Sept. 4, 1838, to Cyrena
Chard, a native of Pomfrct, Conn.,
moved to Minnesota, and had three child-
ren. JOHN E. was a soldier in a Minne-
sota regiment, veteranized, served to the
end of the rebellion, and lives in Minne-
sota. ROMANZA died at seven years.

A CHS A P., born Feb. 17, 1820, in
Hebron, N. H., married August, 1838, at
Quincy, Mass., to John P. Davis, who
was born April 17, 1815, in Boston. They
came to Sangamon county with her par-
ents, and had three children. ELVIRA
M. married Sanford Withrow. See his
name. CHARLES W. died in in-
fancy. LAURA E. married Josiah Jones.
See his name. John P. Davis enlisted at
Springfield, July 9, 1847, In Co. D, 4th

111. Inf., for one year. He served as Ser-
geant of that company in the war with
Mexico, until July 9, 1848, when he was
honorably discharged. He raised Co. B,
3Oth 111. Inf., entered the United States
service as Captain of the same, August,
1861. His company re-enlisted as veterans,
January, 1864. He was with Sherman in
his " march to the sea," and was promo-
ted to Major of the regiment while on the
trip. He commanded the regiment sev-
eral months, and was honorably discharged
July 17, 1865. Now resides at Loami,
Sangamon county, 111.

LUTHER P., born September, 1823,
married in New Hampshire to Lydia
Whittaker, raised one daughter, and reside
in Lebanon, N. H.

NA THAN P., born December, 1826,
in Hebron, N. H., married in South Read-
ing, Mass., to Mary J. Eames, had four
children, moved in 185510 Minnesota, was
a member of the Convention that framed
the State Constitution, and has served sev-
eral terms in the State Legislature. He
raised a cavalry company and fought the
Indians in Minnesota in 1863. Was Pay-
master at one time in the army, against the
rebellion. He is a practicing attorney,
and resides at Preston, Minn.

ME LINDA, born Sept. 13, 1830,
married Oct. 23, 1845, to Samuel P. Col-
•burn. See his name.

EMELINE, born July, 1832, married
in 1848 to William Huffmaster. Sec his
name.

Abel Colburn died Oct. 21, 1851, at
Springfield. His widow married Adam
Barger. See his name. He died, and
she resides with her son-in-law, Samuel
P. Colburn, at Loami.

CONKLING, JAMES C., was
born Oct. 13, 1816, in New York City.
At the age of thirteen he entered the
Academy at Morristown, N. J., and pre-
pared for college. He entered Princeton
in 1833, and graduated in 1835. ^c
studied law in Morristown, N. J., about
three years, and came to Springfield, 111.,
arriving in Nov., 1838, and was admitted
to the bar the following winter. James

C. Conkling and Mercy A. Levering
were married Sept. 21, 1841, in Baltimore,
Md. She was the daughter of Judge
Aaron R. Levering, of Georgetown,

D. C., and was born in that city in Nov.,

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1817. Mr. and Mrs. Conkling had five
children —

CLIN7^ON L., born Oct. 16, 1843, in
Springfield, was educated at Yale college,
New Haven, Conn., and graduated there
in 1864. He entered into partnership
with his father in 1866, as J. C. & C. L.
Conkling, in the practice of law. He was
married March 24, 1867, to Georgiana
Barrell, a native of Brooklyn, N. Y.
They have two children, GEORGIA and
KATE, and reside in Springfield.

CHARLES, born in Springfield, re-
sides with his parents.

JAMES, born Jan. 4, 1850,111 Spring-
field, 111., was married March 23, 1870, in
Covington, Ky., to Fannie A. Lowry,
who was born in Springfield, March 23,
1849. They have two children living,
MAY and FANNIE. He is a mem-
ber of the firm of Conkling, Slemmons,
& Co., Springfield, 111.

ANNIE V., born July 2, 1853, was
married Nov. 25, 1875, to Nathan S.
Wood. He is a banker in Lafayette, Ind.,
where they now reside.

ALICE resides with her parents.

Hon. James C. Conkling was elected
Mayor of Springfield in 1845, being the
sixth in that office. He was elected repre-
sentative for Sangamon county in the
State legislature in 1852, and again in 1866,
when he drafted the original bill for the
new State house, and was active in its
passage. He is a member of the National
Lincoln Monument Association, which
has just erected a monument to the mem-
ory of Abraham Lincoln. He is the head
of the firm of Conkling, Slemmons &
Co. James C. Conkling, more than any
other capitalist of Springfield, uses his
wealth in extensive building enterprises,
and for the encouragement of manufac-
tures.

CON ANT, SULLIVAN, was
born Feb. 26, 1801, at Oakham, Worcester
county, Mass. Lydia R. Heminway was
was born November, 1803, in the same
county. They were married Sept. 10,
1822, at Shutesbury, Mass., where they
had three children, and moved to Am-
herst, where they had one child. They
returned to Shutesbury, and from there
started west, Nov. 2, 1830, traveling in
wagons to Troy, N. Y., and from there to
Rochester by canal, thence by wagon to
Olean Point, where they embarked on a

raft and floated to Pittsburg. There they
took a steamboat down the Ohio, and up
the Mississippi river to Chester, Randolph
county, 111., where the youngest child died.
In January, 1831, Mr. Conant started
with his family, in a sleigh, to visit some
old friends near Carrollton, Greene coun-
ty, 111., going by Illinoistown, now East
St. Louis. They continued their journey
by Jacksonville to Springfield, arriving
Feb. 18, 1831. When they left Chester
the snow was about six inches deep, but
when they arrived in Springfield it was
on four feet of snow, being the height of
the "deep snow." They had five children
born in Springfield. Of their eight
children —

ABIGAIL A., born July 5, 1823, at
Shutesbury, Mass., was married in Spring-
field to William W. Lee, who was born
August 20, 1822, in Delaware. They had
four children. LAURA A., born Oct.
15, 1844, in Springfield, was married* May
7, 1867, to John T. Capps, who was born
Dec. 30, 1841, in Clarke county, Ky.
They have two children, OLIVE and WIL-
LIAM L. Mr. Capps was a student at Illi-
nois College, Jacksonville, when the rebel-
lion began. He enlisted August, 1861, in
Co. B, loth 111. Inf., for three years; re-
enlisted as a veteran January, 1864; was
with Sherman in his "march to the sea;"
served until July, 1865, when he was hon-
orably discharged. He graduated Feb. 6,
1866, with the degree of Master of Ac-
counts, at Eastman's National Business
College, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. He is now
of the firm of Dickerman & Co., Spring-
field Woolen Manufactory. LYDIA E.,
born March 23, 1847, m Springfield, was
married Dec. 21, 1869, to S. O. Stock well,
a native of Auburn, N. Y. They have
one child, CLARA L., and reside in Colum-
bus, Ohio. THOMAS S., born Jan. 9,
1849, in Bloomington, 111., was married in
Springfield, May 29, 1872, to Mary J.
Eaton. They have one child, ADDIE. T.
S. Lee is engaged with his father-in-law
in the grain business, and resides in Edin-
burg. EDWARD W., born March 9,
1853, in Taylorville. He was married in
Springfield, Oct. 6, 1875, to Lou. H. Pas-
field, adopted daughter of George Pas-
field, Sen., and resides in Edinburg. Wm.
W. Lee died July 12, 1870, and his widow
resides in Springfield.

WILLIAM S., born Feb. 27, 1825, at

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217

Shutesbury, Mass., was married in Spring-
field, 111., to Mary Sykes. They had two
children. JAMES was born in Peters-
burg, and is in business with his father.
KATIE resides with her father. Mrs.
Mary Conant died in Springfield, Feb.
12, 1864. Wm. S. Conant was married
in Menard county to Eliza Kinkead, and
reside in Petersburg, 111. In 1844 W. S.
Conant met with an accident from a falling
derrick which slightly lamed him. A Mr.
Brodie was killed by the same accident.
They were raising a pole at a political
meeting. Mr. Conant is extensively en-
gaged in the furniture and undertaking
business. He was the originator, and is
no\v the owner, of Rose Hill cemetery,
near Petersburg.

SUSAN E., born March 10, 1827, in
Shutesburv, Mass., was married June 26,
1845, m Springfield, to George R. Con-
nelly. See his name. He died, and she
married Charles Dougherty. See his
name.

LEV I 7., born Oct. 25, 1831, in
Springfield, was married there July 28,
1858, to Elizabeth Brodie. They had
two children, JOHN B. and WILLIAM
S. Mrs. Elizabeth Conant died Feb. 14,
1865, and L. J. Conant was married Mar.
i, 1875, at Vincennes, Ind., to Mrs. Sarah
A. Baker, whose maiden name was Har-
graves. She was born April 24, 1841, in
Manchester, England. Mr. C. is in the
grocery business, and resides in Spring-
field.

MART A., born July 20, 1833, in
Springfield, was married there to Cook S.
Hampton. See his name.

PHINEAS //., born April 12, 1837,
in Springfield, was married June 4, 1857.
to Sarah J. Hobbs, who was born Dec. i,
1838, in Jacksonville, 111. Thev have
three children, JULIA E., MINNIE L.,
and PEARL R., and reside in Spring-
field, 111. P. H. Conant enlisted in Co.
C, 1 24th 111. Inf., for three years, and was
mustered in as Corporal. Served until
Feb. 6, 1864, when he was honorably dis-
charged on account of physical disability.
In the spring of 1 866 he was appointed,
by Mayor Dennis, deputy city marshal;
served nearly three years. Was deputy
sheriff under Shoup, and deputy U. S.
collector under Harper. Sold goods at
Illiopolis about three years, since which
time he has been a commercial traveler
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for a Springfield grocery house, and lives
in Springfield.

CAROLINE A., born Sept. i, 1843,
in Springfield, married Rev. Thomas M.
Dillon, of the M. E. church. He is in the
traveling connection, and resides (1874) in
Martinsburg, Clarke county, 111.

LTDIA J., born July 19, 1845, m
Springfield, was married there, March 17,
1868, to George L. Dingle. G. L. Dingle
wa* a soldier in an Illinois regiment, and
did his part in aiding to suppress the re-
bellion. He is now deputy Postmaster at
Santa Fe, New Mexico, and lives there.

Mrs. Lydia R. Sonant died May 30,
1867, and Sullivan Conant was married
again. He resides in Springfield.

CONNELLY, JOHN, was born
in 1794, in the District of Columbia.
Ann Wetherell was born Feb. 20, 1800,
in the District of Columbia, also. They
were there married and had ten children.
The family moved to Springfield, 111., in
1837. Mr. Connelly was Register of the
United States Land Office, in Springfield,
during the administration of President
Pierce, and part of the administration of
President Buchanan. He also, at various
times, filled a number of local offices. I
have the history of but two of his child-
ren. His daughter —

MART J., born in the District of
Columbia, married in Springfield to John
O. Rames. See his name. She died in
1854.

His second son —

GEORGE 7?., born Jan. 18, 1822, in
the District of Columbia, was married in
Springfield, 111., Jan. 27, 1845, to Susan
E. Conant. They had three living child-
ren, namely: JOHN L., born March 18,
1846, in Springfield, graduated at the
Rush Medical College of Chicago. He
was married Sept. 3, 1842, at Harristown,
111., to Nannie Bedford. They had one
child, MAGGIE P., who died young. Dr.
J. L. Connelly resides at Harristown,
Macon county, 111., and is engaged in the
practice of his profession there. GEORGE
S., born Feb. 8, 1849, in Springfield, mar-
ried Sept. 15, 1870, in his native city, to
Mary Thomas, who was born Dec. 30,
1850, in Springfield, 111. They have two
children, ALICE MAY and LILLIE E. George
S. Connelly resides in Springfield, and is
engaged in merchandising. LILLIE E.,
born Sept. 2, 1851, in Springfield, married

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EARLT SETTLERS OF

Sept. 19, 1871, to Columbus M. Lloyd,
who was born March 6, 1849, near
Wabash, Wabash county, Ind. They
live near Dawson, Sangamon county, 111.
George R. Connelly died of cholera, in
Springfield, June 9, 1854. His widow
married Charles Dougherty, Jun. See
his name.

CONSTANT, JACOB, brother
to John, who was the grandfather of
Rezin H. He was also the brother of
Isaac and Thomas, and was born about
1765, in Virginia. Eleanor Clinkenbcard
was born about 1769, in Virginia, also.
They were there married, and soon
after moved on pack horses — that being
the only way goods could be transported
at that time through that mountainous
country — to Fleming county, Ky. They
had fourteen children in that county, and
in 1814 moved to Clermont countv, Ohio,
where they had two children. The fam-
ily moved to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving* Oct. 26, 1826, in what is now Me-
chanicsburg township. Of their child-
ren—

ELIZABETH, born Nov. 17, 1790,
in Fleming county, Ky., married there to
Charles Morgan. See his name.

JOHN, born in Fleming county, Ky.,
went back from Ohio to Kentucky, and
there married Margaret Wood. They
came in company with his father to San-
gamon county in 1826, where they had
five children, and moved to Pike countv,
thence to northwest Missouri, where the
living children now reside. The parents
are both dead.

WILLIAM, born in Kentucky, went
back from Ohio and married Rhoda
Planck. They never came to Illinois, but
he died, leaving one child, JOHN CON.
STANT, who resides near Felicity,
Clermont county, Ohio.

MARY, born in Kentucky, married in
Ohio to Thomas Jones. They had ten
children, and Mrs. Jones died. The liv-
ing members of the family reside in and
near Mt. Olivet, Clermont countv, O.

ISAAC, born Nov. 17, 1794, in Flem-
ing county, Ky., was married June 29,
1823, in Clarke county, Ky., to Nancy
Peebles, who was born Sept. 13, 1794, in
that county. They had two children in
Kentucky, joined his parents in Clermont
county, Ohio, and came with them to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of

1826 in what is now Mechanicsburg town-
ship, where they had two children, and
moved to what is now Logan county,
where they had two children, and from
there to Buffalo Hart grove, in Sangamon
county, and had one child. They
moved, in 1857, to Dawson. Of their
children, RACHEL, born in Clarke
county, Ky., March 29, 1824, married
John Billington. See his name. JACOB,
born August 17, 1826, in Clarke county,
Ky., married in Sangamon county, May

16, 1850, to Lillias Wilson, who was born
May 15, 1825, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland.
They had seven children, three of whom
died young, and HELEN MARY died Oct.
3, 1872. the very day she was thirteen
years old. NANCY j., WILLIAM E. and
JAMES H.,live with their parents, adjoining
Dawson on the east. MARGARET J.,
born July 15, 1829, in Sangamon county,
married Oct. 26, 1850, to James Deavers.
They have six children, and live near Mt.
Pulaski. WILLIAM R., born April 13,
1832, in Sangamon county, married in
1852 to Jane Wilson, who was born in
Dumfriesshire, Scotland. They had seven
children in Sangamon county, and Mrs.
Constant died May 7, 1864. Mr. C. was
married in Dawson to Hattie Grabendich.
They have two children, and live in Law-
rence, Kansas. MARY A., born June

17, 1834, in Logan county, 111., married
Oct. 17, 1871, at Dawson. to Alfred Rape.
See his name. SARAH E., born Dec.
17, 1836, in Logan county, married Sept.
14, 1856, to Horatio M. Van Winkle, who
was born Feb. I, 1834, in Shelby countv,
111. They have one child, LILLIAS E.,
and live in Dawson. Mr. Van Winkle
enlisted August 15, 1862, in Co. C, 1 241)1
111. Inf., for three years; served full term
exactly, and was honorably discharged
August 15, 1865, at Chicago/ MARTHA
E., born April 19, 1840, in Sangamon
county, married Dec. 6, 1869, to John £>.
Clinkenbeard, who was born Dec. 8, 1822,
in Clarke county, Ky. They have two
children, ISAAC and NANCY E., and live
three miles southwest of Illiopolis. Mr.
C. has two living children by a former
wife, JOHN w. and MARY E. Isaac Con-
stant died June 27, 1865, and his widow-
resides at Dawson.

HESTER, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Clermont county, Ohio, to Josiah
Johnson, had one child, and father and

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219

child died in Ohio. She came to Sanga-
mon county, married John Rutherford,
had four children, and the parents both
died. Their son, JOHN T. Rutherford,
was a soldier in an Illinois regiment, and
died in the army. MARGARET mar-
ried Matt. Noonan, and resides in Sanga-
mon county. ALEXANDER is mar-
ried and lives in Champaign county.

SARAH, horn Dec. 27, 1799, in Ken-
tucky, married James Carrico. See his
name.'1 ,

ELEANOR, born in 1803, in Ken-
tucky, married Elijah T. Lanham. See
his name.

JACOB, born Jan. 7, 1805, in Flem-
ing county, Kentucky, married June 4,
1829, m Sangamon county, to Permelia
Crocker. They had six children, two of
whom died young. The other four,
JAMES H. M., born March 4, 1830, mar-
ried Catharine Blankenship. have four
children. He was a soldier in a Sangamon
county regiment. DAVID C., born Jan.
28, 1833, married in Texas to Annetta
Snow. They are teaching among the In-
dians. THOMAS S., born July 2, 1835,
married in Mt. Pulaski to Sarah Cass,
daughter of Ninian Cass. MARY L.,
born Sept 25, 1839, married John Rinker:
had one child, ANNETTA s. Mr. Rinker
enlisted in 1861, in 3Oth 111. Inf., and died
near Vicksburg, in 1863. Mrs. Permelia
Constant died Feb. 17, 18^.7, and Jacob
Constant was married June 25, 1847, m
St. Clair county, to Mrs. Celia Talbott,
whose maiden name was Wakefield. They
had four children. CHARLES A. mar-
ried Sarah Horn, had one child, and live
near Dawson. HARRIET E. and
PERMELIA O., SARAH F. died at
eleven years. Mrs. C. had two children
by her first husband, THOMAS and
MARY E. TALBOTT. The latterdied
in her fourteenth year. Jacob Constant
and his wife reside one and a half miles
southwest of Dawson.

BENJAMIN, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Matilda
Lakin, had seven children, and Mr. Con-
stant died in 1855. Two of his sons,
JOHN W. and NORMAN A. were
Union soldiers from Greene county, and
both died in the army. His widow resides
in Macoupin county.

JONATHAN, born Sept. 30, 1809,
in Fleming county, Ky., came to Sanga-

mon county in 1826, married May 19,
1836, to Mary Elder. They had five
children, two of whom died young. Of
the other three, GEORGE W., born
June 7, 1837, married July 23, 1857, in
Springfield, to Sarah Kent; have three
living children, JOHN D., LYDIA F., NET-
TIE B. — the third child, IDA j., died in her
fourth year. George W. Constant resides
two and a half miles southwest of Illiopo-
lis. JOHN W., born Sept. 22, 1839,
married in Springfield, Jan. 30, 1865, to
Clarissa G. Ingels. They have four child-
ren, MATTIE F., HARRY, MARY P. and

WILLIE, and reside two and a half miles
northeast of Illiopolis. SAMUEL W.,
born July, 1843, enlisted August 17, 1861,
in Co. H, 30th 111. Inf., for three years,
was captured at the battle of Atlanta,
Ga., July 22, 1864, was two months in
Andersonville prison, exchanged Sept. 19,
1864, and honorably discharged on the
27th of the same month. He was married
in Sangamon county, Dec. 24, 1867, to
MaryJ. Semple. They have one child,
NELLIE D., and reside in Macon county,
near Illiopolis. Mrs. Mary Constant died
Sept., 1847, and Jonathan Constant was
married Nov. 26, 1848, to Lavina Crocker.
They had two children. MARY B.,
born Sept. 17, 1851, married June 6, 1872,
to Squire Campbell, and died Nov. 19,
1872. LEWIS ALLEN, born Dec. 7,
1853, resides with his father. Mrs. La-
vina Constant died August 26, 1858, and
Jonathan Constant married Dec. 20, 1860,
to Mrs. Sarah Ridgeway, whose maiden
name was Bridges. They reside three
miles northwest of Mechanicsburg.

MARGARET, married in Ohio to
Greenbury Lanham, and had one child.
The father and child died in Ohio. She
died in Sangamon county.

NELSON, born in Clermont county,
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Elizabeth Walker. They have five child-
ren, and reside near Farmer City, DeWitt
county, 111.

Jacob Constant died Sept. 21, 1828, and
Mrs. Eleanor Constant died Sept. 4, 1835,
both in Mechanicsburg township, near
where they settled in 1826.

CON'STANT, THOMAS,
brother of Isaac, aUo of John, who was
grandfather of Rezin H., was born Aug. 14,
1796, in Virginia. He was married June
17, 1796, in Kentucky, to Margery Ed-

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monson. They had seven children in
Kentucky, and moved to Xenia, Ohio.
From there they moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1820 in
what is now Fancy creek township. Of
all their children —

JOHN, born May 9, 1797, in Clarke
county, Ky., married in Springfield, 111.,
to Man- Latham, daughter of Judge
Latham. They had four living children,
and Mrs. Mary Constant died May 3,
1841. Mr. C. was married to Elizabeth
Singleton. They had two children. Ot
the children by his first marriage, JAMES
T. went to California, and died there.
The other three were GARRETT,
MARY and MARIA L. The children
by the second marriage were JULIA and
JOHN. Mr. Constant died, and his
widow and children reside in Springfield.
ELIZABETH E., born June 14,
1799, in Clarke county, Ky.. was married
in Xenia, Ohio, to William F. Elkin. See
his name.

ARCHIBALD E., born May 10,
1801, in Clarke county, Ky., married in
Springfield, 111., to Maria Latham, daugh-
ter of Judge Latham. They had five
children; two died young. MARGERY
is teaching in the Bettie Stuart Institute,
in Springfield. MARY married Temple
Elliott. See his name. KATIE resides
among her friends. Mr. Constant came
to Sangamon county in 1819, settling on
Wolf creek; afterwards moved to Spring-
field, and purchased a quantity of land in
what is now the Third ward, and known
as Constant's addition. He was a Major
in the Black Hawk war, from Sangamon
county. He moved to Elkhart, Logan
county, about 1863. Mrs. Maria Constant
died there Nov. 13, 1868, and Archibald
E. Constant died in Elkhart, Jan. 19, 1875.
WILLIAM, born May, 1803, in Clarke
county, Ky. He was a physician, and
was married in Sangamon county to
Phoebe Johnson. She died, leaving three
children. Dr. Constant was married in
Jeffersonville, Ind., and had two children,
KATIE and JOHN. Dr. William Con-
stant died in 1865.

MART, born June 22, 1805, in Clarke
county, Ky., was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to Dr. Garrett Elkin. See
his name.

NATHAN E., born April 8, 180^, in
Clarke county, Ky., was married in San-

gamon county to Sarah Dement. Mrs.
Sarah Constant died, and he was married
August 25, 1843, to Mary M. Stewart,
daughter of James Stewart. See his name.
They had three children. WILLIAM
F. married Elizabeth A. Lake. They
have one child, and reside two miles west
of Williamsville. NATHAN E., Jun.,
enlisted August, 1862, for three years, in
Co. G, 1 1 4th 111. Vol. Inf. He was cap-
tured at the battle of Guntown, Miss.,
June n, 1864, taken to Andersonville
prison, where he remained three months.
After that to several other prisons, to
evade the Union army, then back to
Andersonville. From there to Florida,
and guarded in the woods until April 28,
1865, and released at the close of the rebel-
lion. He had the usual experience of
prisoners in the south. He and seven
others cooked all their rations the first
three months at Andersonville, in half a
canteen. Sometimes he would give a
day's rations for a chew of tobacco, and
not a very large chew at that. He says
woi'ds cannot describe the suffering that
was endured by the Union soldiers in
southern prisons. Robbery and murder
prevailed among the prisoners until they
found it necessary to organize a court and
a regular jury, convicted six of their num-
ber and hung them. He says Wirz
allowed them to go outside to hold the
trial (of course guarding them), and fur-
nished the lumber for the gallows. Mr.
C. says that although ten years have
elapsed since he was in that den of hor-
rors, when he is not well the most
dainty food smells to him like Anderson-
ville prison rations. One blanket was all
they were allowed for eight men. Nathan
E. Constant, Jun., was married, after his
return from the army, to Amanda Mor-
ton. They have three children, FANNIE
E., WILLIAM and FRANK, and reside three
miles west of Williamsville. Nathan E.
Constant, Sen., died August 25, 1843, and
his widow married Miletus W. Ellis. See
his name.

ISAAC, born April 5, 1809, in Clarke
county, Ky., was married in Sangamon
county, 111., Feb. 14, 1835, to Lucinda
Merriman, daughter of Reuben Merri-
man, (now residing in Oregon). They
had eight children. LAVINIA, born
March 12, 1834, in Sangamon county,
was married in Jackson county, Oregon,

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April, 1854, to Dr. Jesse Robinson. They
have four living children, EDWARD c.,
CHESTER L., THOMAS and MARY A., and
reside in Oakland, Cal. WILLIAM T.,
born Nov. 2, 1836, in Sangamon county,
111., was married in Oregon, April 3, 1862,
to Jessie Bledsoe. He died August 4,
1867, leaving a widow and three children,
ISAAC, WILLIAM T. and JULIA B., in Jack-
son county, Oregon. ELIZABETH M.,
born Jan. 2, 1839, in Sangamon county,
married Jan. i, 1856, in Jackson county,
Oregon, to William T. Leever. They
have seven living children, w. CONSTANT,

LAVINIA, IDA, EDMONSON M., JULIAN D.,

THOMAS s. and ADA, and reside in Jack-
son county, Oregon. JULIA A., born
Sept. 17, 1841, in Sangamon county, was
married in Oregon, Dec. 5, 1861, to
W. A. Owen. They have five living
children, EUDORA, MINNIE, MABEL c.,
GLENN and WILLIAM, and all reside in
Jacksonville, Oregon. MARGERY E.,
born Feb. 5, 1845, in Sangamon county,
was married to Constantine Magruder,
April 22, 1875. They reside at Central
Point, Jackson county, Oregon. ELIZA
A., born Oct. 20, 1851, in Sangamon
county, 111., died March 3, 1866, in Jack-
son county, Oregon. Isaac Constant was
in the Black Hawk war from Sangamon
county. He went to Oregon in 1849, took
a claim under the homestead law, and re-
turned to Illinois in 1850, disposed of his
nroperty, and with his family and some of
his neighbors, emigrated to Oregon in
1852. They were among the first families
who settled there. After they arrived,
Mr. Constant had to go two hundred miles
with pack animals, for provisions. The
valley was teeming with Indians, but he
lived to see them all pass away, and sur-
rounded by a large circle of friends, he
resides near Jacksonville, Jackson county,
Oregon.

MAR THA, born August 23, i8ii,in
Xenia, Ohio, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to William S. Stone. They
had three children; one died in infancy.
Of the other two, ELLEN, born in April,
1837, 's unmarried. MARGERY, born
March, 1838, was married in 1855 to
Thomas Smith, of Independence, Mo.
They have t%vo living children. Mrs.
Martha Stone died in St. Louis, Mo., in
March, 1854. Mr. Stone died in Indepen-
dence, Mo., in 1870.

ADALINE, born March 28, 1813, in
Xenia, Ohio, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., March 25, 1835, to James D.
Allen. Of their children, MARTHA,
born Jan. 6, 1836, was married in Greens-
burg, Ky., Oct. 31, 1854, to George L.
Harris. They have three children living,

THOMAS A., BLANCHE and ADALINE.

George L. Harris enlisted in the 6th Kan-
sas Cav. Reg., and was killed July 29,
1864, at the battle of Fort Smith, Ark.
Mrs. Harris was married March 21, 1873,
in Shawnee, Kansas, to James Sharp.
They reside in Shawnee. JULIA J..
born Jan. 19, 1841, in Shawnee, Kansas,
was married Dec. 10, 1856, in Indepen-
dence, Mo., to Joseph F. Hagan. He was
drowned in the Missouri river July 15,
1860. His widow married Wolf Bach-
rach, of Kansas City, August 9, 1865.
They have one daughter living. Mrs.
Julia Bachrach died in Kansas City, Mo.,
June 2, 1872. HATTIE, born August
19, 1844, died March 13,1868. EMILY
F., born Nov. i, 1848, was married in
Shawnee. Kansas, Jan. 27, 1875, to James
T. Gillespie. They have one child, and
reside in Shawnee. THOMAS, born
Jan. 12, 1838, died July 21, 1845. Mr. and
Mrs. Allen reside at Shawnee, Kansas,
where they have lived for nineteen years.

MARGERY, born Nov. 24, i8"i4, in
Xenia, Ohio, was married in Sangamon
county to Josiah Francis. See his name.

LA VINIA, born Sept. 18, 1816, in
Xenia, Ohio, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., April 2, 1839, to William
Lavely. See his name.

EMILY, born Nov. 21, 1818, in Xenia,
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county
to N. B. Stone. They had six children ;
three died in infancy.

JULIA A., born Sept. 20, 1820, in
Xenia, Ohio, was married in Sangamon
county to Newton Francis. See his
name.

Thomas Constant died Dec. 14, 1840,
and Mrs. Margery Constant died March
i, 1842, both in Athens, Illinois.

CONSTANT, REZIN H., was
born July 8, 1809, in Clarke county, Ky.
His grandfather (John Constant) was shot
in the thigh by an Indian while he was
with a surveying party in Kentucky. He
lived fifteen years after, but it finally
caused his death. His son Jacob was the
father of Rezin H. Neither this John

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nor Jacob ever came to Sangamon county.
Rezin H. was married in his native coun-
ty, July 27, 1830, to Abigail D. Constant.
On the 9th of September following they
started west with the family of his father-
in-law — who was also his uncle, Isaac
Constant — and arrived in Springfield Oct.
7, 1830, just in time to experience all the
hardships connected with the " deep
snow. " R. H. Constant enlisted at
Springfield, June 10, 1832,111 Capt. Jesse
Claywell's company, Col. James Collins'
regiment, and Gen. James D. Henry's
Brigade of 111. Vol. Inf. He was com-
missioned Lieut., and was in the battle of
Wisconsin, and commanded his company
at the battle of Bad Axe, August 5, 1832,
which terminated the Black Hawk war.
Mr. Constant was one of the representa-
tives of Sangamon county in the legisla-
ture of Illinois for 1846 and '47. They
had eight children in Sangamon county,
namely —

SARAH A., born Jan. n, 1831, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Henry B.
Grubb. They have five children, RICH-
ARD, CATHARINE, ROBERT,
GEORGE and HARLAND, and live in
Springfield.

AMANDA, born Feb. n, 1833, mar'
ried Charles Dougherty. See his name,
She died, leaving three children.

AMY, born Oct. 10, 1834, died in San-
gamon county, July 25, 1852.

ALFRED S., born August 19, 1836,
married in Sangamon county to Mary E.
Wilson. They have four living children,
JAMES R., FRANK, LUCIAN L.
and HARRY W. Alfred S. Constant
enlisted July 25, 1862, in Co. I, i I4th 111.
Inf., for three years. Served until Jan.
16, 1863, when he was discharged on ac-
count of physical disability. He resides
near Barclay.

ELIZABETH P., born March 15,
1839, married in Sangamon county to
Nmian M. Taylor. See his name.

THOMAS S., born April 30, 1841,
died in Sangamon county, March 26,

'857;

GEORGE M., born Jan. 31, 1844, en-
listed at Springfield, June, 1862, for three
months, in the 7oth 111. Vol. Inf. Served
full time, and was honorably discharged
with the regiment. He was married to
Margaret E. Bates. They have two

children, CRESSEY and PEARL, and
reside at Mason City, 111.

MART C., born April 22, 1846, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to David A.
Taylor. See his name. They live near
Gibson, Ford county.

Mrs. Abigail D. Constant died August
1 1, 1846, and Rezin H. Constant was mar-
ried Sept. 27, 1847,10 Mrs. Mary L. Har-
bert, whose maiden name was Halbert.
They had three children —

CORDELIA P., born April i, 1849,
in Sangamon county, married there to
Dr. Hamilton R. Riddle. See his name.

I REN A, born Sept. 7, 1851, in San-
gamon county, married Dr. Isaac H. Tay-
lor. See his name.

SABRA G., born April 5, 1853, in
Sangamon county, married Feb. 21, 1872,
to Russel O. Riddle. See his name.

Mrs. Mary L. Constant died May 18,
1863, and Rezin H. Constant resides in
Clear Lake township, near Barclay.

CONSTANT, JOHN/ bom
Sept. 13,1781, in a fort or picketed station
in Clarke county, Ky. He was married
March 1 1 , 1802, to Susan Edminston, who
was born»July 27, 1783. They had eleven
children in Clarke county, Ky., three of
whom died young, and the family moved
in company with Robert Cass and family
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct. 7,
1826, at Buffalo Hart Grove. Of their
eight children —

MIRIAM, born Dec. 6, 1802, married
in Kentucky, August 25, 1825, to Nathan-
iel Massey, and came with her parents to
Sangamon county. They had one child,
SUSAN, that died at fourteen years.
Mrs. Massey married John Sinclair. See
his name, with the C or r ell family.

JOHN W., born Oct. 29, 1804, in
Clarke county, Ky., married there, Aug.
i, 1826, to Lucinda Cass, and moved to
Sangamon county with his father in the
fall of that year. Thev had four children :
ARMINTA J., born 'August 6, 1827, in
Sangamon county, married Horace B.
Enos. See his name. JOHN T., born
Feb. 13, 1830, married April 16, 1854, to
Elizabeth C. Burns. They had six child-
ren, two of whom died under three years.
MATTIE s., ROBERT F., EMMA M. and
CORA K. reside with their parents at Buf-
falo Hart Station. ZACARIAH, born
August i, 1832, died Oct. 31, 1856.
WM. R., born Sept. 26, 1833, enlisted

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August, 1862, for three years, in Co. A.,
73d 111. Inf. He had two fingers shot
from his right hand at the battle of Stone's
river. Served to the end of the rebellion,
and was honorably discharged with his
regiment. He was married March 14,
1867, to Mary A. Perry. They have two
children, and reside near Sabetha, Nemaha
county, Kan. Mrs. Lucinda Constant died
Feb. 23, 1836. and John W. Constant was
married March 22, 1838, to Susan Grove.
They had one child, ADAM H., born
April 26, 1839, enlisted July 26, 1862, in
Co. I, i i4th 111. Inf., for three years.
Served full term, and was honorably dis-
charged August 8, 1865. He was married
August 26, 1862, (one month after he en-
listed), to Mary F. Greening. They had
three children. ULYSSES GKANT died
young. ALFRED H. and GERSHOM K.
live with their parents, three miles east of
Buffalo Hart Station. John W. Constant
died August 29, 1838, eight months before
the birth of his son, Adam H. His wid-
ow resides with her son, Adam H.

JACOB D., born Oct. 15, 1807, in
Clarke county, Ky., married April 4, 1832,
in Sangamon county, to Sarah Correll.
They had four living children. LOUISA
J., born Feb. 18, 1833, married Geoi'ge
McDaniel. See his name. MARY E.,
born August 8, 1834, died March 23, 1851.
HARRIET L., born Dec. 31, 1835, tlied
Mav 26, 1855. SUSAN, born June 20,
1837, marriefi Augustus Bruce; had three
children. HELEN died in her third year.
ADELAIDE and WILLIAM reside with their
parents, at Corinne, Box Elder county,
Utah. Mrs. Sarah Constant died Feb. 8,
1842, and Jacob D. Constant married Han-
nah Garretson. They had two children.
ANN E., born Sept. 20, 1844, married
Eleazer Tuttle, have two children, and
live in Atlanta. THOMAS, born Jan.
19, 1846, lives with Robert McDaniel.
Jacob D. Constant died Oct. 19, 1846, and
Mrs. Hannah Constant died Oct. 22, 1850,
both in Buffalo Hart Grove.

MAR(rERY, born March 20, 1810, in
Clarke county, Ky., married to Isaac
Dawson, and died without children, Feb.,
1845, in Sangamon county.

HARRIET L., born "Dec. 22, 1811, in
Clarke county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, Aug. 13, 1829, to Isaac L. Skin-
ner. They had one child, SALLY,
born Jan. 10, 1831, (in time of the " deep

snow.") She went to Clark county, Ky.,
on a visit, and was there married, Feb. 6,
1851, to Henry Hall. They had two
children. Mrs. Hall died May 29, 1860,
at Kankakee. BELLE and ISAAC N. Hall
reside with their father at Momence, Kan-
kakee county, 111. Isaac L. Skinner went
to Kentucky to visit his father, and died
there Aug. 26, 1831. His widow married
in Sangamon county, Nov. H, 1838, to
James W. Langston. See his name.

THOMAS E., born Nov. 15, 1813, in
Kentucky, died in Sangamon county Sept.
9, 1830. '

WILL I AM A., born Jan. 29, 1816, in
Clarke county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, March, 1842, to Mary A. Starr.
They had seven children. JOHN E.,
born March 29, 1843, enlisted at Spring-
field, 111., July 20, 1861, for three years, in
what became Co. B, nth Mo. Inf.; re-
enlisted as a veteran in same company and
regiment, Jan. i, 1864, and was honorably
discharged Jan. 15, 1866. He was married
Jan. 15, 1871, to Hester F. King, have one
child, EARL, and live near Buffalo* Hart
station. HARRISON CLAY, born
Sept. 14, 1844, married Nov. 12, 1867, to
Mary E. Enos. They have one child,
CHARLES EDWARD, and reside one mile
east of Buffalo Hart station. ALLEN
S., born Aug. 7, 1846, enlisted May 3,
1864, in Co. I, 1 33d 111. Inf., for one hun-
dred days, and was drowned July, 1864,
at Rock Island, while bathing in the
Mississippi river. EMMA, born Aug.
12, 1848, ALICE, born Dec. i, 1850, re-
side with their mother. HARVEY,
born July 14, 1853, died Oct. 9, 1860.
WILLIAM T., born Oct. 13, 1855, re-
sides with his mother. William A. Con-
stant died Aug. 15, 1855, and his widow
married March, 1857, to Casper Byerline.
They have two children, CHARLES F.
and NOAH, and reside one mile east of
Buffalo Hart station.

ELIZA J., born Oct. 23, 1821, died
Oct. 19, 1837.

John Constant died Nov. 18, 1835, and
his widow, Susan Constant, died March
1 8, 1864, both in Sangamon county.

CONSTANT, ISAAC, brothcr
of Thomas, Abigail, John and Jacob. He-
was born April 3, 1789, in Clarke county,
Ky.; was married July 4, 1811, in the
same county, to Amy Dean. They had
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died there. The family moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving Oct. 7, 1830, in
what is now Williams township. Of their
seven children —

JOHN, born July 7, 1812, in Ken-
tucky, died in Sangamon county Sept. 20,

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REBECCA, born Aug. 21, 1813, in

Kentuckv, died in Sangamon county Nov.
18, 1832.'

ABIGAIL D., born May 3, 1815, in
Kentucky, married Rezin H. Constant.
See his name.

MART A., born Dec. 23, 1816, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Miletus W. Ellis. See his name.

GEORGE W., born Oct. 23, 1818, in
Clarke county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, 111., Nov. 26, 1840, to Martha B.
Stewart. They had three children in
Sangamon county. WILLIAM S. mar-
ried Parthenia Bates. They have one
child, and live two miles northwest of
Williamsville. JAMES H. married
Mary Keagle. They have two living
children, WILLIAM and LUCY, and live two
and a half miles northwest of Williams-
ville. MARY A. married March 29,
1871, to James H. Groves, and reside two
miles east of Williamsville. Mrs. Martha
B. Constant died June i, 1850. G. W.
Constant was married Oct. 7, 1852, to
Mary W. Stapleford. She was born in
Milford, Kent county, Del., and came to
Springfield Oct. 14, 1836, in company
with her brother-in-law, Benjamin S.
Clements, who was the first Mayor of
Springfield. George W. Constant and
wife reside at Williamsville.

A VERT G., born June 8, 1821, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Louisa Fisher. They had six children.
JULIA, the third child, married James
Bates. See his name. ELLEN and
ALBERT died young. CHARLES A.
lives .in Springfield. ISAAC F. and
A VERY live with their mother. Averv
G. Constant died March 6, 1858, and his
widow resides at Williamsville.

.SAM TEL D., born Feb. 21, 1823,
died, aged six years, in Kentucky.

JAMES, born July 12, 1825, in Ken-
tucky, died in Sangamon county March 2,
1842.

"*"Tsaac Constant died Dec. 25, 1854, and
his widow died July 7, 1860, both in Wil-
liams township.

COOPER, A M BROSE, brother
to Meredith, was born Dec. 18, 1796, in
Botetourt county, Va., and taken by his
parents to Smith county, Tenn., where he
was married to Mary Kilbraith. They
had two children in Tenn., and in 1821
moved to St. Clair county, 111., where they
had one child, and moved to Sangamon
county in the fall of 1823, and settled two
miles east of the present town -of Sher-
man, where they had one child. Of their
four children —

HUGH L., born in Tennessee, and
married in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth
Taylor. They moved to Iowa, where he
died, leaving a widow and five children.
One of them married and remained in
Iowa. The mother and four children
moved to Piatt county, 111. Two of the
sons married there, and moved to Kansas.
The widow and two children live in
Piatt county.

WILLIAM, born in Tennessee,
raised in Sangamon county, went to Cal-
ifornia, and was married there to Sarah
Ide. He came back to Sangamon coun-
ty, and after a stay of some years, started
on his return to California with his family.
He died at sea, one day's sail from New
Orleans, leaving a widow and two child-
ren. ANN E. is married and lives at
Lebanon, Linn county, Oregon. ALICE
and her mother reside at Red Bluff,
Tehama county, Cal.

ANN, born in St. Clair county, married
Samuel Yocom. See his name.

MEREDITH C., born May 29, 1824,
in Sangamon county, married in 1846 to
Frances A. Chapman. They have five
children, and live in Williams township.

Mrs. Mary Cooper died Oct. 17, 1827.
Ambrose Cooper was a soldier from San-
gamon county in the Black Hawk war,
in 1831, and when the campaign was over
he went to the Galena lead mines, remain-
ing until the spring of 1832, where he en-
listed in another campaign against the
Indians, and was in the battles that
finally subdued them. He returned to
Sangamon countv, and was married in
April, 1836, to Eliza Wilson. They had
seven children, four of whom died young.

STEPHEN L., born May 6, 1840, in
Sangamon county, enlisted in Springfield,
July 20, 1861, for three years, in what be-
came Co. B, nth Mo. Inf., served full
term, and was honorably discharged Aug.

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i, 1864. He was married Oct. 11, 1865, to
Rebecca Summers, who was born Nov.
5, 1842, in Bracken county, Ky. They
have two children, RUFUS and AL-
VEY, and live near Dawson.

HENRY, born Aug. 12, 1842, enlisted
in Springfield July 20, 1861, in what be-
came Co. B, nth Mo. Inf., for three
years; re-enlisted as a veteran January,
1864, and was honorably discharged Jan.
20, 1866, and resides with his parents.

DABNEY, born Sept. 2, 1846, lives
with his parents.

Ambrose Cooper and wife are now
(1874) both living one mile south of Bar-
clay.

COOPER, MEDEDITH,born
April 7, 1792, in Botetourt county, Va.
His parents moved to Smith county,
Tenn., when he was a young man. Polly
Witcher was born July 21, 1794, in Cocke
county, Tenn., and her parents moved to
Smith county when she was but fifteen
years of age. Meredith Cooper and
Polly Witcher were there married, June 16,
1812. In September of that year Mr.
Cooper enlisted for three months in a
Tennessee regiment, and served four
months against the Indians in Alabama,
who were the allies of the British govern-
ment, with whom we were then at war.
Mr. and Mrs. Cooper had two children in
Tennessee. In the spring of 1817 Mr.
Cooper went to St. Clair county, 111.,
raised a crop, and returning, brought his
family in the fall of that year. The mov-
ing was done on two horses, as there were
no wagon roads; and if there had been,
they were unable to own a wagon. As a
specimen of real life at that time, I give
the statement of Mrs. Cooper, now quite
aged, that she rode one horse, carried a
child in her arms, and with a feather bed
lashed to the saddle behind, wended her
way, while her husband carried the other
child, with all the household goods and
farm implements he could put on the other
horse. Three of their children were born
in St. Clair county. The fame of the rich
soil of the San-ga-ma country was known
in St. Clair county, and Mr. and Mrs.
Cooper resolved to emigrate thither. This
time they put all their worldly goods and
five children in an ox-cart, and arrived in
the autumn of 1823 in what is now called
Fancy Creek township, near the present
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town of Sherman, where they had seven
children. Of all their children —

MARTHA, born Oct. 26, 1814, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county
to William Branson. See his name.

JAMES W., born Sept. 16, 1816, in
Tennessee, was married in Sangamon
county to Zarilda Taylor. They had four
children. MELISSA married Charles
Wood. They have one child, and live
near Edinburg, 111. PRISCILLA mar-
ried James Wright. They have four
children, and live near Riverton. JAS.
M. married Ellen McGinnis. They have
two children, and live three miles south-
east of Williamsville. AMBROSE died
Jan. 27, 1874, in Williams township.
James W. Cooper went to Texas, hoping
to improve his health, and died there in
1853. His widow died the next year in
Sangamon county.

MINERVA, born Sept. 21, 1818, in
St. Clair county, 111., was married in San-
gamon county to Jesse Yocom. See his
name.

MARGARET y.,born Sept. i, 1820,
in St. Clair county, was married in Sanga-
mon county to George W. Yocom. See
his name. Three of their children,
NETTIE, CLARA and MINNIE, died
in the winter of 1876.

MARY, born July 28, 1822, in St. Clair
county, was married in Sangamon county,
111., Jan. 30, 1851, to John Wilson, who
was born Feb. i, 1821, in Dumfriesshire,
Scotland. They have three children,
ANN, JAMES M. and THOMAS H.,
and reside one and a half miles east of
Riverton.

NANCY, born May 7, 1825, in Sanga-
mon county, married John Keagle. They
have seven children. CHARLOTTE
married Nathan Hussy. See his name.
SIDNEY married Samuel Smith. She
died, leaving one child, LETITIA, who
married Silas Skinner and died. JOSEPH,
SUSAN, HARLAN P. and HAR-
RISA B., reside with their parents in
Logan county, 111.

REBECCA, born Aug. u, 1827, in
Sangamon county, married James Mills.
She died Oct., 1871, in Sangamon county.
James Mills died in the spring of 1874, in
Moultrie county. Of their children:
MARY F. married Samuel Harsh, and
resides near Sullivan. LOUISA and

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EMMA reside near Sullivan, Moultrie
county, 111.

AMBROSE, born Sept. 13, 1829, in
Sangamon county, married Dorothy
Keagle. They have five children, MARY
J., JOHN M., AUGUSTA, GEORGE
E. L. and JAMES W., and reside near
Brownsville, Mo.

DA VID D., born August 10, 1831, in
Sangamon county, ma.rried Juliet With-
row. They have seven children, SUSIE,
JAMES A., DOUGLAS, LEE, AU-
GUSTA and EUGENE, and reside one
and a half miles east of Sherman.

ROBERT, born July 8, 1834, in San-
gamon county, was married Feb. 9, 1869,
to Lavina Garner, who was born in Wash-
ington county, Indiana. They live near
Sherman, Sangamon county, 111.

MEREDITH, Jun., born Sept. u,
1836, in Sangamon county, was married
in March, 1873, to Mrs. Emma Jones,
whose maiden- name was Watson. They
have one child, ANNA LEONORA,
and reside in east St. Louis, 111.

LOUISA, born Feb. 3, 1839, in San-
gamon county, was married Dec. 26, 1855,
to Isaac M. Raynolds, who was born in
Pike county, Ohio. They have five child-
ren, CHARLES M.JAMES A., POL-
LY E., EDWIN S. and BERTHA M.,
and reside one and a half miles east of
Sherman. The place was for many years
a trading post for the Indians, and from
about 1832 to 1856 was the family home-
stead of the Coopers. Some of the
younger members of the family i-emember
a visit to their house by Abraham Lincoln
on business. A large back log had just
been put on. It was cut from the fork of
a tree, and one limb projected quite a dis-
tance up the chimney. The children
were greatly amused to witness Mr. Lin-
coln's interest in trying to determine how
they brought it through the door and put
it in the fireplace. Meredith Cooper,
Sen., died Nov. i, 1870, in Williams
township, and his widow resides with
their daughter, Mrs. Raynolds.

COOPER, JOHN, born in 1772,
married in South Carolina, ai.d seven of
his children were born there. He moved
with his family to Jefferson county, Tenn
Some of his children preceded him to
Sangamon county. He came with his
wife Elizabeth, and remaining children,
about 1822, to what is now Cooper town-

ship. Nine daughters and three sons
came to Sangamon county. The follow-
ing are the names of the daughters,
with the surnames of the men they
married —

BETST, Moffit: NANCY, Smith;
MART, Smith; LTD I A, Moore;
RACHEL, Bragg; FANNY, Dicker-
son; LUCY, Mathews; EDITH, Saun-
ders; and SUSANNAH, Keagle.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper died March 10,

1845, and Jonn Cooper died April 10,

1846, both in Cooper township. Of their
three sons —

COOPER, EP HRI AM, brother
to Rev. John and Jacob Cooper. He was
born about 1802. in Jefferson county,
Tenn., came to Illinois when a young
man, married, raised a family in Christian
county, and died there Feb. 20, 1847.

COOPER, JOHN, was born
June 3, 1794, in South Carolina, and was
taken bv his parents to Jefferson county,
Tenn., where he was married to Susannah
Peyton, had one child, JULIA G., and
Mrs. Cooper died. Mr. Cooper was mar-
ried in the same county to Susannah
Giger, who was born Sept. 26, 1795, had
two children in Tennessee, and moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving April 2,
1820, and settled two miles north of where
Rochester now stands and one year later
moved to what is now Cooper township,
south of the Sangamon river. They had
nine children in Sangamon county. Of
all his children —

JULIA G., born Feb. i, 1814, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to John Weicli.
He died in 1840, leaving three children.
JOHN <C. died, aged seventeen. WIL-
LIAM H. married Harriet Cooper. He
enlisted in 1861 in Co. C, 27th 111. Inf.,
for three years, re-enlisted as a veteran
Jan. i, 1864, and was severely wounded.
He died January, 1870, and Mrs. Welch
died later. They left two children.
JAMES S. WELCH is a practicing phy-
sician at Sullivan, Moultrie county, 111.
Mrs. Julia G. Welch married Chesley
Dickerson. They had one child. SUSAN-
XAH married David Clark, and resides
at Breckenridge. Chesley Dickerson died
in 1846, and Mrs. Julia G. Dickerson
married Daniel D. Johnson. See his
name. They i-eside near Breckenridge.

Children of John Cooper by the second
marriasre —

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227

MARY A., born Aug. 18, 1817, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county
to Lewis Churchill. See his name,

WILE}' 61., born July 30, 1819, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county
to Eliza Clawson, and live in Shelbyville.

LEWIS W., born Aug. 5, 1822,^11
Sangamon county, married to Elizabeth
Todd. He died July 19, 1872.

BENJAMIN H., born Nov. 1 1, 1824,
died Aug. i, 1841, aged seventeen.

PATRICK, born June 29, 1826, in
Sangamon county, married Elizabeth
Firey, have four children, JOHN H.,
JACOB P., MARY E. and LAURA
B., and reside near Edinburg, Christian
county, 111.

JAMES M., born Aug. 3, 1828, in
Sangamon county, married April, 1851,
to Mary A. Sutcliffe. They had three
children, and all died under five years.
Mrs. Cooper died Dec. 29, 1858. James M.
Cooper was married Feb. 14, 1860, at
Rochester, to Susan Stier, who was born
May 19, 1833, in Harrison county, Va.
They had four children, EMELINE F.,
IDA B., JAMES F. and MARY
MAUD, and reside in Cooper township,
fives miles east of Rochester, on a part of
the farm where his parents settled in 1821,
and where Mr. Cooper was born.

Ml VERY A y., born June 12, 1830,
died in Sangamon county March 4, 1842.

SARAH A., born Nov. 2, 1832, in
Sangamon county, married William T.
Sudduth. See his name.

JOHN S., born Aug. 14, 1836, in
Sangamon county, married to Minerva
Ross, who was born in Ohio They have
three children, AMY, SARAH ELIZA
and ANNIE, and reside at Shelbyville,
Illinois.

GEORGE G., born June 8, 1839, in
Sangamon county, died Nov. 10, 1842.

Mrs. Susannah Cooper died Sept. 21,

1859, and Rev. John Cooper died January,

1860, both in Cooper township. He was
a local minister in the M. E. church, and
preached almost as regularly as the minis-
ters in the traveling connection. He sol-
emnized the marriage of many couple
among the early settlers. He was a jus-
tice of the peace and one of the county
commissioners for many years, and when
the township organization was affected
his name was given to the township in

which he lived as a mark of respect to his
memory.

COOPER, JACOB, was born
Dec. 18, 1800, in Jefferson county, Tenn.,
was married there to Anna Walden. One
child was born in Tennessee, and they
came to Sangamon county, 111., with his
brother, Rev. John Cooper, in 1819.
Their second child was born in Sangamon
county. One child died, and Mrs. Anna
Cooper died Feb. 22, 1830. Jacob Cooper
was married to Jane Kelly, daughter of
William Kelly, of Springfield. They
had five children. Of his children —

JOHN WESLETvfas born Dec. 18,
1822, in Sangamon county ; went to Mis-
souri when grown, and married there to
Anna Waldron. He died there, leaving
a widow and two children.

Children of the second marriage were —

MELCINA A., born Nov. 22, 1830,
in Sangamon county, married March 3,

1848, to Milton D. McCoy. See his name.

MEL VINA C., born Aug. 27, 1832,

in Sangamon county, married Dec. 27,

1849, to Benjamin F. Stokes. See his
name. She died Sept. 15, 1850.

ELZIRAH C., born May 29, 1834,
married Benjamin F. Stokes. See his
name.

ALMARINDA, born June 26, 1836,
married Joseph A. Waddell. They have
six children, and reside in Rochester town-
ship.

WILLIAM JAMEISON, born Jan.
4, 1844, in Sangamon county, married
Dec. 7, 1865, to Mattie S. West, of
Rochester. They have two children,
NORA BELL and MATTIE. Mrs.
Mattie Cooper died April 25, 1873, and
Wm. J. Cooper married Dec. 31, 1874, *x>
Leonora O'Leary, of East. St. Louis. W.
J. Cooper resides two miles south of
Rochester.

Jacob Cooper died Aug. 22, 1864, and
Mrs. Jane Cooper died Aug. 24, 1864,
both in Sangamon county, 111.

COOK, ELI, was born Nov. 4,
1809, in Butler county, Ohio, and married
there, April 7, 1829. to Sarah Jones, who
was born Feb. 2, 1809, in Preble county,
Ohio. They moved to Indiana, and from
there to Effingham county, 111., thence to
Springfield, in 1837. Of their nine child-
ren, two died young, and of the other
seven —

228

EARLY SETTLERS OF

E ME LINE, born March 7, 1832, in
Indiana, was married in Springfield, July
4, 1850, to William Morgan. Their only
child, FRANKLIN, is a printer, and
lives in Springfield. She married for a
second time, April 22, 1857, to John Fuller.
They have one child, CLARENCE.
Mrs. Emeline Fuller is now a widow, and
lives in Springfield.

AD ALINED born Sept. 6, 1833, in
Efringham county, 111., was married in
Springfield, Oct. 28, 1850, to George
Fessenden, a native of Boston, Mass.
They have three children. ASA, a tele-
graph operator, lives in Springfield, 111.
JULIA and ISABEL, the two latter re-
side with their mother, in Chicago.

ANGELINE, born Sept. 6, 1833, in
Effingham county, 111., was married in
Springfield to James W. Watson. See
his name.

H. FRANKLIN, born Sept. 14, 1836,
in Butler county, Ohio, was married in
Springfield, Dec. 23, '1858, to Lucinda
Parker, adopted daughter of J. E. Roll.
They had one living child, LEONARD,
and Mrs. Lucinda Cook died Sept. 10,
1864. Mr. Cook was married in Spring-
field, Aug. i, 1872, to Rebecca E. Baird,
a native of New Jersey. H. Franklin
Cook is a commercial traveler, with resi-
dence in Springfield.

MART E., born May 20, 1833, in San-
gamon county, was married in Spring-
field, Sept. 24, 1863, to Charles H. Ed-
mands, who was born in Charlestown,
Mass., Jan. 10, 1832. They had six child-
ren; four died young. FREDERICK D.
and GEORGE A. reside with their pa-
rents, in Springfield, 111. Hr. Edmands
is a manufacturer and dealer in stoves and
tinware.

^ JULIA R., born Dec. 16, 1839, in
Springfield, was married Feb. 21, 1861, to
James Gormley, of New Jersey. They
have three children, DORA, MAY and
AUSTIN, and live in Virginia City,
Montana.

ELB RIDGE C., born June 29,
1841, in Springfield, is married, and lives
in Cicero, Indiana.

Mr. Eli Cook was a hatter by trade,
and followed that business in Springfield.
He was Mayor of the city three terms, in
1846, '47 and '48. In 1849 he left for the
Pacific coast, and died in Nevada City,

California, March 25, 1853. His widow
resides in Springfield.

CORRELL, LEVI, was born
June 22, 1767, in New Jersey. When a
young man he went to Kentucky, and
was married Nov. 6, 1794, in Bath county,
to Mary Hicklin. They had eleven
children, four of whom died young. Of
the other seven —

JOSEPH, born Oct. 8, 1795, died
when a young man.

ELIZABETH, born Jan. 18, 1797,
in Harrison county, Ky., married March
23, 1820, to Jonathan McDaniel. See his
name.

HUGH, born July 6, 1804, in Harrison
county, Ky. He was married May 2,
1826, in that county, to Mary Y. Sinclair.
They had two children in Kentucky, and
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1830 in what is now Mechan-
icsburg township, where they had four
children. Of their six children, ELIZA-
BETH, born May 9, 1827, in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Robert
P. McDaniel. See his name. He died,
and she married James H. McDaniel.
See his name. CYRUS, born July 16,
1829, in Kentucky, came with his parents
to Sangamon county, married at Concord,
Morgan county, to Mary Brown. Cyrus
Correll died Dec. 23, 1868, in Sangamon
county, leaving one child, CORA, residing
with her mother, who is the wife of Pierce
Kiser, and lives in Mechanicsburg. COR-
DELIA, born Feb. 23, 1833, in Sanga-
mon county, married Feb. 18, 1858, to
John M. Carpenter, who was born March
26, 1829, in Butler county, O., and came
to Sangamon county in 1850. They have
three children, WINFORD H., DORA B. and
MINNIE c., and reside three and a half
miles northeast of Buffalo. DAVID,
born March 29, 1836, in Sangamon coun-
ty, is unmarried, and resides two and a
half miles south of Dawson. STEPHEN,
born May 12, 1838, in Sangamon county,
married March 12, 1868, to Ann M. Sem-
ple, who was born Dec. 29, 1846, in Ire-
land. They have two children, WILLIE
and MARY D., and reside two and a half
miles south of Dawson, at the family
homestead. MARY, born Sept. 7, 1840,
in Sangamon county, married Mar., 1864,
to Jesse Wheelin. Mr. Wheelin died Feb.
i, 1871, and Mrs. W. died Aug. 21, 1871.
Their only living child, CYRUSE., born July

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8, 1865, in Sangamon county, resides at the
family homestead, two and a half miles south
of Dawson. Hugh Correll died June I,
1854, and his widow died Sept. 7, 1874,
both where they settled in 1832, on the farm
two and a half miles south of Dawson.

MARTHA, born March 13, 1806, in
Kentucky, married Hugh McDonald.
They had five children and moved to
Texas, where Mr. McDonald and two
sons, JAMES and THOMAS, and a
daughter, MARTHA, died. Mrs. Mar-
tha McDonald returned, and died in San-
gamon county. MARY E. married Mr.
Glider, and lives in Decatur, Texas.
SUSAN died at Quincy 111., September,
1875. ANNA resides with her uncle,
Thomas Correll.

THOMAS, born Jan. 18, 1808, in Har-
rison county, Ky. He was there married.
Oct. 7, 1830, to Sally McDaniel. (She
was born Aug. 28, i8n,in Clarke county,
Ky.) They moved immediately after
they were married to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the fall of 1830111 Mechan-
icsburg township, where they had eight
children. Of their children, M. MAR-
GARET, born July 13, 1832, married
Edwin Tomlin. See his name. WIL-
LIAM FLETCHER, born Oct. 16,1833,
married Feb. 25, 1868, to E. Fannie Pur-
viance. They have two children, FRANK
and KATE, and reside in Macon county,
111., two and a half miles southeast of Illi-
opolis. D. SIMPSON, born Sept. 3,
1835, married Feb. 25, 1874, to Lizzie
Peclen, who was born Oct. 19, 1855, in
Morgan county, O. They live two miles
south of Illinois. WARNER H., born
May i, 1837, married Dec. 20, 1866, to
Anna Simpson, who died in 1867, and he
married March, 1871, to Lizzie St. Clair.
They have three children, THOMAS, SAM-
UEL and ESSIE MAY, and live near Pleas-
ant Plains, 111. CORNELIUS, born
May 19, 1839, married March 12, 1863, to
Carrie A. Cass. She was born Dec., 1845,
and was a daughter of William Riley
Cass. They had two children, FLORA c.
and VIRGIL, and Mrs. Correll died
April i, 1866. Mr. Correll was mar-
ried Nov. 16, 1869, to Lidie N. Davies, in
Philadelphia. She was born there May
30, 1843, of Scotch and English parents,
and graduated in 1865 in one of the insti-
tutions of learning in her native city. They
had three children, FANNY MARY, JESSIE

NEWTON and HEBER WILBER; the latter
died in infancy, and Mrs. Lidie N. Correll
died March 23, 1874. Cornelius Correll
is a graduate in the Law department of
Michigan University, Ann Arbor. He is
now a member of the firm of Correll & Co.,
druggists, Springfield. JOHN, born June
5, 1841, resides with his parents. LEVI
S., born Aug. 14, 1843. He is a graduate
of the Medical department of Ann Arbor
University, Michigan. He is member of
the firm of Correll & Co., composed of
the brothers Cornelius, John and Levi S.,
druggists, Springfield. Levi S. was'mar-
ried July 8, 1874, in Springfield, to Lou
Freeman. They reside in Springfield.
FANNIE, born August 22, 1846, in San-
gamon county, married Oct. 29, 1869, to
Isaac Funk. They have two children,
ARTHUR and MABEL; the latter died in in-
fancy. They reside at Funk's Grove,
near Shirley, McLean county. Thomas
Correll and his wife reside within one mile
of where they settled in 1830. It is two
and a half miles southeast of Dawson.

Thomas Correll says* that he raised a
crop of corn in Kentucky, during the
summer of 1830, and sold it for $75.00
He spent $5 oo in getting married, and
brought the remaining $70.00 with him.
He fed his father's stock during the winter
of 1830 and '31, (being the winter of the
" deep snow,") for which he received $30,
making an even $100. With that money
he came to Springfield and entered his
first eighty acres of land. Having secured
his land, he had not a cent of money to
pay a hotel bill, and a man by the name of
Constant hearing him relate his situation,
kept him over night and trusted him for
it. The ferryman at the Sangamon river
took him over on the same terms, and that
was the way he laid the foundation for his
home. When they commenced keeping
house they had neither a table nor chair.
He made a shelf on the wall, and from
that the first meal was taken standing.
His wife's uncle, Henry McDaniel, was
with them, and he praised her cooking, to
keep her courage up. Mr. Correll, dur-
ing the summer of 1831, rode eight miles
to help David Riddle harvest his wheat,
and returned home every night. He re-
ceived sixty-two and a half cents per day
for his labor. The first wheat he raised
for himself he harvested with a reap hook,
or sickle, tramped it out with horses,

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EARL? SETTLERS OF

hauled it to St. Louis, one hundred miles,
and sold it for fifty cents per bushel. As
he accumulated some money, he bought
fat hogs, and drove them to St. Louis.
One year he made some money, and feel-
ing liberal, he overpaid some of the men
who helped him. The next year he lost
all, and was thirty-seven and a half cents
short in money to pay his hired help.
One of those who had been overpaid by
him the year before, would not suffer any
reduction, and he had to raise the money
in some other way. He thought that was
not very encouraging, but his success in
life since, makes the contrast very strik-
ing.

SUSANNAH, born Oct. 9, 1809, in
Kentucky, married Jacob Morgan. See
his name.

SARAH, born Dec. 31, 1811, in Ken-
tucky, married Jacob Constant. See his
name.

Mrs. Mary H. Correll died July TO,
1816, in Kentucky, and Levi Correll was
married July 17, 1817, to Mrs. Elizabeth
Sinclair, whose maiden name was Phillips.
She was born July 27, 1807, in Northum-
berland county, Va. Her father died
when she was quite young, and her
mother, with her son and daughter, moved
to Harrison county, Ky. Mr. and Mrs.
Correll had two children in Kentucky,
and moved to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving in the fall of 1830, in what is now
Mechanicsburg township. Of their two
children —

WILLIAM, born August 16, 1818, in
Harrison county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county, Dec. 7, 1848, to Per-
melia A. Simpson. They had three
children. CYRUS died in infancy.
HENRY OWEN married Ada Elkin,
and lives near Mechanicsburg. MARY
EVA lives with her parents, three miles
west of Mechanicsburg. William Correll
says that himself and his half-brother,
John Sinclair, broke forty acres of prairie
in 1831, northeast of the old state house
square, in Springfield. It included the
land where Everybody's Mill, the jail,
Opera House and Journal office now
stand.

ELIZA, born Dec., 1821, in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Talbott
Lyon. They had four children, and Mr.
Lyon and all the children died. Mrs.
Lyon married in Sangamon county to

Gardner Bruce. They reside at Atchison,
Kansas. Mrs. Elizabeth Correll has two
children by her first husband, Mr. Sin-
clair.

MART }'. Sinclair, born July 27,
1807, in Northumberland county, Va.,
married Hugh Correll. Sec his name.

JOHN Sinclair, born in 1808, in
Virginia, married in Sangamon county
to Mrs. Miriam Massey, whose maiden
name was Constant. They had several
children, and the parents and all except
two of the children are dead. Their
daughter, Miriam, married Narcissus
Rivaud, and reside at Kankakee. John
Sinclair, Jun., went to South America,
married a Spanish lady, and resides there.

Levi Correll died May 2, 1845, and
Mrs. Elizabeth Correll died Nov. 10,
1852, both in Sangamon county.

COUNCIL, DAVID G., was
born Jan. 15, 1817, in Montgomery county,
Tenn. Came to what is now Christian
county, 111.; then to Sangamon county in
the autumn of 1830. He came to Spring-
field in 1838, where he was married
March 28, 1839, to Mary J. Donaldson,
who was born in Kentucky in 1818.
They had seven children, namely —

LOUISA, born May 14, 1841, was
married Dec. 28, 1865, to Jacob S.
Wright, who was born June n, 1841, in
Owen county, Ind. They have one child,
CHARLIE. Jacob S. Wright came to
Springfield in August, 1866. His father
was a soldier in the war of 1812; was
wounded in the head during an engage-
ment with the Indians, and but for the
interposition of Tecumseh would have
been killed. He was made prisoner, taken
to Sandusky, and retained there until
exchanged. J. S. Wright enlisted at Lin-
coln, 111., as a private, in Co. E, yth 111.
Inf.; served three months, and re-enlisted
in 1862 in Co. H, io6th 111. Inf.; was at
the siege and capture of Vicksburg, and
in the expedition and capture of Little
Rock, Ark.; served full time, and was
honorably discharged in 1865, at Spring-
field, 111., where he now lives.

WILLIAM M., born Feb. 8, 1843, in
Springfield, was married Jan. 5, 1864, to
Mary E. Huffman, who was born May n,
1845, m Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. Mary
E. Council died Sept. 2, 1871, leaving two
children, MINNIE and ARTHUR, who
reside with their father. William M.

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Council was married June 9, 1875, in
.Springfield, to Jennie Barkley, who was
born Sept. i, 1841, in Lafayette, Christian
county, Ky. W. M. Council lives in
Springfield.

ffAMES, born Feb. 9, 1845, '" Spring-
field, 111., was married there, April 30,
1860, to Alsinda A. Shawn, who was
born Sept. 4, 1848, in Newark, Ohio.
She is a niece of Judge Shawn, of Me-
nard county. They have two children,
FRANK A. and FLORENCE A.
James Council is a contractor and builder,
;iml resides in Springfield, 111.

DA \'ID G., Jun., born Dec. 2, 1846, in
Springfield, was married there, July 15,
1868, to Mrs. Jennie Kimble, whose
maiden name was Richmond. She
was born in 1846, in Painesville, O.
Thev have one child, OLIVE L., and
live in Springfield, 111.

MART E., born June 15, 1851, in
Springfield, was married there, August
12, 1869, to Thomas D. Hirst, who was
born June 7, 1836, in Loudon county Va.
Thev have two children, EDDIE L. and
HARRY E. T. D. Hirst is running a
plaining mill in Clinton, 111., and lives
there.

MARTHA J.. born August 2, 1853,
and

JOHN 7\ born June 4, 1856, reside
with their mother.

When D. G. Council came to Illinois,
he left five sisters in Tennessee, whom he
completely lost sight of. He accidentally
heard that one sister had moved to Marion
county, 111. He visited her family, and
after the close of the rebellion he visited
his old home in Tennessee. He found his
sisters still residing there with their fami-
lies. Some of their sons had been in the
Union army, and others had joined the
rebels. One of his nephews from Chris-
tian county, 111., was a prisioner at one
time, and guarded by another nephew.
(The boys were own cousins.) Two of
those who went in the rebel army were
killed or died in the service, and the re-
mainder were doing well, and still resided
in Tennessee. D. G. Council was the
pioneer of stair building in Springfield,
and foreman for Hannan & Ragsdale in
their extensive contracts. He died in
Springfield, 111., August 28, 1875, and his
widow resides in the citv.

COUNCIL, WILLIAM, born
Oct. i, 1791, near Tarboro, Edgecomb
county, N. C. He was a brother to Hardy
Council. About 1800 the family moved
to Tennessee, thence to Barren county,
Ky., and from there to White county, 111.
William Council was there married, Nov.,
1819, to Mary Graves, who was born
June 15, 1802, in East Tennessee. Thev
had one child, and moved to Sangamon
county, arriving in the fall of 1821 north
of Springfield, and kept a ferry on Sanga-
mon river near where Carpenter's mill
now stands. They had nine children in
Sangamon county, namely —

GEORGE W., born Jan. 2, 1820, in
White county, 111., married Sept. 28, 1843,
in Sangamon county, to Jane Mitts.
They had eleven children, namely :
WILLIAM C., born Oct. 26, 1844, en-
listed August, 1862, in Co. C, 114111 111.
Inf., for three years, served full term, and
was honorably discharged Aug. 3, 186^.
He was married April i, 1869, in Illiopo-
lis, to Melissa A. Meredith, who was born
June 25, 1849, in Orange county, Ind.
She died April 29, 1873. He lives three
miles west of Illiopolis. MARY A. mar-
ried Charles Sweet, have two children,
WILLIAM and ANNIE, and live in Topeka,
Kan. JOHN M., born June 7, 1851,
married Sept. 21, 1871, in Sangamon
county, to Elizabeth E. Hay, born June
9, 1850, in Holmes county, O., have two
children, FLORA BELLE and ROBERT AR-
THUR, and live four miles west of Illiopo-
lis. NELSON L., ELIZABETH,
CHARLES F., HENRY N., FLORA
M., EMMA E., GEORGE G. and AN-
NIE J., live with their parents, four miles
west of Williamsville.

MARTHA A., born Jan. 30, 1822, in
Sangamon county, married Stephen Yo-
com. See his name.

SARAH, born Nov. 23, 1826, in San-
gamon county, resides with her brother,
Hardy F. M.

NANCT J., born May 27, 1828, mar-
ried John Cline. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born April 3, 1830,
married Oliver P. Canterbury. See his
name.

WILLIAM R., born March 30, 1832-,
married March 23, 1871, to Nancy E.
Wigginton, and live in Menard county,
three and a quarter miles northwest of
Williamsville.

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

MART (7., born Feb. 26, 1834, mar-
ried Dr. Henry Van Metre. See his name.

NELSON Z., born Jan. 18, 1839, mar-
ried Mary Lynch. They have seven
children, and reside in Menard county,
four miles northwest of Williamsville.

HARDT F. M., born Feb. 10, 1841,
enlisted August, 1862, in Co. C, U4th 111.
Inf., for three years, served full term, and
was honorably discharged Aug. 3, 1865.
He was married Feb. 10, 1870, to Charity-
Ray, who was born in Ohio Jan. 22, 1850.
They have one living child, OLIVER P.,
and reside at the homestead settled by his
father in 1821. It is in Fancy Creek
township, five miles west of Williamsville.

William Council died July 8, 1846, and
his wife died Jan. 25, 1869, both in Sanga-
mon county.

COUNCIL, HARDY, born
Sept. 20, 1793, near Tarboro, N. C., was
taken by his parents to Tennessee, thence
to Barren county, Ky., and from there to
White county, near Carmi, 111. He was
there married, in 1818, to Jane Hanna,
who was born Feb. 25, 1795, in Kentucky,
They moved on horseback the next year
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in
August, 1819, in what is now Fancv
creek township, preceding his brother
William two years. Mrs. Council car-
ried a sack of wheat on the horse she
rode, besides many household implements.
Mr. Council carried all he could in the
way of tools and other articles necessary
for farming. He commenced improve-
ments by building a camp or rough cabin.
He was unable to obtain a plow, but being
anxious to raise some wheat for a begin-
ning, he took a grubbing hoe, or old fash-
ioned mattock, and dug up about one acre
and a half, near the junction between
prairie and timber, and on the ground
thus prepared, sowed the wheat brought
by his wife, and raised a good crop.
When the land was surveyed and brought
into market, there was a line between his
cabin and where he raised his crop of
wheat. He could only enter one piece,
and he chose that with the house on it.
The land where the wheat grew was en-
tered bv another person, who never culti-
vated it, but allowed a growth of young
cottonwood trees to start on it, which has
made quite a grove, that can be seen for
several miles; many of the trees are more
than two feet in diameter each. Mr.

Council and Robert McClelland came
together, and they cut an ample supply of
grass, and stacked it for their horses and
cattle. They knew nothing of the danger
of prairie fires, and before they were aware
of the importance of protecting it, their
hay was all burned. They kept their
stock alive by cutting down elm trees, so
that they could eat the buds. Mr. and
Mrs. Council had seven sons born at that
place, two of whom died in infancy. Of
the other five —

JOHN //., born May 19, 1822, mar-
ried Edna Lake. They have five children,
JAMES H., CHARLES F JOHN W.
and GEORGE R., the two latter twins,
and ANNA F., and reside near where his
father settled in 1819, three miles west of
Sherman.

WESLEY, born Nov. 21, 1824,- was
married April 14, 1853, to Martha A.
Wigginton. They had twelve children,
nine of whom died under thirteen years,
the other three, JOHN, WILLIE and
NELLIE reside with their parents in
Williamsville.

WILLIAM F., born Jan. 21, 1828,
married Rosanna England. They have
seven children, MARY F., WILLIAM
H., FLORA J., DAVID E., GEORGE
A., NORA E. and U. S. GRANT, who
reside with their parents in Menard
county.

ROBERT, born March 23, 1831, mar-
ried Ellen Cresee. They have three liv-
ing children, JOHN W., MABEL and
LILLIE M., and reside in Menard coun-
ty, five miles northwest of Williamsville.

GEORGE W., born August 6, 1834,
enlisted Oct. 25, 1862, in Co. B, i3Oth 111.
Inf., for three years, was transferred to
Co. G, ist New Orleans Vol. Inf., in
which he was 2d Lieut. He served in
that capacity nearly one year after the
close of the war, and was honorably dis-
charged. He was married March 24,
1868, to Olivia L. Miller, who was born
Feb. 17, 1851, in West Liberty, O. They
have two children. CLIFFORD and
IDA E., and reside at the homestead set-
tled by his parents in 1819, in Fancy
creek township.

Mrs. Jane Council died March 30, 1863,
and Hardy Council died July 26, 1873,
both in Sangamon county, 111.

COWGILL, WILLIAM M.,
was born near Lebanon, Warren county,

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233

Ohio, and was married early in 1832, in
Lebanon, to Clemantine Sayre, a native of
the same county. They moved in the
spring of that year to Springfield, 111., and
had five children, namely —

WILLIAM B., born March 29, 1833,
in Springfield, and married in his native

glace May 16, 1855, to Margaret D.
prigg, who was born Aug. 18, 1833, in
Effingham county, 111. They have three
children, born in Springfield. WILLIAM
C., born March 12, 1858; JOHN AL-
BERT, Jan. 17, 1860, and DUNCANS.,
Oct. 6, 1868, all reside with their parents
in Springfield. William B. Cowgill is a
dealer in real estate.

CATHARINE L., born in Spring-
field, married June 30, 1852, to Daniel C.
Brown. See his name.

ALBERT H., born in Springfield,
married Mary L. Brown, and live in his
native city.

MART CLEMANTINE and

CORNELIA SATRE, reside in
Springfield. The former is a teacher in
the Bettie Stuart Institute.

William M. Cowgill was engaged in
mercantile pursuits from 1832 to 1844,
in Springfield, when he moved to
Petersburg. Mrs. Clemantine S. Cow-
gill died in 1854, and William M. Cowgill
died in 1862, both in Petersburg, Menard
, county, 111.

COX, GEORGE, was born in
South Carolina, came to Sangamon county
with William and Joseph Drennan, in
March, 1818, and died in November, 1819.
His son, Jesse Cox, lives in Virden.

COX, SAMUEL, uncle to the
Hampton brothers. He had two sons,
Samuel and Sowell. Sowell owned the
farm adjoining Mechanicsburg on the
west. The house in which he lived was
the only brick house between Decatur
and Springfield. They came in 1825, and
about 1838 moved to the vicinity of Pal-
myra, Mo.

CRAFTpN, WILEY, was born
Jan. 25, i8oi,in Lunenburgh county, Va.,
went to Trimble county, Ky., where he
was married in 1824 to Agnes Chalfant,
who was born in that county about 1801.
They had two children in Kentucky, and
moved, early in 1831, to Vandalia, 111.,
where they had one child, and the same
year moved to Sangamon county, I linois.
They returned, in a short time, to Ken-

—3°

tucky, then came back to Sangamon coun-
ty, where they had four children. Of
their children —

WILLIAM P., born May 25, 1826, in
Trimble county, Ky., raised in Sangamon
county, Illinois, married Nov. 28, 1855,
in St. Louis, Mo., to Eliza C. Har-
rison. They have three children, PEY-
TON L., AGNES E., and WILLIAM
P., and reside in Springfield. Wm. P.
Crafton was elected Police Magistrate at
the Springfield city election, April, 1876.

THOMAS T., born May 27, 1828, in
Trimble coimty, Ky., raised in Sangamon
county, married in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, to
Miss Dawson. They have two children,
and reside in Atlantic, Cass county, Iowa.

MART, born in 1831, at Vandalia, 111.,
married Dr. J. L. Million, and resides in
Springfield.

Wiley Crafton lives in Springfield.

CRAIG, WILLIAM, was born
in 1790, in Fayette county, Ky. He was
married April 20, 1821, near Stanford,
Lincoln county, to Mary P. Swope, who
was born there June 20, 1794. In 18?"
they moved to Williamson county, ne?
Franklin, Tenn., where they had five child-
ren. The family moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in the spring of 1832
in what is now Island Grove township,
south of Spring creek, where they had
two children. Of their seven children —

ANDRE W E., born Feb. 22, 1822,
in Tennessee, died April 20, 1861, in San-
gamon county.

WILLIAM, Jim., born Aug. 24, 1823,
in Tennessee, enlisted Aug. 15, 1862, for
three years, in Co. A, io6th 111. Inf.,
served full term, and was honorably dis-
charged Aug. 12, 1865.

MARGARE T P., born Feb. 4, 1827,
in Tennessee, is unmarried, and resides at
the family homestead.

JAMES P., born May, 1829, in Ten-
nessee, died in Sangamon count}' Oct. 19,
18=52.

yOHN B., born Nov., 1830, in Ten-
nessee, died in Sangamon countv Jan. 30,

MART M., born June 14, 1836, in
Sangamon county, married Oct. 11, 1867,
to Ammi C. Cheever, who was born Nov.
1 6, 1 825, in Boston, Mass. They have two
children, MARY A. and \VILLIS C.,
and reside at the family homestead, in

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

Island Grove township, three miles north
of Bates.

RICHARD B., born Aug. i, 1837, in
Sangamon county, resides at the family
homestead.

William Craig died Oct. 2, 1847, anc'
Mrs. Mary P. Craig died Dec. 25, 1871,
both on the farm where thev settled in
1832.

CRESSE, GEORGE, was born
May 16, 1808, in Cape May county, N. J.,
came to Springfield, 111., in Aug., 1839.
In the spring of 1841 he returned to New
Jersey, and was there marrifed, Sept. 2,
1841, to Maria Marcy,who was born Feb.
17, 1823, near Hartford, Conn. He came
with his bride back to Sangainon county,
arriving Nov. 10, 1841. They moved to
Menard county, and had four children.
The family moved back to Sangamon
county, near Pleasant Plains, in 1857,
where they had one child. Of their five
children —

ELLEN, born in Menard county,
married Robert Council. See his name.

ED WARD M., CA THARINE L.,
(is a teacher,) MATTHEW IV., and
CORDELIA S. resjde with their
father.

Mrs. Maria Cresse died April 22, 1862,
and George Cresse, with his two sons and
two daughters, reside adjoining Sherman
on the northwest. — 1874.

CROCKER, G. W., was born
July 29, 1814, in Cheshire county, N. H.
He was married February, 1839, in Am-
hcrst, Mass., to Lois K. Thayer, who was
born there in 1814. They moved to San-
gamon county in company with his father-
in-law, Asahel Thayer, arriving at Chat-
ham May 19, 1839. They had ten child-
ren, five of whom died in infancy and
childhood. Of the other five children —

EDWARD A., born March 3, 1840,
in Sangamon county, was attending Illi-
nois College, at Jacksonville, when he
died, aged nineteen years.

WILLIAM B., born March 9, 1842, in
Chatham, enlisted in Co. I, 73d 111. Vol.
Inf., was wounded at the battle of Perrv-
ville, and died at Taylorville, 111., Aug. n,
1 86^, aged twenty-three years.

SARAH T., born March 21, 1846,111
Sangamon county, was married Sept. i,
1864, to Dr. B. W. Fox, of Springfield.
She died in Taylorville, May 15, 1869,
leaving one child, LOIS F., who resides

with her grand-parents in Taylorville
Dr. B. W. Fox died June 20, 1875, at
Quincy, 111. His remains were buried at
Taylorville.

GEORGE B., born Jan. 31, 1849, in
Chatham, married Nannie Richardson.
They have one child, EDWARD W.,
and reside at Taylorville.

ARTHUR H., born May 31, 1857, at
Chatham, resides with his parents in Tav-
lorville, to which place they moved from
Chatham in 1867.

Mrs. Crocker gives a short account of
the Chatham Ladies' Aid Society. It was
organized Nov. 21, 1861, and disbanded
early in '63. The society was small, but
they made three large boxes of bedding
and clothing suitable for tent and hospital,
besides making up ten webs of domestic
for the Springfield Soldiers' Aid Society.

CROW, ROBERT, was born in
1781, in Wythe county, Va. Margaret
Kershner was born in 1787, in Augusta
county, Va., where they were married, and
soon after moved to Christian county, Ky.
They had eight children there, and moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1822,
in what is now Auburn township. Of
their children —

JANE married Philip Wineman, and
died. See his name.

DA \ ID, born in Kentucky, never
married, and lives with his sister, Mrs.
Moore.

EDWARD, born in 1810, in Ken-
tucky, died unmarried, in Sangamon
county, July 28, 1868.

WILLIAM D., married July 17, 1846,
to Julia A. Messick. They had seven
children in Sangamon county. MAR-
GARET E. married George E. Stoke,
and resides in Ball township. WIL-
LIAM T., JAMES G., ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, CHARLES H., PIER-
BERT A. and ADA M. Wm. D. Crow
died April 27, 1869, and his widow and
children reside at Crow's mill.

MART, born in Kentucky, married
Wm. McAllister, and had one child. All
three died at the family homestead, near
Crow's mill.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Morrison
M. Moore. See his name.

GRANDISON B., born in Chester
county, Ky., was raised in Sangamon
county, and went to Oregon in 1847, an<^

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in Sept., 1848, went to California, gold
having been discovered there in June,
1848. After spending eighteen years
there, he returned to Sangamon county, in
1866, and now resides at the family home-
stead, in Ball township. — 1874.

FRANCES J/., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to George
Armitage, and resides near Palmer City,
Christian county.

Robert Crow died Sept., 1840, and his
widow died Sept., 1851, both in Ball town-
ship.

CROW, WILLIAM, was born
March 5, 1793, in Botetourt county, Va.
Three brothers, John, Thomas and An-
drew Crow, came from Ireland to Amer-
ica during the Revolutionary war. John
was the father of him whose name heads
this sketch. John Crow moved to Barren
county, Kv., when William was a child.
William Crow and Miriam Enyart were
married in Cumberland county, Ky., and
had one child. In 1819 they moved to
Madison county, 111., where he was or-
dained to preach the gospel by the recog-
nized authorities of the Old School, or
Regular Baptist, church. In the fall of
1820 he moved to what is now Salisbury,
or Cartwright, township, in Sangamon
county, north of Richland creek, where
thev had one child, and Mrs. Miriam
Crow died, Aug. 7, 1823. William Crow
was married in the fall of 1824, in Cum-
berland county, Ky., to Susan Hall. On
his return to Sangamon county, he sold
out and settled in what is now the south-
east corner of Cass county, where two
children were born. Of his four children —

JEROME E., born Sept. 2, 1817, in
Cumberland county, Ky., was brought by
his parents to Sangamon county, married
in Cass county, June 19, 1844, to Eliza J.
Brockman. They have five children, two
of whom are married, and all live with
and near their parents, in the vicinity of
Humboldt, Richardson countv, Neb.

REBECCA W., born June 9, 1821,
ia Sangamon county, and is believed to
have been the first white child born on
Richland creek. She was married Oct. 9,
1844, in Cass county, to Washington A.
Mitchell, who was born Dec. 21, 1816, in
Logan county, Ky. They have five
children, WILLIAM I., CHARLES C.,
JOHN L., ALBERT J. and ANNAH
E., and reside in the southeast corner of

Cass countv, one mile southwest of Ash-
land, 111.

JOHN H., born March 14, 1826, in
Cass county, married Sarah F. Dillon, of
Sangamon county. They have three child-
ren, and reside in Tecumseh, Neb. See
Dillon family.

MARY A., born Dec. 18, 1828, mar-
ried August, 1848, in Cass county, to
James L. Beggs. They have eight child-
ren, three of whom are married, and one
of the married daughters resides in Chi-
cago. Mr. and Mrs. Beggs reside in
Ashland.

Mrs. Susan Crow died April n, 1845,
in Cass county, and Rev. William Crow
died Aug. 22, 1865, at Brownsville, Neb.
He preached from the time he came to
Sangamon county until about 1860, a min-
istry of forty years. He was known to
all Baptists throughout central Illinois.

CROUCH, DAVID, born Sept.
29, 1814, in Nicholas county, Ky., came to
Sangamon county, Rochester township, in
August, 1834. He was married March
29, 1835, to Mrs. Clara Ann Stafford,
whose maiden name was Gregory. They
had five children in Sangamon county —

PR CD A ANN, born Jan. 26, 1837,
married March 18, 1858, to John S.Craig,
have two children, EMMA L. and
MARY L., and live near Morrisonville.

DELIA ANN, born Jan. 25, 1840,
married in Sangamon county Jan. 8, 1857,
to A. D. Young, born Feb. 28, 1837, m
Shelby county, Ky. They have one
child, JULIA D., born in Anderson
county, Ky., and live one and a quarter
miles south of Rochester.

JONATHAN G., born Jan. 18, 1843,
married Nov. 26, 1867, to Margaret A.
Bell. They have two children, FRED-
DIE and EDDIE R., and live two miles
south of Rochester.

WILLIAM H., born Oct. 15, 1846,
married March 16, 1872, to Emma Crouch.
They live two miles west of Breckenridge.

K1T7^Y A., born Oct. n, 1851, mar-
ried Henry George. They have one
child, and reside four miles east of Pawnee.

David Crouch died Sept. 14, 1871, in
Sangamon county, and his widow resides
one and a quarter miles south of Roches-
ter.

CROWL, JOSEPH, was born
Sept. 3, 1794, in Shepherdstown, Va. He
was a soldier from Maryland in the war

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EARL? SETTLERS OF

of 1812, and was married Jan. i, 1817, in
Washington county, Md., to Mary A.
Dillihunt, who was born Feb. 22, 1804, in
Kent county> Md. They had ten children
in Washington county, Md., three of
whom died young. They moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of
1834, at Springfield, and the next spring
moved to what is now Cooper township,
south of the Sangamon river, where they
had five children. Of their twelve child-
ren—

MORDECAI, born July 20, 1820, in
Maryland, married December, 1869, in
Springfield, to Catharine E. Crowl, a
native of Berkley county, Va. They re-
side four miles southeast of Pawnee, in
Christian county. /

UPTON, born Feb. 7, 1822, in Mary-
land, served one year from June, 1846, in
the 4th 111. Inf., under Col. E. D. Baker,
in the Mexican war. He was married in

1850, in Sangamon county, to Sarah E.
Taggart. They had one living child,
MARY J., born April 22, 1858, married
Feb. 10, 1874, in Springfield, to Eugene
W. Renshaw, who was born June 25,

1851, in Decatur. He is a grandson of
James, who was a brother to Samuel Ren-
shaw. See his name. E. W. Renshaw
lives one and a half miles northeast of
Berry station. Upton Crowl died March
8, 1872, and his widow resides one and a
half miles northeast of Berry, or Clarks-
ville.

CORNELIA, born Oct. 18, 1823, in
Maryland, married in Sangamon county,
April 1 8, 1839, to Stephen Hussey. See
his name.

MART E., born Nov. 13, 1825, in
Maryland, married in Sangamon county
to William R. Ross. See his name.

JOSEPH F. and JACOB J.

(twins), born Aug. 30, 1827, in Maryland;
the latter died young.

JOSEPH F. was raised in Sangamon
county, went with his sister (Mrs. Hussey)
to Oregon, and was married May, 1853,
in Yamhill county, to Julia A. Shortridge.
They had nine living children. Eight of
their children were born in Oregon.
They reside near Nashville, Barton coun-
ty, Mo.

ROBERT F., born July 5, 1829, in
Maryland, died in Sangamon county,
Aug. 14, 1843.

MIRANDA, born Oct. 18, 1831, in
Maryland, married in Sangamon county
to Isaac T. Darnall. See his name. He
died, and she married, Feb. n, 1873, to
George W. Taylor, and live in Cooper
township.

VAN BASSETT, born April 8,1836,
in Sangamon county, married in same
county, Feb. 9, 1864, to Eliza Crowl.
They have two children, and live in Chris-
tian county, four miles southeast of Paw-
nee.

VINTON, born June 12, 1838, in San-
gamon county, died April 19, 1852.

HELEN, born May 26, 1840, in San-
gamon county, married Dec. 24, 1863, to
Thomas F. Morris, who was born Nov.
12, 1834, in Clarke county, O. They have
two children, MARY LIDA and ISAAC
C., and reside in Cooper township, three
and a half miles southwest of Mechanics-
burg.

MARIA A., born Feb. 14, 1843, in
Sangamon county, married May 11, 1867,
to Samuel Carper, who was born April
30, 1829, in Shepherdstown, Va. They
have three childrenJOSEPH W.JOHN
B. and MORDECAI I., and reside at the
family homestead where her parents set-
tled in 1835, m Cooper township. It is
one and a half miles north of Berry sta-
tion, or Clarksville.

WILLIAM H., born April 14, 1845,
in Sangamon county, married January,
1871, to Ella Miller. They have two
children, and reside five miles southeast of
Pawnee, in Christian county.

Joseph Crowl died Sept. 8, 1865, in
Sangamon county, and his widow now
(1874) resides on the farm where they set-
tled in 1835. It is one and a half miles
north of Berry station, or Clarksville.

CROSS, ALVIN, was born Oct.,
1799, in Madison county, Ky. Margaret
Forbes was born June 24, 1802, near
Jonesboro, East Tenn. Her parents
moved to Madison county, Ky., when she
was three months old. In 1816 they
moved to Humphreys county, Tenn.
Alvin Cross went to that county, also,
when he was a young man, and was there
married, in Feb., 1818, to Margaret
Forbes. They had four children in
Tennessee, and moved to Johnson county,
111., where they had one child, and from
there to Sangamon county, arriving Jan.,
1829, in what is now Auburn township,

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where they had seven children. Three of
their children died young —

SQUIRE, born in Tennessee, married
in Sangamon county to Mrs. Elizabeth
Pike, whose maiden name was Baker.
They have three children, and live at
Medoc, Jasper county, Mo.

MART A., born in Tennessee, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, to Samuel
Mitchell, and died.

R1LET and LA VINA, twins, %were
born in Tenn.

RILET enlisted in an Illinois regi-
ment, at Springfield, for the Mexican war,
in 1846, died in the army, and was buried
on the Rio Grande in 1847.

LA VINA, married in Sangamon coun-
ty to Andrew Williams, and died.

JOEL McD., born in 1827 or '8, in
Johnson county, 111., raised in Sangamon
county, went to California, married, has
two children, and lives there.

REBECCA, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married John M. Jones, moved to
Washington county, Iowa, and died there,
leaving seven children. She had a twin
mate that died in infancy.

F. MARION, born Dec. 14, 1838, in
Sangamon county, married Nov. 16, 1870,
to Emily A. Hayden. They have one
child, WILLIAM F., and live in Cotton
Hill township, four miles north of Paw-
nee.

LEROT, born in 1840, in Sangamon
county, married Jan. 8, 1863, to Candace
A. Campbell. They had four children,
JOSEPH A. and MINNIE died young.
CLARK FORBES and FRANCES
BELL reside with their parents, in Ball
township, four miles northwest of Paw-
nee. Leroy had a twin mate that died
young.

ELIZABETH, born in Sangamon
county, married Sept. 18, 1861, to Benja-
min F. Davis, a native of Tazewell coun-
ty, 111. They have one living child,
GEORGE W., and live two and a half
miles southeast of Pawnee.

Alvin Cross died Feb., 1849, in Sanga-
mon county, and Mrs. Margaret Cross re-
sides with her daughter, Mrs. Davis.

CROWDER, PHILIP, was
born May, 1759, near Petersburg, Va.
He was married there to Susan Parish.
They had five children born there. He
then moved, in company with about forty
families, to Greene county, Ky. They all

moved on pack horses, and camped near
each other every night, with armed men
standing guard around them, for protec-
tion against the Indians. Mrs. Susan
Crowder died in 1794 in Kentuckv, and
he was there married to Rachel Saunders.
She had one child, and died there. Philip
Crowder then married Sally Chandler.
They had nine children, and moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in Nov.,
1830, and settled three and a half miles
southwest of Springfield. Of all his
children —

REUBEN, born in Virginia, was
married to Nancy Michael, and came to
Sangamon county in 1825, preceding his
father. They had fifteen children; three
died young. ELIJAH died, aged twenty-
one. MARTHA was married in Ken-
tucky to James Robinson, moved to San-
gamon county, thence to Macon county.
Mr. R. died, and his family reside in
Missouri. ELIZABETH married Peter
Christian. They had two children, and
Mr. C. died. His widow married Andrew
Lockwood, and both died. MARY,
born November, 1813, in Green county,
Ky., was married in Sangamon county
Feb. u, 1836, to Benjamin F. Dillard.
See his name. MATHEW married
Susan Schoolen. They live in Macon
county, Mo. THOMAS M., born July
25, 1818, was married July 22, 1840, to
Mary J. Dalby. They had seven child-
ren; three died young. SARAH A., born
Jan. 12, 1842, was married Dec. 22, 1864,
to Ole Nelson. They had three children,
Mary J., Emma E. and Maggie M.,
and live near Springfield. HENRY,
born June 19, 1844, was married June 8,
1871, to Margaret E. Williams. She died
Oct. 3, 1871. He is a practicing physician.
AGNES E., born April 6, 1847, was married
April 1 3, 1865, to F. C. Arnold. They have
two children, Fannie and Alice, and live
near San Jose, Mason county, 111. MARY A.
born Sept. 3, 1850, was married Feb. 10,
1868, to Thomas W. Miller. They have one
child, Anna M. DOUGLAS, WILLIAM A.
and JAMES F., live with their parents.
Thomas M. Crowder and family reside
four miles west of Springfield. GREEN-
BERRY married Sarah Scott, and both
died, leaving two children, in Missouri.
SUSAN married John Grabeal, who
died, and she married Philip Meekum.
They reside in Saline county, Mo.

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EARLT SETTLERS OF

RIAL M., born April 1 1, 1821, in Greene
county, Ky., brought up in Sangamon
county, was married in Missouri to Ange-
line Scott. They have seven children.
Their daughter, LENORA, married Moses
H. Moore. See his name. The other
six children, WILLIAM A., MARY j., ISAAC

M., ALZIRA M., LAURA A. and DAISY L.,

reside with their parents near McKinney,
Collin county, Texas. JAMES married
Margaret Martin, and died January, 1876,
near New Boston, Mo. REUBEN,
Jun., went, in 1847, to Washington Terri-
tory, married there, and his wife died.
He resides near Olympia. AMANDA
married John Martin. They had four
children, and she died in .Saline county,
Mo. CATHARINE married Samuel
Casebolt, and live near Miami, Saline
county, Mo. Reuben Crowder died Sept.
8, 1835, near Springfield, and his widow
married again. She is now a widow, and
resides with the family of her son James,
near New Boston, Macon county, Mo.

MARTHA, born about 1785, near
Petersburg, Va., was married in March,
1805, in Green count v, Ky., to Lewis
Walker, a native of Virginia. They had
some children in Kentucky, and came to
Illinois in 1832, and brought up a large
family, some of whom are living in Clark
and Coles counties. Their sixth child,
JUDIAH, born Dec. 7, 1820, in Green
county, Ky., came with her parents to
vJlark county, 111., in 1832, and was mar-
ried there Dec. 3, 1840, to James C. Rob-
inson, who was born Aug. 19, 1823, in
Edgar county, 111. They have eight
children, all born in Clark county, and
the family moved to Springfield in 1869.
Of their children, NATHANIEL p., born
Jan. 25, 1842, was married in Marshall
county, 111., to Miss Benedict. SERE-
NA, born Nov., 1843, married R. S.
Briscoe. JAMES p., born May 23, 1845,
married Dora Shaw, a daughter of Judge
Shaw, of Olney, 111. J. P. Robinson
is a lawyer, and resides in Olney.
AMANDA, born April 12, 1848, lives
with her parents. RICHARD M., born
August 6, 1851, is a practicing law-
yer in Denver, Col. JENNIE and JUDIAH
M. live with their parents in Spring-
field. Hon. James C. Robinson studied
law, and was admitted to the bar, in
Marshall, Clarke county, 111., in 1852
or '3. He was elected to Congress from

that district in i858-'6o and '62. He was
the Democratic candidate for Governor in
1864, but his party being in the minority,
he was, not unexpectedly, defeated. He
represented in Congress the district in
which Springfield is situated, in 1870 and
'72. He is now a member of the law firm
of Robinson, Knapp & Shutt, of Spring-
field.

SI'S AN, born in Virginia, was mar-
ried .in Kentucky to Isaac Le Follett.
They brought up a family in Kentucky,
and both died there.

MA THE W, born in Virginia, married
Elizabeth Scott. They had five or six
children, and she died. He married Jane
Laughlin. They had one child, and he
died. His family reside in Oskaloosa,
Iowa.

ELIZABETH, born May 31, 1790,
in Virginia, married William Bradley.
See his name.

HENRT, the only child by Philip
Crowder's second marriage, was born in
Green county, Ky., went to East Tennes-
see when a boy, and remained there.

MART, born May 22, 1799, in Green
county, Ky., and the eldest child by the
third marriage, married Thomas Willian.
See his name.

ABRAHAM, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried and died without children.

JOHN C., born in Green county,
Ky., was married there to Mary Laswell.
They had two children there, and came
to Sangamon county in 1826, preceding
his father four years. Eight children
were born in Sangamon county. Of their
children, JAMES H., born Dec. 24, 1823,
in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, April 10, 1849, to Mary A.
Wright*, who was born Nov. 7, 1831, in
Adair county, Ky., and came to Sanga-
mon county in 1839. They reside three
and a half miles southwest of Springfield.
SARAH J., born Dec. 12, 1825, in Ken-
tucky, was married Jan., 1850, in Sanga-
mon county, to E. J. Warren. They had
seven children, and she died July 17, 1870.
Two of her children, JOHN c. was drowned
in 1874, THOMAS j. lives in Springfield.
The other five reside with their father,
near Mount Zion, Macon county, 111.
WILLIAM, born June 5, 1828, in Sanga-
mon county, married Mary Wood. They
had three children, and he died. NANCY,
born Oct. 26, 1830, married John Harris,

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and died. MARY E., born April 24,
1833, died, aged seventeen years.
THOMAS J., born May 28, 1835^ was
married June 24, 1856, to Elizabeth F.
Wright, and she died Nov., 1872. He re-
sides at Wautiska, Sanders county, Neb.,
and is a Methodist minister. FRANCES,
born May 21, 1838, married Jesse Per-
kins. They have four children, and live
in Williamsville. MARTHA A., born
Sept. 25, 1840, married Theophilis Lud-
lam. They have five children, and live
near Decatur. MATILDA, born April
28, 1843, died in her fourth year. CATH-
ARINE A., born Oct. 27, 1845, 'i™1'1''^
July 15, 1865, to Alexander H.Wright,
and lives in Springfield. Mrs. Mary
Crowder died, and J. C. Crowder mar-
ried Ursula Albans. They had four
children; one died in infancy. HENRY
C., bvrn April 21, 1855, died April 23,
1876. JOHN J. resides at Jacksonville.
JOSEPH W. resides with his brother,
James ~H. Mrs. Ursula Crowder died,
and J. C. Crowder married Mrs. Eliza-
beth Cox. They had one child, LUELLA,
and J. C. Crowder died April 10, 1863.
His widow resides at Berlin.

WILLIAM, born Feb. 11, 1804, in
Kentucky, was married there to Mary
Fawcett. They had two children, born
in Kentucky, and came to Sangamon
county in company with his brother-in-
law, Elisha Sanders, in the fall of 1829,
where eight children were born. Of
their children, ROBERT E. and JOHN,
born in Kentucky, both married in San-
gamon county, and died. MATILDA,
born Dec. 9, 1831, in Sangamon county,
was married Oct. 10, 1855, lo J°^ln J«
Warren, who was born Nov. 3, 1831, in
Shelby county, 111. They have seven
living children, MARY A., WILLIAM c.,

THOMAS J., GEORGE I?. M\'., ANDREW .).,

ROBERT E. and ISAAC w. Two of the
children are married, and reside east of
Pawnee. Those that are living and sin-
gle reside with their parents, near Paw-
nee. SARAH E. married Hiram White.
JAMES M. died unmarried, aged twenty
years. WILLIAM C. married Ruth
Tillev, and resides in Palmer, 111.
AARON V. married Martha Ward, and
lives in Christian countv. ANGELINE
and BENJAMIN F. died young. STAF-
FORD and JESSE W. reside with their
parents, near Pana.

F'ANNIE married William White, in
Kentucky, came to Sangamon county in
1830, and soon returned to Kentucky.

CHANDLER, born in 1808, in Ken-
tucky, married Lucinda Sanders. They
had four children: JOHN married Cath-
arine Stroude. They have three children,
and live in Cotton Hill township. Chan-
dler Crowder was drowned in 1839, while
attempting to cross Sugar creek to reach
his sick family.

HORA T1O, born in Kentucky, came
to Sangamon countv in 1829. He mar-
ried Sallie Woozley. They had two
children in Sangamon county. NATHAN
W., born Nov. 4, 1833, was married Dec.
28, 1853, to Margaret Todd. They have
four children, JOHN H., GEORGE A., HENRY
M. and JAMES H., and reside in Pawnee.
SARAH J., born Oct. 12, 1835, was mar-
ried Jan. 28, 1853, to Seth Underwood,
who was born June 16, 1829, near Sparta,
White county, Tenn. They have seven
children, JOHN H., SARAH F., AVERY c.,

THOMAS )., JEREMIAH, LEWIS ALFRED

and WILLIE, and reside in Cotton Hill
township, Sangamon county, 111. Horatio
Crowder died about 1835, and his widow
married John M. Mathews. See his
name. She died Dec. 28, 1850.

WASHINGTON, born July 9, 1813,
in Green county, Ky., came with his
father to Sangamon county in 1830. He
was married Dec. 21, 1836, to Isabel
Laughlin. They have seven children:
JOHN F., (Dick), born Dec. 25, 1837,
married April 12, 1860, to Jane E. Las-
well. They had one child, ELM EH K.,
who died in infancy, and Mrs. C. died
May 7, 1863. Mr. C. was married Sept.
f2, ~\ 864, to Mary F. McMurry . They had
three children, LUELLA H., GKORGIE M.
and ESTELLA. Mrs. Mary F. Crowder
died June 16, 1873, in Springfield. J. F.
Crowder was married June 10, 1874, to
Nannie Womack, have one child, CLIN-
TON CARROLL, and live in Pawnee.
MARY A. died in her eighth vear.
WILLIAM A., born April 16, "1843,
married Nov. 30 1865, to Isabel W. Lan-
terman. They had four living children,

HORACE A., CHARLES L., FRED and ETHEL,

and live in Springfield. LUCELIA J.
died July 19, 1862, in her eighteenth \ear.
SADIE E. and CHARLES W." live
with their parents. GEORGE L. died
May 11,1870,111 his eleventh vear. Wash-

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ington Crowder and wife reside in Spring-
field, 111. See his account of the sudden
change.

ALBERT G., born Oct. 16, 1816, in
Green county, Ky., came to Sangamon
county with his parents in 1830. He was
married Dec. 29, 1840, to Sarah A. Bart-
lett. They had two children born in
Sangamon county. MARY J. married
W. W. Lapham. They have two child-
ren, w. ALF.ERT and MINNIE F., and live
at Decatur. FANNIE married John
Jamison. He was born Sept. 24, 1834, in
Glasgow, Scotland. They have three
children, MARY F., SARAH and MARIA L.
D. Mr. Jamison resides in Auburn.
Albert G. Crowder died in 1847, an<^ ^is
widow died in 1848, both in Sangamon
county.

Philip Crowder died February, 1844,
and his widow died in September follow-
ing, both in Sangamon county. Philip
Crowder was a soldier in the revolution.
An elder brother, who had a family, was
drafted, and Philip volunteered in his
place. It was not long before the close of
the war — when he was about sixteen years
of age. His son Washington remembers
hearing him repeatedly state that he was
at the siege of Yorktown, and witnessed
the surrender of Cornwallis; that he saw
the British commander hand his sword to
Washington, and that they wept and em-
braced each other. Seeing Cornwallis so
much affected, Washington said: " Never
mind it; this is the fate of war. "

CUTTER.— The origin of the fam-
ily in the west was with Seth Cutter, who
was born in Boston, Mass., about 1760.
Family tradition makes him a descendant
of a family who came over in the May-x
flower in 1620. He was married in Boston
to Mary Reed. In 1790 he joined a col-
ony and decided to move west. One
account says that his five eldest daughters
rebelled, saying they would not go where
they were in danger of being devoured by
wild beasts or killed by Indians. Another
account fails to mention that he had any
daughters at the time, which leads to the
inference that if such an incident took
place, they were sisters, and not daughters.
He had but one child (a son) in Massachu-
setts. The colony went under the protec-
tion of the United States army, command-
ed by Gen. Anthony Wayne, who estab-
lished a military post where Cincinnati,

O., now stands. Seth Cutter opened a
farm which became part of the city. Por-
tions of it are yet in possession of some of
his descendants, while other portions, al-
though leased soon after his death (about
1800), the title still remains in the family.
Cutter street indicates the locality where
he settled. He brought one child — Seth
R., of whom we will yet speak more fully
— and had three daughters, at what be-
came Cincinnati. Martha, who is believed
to have been the first white child born in
Cincinnati, became the wife of Abraham
Price. Susan married Samuel Foster, of
Petersburg, Ky., and Mary married
Abraham McFaren. Mrs. Mary Reed
Cutter died, and Seth' Cutter married
Roxena Shingledecker. They had three
children. Abigail married William Bern-
ard, Abijah became a farmer in Hamilton
county, and Lorena, born Dec. 9, 1805,
married September, 1823, to Nicholas
Goshorn. One of their sons, A. T.
Goshorn,is now (May, 1876,) Superintend-
ent General of the Centennial Exhibition
at Philadelphia. Seth Cutter was killed
in Cincinnati about 1800, by the caving in
of a well. His son —

SETH R. CUTTER, born Jan.
i, 1785, in Boston, Mass., taken by his
parents, in 1790, to Cincinnati, Ohio.
After the death of his mother, and
the second marriage of his father, he
left home and went to Grainger county,
Tenn., where he was married in June,
1806, to Elizabeth Easley, daughter of
William Easley. In December, 1809, he
returned with .his family to Cincinnati,
where he engaged in the provision trade,
mostly in New Orleans and Cuba. He
continued in that business about twenty
years. They had six children in Cincin-
nati, and then moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in July, 1828, in what is now
Loami township, where they had three
children. Of their nine childi'en —

SARAH, born Aug. 24, 1812, in Cin-
cinnati, O., married in Sangamon county
to John Calhoun. See his name.

ABIGAIL, born Nov. 10, 1814, in
Cincinnati, O., married in Sangamon
county to Frederick Hawn. See his name.

ALBERT, born Jan. 16, 1817, in Cin-
cinnati, O. He was a confirmed invalid,
and died in Sangamon county Jan. 30, 1841.

SUSANNAH, born March 19, 1827,

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in Cincinnati, O., married in Sangamon
county to John C. Hall. See his name.

MARTHA A., born Sept. 10, 1821, in
Cincinnati, O., married in Sangamon
county, January, 1842, to Oliver Diefen-
dorf. See his name. She died six weeks
after marriage.

CAROLINE E., born Feb. 13, 1825,
in Cincinnati, O., raised in 'Sang.'imon
county, and married in her native city to
Oliver Diefendorf. See his name.

\VILLIAM F., born Oct. 8, 1828, in
Sangamon county. He served from June,
1846, one year in the 4th 111. Inf., under
Col. E. D. Baker, in the war with Mexico.
In 1848 he went to California, where he
spent several years in mining, and died
there of consumption.

JOHN W. and ELIZA.; twins, born
during the "deep snow," Jan. 11, 1831, in
Sangamon county.

JOHN W. married in 1853 to Juliette
Greening. They have five children:
ALBERT lives with his parents. CAR-
OLINE, born Jan., 1857, was married
Jan., 1873, to James Mahanna, has one
child, EDITH, and lives near Lake City,
111. ANDREW, LAURA and OLI-
VER live with their parents. John W.
Cutter and wife live near Lake City,
Moultrie county, 111.

ELIZA, married March 24, 1857, at
Weston, Mo., to Samuel A. Graham, who
was born July 19, 1825, at Charlotte,
Mecklenburg county, N. C. They have
five children, EVA B., MARGA-
RET, OLIVER, MARY, MALCOLM
E. and ISABEL, and reside in Spring-
field, 111. Mr. Graham enlisted in Co. F,
Georgia Battallion, Mounted Volunteers,
in 1847, and served in the war with Mexi-
co, until June, 1848, when he was honor-
ably discharged, and came to Springfield,
111. In 1863 he was elected to represent
Loami township in the Sangamon county
Board of Supervisors, and in Nov., 1867,
was elected, for two years, Surveyor of
Sangamon county.

Mrs. Elizabeth Cutter died Sept., 1835,
in Sangamon county, and in May, 1830,
Seth R. Cutter married Mary Prosser
Wariner, who was born March 18, 1808,
in Henrico county, Va. Her parents
were married in Virginia. Her mother
inherited some slaves, but refused to keep
them, and to evade the influence of shivery,
moved to this county. Mr. Wariner was

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an old school, or regular Baptist preacher,
and preached in the vicinity of Loami
many years. Mr. Cutter and wife had
one child —

FRANCES A., born Feb. 12, 1837,
in Sangamon county, married March 16,
1856, to Abner Bowen. See his name.
Mrs. Bowen has some embroidery work
done by her mother nearly half a century
ago.

Mrs. Mary P. W. Cutter died Feb. n,
1861,, and Seth R. Cutter died Sept. 8,
1869, both at the homestead settled by
him in 1828, in Loami township.

Mr. Cutter was engaged in pork pack-
ing in Cincinnati with Andrew Heredith.
See his name. When they came west
they built a steam flouring mill about
two miles northwest of Loami. A village
called Millville grew up around it. The
mill, owners and village have all passed
away.

CU M M I NGS, THOMAS, was
born about 1800, in Breckenridge county,
Ky., married to Margaret Smith, came
to Sangamon county, 111., about the time
his father-in-law (Thomas Smith) came,
in 1822. Thev had eight children, name-

iy-

MAHALA died unmarried, at thirty-
five years of age, in Sangamon county.

REBECCA J. married John L.
Smith. They had nineteen children, all
except two of whom are living (1873).
They had five sons who were Union sol-
diers in Illinois regiments. The parents
and nearly all their living children live in
Logan countv, five miles northeast of
Williamsville.

ROBERT, born Sept. 12, 1817, in
Washington county, Ky., was brought to
Sangamon county when he was about
five years old, married Jan. 2, 1840, to
Nancy Cloyd. They had six children.
THOMAS N. married Sarah B. C. Har-
rison, have one living child, THOMAS o.,
and live in Woodside township. MAR-
GARET A. died at two years old.
AMANDA E. married Jacob Beam. See
his name. MARY J. married Isaac M.
Jones, and reside in Woodside township.
JOSEPH R. and EMMA S. reside with
their parents, one and a half miles north-
west of Woodside station.

WE SLE T E. married Melinda Ow-
ens, had two children, and the parents

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both died. Their children live in Macou-
pin county.

WSZsLIAAf married Jane Owens. He
died, leaving his widow and three child-
ren, in Litchfield, 111.

JOHN T. married Melinda Richard-
son. She died, and he married Margaret
Adams, has five children, and lives in
Christian county. He is a traveling min-
ister in the M. E. church.

ELIZABETH married John Kear-
ley, had one child, and all died of cholera
about 1850.

THOMAS H. married Mrs. Emma
West, whose maiden name was Woods.
She had two children by her first mar-
riage, and they have three children, and
live in Jersey county.

Thomas Cutnmings died September,
1846, and his widow died October, 1849,
both in Sangamon county.

.ID

DARNEILLE, JOHN, was
born June 8, 1791, in Bourbon county,
Ky. He served foui'teen months in the
war of 1812-13, half the time as first
Lieut., and was then promoted to Cap-
tain. Margaret Norton was born Oct.
25, 1793, in Bourbon county, also. They
were married there, Feb. 20, 1814, and had
three living children in Kentucky. The
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving Nov., 1819, in what is now Chat-
ham township, first at a place called Tur-
key Point, and in the spring of 1820,
moved further up Lick creek, and made a
permanent settlement five miles west of
the present town of Chatham, where they
had nine living children. Of their child-
ren—

MARTHA, born April 7, 1815, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Thomas S. Hunter. See his name.

CATHARINE, born Aug. 2, 1817, in
Bourbon county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to David Alexander. See
his name.

BENJAMIN F., born Jan. i, 1819,
in Bourbon county, Ky., married in San-
gamon county, Dec. 17, 1840, to Mary
Jacobs, who was born Oct. i, 1821, in
Clarke county, Ky. They had eight
living children in Sangamon county
ELIZABETH married Samuel C. Sump-
ter, who was born in Sangamon county.

He enlisted July 20, 1861, at Springfield,
for three years, in what became Co. C,
nth Mo. Inf. ; reenlisted as a veteran, Jan.,
1864, at LaGrange, Tenn., served until
Jan. 15, 1866, when he was honorably dis-
charged at St. Louis, Mo. Mr. and Mrs.
Sumpter have three children, CORA, DORA
and HOMER A., and reside five miles west
of Chatham. MARGARET C. mar-
ried James M. Greening. See his name.
MARTHA J. married Lee R. Graham.
See his name. MARIA F. married
John Garvey. See his name. LORIN-
DA J. married Feb., 1875, to Col. John
Watson, and live in Auburn. EMMA S.
married Dec., 1873, to William Vandoren.
See his name. JULIA A. and BENJ.
F., Jun., reside with their mother. Ben-
jamin F. Darneille died Dec. 5, 1872, and
his widow resides six miles west of Chat-
ham.

Mrs. Darneille relates some incidents
both instructive and amusing, of her early
married life. She says that when herself
and husband went to set up housekeeping,
he had but ten dollars. Cooking stoves
were not in fashion, but they bought pots,
skillets, pans, spoons, knives and forks, etc.,
thus securing their outfit, and had some
money left. Lamps and burning fluids
were unknown, and for nearly ten years
their only candlesticks were made by tak-
ing gourds and cutting off about half the
bowl end, so that they would sit upright,
and then cutting off the necks and insert-
ing the candles. The first crop of oats
Mr. Darnielle raised he hauled thirty
bushels to Springfield, and gave the load
even for eight yards of calico to make a
dress for his wife.

THOMAS J., born Oct. 4, 1820, in
Sangamon county, married Martha Mc-
Ginnis. They had two living children in
Sangamon county. JOHN D., born Nov.
29, 1848, married in Warsaw. Ky., to
Jennie Brown, a native of that city, and
resides there. They have two children,
MELINDA and JAMES w. JAMES W.,
born in Sangamon county, vSept. 16, 1850,
married Oct. 31, 1871, in Belyidere, 111.,
to Belle Moulton, a native of Minneapolis,
Minn. They have one child, MABEL,
and reside in Chicago. Mrs. Martha
. Darnielle died, and Mr. D. married Mrs.
America Gibson, whose maiden name was
Forrest. Thos. J. Darnielle died Nov. 21,
1854, in Sangamon county. His widow

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married Jan. 13, 1859, to John R. Neal.
See his name.

JAMES M., born Jan. 22, 1822, in
Sangamon county, married Jan. i, 1852,
to Clarrissa Kinney. They have six child-
ren, CAROLINE K., MAGGIE H.,
JOHN H., FLORENCE E., CHAS.
A. and JAMES M., Jim., reside with
their parents, in Chatham, Sangamon
county, 111.

EMILY, born July 28, 1823, in San-
gamon county, married Willis Webb.
They had two children, and the whole
family died.

LORINDA, born Jan. 31, 1825, in
Sangamon county, married William Mc-
Ginnis. See his name.

ELIZABETH,\>orn Dec. 10, 1826, in
Sangamon county, married Abraham
Gish, had two children. Mrs. G. and one
of the children died. The other child,
BENJAMIN F., resides with his father,
in Auburn tomnship.

HENR T, died, aged fifteen years.

MARGARET, born Jan. 25, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married James Hall.
See his name.

HIRAM H., born May 16, 1833, died,
aged twenty-one years.

JOHN W., born Feb. 3, 1836, in San-
gamon county, married Melinda Drennan,
had one child, and all died.

John Darneille died March 10, 1854,
and his widow, Mrs. Margaret Darneille,
died April 30, 1875, both on the farm
where they settled in 1820.

John Darneille learned to write by fire-
light, and in the absence of paper, peeled
buckeye bark from the trees, and when it
become dry, did his writing on that, until
he learned to keep accounts of all his
business transactions. He acquired euch
fame as an accurate and legible penman,
that he became the neghborhood letter
writer. He was on the first grand jury
that was ever empanneled in Sangamon
county, May 7, 1821. They held their
deliberations, some sitting on a pile of
rails, and some on gopher hills out on the
prairie, within the present limits of Spring-
field. He was elected as one of the Rep-
resentatives of Sangamon county in the
State Legislature of 1840, the first that
ever assembled in Springfield.

DARNALL, AMELIA, whose

maiden name was Yocom, sister to
Jacob Yocom, was born October, 1793,

near Lexington, Ky., and was married
there, August, 1813, to Samuel Darnall.
Seven children were born in Kentucky,
and they moved to Indiana, where they had
one child, and moved in 1829 to Funk's
Grove, McLean county, 111., where they
had one child. Mr. Darnall died August,
1830. Mrs. D., with her nine children,
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1830 in what is now Williams
township. Of her children —

BENJAMIN F. died at twenty-one
years of age.

E VELINE married Levi Smith, has
eleven children, and live near Mt. Pleas-
ant, Iowa.

SALLYdieA at sixteen years of age.

HARVEY, born August 10,1821, in
Bourbon county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Agnes Simpson. They
have eight children. MARY married
Stephen Hussey, and live in Logan
county. WINFIELD SCOTTJAMES
M., JOHN F., STEPHEN H., JESSE
HARVEY B. and LILLIE E.,live with
their parents near Barclay.

NANCY J. married Franklin Yocom.
See his name.

JAMES died at thirty-five years of
age.

MEL VINA married Thaddeus Evans,
and died in Montgomery county, leaving
six children.

E LIZ ABE TH married David Bailey,
has ten children, and live in Mason
county.

REBECCA, born in Illinois, married
March 6, 1866, to Oliver McGarvey, has
one child, WILLIAM N., and she lives
with her mother.

Mrs. Amelia Darnall resides (1874) one
mile northeast of Barclay. She is more
than eighty years old.

DARNALL, ISAAC T., born
Oct. 17, 1809, in Montgomery county,
Mel., and came to Sangamon county in
December, -1840, in Cooper township,
south of the Sangamon river. He was
married Dec. 14, 1852,10 Miranda Crowl.
They had five living children —

HILLERY W., JOSEPH E.,
BENJAMIN F., CHARLES A., and
MARYLAND.

Isaac T. Darnall died Sept. 10, 1871.
His children reside with their mother,
who was married Feb. 11, 1873,10 George
W. Taylor. He was born Dec. 14, 1836,

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EARLT SETTLERS

in Wayne county, Ind. They reside in
Cooper township, three miles southwest
of Mechanicsburg.

DAWSON, JOHN, was born
Nov. 24, 1791, in Fairfax county, Va.
His parents moved to Bracken county,
Ky., in 1805. He enlisted in Bracken
county in the war against England in 1812,
and was wounded and captured at the
battle of River Raisin. After being held
as a prisoner in Canada by the Indians
who had captured him, his friends paid a
ransom for him, and he returned home.
Cary Jones was born May 22, 1801, in
Nicholas county, Ky. John Dawson and
Cary Jones were married in Nicholas
county, Oct. 9, 1817. They had one child
in Nicholas county, and moved to Bracken
county, where they had three children,
and the family moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., arriving Oct. 24, 1827, north of the
Sangamon river, in Clear Lake township,
where they had six children. Of their
ten children —

NAPOLEON B., born June 10, 1820,
is an invalid, and resides with his mother.

MARIA L., born July 22, 1822, in
Bracken county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to George B. Merriman.
See his name.

LUCY M., born March 7, 1825, in
Bracken county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Lindsay Ridgeway. See
his name.

BERTRAND, born April 10, 1827,
in Bracken county, Ky., is unmarried,
and resides adjoining Dawson on the
south. He is an extensive farmer and
stock i-aiser. .

MARTHA W., born Oct. 21, 1829,111
Sangamon county, married Sept. 24, 1850,
to James Vanvoris, of Pennsylvania. She
died April 2, 1853, in Washington county,
Pa.

MART ' J., born Dec. 17, 1831,511 San-
gamon county, married John S. Merri-
man Nov. 9, 1848. See his name.

ISABEL, born Dec. 22, 1833, resides
with her mother.

SARAH E., born July 31, 1837, in
Sangamon county, resides with her
mother.

JOHN, Jun., born March 22, 1840.
He went to Cairo 111., in 1862, and enlist-
ed in the United States navy, served one
year, and died at home Oct. 26, 1869.

DICK A., born April 3, 1842, in San-
gamon county, died at eleven years of age.

John Dawson died Nov. 12, 18=50, in
Sangamon county. His widow resides
on the farm where they settled in 1827.
It is three miles southwest of Dawson.

Mr. Dawson was Captain of a company
from Sangamon county in the Black
Hawk war of 1831. He was elected to
represent Sangamon county in the State
Legislature of 1831 and '2. He was again
elected in 1835, and continued, by re-elec-
tion, to represent the county until 1840,
and was consequently one of the " Long
Nine" who secured the removal of the
State capital to Springfield at the session
of i836-'7. [See article: "Long Nine."]
Mr. C. was also a member of the conven-
tion that framed the State constitution of"
1848. The ball received in his lungs at
the battle of River Raisin was never ex-
tracted, and was the cause of his death.

DALLY, CRAWFORD, was
born about 1795, in Pennsylvania, mar-
ried in Virginia to Susan Sanders, and
made their home in Washington county,
Pa., until four children were born, and the
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
in the spring of 1835. Of their four
children —

HESJ^ER A., married three times,
and died at Belleville, 111.

MART y., born Aug. 22, 1824, in
Washington county, Pa , married in
Sangamon county, to Thomas M. Crow-
der. See his name.

SUSANM., born in 1826 in Pennsyl-
vania, died in Sangamon county, aged
twenty-four years.

AGNES E., born in Pennsylvania,
married Andrew Armstrong, and died.

MIL TON, born in 1831, in Pennsyl-
vania, married in Sangamon county, to
Nancy J. Sappington, had five children,
moved to Missouri, and she died. He was
a Union soldier in a Missouri regiment.

Mrs. Susan Dally died in 1835, and
Crawford Dally died December, 1839,
both in Sangamon county.

DAVENPORT; GEORGE,

was born about 1781, in North Carolina,
married, had one child, and his wife died
there. When the child was three weeks
old he carried it on horseback to Casey
county, Ky. He was there married to
Winney Clifton, a native of that county.
They had two children, and moved to

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Sangamon county, 111., in the fall of 1819,
and first camped where Springfield now
stands, and three weeks later moved six
miles west, at the north side of Spring
creek, where seven children were born.
Of his children —

THOMAS, horn in North Carolina,
raised in Sangamon county, married, and
is living with his second wife near Inde-
pendence, Mo.

WILLIAM, born in Kentucky, raised
in Sangamon county, has his second wife,
and resides near Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky,
married Thomas Davis, has six children,
and resides in Vernon county, Mo.

ALFRED S., born June 24, 1820,
married Lucinda Tolley. They have
seven children, JAMES, GEORGE,
JOHN, ADOLPHUS, MARY, SO-
PHIA and NOAH, and reside two and a
half miles northeast of Berlin.

MARY married Thomas Andrews,
who died, leaving three children, and she
married John Runnels, and he died, leav-
ing a widow and two children, near Dal-
las, Texas.

NANCY married Jeremiah Kendall,
had four children, and she died, leaving
her family in Oregon.

URIAH L. was a soldier in the 4th
111. Inf. under Col. E. D. Baker, and was
wounded at the battle of Cerro Gordo,
Mexico, and died eight or nine days later.

JOB C., born January 4, 1823, in San-
gamon county, was married Dec. 4, 1845,
to Alice J. Mosteller, who was born Nov.
29, 1830. They have five children, JOHN
H.?/LAURA (the latter was married May
9, 1875,10 William Say re, and resides near
Pleasant Plains), CHARLES M., NEW-
MAN and WILLIAM EDWARD. All
the unmarried children live: with their
parents in Menard county, near Salisbury,
Sangamon county.

ADOLPHUS died in 1850111 Chicago,
aged about twenty-four years.

AMANDA married Allen Baker, and
died in 1849.

RHODA married Thomas Ray. They
have four children, and reside in Vernon
county, Mo.

Mrs. Winner C. Davenport died Jan.
15, 1845, and George Davenpoit died
Feb. 14, 1845, both in Sangamon county,
eight miles west of Springfield.

DAVIDSON, SAMUEL, was
born Oct. 19, 1821, in Morgan county,
East Tenn. His parents moved, in 1826,
to Macon county, 111., and in 1828 to
Macoupin county. Samuel spent most of
his time in Sangamon county until 1840,
and fforn that time he made his home in
Ball township, where he was "married
May 9, 1850, to Amanda Nuckolls. They
had nine children, one of whom, John D.,
died Nov. 26, 1869, in his seventh year.
The other eight —

ANNIE E., GEORGE W., EM-
MA A., SAMUEL M., THOMAS J.,
AMANDA V., MIRIAM M. and
CHARLES CARROLL reside with
their parents, three and a half miles west
of Pawnee.

DAVIES, JOHN,, was born in
Wales, and came to America when a
young man. He was married in Adair
county, Ky., to Catharine Antle. They
had ten children in Kentucky, and Mr.
Davies died there about 1810. His widow
moved to Sangamon county about 1826,
and settled near Salisbury. Of her child-
ren—

GEORGE married in Kentucky to
Catharine Tolley, came to Sangamon
county before his mother, and died in
1856. His widow and two children live
in Kansas.

POLL Y married in Kentucky to Rich-
ard Walker, came to Sangamon county in
1826, and died in 1870, leaving two child-
ren in Bond county.

MICHAEL, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried twice in Sangamon county, leaving a
widow and five children in Menard count v.

HENRY, born Oct. 30, 1805, in Cum-
berland county, Ky., came to Salisbury,
Sangamon county, in 1828. He was mar-
ried there May 5, 1835, to Lucy Mc-
Glasson, who was born July i, 1817, in
Adair county, Ky. They had ten child-
ren in Sangamon county, namely : JULIA
A. was killed by a falling chimney, at four
years of age. ELIZABETH, born Jan.
30, 1839, married Ebenezer Colburn. See
his name. MARY M., born July 2,1841,
married John HufFmaster. See his name.
SALLIE A. died young. MARION,
born Sept. 6, 1848, and ALONZO, born
Jan. 2, 1852, live with their parents.
EMILY J., born Sept. 5, 1854, lives with
her sister, Mrs. Colburn. IRA JASPER,
born May 25, 1857, and MATILDA,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

born Nov. 12, 1860, live with their par-
ents. Henry Davies and wife now (1874)
live in Loami.

NANC T married in Kentucky to Ben-
jamin Ballenger, and died near Natchez,
Miss.

WILLIAM, horn in Kentucky, mar-
ried Elizabeth Duncan, and both died,
leaving two married children in Salisbury.

SALL T, born in Kentucky, married
Thomas Miller, who died, leaving a widow
and six children in Menard county.

JOHN, born July 23, 1815, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county,
November, 1834, to Polly Duncan. They
have five children ; two of them married,
and all live in Salisbury.

MIL7^ON, born in Kentucky in 1817,
married Lucy A. McMurphy, have two
children, and live in Salisbury

Mrs. Catharine Davies died in 1846, in
Salisbury.

DAVIS, AQUILLA, was born
in 1756, in St. Mary's county, Maryland,
and taken to Fauquier county, Va., when
a youth. He was a soldier in the Revolu-
tion, and married in the latter county to
Isabella Briggs. They had six children in
Virginia, namely: Edward, William B.,
Alexander B., Thompson and Hezekiah,
and a daughter Marion. They emigrated
to Kentucky, where they had two child-
ren. In 1820 they moved to Illinois, set-
tling first where Elkhart now is, which
was then Sangamon county. Aquilla
Davis laid out the town of Elkhart. In
1822 or '3 they moved to Fancy Creek,
ten miles from Springfield. After several
years Aquilla Davis and family returned
to Elkhart. Thers are but three of their
children living now, viz —

HEZEKIAH, born in Virginia, re-
sides with his son in Tazewell county,
Illinois.

BENJAMIN F., born in Kentucky,
resides at Norwood, Franklin county,
Kansas, and

JUDITH W., born August 12, 1802,
in Union county, Ky., was married Oct.
28, 1836, to Oramel Clark. See his
name.

Aquilla Davis died August 23, 1832,
and Mrs. Davis died Jan. 23, 1833, both
near Elkhart, Logan county, 111.

DAVIS JOHN, was born Oct.
15, 1809, in Baltimore county, Md. He
was married there in May, 1829, to Mrs.

Margaret Davis, whose maiden name was
Gore. She was born Oct. 6, 1806, in
the same county, and vras married first in
September, 1824, to Capt. Robert Davis,
a soldier in the war of 1812. They had
two children, and Capt. Davis died May,
1827.

John Davis and wife had two children
in Maryland, and moved in 1832 to Preble
county, O., where they had one child, and
from there to Darke county, where one
child was born. The family then moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Feb.,
1837, in what is now Gardner township,
where they had three children. Of the
two children of Mrs. Davis by her first
marriage —

ELIZABETH, born Sept. 3, 1825,
near Baltimore, Md., married in Sanga-
mon county to Samuel H. Reid, Jun. See
his name.

NANCY, born Aug. 6, 1827, near Bal-
timore, married in Sangamon county to
Henry H. Foster. See his name.

Of the seven children by the second
marriage —

ELLEN, born Dec. 12, 1830, in Mary-
land, married in Sangamon county Jan.,
1855, to Joseph McCoy. They have one
child, JOHN, born in Sangamon county,
and reside in Missouri.

JAMES, born Jan. 23, 1832,111 Mary-
land, brought up in Sangamon county,
and went to California in October, 1853.
The family have not received any reliable
information from him since June 8, 1856,'
and have no hope that he is living.

MARTHA'J., born March, 1834, in
Preble county, O., and died in Sangamon
county, November, 1848.

MAR G ARE T, born in 1836, in Darke
county, O., died in Sangamon county
March 31, 1853.

SARAH, born September, 1840, in
Sangamon county, married in the same
county to James Bruce, has one child,
ANNIE, and live near White Oak post-
office, Montgomery county, 111.

JOHN, Jun., born Dec. 12, 1842, in
Sangamon county, enlisted September,
1 86 1, in Co. B, loth 111. Cav., for three
years, and re-enlisted as a veteran Decem-
ber, 1863. He served until Jan. 5, 1866,
when he was honorably discharged in
Springfield, being the last man of the
regiment. He was killed by lightning
July 5, 1875, while attending to some

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stock on his father's farm, near Curran,
Sangamon county.

DALLAS, born Oct. 4, 1846, in San-
gamon county, married Dec. 31, 1868, to
Louisa Smith. They have two children,
MARY A. and THOMAS O., and live
two miles east of Curran.

John Davis and wife reside two miles
east of Curran, Sangamon county, 111.

DAVIS, ISRAEL, was born Jan.
21, jgiy, in Rutherford county, near Mur-
freesboro, Tenn. His parents died when
he was about five years old. At the age
of fourteen years he joined a family who
was moving, and came -with them to
Green county, 111., and from there to San-
gamon county in 1834, and made his home
in what is now Auburn township. He
was married June 30, 1844, to Jane Kes-
sler. They have five children —

CA rJ HARINE married James Dren-
nan, and lives in Auburn.

GEORGE lives in Auburn.

SUSAN married Joseph Rectric, and
lives in Carlinville.

VIRGINIA and MART live with
their parents, in Auburn.

Mr. Davis was for many years employed
at the depot of the Chicago and Alton
railroad, at Auburn, and resides there.

DAVIS, RICHARD, was born
April, 1800, in Kentucky. Elizabeth
Neal, (sister to Mrs. Edward Williams.
See his name.), was born about 1803, in
Nelson county, Ky. They were married
and had one child in Kentucky, and the
family moved to Sangamon county, arriv-
ing before the deep snow of 1830-31, in
Springfield. They had three children in
Sangamon county. Of their four child-
ren—

GEORGE L., died unmarried in
1856.

DIANA, born July 16, 1832, in Spring-
field, married Nov. 8, 1855, to Philip
Loeb, who was born Oct. 15, 1831, in
Baden, Germany. They had three living
children, PHILIP E., MARY C. and
ARTHUR R. Philip Loeb died Sept.
17, 1866, in Springfield, and his widow
and children live four and a half miles
northwest of Springfield.

JOHN H., born Feb., 1836, is unmar-
ried, and resides with his sister, Mrs.
Loeb.

JAMES E, married Rosella La-

grange. They have two children, and
live in Springfield.

Mrs. Elizabeth Davis died March, 1850,
and Richard Davis died April, 1865, both
in Springfield.

DAWLEY, HARRISON, was
born July 17, 1817, in Chatauqua county, N.
Y., came to Springfield in March, 1839, and
four or five years later went to Island
Grove, where he was married, Oct. 26,
1847 to Jane Campbell, a daughter of
Hugh Campbell. She was born March
n, 1826, in Tennesse, and raised on Rich-
land creek. They had nine children;
three died voung, namely —

PA TIENCE was killed in her third
year, by a runaway horse belonging to
Dr. J. M. Gibson.

MATILDA died in her third year,
and

MAXWELL died in infancy.

CYNTHIA A., born Sept. 4, 1848,
married Oct. 28, 1869, to M. F. Kibbey.
They have three children, and live at El
Paso, Sedgwick county, Kan.

JOHN H., WILLIAM E., ED-
WARD, JOSEPH C.and GEORGE
7"., live with their parents two miles south
of Rochester.

DAY, GEORGE, was born Mar.
5, 1810, in Sheffield, Mass. His parents
died when he was three years old, and he,
with another brother and a sister, were
taken by an aunt to Granby, Conn. He
next lived with a half-sister, at Elbridge,
N. Y. At fifteen years of age he went to
Hartford, Conn., and engaged to travel in
Ohio for a clock company. He sold
clocks four years, returned to Hartford,
and prosecuted the same business two
years in Pennsylvania. Henrietta Shank
was born March 19, 1816, at Hagerstown,
Md. The family moved to Mercersburg,
Pa., where her father died, and her moth-
er married Jacob Divelbiss. See his
name. The family moved to Ligonier,
Pa. George Day and Henrietta Shank
were married Feb. 20, 1834, had one child
there, and moved to Illinois, arriving at
Havana Oct. 29, 1837. They visited
some friends who had left comfortable
Pennsylvania houses, and were living in
rail pens, covered with sod. Their bread was
made from wheat ground without bolting.
Mr. Day became a walking earthquake —
having the chills and fever — but he was
not happy, and determined to return to

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the Pennsylvania hills. His wife per-
suaded him to come to Springfield, where
they arrived in Nov., 1837. When the
grass and flowers appeared the next spring,
he became reconciled, and has been well
satisfied from that to the present time.
They had seven living children in Sanga-
mon county, namely —

SOPHIA H., born March 15, 1836, at
Ligonier, Pa., married in Sangamon coun-
ty, March 20, 1854, to David Ayers, who
was born July 27, 1833, in Auglaize coun-
ty, Ohio. Mr. Ayers died May 30, 1866,
at Jacksonville, 111. Mrs. Ayers resides
with her parents.

HENRIETTA, born Feb. 16, 1840,
in Springfield, married Dec. 7, 1865, to
Joseph F. Boyd, who was born Jan. 4,
1837, in Hagerstown, Md. They have
one child, GRACIE D., and live in
Springfield.

WILLIAM, born Sept. 14, 1842, in
Springfield, was married May 18, 1865, to
Margaret E. Keyes. They have five
children, EFFIE S., CATHARINE H.,
and CHARLES R., DAISY D. and
MAGGIE M., and reside three miles
north of Springfield.

/?O#.E/?7; born Jan. 30, 1845, enlisted
April 27, 1864, for one hundred days, in
Co. A, 1 33d 111. Inf., served one hundred
and forty-seven days, and was honorably
discharged Sept. 24, 1864. He lives with
his parents.

ELLIE M., born July 27, 1847,
JULIA C., born June 13, 1850, and
GEORGE E., born Jan. 12, 1854,
live with their parents.

George Day and wife reside three miles
northeast of Springfield.

DEARDORFF, ANTHONY,
was born in 1786 in Pennsylvania. Eliza-
beth Powell was born in 1800, in Bedford
county, Pa. They were married in 1818,
in Franklin county, O., and had four
children there. The family then moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the
fall of 1823, in what is now Ball town-
ship, where they had six children. Of
their ten children —

MART, born in Ohio, married in San-
gamon county to Morgan Matthew, who
(lied, leaving a widow and three children
in Missouri.

CATHARINE, born in Ohio, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to John Kent.
He died in the United States armv at

Vicksburg,'jn 1863. His widow and five
children live in Missouri.

PETER, born in Ohio, married in
Sangamon county to Nancy Williams.
They had four children, and Mrs. D. died.
Mr. D. and his children live in Iowa.

CHARLES P., born in Ohio, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Mrs. Sarah
Rummerfield. They have five children,
and live in Cass county, 111.

REBECCA, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, is unmarried, and lives in Ball town-
ship.

BARBARA, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married Joseph Beam. See his name.

ELIZ.ABE TH, born in Sangamon
county, died at sixteen years old.

WILLIAM P., born in Sangamon
county, married Catharine Parvin. He
died, leaving a widow and two children in
Cass county, 111.

JOHN died at eighteen years of age.

SUSAN, born in Sangamon county,
married Henry Shipman, and live in
Adair county, Mo.

Anthony DeardorfF died in 1834, and
his widow married Simon Matthew. See
his name. She died Oct. 21, 1850.

DEARDORFF, PETER,
brother to Anthony, was born in Penn-
sylvania, married in Ohio to Hannah
Brunk, came to Sangamon county in 1824
with George Brunk. They had four
children. She died in 1874.

DELAY, -JOHN, was born in
Virginia, taken by his parents to Bath
county, Ky., and was there married to
Elizabeth Branch, a sister to Edward
Branch. See his name. She was born
Nov. 25, 1785, near Lynchburg, Va.
They had eleven children in Bath county,
and moved to Sangamon county, 111., in
1829, and settled near Rochester. Of
their children —

SARAH married in Kentucky to
Thomas Baker. See his name.

JANE died in Kentucky, aged eigh-
teen years.

JEMIMA died in Kentucky, aged
sixteen years.

JUDITH, born March S, 1809, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Joseph Williams. See his name.

S7^EPHEN, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, March 4, 1841,
to Susan Baker, had nine children, and he

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died April 16, 1870. She lives in Cotton
Hill township.

It LIT. A, born April 19, 1813, in Bath
county, Ky., married in Sangatnon county
to William Taft. See his name.

rOLLY, born Jan. 5, 1820, in Bath
county, Ky., married in Sangamon county
to Samuel Torrence. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born in Bath county,
Ky., married in Sangamon county to
Samuel Keys. See his name.

GREENE ERR T, born in Kentucky,
died in Sangamon county, aged fifteen
years.

AL J YArdied in Kentucky, aged eight
years.

John Delay died Dec. 23, 1850, and his
widow died Oct. 3, 1869, both in Sanga-
mon county.

DICKERSON, SAMUEL,
was born about 1793, in Virginia. His
parents moved to Pendleton county, Ky.,
when he was a boy, and his father engaged
in salt-making at Grant's Lick. Susan
Kane was born in 1800. They were mar-
ried, and had six children in Kentucky.
They moved to Logan county, 111., in
1830, and in February, 1831, arrived in
what is now Illiopolis township, five miles
east of Mechanicsburg. Of their child-
ren—

HUGH W., born Oct. 25, 1811, in
Pendleton county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, Aug. 7, 1833, to Catharine
Greene. They had five children in San-
gamon county. WILLIAM H., born
July ii, '834, enlisted in 1862 in Co. E,
ii6th 111. Inf., for three years, married
Sarah Enlow, has two children, and lives
in Franklin county, Kan. ELIZA J.
married John Taylor. Sec his name.
ALEXANDER, born Oct. 12, 1844, en-
listed August, 1862, in Co. B, 1 30th 111.
Inf., for three years. He was on duty at
the capture of Vicksburg, though sick at
the time, was sent to hospital at Memphis,
where his father took charge of him in
July, and started for home. He died on
board a steamboat, Aug. 12, 1863. His
remains were brought home and buried in
Williams township. JOHN, born in San-
gamon county, is publishing the Gazette,
at Terrc Haute, Ind. SAMUEL resides
with his father. Mrs. Catharine Dickerson
died in 1850, and H. W. Dickerson was
married April I, 1852, to Edna C. Rice.
They had seven children. JOSIAH, AN-

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N A M. and ROBB Y died under four years.
MARY, CHARLES E., OLIVER P.
and IDA BELL, the six living, reside
with their parents near Barclay, in Wil-
liams township.

POLL Y married William Hunter.
See his name. Both died.

ARCHIBALD, born May 6, 1816, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon countv
to Celia Hunter. They had nine child-
ren. HARRIET married Michael Der-
ry, and live near Bowling Green, Mo.
JAMES R. enlisted July 19, 1861, in Co.
I, 4 ist 111. Inf., for three years, was
wounded at the battle of Pittsburg Land-
ing, April 6, 1862, was brought home
and died on the fourteenth of the same
month. SAMUEL, enlisted April, 1861,
on the first call for 75,000 men, served
three months, re-enlisted in 1862, in Co.

1, 41 st [111. Inf., and served three vears.
He was married to Ellen Shinaman,
have four children, and live near Mt.
Auburn, Christian county, Illinois.
LUCINDA, born November, 1845,
married to Harry Blair, April, 1871, have
one child, KATIE, and live near Illiopolis.
AMANDA J., born Dec. 25, 1847, mar-
ried John McGuffin, and reside in Illiopo-
lis township. ZACHARY T., born
Dec. 29, 1849, married Dec. 3, 1873, to
Louisa S. Ream, and live in Illiopolis
township. JOHN HENRY, born Sept.

2, 1852, ARCHIBALD, born Dec. 2,
1854, and ERASTUS, born Sept. 10,
1857, live with their mother. Archibald
Dickerson was killed Sept. 2, 1865, at
Harristown, Macon county, 111., bv an
accident on the T., W & W. R. R. " His
widow resides three and a half miles
southwest of Illiopolis.

MARTHA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried John Hunter, and both died, leaving
a family in Christian county.

C. ALEXANDER, born April 11,
1827, in Campbell county, Ky., married
April 12, 1848, to Melinda Ridgeway.
She was born Jan. 26, 1831, in Sangamon
county. They have eight children,
HENRY CLAY, JOHN HARDIN,
WILLIAM F., SAMUEL O., REU-
BEN J., SARAH J., ULYSSES
GRANT and CHARLES, and reside in
Illiopolis township, five miles east of
Mechanicsburg, where his father settled
in 1832.

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EAR LT SETTLERS OF

AMELIA J. married Samuel Garret-
son. See his name.

Samuel Dickerson died in the fall of
1856, and his widow died in June, 1859,
both in Illiopolis township.

DICKERSON, CHESLEY,
a younger brother to Samuel, was born in
Virginia, married in Gallatin county, Ky.,
to Betsy Lillard, and came to Sangamon
county with his brother Samuel in 1831.
They had four children. . Their son —

WILLIAM, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, enlisted July 19, 1861, in Co. I, 41 st 111.
Inf., for three years, came home on sick
furlough, and died March 20, 1862.

FRANCES, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married Philip Fredericks. They live
near Ottawa, Kansas. Mr. F. was a sol-
dier for three years in Co. I, 41 st 111. Inf.

ERASTf S, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married Lottie Enlow, and lives at
Ottawa, Kansas.

MARIA, married and died.

Chesley Dickerson and wife both died
in Sangamon countv.

DICKSON, " GEORGE, was
born March 18, loot, in Tennessee, came
to Illinois with his parents, and was mar-
Nov. 13, 1823, to Fanny Cooper, (sister to
John Cooper, the father of James.) She
was born July 16, 1804, in Tennessee.
They had seven children —

MART A., born Nov. 7, 1826, died
Jan. 31, 1846.

SUSAN A., born Jan. 7, 1829, died
Dec. 21, 1848.

ELIZABETH E., born April 10,
1831, died August 21, 1851.

JOHN C, born Dec. 26,. 1836, mar-
ried in 1869 to Ida Johnson. They have
two children, and reside in Chatfield,
Minn.

MELISSA N., born Feb. 10, 1838,
married June 3, 1858, to George Flower,
had two living children, and she married
for a second time to James Prunk, have
one child, and reside in Mechanicsburg.

THOMAS M., born May 18, 1841,
was a soldier in an Illinois regiment, mar-
ried in 1863, to Susan Lvdic, in Christian
county, have four children, and reside at
Lamar, Barton countv, Mo.

SARAH A., born Oct. 26, 1845, in
Christian county, married Benjamin H.
Giger. See his name.

George Dickson died Jan. 7, 1849. in
Christian county, and his widow resides

with her daughter, Mrs. Giger, in Me-
chanicsburg.

DIFENDORF, OLIVER,
was born March 12, 1819, in Canajoharie,
Montgomery county, New York, and
came to Springfield, 111., in November,
1840. He was married Jan., 1842, to
Martha Ann Cutter. She died six weeks
after their marriage. Mr. Diefendorf,
about the time of the death of his wife,
entered upon the duties of deputy clerk,
at Springfield, in the circuit court of San-
gamon county. He continued to discharge
the duties of that position until June,
1846, when he volunteered in Co. D, 4th
111. Inf., was commissioned ist Lieut., and
went into the Mexican war under Col.
E. D. Baker. He was subsequently com-
missioned as 2d Lieut, in the i6th U. S.
Inf., and served until the close of the war.
He was married Oct., 1848, in Cincinnati,
Ohio, to Caroline Cutter. They had
three children, all of whom died in in-
fancy. Aug. 23, 1850, they moved to
Weston, Platt county, Mo. He was
elected, Aug., 1851, for four years, clerk of
the court of common pleas of that county.
He was two years clerk in the office of
the Surveyor-General of Kansas; was one
of the thirty-two original proprietors of
the city of Leavenworth, laid out in 1854.
In 1856 he became a citizen of Kansas,
and in the spring of 1857 a permanent
resident of the city of Leavenworth. In
Nov., 1867, he was elected clerk of Leav-
enworth county; re-elected in 1869, again
in 1873 and in 1875. He is now — 1876—
in office, and resides in the city of Leaven-
worth.

DILLARD, WILLIAM, born
April 1 6, 1786, in Virginia. Elizabeth
Jacobs was born Oct. i^, 1791, in the same
State. They had two children born there,
and moved to Todd county, Ky., where
four children were born, and the family
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
late in 1830, and settled three and a half
miles west of Springfield. Of their child-
ren—

BENJAMIN F., born Aug. 10, 1810,
in Virginia, married in Sangamon county,
Feb. n, 1836, to Mary Crowder. They had
seven children, two of whom died young.
EUSTACIA A., born Dec. 30, 1836,
married June 6, 1861, to Edward Keyes.
See his name. JOHN J., born Sept. 10,
1838, died Feb. 7, 1865. ^WILLIAM R.,

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born Jan. 14, 1842, married Jan. 15, 1873,
to Eliza J. Randall, who was born April
29, 1847, in Sangamon county. They
live five miles northwest of Springfield.
MARY E., born April 9, 1844, lives with
her mother. RIAL MARTIN, born
Jan. 22, 1847, married Feb. 9, 1871, to
Lerue Kincaid, and live in Logan county,
near Elkhart. B. F. Dillard died Sept.
5, 1868, near Elkhart, and his widow (in
1874) resides five miles southwest of
Springfield, on the farm where they set-
tled in 1837.

AD A LINE, born March 17, 1813,
married Lewis Tomlinson. See his name.

SARAH married James Hannah. They
had two children, and he died. She and
her children reside near Chester, Ran-
dolph county.

ELIZABETH married Henry Dye,
and resides near Chester.

VIRGINIA married William Bradley,
who died, leaving a widow and three
children in DuQuoin.

MARIAN married James Hannah.
They have two children, and reside in
Perry county, 111.

JOHN A. married Mary Hathaway,
have four children, and reside near Ches-
ter, Randolph county.

Mrs. Elizabeth Dillard died Nov. 28,
1854, in Sangamon county, and William
Dillard died Oct. 7, 1868, in Randolph
county, 111.

DILLON, JOSHUA, was born
Oct. 4, 1806, in Fauquier county, Va.
The grandfather of Mr. Dillon sprang
from Quaker ancestors. He resided in
London county, Va., and was a soldier in
the army that achieved American Indepen-
dence. His son, Samuel, married in 1800
to Nancy Fletcher, and served his country
in the war of 1812-15. Samuel Dillon
and wife raised two children, Joshua,
whose name heads this sketch, and Har-
riet. Joshua Dillon was married March
29, 1829, in Culpepper county, Va., to
Elizabeth S. Jeffries, who was born there,
August 10, 1808. They united in Vir-
ginia with the Regular Primitive Baptists
in 1832-3, and still belong to that church.
They moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving June 18, 1834, in what is now
Fancy Creek township. They brought
four children with them, and seven were
born in Sangamon county. Of their
children —

WILLIAM, born Jan. 31, 1830, in
Fauquier county, Va., raised in Sangamon
county, married in Macon county, April
14, 1853, to Mary E. Cantrill. They had
ten children, FANNIE and ELLA
MAY died young. WILLIAM S.,
LOUIS E., FRANK, GEORGE J.,
MARY E., ROBERT LEE and AN-
NIE SHEPHERD, twins, and PAR-
THENIA J., reside with their parents.
Dr. William Dillon is a practicing physi-
cian, and resides at Pavson, Adams coun-

ty, in.

ROBERT, born June 29, 1831, in
Culpepper county, Va., raised in Sanga-
mon county, married March 16, 1858, in
Decatur, 111., to Maria F. Jennings, who
was born Nov. 10, 1837, in New Jersey.
Mr. Dillon enlisted in 1862, in Co. E,4ist
111. Inf., and after four months service, he
was honorably discharged on account of
physical disability. In the spring of 1866
they moved to Nebraska, and from there
in April, 1871, to Colorado; thence to
New Mexico in 1873. They have six
children, FRANCES H., JOSHUA L.,
RICHARD O., SARAH E., PAR-
THENIA A. and WILLIAM J., and
reside near Trinidad, Colorado.

SARAH F., born July 27, 1832, in
Culpepper county, Va., married in San-
gamon county, 111., Sept. 5, 1849, to John
H. Crow. See his name. She died Jan.
19, 1855, leaving three children. HENRY
L., the second child, died, age,d twenty-
two years. ELIZABETH H. was mar-
ried Oct. n, 1874, to Albert D. Harrison.
They ha"ve one child, LOUIS ARTHUR, the
first great-grand-child of Joshua Dillon.
Mr. Harrison is a druggist In Tecumseh,
Neb. ISAAC R. Crow resides with his
father.

ANN ELIZABETH, born Oct. 7,
1833, in Culpepper county, Va., married
in Sangamon county, Oct., 1853, to Reuben
McDannold. They have seven children,
JOHN L., PART HENIA L., MARY
A., WILLIAM R., THOMAS I., EM-
MA J. and EDDIE, and reside three miles
west of Springfield, 111.

HARRIET E., born March 20, 1836,
in Sangamon county, died in her twelfth
year.

MART E., born Oct. 18, 1837, in San-
gamon county, was married Oct. 23, 1852,
to Eli Ulery, and died Dec. 5, 1864, at
Mt. Zion, Macon county, 111. Three

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only, of her seven children are living,
DONNA L, PERLIE and ELL They
reside with their father.

THOMAS J., born July 15, 1839,
died in his twelfth year.

PARTHENIA R., was born Nov. i,
1841, in Sangamon county, married Mar.
23, 1862, in Macon county, to John H.
Crow. They have two children, SA-
RAH F. and LILLIE R., and reside in
Tecumseh, Neb. See his name.

J OB A., born June 5, 1843, m Sanga-
mon county. He enlisted for three years,
in 1861, in Co. E, 4151 111. Inf., was cap-
tured at Jackson, Miss., spent seventy-
three days in a rebel prison at Belle Isle,
and was honorably discharged at the ex-
piration of his term of service. He was
educated at Mt. Zion, 111., graduated in
1867, at the Law school in Albany, N. Y.
He was married in June, 1867, in Sanga-
mon county, 111., to Huldah J. Oder.
They have one living child, JESSE P.,
and reside in Tecumseh, Neb. Job A.
Dillon moved to Nebraska in 1868, was
elected to the State Senate in 1872,
and is a practicing lawyer in Tecumseh.

JOSEPH J., born Feb. 5, 1845, in
Sangamon county, was married Jan. 26,
1869, to Sophia J. Irwin. They have one
child, JOSHUA, and reside near Tecum-
seh, Neb.

AMANDA JANE, born July 6, 1847,
in Sangamon county, 111., educated at
Mt. Zion, 111., married May 30, 1865, in
Springfield, 111., to Dr. S. B. McGlum-
pherv, who was born Aug. 27, 1831, in
Washington county, Penn. He* attended .
college at Waynesburg, Green county,
Penn., and arrived in Decatur, 111., Oct.
25, 1859. He graduated at Rush Medical
College, Chicago, 111., Jan. 27, 1864. He
moved to Tecumseh, Neb., arriving April
20, 1872, and was appointed by the Gov-
ernor assistant physician to the Nebraska
Hospital for the Insane, Aug. 18, 1874.
Dr. S. B. McGlumphery and wife have two
living children, LENA B. and NELLIE
S., and reside in Lincoln, Neb.

Joshua Dillon and wife reside near
Tecumseh, Xeb.

DIXON, JAMES M., was born
Aug. 3, 1807, in Harrison county, Ky.
He was married in that county, Jan. 23,
1827, to Joannah Bird, who was born
Nov. 20, 1807. They had four children
in Mason county, Ky., and moved to San-

gamon county, 111., in the fall of 1834, in
what in now Mechanicsburg township,
where they had two living children. Of
their six children —

WILLIAM A., born Nov. 10, 1827,511
Kentucky, died in Sangamon countv, in
his twenty-fifth year.

SARAH ^4., born Oct. i, 1829,111 Ken-
tucky, raised in Sangamon county, mar-
ried in Logan county to Abraham Cop-
land. They had five children, and Mrs.
C. died, Feb. 26, 1872, leaving her family
near Mt. Pulaski.

JESSE D., born Oct. 10, 1831, in
Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county,
went to Oregon in 1849, married there to
Louisa Milligan, has three living children,
JOANNAH, RICHARD and JOHN,
and lives at Lafayette, Yamhill county,
Oregon.

LUCINDA, born Sept. 6, 1833, in
Mason county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county to James L. Barbre. See his
name.

HESTER D., born Feb. 9, 1840, hi
Sangamon county, married Sept. 4, 1861,
to Thomas Stoker, who was born Dec. 27,
1836, in Fairfield county, O. They had
four children. DAVID A. died in in-
fancy. JAMES A. died at six years of
age. ARTHUR E. and ARMANEL-
LA live with their parents in Buffalo.

RICHARD, born Feb. 29, 1844, in
Sangamon county, married May 6, 1874,
and lives near Mechanicsburg.

James M. Dixon died Dec. 19, 1843,
near Mechanicsburg, and his widow mar-
ried John C. Eckel. See his name.

DIXON, JOHN, was born Oct.
8, 1784, in the village of Rye, Westchester
county, N. Y. After spending fifteen
years as a merchant in New York city,
he closed his business there and started,
April 13, 1820, for the west. He came
by the way of Pittsburg, Pa., and Shaw-
neetown, 111., passing over the site of the
city of Springfield before there was any
thought of a town rising there, and set-
tled nine miles further north, in what is
now Fancy creek township. Four years
later he moved to Fort Clark, where
Peoria now stands. At the end of six
years he moved north, into the country
owned by the Winnebago Indians, and
April ii, 1830, bought a ferry on Rock
river from a half-breed Indian. From
that time it was known as Dixon'^ ferry.

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As a village began to grow, it was abbre-
viated to Dixon, and has now grown to
the city of Dixon, Lee county, 111. This
is merely a synopsis of a long and useful
life. John Dixon is now (1876) in his
ninety-second year. Of his family, I
have no record. He lives in the city
founded by himself, and bearing his own
name.

DIXON, JOSEPH, was among
the earliest settlers on Horse creek. He
was the principal mover in establishing
Zion chapel, in Cotton Hill township, to
which he afterwards deeded five acres of
land for church and cemetery purposes.
His family are buried there, but he died in
1844 at the house of a daughter, near
Franklin, Morgan county, 111., and was
buried there.

DIVELBISS, JACOB, was
born March 29, 1 797, in Franklin county,
Pa. He was there married, Jan. 19, 1819,
to Catharine Shank, who was born Dec.
3, 1791, in Washington county, Md. They
had three living children born in West-
moreland county, Pa., and moved west,
traveling from Pittsburg by water to
Beardstown, 111. Mr. Divelbiss and his
son Noah walked from there to Spring-
field, the family following in a hack,
and arriving may i, 1838. Of their three
children —

CA7^HAR1NE, born July 8, 1822, in
Westmoreland county, Pa., was married
there April, 1838, to Richard Hodge. See
It is name.

\O.\If, born Nov. 28, 1824, in West-
moreland county, Pa., was married in
Springfield, Aug. 8, 1848, to Cordelia
Watson. They had five children. NOAH,
Jim., born April 27, 1849, was killed by a
railroad accident at Sag bridge, near Le-
mont, Cook countv, 111., July 17, 1873.
ABBIE lives with her parents.
CHARLES died in infancy. FREDDIE
died in the eleventh year of his age.
NELLIE lives with her parents. Noah
Divelbiss came to Springfield with his
father, and was deputy and acting clerk of
the Supreme Court of Illinois from 1844
to 1848. He is now teller in the Marine
and Fire Insurance Company's Hank, and
resides in Springfield.

AM AX DA, born Feb. 3, 1829, in
Westmoreland county, Pa., was married
in Springfield, Sept. i, 1846, to Frank
Hickox. lie is a brother of Virgil, but

came to Sangamon county too late to be
classed as an early settler. Mr. and Mrs.
Hickox had eight children, two of whom
died young. ALICE, born June 23, 1847,
was married May 26, 1864, to William
Warner, and resides at Selma, Alabama.
FRANK, born April 4, 1849, was mar-
ried June 27, 1872,10 Matilda C. Bailey,
a native of Newport, Indiana. They live
in Springfield, 111. ELBERT W., born
March 14, 1852, in Petersburg, was mar-
ried in Springfield Jan. 10, 1875, *° Kate
Griffith, of St. Louis. They reside in
Springfield. IDA MAY, born Nov. 9,
1854, was married in St. Louis, April 15,
1870, to William J. White. They have
one child, MAGGIE, and reside in Spring-
field. NELLIE and her mother reside
in Springfield with Mrs. Hickox's father.

Jacob Divelbiss was elected Assessor
and ' Treasurer of Sangamon county in
1853, serving two years. He learned the
wagon-maker's trade in his native county,
and prosecuted the business in Springfield
for many years. He made a hand in the
shop a full half century. Mrs. Catharine
Divelbiss died Aug. 18, 1875, and Jacob
Divelbiss died suddenly Feb. n, 1876.

DODDS, MRS. MARGAR-
ET, the mother of Joseph and Rev.
Gilbert Dodds, was married three times.
Her maiden name was Craig. She was
born in South Carolina, and first married
a Mr. Watson, who died, and she married
a Mr. Kirkpatrick. He was a patriot sol-
dier, who, while serving in the Revolu-
tionary army, was captured, and died in
the British prison on Sullivan Island, near
Charleston. She lost two brothers in the
Revolutionary army, also. The soldiers
of the English anm took all her provis-
ions, and when she begged the officer in
command to leave her sufficient corn and
oats for seed, he replied with a volley of
profanity, and told her she would have no
use for it, as some loyal subject of the
king would occupy her plantation. She
remembered having seen Washington and
his army, and Cornwallis with his army.
After the death of Mr. Kirkpatrick, she
married James Dodds. Thev had five
sons and a daughter in Carolina, and in
1795 started to move their family to Ken-
tucky. Before they passed out of Caro-
lina the father and daughter sickened and
died. Mrs. Dodds, with her five sons,
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Tennessee, decided to stop, and there re-
mained two years, when they again moved
on, and arrived in Caldwell county, Ky.,
in 1797 or '8. After her son Joseph came
to Sangamon county, she came and spent
two years with him, then returned to
Kentucky. Twelve or fifteen years later
she again came to Sangamon county, and
spent her remaining days in the families
of her sons Joseph and Rev. Gilbert
Dodds. She died in Sangamon county,
Jan. 17, 1846, in the ninety-seventh year
of her age.

DODDS, JOSEPH, born May
28, 1785, in Abbeville District, South Car-
olina. He was taken by his mother to
Caldwell county, Ky., in 1797 or '8. He
was there married, May 3, 1810, to Mattie
Drennan. They had three children in
Kentucky, and in Oct., 1817, he accom-
panied his father-in-law, William Dren-
nan, to Illinois. In November they stop-
ped on Wood river, in Madison county,
two miles north of Alton, and remained
there until the next March, when the men
and boys connected with four families
started for Sugar creek, Sangamon county,
piloted by William Moore, an Indian
Ranger. They reached their destination
on the first of March, 1818, stopping in
what is now Ball township, northwest of
Sugar creek. There had not been any
survey made, but the spot selected by
Mr. Dodds, and on which he built his
cabin, is now section twenty-nine, town
fourteen, range five west, and that of Wil-
liam Drennan is section thirty-two, same
town and range. Mr. Dodds had been
too busy with his crop to build anything
better than a double rail pen for the pro-
tection of his family. One son was born
in Madison county, and Mr. Dodds brought
his family to their new home Nov. 3, i8rS,
where seven childi'en were born. Of
their eleven children —

WILLIAM D., born Sept. 18, 1811,
in Caldwell county, Ky., was married
Sept. 18, 1834, to Polly Eades, in Sanga-
mon county. They moved, in 1835, to
DesMoines county, Iowa, where they
brought up fifteen children, namely :
WILLIAM E., born Oct. 13, 1835, was
married Jan. 6, 1857, to Deborah C.
Maines, who was born Jan. 29, 1839, in
Clermont county, Ohio. They had five liv-
ing children : REBECCA s., born Nov. 4,
1837, was man'ied Dec. 3, 1874, to Edwin

G. Moran, who was born Oct. 22, 1854,
in Kane county, 111. They have one
child, Ethel L,, and reside near Bartlett,
Fremont county, Iowa. SARAH L. and
JOSEPH w., twins, JAMES H. and MARY E.
The four latter live with their parents,
near Bartlett, Fremont county, Iowa.
JOHN H., born Nov. 27, 1838, was mar-
ried Sept. 13, 1866, to Lucy Parrott.
They have one living child, WILLIAM D.,
and reside near Danville, Iowa. JOSEPH
R., born Jan. i, 1841, was married Feb.
7, 1 86 1, to Sarah E. Maines. They
have four living children, MARY L., CAR-
RIE B., LULU A. and CYRENE E., and
live near Corning, Holt county, Mo.
CYRENE E., born Oct. 22, 1842, was
married March 19, 1864, to Henry
Mathews. They have five children,

HENRY L., HOWARD A., WARREN L.,

SAMUEL w. and MARY L., and live near
Danville, DesMoines county, Iowa.
JAMES H., born Sept. 9, 1844, died Jan.
21, 1863. REBECCA J., born August
25, 1846, was married March 9, 1861, to
George W. Collis. They have one child,
CHARLES L., and live near South Flint,
Iowa. SAMUEL C., born July 28, 1848,
was married Jan. 22, 1869, to Sarah Alli-
son. They have two children, FREDDIE
A. and MARY E., and live near Danville,
Iowa. CHARLES W., born April 15,
1850, was married Dec. 2, 1874, to Sonora
Parrott, and live near Greenwood, Polk
county, Iowa. OLIVER E., born Mar.
25, 1852, was married to Lillie A. Clark,
Oct. 20, 1875, and live near South Flint, la.
MARTHA L., born Dec. 24, 1853, was
married to James J. J. Redding, Feb. 22,
1869. They have two living children,
WILLIAM D. and LAURA L., and live near
Pleasant Grove, DesMoines county, Iowa.
AILSEY, or ALICE E., born Jan. n,
1856, married Jan. 15, 1874, to William F.
GRIFFEL. They have one child,
CLARA E., and live near South Flint, Iowa.
MARGARET E., LAVINA V. V.,
AARON E. and FINIS E. live with
their parents. William D. Dodds and
wife reside near South Flint, DesMoines
county, Iowa.

JOHN, born Jan. 26, 1814, in Cald-
"well county, Ky., was married March 10,
1836, in Sangamon county, 111., to Re-
becca King. They had four children:
JOSEPH C. married Elizabeth Levi.
They have three children, and live in

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Pawnee township. MARY M. lives
with her mother. JOHN H. was mar-
ried Dec. 12, 1872, to Mary J. Funder-
hurk, and lives in Auburn township.
SAMUEL K. lives with his mother.
John Dodds died Oct. 21, 1859, and his
widow, Mrs. Rebecca Dodds, lives in
Auburn township.

MART, born Jan. 16, 1816, in Cald-
well county, Ky., was married in Sanga-
mon county to Jonathan B. Colcman. Sec
his name,

J. WILSON, born May 28, iSiS,
near Alton, Madison county, 111., was
married Feb. 27, 1845, in Sangamon coun-
ty, to Minerva J. Easley. They had fif-
teen children; three died young. BEN-
JAMIN A. died July 30, 1873, aged
twenty-seven years. PERXECIA E.
was married to John W. Phelps. They
have two children, and reside in Ball
township. MARTHA J. was married
April 6, 1873, to Thomas Black, Jun. See
his name. MARY E., JAMES F. E.,
AMANDA C., WILLIAM D., ED-
WIN E. and FREDERICK B. (twins),
EMMA A., JOHN G. and JOSEPH Al;
the nine latter live with their mother. J.
W. Dodds died March 8, 1875, and his
family reside in Ball township, near the
Cumberland Presbyterian church.

MARGARET, born July 2, 1820, in
Sangamon county, was married Oct. 22,
1840, to James B. Easley. See his name.

SAMUEL, born June 3, 1822, in San-
gamon county, died unmarried, aged
forty-two years.

JOSEPH, born Sept. 5, 1824, in San-
gamon county, was married March 30,
1847, to Elizabeth A. Holland. They
have six living children, ISABELLA J.,
WILLIAM A., MARTHA E., JO-
SEPH N., ABNER L. and MARY E.,
who reside with their parents in Ball
township, two hundred yards west of
where his parents settled in 1818, and four
miles southeast of Chatham, Sangamon .
county.

MARTHA A., born Nov. 22, 1826, in
Sangamon count v, was married April 16,
1846, to Strawther Eades. They have
six children. EVA was married Oct. 24,
1867, to William M. White. They have
one child, and reside in Bates county, Mo.
MARY E. was married May 6, 1869, to
W. E. P urcell. They have one child,
and live in Auburn township, Sangamon

countv. REBECCA J. was married
Nov." 1 6, 1871, to B. F. Peacock. They
reside near Springfield. WILLIAM A.,
FINIS E. and MARTHA A., reside
with their parents near Johnstown, Bates
county, Mo.

FRANCIS E WING, born Jan. 27,
1829, in Sangamon county, was married
Feb. 22, 1855, to Pauline K. Fletcher.
They had four children. JOHN S. died,
aged ten years. MARTHA F., VIR-
GINIA E. and HENRIETTA A., live
with their parents. F. E. Dodds and fam-
ily live near Pawnee, Sangamon countv.

NANCY E., born Sept. 14, 1831, was
married Oct. 30, 1856, to Chester F.
Maltby, and died Oct. 7, 1870. C. F.
Maltby resides in Virden.

ALEXANDER R., born July 27,
1834, was married Dec. 24, 1860, to Ame-
lia R. Planck, and died Jan. 4, 1864, leav-
ing a widow and one child, EVA M., in
Springfield, 111.

Mrs. Martha Dodds died Jan. 10, 1853,
and Joseph Dodds died Jan. 21, 1868,
both on the farm where they settled in
1818. Joseph Dodds became very much
dissatisfied soon after coming to Sangamon
county, and determined to return to Ken-
tucky. He sold all the property he could
spare to obtain money to defray the ex-
pense, and* loaded his wagon; but his
horses strayed away the night previous to
the time he intended starting, and before
he could find them his money was gone.
He was thus compelled to remain. After
becoming reconciled, he often expressed
his thanks to those horses for running
away.

DODDS, GILBERT, born June
6, 1793, in Spartanburg District, S'outh
Carolina, and was taken by his mother,
first to Tennessee, and from there to Cald-
well county, Ky. He was married Oct.
12, 1815, in Caldwell county, to Mary
Clinton. Her father (James Clinton) was
Captain of a company in the Revolution.
Gilbert Dodds and wife had four children
in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon
countv, 111., arriving in August, 1824, in
what is now Ball township, and joined
his brother Joseph, who came six years
previous. They had eight children in
Sangamon county, namelv —

JAMES C\, born Oct. 30, 1816, in
Caldwell county, Ky., raised in Sanga-
mon county, was married in Morgan

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county April 12, 1840, to Jane Boulware.
They had six living children. JAMES
W. enlisted for three years, Aug. 9, 1862,
at Springfield, in Co". B, ii4th 111. Inf.
He was a Sergeant, and commanded his
company at the battle of Guntown, in
June, and was killed in battle at Tupelo,
Miss., July 15, 1864. A cenotaph at the
Cumberland Presbyterian church, on Su-
gar creek, gives the above facts. PHILIP
B. died, aged ten years. RICHARD N.,
born Nov. 25, 1851, is a druggist in Spring-
field. NANCY C. married William
Mason. See his name. MARY was
married August, 1874, to Henry Wyatt,
at Franklin, Morgan county, 111. FRED-
ERICK C. lives with his sister, Mrs.
Mason. Mrs. Jane Dodds died July, 1869,
and James C. Dodds died April 12, 1872,
both in Sangamon county.

NANCY y., born Jan. 30, 1819, in
Caldwell county, Ky., was married Dec.
15, 1842, in Sangamon county, to John L.
Drennan. See his name. He died July
22, 1853, and his widow married John B.
Weber. See his name.

MINER VA, born Aug. 22, 1820, in
Caldwell county, Ky., lost a limb by a fall
from a horse in 1840, in Sangamon coun-
ty, and has been an invalid since that
time. She resides with her sister, Mrs. J.
B. Weber.

FRANCIS N., born Oct. 8, 1822, in
Caldwell county, Ky., and brought up in
Sangamon county, was married Dec. 9,
1857, in Cass county, to Margaret Brady.
They moved to Lykins county, Kan.,
where his wife died April 21, 1866, leav-
ing one child, EMMA F., who resides
with her grandmother Brady, in Virginia,
Cass county, 111. F. N. Dodds was mar-
ried Nov. 6, 1867, to Mrs. Mary C.
Pedig. Thev have four children,
CHARLES E., MARY A., CORA B.
and SARAH L., who live with their
parents. F. N. Dodds was a soldier in the
Mormon war of 1845, and the Mexican
war of 1846 and '7, from Sangamon coun-
ty. He was in a Union regiment from Kan-
sas, and aided in suppressing the slave-
holders' rebellion. They reside near
Colona, Carroll county, Mo.

\\'ILLIAM D., born July 3, 1825, in
Sangamon county, was married to Ange-
line Corbev, in Sept., 1855. They have
five children, HARRIET, ROSA, VIR-
GINIA, ALBERT and FREDERICK,

and live at Chilicothe, Livingston county,
Mo. W. D. Dodds is a minister, con-
nected with the Cumberland Presbyterian
church.

AMANDA E., born Dec. 22, 1827, in
Sangamon county, was married Jan. i,
1852, to Chester F. Maltby, who was
born July 13, 1825, in New York. Mrs.
Maltby died Dec. 21, 1852, in Petersburg,
leaving one child, AMANDA E., who
was married Jan. 16, 1873, to John G.
Cheney, and resides near Auburn, Sanga-
mon countv.

JOHN H., born Feb. 14, 1830, in San-
gamon county, was married July 3, 1855,
to Ellen Goldsby. They had four child-
ren, JULIA A., JAMES E., GILBERT
and CHARLES H. John H. Dodds
died Sept. 7, 1873, near Petersburg, Me-
nard county. His family reside four miles
south of Petersburg.

ALFRED S., born May 20, 1832, in
Sangamon county, studied medicine. He
enlisted in Co. K, I33d 111. Inf., in 1861,
for three years, as a private, but acted as a
surgeon. He served three years, and was
honorably discharged Jan., 1865, at New
Orleans. ' He was married Sept. 10, 1863,
to Maggie Cunningham. Thev have four
children, WILLIAM, HARRY,
RAPLH and FLORENCE. Dr. A. S.
Dodds is a practicing physician at Bolckow,
Andrew county, Mo.

THOMAS C., born Nov. 6, 1834,
served sixteen months in Co. F, 28th 111.
Inf. He was honorably discharged Nov.
24, 1862. at LaGrange, Tenn., and was
married Nov. 4, 1869, to Lauretta Colby.
They have three living children, EL-
BERT C., EUNICE A. and MARY C.,
and reside six miles south of Petersburg,
Menard county, 111.

MARGARET A., born Oct. 8, 1837,
died unmarried, Feb. 21, 1875, at the resi-
dence of her sister, Mrs. J. B. Weber.

MARY E., born Nov. 2, 1840, in San-
gamon county, was married Jan. 16, 1868,
to Wrilliam Colby. They have three
children, ALFRED L, "LYDIA and
ALICE, and reside near Annawan, Hen-
ry county, 111.

IRA ~R., born Feb. 16, 1843, in San'
gamon county, 111., served three years and
eight months in Co. F, 28th 111. Infi, and
was honorably discharged July, 1865, at
New Orleans. He is unmarried, and re-

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sides near Hutchinson, Reno county, Kan-
sas.—1875.

Rev. Gilbert Dodds became a minister
in the Cumberland Presbyterian church
in early life. He was for many years
pastor of the Sugar creek church, and
was always an active, energetic advocate
of temperence. In 1847 ^e moved to
Menard county, a few miles south of
Petersburg. Mrs. Mary Dodds died July
9, 1866, and Rev. Gilbert Dodds died
May 3, 1872, both near Petersburg.

DOHERTY, JAMES HILL,
was born June 3, 1775, in Virginia. His
father, Cornelius Doherty, was a native of
Ireland, and emigrated to America about
1760, settling in Virginia. He was mar-
ried there to Mary Hill. They had
twelve children — six of each sex. The
family moved to Kentucky the year after
Daniel Boone, and lived in the fort known
as Estell station, for seven years. The
son, James Hill Doherty, was married in
1819 in Cumberland county, Ky., to Mary
Foster, who was born in 1794, in South
Carolina. They had two children in Ken-
tucky, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the fall of 1824 on Rich-
land creek, near where Pleasant Plains
now stands. They had one child there,
and Mrs. Mary Doherty and her second
child — Elizabeth — died in the fall of 1824.
In 1832 James H. Doherty left Sangamon
county and moved to Missouri, thence to
Arkansas, and in 1836 to Decatur county,
Tenn., where he died July 22, 1852. Of
his two children —

JOHN F. P., born Dec. 21, 1820, in
Cumberland county, Ky., partially brought
up in Sangamon county, 111., continued
with his father until 1842, when he left
Tennessee for Texas. He returned two
years after, and was married Oct. 22, 1844,
in Decatur county, Tenn., to Elizabeth J.
Maxwell, who was born Sept. 6, 1823, in
Humphreys county, Tenn. They had
one child born and died in Tennessee, and
eight in Texas, namely: JAMES H.,
born June 29, 1848, in Rusk county,
Texas, resides with his parents. MARIA
L., born April 5, 1850, in Nacogdoches
county, Texas, married Jan. 20, 1871, to
James H. Hall, a native of Mississippi.
They have one child, FAXNIE j., born Jan.
20, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Hall reside in
Coryell county, Texas, near Rainey's

—33

Creek postoffice. WILLIAM J., born
March 17, 1852, in Rusk county, Texas,
resides with his parents. ROBERT R.
P., born Oct. 26, 1853, and died Nov. 28,
1874. JOHN P., born April 7, 1856,
CHARLES F., born Aug. 3, 1858, and
SUSAN M., born Nov. 28, 1862— the
three latter in Nacogdoches county — and
SARAH E., born Sept. 14, 1867, in
Limestone county, all reside with their
parents. John F. F. Doherty and wife
reside near Rainey's creek postoffice, Cor-
yell county, Texas, and twenty-eight
miles from Waco, the nearest express
office.

MART, born Sept. 18, 1824, in San-
gamon county, was married there, Nov.
30, 1847, to Charles W. Smith, who was
born Jan. 31, 1823, in Overton county,
Tenn. They have five children, NANCY,
MATHIAS M., ELIZABETH, JOHN
D. and MARY, who reside with their
parents in Maco'upin county, ten miles
northeast of Carlinville, 111.

DOUGHERTY, CHARLES,
was born Feb., 1792, near Derry, county-
Donegal, Ireland. In 1817 he came to
America, landing first in Canada, and
from there to New York. He was mar-
ried about 1820, in Washington county,
Pa., to Mrs. Susannah Gants. She had
nine children by her first marriage. Mr.
and Mrs. Dougherty moved to Wheeling,
Va., where they had one child, and from
there to Greenup county, Ky. In 1835
they moved to Coles county, 111., and from
there to Sangamon county, arriving in
May, 1838, in what is now Riverton. Mrs.
D. died there, March 5, 1852, Their only
son —

CHARLES,]\.m., born Oct. 10, 1822,
in Wheeling, West Va., married Feb.
20, 1849, to Amanda Constant. She died
March i, 1858, leaving three sons, JAMES,
REZIN and JOHN. Charles Dougherty,
Jun., was married March 5, 1859, to Mrs.
Susan E. Connelly, whose maiden name
was Conant. They have three children,
OMAR, ALLEN" and LYDIA J., who
live with their parents, one mile northwest
of Dawson.

Charles Dougherty, Sen., resides with
his son, Charles, Jun. — 1874.

DONNER.— A family named Don-
ner lived near Salem, Rowan county, N.
C., in the latter part of the eighteenth
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speaking, but it is not known whether
they emigrated from Germany or were
born in this country. They had three
sons and three daughters, all born in
North Carolina, and moved to Jessa-
mine county, Ky., about 1811. They
moved with their children to Decatur
county, Ind., and in 1828 came to Sanga-
mon county. Both died at a very ad-
vanced age, and were buried about three
miles east of Springfield, near the Ben-
nett school house. Of their children —

DONNER, LYDIA, born Dec.,
1783, near Salem, Rowan county, N. C.,
accompanied her parents to Jessamine
county, Ky., and was there married to
James Walters. They had nine children
in Kentucky, and in 1829 moved to Deca-
tur county, Ind., where Mr. Walters
died in June, 1830. Mrs. Walters moved
to Sangamon county, arriving in Auburn
township in 1839. See Lydia Walters.

DONNER, ELIZABETH,
was married in Jessamine county, Ky., to
William Walters. See the name of their
son —

GREEN B. Walters.

DONNER, GEORGE, was
born about 1786, in Rowan county, N. C.,
came with his parents to Jessamine coun-
ty, Ky., and from there to Decatur county,
Ind. He was there married and had five
children. Mrs. Donner died there, and
Mr. D., with his family, came to Sanga-
mon county, 111., in the autumn of 1828,
settling about three miles northeast of
Springfield. George Donner was married
in Sangamon county to Mary Blue.
They had two living children, and Mrs
Mary Donner died in Sangamon county.
Mr. Donner's five eldest children married
in the latter county, and in 1838 he took
his two children by the second marriage,
and, in company with his son William
and family, and his brother Jacob and
family moved to Texas. They raised one
crop fifty miles south of Houston. Not
liking the country, they all returned in 1839,
and George Donner moved on the farm he
left. About two years afterwards he mar-
ried Mrs. Tamsen Dozier, whose maiden
name was Eustace. They had three
children (all girls) born in Sangamon
county. Of the five children of George
Donner by his first marriage—

MARY, born in Indiana, was married
in Sangamon county, 111., to George

Weaver. They had four children, and
Mr. Weaver died, and she married Adam
Harmon. They had two children, and
Mr. H. died at Island Grove. The family
live near Libertyville, Iowa.

WILLIA M, born May 3, 1812, in De-
catur county, Ind., was married March,
1832, in Sangamon county, 111., to Eliza-
beth Hunter, who was born May i, 1819,
in Gallatin county, Ky., and came to San-'
gamon county in the autumn of 1830.
They had two children, and in 1838 moved
to Texas with his father, where one child
was born. He returned to Sangamon
county in 1839, where two children were
added to the family. Of their five child-
ren: JAMES W., born Jan. 7, 1834, in
Sangamon county, was married April 20,
1857, to Elizabeth Snodgrass, who was
born Feb. 6, 1837, in Harrison county, In-
diana. They have six living children,

GEORGE A., CHARLES F., NETTIE J., IRV-
ING, ALBERT F. and DORA E., and live in
Clear Lake township, one mile south of
Riverton. James W. Donner enlisted
August 8, 1862, in Co. H., ii4th 111. Inf.,
for three years. He was severely wound-
ed by a musket ball, through the hip
joint, at the battle of Guntown, Miss.,
June 10, 1864, was captured and taken to
Mobile. After one month, sent to Ca-
hawba, remained three months, thence to
Macon, Georgia, and from there to the
prison pens at Andersonville. As the
close of the rebellion approached, all the
prisoners who could travel on foot were
removed, leaving about one hundred there.
The prison was surrounded by artillery,
bearing on the stockade. The rebel
guards, in order to escape capture, cut
down the wheels of the artillery, and fled
before the Union forces. J. W. Donner,
with others in like situation, was sent by
Capt. Wirz to Thomasville by railroad,
thence to the Union lines at Jacksonville,
Florida, which was reached the latter part
of April. They were sent by water to
Hilton Head and Annapolis, Md. Then
by railroad to Chicago and Springfield,
reaching home July 10, 1865. He now
draws a pension. SARAH E., born
Sept. 27, 1836, was married July 27, 1855,
to Gilbert Sponsler, who was born Sept.
18, 1833, in Dauphin county, Penn., came
with his parents to Sangamon county in
1841, and settled in what is now Wood-
side township. They have four children :

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WILLIAM A., GEORGE A., MARY F. and

ALICE j., and reside in the Donner settle-
ment, four miles east of Springfield.
GEORGE T., born May 27, 1839, in
Texas, enlisted at Springfield, August,
1862, in Co. G.. ii4th 111. Inf., for three
years, served full time, and was honorably
discharged with the regiment at the close
of the war. He was married March,
1868, to Sarah Scott, east of Springfield.
They have three children, WILLIAM,
NANCY M. and HARVY o., and reside near
Latham, Logan county, 111. RACHEL
T., born May 7, 1842, was married Jan.
20, 1857, to Felix Carver. See his name.
JOSEPH, bom Sept. 30, 1845, enlisted,
May 22, 1862, in Co. B, 68th 111. Inf., for
one hundred days, served four months,
and was honorably discharged. He was
married Nov. 22, 1868, to Mary L. But-
ler, who was born June 5, 1849. They
have one child, LINNIE B., and reside with
his mother, near Springfield, 111. William
Donnor died July 22, 1867, within two
miles of where his father settled in 1828.
His widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Donnor, re-
sides four miles east of Springfield.

ELIZABETH, born in Indiana, was
married in Sangamon county, 111., to
Absolom Harmon. They had six or seven
children, and reside near Libcrtyville, Jef-
ferson county, Iowa.

SUSANNAH, born in Indiana, was
married in Sangamon county, 111., to
Daniel Blue. They had three children,
and moved to Hancock county, 111.

L YDIA, born in Indiana, was married
in Sangamon county, 111., to John Vancil.
They had three or four children, and
moved to Hancock county, 111.

Of the children of George Donner's
second marriage —

ELITHA CUMI, born in Sangamon
county, 111., lived through the disaster on
the mountains, in 1846, and was married
in California to Perry McCoon. He was
killed by a runaway horse. His widow
was married Dec. 8, 1853,10 Benjamin W.
Wilder. They have six children, and re-
side at Elk Grove, Sacramento county,
California.

LEANNA C, born Dec. 5, 1834, near
Springfield, 111., lived through the disaster
on the mountains 1846-7, was married in
Sacramento City, Cal., Sept. 26, 1852, to
John App. They had four children.
REBECCA, born Feb. 9, 1854, resides

with her parents. LEONARD F. died
in his sixth year, in San Francisco.
JOHN Q. and LUCY E. reside with their
parents near Jamestown, Tuolumne coun-
ty, California.

Children of the third marriage —

FRANCES E., born July 4, 1840, in
Sangamon county, 111., lived through the
disaster on the mountains, was educated
at St. Dominie Catholic school, at Benicia,
was married Nov. 24, 1858, in California,
to William R. Wilder. They reside near
Point of Timber, Contra Costa county,
California.

GEORGIANA, born Dec. 3, 1841,
near Springfield, 111., lived through the
disaster on the mountains, was educated at
Benecia Catholic school, and married Nov.
4, 1863, to Washington A. Babcock, in
California. They have three children
HENRY A., FRANK B. and EDITH
M., and reside at Mountain View, Santa
Clara county, California.
^ ELIZA P., born March 8, 1843, near
Springfield, 111., lived through the disaster
on the mountains, was educated at St.
Dominie Catholic school, at Benicia, Cal.j
was married in same State, Oct. 10, 1861,
to Sherman O. Houghton, who was born
April 10, 1828, in New York city. She
is his second wife. He served in the ist.
regiment N. Y. Vol. Inf. through the
Mexican war, was Mayor of San Jose,
Cal., in 1855 and 1856, represented Cali-
fornia in the 42d and 43d Congress. They
have six children, ELIZA P., SHER-
MAN O., Tun., CLARA H., CHAS.
D., FRANCIS F. and STANLEY W.,
all born in California except the last, who'
was born in Washington, D. C. Hon. S.
O. Houghton and family reside in San
Jose, Cal. He is a practicing lawyer.

George Donner was a good man. It is
said by his former neighbors in Sangamon
county, that it appeared to be a pleasure
for him to do a kind act. For an account
of the sad fate of himself and wife, see
sketch of the Reed and Donner emigrant
partv.

BONDER, TOBIAS, born in
1788, near Salem, Rowan county, N. C.,
was a brother of George and Jacob, and
the three sisters, Susannah, Lydia and
Elizabeth. He moved with his father's
family to Jessamine county, Ky., and was
married there to Nancy Bettis, and moved
to Decatur county, Ind. From there to

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the vicinity of Athens, Menard county,
111., where they brought up a family.

DONNER, JACOB, was born
about i79°» near Salem, Rowan county,
N. C., accompanied the family to Jessa-
mine county, Ky., thence to Decatur
county, Ind., and from there (in 1828) to
Sangamon county, 111., where he was
married to Mrs. Elizabeth Hook, whose
maiden name was Blue, a sister of his
brother George's second wife. She had
two children by a former marriage,
namely —

SOLOMON E. Hook, born Jan. n,
1832, in Sangamon county, 111., lived
through the disaster on the mountains,
and was married in California, Nov. 7,
1866, to Alice Roberts. They have three
children, and reside in Winters, Yolo
county, California.

WILLIAM Hook, born in 1834,
in Sangamon county, 111., lived through
the disaster on the mountains, but on
reaching food, arose in the night, ate too
much, and died from the effects in 1847.

Of the five children of Jacob Donner
and wife —

GEORGE, born August, 1837, near
Springfield, 111., lived through the disaster
on the mountains, and was mamed in
California, June 12, 1862, to Margaret J.
Watson. They have six children. George
Donner died February, 1875, and his
family live at Sebastapol, Sonoma county,
Cal.

MART M., born March 18, 1839, near
Springfield, 111., experienced the hard-
ships of the disasterous trip through the
mountains in 1847, accompanied Mrs.
Reed to California, and was married there
to Sherman O. Houghton. Mrs. Mary
Houghton died June 21, 1860, leaving one
child, MARY M., who was born June 7,
1860, and resides with her father, in San
Jose, Cal. See the name of Sherman O.
Houghton, in connection with the family
of George Donner.

ISAAC, born in 1841, in Sangamon
county, LE WIS and SAMUEL, born in
the same county, all three died from starva-
tion and exposure in the California moun-
tains during the winter of 1846 and '7.

For an account of the death of Jacob
Donner and wife, see sketch of the Reed
and Donner emigrant party.

DONNER, SUSANNAH,
born about 1796, in Rowan county, X. C.

She was married in Jessamine county,
Ky., to Micajah Organ. See his name.
They came to Sangamon county, 111., in
1828, stopping east of Springfield, and
moved in 1829 to what is now Auburn
township.

DpRRANCE, DANIEL, was
born in 1768, in Hartford, Conn. He was
married in 1799, in Seneca county, N. Y.,
to Margaret Gilland, a native of Pennsyl-
vania. They had two children, and
moved to Ontario county, where Mrs.
Dorrance died, Nov. 30, 1812. Mr. D.
there married Mrs. Mary Price, whose
maiden name was Arnold. They had one
child, and Mrs. Mary Dorrance died Sept.
10, 1815. Mr. D., with his three children,
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
June 8, 1822, in what is now Woodside
township, and in the spring of 1823
moved to what is Loami township. Of
his three children —

MARGARET, born March 30, 1800,
in Seneca county, N. Y., married in San-
gamon county to Henry Kinney, Jun.
See his name.

GERSHOM, born Nov. 23, 1801, in
Seneca county, N. Y., married in Sanga-
mon county, Nov. 28, 1832, to Louisa H.
Woodworth, who was born in 1814, in
Massachusetts. They had nine children;
three died in infancy, and DANIEL died
at ten years. MARY L. married Nathan
T. Underwood, have six children, and re-
side in Loami township. MARGARET
E. married Benjamin Bane; had three
children, CORA BELL, CARRIE and FRED-
DIE. Mr. Bane died Feb. 5, 1872. His
widow and children reside one and a quar-
ter miles east of Loami. JOHN J. resides
in Christian county. LYDIA A., mar-
ried George Collins and died, leaving one
child, PHILIP. CLARISSA M., unmar-
ried, and resides in Lincoln. Mrs. Louisa
Dorrance died Feb. i, 1855, and Gershom
Dorrance resides one and a quarter miles
east of Loami. He served in a light-
horse company from Springfield in 1831
and '2, in the Black Hawk war.

MART A., born in 1814 or '15, in On-
tario county, N. Y., married in Sangamon
county in 1832, to David Lindsay. See
his name.

Daniel Dorrance never married after
coming to Illinois, and died Sept. 10, 1831,
in Loami township. He was about seven
years old when the battle of Lexington

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was fought, and he remembered having
heard the firing of cannon at some of the
battles that took place spon after. His
father was a native Englishman, but was
a surgeon in the revolutionary army, and
lost his life in the service. A powder
horn once owned by Dr. Dorrance is now
in possession of his grandson, Gershom
Dorrance, near Loami. It may have been
picked up by him on some battle-field. It
is carved with figures of men, trees, ani-
mals and other hieroglyphics, and the fol-
lowing inscription:

February 14, 1758.
Simon Hough's Horn, made at No. 4.

I Powder with my Brother Ball,

A Herow like, I conquer all:
Drumbs a Beetting, colours flying,

Trumpets sounding, men a Dying,
These are the bold Affects of

W A R .

DOUGLAS, MILTON, was
born Sept. 25, 1816, in Greene county,
Ky., and came to Island Grove, Sangamon
county, in the fall of 1833. He was mar-
ried Nov. 7, 1838, to Sarah A. Castl<;berry,
who was born in 1820, in Ly coming
county, Pa. They had three children,
namely —

CHRIS TINA, born in 1839,111 San-
gamon county, married John Clawson,
have five children, and live near Beatrice,
Neb.

WILLIAM J., born March 12, 1841,
in Sangamon county, married Nov. 30,
1865, to Adaline Rawlings, who was born
Jan. 12, 1841, in Lawrence countv, 111.
They have four children, WILLIA'M H.,
MILTON, ANNIE M. and GEORGE,
and reside two and a half miles east of
Berlin.

MART E., born Sept. 19, 1843, mar-
ried Jeremiah King. See Ms name.

Mrs.^Sarah A. Douglas died Dec. 19,
1848, and Milton Douglas married Eliza
Underwood, and she died in October, 1853.
Mr. D. was again married Sept. 4, 1854,
to Frances M. Rude, who was born March
20, 1833, *n Morgan county, 111. They
had five living children, namely —

SARAH A., born Aug. 4, 1855, was
married Aug. 10, 1871, to Joseph G. Cole.
They have one child, LIZZIE, and reside

in Shelby county, near Dalton City,
Moultrie county.

CARRIE, MAR GA RE T A., MAR-
THA E. and STEPHEN A., reside
with their mother.

Milton Douglas died Sept. 15, 1869, and
his widow resides two and a half miles
east of Berlin.

DOUGLAS, SAMUEL, was
born about 1767, in Loudon county, Va.,
married there to Amelia Johnson, a native
of the same county. They moved to
Adair county Ky., thence to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in 1827, on Spring
creek. They brought five children,
namely —

THOMAS, born in Virginia, married
in Sangamon county to Lucinda Hanks,
moved to Iowa, thence to Oregon, have
six children, and reside near Matysville,
California.

SARAH, married in Kentucky, and
remained there.

ELIZABETH died, aged twenty-
five years.

MARGARET, married in Kentucky
to William Hall. See his name.

JAMES, born March 12, 1809, in
Loudon county, Va., came to Sangamon
county, 111., in 1827. He was married at
the time of the "deep snow," Feb. 22,

1831, to Ellen Ralston. They had three
children. THOMAS, born Dec. 16,

1832, was married Jan. 20, 1856, to Aman-
da Young. They have six living child-
ren, ISABELLA, ADALINE, LIONA,
CHARLES, MILLIE J. and HATTIE MAY,

and reside in Springfield. He is foreman
in the T., W. and W. R. R. Company's
shops. NATHAN, born August 4, 1835,
was married in Feb., 18=56, to Louisa
Young. They have five children, ELLEN,
JAMES M., MARY, ANN, and one other.
Mrs. D. died in 1871, in Taylorville, and
he married Nettie Phillips, at Elkhart.
They have one child. Nathan Douglas is
employed by the T., W. and W. R. R.
Company, and resides at Bluff City, 111.
NANCY J., born Sept. 28, 1838, married
Robert Stokes. They have five children,
and reside near Edinburg, 111. Mrs.
Ellen Douglas died Sept., i§54,and James
Douglas married Mrs. Nancy Keeling,
whose maiden name was Dawson. She
died.

JANE, born Dec. 6, 1817, in Adair
county, Ky., was married in Sangamon

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county to Simmons Bradley. See his
name.

Samuel Douglas died in 1830, in Sanga-
mon county, and his widow died about
1857, near Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.

DOZIER, MRS. NANCY,
born May, 1793, in Montgomery county,
Ky., and married there to John Dozier.
He died in 1829, leaving a widow and
seven children. Mrs. Dozier, with part of
her children, moved to Sangamon county,
ill., arriving in .November, 1833, in what
is now Woodside township, and the next
spring moved to what is now Cotton Hill
township. Of her seven children —

JA MES^L^orn Jan. i, 1811, in
Montgomery county, Ky., married Jan.
22, 1843, in Sangamon county, to Mary
W. Armstrong. They had nine children.
JANE,',born Oct. 24, 1843, in Sangamon
county, was married June 22, 1864, to
George Dalbey, who was born in Picka-
way county, O., Jan. 31, 1830. They
have five children, GEORGE w., EDWIN J.,

CHARLES N., JAMES H. and SAMUEL. ^ All

live with their parents in Springfield.
Mr. D. is trading in cattle in west Mis-
souri. THOMAS. W., born April 14,
1845, married March 17, 1872, to Mary F.
Greenawalt. They had one child, GEORGE
A., and reside in Cotton Hill township, near
Zion chapel. ZACHARIAH, JOHN,
CAROLINE A., NANCY A.JAMES
I., Jun., EDWARD S. and FRANK, re-
side|with their parents on the farm where
Mr/Dozier settled in 1834. It is between
Horse and Brush creeks, in Cotton Hill
township.

JANE, born February, 1814, in Ken-
tucky, married there to J. Lenegar. She
died in 1866 in Clarke county, 111., leaving
her husband and several children. Her
son JOHN was a member of an Illinois
regiment, and died at Jackson, Tenn.,
during the rebellion.

SUSAN, born in 1816, in Kentucky,
married there to Bedford W. Higgins.
See his name.

CAROLINE, born in 1818, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to
Jackson Matthews, and both died in San-
gamon county.

AMERICA, born in 1820, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to
Joseph Mathews, and she died.

ANN, born in 1822, in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Daniel Keys,
and reside near Pana. See his name.

JOHN, born March 5, 1830, in Mont-
gomery county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, Jan. 7, 1855, to Susan
Womack. They had five children; one
died, aged four years. JAMES A.,
WILLIAM J., JESSE L. and NANCY
E. reside with their parents, two miles
west of Pawnee.

Mrs. Nancy Dozier was married in
1 836 to Joseph Matthews, Sen. He died
in 1844, and she died March 23, 1852,
both in Sangamon county.

DRENNAN, WILLIAM,
born April 9, 1768, in Pendleton District,
South Carolina. Mary Thomas was born
Jan. 13, 1771. They were married about
1790. Six of their children were born in
that district, and they moved to Caldwell
county, Ky., about 1803, where they had
six children. In the fall of 1817 they
moved to Illinois, first stopping on Wood
river, about two miles from Alton, in
Madison county. Their destination wa,s
the San-ga-ma country, but it was more
economical to remain idle that winter than
to move up, and thus incur the necessity
of hauling provisions for themselves and
stock. Early in 1818 William Drennan,
his half brother, Joseph Drennan, his son-
in-law, Joseph Dodds, and George Cox,
left their families near Alton, and, with
their teams, farming implements, provis-
ions, and all the young men and boys be-
longing to the families who were able to
assist in making a home, started, piloted by
a white man named William Moore, who
had belonged to a company that had been
over the country before, in fighting the
Indians. He was called an Indian Ranger.
Arriving at Sugar creek, they took a day
or two for exploring, and on March 10,
1818, drove to the spot on which William
Drennan built his cabin and which proved
to be section 32, town 14, range 5 west,
when the government made its ^survey.
It is on the northwest side of Sugar creek,
and about twelve miles nearly due south
of Springfield, and near where the Sugar
creek Cumberland Presbyterian church
now stands. Immediately after their arri-
val they built two cabins. One was occu-
pied by George Cox alone. The other
was occupied for the summer by William
and Joseph Drennan and Joseph Dodds.

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That was the one spoken of as belonging
to William Drennan. As they had not
the slightest idea of cultivating the prairie,
these three men agreed to clear all the
land they could in one body, and have a
crop from it that year in common, with
the understanding that before another
year they were all to work together until
an equal sized piece was cleared for the
other two. They cleared the timber from
about fifteen acres, fenced it, plowed as
well as they could among the roots and
stumps with a little short wooden mould-
board plow, and planted it in corn and
pumpkins. The soil in the timber was
very light — so much so that in some
places they would almost sink in over
their shoes. In fencing this land, they
inclosed about three-fourths of an acre of
prairie. After they had plowed and plant-
ed their crop, one of the men suggested
that it was quite a waste to have that un-
der fence and nothing growing on it, and
proposed that they break it up and plant
something on it. In order to make sure
work, they uncoupled one of their wagons,
hitched four horses to the forward wheels,
and fastened their wooden mould -board
plow to the axle. They soon found this
was a failure.

Try as they would, the plow would not
enter the sod, and they reluctantly gave it
up. While they were taking off the team
and plow, one of the boys, full of fun and
mischief, took up a hoe and began to
shave the grass off, saying he could break
the prairie with his hoe. That suggested
an idea to one of the men, and he, also,
took a hoe and began shaving the grass.
It was the work of but a few minutes to
remove the sod from a spot several feet in
diameter. He then called one of the other
men, and proposed that, as they were well
advanced with their work, and there were
seven or eight of them, and all had hoes,
that they call all hands together, and shave
the grass from the whole piece, plant
something on it, and see what would be
the result. The man spoken to first,
laughed at the idea as ridiculous, but after
studying a moment, he fell in with it, and
the men and boys were all called up, and
the grass shaved off, holes dug, and corn
and pumpkin seed planted. They did not
touch it any more; that killed the grass.
The crop was fully twice as much in pro-
portion to the area, as that planted among

the stumps, and the next spring it /broke
up the nicest of any land they had ever
seen. This taught them an important
lesson, and caused them to make greater
exertions to induce some one to invent a
plow that would break the prairie. I have
this account from the venerable William
Drennan, who was one of the young men
that assisted in doing the work, and who
has lived in sight of the spot to the pres-
ent time. Several years elapsed before a
plow was invented that would do good
work at breaking. In the mean time the
early settlers continued clearing their
land, that they might have it to cultivate,
and were always uneasy for fear their tim-
ber would be exhausted.

There can be but little doubt that the
same labor required to destroy the timber
on one acre would have shaved the grass
from two acres, with no better implements
than a hoe. They could, by that means,
have had better land to cultivate, twice
the quantity of grain raised, and saved
their timber, but the probability is they
never thought of it. After the provisions
they brought with them were exhausted,
one of their number would return south,
load a couple of horses with provisions,
salt, and other indispensibles, in regular
pack saddle style, and bring them to
their new home. The distance was be-
tween sixty and seventy miles. Thev
brought cows in the spring, and had plenty
of milk. Wild honey was abundant, and
Mr. Drennan told the writer that two of
their number would cut down a . hollow
tree where bees had stored their wealth,
and with a few hours work, would bring
in from two to five gallons of honey.
While they were doing this, others of
their number would be looking for more
bee trees, so that they always had four or
five trees ahead, and knew just where to
go when they needed more honey. For
meat, they would hunt as the necessities
required, some times one, and often all
would hunt. In warm weather they
would take venison, the breast of turkeys
and geese, cut the meat into thin slices,
sprinkle a small quantity of salt on it, and
dry it on a frame work of sticks about
three feet high, setting the frame in the
sun, with a smouldering fire underneath.
In this way the meat would soon be
cured, and ready for use at any time. This
they called jerked meat, a considerable

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supply of which could be kept on hand.
Fresh meat, jerked meat, milk, honey and
bread, constituted their bill of fare during
the first summer. As trips were made back
and forth, some of the younger sons of
those who had families were brought to
the new settlements. After the crops were
cultivated, the men who had families re-
turned to them, leaving the unmarried men
and boys to take care of the property. The
four men who came up in the spring,
all brought their wives and children
in the fall of that year. Mr. Cox arrived
first, Joseph Drennan next, and, William
Drennan, with his son-in-law, Joseph
Dodds, came together, arriving Dec. 3,
1818. Of the twelve children of William
Drennan, Sen. —

MATTIE, born in South Carolina,
married in Kentucky to Joseph Dodds.
See his name.

SAMUEL, born in South Carolina,
married in Kentucky to Celia Greer, and
died there, leaving a family.

WILL JAM, born Oct. 15, 1797, in
Pendleton district, S. C., came to Ken-
tucky, and from there to Sangamon. coun-
ty with his father, arriving March 10, 1818,
in what is now Ball township. He was
married May 30, 1822, in Sangamon coun-
ty, to Margaret Anderson. They had
twelve children, all born in Sangamon
county, viz: JAMES A., born Aug. 6,
1828, married Dec. 8, 1853, to Rachel
Cannon. They have six children, JAN-

NETTA F., MARY E., ROBERT W., MINNIE

\v., IRA and FREDERICK, and reside in
Ball township, five miles northeast of
Auburn. SAMUEL, born Oct. 30, 1829,
went to the Pacific coast in 1852, was
married there May 28, 1868, to Louisa
Fernald, who was born April 4, 1839, in
North Berwick, Maine. They have
three children, EDITH A., MABEL L., and
DORA A., and reside in Santa Cruz, Santa
Cruz county, Cal. JOHN T., born Jan.
13, 1 832, enlisted August 9, 1862, at Chat-
ham, in Co. I, 73d 111. Inf., for three years.
He was wounded at the battle of Chicka-
mauga, Sept. 20, 1863, lay five days on the
battlefield, befoi'e medical aid was given.
He recovered, but is permanently disabled.
He was discharged on account of physical
disability, June 16, 1864, and resides with
his parents in Ball township. WILLIAM,
Jun., born March 7, 1833, was married

Feb. 22, 1853, to Lucinda Cannon, and
moved to Shelby county, Mo. They had
four children, HENRY c., CHARLES w.,
DANIEL D. and MARGARET F. William
Drennan enlisted in Co. F, 37th Mo. Inf.,
in 1862, to aid in suppressing the slave-
holders' rebellion. A body of rebels, un-
der the notorious Bill Anderson, lay in
ambush until three companies of Union
soldiers were in their power, when two
companies were nearly annihilated, eight}'
men being slaughtered, it is believed, with-
out an opportunity to surrender. It oc-
curred near Centralia, Boone county, Mo.,
Sept. 27, 1864. William Drennan was
among the slain. His widow and children
reside near Shelby ville, Shelby county,
Mo. MARTHA A., born April 25,
1835, married William Kenney. See his
name. REBECCA, born May 3, 1837,
married James Ewing, April 7, 1857.
They have four children, ALICE M., CORA
B., WILLIAM M. and JAMES F., and reside
at Ivanhoe, Shelby county, Mo. MAR-
GARET, born Jan. 30, 1839, resides with
her parents. NANCY, born Nov. 29,
1840, married James M. Nuckolls. See
his name. They had one child, LAURA
M. She resides with her mother. Mrs.
Nuckolls married James Bennington.
They have one child, JOHN. Mr. Ben-
nington and family reside five miles east
of Auburn, in Pawnee township. ROB-
ERT died, aged sixteen years. FRAN-
CIS N., born July 5, 1845, married Sarah
Graham. They have no children, and re-
side near Johnstown, Bates county, Mo.
MARY E., born March 24, 1847, mar~
ried Benjamin F. Fletcher. See his
name. EMILY J., born May 18, 1851,
married Charles I. Pulliam. See his
name. William Drennan had his left hand
amputated April 3, 1875, as the only way
to save his life from the effects of a cancer.
He and his wife are both living in view of
the farm where he assisted his father in
making improvements, March 10, 1818.
There is no other man living in the county
who was in it at that time. He is conse-
quently, at this date — 1876 — beyond a
doubt, the oldest inhabitant of Sangamon
county.

RA CHEL, born in South Carolina,
married Alexander Ritchie, in Sangamon
county, 111. He died at Sulphur Springs,
Hopkins county, Texas, where she now
resides — 1876. -

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THOMAS, born in South Carolina,
was married in Sangamon county, to Eve-
line Moffitt. They had seven children.
JAMES A. and REBECCA are unmar-
ried and reside with their mother.
MARY F. married James Bridges. See
his name. THOMAS L. married Mary
Kuotts, and live in Ball township. John
C. and MARTHA E. are unmarried and
reside with their mother. Thomas Dren-
nan died Sept. 13, 1848, and his widow re-
sides in Ball township.

EZEKIEL N., born June 28, 1802,
in South Carolina, was married June
1 6, 1825, in Sangamon county, 111., to
Marv Viney, who was born Dec. 26,
1807, in Kentucky, and came with her
parents to Illinois, in 1817. E. N. Dren-
nan and wife had ten living children in
Sangamon county, 111., and they moved to
Adair county, Mo., in Sept. 1859. Of
their ten children, WILLIAM S. VI,
born July 20, 1826, died unmarried, Aug.,
1857, at Granby, Newton county. Mo.
ALFRED D., born May 5, 1828, died un-
married, March 14, 1852, in Sangamon
county, 111. MINERVA J., born Jan.
29, 1830, in Sangamon county, was mar-
ried there, August 29, 1848, to William
Orr, who was born Feb. 18, 1820, in Ohio.
They had three children in Sangamon
county, and moved, in Sept., 1856, to
Kirksville, Adair county, Mo., where one
child was born. Of their children, EMMA
F., born June 27, 1849, in Sangamon
county, 111., was married Nov. 18, 1868, to
Oliver Ridgeway, of Sangamon county,
111., have three childi'en, George, Char-
lotte and Arthur, and live in Nodaway
county, Mo. HENRIETTA E., born April
27. 1852, and ALFRED R., born March 18,
1855, both in Sangamon county, and
MARV A., born Feb. 5, 1858, in Missouri,
the three latter live with their parents.
William Orr and wife reside near Troy
Mills, Adair county, Mo. NEWTON
L., born April 17, 1832, in Sangamon
county, married in Adair county, Mo.,
Nov. 22, 1860, to Phebe Corbin. They
had three children, WILLIAM L. THOMAS
L. and ALFRED E. Mrs. Phebe Dren-
nan died May 7, 1873, and he was
married Sept. 10,1874, to Martha L. Nev-
ins, of Macoupin county, 111. Thev reside
near Troy Mills, Mo. SARAH C., born
July 17, 1834, died unmarried in Adair
county, Mo., June 16, 1872. REBECCA

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V., born June 30, 1836, was married Mar.
20, 1855, t° Rufus Cavett, of Sangamon
county, 111. She died Oct., 1858, in Ring-
gold county, Iowa, leaving two children,
MEDORA E. and JANE, who live with their
father in Adair county, Mo. NANCY
V., born Oct. 28, 1838, was married April,
1858, to Daniel M. Edwards, of Macoupin
county, 111. They have three children,

LAURA A , GENERAL D. M. and MARY K.,

all born in Macoupin county, 111., and they
moved to Adair county, Mo., in Nov.,
1866, where two children were born,
NOME v. and FREDERICK E. D. M. Ed-
wards and family reside near Kirksville,
Adair county, Mo. AMANDA K., born
Nov. 30, 1840, in Sangamon county, 111.,
was married Dec. 30, 1860, to Silas G.
Phipps, of Adair county, Mo. Thev have
eight children, SAMUEL E., OSCAR A.,

CHARLES E., EFFIE M., MINNIE R. MARV

F., VAN, and D. GRANVEL, and reside in
Randolph county, Mo. MARY L., born
April 22, 1845, in Sangamon countv, 111.,
resides in Kansas City, Mo. THOMAS
J., born Nov. 12, 1847, 'n Sangamon coun-
ty, resides in Adair county, Mo. Mrs.
Mary Drennan died Dec. 2, 1871, and
Ezekial N. Drennan died Aug. i, 1872,
both in Adair countv, Mo.

MAR GARB T, " born in Kentucky,
was married in Sangamon county, 111., to
John Ritchie. They moved to Henry
county, Iowa, where he died, leaving a
widow and five children near New Lon-
don, Henry county, Iowa.

JOHN L., born Feb. 18, 1808, in
Caldwell county, Ky., was married in
1830, in Sangamon county, 111., to Mary
A. Alexander. They had three children.
MARY J. married John Hazlett, and re-
sides near Edinburg, Christian county,
111. THOMAS H. married Mary Mc-
Kinnie, and resides in Ball township.
MELINDA J. married J. W. Darneille,
and both died. Mrs. Mary A. Drennan died
in 1842, and John L. Drennan was married
Dec. 15, 1842, to Nancy J. Dodds. They
had six children. GEORGE L., born Nov.
27, 1843, was marr'cd, Jan- u» l&7°i to
Marv E. Ridgeway. She died Nov. 24,
1872, leaving one child, FRANK L., in
Nodaway county, Mo., where he and his
father reside. BENJAMIN F., born
Feb. 15, 1845, married Anna E. WTheeler.
They have three children, CHARLES F.,
FLORENCE M. and ADELLA, and reside in

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Ball township, three miles southeast of
Chatham. GILBERT C. is in the mer-
cantile business with James A. Able and
William R. Lockridge, in Pawnee.
CHARLES lives at Pawnee. DAVID
A. born Feb. 2, 1851, graduated at Rush
Medical College, Chicago, Feb. 16, 1875,
and is a practicing physician in Pawnee.
ALFRED L. was married March 9, 1875,
to Emma J. Christopher, and is farming
near Pawnee. The four latter reside with
their mother, at Pawnee, Sangamon
county, 111. John L. Drennan died July
22, 1853, and his widow married John B.
Weber. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky,
was married in Sangamon county, 111., to
Lewis Laughlin. They had five children,
and reside near New London, Henry
county, Iowa.

MART ANN, born Oct. n, 1811, in
Caldwell county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county, 111., Nov. 13, 1831, to
Urban Alexander, who was born in Cald-
well county, Ky., and his father, Joshua
C. Alexander, emigrated to Sangamon
county about 1820, settling on Richland
creek. He served in the Black Hawk
war, in the company of which Abraham
Lincoln was Captain. Urban Alexander
and wife had two children in Sangamon
county, and moved to DesMoines county,
Iowa, where two children -were born.
They returned to Sangamon county, had
one child, and in the fall of 1844 they em-
igrated with several other families to
Texas, and arrived in Fannin county,
Texas, Dec. 5, of same year. One son
was born there, and in 1851 they moved
to Hopkins county, Texas. Of their
children: REBECCA J., born Oct. 9,
1836, in Sangamon county, 111., is unmar-
ried, and resides near Black Jack Grove,
Texas. JOHN S., born Aug. 21, 1838,
in DesMoines cotmtv, Iowa, enlisted in
iS6i,in Co. K,9th Regiment Texas Cav-
alry, under Brigadier-General L. S. Ross,
of the Southern Confederacy. He was
in many engagements, such as Corinth,
Vicksburg, etc. At the close of the war ,
he returned home, only to find his stock
of hundreds of cattle all gone, save a few
for family use. The homestead remained,
and being brought up to believe that a
man is never broke until his neck is, and
knowing no such word as fail, J. S. Alex-
ander began again. He was married Dec.

4, 1868, to Texanna Tallaferro. They
have two children, CHARLES T. and HENRY
B., and reside near Black Jack Grove,
Hopkins county, Texas. Sarah A., born
Sept. 2, 1840, in DesMoines county, Iowa,
was married in Texas, March 14, 1860, to
George D. Winniford. They had three
children, NORVEL, SAMUEL and ROBERT
LEE, who live with their mother. Mr.
Winniford died in 1871, and the family re-
side near Black Jack Grove, Texas.
MARTHA M., born Nov. 2, 1842, in
Sangamon county, 111., died August 14,
1855, near Black Jack Grove, Texas.
THOMAS C., born in 1851, in Fannin
county, Texas, enlisted in Gurley's Regi-
ment Texas Cavalry, and operated princi-
pally in Louisana, Arkansas and Indian
Territory. He was married in the fall of
1866 to Martha Banta. They have five
children, WILLIAM, JOHN, AMANDA,
GEORGIA and WINFIELD s., and resied
near Black Jack Grove, Texas. Urban
Alexander died Dec. 20, 1853, from injuries
received by being thrown from a wagon.
Mrs. Mary A. Alexander died June 4,
1854, both near Black Jack Grove,
Hopkins county, Texas.

REBECCA, born in Kentucky, was
married in Sangamon county, 111., to
George Latimer, who died, and she mar-
ried William Allison. They reside near
Abingdon, Knox county, 111.

DA VID, born July" 3, 1816, in Cald-
well county, Ky., was married Sept. 3,
1833, in Sangamon county, 111., to Nancy
Wilson, who was born April 6, 1816, in
Morgan county, Tennessee. They emi-
grated to Texas in 1842. Of their
children, ELIZABETH, born Nov. 3.
1835, in Sangamon county, was married
Feb. n, 1852, near Honey Grove, Texas,
to S A Erwin. They had six children,
MARY L, born June 26, 1853, near Honey
Grove, was married there Sept. 8, 1871,
to J. E. Breckeen, and reside in Honey
Grove. JOHN E., born Oct. 18, 1855. M.
M., born Dec. 31. 1858. WILLIAM j., born
April 22, 1860. NANNIE A., born July
20, 1864, and EVA G., born Oct. 8, 1866,
reside with their parents in Honey Grove,
Fannin county, Texas. MARY, born
Jnne 5, 1837, in Sangamon county, 111.,
was married, Sept. 3, 1860, near Honey
Grove, to A. G. Stobaugh. They had
four children, NANNIE E., MARTHA E.,
MARY A. and GUSSIE, who live with their

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father. Mrs. Mary Stobaugh died Nov.
15, 1869, in Honey Grove, and the family
reside there. MARTHA, born March
12, 1840, in Sangamon county, 111.,
was married Dec. 18, 1856, near Honey
Grove, to Louis B. Chiles. They had
nine children, JAMES E., NANCY j., the
latter died in 1866, MARY E., LOUIS B., Jim.,

\V. I.., ELMO, MARTHA J., ROBERT and

SAMUEL E., who reside with their parents,
near Honey Grove, Fannin county, Texas.
WILLIAM E., born Feb. 6, 1844, in
Fannin county, was married Sept. 15, 1871,
to Annie Tomlinson. They have two
living children, j. E. and D. E., and live in
Fannin county, near Honey Grove, Texas.
ANN ISABELLA, born Feb. 21, 1858,
in Fannin county, resides with her parents.
' David Drennan and wife reside near
Honey Grove, Fannin county, Texas.
William Drennan, Sen., died Oct, 23, 1847,
and his widow, Mrs. Mary Drennan, died
Oct. 2^, 1856, both where they settled, in
1818, in Sangamon county, 111. He in his
eightieth year and she in her eighty-fifth
year. William Drennan, Sen., was one of
the three Commissioners who were ap-
pointed by the Governor of Illinois to
locate the county seat of Sangamon
county. The other two were Zachariah
Peter -and Rivers Cormack. They located
it by driving a stake in the ground and
calling it Springfield.

DRENNAN, JOSEPH, was
born April 16, 1786, in Pendleton district,
South Carolina. He was half brother to
and much younger than Win. Drennan,
Sen. Joseph Drennan was married in
South Carolina to Rebecca Evets, and had
one child there. About 1807 the family
moved to Caldwell county, Ky., where
they had five children, and they moved to
what is now Ball township, Sangamon
county, 111., coming himself in March 10,
18183 and bringing his family in Sept. of
that year. They had three children. Of
all his children —

ANDRE W /'., born Sept. 12, 1806, in
Pendleton district, South Carolina, was
married , in Sangamon county to Ruth
Smith, and had nine children. JOSEPH
F., married Mary Watts, and both
died, leaving seven children, in Logan
county. ELIZABETH died at five years.
MARY A., married John Byers, has
three children, and reside in Virden.
REBECCA J., married George Trimble.

See his name. JOHN, married Nancy
Watts, has six children, and resides in
Champaign county. Andrew J. married
Hannah Watson, have four children, and
resides in Champaign county. PETER
C. married Margaret Smith, have six
children, and reside in Champaign county.
MARTHA married James A. Smith, has
one child, GEORGE E., and resides in Chat-
ham. RUTH F. is unmarried, and re-
sides in Chatham. Mrs. Ruth Dren-
nan died in 1851, and A. P. Drennan
married Ruth Wright, and died April 6,
1874, in Chatham. His widow lives
there.

JANE, born in Caldwell county, Ky.,
married in Sangamon county to John
Smith. See his name.

WILLIAM G., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Sarah
Jones, and both died.

RA CHEL, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, to James Mitts,
and died, leaving two children in Ball
township.

JOSEPH, Jun., born in Kentucky,
was married in Sangamon county to
Elizabeth Richardson, about 1833. They
had two children, and he married Eliza-
beth Withrow. They had ten children.
She died, and he married Sarah Purvis.
They had six children, and he died in
Macoupin county, 111. Of his children:
SMITH married Eliza J. Seaton, of
Macoupin county. They have two child-
ren, and live in Ball township. ELIZA
married N. W. Bates, had one child, and
she died in Iowa. Of Joseph Drennan's
other children I have no historv.

DAVID J., born May 3; 1816, in
Caldwell county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county, 111., to Sarah Hurley.
They had nine children, three of whom
died under seven years. Of the other six :
JANE married Solomon Taylor and died.
REBECCA married George Hilyard,
and died, leaving seven children near
Lewisburg, Wayne county, Iowa.
AMANDA married Starkey D. Morrison.
They have two children, CHARLES A. and
DAVID j., and reside at Woodside Station.
He is Postmaster there. NANCY mar-
ried Levi Cassity. See his name.
SARAH E. married Martin C. Bridges.
See his name. JOSEPH H. married
Mattie Forbes, and resides in Wood-
side township. Mrs. Sarah Drennan

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

died March 3, 1869, and David J.
Drennan resides two miles southeast of
Woodside, and eight miles south of Spring-
field. David J. Drennan told the writer
that one day he went out to kill a deer (if
he could find one) during the "deep snow."
He went without a gun, expecting to kill
it with a knife, as they would break
through the crust and stick fast in the
snow. In going through the brush he
broke through and went down until the
snow was just under his arm pits. He
was two or three hours in this position
trying to extricate himself, and the per-
spiration and melting snow made his
clothes as wet as though he had plunged
into water. He got out of the brush far
enough for the crust to bear him, and by
the time he walked home his clothes were
frozen. He was about thirteen years old
when this happened, and says he was
twelve years of age when he had his first
pair of shoes; that he obtained them by
cutting down an oak tree, peeling the bark
off and taking it to Thomas Dawson's
tannery, received leather in exchange for
this bark, had it cut out in th£ rough, and
took the leather to Robert Metcalfe to be
made into shoes. He paid the shoemaker
by picking the seed out of four pounds of
cotton, which left one pound of cotton and
three pounds of seed. The farmers
raised cotton extensively then, each one
having three or four acres, and not more
of wheat or oats. Cotton was picked by
hand, but afterwards Robert Pulliam
built a cotton gin, made to run by a tread
wheel and two oxen.

SAMUEL, born May 15, 1819, the
first birth of the family in Sangamon
county, was married Oct. 6, 1836, to Alary
A. Baker, who was born Feb. 14, 1820, in
Tennessee. They had six children.
NANCY J. married Robert Penick, and
died, leaving three children. ANDREW
J. enlisted Sept., 1861, in Co. B, roth 111.
Cav., for three years, re-enlisted as a vet-
eran in Jan., 1864, served to the end of the
rebellion, and was honorably discharged
at San Antonio, Texas, in Nov., 1865.
He was married to Martha H. Smith,
have two living children, SAMUKI. T. and
KKBECCA j., and reside in Curran town-
ship. EZEKIEL died at sixteen years of
age. GEORGE W., MARY A. and
LOUISA reside with their mother.
Samuel Drennan died Jan. n, 1855, and

his widow resides three miles southeast of
Curran.

EZEKIEL H., born Nov. 17, 1822,
in Sangamon county, married Lavina
Ray. They have five living children, and
live in Auburn.

NANCY, born Jan. 7, 1825, in Smiga-
mon county, married May 8, 1866, to John
Harmon. See his name. She died Oct.
15, 1871.

Joseph Drennan died Oct. 22, 1865, and
his widow Mrs. Rebecca Drennan died
Dec. 7, 1866, both in Sangamon county.

DRESSER, REV. CHAS.,
D. D.^ was born Feb. 24, 1800, in
Pomfret, Conn. He was a classmate of
George D. Prentice, in Brown University,
Providence, R. I., and graduated there in
1823. He then went to southeast Virginia
and entered the family of Dr. Meade (af-
terward Bishop Meade), of Virginia, as
tutor to his sons, and with him studied
theology. He was ordained to the minis-
try in the Protestant Episcopal Church in
1829, and was married Nov. 8, 1832, in
Dinwiddie county, near Petersburg, Va.,
to Louisa W. Withers, who was born there
July 15, 1810. They had two living chil-
dren in Virginia. Mr. Dresser came with
his family to Springfield in April, 1838,
where he became Rector of the Episcopal
Parish. They had eight children in
Springfield, four of whom died young. Of
their six living children —

DA VI D W., born Oct. 16, 1833, at
Halifax Court House, Va., brought up in
Springfield, graduated at Jubilee College,
Robins' Nest, Peoria county, 111., in 1851,
and was there ordained to the ministry in
1855. Rev. D. W. Dresser was married
Nov. 20, 1861, at Chesterfield, 111., to Caro-
line Cundell, who was born there Jan. 4,
1841. He is now Rector of the Protestant
Episcopal Parish at Carlinville, 111.

THOMAS W., born Jan. n, 1837, at
Halifax C. H., Va., was brought up in
Springfield. He graduated at Jubilee col-
lege in 1855, and at the Medical University
of New York City in 1864. He was mar-
ried in Springfield, Nov. 28, 1865, to Mar-
garet Doremus. They have one child,
CATHARINE. Dr. T. W. Dresser is a
practicing physician and resides in Spring-
field, Illinois.

ELIZABETH, born Aug., 20, 1838,
in Springfield, was married Dec. 31, 1873,
to William P. Thaver. See his name.

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EDMUND, born Sept. 2, 1843, m
Springfield, spent several years as railroad
telegraph operator, and is now master of
transportation on the T. W. & W. R. R.
He resides with his mother in Springfield,
Illinois.

SAMUEL J^REAT, born Sept. 6,
1846, in Springfield, spent several years as
assistant clerk of the U. S. District Court
in Springfield. Was, from Jan., 1875, to
Jan., 1876, clerk in the office of Solicitor
of the Treasury at Washington, D. C.
He is now Deputy U. S. Marshal for the
southern district of Illinois, and resides
with his mother in Springfield.

VIRGINIA, born Oct. izj 1852, in
Springfield, resides with her mother.

Rev. Charles Dresser received the de-
gree of Doctor of Divinity from St. Paul's
college, Mo., in 1858, and was Rector of
the Protestant Episcopal church in Spring-
field from 1838 to 1855. During that time,
us the parish register shows, he solemnized
the marriage of Abraham Lincoln and
Mary Todd, Nov. 4, 1842. He was elect-
ed Professor of Divinity and Belles Letters
in Jubilee College in 1855, and remained
in that position for some time, when he
returned to Springfield and died March
25, 1865. His widow resides at 818 West
Edwards street, Springfield, 111.

DUFF, ABRAHAM, was born
May 15, 1777, in South Carolina. Vir-
linda Combs was born in South Carolina
also, Aug. 6, 1781. Their parents moved
on pack horses to the vicinity of Bowling
Green, Ky. A. Duff and Verlinda Combs
were married, and had nine children born
there, and moved to St. Clair county, 111.,
and from there moved in company with
his son-in-law, John Sims; arrived April,
1819, on Spring creek, at a point six miles
west of where Springfield now stands.
Two children were born at the latter place.
Of their eleven children —

ELIZABEJ^H, born April 16, 1798,
in Kentucky, married Elijah Putnam.
Mr P. died, leaving his widow and child
near Bloomfield, Iowa.

GEORGE, born Feb. 10, 1800, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
in 1822, to Jennie Archer. They had
seven children in Sangamon county, and
moved in 1839 to Newton county, Mo.,
where five children were born. MIL-
TON, married Martha Lynn, and reside
in Missouri. MISSONIAH, married

John Powers in Missouri, came to
Sangamon county and he died. She mar-
ried again, is now a widow and resides in
Missouri. WILLIAM, born Feb. 10,
1827, in Sangamon county, married April
7, 1853, to Mrs. Elcy F. Archer, whose
maiden name was Meacham. They have-
two children, JOHN G. and MINERVA A,,
and reside on the farm where his grand-
father, Duff, settled in 1819. It is six miles
west of Springfield. ABRAHAM, born
in Sangamon county, raised in Missouri,
but was living with his brother William,
and enlisted in 1861 for three years, in Co.
B, loth Illinois Cavalry, and died at
Quincy, 111., Feb. 18, 1862, was buried at
Old Salem, Sangamon county. GREEN-
BERRY, born in Sangamon county, went
from Missouri to California in 1853, and
resides there. All the others reside in
Missouri. Mrs. Jennie DufT died Feb.,
1863, in Lincoln county, Mo., and George
Duff resides in Newton county, Mo.

LTCINDA, born Nov. 14, 1801, in
Kentucky, married John Sims. See his
name.

MATILDA, born Aug. 5, 1804, in
Kentucky, married Feb. 6, 1825, to Robert
Archer. See his name.

COMBS, born July 4, 1807, in Ken-
tucky, married In Sangamon county to
Polly Hurley, have eleven children, and
reside near Clirtton, 111.

COMELT,\>orn July 8, 1809, in Ken-
tucky, married Feb. 24, 1825, to John
Morgan. See his name.

EFFT, born Aug. 24, 1811, in Ken-
tucky, married Michael Archer. See his
name.

MELISSA, born Aug. 28, 1813, in
Kentucky, married John Henry, and
moved to Missouri. Mr. H. died, leaving
a widow and seven children.

GREENBERRET, born Aug. 10,
1815, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county to Elizabeth Wilbourn. Thev
have seven children, and reside near Mt.
Auburn, Christian county.

MART ANN, born Jan. 4, 1820, in
Sangamon county, married John H. Rob-
inson. See his name.

MARTHA A., born Aug. 4, 1821, in
Sangamon county, married Thompson
Smith, have three children, and reside at
Clinton, DeWitt county.

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EARLT SETTLERS OF

Mrs. Verlinda Duff died Sept. 18, 1845,
and Abraham Duff died Dec. 25, 1850,
both in Sangamon county.

Mrs. Dorothy Combs, mother of" Mrs.
Duff, came to Sangamon county with her
daughter, and died at her house Feb. 12,
1838, aged eighty-five years. Her hus-
band, Bennett Combs, died in Virginia.

DUNCAN, MOSES, no relation
to John, Rice, Marshall, etc. He Was born
in South Carolina, was a soldier in the
war of 1812, was married in South Caro-
lina, moved to Tennessee, had several
children there, and the family moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1826 or
1827, and settled on Spring creek.

HIRAM, JOHN, MART, MAR-
GARET and WILLIAM married in
Tennessee, and came to Sangamon county
with their father. M OSES, Jun., JO-
SEPH, DA VID and ARCHIBALD,
the four latter unmarried, came with their
parents also. JOSEPH and D>A VID
married in Sangamon county. In 1833
the whole family except two moved to
Missouri. In 1835 the other two, WIL-
LIAM and JOSEPH, went there
also.

JOSEPH was a preacher in the M.
E. church, and when the division took
place he preferred remaining with the real
Methodist Episcopal church, and returned
to Sangamon county in 1844. In order to
give his life in detail it may be said he was
born May 21, 1808, in Franklin county,
Tenn., came to Sangamon county in 1826
or 7, was a soldier in the Black Hawk war
of 1831-2, and was married in Sangamon
county, Oct. 18, 1832 to Nancy Lanterman.
They had two living children, DAVID C.,
born Oct. 6, 1833, in Sangamon county,
married Nov. 23, 1856 to Deborah Mills.
They had four living children, SARAH B.,
DORA M., NANCY E., and MARY E., and re-
side in Williamsville. SOLOMON H., '
born June 6, 1835, died April 11, 1860.
Rev. Joseph Duncan died May 10, 1854.
His widow married Harrison Bishop. He
died, and she resides with her son, David
C. Duncan, in Williamsville. Rev. Joseph
Duncan was a regular traveling preacher
from the time he returned from Missouri
until his death.

DUNCAN, RICE, was born Mar.
5, 1781,111 North Carolina. He was brother
to Marshal and John. When young his
father's family moved to Cumberland

county, Ky. He was there married to
Barbara Antle. They had four children,
and Mrs. D. died. He married Luranah
Rutherford. They brought one child
from Kentucky to St. Clair county, where
they had five children, and moved to Mor-
gan, and then to Sangamon county, arriv-
ing Oct., 1837, in what is now Salisbury.
Of their children —

DELILAH, born Nov. 20, 1805, U1
Kentucky, married A. Buchanan, had
twelve children, moved to Texas in 1845,
and Mr. B. died soon after.

MATILDA, born Nov. 29, 1807, in
Kentucky, married Lev! Scott, had twelve
children, Mr. S. died, and the family reside
at Carthage, 111.

WILLIAM T., born April 23, 1809,
in Kentucky, married Clemantine French.
They had six children, and he died. The
family reside in Macoupin county."

SIDNEYS., born Dec. 18, 1810, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Mary Rogers. They had three chil-
dren. He was Judge of Morgan county
court, and died Aug., 1872, in Jacksonville,
His widow resides in Chicago

SUSANNAH, born July 13, 1816, in
Kentucky, married Andrew P. Tannehill.
They have six children, and live in Bates
county, Mo.

NANCY, born Jan. 25, 1820, married
Henry Antle. See his name.

SARAH B., born Feb. 21, 1823, mar-
ried George Goodman, have seven chil-
dren and live in Keokuk, Iowa.

BETSY J., born July 3, 1825, married
William Dorrell, and live in Menard
county.

ELLA A., born June i, 1827, married
Samuel Coleman, and both died, leaving
one child, in Salisbury township.

A VARILLA, born Feb. 8, 1831, mar-
ried Lemuel Miller, had two children, and
died.

Mrs. Luranah Duncan, died May 29,
1862, and Rice Duncan died Oct. 7, 1863,
both in Salisbury township.

DUNCAN, MARSHAL, was
born in 1783 or 4, in North Carolina. He
was brother to Rice and John. He went,
when young, with his parents to Cumber-
land county, Kentucky. He left Kentucky
w7ith three children and came to Sangamon
county, 111., arrived-in 1820 or 21 in Salis-
bury township. He was there 'married to
Hannah Miller, a daughter of John Miller.

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They had eight children. Of all his
children —

JAMES T. and WILLIAM T. H.,
twins, born May 10, 1807, in Cumberland
county, Ky.

JAMES T., married in Sangamon
county, Aug. 27, 1829, to Mary Penny,
who was born Dec. 6, 1809, in Pope county,
111. They had nine living children,
HESTER A., married John Gramiish,
and resides in Salisbury township.
FRANCIS M., born Dec. 30, 1852, mar-
ried Martha J. Yoakum. They have
eight children, CHARLES x., LAURA A.,

\VM. R. and JAMES T., twins, JEANETTE A.,

<;KORGE H., LOUISA E. and MARY j., and
live in Salisbury township, northeast of
Sangamon river. JANE, married John
C. Berry, have six children, and live in
DeWitt county. John W., died in Iowa
in 1869, aged thirty -two years. FRANK-
LIN W., married Martha Irwin, have five
children, and live in Menard county.
JAMES T., Jun., married Olive Douglas,
who died.leaving one child; he and his child
live in Salisbury township. SYLVES-
TER T., unmarried, resides at Salisbury.
MATILDA, married James Potter, have
four children, and live in Menard county.
WILLIAM P., lives with his mother.
James T. Duncan, died July 9, 1856, and
his widow resides in Salisbury.

WILLIAM T. //., married in Sanga-
mon county, in 1831, to Eve Miller. They
had twelve children. MARION M.,
married Martha McMurphy, have five-
children, LUCY C., LAURA A., MARGARET
x., OMER L., and LEX A E., and live in Sal-
isbury. POLLY A., married O. R.
Baker. See his name. JAMES T.. and
SIMEON S., live with their mother.
SARAH J., married Hamilton Combs,
has four children, and live in Salisbury
township. MARTHA, married R.ichard
Gaincs, and lives with her mother.
MARGA.RET married Dr. A. F. Pur-
vines. See his name. NANCY E.,
married Xapolcon Connor, have two child-
ren, and live in Macoupin county.
GEORGE W., is west. FARINDA,
married Elisha Batterton. Sec his name.
ALICE, married Turner Yoakum, and
resides in Avoca, Iowa. THOMAS S.,
lives with his mother. William T. H.
Duncan died Oct. 20, 1862, and his widow
resides in Salisbury — 1874.

MARSHAL 7\, born Dec. 27, 1809,
in Cumberland countv, Ky., married in
Tennessee, Aug. 22, 1830, to Anna Sharp.
They had three children, and Mrs. Dun-
can died in 1836 or 7, and Mr. Duncan,
with his children, came soon after to San-
gamon county. Of his children — WIL-
LIAM T., born Sept. 19, 1832, in Tenn.,
raised in Sangamon county, and enlisted
for three years, Aug. 13, 1862, in Co. B,
114 111. Inf., served until Aug. 3, 1865,
when he was honorably discharged. He
was married March 20, 1866, to Tane
Grady. They have four children, MARY

A., JASPER C., AXXA M., and WILLIAM H.,

and live seven miles northwest of Spring-
field. RACHEL M., born Aug. n, 1834,
in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county
to Enos Campbell. See his name.
MARY A., born Sept. 7, 1836, in Ten-
nessee, married in Sangamon county to
Solomon Penny, and died. Marshal T.
Duncan died Aug. 23, 1840, in Sangamon
county.

By the second marriage —

MINERVA, born Sept. 15, 1822, in
Sangamon county, married John C. Irwin.
See his name.

ARTAMESIA, born Nov. 30, 1828,
in Sangamon county, married May 5,
1852, to Nathan Hartley, have six child'ren,
and live in Menard county. The remainder
of the children are in Iowa and Kansas.

Marshall Duncan died in Sangamon
county, in the fall of 1858, and his widow
resides with her children in Iowa.

DUNCAN, JOHN, was born in
1789, in Cumberland county, Ky. He
was married there to Sally Miller, and
had six children there, and moved to
Sangamon countv, 111., about 1827, in
what is now Salisbury township, where
they had six children. Three only of
their children reside in Sangamon countv.

POLLY married John Davies. See
his name.

JOHN married Nancy Kane, have
three children, and reside in Salisbury.

ARMINDA,\>orn Feb. 14, 1828, in
Sangamon county, married Jan. 8, 1849,
to Frederick Luchsinger, who was born
April 2, 1824, in Canton Glarus, Switzer-
land. They have six living children.
HESTER A., married John Danenbcrger,
and resides in Sangamon county. SARAH
E. married Silas Danenberger, and resides
in Salisbury township. JANE M.,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

HARRIET E., JANETTA and ELIZA
O. reside with their parents, near Salis-
bury.

Mrs. Sally Duncan died Nov., 1850, and
John Duncan died in 1863, both near
Salisbury.

DUNN,^ WILLIAM, an older
brother to Elijah, was born in Fleming
county, Ky., married there to Barbara
Callerman,had five children, and moved to
Sangamon county in 1829. Mr. Dunn died
soon after, and a few years later his widow
and children moved to Henry county, 111.

DUNN, ELIJAH, was born
about 1798, in Fleming county, Ky., and
was married there to Eleanor Callerman,
a native of the same county. She was a
sister of D. K. Callerman. They had two
children in Kentuckv, and moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of
1825, ant^ settled two and one-half miles
west of Springfield, and three years later
they moved north of Spring creek. They
had three children in Sangamon county.
Of their children —

JOHN C., born Aug. 20, 1823, in
Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county,
went to Galena, engaged in lead mining,
and died there about 1845, aged twenty-
two years.

JA)fES K., born June 21, 1825, in
Fleming county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county,. March 15, 1869, to Bertha
Kelly, who was born April 4, 1846. They
had three children. CHARLES and AL-
FRED died in infancy, KATIE lives with
her parents. J. K. Dunn resides on the
farm where his father settled in 1828. It
is four miles northwest of Springfield.

DANIEL A., born Jan. 8, 1828, in
Sangamon county, married Eliza Ann
Kelly. They had two living children,
and Mrs. Dunn died March 15, 1871. Of
her children — JOHN lives with his father,
and OLIVER with his uncle, J. K. Dunn.
D. A. Dunn resides four miles northwest
of Springfield.

URIAH, born Nov. 13, 1833, in San-
gamon county, died aged twenty years.

ELIZABETH, born Dec. 14, 1837, in
Sangamon county, married Feb. 17, 1859,
to Joel J. Manning, who was born in 1833
in Montreal, Canada, and came to Sanga-
mon county in 1838. They had seven
children. Their second, ELIJAH, died
Aug. 24, 1873, aged 12 years. MARY
E., FRANCES E., JAMES G., NORA

M., IDA BELL, and a babe, reside
with their parents four miles northwest of
Springfield.

Mrs. Eleanor Dunn died about 1853,3111!
Elijah Dunn died Aug. 7, 1866 — both in
Sangamon county.

DUN LAP, JOHN, was born
May 15, 1785, probably in Pennsylvania,
and went to Carter county, Tenn. Cath-
arine Tipton was born Jan. 30, 1788, in
Carter county, Tenn. They were married
and had nine children there. The family
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1828, in what is now Fancy
creek township, where they had one child.
Of their children —

ISAAC, born Jan. 2, 1806, in Tennes-
see, was married there to Mary H.
Bowers, and came with his father to San-
gamon county. They had twelve child-
ren. Isaac Dunlap died August 2, 1867,
and his widow resides in Fancy Creek
township.

MARGARE7\ born Jan. 2, 1808,
married in Tennessee to Baptiste Mc-
Nabb, came to Sangamon county with
her father. They had four children, and
he died. She married John McLoud.
See his name.

SARAH, born March 9, 1810, married
Samuel T. Boyd. He died, and she mar-
ried Thomas Vandevender, who died, and
she married Samuel T. Lacey, and resides
in Logan county.

RUTH, born March 18, 1812, married
in Tennessee to John E. Hedrick, came to
Sangamon county with her father, and had
ten children. The family are all in Mis-
souri and Iowa.

TENNESSEE, born August 14,
1814, married Eliza Cutwright. He shot
himself accidentally in 1840, in Logan
county, leaving a wife and two children.

JAMES T., born Dec, 8, 1816, mar-
ried Mary H. Brown. They had five
children, and she died. He married
Rosanna McCauley. They had six child-
ren. He was a soldier in the Mexican war
from Sangamon county. He moved to
Missouri, and was Captain of a Com-
panv in a Union Regiment, and was cap-
tured at the battle of Pittsburg Landing,
was exchanged after seven mouths im-
prisonment, returned home, and served
one term in the Missouri Legislature in
1863, He went again in the army, and
\vas killed at the battle of Franklin, Tenn.,

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in Dec., 1864, while acting as Captain of
a Company.

SUSANNA, born April 15, 1819, mar-
ried Benjamin F. Brown. See his name.

JOHN /?., born in Carter county,
Tenn., April 24, 1821, married in Sanga-
mon county, Dec. 10, 1840, to Emily A.
Brown. They had ten children. AL-
MYRA married Theodore Allen, have
two children, and reside in Sullivan coun-
ty. M<>. WILLIAM T. enlisted in Co.
H, 36th Iowa Inf., in 1862, contracted
chronic diarrhea in camp, was sent to hos-
pital at Keokuk, brought home by his pa-
rents, and died July 3, 1863. JAMES A.
married Zerilda Richards, had two child-
ren, and she died. He married Sarah E.
Elliott, and resides in Fancv Creek town-
ship. R OBERT married Nellie Richards,
and resides in Randolph county, Mo.
ELIZA J. married George D. Power.
See his name. FRANKLIN P. resides
with his parents. MARY C. died, aged
five years. JOHN R.,Jun., CLARENCE
P. and OLIVE L. reside with their pa-
rents, two and a half miles west of Sher-
man, Sangamon county, 111.

MAR T A., born Sept. 29, 1823, mar-
ried Alexander Doake. He died and she
married Jer. Falconer, who died, and she
lives near Decatur.

EDNA M., born Jan. 13, 1831, mar-
ried John Johnson, who died, and she
married Robert T. Brown. Sec his
name.

John Dunlap died Feb. 14, 1856, and
his widow died May 26, 1857, both m
Sangamon county.

DURBIN, JOSEPH, was born
about 1776, in what afterwards became
Madison county, Ky. He was married
there to Elizabeth Logsdon, and they had
twelve children in that county. He then
moved his family to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in 1829, and settled in what
is now Pawnee township. Of his chil-
dren—

EDWARD, SYLVESTER and
Af.\RGARE7^ married in Kentucky,
came to Sangamon county in 1828, and
settled in what is now Cotton Hill town-
ship. In 1830 the whole family moved to
that part of Montgomery which is now
Christian county. His son —

CHRISTOPHER K., born in Ken-
tucky in 1793, married there to Rachel
Willis, and moved with his father to San-

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gamon and Christian county, 111. They
had thirteen children. Their fourth child,
JAMES R., born June 18, 1820, in Madi-
son county, Ky., remained with his father
until April to, 1842, when he was married
to Ann Simpson. Their only living child,
A\(;ELINE, married Thomas J. Gatton.
He died April 20, 1867, leaving a widow
and three children, Mary A., Andrew T.,
and James W. James R. Durbin died
Dec. 1873, and his widow, his widowed
daughter and her three children, reside
near St. Bernard church in Ball township.

DUTTON, MATTHEW, was
born April 5, 1778, in Windsor county, Vt.
He spent his early life as a school teacher,
and about 1818 entered the ministry
in connection with the Congregational
church. He never became a settled pastor,
but all his ministerial work was clone as
an evangelist, several years of the thiie in
Tennessee and some in Virginia. In 1834
he engaged in teaching and occasional
preaching at Decatur, 111. Elizabeth
Williams was born March 22, 1791, in the
town of Sharon, Litchfield county, Conn.
She was married March 10, 1811, in
northern New York, to David Carpenter.
Thev had two children in the State of
New York.

JOHN WILLIAM, born Mar. 4, i8n,
went to sea at 16 years old. His second
voyage was on boaal the ship Warrenton.
The vessel was lost and not a soul on
board saved.

THOMAS /;., born March S, 1813,
married April, 1833, in Duchess county,
N. Y., to Julia A. Wing. He died sud-
denly June 2, 1854, near Sullivan, Moultric
county, 111., leaving a widow and six chil-
dren.

David Carpenter died in New York,
and his widow went to Now York Citv
and taught school until July, 1834, when
she went to Decatur, 111., to visit two of
her brothers. Rev. Matthew Dutton and
Mrs. Elizabeth Carpenter were married
Nov. 15, 1834, in Decatur. They moved
to Morgan county and a year Ir.ter to San-
gamon county, arriving at Mechanicsb'irg
in July, 1838. Both being teachers, and in
the absence of any school system, they
built a school house and lived and taught
in it for about twelve years. It was a
frame building, plastered outside and in,
and was almost snow white. Nearly ull
who are now heads of families in the vicin-

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ity of Mechanicsburg received their educa-
tion in that house.

Rev. Matthew Button died Feb. 21,
1857, an<^ m's widow (1874) in her eighty-
fourth year resides in Mechanicsburg.

DRYER, JOHN, was born Dec.
13, 1783, in Great Barrington, Mass. He
was married May 14, 1808, in New York,
to Cynthia Stevens, who was born March
4, 1793, in Vermont. They had two
children in New York, and in 1819 came
to Sangamon county, 111., settling six miles
from where Springfield now stands, where
they had one child, and moved to Spring-
field about 1825. Of their children —

LA V1NIA M., born Dec. 22, 1812, in
New York, married in Sangamon county
June, 1830, to Hugh M. Armstrong. See
his name.

ALMIRA, born April, 1815, in New
York, married in Springfield, in 1836, to
E. Geo. Johns.

JANE A., born Aug. 15, 1820, in
Sangamon county, was married Sept.,
1838, in Massachusetts, to William Cone,
and reside three miles west of Spring-
field.

John Dryer was engaged in wool card-
ing, and was the first man in the county
to cultivate a nursery and introduce fruit
trees. He died July 3, 1854, and his
widow resides in Springfield now — 1876 —
in her eighty-fourth year.

IE

EARNEST, JACOB, born
April 24, 1799, in South Carolina, was
married there to Elizabeth Sims, who was
born April 26, 1798. She was a sister of
James and William Sims, one of whom
was older and the other younger than her-
self. They moved to that part of Simp-
son which later became Logan county,
Ky., where they had seven children. In
1817 the family moved to St. Clair county,
111., where they had one child, and they
moved to what became Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the fall of 1819, on Spring
Creek, in what is now Curran township,
where one child was born. Of their nine
children —

LA VINA, born Nov. 28, 1824, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to James McMurry. See his
name. He died, leaving a widow and six

children near lone City, lone Valley,
California.

SARAH, born April 7, 1806, in Ken-
tucky, was married Feb. 18, 1824, in San-
gamon county, 111., to John King. See
his name.

WILLIAM, bom August 18, 1807, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to Jane Parks. They had
five children. Mr. Earnest and three of
the children died near Northfield, Iowa.
Mrs. Earnest died there, Dec. 7, 1870,
and -the children reside near Northfield.

ROBERT, born April 6, 1810, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county to Susan Kendall. They had one
child, SUSAN A., born Jan. 25 1831,
married James Turner. See his name.
He died and his widow married Henry B.
Chambers. See his name. Robert
Earnest died Sept. 22, 1831, and his widow
married Joseph Ralston. See his name.

MAHALA, born Dec. 18, 1811, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county to James Parkinson. See his
name.

GRIZELLA, born April 8, 1813, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to Martin L. C. Kendall.
See his name. Mrs. Kendall and her
two children died.

RACHEL, born March 5, 1816, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to Rezin D. Brown. See his
name.

HENRIETTA, born April 3, 1818,
in St. Clair county, 111., was married in
Sangamon county, March 22, 1838, to
James V. Ingels. See his name.

SOPHIA, born April 2, 1820, in San-
gamon county, married Amos W. Brown.
See his name. Mrs. Brown died.

Mrs. Elizabeth Earnest died March i,
1831, and Jacob Earnest married Rebecca
Blunt. They had two children, and
moved to Hancock county, 111. Of their
children —

ELIZABETH, born Sept. 29, 1833,
in Sangamon county, was married July
29, 1852, to William Jones. They had
eight children, JACOB H., FRANCIS
M., MARY M., EMMA A., IANTHA
B., IDA M., WILLIAM B. and LIB-
BIE. William Jones was drowned Jan.
i, 1869, while crossing the Mississippi
river. Mrs. Elizabeth Jones was married
Dec. i, 1870, to William Isenberger.

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They have two children, GEORGE W.
and RACHEL, and reside near Appanoos,
Hancock county, 111.

JACOB H., born August 18, 1836, in
Sangamon county, married in Hancock
county, Feb. 19, 1860, to Elizabeth Riman,
who was born May 16, 1836. They have
five children, EDWARD M., HENRI-
ETTA, LYDIA F., ALVIN P. and
ZENA MAY, and reside near Appanoos,
Hancock countv, 111.

Jacob Earnest died Sept. 29, 1842, and
Mrs. Rebecca Earnest died March 8,
1858, both in Hancock county, 111.

EARNEST, THOMAS, was
born June 3, 1792, in South Carolina. His
parents moved, when he was a boy, to
.Simpson county, Ky. Jrfthe Autumn of
1819 he came to Sangamon county and
joined his brother Jacob, who had previ-
ously arrived with his family. Thomas
Earnest commenced improvements south
of Spring creek, eight miles west of
Springfield, and entered land when it came
into market. He was married Oct. 15,
1822, to Alletta Lanterman. They had
twelve children in Sangamon county, two
of whom died young.

SOPHIA y., born Aug. 24, 1823, was
married Nov. 12, 1846, to Simon P. Rick-
ard. See his name.

JOHN W., born Sept. 2, 1824, was
married April 21, 1853, to Julia J. Wool-
ley, of Green county, 111. They have
three children living, LEORA S., WIL-
LIAM W., and CHARLES S., and re-
side in Macoupin county, near Greenfield,
Green county. 111.

PETER L., born Nov. 6, 1825, was
married in Sangamon county, in 1849, to
Elizabeth A. Thompson. They had ten
children, five of whom are living,
THOMAS H., WILLIAM H., MARY
A., FRANK P., and JOSIAH T. P. L.
Earnest is operating in the silver mines of
San Juan, southwestern Colorado. His
son, Thomas H., is now — 1875 — there at-
tending to business. The family reside at
Ottawa, Kansas. Peter L. Earnest is
Postmaster in Ottawa.

SOPHRONIA,\>o\-\\ Dec. 5, 1826, was
married May 20, 1846, to Dr. Benjamin
S. Robinson. See his name.

ALLETTA A., born March 5, 1828,
married William Y. Kirk. They had one
child, and Mr. Kirk died. His widow
married Robert Watson of St. Louis.

They had one child, and reside near Mill-
ville, Ray county, Mo.

WILLIAM, born Nov. 21, 1829, in
Sangamon county, enlisted Aug., 1862, for
three years in Co. A, 106 111. Inf., and
died of disease, July 17, 1863, near Vicks-
burg, Miss.

HENRIETTA M., born Jan. 10,
1831, married Henry W. Rickafd. See
his name.

JAMES L., born Oct. 18, 1832, in
Sangamon county, died, March 5, 1848,
away from home, in Calhoun county,
Illinois.

ELIZA E. born Feb. 27, 1836, resides
at the family homestead with her brother
Thomas H.

'I HOMAS H., born April 24, 1837,
was married Nov. 15, 1863, to Hannah H.
Lyman. They had two children, CAR-
OLINE B. and WILLIAM J., and Mrs.
E. died May 19, 1872. T. H. Earnest re-
sides eight miles west of Springfield, on
the farm where his father settled in 1819.

Thomas Earnest died, Nov. 6, 1848,
suddenly, while away from home, in Cal-
houn county. Mrs. Alletta Earnest died
July 31, 1871, at the house of her daughter,
Mrs. H. W. Rickard, caused by being
thrown from a wagon.

EACH US, ROBERT, was born
Dec. 24, 1794? m Chester county, Pa., came
to Springfield in the fall of 1840, and went
on a farm he had purchased in what is now
Curran township. The next spring he
was joined by his sister Charlotte and his
niece, Mary McPherson, who was born
Oct. 25, 1819, in Chester county, Pa., and
married in Sangamon county to James
Short. See his name. Charlotte Eachus
died Feb. i, 1865, and Robert Eachus died
Oct. 2, 1872, in Loami township.

EADES, WILLIAM, a native
of Kentucky, married there, moved to
Missouri, and from there to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in the summer of
1825, in what is now Auburn township.
His son —

STR OTHER, married in Sangamon
county to Martha A Dodds. See the
D odds family sketch.

EARLY, DR. JACOB M.,
was born Feb. 22, 1806, in Virginia, came
to Springfield, 111., about 1831, was married
near Springfield, to Catharine Rickard.
Dr. Early was a practicing physician, and
a local preacher in the M. E. church. In

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consequence of some political difficulty,
he was shot and killed, March 11, 1838, in
Springfield, by a merchant, Henry B.
Truitt, who was son-in-law of William L.
May, at that time member of Congress
for this district. The difficulty was about
appointments to office, all the parties in-
terested being democrats. Dr. Early left
two sons. His widow married Mr. Miles,
and lives in Petersburg, 111. See history
of the Rickard family,

EASLEY, DANIEL, was born
Oct. 18, 1773, in Stokes county, N. C. In
1791 he went to South Carolina, and in
1 80 1 to Caldwell county, Ky. He was
there married in 1805 to Mrs. Margaret
Ritchie. They had five children in Ken-
tucky, and came to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in the spring of 1830 in what is
now Ball township. Of his children —

WINIFRED, married Eddin Lewis.
See his name,

JAMES B., born in Caldwell county,
Ky., married Oct. 22, 1840, in Sangamon
county, to Margaret Dodds. They had
five children. Their son ROBERT
HENRY married Fannie Easley, a distant
relative, and resides in the southeast corner
of Ball township. James B. Easley was
a Justice of the Peace for many years.
He died, and his widow married Warham
Easley, and resides in Missouri.

BENJAMIN H,, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county three times.
He died, leaving a widow, who afterward
married and died. His son WILEY mar-
ried Sarah J. Phelps, a native of Kentucky.
They had four children, MARTHA P., WIL-
LIAM A., JAMES B. and FLORA A. Wiley
Easley died, and his widow and children
reside on the farm settled by their great-
gi-andfather Easley in 1830. It is in Ball
township.

SALLT, married Willis Shellhouse.
See ins name.

DA NIEL W., born in Kentucky, died
in Sangamon county at 12 years old.

Mi's. Margaret Easley died in Sanga-
mon county.

Daniel Easley died at Auburn, Sanga-
mon county, Feb. 13, 1874. If the date of
his birth is correct, as given to the writer
by the old gentleman himself about fifteen
months before his death, he was 100 years,
3 months and 25 days old.

His recollection of events was quite dis-
tinct. He- related incidents connected with

the ascension of the first steamboat on the
.Ohio river, which he witnessed; also of
the war of 1812. He united with the
Cumberland Presbyterian church when
he was eighty years of age.

EASTMAN, THOMAS, born
Dec. 8, 1771, in Kingston, New Hamp-
shire, was married in 1792, in Augusta,
Me., to Sarah Cummings. They had
nine children born in Maine. Mr. East-
man was captain of a cavalry company
in the war of 1812, and was posted between
the Kennebec and Penobscot rivers to
carry dispatches back and forth. Maine
being a district of Massachusetts, he repre-
sented that district in the Legislature of
Massachusetts four or five times. When
Maine became a%State, he was elected one
of its Senators. He was also a Judge of
the Court of Sessions, in Waldo county,
where he lived. Mrs. Sarah Eastman
died Sept. 3, 1827, and Thomas Eastman
was married Oct., 1828, in Boston, Mass.,
to Susan Frothingham, a native of that
city. They had one child in Maine, and
moved to Auburn, 111., in 1836. Of his
children only six came to Sangamon
county, namely:

DA VI D, born Oct. 20, 1 794, was mar-
ried Jan. i, 1817, in Maine, to Salinda
Wood, a native of Winthrop, in the same
State. They had four children, and came
to Auburn, Sangamon county, 111., in 1836
or 7, Of their children, AUGUSTA,
born in Maine, went from Sangamon
county to California, and died there.
LOUISA H., married Owen Maynard,
and lives in Baltimore, Md. CHARLES
H., died in Springfield, 111., in 1849.
GEORGE L., born May 5, 1833, in
Maine, bi'ought up in Sangamon county,
went to California in 18^2, and returned to
Springfield in 1^70, where he now lives.
David Eastman died in 1844, at Auburn,
and Mrs. Salinda Eastman died April 25,
1871, in Springfield.

ASA, born Sept. 12, 1802, in Winthrop,
Maine, came in 1831 to Waverly, Morgan
county, 111., and laid out the town of
Auburn, in Sangamon county, in 1835. He
was married Sept. 21, 1837, U1 Waverly,
to Susan E. Tanner, who was born Sept.,
1820, in Warren county, Conn. They
moved to Auburn in the fall of 1840, and
to Springfield in the fall of 1841. Mr.
and Mrs. Eastman had two children,
ALLEN T., born Dec., 1839, in Waverly,

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died May, 1847, in Springfield. ANNIE
S., horn June 12, 1842, in Springfield,
was married June, 1867, to James M.
Johnson, a native of St. Louis. They
have three living children, ALICE E., MARY
SUSAN, and HERSCHEL ALLEN, and reside
in St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. Susan Eastman
died March, 1843, and Asa Eastman re-
sides in Springfield, where he has been for
many years largely identified with its
business. He began as a partner with
James L. Lamb in a flouring mill, and in
1865 he built the only grain elevator in the
city, at a cost of about $75,000, and still
owns it. He was the originator and one
of the principal stockholders in the Leland
Hotel, and was President of the Board of
Directors when it was building.

ANN H., born Oct. 17, 1805, in Maine,
lives with her brother Asa.

HANNAH J/., born Aug. 29, 1813,
in Maine, was married in Springfield, 111.,
March n, 1869, to Judge William Brown,
of Jacksonville. He died April 25, 1871,
in Jacksonville. His widow now resides
with her brother Asa, in Springfield.

SAMUEL FRANK, the only child
of Thomas Eastman by his second mar-
riage, was born Oct. 12, 1830, in Palermo,
Waldo county, Me., and came to Auburn,
111., with his parents in 1836. Returned
east and learned the trade of a machinist,
at Manchester, N. H. He was married
Oct. 5, 1853, at New Haven, Conn., to
Marv A. Brown, who was born Oct. i,
1831, in Bridgewater, Conn. They came
in 1856 to Springfield, and have four
children, HENRY F., FREDERICK
A., CHARLES E., and S. FRANK,
Jun., and reside in Springfield. Mr. S.
F. Eastman is the proprietor of a machine
shop, corner of Washington and Tenth
streets, Springfield, 111.

ECKEL, JOHN C., was born
Nov. 27, 1793, in Baltimore, Md., went to
Jefferson county, Tenn., was a soldier in
the war of 1812, and was married in his
native county, Nov. 19, 1819, to Mary
Geiger, who was born June n, 1797-
They moved to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving June, 1821, in what is now Cooper
township. They had seven children in
Sangamon countv.

SUSANNAH, born in 1824, married
John North. See l^is name.

CHARLES . to, married Martha
Ridgewav t adoptea

WILLIAM H., married Jane E.
Slater.

GEORGE, died in his sixteenth year.

JOHN C., Jun., born May 13, 1831,
was married to Arminda Tead.

MARIA L., born Jan. 3, 1836, married
Henry Colley. They had six children,
and she died.

MART, born May 4, 1838, was married
Nov. 4, 1858, in Sangamon county, to
Lafayette Wilmot, and moved to Kansas
in 1859. In 1866 they moved to Oregon.
Mr. W. was wounded nineteen times in
fighting with Indians on the route. He is
brother to Miles H. Wilrnot, of Illiopolis.

Mrs. Mary Eckel died July i, 1845, anf^
John C. Eckel was married to Mrs. Joan-
nah Dickson, whose maiden name was
Bird. They had two living children.

EDGAR and JANE, twins, were
born June 30, 1846. Edgar was married
Jan. 13, 1868, to Elizabeth Parkes. They
have two children, WILLIAM H. and
MARY J., and live in Cooper township
near Clarksville. JANE resides with her
mother.

John C. Eckel died May 29, 1857, in
Sangamon county, and his widow resides
in Cooper township, two and one-half
miles southwest of Mechanicsburg.

EBEY. — The origin of the family in
America was with George Ebey, a native
of Holland, who came to this countrv
probably about 1750. On landing in
Philadelphia he was sold for money to pay
for his passage across the ocean. He was
taken to Lancaster county, Pa., and after
serving out his time, married and raised a
family. He was a soldier in the Revolu-
tion, under Gen. Anthony Wayne, and
was one of a number of soldiers called n
"forlorn hope," at the storming of Stony
Point. The assault was successful, but
George Ebey was among the slain. His
son —

GEORGE EBEY, married in
Huntington county to Mary Ellabarger.
They moved to Franklin county, O., in
Dec. 1805. They had nine living children,
and Mrs. Mary Ebey died March 15, 1815,
in Ohio. Of their children —

MAR Y, married in Ohio to A. Hutch-
inson, and never came farther west.

ELIZABETH, born about 1792 in
Pennsylvania, married in Franklin county,
O., to W m. Sells, and remained there.

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EARLT SETTLERS OF

JACOB, born in 1 794 in Pennsylvania,
married in Ohio to Sally Blue, and come
in 1831 to what is now Cotton Hill town-
ship, Sangamon county; in 1840 moved to
Adair county, Mo.; and in 1850 to Whit-
by's Island, Puget Sound, where Jacob
Ebey and wife died a few years ago.
Their son, ISAAC N., had gone there
before his parents, and laid out the town
of Port Townsend. He was killed by In-
dians, leaving a widow in Port Townsend.
His sister, MARY Ebey, is now [1874] a
widow Bozarth, and lives at Port Town-
send.

HENRY, born in 1797 in Pennsyl-
vania, came to Sangamon county in 1828.
He died in 1858, leaving a widow and son
in Fulton county.

BARBARA, born in Pennsylvania
June 25, 1800, married in Franklin county,
Ohio, to Rev. William Royal. See his
name. He died, leaving a family at Salem,
Oregon.

SUSAN, born Jan. 28, 1803, in Penn-
sylvania, married in Ohio to Daniel
Hutchinson, and died, leaving three
children.

JOHN N., born Sept. 10, 1805, in
Huntington county, Pa., raised in Frank-
lin county, Ohio, and came to Sangamon
county Nov. 15, 1825, in what is now
Woodside township. He was married
May 28, 1826, to Mary Brunk, sister to
'George Brunk. They have ten living
children, LEONIDAS C.. MARIA J.,
GEORGE W., JOHN V., ELIZA-
BETH E., HARRIET E., WILLIAM
H., was killed at the battle of Belmont,
Mo., Nov. 7, 1861. BARBARA A.,
ANGELINE B., and CHARLES B.
Nearly all the living children are married.
Mrs. Rebecca Ebey died June 2, 1873, and
John N. Ebey resides at Whitehall, Greene
countv, 111.

GEORGE, born Jan., 1811, in Ohio,
came to Sangamon county in 1828, mar-
ried in Ohio, in 1832, to Matilda Kirkpat-
rick. They had three sons in the Union
army; one of them was killed in battle at
Pittsburg Landing. George Ebey resides
at Winchester, Scott county, 111.

R OS ANN A, born Jan. 28, 1813, in
Ohio, came in 1828 to Sangamon county,
and married David Beam. See his name.
George Ebey, Sen., came to Sangamon
county in 1828, and died in 1848, at Win-
chester, .Scott county, 111.

EDWARDS, NINIAN W.,
born April 15, 1809, near Frankfort, Ky.
His father, Hon. Ninian Edwards, was at
the time Chief Justice of the Court of Ap-
peals of Kentucky, and the same month in
which this son was born Chief Justice
Edwards was appointed Governor of Illi-
nois Territory and moved with his family
in June following to its capital, Kaskaskia.
At the proper age Ninian W. was sent to
Transylvania University, and graduated
in the law department of that institution in
1833. Previous to his graduation he was
married Feb. 16, 1832, in Lexington, Ky.,
to Elizabeth P. Todd, who was born Nov.,
1813. Her father was Robert S. Todd, of
Kentucky. See sketch of the Todd fam-
ily. Mr. Edwards commenced the prac-
tice of law in 1832. In 1834 he was ap-
pointed by Gov. Jno. Reynolds, Attorney
General of Illinois, the appointment being
confirmed by the Legislature of 1834-5.
The law requiring the Attorney General
to reside at the capital, and Mr. Edwards
not liking Vandalia as a place of residence,
he resigned the office and moved to Spring-
field in 1835. They have four living
children, namelv —

JULIA COOS", born April 29, 1837,
in Springfield, was married June 6, 1855,
to Edward L. Baker, who was born June
3, 1829, in Kaskaskia, the ancient capital
of Illinois. His father, Hon. David J.
Baker, was a native of the State of New
York, and came to Illinois in the year
1818. He became one of the prominent
lawyers of the young State. E. L. Baker
was educated at Shurtleff College, Upper
Alton, and graduated in 1847. ^e rea(l
law with his father two years, after which
he attended Harvard law school and was
admitted to the bar in Springfield in 1855.
He became part owner and editor of the
Illinois State Jottrnal, and in 1869 was
appointed U. S. Assessor, remaining in
that office until it was abolished. He was
appointed Dec. 8, 1873, U. S. Consul to
Buenos Ayres, Argentine Republic, South
America. Edward L. Baker and wife
have three children, EDWARD L., Jim.,
JULIA E and WILLIS E., all born in
Springfield. Edward L., Jim., is in
Springfield. The two youngest are now
[1876] with their parents in Buenos Ayres,
South America.

ALBERT S., bom W. 16, 1839, in
Springfield, was man"ied there lime 3,

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1863, to Josephine E Remann, who was
born April 28, 1842,111 Vandalia, 111. They
have four children, GEORGIE, MARY
E., NINIAN W. and ANNIE R. A. S.
Edwards was in the commissary depart-
ment during the rebellion. He and his
family reside in Springfield, 111. ,

ELIZABETH E., born Jan. 7, 1843,
in Springfield, was married May u, 1863,
to Eugene C. Clover, son of Rev. Dr.
Clover, at one time Rector of St. Paul's
Episcopal church, Springfield, 111. E. C.
Clover was killed at the battle of Wichita,
leaving a widow and two sons, LEWIS
P. and LEGH K. Mrs. Clover and her
two children reside with her parents in
Springfield, 111.

CHARLES, born July 6, 1846, in
Springfield, was attending Yale College
in the early part of the rebellion, and left
there in the latter part of 1863 to fill a
position in the commissary department of
the U. S. army. After the war he was an
instructor in Bryant & Stratton's commer-
cial college in Springfield for a short time.
Charles Edwards was married in Spring-
field Feb. 1 8, 1868, to Mary Hickox,
daughter of Hon. Virgil Hickox. They
have one child, FLORENCE, and reside
in Springfield, 111. Charles Edwards has
been for ten years and is now connected
with the Illinois State Journal.

Hon. Ninian W. Edwards was elected
in 1836 one of the representatives of San-
gamon county in the State Legislature,
He was one of the seven representatives
and two senators from Sangamon county
who really secured the removal of the
State capital from Vandalia to Springfield.
See the article "Long Nine" From
1836 to 1852 Mr. Edwards was in the
State Legislature, either in the House or
Senate. During that time he was a mem-
ber of the convention that framed the State
constitution of 1848. In 1854 he was ap-
pointed by the Governor, attorney before
the board of commissioners to investigate
the claims of canal contractors against the
State, amounting to over $ i ,500,000. This
was in the years 1852, '3 and '4. In 1854
Mr. Edwards was appointed by Gov. Mat-
teson Superintendent of Public Instruction
for the State of Illinois, and was afterward
retained in office bv the State Legislature
until 1857. In the year 18 — he drafted
the law in regard to free schools, which
was the first adopted in the State. He

was appointed by President Lincoln U. S.
Commissary in 1862.

Hon. N. W. Edwards has found time,
aside from his multifarious official duties,
to devote to literary pursuits. His history
of Illinois, including the life and times of
Gov. Edwards, written on the invitation
of the Illinois State Historical Society, is
in many respects a work of rare excellence,
and is regarded as a standard on the sub-
jects of which it treats.

EDWARDS,BENJAMINS.,
came to Sangamon county later than his
brother, Hon. Ninian W. He has filled
many official positions with ability. He
stands pre-eminent in his profession, and
is a member of the law firm of Stuart,
Edwards & Brown, Springfield 111.

EDWARDS, ELCEY, born in
Adair county, Ky., and came to Sangamon
county with his brother J. Jordan, in 1837
or 8, married in Sangamon county to
Emily Riggs. They had nine children.

JAMES A., born Sept. 10, 1840, mar-
ried Lucinda Burton, have three living
children, IDA MAY, BENJAMIN L.,
and EMMA, and reside five and one-half
miles southwest of Loami.

ARCHT L., born Nov. 13, 1842, en-
listed April, 1 86 1, in Co. G, 7th 111. Inf.,
on the first call for 75,000 men, served
three months, and enlisted in Sept., 1861,
for three years, in Co. B, loth 111. Cav.,
re-enlisted as a veteran Jan., 1864, an^
was honorably discharged Feb. 6, 1866.
He resides with his brother, James A.

ALEXANDER H., married Sarah
Conner, have two children, and reside in
Audrain county, Mo.

MARJ^HA J/., married John Adwell,
who served as a Union soldier. They
have five children, and reside in Ball town-
ship.

JANE, married John Hilderman, have
one child, and reside in Ball township.

ALFRED, ROBERT, AMANDA
and BETSY, reside with their parents,
in Ball township.

EDWARDS, JAMES JOR-
DAN, was born April 2, 1818, in Adair
county, Ky., was taken by his father,
Henry Edwards, in 1825, to the vicinity of
Jacksonville, 111. In 1837 or '& he came
to Sangamon county, and about the same
time his brothers, Elcey and William, and
their sister, America J., came. J. Jordan
Edwards was married in Sangamon coun-

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ty to Virginia Jarrett. They had five
children —

JAMES, born about 1843, enlisted in
1862, in Co. B, loth 111. Cav., for three
years, and died near Rolla, Mo., March S,
-.863.

MARY, born Feb. 17, 1845, married
Nov. 21, 1861, to William L. Drury, who
was born Sept. 18, 1836. They had five
children, MARY E. died at seven, and
TAMES M. at three years of age. JOHN
W., LAURA and CHARLES live with
their parents, near Loami.

SARAH, born June 20, 1847, married
Dec. 7, 1864, to Firman Price, who was
born Sept. i, 1839, in Monmouth county,
N. f. He enlisted Aug. 14, 1861, at
.Springfield, for three years, in Co. A, 3d
111. Cav., served more than full term, and
was honorably discharged, Sept. 5, 1864.
Mr. and Mrs. Price have four children,
EDGAR N., MINNIE M.JOSEPH J.
and FIRMAN L., and live in Loami
township.

SIBYL married Martin Greer, have
two children, and live in Missouri.

\ IRGINIA married Blaney Pitts,
had one child, and mother and child died.

Mrs. Virginia Edwards died April 5,

1852, and Mr. Edwards was married Oct.

1853, to Juliette Burton. They had six
children —

HARRIET E., married Sept. 26,
1872, to James L. Mitchell, who was born
March 1 7, 1850, in Morgan county. They
live in Loami township.

E ('.VICE E., OSCAR I?, S TA-
LE Y, CHARLES and OLLIE, live
with their parents, three and a half miles
southwest of Loami.

EDWARDS, WILLIAM,
born Aug. 27, 1822, in Adair county, Ky.,
came to Sangamon county in 1837 or ^>
with his brothers, J. Jordon & Elcey. He
was married Oct. 18, 1840, to Mary Bur-
ton. They had ten children; five died
under three years.

'WILLIAM D., born July 9, 1844, in
Sangamon county, enlisted Nov. 25, 1861,
in Co. B, loth 111. Cav., for three years,
served full term and was honorably dis-
charged, married Sarah Masters, have two
living children, and reside in Montgomery
county.

JAMES A., died in 1863, aged
eighteen.

HENRY A7., ANDREW W., and
MA GGIE, reside with their parents near
Loami.

EDWARDS, AMERICA J.,
sister to J. Jordan, Elcey and William,
was born in Morgan county, came to San-
gamon county with her brothers, married
Michael Morris, had four children, and he
died near Knoxville, Iowa. She moved
to Texas with her children.

EATON, JOHN, was born in
1791, in Bradford, Merrimack county,
New Hampshire, and was married there
in 1813 to Mary Cook, who was born at
the same place in 1793. Mr. Eaton came
to Springfield in June, 1838. The family
came in 1840, and in 1841 moved to Peters-
burg, returning to Springfield in 1843. Of
their children —

HIRAM G., born in 1814, in New
Hampshire, came with the family to
Springfield, married in 1850, at Fairfield,
Iowa, and died about 1860, leaving a wid-
ow and three children, PAGE, BELLE
and ALBERT, in Kansas.

MARY J., born in 1816, in Bradford,
N. H., married in Springfield, 111., to
Francis Clinton, a native of Burlington,
Vermont. They had two children in
Springfield, LA'URA married Maj. E.
S. Johnson. See his name. MARY
married Carl O. Wederkinch, and died
April 10, 1875, in Colorado. ' Francis
Clinton and wife both died in Springfield.

THOMAS S., born about iSrS, in
New Hampshire, came to Petersburg, 111.,
in 1842, and died there in 1843.

PAGE, born Oct. 25, 1821, at Brad-
ford, N. H., married May 25, 1852, in
Springfield, 111., to Margaret A. Lee, who
was born August 12, 1832, in Delaware.
They had six children, two of whom died
under eight years. LELIA lives with
her parents. KATE D., born June S,
1855, married April 20, 1875, to Walter E.
Powell, have one child, EMMA M., and live
in Springfield. GRACE D. and WIL-
LIE C. live with their parents in Spring-
field.

BENJAMIN C. married in New
Hampshire, and remained there.

L O VENIA, born in 1825, at Bradford,
N. H.. married in Springfield to Thomas
Lee, and died.

JOHNB., born Dec. 15, 1827, in Brad-
ford, N. H., married in Sangamon county
June 16, 1853, to Mary P.Jones, a native

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281

of Tennessee. They had ten children.
SUSIE died young. MARY J., married
Thomas Lee. See his name -with the
Conant family. WILLIAM W., AN-
TIONETTE and ANTHONY— twins—
CHARLEY, JESSIE, MAY, GRIF-
FITH and DAISY; the eight latter live
with their parents. J. B. Eaton lived in
Springfield from 1839 to 1854, when he
moved to Christian county, and came back
to Springfield in 1866. He is now farming
and grain dealing at Edinburg, but resides
in Springfield.

LOUISA A., born in 1832,111 Brad-
ford, N. H., lived in Sangamon county,
and died in 1850, at Beardstown, 111.

SARAH M., born in Bradford, N. H.,
married in Sangamon county to Joseph
Patterson, a native of Pennsylvania. They
have seven children, and reside near Win-
chester, Scott county, 111.

John Eaton was a soldier in the war of
1812. Later in life he was a carpenter
and builder, and was erecting a mill at
Naples, 111., and died there in 1846. His
widow died April, 1854, in Springfield,
Illinois.

ELKIN, GARRETT, brother
of William F., was born Dec. 31, 1797, in
Clarke county, Ky. He studied medicine
and graduated at Transylvania University,
Lexington, Ky., came to Sangamon
county in 1823, and practiced medicine in
what is now Fancy creek township. He
was married there, April 20, 1823, to
Mary Constant, (see Thomas Constant^)
and soon after moved to Springfield and
practiced medicine there. They had six
living children —

MART A., born May 10, 1825, died
June 17, 1843.

AD ALINE C., born Sept. 28, 1827,
in Springfield, was married May 22, 1851,
to Dr. J. M. Major. They have two child-
ren, WILLJAM A. and CHARLES,
and reside in Bloomington, 111.

WILLIAM T., born Feb. 5, 1832, in
Springfield, 111., went to California with
his father in 1850, and succeeded well for
a time, but was obliged to return on ac-
count of an affection of the eyes. He is
unmarried, and resides with his father.

HENR T, born Oct. 8, 1836, in Spring-
field, enlisted in the 330 111. Reg., in 1862,
and served three years. Re-enlisted, and
served to the close of the war. He died
in Memphis, Tenn, in 1873.

^ ROBERT, born Jan. 12, 1841, in
Springfield, enlisted in a Cavalry Regi-
ment in Colorado, and served to the close
of the war. He resides in Omaha, Neb. •

FRANCIS A., born March 22, 1843,
died June 19, 1858.

Dr. Garrett Elkin was in the Black
Hawk and Mormon wars, and was Sheriff
of Sangamon county six years. He moved
to Bloomington in 1844. Mrs. Mary
Elkin died there Sept. 23, 1845. Dr- E.
served as Captain of a company from
Bloomington in the Mexican war — Col.
E. D. Baker's regiment. He afterwards
moved to the vicinity of Oskaloosa, Iowa,
where he was married, Feb. 15, 1864, to
Margaret J. Musgrove. They have six
children, GREENBURT G., FAN-
NIE E., CHARLIE, CLARA E.,
LILLIE A. and WILLIS G.

Dr. Garrett Elkin and family reside on
a farm near Oscaloosa, Iowa.

ELKIN, WILLIAM F., was
born April 13, 1792, in Clarke county, Ky.
In 1811 he went to Xenia, O., and was
there married Dec. 5, 1813, to Elizabeth
Constant. She was born June 14, 1799, in
Clarke county, Ky., also. They had four
children in Ohio, and in 1820 moved to
Brownsville, Ind., where they had three,
and then moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in December, 1825, in what is
now Fancy Creek township, where they
had six children, four of whom died under
five years. Of the other nine —

ROBERT, born Dec. 17, 1814, in Ohio,
died in Sangamon county, aged eighteen
years. «

7^HOMAS, born Sept. 16, 1816, in
Xenia, O., raised in Sangamon county,
married Feb. 28, 1843, in Jacksonville, 111.,
to Harriet C. Church. She was born Feb.
19, 1820, in Lexington, Ky. They had
three children, WILLIAM L., born June
3, 1844, m Sangamon county, enlisted
Aug., 1862, for three years, in Co. G, 114
111. Inf., served full term and was honor-
ably discharged in 1865. He studied law
with Herndon £ Zane in Springfield, went
to Calvert, Tex., engaged in practice, and
died there Oct. 29, 1873. WALLACE
A., born April 5, 1846, in Sangamon coun-
ty, and lives at Salt Lake City, Utah.
LAURA F., born Jan. 5, 1850, in Spring-
field, married in St. Louis Aug. 7, 1872, to
Edward Pew, a native of Kentucky.
They have one child, EDWARD w., and

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live in St. Louis. Mrs. Harriet C. Elkin
died Aug. 26, 1867. Thomas Elkin was
married Dec. 4, 1073, in Springfield, to
Mrs. Eva M. Smith, whose maiden name
was Mealey. They reside in Springfield.

MARY A., born May 8, i8i8,in Xenia,
O., married in Sangamon county to Ben-
jamin F. Pickrell. See his name. He
died and she married Abner Riddle. See
his name.

JOHN G., born March 28, 1820, in
Xenia, O., married Oct. 24, 1843, in
Springfield, 111., to Eveline McNabb.
They had four children, ALICE, born
Feb. 20, 1845, married William A. Fullin-
wider. See his name. ADELAIDE,
born Dec. 6, 1850, was married Dec. 3,
1875, in Mechanicsburg, 111., to Henry O.
Correll. See his name. LUCILLA,
born July 6, 1853, in Mechanicsburg,
married Samuel T. Fullinwider. See his
name. ARTHUR, is attending Eureka
College — May, 1876. John G. Elkin was
a prosperous merchant for a period of fif-
teen years in Mechanicsburg. He died
Aug. 27, 1867, in that place, and his wid-
ow resides there.

ZACHARIA E., born Nov., 1821, in
Brownsville, Ind., raised in Sangamon
county. He went overland in 1849 to
Oregon, and from there to California and
spent several years in mining. He went
to Idaho in 1860, and was married Oct.,
1873, to Mrs. Harriet Luckett, and resides
in Idaho City, Boise county, Idaho.

GARRETT,\K>rn March 2, 1823, at
Brownsville, Ind., raised in Sangamon
county, married in Jacksonville, 111., to
Mrs. Martha Tegarden. They had eight
children, and Mi's. Elkin died Oct. 24,
1872. He was married May i, 1873, to
Mrs. Matilda Conner, whose maiden name
was Gibbons. They reside in Springfield.

ANDRE W H., born Nov., 1825, in
Indiana, died in Sangamon county, aged
eighteen years.

MARGERY, born July 8, 1832, in
Sangamon county, married July, 1852, in
Springfield, to Edward A. Jones. They
have three daughters, LUELLA, IDA
and HATHAWAY, and reside near
Decatur, 111.

WILLIAM F., Jun., born Feb. 29,
1836, in Sangamon county, married Nov.
1 6, 1860, in Springfield, to Maria Louisa
Harvey, who was born Oct. 13, 1839, in
Springfield. They have seven living

children, EMMA C., CHARLES H.,
ROBERT R.JOHN F., LEWIS P.,
ZACHARIA C. and CLARA B., and

reside in Springfield.

William F. Elkin was one of the rep-
resentatives of Sangamon county in the
legislature of 1828 and '9. He raised a
company in Springfield in 1831, and was
Captain of it in the Black Hawk war of
that year. He was again elected to rep-
resent the county in 1836 and 1838, for
two years each time, and was consequent-
ly a member of the legislature that en-
acted the law for the removal of the cap-
ital from Vandalia to Springfield. See
the article: Long Nine. His last labors
in the legislature was at its first meeting
in Springfield, in call session Dec. 9, 1839.
In 1840 and '42 he was elected Sheriff of
Sangamon county, for two years each.
He was appointed Register of the U. S.
Land Office at Springfield, in Sept., 1861,
by his old "Long Nine" colleague,
Abraham Lincoln. In 1867 he moved to
Decatur, but held the office in Springfield
until 1872, when he resigned. His wife
died August 25, 1872, in Decatur, and
W. F. Elkin resides near that city with
his daughter, Mi's. Jones. He is in his
eighty-fifth year.

ELDER, SAMUEL, born June
22, 1787, in North Carolina, or Sevier
county, Tenn. Phosbe Clinkenbeard was
born Dec. 26, 1798, in Sevier county,
Tenn. They were married March 20,
1813, in that county, and had three
children there. They moved to Bourbon
county, Ky, where one child was born,
thence to Scott county, Ind., where they
had five children. After seven years resi-
dence there, they returned to Bourbon
county, Ky., where they had seven child-
ren, and the family moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving Nov. 27, 1834, in
what is now Rochester township, where
they had four children. Of their twenty
children, five died in infancy.

LA F7A^4,born Feb. 12, 1815, in Ten-
nessee, was married in Sangamon countv
to William Clinkenbeard. See his name.

HARRIS 'OA^born Feb. 29,1816, died
in his fourteenth year.

MARY B., born May 18, 1817, in
Sevier county, Tenn., was married in
Sangamon county, 111., to Jonathan Con-
stant. See his name.

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JAMES, born Oct. 24, 1821, in Scott
county, Ind., was married in Sangamon
county, 111., Feb. 27, 1844, to Harriet
Walker. They had seven children.
HIRAM died in infancy. SARAH J.
died Sept. 14, 1859, in her fourteenth year,
and WILLIAM W., the fifth child, died,
aged three years. LYDIA E., born Oct.
5, 1849, was married Feb. 23, 1871, to
Joseph F. Ellington, who was born Oct.
17, 1843, in Bath county, Ky. They have
one child, JAMES A., and reside one mile
north of Buffalo. MARY L., born Nov.
19, 1852, married Zachary T. Greening.
See his name. FRANCES J., born
Sept. 16, 1859, and HARRIET A., born
July 4, 1867, reside with their parents,
two miles north of Buffalo, Sangamon
county, 111.

RA CHEL, born Dec. 8, 1822, in Indi-
ana, died in Sangamon county, Nov.,
1835.

SARAH,\>Qv\\ March 4, 1825, in Scott
county, Ind., was married in Sangamon
county to Jotham S. Rogers. They had
two children in Springfield. • HANSON
G. died, aged eight years. MARY L.,
born July 14, 1850, was married in Spring-
field, May 29, 1873, to John Hunter, who
was born March 31, 1841, in Philadelphia.
They reside in Washington, D. C. Jotham
S. Rogers, died in Springfield, in 1851,
and his widow married Isaac Lindsay.
See his name. They have five children,
and reside in Springfield.

JONATHAN, born July 24, 1826, in
Bourbon county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county to Josephine Flagg.
They had one child, TV A, who was mar-
ried in Springfield, 111., to Leonard Gard-
ner, and have two children. Mrs. Jose-
phine Elder died, and he married Sarah
Wolvern. They have five children, and
reside near Sullivan, Moultrie county,
Illinois.

MERCT, born Jan. 7, 1829, in Bour-
bon county, Ky., was married in Sanga-
mon county to Isaac Lindsay. See his
name.

ISAA C, born March 12, 1830, in Bour-
bon county, Ky., was married Nov. 3,
1853, to Harriet Lanning, in Springfield.
She was born March 6, 1835, H1 Auglaize
county, Ohio. They have three living
children, CHARLES A., EDWARD
B. and ISAAC N., and live one and a half

miles northeast of Lanesville, Sangamon
county, 111.

SAMUEL S., born May 5, 1831, in
Bourbon county, Ky, was married in
Springfield, Dec. 17, 1851, to Sarah A.
Shives, who was born July 4, 1833, in
Pennsylvania. They had two children,
AUGUSTA J. married Dec.* 17, 1875,
to Lewis Allen Constant, son of Jonathan
Constant. See his name. They live in
Springfield. WILLIAM G. died in his
third year. S. S. Elder has been for many
years and is now engaged in the tin wai'e
and stove business, and resides in Spring-
field, 111.

ELIZABETH J., born May 30,
1832, in Kentucky, was married in Sanga-
mon county, in 1850, to Ethan P. May.
He was born June 12, 1829. They had
thirteen children; two died young.
MARY E., born March 15, 1851, mar-
ried George Enlow, and lives in Roches-
ter, 111. GEORGE W., SARAH E.,
FANNIE A., MARTHA A.,
CHARLES, WILLIAM D., HAR-
RIET J., EMMA L., SAMUEL L.,
AUGUSTA L. and FREDERICK T.
The family reside in Rochester, Sanga-
mon county, 111.

SINAI ANN, born June 16, 1833, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county to Franklin Hoyt. They had one
child, JAMES E., and Mr. Hoyt died.
His widow married E. P. Walker. They
had two children, SAMUEL M. and
CHESTER, who reside with their
mother. Mr. Walker enlisted and died in
the army. His widow married William
Hunter, who was born in Philadelphia.
They have two children, DORA and
WILLIE, who reside with their parents,
in Jacksonville, 111.

HARRIET, born August 15, 1835, in
in Sangamon county, was married Jan. n,
1855, to Levi F. Dyson, who was born
Nov. 8, 1825, near Poolesville, Mont-
gomery county, Md. They reside in
Springfield. Mr. Dyson came to Spring-
field in Nov., 1841, and engaged in the
stove and tinware business, which he con-
tinues to the present time.

DA VID L., born May 25, 1839, in
Sangamon county, was married in Sulli-
van, Moultrie county, to Mary Berry.
They have two children, JAMES and
WILLIAM, and reside in Springfield,
Illinois.

EARLY SETTLERS OF

HANNAH R., born July i, 1841,
in Sangamon county, was the twentieth
child. She was married Feb. 9, 1858, to
George P. Sidener, who was born Dec. 5,
1833, in Bourbon county, Ky. They had
seven children; two of whom died young.
CHARLES LINCOLN, 'ADA A.,
JAMES &RANT, EDWARD B. and
WILLIAM A., and reside two miles
north of Rochester, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

Samuel Elder died Oct. 24, 1846, and
his widow resides with her daughter,
Mrs. Dyson, in Springfield, 111.

ELLIOTT, ANDREW, was
born in 1792, in Rutherford county, N., C.
He was there married to Zilpha Kelly.
They had two children in North Carolina,
and moved to Sangamon county, 111., in
company with his , father-in-law, Wm.
Kelly, arriving in the fall of 1819, and en-
tered eighty acres of land in what is now
the northwest corner of the city of Spring-
field, where they had seven children. Of
their children —

ELIZABETH M., born Oct. 4, 1815,
in North Carolina, married in Sangamon
county to Caswell Stripling. Mrs. S. died,
leaving one child. Mr. Stripling and his
son FRANCIS reside near Nicolaus,
Sutter county, Cal.

SARAH M., born Aug. 31, 1818, in
North Carolina, married to Isaac Taylor.
See his name.

J. WESLEY, born May 17, 1822,
adjoining Springfield on the north, mar-
ried, April 13, 1843, to Allissa or Alice
Baldwin. They had ten children in San-
gamon county — ROBERT, born Feb. 26,
1844, enlisted, Aug. 25, 1862, in Co. G,
H4th 111. Inf., for three years, served full
term, and was honorably discharged Aug.
3, 1865, resides with his parents. JAMES
H., born Aug. 22, 1845, resides with his
parents. SARAH E., born Jan. 3, 1848,
married James A. Dunlap. See his name.
CATHARINE died in her fourth year.
ZILPHA, died Nov. 20, 1864, aged four-
teen. HARRIET, born June 30, 1852,
married Abraham Langford, and resides
six miles south of Springfield. AN-
DREW J., CALVIN and JOHN L., re-
side with their parents one and three-
fourths miles northwest of Springfield,
and within one mile of where J. W.
Elliott was born.

THOMAS W., born Aug. 20, 1824,
died in 1855, °^ cholera, in Springfield.

ANDREW H., born Nov. 22, 1828,
married in 1852 to Matilda Tulley, had
two children, and Mr. E. died Feb. 15,
1873, in Springfield. His widow resides
in Mason City.

JAMES M., born April 22, 1835,
married Louisa Rolls. He was accident-
ally shot while his wife was handing a
gun to him, and died a week later, in
Aug., 1 86 1.

WILLIAM K., born March 13, 1838,
married Martha Potts, and died May 2,
1865.

Mrs. Zilpha Elliott died March 2, 1842,
and Andrew Elliott died Oct. 17, 1864,
both at Springfield. Andrew Elliott was
a soldier from North Carolina in 1812.
He was a soldier from Sangamon county
in the Winnebago war of 1827, in the
Black Hawk war of 1831, and in the
Mormon war of 1845. He kept the first
hotel in Springfield. It was called the
Buck Horn Tavern, and had a large pair
of antlers .for a sign. Andrew Elliott
was the man who drove the Commission-
ers to see Sangamo town, when thev were
investigating the subject with the view of
locating the county seat. He drove them
through all the sloughs he could reach by
a round-about way, and disgusted them
before they reached the spot. They were
thus induced to decide against Sangamo
and in favor of Springfield.

ELLIOTT, JAMES, was born
in 1798, near Richmond, Va. When a
young man he emigrated to Woodford
county, Ky., and was married near Frank-
fort, in 1827, to Mrs. Jane E. Plumer,
whose maiden name was Ta^ylor. She
was born in Kentucky, in 1795. Her
father was a distinguished Baptist minister
(Rev. John Taylor). She is a sister of
Mrs. Sallie Smith, and J. Wickliffe Taylor,
of Bates, Sangamon county, 111. Mr. and
Mrs. Elliott had three children in Ken-
tucky, and they moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in May, 1835. They
settled in what is now Cartwright town-
ship. Of their children —

JOHN J., born in 1828, in Franklin
county, Ky., was brought up in Sangamon
county, and died in Springfield, in 1861.

WILLIAM £., born in 1830, in Frank-
lin county, Ky., brought up in Sangamon
county, 111., was married in 1857, m

SANGAMON COUNTY.

sonport, Ark., to Ellen Tussell, who was
born there. They had two children, TOM
and MORMON. William B. Elliott
died at Jacksonport, in 1864. His children
live with their mother, who is married
again, and resides in Jacksonport, Ark.

TEMPLE, born Dec, 9, 1835,' in
Franklin county, Ky., brought up in San-
gamon county, was married Oct. 8, 1862,
at Elkhart, 111., to Mary Constant. They
have five children, HALLIE, ARCHIE,
RITA, HARRIE and GRIFFITH,
and reside in Springfield. Temple Elliott
was deputy Sheriff two years, from Nov.,
1 870, to Nov., 1 872. He is now (June, 1876)
connected with the State Register office.

James Elliot died June, 1856, in Sanga-
mon county, and his widow resides with
her son, Temple Elliott, in Springfield,
Illinois.

ELLIOTT, MRS. SARAH,
was born about 1791, in Maryland, and
was taken by her parents to Harrison
county, Ky. She was there married to
•Edward Elliott, a native of Pennsylvania.
They had three children in Harrison
county, and moved to Gallatin county
where foui children were born, and Mr.
Elliott died, in 1829, near Warsaw, in that
county. Mrs. Elliott, with her seven
children, moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in Oct., 1830, in what is now
Mechanicsburg township. Of her child-
ren—

AMANDA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried, in Sangamon county, to Eleazer
White, had six children, and died July,
1860, in Christian county.

OLIVER, born in Kentucky, raised
in Sangamon county, married Mary Nel-
lums, had three children, and he died
Nov., 1873, at Mowequa, 111.

M1LFORD, always called Milton,
was born about 1818, in Kentucky, raised
in Sangamon county, was with the Reed
and Donner party, and starved to death in
the mountains on the way to the Pacific
coast, in the winter of 1846 and 7.

AMERICA, born Oct. 12, 1820, in
Gallatin county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to James M. King. Sec his
name.

MARY <\\c(\, aged six years.

WILLIAM, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Elizabeth
Miller. They have nine children, and re-
side near Mt. Auburn, Christian county.

REBECCA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried Thompson Kipper, have seven child-
ren, and live near Mt. Auburn.

Mrs. Sarah Elliott died Feb., 1857, near
Mt. Auburn, Christian county, 111.

ELLIS, HENRY, born Nov. 17,
1786, near Lexington, Ky. His father,
John Ellis was born Jan. 29, 1749, and
married Oct. 2, 1770, to Sarah Parrish,
who was born April 20, 1757. They
moved from Virginia to Kentucky.
The family is of Welsh extraction. The
father of John Ellis is said to have been
with the second supply of emigrants from
England to America. Martha Marshall
Yates was born (after the death of her
father) in Woodford county, Ky., Sept. 1 3,
1791, and was a sister of Henry Yates,
Sen. See his name. Henry Ellis and
Martha Yates were married Jan. 29, 1807,
in Warsaw, Ky., and had ten children
there, two of whom died in infancy. The
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in Sept., 1825, in Island Grove,
two miles northeast of Berlin, where
three children were born. Of their eleven
children —

ABNER Y., born Nov. 30, 1807, at
Warsaw, Ky., was married in Springfield,
111., Jan. 26, 1832, to Ann M. Glascock,
who was born Nov. 15, 1815. Their two
children died in infancy, and Mrs. Ellis
died Jan. 16, 1834. A. Y. Ellis was mar-
ried June 8, 1837, at Paddock's Grove, 111.,
to Virginia J. Richmond. Of their eight
children born in Springfield, 111.: VOL-
NEY R., born April 22, 1838, was mar-
ried July 10, 1858, to Maria E. Smith.
They are without family, and live in
Quincy, 111. ABNER Y., Jun., born
June i, 1840, was married Dec. 20, 1865,
to Caroline L. H. Flagg, at Rochelle,
Ogle county, 111. She was born there,
Nov., 1845. They have four children,

RICHARD Y., ALFRED P., LUCY V. and

WILLARD F. A. Y. Ellis, Jun., has been
mailing clerk for seventeen years in the
Springfield Postoffice, and resides in the
city. JANE F., born July 10, 1842, in
Springfield, is unmarried, and resides with
her parents. ORVILLE P., born July/
31, 1844, was married May 5, 1874, to
Arabell S. Graves, at Bethalto, Madison
county, 111. They have one child,
BESSIE, and reside at Bunker Hill, 111.
HENRY, born May 13, 1848, is a farmer,
residing with his parents. JOHN CON-

286

EARLY SETTLERS OF

DELL, born Jan. 30, 1851, is a telegraph
operator at Alton, 111. WILLARD F.,
born April n, 1853, died Oct. 24, 1873.
SALOME E., born Feb. 19 1857, lives
with her parents. A. Y. Ellis, Sen., re-
sides near Moro, Madison county, 111. He
was for several years Deputy Sheriff of
Sangamon county, salesman in Gen.
James D. Henry's store, and afterwards a
merchant himself. He was elected
Treasurer of Sangamon county in 1844,
serving one term. Was Postmaster of
Springfield, from 1849 to 1853, under
Presidents Taylor and Fillmore. After
a residence of forty years in Springfield,
he moved in 1865 to Paddock's Grove,
near Moro, Madison county, 111., and re-
sides there.

LA VINA, born Dec. 14, 1809, in
Warsaw, Ky., was married there, Sept. 8,
1825, to Talbott Leonard, moved to the
vicinity of Frankfort, where three child-
ren were born, and she died. Her child-
ren, JOHN W. and GEORGE H. are
physicians in Tennessee. MARTHA
married John Martin, and resides at New
Liberty, Gallatin county, Ky.

WILLIAM H. H. born August i,
1812, in Warsaw, Ky., married Mrs.
Bashaba Smith, who died, leaving one
child. He married Mrs. Nancy Denni-
son, whose maiden name was Hope.
They had three children, and Mr. -Ellis
died Jan. 28,^1873, near Berlin.

MOLLY, born Dec. 12, 1814, in War-
saw, Ky., was married in Sangamon
county, Nov. 4, 1840, to Elias Maxwell.
They had one child, ABNER Y. He
enlisted in 1861, in Co. D, 26th 111. Inf.
for three years, and died of disease con-
tracted in the army, Dec. 24, 1864, at
Berlin. Elias Maxwell died, and she
married Andrew Scott. He died in 1860,
and she in 1861.

LOUISA, born May 8, 1816, in Ken-
tucky, was married May 18, 1835, in
Berlin, 111., to Thomas F. Foster. They
brought up a family, and reside in Berlin.

ORMASINDA, born Feb. 17, 1818,
in Kentucky, died Nov. 2, 1833, near Ber'
lin.-

MARTHA, born Sept. 12, 1822, in
Warsaw, Ky., was married Oct. 4, 1842,
in Sangamon county, to Oliver H. Rush.
He died Jan. 5, 1855, leaving four child-
ren. MARY -E. died, aged nineteen
years. VIRGINIA married Morgan

Belding, and lives at Corning, Adams
county, Iowa. MARTHA married John
Johnson, and lives at Worthington, Minn.
ROBERT G., resides with his mother,
in Berlin.

MILLICENTA.,\>om April 7, 1824,
in Kentucky, died Oct. 12, 1871, in Ber-
lin.

JOEL H., born Jan. 16, 1828, in San-
gamon county, was married May 8, 1852,
to Caroline Harmon. They had one
child, and mother and child died. He
was married May 8, 1861, to Martha
Simpson. They have two children,
FLORENCE M. and DORA B., and
reside in Berlin.

ROBERT, born April 27, 1830, in
Sangamon county, was married Dec. 15,
1857,10 Delia J. Pease. She died Aug.
2, 1872, leaving four children, GEORGE
L., GREEK M., HENRY M. and
GERTRUDE M. live with their father
in Berlin.

RICHARD Y., born Dec. 6, 1832, at .
Island Grove, enlisted August n, 1861, in
Co. D, 26th 111. Inf., for three years. He
was killed in a rifle pit at Atlanta, Ga.,
Aug. 8, 1864, within three days of the
expiration of his term of service.

Henry Ellis, Sen., died June 13, 1854,
in Berlin, and his widow resides there, in
the eighty-fifth year of her age. [1876.]

ELLIS, LEVI D., born about
1791, in South Carolina. His father died
before Levi D. was born. When the lat-
ter was thirteen years of age he accompa-
nied some neighboring families to Tennes-
see, and stopped near Nashville, in that
State. He hired out, bought some land
with the proceeds, improved it and sent
for his mother and the rest of the family.
He learned the cabinet and carpenter's
trades, in Nashville, and was married
there, about 1811, to Cynthia Bradford,
who was born in Fauquier county, Va.,
and was the only daughter of Captain
William Bradford of that county. L. D.
Ellis was drafted in the war of 1812, but
hired a substitute, and was employed by
the Government to stock guns. After the
war they moved to the mouth of the
Cumberland «river, in Kentucky, and from
there with two children to the vicinity
of Belleville, 111., thence, in 1817, to
where Springfield now stands. Of their
children —

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287

WILLIAM, born Aug. 13, 1812, in
Tennessee.

JAMES, born Aug. 13, 1814, in Ken-
tucky.

DANIEL, born Aug. 25, 1816, in
Illinois.

JACOB W., born July 20, 1818, in
Sangamon county, 111. (Until my atten-
tion was called to Jacob W. Ellis, it was
thought Joseph E. McCoy was the first
child born of white parents in the present
limits of Sangamon county, but the date
of Mr. Ellis' birth comes to me as a quo-
tation from a record in the family Bible,
and appears to be as much entitled to
credence as any of the others.) He was
married in Fulton county, 111., June 21,
1838. to Sarah Kreider. Of their child-
ren— WILLIAM, born March 23, 1839,
in Ellisville, Fulton county, 111., enlisted
in the iyth Reg. 111. Vol. Inf., under Col.
L. F. Ross, and died the next August at
Ironton, Mo. MILLIE, born July 2,
1841, in Illinois, married Caleb Sullivan.
He enlisted during the rebellion, and was
with Sherman in his march to the sea.
They have six children, WILLIAM, HARRY,
WALTER, FREDERICK, BERTIE, and a babe.
SARAH, married Abram Childers, in
Fulton county, 111. He served in the
army. They have four children, MARY,
ENORA, CORA and NELLIE. Mr. Childers
resides in Lena Valley, Greenwood
county, Kans. FLORENCE, married
Thomas I. Tullis. They have 'one child,
and live at Fairview, Fulton county, 111.
BIRD, born in 1853, is a farmer, and lives
in Illinois. Mrs. Sarah Ellis died Aug.
20, 1857, m Prairie City, 111., and Jacob
W. Ellis was married Aug., 1858, in Ful-
ton county, to Adelia Sanford. They
have one child, FRANK, born March 4,
1861. J. W. Ellis is a carpenter. He
moved to Kansas in the fall of 1870, and
resides in Lena Valley, Greenwood
county, Kansas.

FIELDING, born June 24, 1820, in
Sangamon countv, 111.

JOSEPH, born Aug. 22, 1822, in
Sangamon county.

JESSE, born Feb. 7, 1824, in Fulton
county, 111.

MART, born March 12,1826,111 Ful-
ton county, 111.

Levi D. Ellis built a mill, with a brush
dam, on Spring creek. He surveyed the
first lots in Springfield, and moved to Ful-

ton county, 111., in 1823, where he built a
mill on Spoon river, and laid out the town
of Ellisville. Mrs. Cynthia Ellis died in
the summer of 1846, and Levi D. Ellis
died Aug. 7, 1857, Dotn m Fulton county,

ELLIS, JACOB, brother of Levi
D., came to Sangamon county later, and
built a horse mill, cotton gin and black-
smith shop. He lived half a mile west of
Levi, in Springfield, and moved to Fulton
county the same year with his brother.

ELLIS, MILETUS W., born
April 7, 1809, in Albemarle county, Va.,
and came to Sangamon county, 111., arriv-
ing at Springfield, in Nov., 1830. He was
married March 13, 1834, to Mary A. Con-
stant. They had two living children.

MARTHA, married William Winn,
and for a second husband married James
Barr, and lives in Kansas.

JAMES C., married Matilda New-'
comb, and resides at Hiram, Ohio.

Mrs. Mary A. Ellis died Sept. 4, 1846,
and Miletus W. Ellis was married Nov. 7,
1847, to Mrs. Mary M. Constant, whose
maiden name was Stewart. They had one
child—

FANNIE W. She married George
B. Jones. See his name.

Miletus W. Ellis died Aug. 28, 1872,
and his widow resides at the homestead,
three miles west of Williamsville. Mr,
Ellis' father, mother, three brothers and
three sisters, came to the county with him.
All went to Bureau countv.

ELMORE, HARDIN H.,
was born June 20, 1813, in Cumberland
county, Ky., was taken by his parents to
Adair county about 1827. From there he
came to Sangamon county, arriving in
Sept., 1834, in what is now Loami town-
ship. He was married April 6, 1836, to
Sarah Forrest. They had three children,
and Mrs. El more died April 6, 1844,
within ten minutes of eight years from the
time of her marriage. H. H. Elmore was
married Oct. 20, 1847, to Sibyl Pirdy, who
was born Nov. 26, 1823, in Kanawha
county, W. Va. They have three children.
Of all his children —

ELIZABETH J., born May 6, 1836,
married Oct. 15, 1857, to &• ^- Roberts.
They have four children, LEWIS E.,
MARGARET, KATIE and ROB-
ERT, and live in Sedan, Chautauqua
county, Kansas.

EARLY SETTLERS OF

SARAH A., born April 7, 1840, mar-
ried Daniel Kinney. Sec his name.

AMERICA L., born March 28, 1844,
married Charles King. They have five
children, KATIE, THOMAS, FANNY,
MARY E., and a babe, and reside near
Sedan, Chautauqua county, Kansas.
By the second marriage —
NELSON F., born Aug. 29, 1847, en-
listed in 1864 in Co. E, I33d 111. Inf., for
one hundred days, served full term, and
was honorably discharged. He was mar-
ried Sept. 22, 1868, to Julia J. Colburn.
They have three children, FRANK,
VIOLA, and a babe, and live five miles
southwest of Chatham.

WILLIAM H. and JAMES B.,
live with their parents.

H. H. Elmore and wife reside in
Loami.

EN OS, ABNER, was born July
20, 1791, near Utica, Oneida county, N. Y.
He was in the American navy, under
Commodore Perry, was in the naval bat-
tle on Lake Erie, Sept. 10, 1813, and was
wounded by a boarding pike being thrust
through him, by which he was fastened
to the side of the ship until relieved by
friends. He was captured a few months
later, and the last six months of the war
he spent in prison, at Montreal, Canada.
He drew a pension to the end of his life.
He went, in 1815, to Clark county, Ky.,
and was there married, August 6, 1817,
to Anna Burns. They had six children,
and she died Sept. 13, 1829, in Clark
county, and he there married Anna Sud-
duth, June 9, 1830. She was born there
Jan. 20, 1792- The family moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving Oct. I, 1831,
in Buffalo Hart Grove, where one child
was born. Of his children —
^ AMARILDA, born Nov. 17, 1818, in
Clark county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, Dec. 26, 1837, to Sylvester W.
Ford. See his name.

JAMES, born July 10, 1820, in Clark
county, Ky., married in Sangamon coun-
ty, in 1847, to Phebe J. Goff. They have
three children, and reside near Knobnos-
ter, Johnson county, Mo.

HORACE B., born Jan. 17, 1822, in
Clarke county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, April 3, 1844, to Arminta J. Con-
stant. They had three children in San-
gamon county. MARY E., born Dec.
20, 1845, married H. Clay Constant. See

his name. JOHN R., born March 5,
1848, enlisted in Co. I, ii4th 111. Inf.,
March 8, 1865, for one year. He was
transferred to Co. C, 58th 111. Inf., July,
1865, served until March 7, 1866, when
he was honorably discharged, at Mont-
gomery, Alabama. He was married Oct.
28, 1874, in Sangamon county, to Jane
F. Wilson, a daughter of Thomas Wilson.
See. Riddle family. They reside in Buf-
falo Hart township. ALFRED R.,
born Feb. 17, 1854, died aged six years.
Mrs. Arminta J. Enos died Sept. ii, 1857,
and H. B. Enos was married Nov. 10,
1858, in Erie county, New York, to Car-
oline C. Merrick, who was born Dec. 29,
1828, in Onandaga county, N. Y. They
have one child, GERTIE J., born Sept.
30, 1860, and reside two and a half miles
southeast of Buffalo Hart Station.

ROBERT B., born April 7, 1824, in
Clark county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, August 27, 1865, to Mary F.
Etter, who was born Oct. 13, 1844, in
Lawrence county, Ind. They have one
living child. GRACIE M. died in her
third year. ARTHUR O. died in in-
fancy. EDWARD LESLIE resides
with his parents, two and three-quarter
miles east of Buffalo Hart Station.

WILLIAM S., born Dec. 4, 1832, in
Sangamon county, the only child by the
second wife. He enlisted August 15,
1862, for three years, in Co. B, 130111 111.
Inf., and was wounded May 22, 1863, in
five places, and again June 4, 1863, by a
shot through the foot, all at the siege of
Vicksburg. He recovered, and was cap-s
tured April, 1864, in Gen. Bank's Red
river expedition, was placed in a rebel
stockade prison at camp Ford, near
Tyler, Texas, remained in prison thirteen
months and nineteen days, was released,
went to New Orleans, St. Louis and
Springfield, and was honorably discharged
June 17, 1865. He was married Oct. 12,
1865, to Jane Dunn, who was born Jan.
29, 1847, *n Yorkshire, England. They
have two children, ANNIE and JAN-
ETTE, and reside two and a half miles
east of Buffalo Hart Station.

Abner Enos died March 12, 1850, and
Mrs. Anna S. Enos died Jan. 17, 1870,
both in Buffalo Hart township.

ENOS, PASCAL P., born in
1 770, at Windsor, Conn. Salome Paddock
was born March 12, 1791, at Woodstock,

SA JVG A MON c o uxrr.

Windsor county, Vt. They were there
married, Sept., 1815, moved to Cincinnati,
Ohio, the same fall, and a year later to St.
Charles, Mo., where one child was born.
In the spring of 1817 they moved to St.
Louis, where one child was born, and in
the fall of 1821 moved to Madison county,
six miles north of Edwardsville, 111.
While residing there, at the solicitation of
the Vermont delegation in Congress, Mr.
Enos was appointed by President Monroe
Receiver in the land office then estab-
lished at what was called Springfield
District, although there was no town laid
out. Mr. Enos arrived with his family
in Sept., 1823. He opened the land office
in a double log cabin, at what is now the
northwest corner of Third and Jefferson
streets. He soon after united with Elijah
lies, John Taylor and Thomas Cox, each
entering a quarter section of land. They
then laid out a town, and called it Cal-
houn ; afterwards it was changed to Spring-
field. Mr. and Mrs. Enos had three
children born in Springfield. Of their
five children —

PASCAL P., Jun., born Nov. 28,
18:6, at St. Charles,'Mo., was married in
Springfield, 111., to Eliza J. Johnson. She
died April 15, 1859, and he died Feb. 17,
1867, both in Springfield. They were
without family. He served one term in
the State Legislature, and was appointed
United States Circuit Clerk by Judge
McLean, and again by Judge Davis, and
died in office.

ZIMRI A., born Sept. 29, 1821, in
St. Louis, Mo., was married in Spring-
field, 111., June 10, 1846, to Agnes D.
Trotter, who was born in New York city
Feb. 15, 1825. They have six children
born in Springfield. PASCAL P., born
April 6, 1847, resides in Kansas.
GEORGE T., is a Civil Engineer, and
resides at Toledo, Ohio. WILLIAM P.,
CATHARINE I., ALLEN Z., and
LOUISA I., live with their parents.
Z. A. Enos served two terms, of two years
each, as County Surveyor of Sangamon
county, and three terms as Alderman of
Springfield. He and his family reside in
Springfield. 111.

IFAKTHA M., born April 26, 1824,
in Springfield, died there Jan. 4, 1837.

SUSAN P., born Oct. 27, 1829, in
Springfield, resides with her mother.

—37

JULIA R.f born Dec. 20, 1832, in
Springfield, was married in 1860 to Oxias
M. Hatch, who was born April 14, 1814,
in Hillsborough, Hillsborough county,
N. H. His father, Dr. Reuben Hatch,
with his family, moved to Pike county,
111., in 1835, and Ozias M. followed
in 1836. He has been heard to say,
in a jocular way, that he was born in
New Hampshire, educated in Massachu-
setts, and graduated in Pike county, 111.
The latter, probably alluding to the fact
that he was appointed, by Judge Samuel
D. Lockwood, Clerk of the Circuit Court
of Pike county, in 1841, for seven years.
From 1847 to I^51> he was engaged
in merchandising, in Griggsville. In
1851 he was elected to represent Pike
county in the State Legislature for
two years. In November, 1856, O. M.
Hatch was elected, on the Republican
ticket, Secretary of State, for Illinois, and
re-elected in 1860, serving in all eight
years. He was one of the original mem-
bers of the National Lincoln Monument
Association, temporarily organized April
24, 1865, and assuming a legal form on
the nth of May following. Mr. Hatch
was elected Secretary of the Association
Jan. 1 8, 1866, and holds the office to the
present time — June, 1876. Mr. and Mrs.
Hatch have three living children, OZIAS
M., Jun., PASCAL E., and FRANK
LOCKWOOD, and reside in Springfield,
Illinois.

Pascal P. Enos held the office of Re-
ceiver of the Land Office at Springfield,
under Presidents Monroe and John
Quincy Adams. He was removed by
President Jackson solely because they dif-
fered in politics — Mr. Enos being a Whig.
He died April, 1832, in Springfield, and
his widow now — June, 1876 — in her
eighty-sixth year, and the forty-fifth of
her widowhood, resides in Springfield,
Illinois.

ENGLAND, STEPHEN,
born June 12, 1773, in Virginia. His pa-
rents moved to Bath county, Ky., when
he was quite young. He was there mar-
ried, about 1791, to Anna Harper, who
was born Sept. I, 1772, in Virginia. They
had ten living children in Kentucky. The
family moved, in March, 1813, to Madi-
son county, Ohio, where they had two
children. In the fall of 1818 the farnilv
moved to Madison county, 111. The fof-

EARLY SB TTLERS OF

lowing winter Stephen England, with
two of his sons-in-law, came up to the
San-ga-ma country to explore it. The
nearest habitation to where Springfield
now stands, was on the south bank of the
Sangamon river, near where the C. and
A. R. R. now crosses. They found a
man named William Higgins living in a
cabin there, which he had built in Jan.,
1819. See his name. They remained
over night with Mr. Higgins, and crossed
to the north side of the river, each select-
ing a spot on which to make a home. In
order to prevent others who might come
after from choosing the same ground,
they cut a few logs, laid them across each
other in three piles, and each man cut his
initials on a tree near by, as evidence that
the land was claimed. That was near
what was soon after called Higgins' creek,
but is now called Cantrall's creek. They
returned to their families, and early in
March, 1819, Stephen E-ngland, his son
David, his sons-in-law, Andrew Cline and
Wyatt Cantrall, returned to their claims
for the purpose of commencing improve-
ments. The night after their arrival
snow fell about one foot deep, and the
weather was colder than it had been at
any time during the winter. They com-
menced work, and Mr. England and his
son soon had their house up, roofed, and
the door and chimney place cut out.
The other two men had their materials on
the ground. . By that time the melting
snow warned them that they must cross
the river at once, or they might be delayed
several weeks. They returned to their
families, and attempted to move them, but
the ground was so soft from melting snow
that their teams were unequal to the task
of drawing the wagons with their heavy
loads, and they again left their families.
The same men returned, accompanied by
two of the daughters or Mr. England.
They then completed their houses, cleared
land, planted their crops, and returned to
Madison county for their families, bring-
ing them to their new homes about the
first of June, 1819. Of Mr. England's
twelve children then living —

FANNIE, \)ovn Oct. 2, 1792, in Bath
county, Ky, married Levi Cantrall. See
his name.

SALL1E, born Nov. 2, 1794, in Bath
county, Ky., married Wyatt Cantrall.
See his name.

LUCY, born Feb. 13, 1797, in Bath
county, Ky., crossed the Sangamon river
with her father, April, 1819, and she is
thought to be the fifth white woman that
ever crossed the river, and the first to cook
a meal on the north side. She was mar-
ried afterwards to John Cline. See Ills
name.

ANNA, born August 30, 1798, in Ken-
tucky, was married to Andrew Clino.
They had four children. The parents
and two of the children died in Sanga-
mon county. Of the other two: STEPH-
EN married for his third wife, Dorothy
Wigginton. They have children, and
reside near Elkhart, Logan county.
PERRY married, has one child, and re-
sides in Wisconsin.

POLLY J., born April 29, 1800, in
Kentucky, married Evans E. Brittin. Sec
his name.

SIJ^HA, born April, 1802, in Ken-
tucky, was married April 2, 1823, to
George W. Anderson. They have seven
children. The parents and five of the
children died in Sangamon county, 111.
Of the other two: ELIZABETH mar-
ried Andrew Ralph, and resides in Fancy
Creek township. ELIZA married
Charles Boker. He died, and she lives in
Cantrall.

DA VID, born Nov. 25, 1804, in Bath
county, Ky., was married Nov. 4, 1823, to
Margaret Higgins. They had fourteen
children, seven of each sex, all born in
Sangamon county, 111. LOLTISA mar-
ried Charles Turley, April 6, 1842. He
was born Dec. n, 1822, in Montgomery
county, Ky. They have nine children:
s. SANFORD married Jane McClelland.
See name of McClelland. MAGGIE E.
married R. C. Maxwell. They have two
children, Charles and Louisa, and live
near Lincoln, Logan county. AMANDA
married John B. Taylor, of Williamsville,
and resides there. DAVID married in
Lincoln, and lives near there. SUSAN
j. married Dr. McClelland of Williams-
ville, and resides there. JAMES P., MAR-
SHALL, MEADE and IXA M., live with
their parents one and a half miles east of
Williamsville, Sangamon county. EVE-
LINE B. married James M. Mitts. See
his name. JULIA A. married Thomas
W. Lake. See his name. STEPHEN
married Margaret Canterbury. They
have three children, ASA, MARY and

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291

WILLIAM i., and live in Menard county.
ROSE ANN married William Council.
See his name. WILLIAM B. married
Martha Hall. They had three children.
LAURA married Jeremiah Casey, and re-
sides in Menard county. HETTIE and
WILLIAM live with their mother. Wil-
liam B. England enlisted in 1862 for three
years, in Co. K, n5th 111. Inf. He was
killed Sept. 20, 1863, at the battle of
Chickamauga, Tenn. His widow mar-
ried Thomas Swearingen, who served
three years as a captain in the Union
army. They reside at Athens, Menard
county, 111. CAROLINE married Jacob
Beck, who was born Nov. 22, 1829, in
Ross county, Ohio. They have six child-
ren, MARIETTA, CHARLES F., DAVID E.,

IDA M., MAGGIE and FREDERICK, and
live near Williamsville. MARGARET
married Asa Canterbury. See his name.
They have eight children, and reside near
Gibson City, Ford county, 111. MARY
A. married Milam Holland, who died,
and she married James W. Mott. See
his name. David A. enlisted for three
years, Aug. 9, 1862, in Co. K, H5th 111.
Vol. Inf., served until June I, 1865, when
he was honorably discharged. He mar-
ried Emma Mott. They have three
children, HENRY w., ANNIE R. and
LUCY, and live in Athens. JAMES
M. and CHARLES F., twins. James
M. married Mary A. Mott. He died,
leaving a widow and one child, MARIA, in
Athens. Charles F. married Rebecca
Wood. They have six children, and re-
side in Illiopolis township. HENRY H.
married Mary A. Price. They have three
children, LI/KKNA L., FLORA B. and WIL-
LIAM B., and live near Cantrall. MILAM
R. lives with his parents. David Eng-
land remembers seeing Indians bury their
dead by putting them in troughs and sus-
pending them in trees, also building pens
around them and leaving their bodies to
decay. David England and his wife re-
side on the farm settled by his father in
1819, three miles west of Sherman.

ELIZABETH, born Nov. 12, 1805,
in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, Jan. 24, 1822, to Hiram Went-
worth. They died, leaving three children.

KEZ.IAH, born June 23, 1807, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county to Charles Smith. They had six

children. The parents are dead, and the
children live in California.

JOHN, born Jan. 15, 1811, in Bath
county, Ky., was married in Sangamon
county to Mary Smith. They had nine
children. WILLIAM A. was married in
1868, to Olive Stanton, in Salem, Oregon.
SARAH married William Trakes.
ADELPHIA, born May 10, 1831, mar-
ried Samuel Turley. They have eleven
living children, and reside in Logan
county. MATILDA A., born June 26,
1834, married W. H. Rankin. They
have eight children, and live in Cham-
paign county, 111. ALBERT, borri May
16, 1838. He served three years in the 2d
111. Cav., and was honorably discharged.
He is married, has four children, and re-
sides in Monticello, Piatt county, 111.
MARY J. and MARION, twins, born
March 15, 1840. Mary J. married A.
Robinson, and live in Macon county,
111. Marion rnarried Catharine Grove,
and live in Logan county. LUCY A.,
born July 23, 1842, married D. Thubert,
and live in Macon county, 111. ELIZA-
BETH C., born Aug. 15, 1848, married
Ezra McMasters. They reside in Elkhart,
Logan county, 111. JOHN C., born April
3, 1858, lives in Logan county. Mrs. Mary
England died, and John England was mar-
ried to Sarah Groves. They have one
child, and reside at Mt. Pulaski. John
England is a preacher in connection with
the Christian church.

ADELPHIA, born May 15, 1813, in
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county
to Joseph I. Smith. They had three
children. FRANCIS M. enlisted in
1861 for three years, in Co. C, 2ist 111.
Inf., served full time, and was honorably
discharged. He married Mary Young,
and resides at Fort Madison, Iowa.
ENOCH B. enlisted July, 1862, for three
years, in Co. K, io6th 111. Inf., served un-
til the close of the rebellion, and was hon-
orably discharged July, 1865. He mar-
ried Louisa Stone. They have two child-
ren, and reside in Fremont county, Iowa.
JULIA A. married .James Rayburn.
They have eight children, and live at
Irish Grove, Menard county. Joseph I.
Smith died JaiL i, 1851, and his widow
was married Dec. 20, 1855, to William B.
Goodpasture. They have one child,
JESSE K. Mr. Goodpasture was born in
Overton county, Tenn.; came to Jackson-

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ville, 111., in 1829. The present Mrs.
Goodpasture is his third wife. Two of
his sons by a former marriage were sol-
diers' in Co. K, io6th 111. Inf. One of
them lost his life in defense of his country
in the Autumn of 1864. Mr. and Mrs.
Goodpasture reside near Auburn.

JESSE, born Feb. 10, 1815, in Bath
county, Ky., was married in Sangamon
county, 111., Dec. 31, 1833, to Mahala
Smith. They have five children living;
three died in infancy. AMERICA, born
Oct. 1 6, 1834, was married March 10,
1853, to Isaac J. Sherman. They have
three children, MARY j., MARTHA A. and
MAHALA A., who live with their parents
on Fancy Prairie. MARY, born May
4, 1837, was married March 20, 1856, to
Cyrus B. Sherman. They have seven
children, AMERICA E., MIRANDA j., WIL-
LIAM II., EMELINE, IDA M., MARY A. and

NOLA E., and live at Middletown, 111.
MIRANDA, born July 6, 1839, was
married March 29, 1860, to William F.
West. They had two living children,
FRANK H. and IDA B., who live with their
mother. Mr. West died March 30, 1863,
and his widow married Absalom Miller,
April 11,1870. They have three living
children, JOHN j., EDWARD and MYRA,
and reside near Maryville, Nodoway
county, Mo. PAREN, born May 20,
1841, was married Feb. 14, i86i,to Nancy
M. Whittier, and reside near Lincoln,
Neb. PERRY J., born Feb. 5, 1849,
was married to Gallic Hall, Oct. 10, 1872.
They have two children, ARTHUR j. and
ETHEL P., and live near Fancy Prairie,
Menard county, 111. Jesse England and
wife reside near Fancy Prairie postoffice,
Menard county, 111.

Stephen England died Sept. 26, 1823,
of a cancer in one of his ankles. He
preached the gospel as long as he could
stand, and delivered his last sermon sit-
ting. His widow died June i, 1841, both
near where they settled in 1819, in what
is now Fancy Creek township. Stephen
England was a Baptist minister in Ken-
tucky, and when he brought his family to
the new settlement, the people having
planted their crops, wished to have relig-
ious services, so Mr. England announced
that he would preach at his own house
late in June or early in July, 1819.
Everybody in the entire settlement came.
Two women walked five miles through

the grass, which was almost as high as
their heads. The husband of one of
them walked and carried their babe. That
was the first sermon ever preached north
of the Sangamon river in this county, and
probably in Central Illinois. Mr. Eng-
land organized a church May 15, 1820, at
his own house. There were eight mem-
bers besides himself. The names of the
persons constituting the church were
Stephen England and Anna, his wife;
Jechoniah Langston and Nancy, his wife;
Levi Cantrall and Fannie, his wife; Mrs.
Adelphia Wood, Mrs. Sarah Cantrall, the
wife of Wyatt Cantrall, Mrs. Lucy Scott
(daughter of Mr. England), afterwards
Mrs. Cline. That was the first church
organized in Sangamon county, and the
organization has never been broken. It
is now known as Antioch Christian
church, and composed at present of about
ninety members. It is occupying its third
house of worship, which is a handsome
wooden edifice situated within the limits
of Cantrall, a town recently laid out.
Elder Stephen England was pastor of the
church until his death, in 1823. His son
David united with the church about one
year after his father's death. He was first
elected deacon, then elder, and has contin-
ued in that office to the present time.
Elder Stephen England solemnized the
marriage of Philo Beers and Martha
Stillman, Nov. 2, 1820, which was the
first marriage in Sangamon county. See
Philo Beers. This event occurred one
and a half miles southwest of Williams-
ville. A couple came to Mr. England
from Fort Clark, now Peoria, to avoid the
trouble of going to Edwardsville for
license. It was lawful to advertise their
intentions for ten days, and then marry
without license. That couple were mar-
ried in the latter way.

ENYART, SILAS, was born
June 21, 1788, in Hardin county, Ky. He
was married Nov. 6, 1806, to Martha
Duckworth, who was born June 7, 1789,
in the same county. They had eight
children born in Kentucky, one died in
infancy, and the family moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving in the spring of
1834 in what is now Gardner township,
six miles west of Springfield. Of their
children —

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky,

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was married, in Sangamon county, to
Zebulon Cantrill. See his name.

SARAH, born in Kentucky, was mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Arthur B.
McMurry. See his name.

POLICY, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Moses Laswell.
See his name.

MA TILDA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to William H.
Talbott. See his name.

REBECCA J., born in Kentucky,
married N. E. Bateman. They had six
children, namely, MARY E., SARAH
J., JAMES W., CHARLES N., ED-
"WARD E. and EMMA E. Mrs. Bate-
man resides with her daughter, Mrs.
Albert V. Arnold, in Springfield.

JAMES, died in 1844, aged twenty -
one years.

WILLIAM, born June 25, 1825, in
Hardin county, Ky., was married in San-
gamon county, 111., Jan. 13, 1852, to Sarah
Elder. They had four children in Sanga-
mon county. LUCY E. died in her third
year. MINERVA, married James Mer-
ri weather. They have one child, ALLEN,
and reside in Cotton Hill township.
EMMA and EFFIE, reside with their
parents two and one-half miles north of
Pawnee, in Cotton Hill township. Wil-
liam Enyart left Springfield March 25,
1849, for the gold fields of California,
with eight others, only three of whom re-
turned. William Envart was gone two
years and three months, and made enough
to buy himself a good home. During his
absence he had an interview with James
Baker. See his name.

Mrs. Martha Enyart died in 183=5, and
.Silas Enyart died in 1837, both in Sanga-
mon county, 111.

EUSTACE, WILLIAM, born
in Eastport, Me., settled in 1837 or 8 in
what is now Talkington township, where
Chas. T. Hoppin now resides. He was
the first settler in the township. His
daughter, Elizabeth, married John Barger.
See his name.

EWELL, ISAAC L., was born
April 29, 1819, in Burnett, Caledonia
county, Vt., came to Springfield, 111., in
the fall of 1837, spent two years there as
a miller, returned to Vermont, came back
to Sangamon county, and was married
Sept. 3, 1846, to Louisa E. Kelly. He
moved to Peacham, Vt., in the spring of

1847, where they had one child, and re-
turned to Sangamon county in 1850, where
they had two children. Of their three
children —

CHARLES W., born Feb. 7, 1848,
in Peacham, Caledonia county, Vt., mar-
ried in Sangamon county, Nov. 25, 1868,
to Eliza J. Turner, have one child, MIN-
NIE, and live in Curran township.

HORACE J., born Oct. 13, 1851, in
Sangamon county, died May 23, 1863.

EUNICE M., born Nov. 24, 1857,111
Sangamon county, and lives with her
parents.

Isaac L. Ewell and wife reside two and
a-half miles north of Curran.

PAGAN, WILLIAM, born in
1777, in North Carolina, was married
there to Peninah Fruit, who was born Jan.
29, 1774, in the same State. They moved
to Virginia, and from there to Christian
county, Ky. In 1819 they emigrated,
with four children, to southern Illinois,
thence to Sangamon county, arriving in
what is now Clear Lake township, in
1820. They moved next year to Buffalo
Hart Grove, and from there to Spring-
field. In 1831 they settled on a farm three
miles northwest of Springfield. Of their
children —

ELIZABETH, born in 1801, in Vir-
ginia or Kentucky, died in Springfield,
111., aged twenty-two years.

HANNAH, born in 1806, in Christian
county, Ky., died aged about thirteen
years.

JOHN, born May 17, 1809, in Chris-
tian county, Ky., was married April 15,
1830, in Springfield, 111., to Mary Henry,
who was born in 1812, in Ohio. They
had nine children. ELIZABETH J.,
born Dec. 22, 1831, was married Oct. 15,
1851, to William C. Langston, she died
Dec. 26, 1853, without children. CLAR-
ISSA and CLARINDA (twins), born
Nov. 22, 1833. CLARISSA was mar-
ried March, 1851, to Uriah C. Withrow,
who was born Jan. 26, 1827. Thev had
one son, vv. A., who lives in Sangamon
county, 111. W. C. Withrow died Sept.
26, 1852, and Mrs. Withrow was married
May, 1860, to Aaron Apgar. Mrs. Clar-
issa Apgar died Oct. 7, 1864, leaving one

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child, IDA BELLE, who lives in Sangamon
county. CLARINDA was married April
16, 1861, to J. L. Rohinette, who was
born June 12, 1836, in Ohio. They moved
to California in 1863, where Mrs. Robin-
ette died June 13, 1864. GEORGE T.,
born Aug. 4, 1836, was married Sept. 3,
1857, *° R-acnel Hazlett, who was born
Oct. 12, 1839, in Christian county. They
have three living children, FRANKLIX,
IRVING, and GEORGE, who reside with
their parents in Christian county, 111.
SARAH F., born Oct. 28, 1838, was mar-
ried Oct., 1855, to F. M. Montgomery.
She died April 8, 1856. BRICE H., born
Jan. 23, 1841, enlisted Feb., 1862, in Co.
G, loth 111. Cav., served until after the
capture ot Little Rock, Ark., when he
was taken sick and died in hospital there,
Dec. 10, 1863. His body was brought
home for interment. WILLIAM P.,
born May 18, 1843, died April i, 1860.
JAMES F., born Jan. 29, 1846, was mar-
ried Aug. 29, 1870, to Eliza J. Buchannan,
who was born Jan. 17, 1846. They
moved to the southern part of Kansas,
where Eliza J. Fagan died March 18,
1873. James Fagan returned to Sanga-
mon county and lives with his father.
CHARLES A., born March 12, 1849,
died Aug. 20, 1872. Mrs. Mary Fagan
died Aug. 14, 1850, and John Fagan was
married April 14, 1852, to Mrs. Mary VV.
Norris, whose maiden name was Cole.
They have two living children. MARY
L., born Jan. 22, 1854, was married Feb.
15, 1871, to Jesse H. Potts, had one child,
ADA BELL, who died young, and the fam-
ily live in Christian county, 111. BENJA-
MIN, born July 17, 1856, lives with his
father. Mrs. Mary W. Fagan died Feb.
22, 1858, and John Fagan was married
Dec. 20, 1860, in Logan county, Ohio, to
Mary Williams, who was born April 17,
1826. They reside four miles northwest
of Springfield, 111.

GEORGE, born Feb. 19, 1814, in
Christian county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county, 111., Dec. 11, 1838, to
Ruth Smith. They had six children.
Of the three who lived to be grown —
JOHN F., born Dec. 19, 1843, in Sanga-
mon county, enlisted Jan. 18, 1862, for
three years in Co. G, loth 111. Cav., re-en-
listed as a veteran Jan. 18, 1864, served to
the end of the rebellion, and was honora-
blv discharged, at San Antonia, Texas,

Nov., 1865. He was married in Sanga-
mon county Sept. 2, 1868, to Mary E.
Lightfoot. They have one child, HER-
BERT F., and reside three and one-half
miles northwest of Springfield. GREEN
B., born July 24, 1849, died April 10,
1866. WILLIAM G., born Jan. 22,
1852, lives with his parents. George
Fagan and wife reside three miles north-
west of Springfield, on the farm where
his parents settled in 1830.

William Fagan died Nov. 24, 1843, and
his widow died Sept. 27, 1846, both where
they settled in 1830, three miles northwest
of Springfield, 111.

FAIRCHILD, MOSES, was
born Aug., 1793, in Essex county, N. Y.
He was married Nov. 9, 1817, at Shel-
bourn, Vt., to Adah Holabird, who was
born there, in July, 1793. They had six
living children in Essex county, New
York, and the family moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of
1833, at Rochester, where they had one
child. \Of their seven children —

HIRAM, born Oct. 10, 1819, in Essex
county, N. Y., married in Springfield, 111.,
Feb. 14, 1850, to Martha L. Beall. They
had nine children in Sangamon county,
six of whom died under four years. Of
the other three, CHARLES" H., born
Oct. 27, 1850, HIRAM R., born Nov. 4,
1854, and WILLIAM P., born Oct. 29,
1856, all reside with their parents, three-
quarters of a mile east of Clark sville,
Sangamon county.

CHARLES, born Sept. 25, 1821, in
Essex county, N. Y., married in Sanga-
mon county, Jan. 31, 1848, to Lavina
Sattlev. They had eight living children,
BELLE, MARY E., BENJAMIN S.,
ADAH E., CHARLES, ROBERT,
RALPH S. and WINFIELD S. reside
with their parents, one mile east of Roch-
ester, on the farm where Moses Fairchild
settled in 1833.

HE NR T, born Sept. 20, 1823, in New
York, raised in Sangamon county, mar-
ried in Jacksonville to Jane Ragsdale.
They had one child, HOMER LIN-
COLN, and Mrs. Jane F. died. Mr. F.
married Nancy McKittrick. They have
three children, and reside near Tower
Hill, Shelby county, 111.

MART' J., born May 27, 1826, in
Essex county, N. Y., married in Sanga-
mon county, March 24, 1852, to Joseph

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E. Ross, who was born Oct. 13, 1823, in
Clarke county, O., and came to Sanga-
mon county, in 1841 or '2. They had
four children, ADAH MAY and IDA
F., the third and fourth, died young.
JOHN HENRY and CHARLES OS-
CAR reside with their parents, two and a
half miles north of Breckenridge.

DANIEL, horn August 23, 1829, in
New York, and died in Sangamon coun-
ty, Dec. 8, 1846.

HYMA\\ born Dec. 2, 1832, in New
York, raised in Sangamon county, went
to California in 1850 married there to
Mrs. Mary J. Waddle, whose maiden
name was Barker. They had twins, and
Mrs. F. died. He was married in Sanga-
mon county to Mrs. Susan Giger, whose
maiden name was Benson. They have
three children, and reside near Grafton,,
Yolo county, California.

MOSES, Jun., born July 9, 1835, m
Sangamon county, died in his fourth
year.

Moses Fairchild died in Sangamon
county, and Mrs. Adah Fairchild resides
with her daughter, Mrs. Ross.

FARQUAR, GEORGE, was
born. in 1794, in Uniontown, Penn. His
father died, and his mother married Rob-
ert Ford, who was killed by Indians, leav-
ing one son. Mrs. Ford with her two
sons, George Farquar and Thomas Ford,
came to Waterloo, Monroe county, 111.
Of the younger of the two half brothers,
it is only necessary to say in this connec-
tion that Thomas Ford afterwards became
Governor of Illinois. George Farquar
was elected to represent Monroe county
in the State legislature one term. He was
appointed Jan. i =;, 1825, by Gov. Coles, to
the office of Secretary of State, and went
to Vandalia in discharge of the duties of
the office. He was married March 20,
1828, at Kaskaskia, to Ann Cranmer, a
sister to Mrs. James L. Lamb. She was
born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Dec. 2=;, 1806.
Mr. Farquar resigned his office Dec. 31,
1828, and was appointed Jan. 23, 1829, by
(TOY. Edwards, Attorney General of Illi-
nois. He resigned that office and moved
to Springfield the same year, lie after-
wards represented Sangamon county in
the State Senate, and was at one time
Register of the United States Land Office
in Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Farquar

had five children, four of whom died
young, and one —

GEORGE M., born March 16, 1835,
in Springfield, and died March 12, 1861.

Mr. George Farquar died Sept. 12,
1838, in Cincinnati. His widow married
Antrim Campbell. See his name.

FAY MICH A EL. -See his name
in connection with the Bradley family, in
the Omissions.

FERGUSON, MRS. LUCY,
was born about 1767 in Culpepper county,
Va. Her maiden name was Pendleton. She
was married there in 1791 to Benjamin
Ferguson, who was also a native of Vir-
ginia. They had fifteen children born in
Virginia, and Mr. F. died there. The
mother, with five children, moved to San-
gamon county, arriving in the fall of 1836,
about three miles east of Rochester. Just
before she left Virginia, Mrs. Ferguson
was enumerating her descendants: there
were seventy-five then. Of her five
children who came west with her —

WILLIAM H., born February, 1798,
married in Virginia in 1818 to Lucv
Broadux. They came to Illinois with
their mother. Mrs. Lucy Ferguson died
in the fall of 1871, and Wm. H. died
March, 1873, leaving four children, three
of whom are now married.

LUCT C., born in Virginia, was mar-
ried there in 1832 to Isaac Haines. He
was a Methodist preacher. They came
west with their mother. He died in 1838.
She died in 1850, leaving two children,
one of whom, WILLIAM C., married,
and lives one mile south of Taylorville.
LUCY A. married J. Clark, and resides
opposite Cairo, in Missouri.

ELLEN, born in 1812, married in
Sangamon county in 1838 to Daniel John-
son. They have one child, ELIAS, who
married, and resides on the farm with his
father, four miles east of Rochester. Mrs.
Ellen Johnson died about 1841.

PHILIP C., born June, 1815, in Vir-
ginia, married there in 1836 to Marv
Haines. They have five children living.
They all reside in Kansas but one, EZE-
KIEL, who married a Miss Kelly, and
lives near Taylorville. Philip C. Fergu-
son was a physician, and died from lock-
jaw in 1862. His widow resides near
Wathena, Kan.

JAMES, born March n, 1817, mar-
rir<l iii Sangamon county March 21, 1838,

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to Mary J. Young, who was born in 1824,
in Trigg county, Ky. They have four
children. MARTHA J., born Jan. 16,
1840, in Sangamon county, married Oct.
25, 1860, in Christian county, to Archi-
bald Sattley. See his name. CLARA
A., born April 24, 1842, married Feb. 15,
t862, in Christian county, to Charles E.
Sattley. See his name. ALBERT L.,
born Jan. 31, 1849, and ADA M., reside
with their father. James Ferguson came
to Sangamon county with his mother, and
engaged in farming ; has been for twelve
years justice of the peace at Stonington,
and assisted in organizing the first Sun-
day school there, and has been superin-
tendent ever since. Mrs. Mary J. Fergu-
son died Oct. 20, 1875.

Mi's. Lucy Ferguson died in the aut-
umn of 1838, on the farm where they set-
tled in 1836.

FI RE Y, JOSEPH, was born Oct.
2, 1789, in Washington county, Md. He
was married there, Feb. 12, 1812, to Cath-
arine Rouch, who was born Nov. 12, 1794,
in the same county. They had two child-
ren, and Mrs. Catharine Firey died July
20, 1822. Joseph Firey was married June
29, 1824, to Magdalena Beard. They had
four children, and Mrs. Magdalena Firey
died in Maryland. Joseph Firey, with
his two eldest sons, came to "Springfield,
111., Nov. 25, 1835, and a few days later
moved to what is now Cooper township.
He returned to Maryland the next year,
and came back to Sangamon county with
his younger children, in company with
his brother Jacob, Wm. Mowry and Mrs.
Troxell, with their families. Of his child-
ren—

HENRT, born March 25, 1815, in
Washington county, Md., married in San-
gamon county, 111., May 21, 1840, to
Minerva Lord. They had eight children.
MARY E., born March 16, 1841, mar-
ried Sept. 26, 1861, to George L. Hoas-
lev, have one living child, WILLIAM.
SARAH C., born August 4, 1843, mar-
ried Jan. 20, 1869, to Benjamin R. Eng-
lish, have one living child, MARY A.
AXN M., born March 6, 1846, married
Oct. 20, 1864, to Sherman Yaukey, have
two children, EDWIN H. and CLARA E.
JOSEPH F., born Dec. 27, 1848, 'mar-
ried Sept. 5, 1873, to Susan Thomson,
and have two children, LILLIE and ELIZA.
ALICE J., born July 4, 1851, married

March 19, 1874, to William Daigh, and
have one child, HEXRY. LEWIS E.,
born July 12, 1854, ELIZA M., born
March 2, 1857, and JOHN H., born Nov.
3, 1859. Henry Firey and family live
near Grove City, Christian county, 111.

LEWIS, born Jan. 6, 1817, in Wash-
ington county, Maryland, came to Sanga-
mon county in 1835, is unmarried, and
lives with his brother Henry, near Grove
City, 111.

By the second marriage —

CATHARINE, born May 16, 1825,
in Maryland, married May 23, 1847, to
George Ensminger, have eight children,

CHARLOTTE, MARTHA, MARY A., SARAH
M., WILLIAM, GEORGE, ARCHIBALD and

LEWIS, and live near Grove City.

MARTHA ANN, born Sept. 22,
1826, in Maryland, married June i, 1852,
to Jefferson Singer. They had five child-
ren, WILLIAM, JOSEPH, LEWIS, ALFRED,

JOHN and MARY. Mr. Singer died Feb.,
1865. His widow and children live near
Grove City.

JOHN L., born Oct. 16, 1829, in
Maryland, married April 27, 1854, in
Sangamon county, to Elizabeth Jones.
He died Jan. 29, 1872, in Rochester, leav-
ing a widow and one son, JAMES M.

MART S., born July 8, 1832, in
Washington county, Md., married Nov.
19, 1858, to John Troxell. See his name.
She died Nov. 16, 1859, leaving one
child, MARY.

Joseph Firey died August 25, 1862,
near Mt. Auburn, Christian county, 111.

FIREY, JACOB, was born April
14, 1791, in Washington county, Md.,
married there May 2, 1815, to Mary
Houser, who was born June 3, 1796, in
the same county. They had seven child-
ren, three of whom died under seven
years. The family moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in October, 1836, in
what is now Cooper township, south of
the Sangamon river, where his brother
Joseph had preceded him the year before.
Of their four children — •

ISAAC H., born Feb. 2, 1820, in
Washington county, Md., married in
Springfield, 111., Feb. n, 1847, to Eliza
Sattley. Thev have seven children.
JACOB J., born Nov. 5, 1847, graduated
March, 1869,31 Bellevue Medical College,
New York city. He was married June
29, 1869, at Ann Arbor, Mich., to Kate

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Bessimer, who was born Aug. 18, 1850,
They had two children, ALBERT and
JOHN; the latter died young. Dr. J. J.
Firev is a practicing physician, and resides
in f aylorville, 111. HATTIE E., born
Nov. 4, 1849, was married June 10, 1875,
to Ross M. Houck. ALBERT, WIL-
LIAM H., SUSAN E., ISAAC E. and
MARY E. The five latter live with
their parents. Isaac H. Firey and family
reside near Grove City, Christian county,
Illinois.

SUSAN, born Oct. 23, 1822, in Wash-
ington county, Md., married in Sangamon
county, 111., to Peter Troxell. See his
name.

ELIZABETH,\x>rr\ Feb. 26, 1824,
in Washington county, Md., raised in
Sangamon county, and married Patrick
Cooper. See his name.

.}fART ANN, born Oct. 26, 1825, in
Maryland, married in Sangamon county
to Samuel Prather. They had two child-
ren, who died young. Mr. Prather died
Nov. 21, 1859, and Mrs. Mary A. Prather
resides with her sister, Mrs. Cooper.

Mrs. Mary Firey died June 9, 1837, and
Jacob Firey died May 18, 1853 — she in
Sangamon county, and he in Christian
county, Illinois.

FISHER, JOHN B., was born
Sept. 5, 1808, in Bourbon county, Ky.
Xancy D. Webb was born May 23, 1809,
in Nicholas county, Ky. They were
married Sept. 10, 1829, in Nicholas coun-
ty, and lived in Bourbon until five child-
ren were born. They moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving in the spring of
1839 in what is now Loami township,
where eight children were born; two
died under seven years —

NA THANIEL, born Nov. 10,1830,
in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county
Feb. 10, 1847.

CHARLES W., born Jan. 10, 1833,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, Feb. u, 1855, to Isabel A. Bowen;
had five children. He went to Indiana,
and enlisted in a regiment of that State for
three years.

ELIZABETH A., born July 4, 1834,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamou coun-
ty Sept. 15, 1853, to William R. Harbour,
have six children, and reside in Moultrie
county, 111.

SARAH J., born June 5, 1836, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county

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Feb. 23, 1854, to Daniel R. Williams,
have five children, and live in DeWitt
county.

JOHN W., born Dec. u, 1838, in
Bourbon county, Ky., enlisted in Sanga-
mon county, Aug. 5, 1862, in Co. I, 73d
111. Inf., for three years, was captured at
Cassville, Ga., Sept. 24, • 1864, was taken
to Andersonville prison and remained un-
til March 18, 1865, when he was paroled
and exchanged. He had been reported
hung, and given up by his friends as
dead. He is yet an invalid from the effect
of the cruel treatment in prison, and re-
sides (April, 1874,) with his mother.

WILLIAM H., born Jan. 31, 1841, in
Sangamon county, lives with his mother.

ISAAC N., born Aug. 21, 1842, en-
listed Aug. 5, 1862, in Co. I, 73d 111. Inf.,
for three years, served until he became
disabled, and was transferred to the Vet-
eran Reserve Corps, and was honorably
discharged June 27, 1865, lingered until
July 17, 1869, when, he died at home.

L UCINDA M., HENR T C, HAM-
LET W. and ABNER R., live with
their mother.

John B. Fisher enlisted August, 1861, in
Co. B, 3Oth 111. Inf., for three years. He
was fifty-three years of age, but believed
it to be his duty to enter the army. In
the battle of Belmont, Mo., he became
over-heated, from the effect of which he
died at Cairo, 111., Dec. 14, 1861. His
widow resides two miles northwest of
Loami.

FISHER, SAMUEL, was born
Aug. 4, 1787, in Franklin county, Penn.
His parents were Protestants, from Ger-
many. Hannah Beaver was born Sept.
29, 1 795, in the same county. Her father
was a soldier in the revolution. .Samuel
Fisher and Hannah Beaver were married
in their native county. They had thirteen
children there and moved to Springfield,
111., Nov. 13, 1840. Of their children —

ALEXANDER, born March 12,
1815, in Pennsylvania, was married Oct.
7, 1847, in Sangamon county, 111., to Eliz-
abeth Hershey. She died July 5, 1853, in
Wabash county, 111. Mr. Fisher was mar-
ried in 1854, to Ann Elizabeth Field, who
died July u, 1858, and he was married
April 18, 1859, to Mrs. Permelia Skinner.
Alexander Fisher was elected Associate
Judge of Logan county, in 1865, and re-
sides in Mt. Pulaski. 111.

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GEORGE, born April 30, 1816, in
Pennsylvania, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to Mary Hendricks. They
reside near Belle Plain, Sumner county,
Kansas.

SAMUEL B., was born Oct. 27, 1817,
in Franklin county, Penn., was married
Dec. 18, 1844, in Springfield, to Melvina
Alvey. They had thirteen children in
Springfield. EDMUND R., resides with
his parents. SAMUEL A. is a salesman
in a dry goods house in Cincinnati.
FREDERICK F. was married in Jack-
sonville, 111., May 7, 1876, to Lou Gor-
ham. He is clerk in Coleman's store, and
resides in Springfield. FANNIE resides
with her parents. EMMA died Dec. 30,
1870, aged about sixteen years. IDA, BER-
THA, KATE, MELVINA, IRVING,
WILLIAM, ANNA W., and LAURA,
reside with their parents. S. B. Fisher
has been, since 1 844, engaged in mercan-
tile pursuits, and now resides in Spring-
field.

LOUISA, born "March 4, 1819, in
Pennsylvania, was married in Springfield
to Avery Constant. See his name. They
live in Williamsville.

WILLIAM, born Feb. 20, 1821, in
Pennsylvania, was married July 3, 1856,
in Athens, 111., to Susannah Reed, who
was born Dec. 5, 1832, in Franklin county,
Penn. They have five children, HAN-
NAH M., FRANK R., CARRIE B.
and WILLIE C., the latter twins, and
JULIA C. William Fisher has been
since 1871 employed in the United States
Revenue Department, and resides in
Springfield.

CHARLES, born Dec. 24, 1822, in
Quincy, Franklin county, Penn., came
with his parents to Springfield, Nov. 13,
1840. He was married Oct. 22, 1850, to
Sarah T. Moffitt, who was born in Spring-
field, a daughter of John B. Moffitt, one
of the early settlers. Thev had two
children. GEORGE T., born July 28,
1851, is a di'aftsman and architect and re-
sides in Springfield. LILLIE resides
with her father. Mrs. S. T. Fisher died
Feb. 1 6, 1854. Charles Fisher is a car-
penter and builder. He erected the First
Presbyterian church, and superintended
the wood work of the United States
Court House. He resides in Springfield.
CAROLINE, born Sept. 16, 1824, in
Franklin county, Penn., was married Feb.

17, 1848, in Springfield, 111., to Phares A.
Dorwin, who was born Sept. 10, 1820, in
Champion, Jefferson county, N. Y. They
had three living children, HENRY F".,
CHARLES G. and SHELBY C., all
reside with their mother. Mr. Dorwin
was engaged in the tin ware and stove
business the greater part of his life, in
Springfield, except during the rebellion,
when he was in the Quartermaster's De-
partment, stationed atone post all the time,
in Kentucky. He died in Springfield, Feb.
17, 1870. His widow and three sons reside
at 511 north sixth street.

SUSANNAH, born Sept. 3, 1826, in
Pennsylvania, was married in Springfield,
111., to Cyrus Culbertson. They reside at
Sumner, Lawrence county, 111.

MART, born Dec. 14,1828,111 Penn-
sylvania, died in Springfield July 4, 1852.

HANNAH M., born May 14, 1831, in
Pennsylvania, was married Dec. 12, 1855,
in Springfield, to Shelby M. Cullom.
They had two children, ELLA and
CARRIE, both of whom are graduates
of the Bettie Stuart Institute, and reside
with their father. Mrs. Cullom died
March 17, 1861, in Springfield, 111.

KA TE resides with her brother
Charles.

JULIA, born March 28, 1835, in
Franklin county, Penn., was married in
Springfield, May 5, 1863, to Hon. .Shel-
by M. Cullom. Mr. Cullom was born
Nov. 22, 1829, in Wayne county, Ky.,
and taken by his parents to Tazewell
county, 111., in 1830. His father, R. N.
Cullom, represented Tazewell county for
several years in the State legislature —
part of the time in the House, and a por-
tion in the Senate. Shelby M. came to
Springfield in 1854, and studied law in the
office of Stuart & Edwards. He was ad-
mitted to practice in 1855, and soon after
elected City Attorney of Springfield. In
1856 he was elected as one of the repre-
sentatives of Sangamon county in the
State Legislature, and again elected in
1860. On the assembling of the Legisla-
ture he was chosen Speaker of the House.
In 1864 Mr. Cullom was elected to repre-
sent the Eighth district of Illinois in the
United States Congress, and was elected
for two successive terms. During that
time he was Chairman of the Committee
on Territories, and as such reported
a bill, of which he was the author, for

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the suppression of polygamy in the
territory of Utah, which became a law.
He also secured the appropriations for the
erection of the United States court house
and postoffice in Springfield, at a cost of
$320,000. In 1872 and 1874 he was
elected to represent the county in the
State Legislature. At the former term
he was chosen Speaker of the House.
Mr. Cullom is a practicing lawyer, is
President of the State National Bank, and
resides in Springfield.

At the Republican State Convention
held in Springfield, May 24, 1876 — the
largest, most intelligent and most har-
monious convention ever held in the State
of Illinois — Hon. Shelby M. Cullom was
unanimously nominated as the candidate
of the party for Governor of the State.
Although the writer does not claim to be
a prophet, nor the son of a prophet, it is
deemed safe to predict — Tune i, '76— that
unless death should intervene, he will be
triumphantly elected in November, and
inaugurated in January, 1877.

VICTORIA resides with her sister,
Mrs. Cullom.

Samuel Fisher died May n, 1856, and
Mrs. Hannah Fisher died April 21, 1867,
both in Springfield.

FLETCHER, JAMES, was
born July 7, 1799, in Rockbridge county,
Va., and was married there to Jane Mc-
Elvain, a sister to Samuel McElvain.
See his name. They, moved to Adair
county, Ky., in 1804 or '5, where they
had eight children, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving Dec., 1828, in
what is now Auburn township, where
they had one child. Of their nine child-
ren—

JOB, born in Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county to Nancy Chapin,
moved to Galena, and from there to Wil-
liamstown, Chickasaw county, Iowa,
where he lost his life from injuries inflicted
by an enraged bull, in May, 1872. He
left a widow and children residing there.

MARGARET, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county, Nov. 26,
1840, to Gary A. Patterson. They have
two children^ MARTHA A. married
John H. Gates, and lives in Auburn
township. MARGARET J. married
O. F. Bettis. See his name. C. A.
Patterson and wife live in Auburn town-
ship.

MAR Y died in Sangamon county in
1831.

JAMES W., born in Kentucky in
1816, and died in Sangamon county, Julv
6, 1864.

NATHAN, born in 1818, in Adair
county, Ky., married in Sangamon coun-
ty, Dec. 26, 1844, to Margaret J. Baxter.
They have six children, MARY J.,
JAMES B., THOMAS A., MARTHA,
HENRY and LUCRETIA— the two
latter twins. Nathan Fletcher resides
three miles southwest of Auburn.

ELIZABETH, born m Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to James H.
Bettis. See his name.

JOHN R., born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Margaret J.
Kessler. He died August, 1870, leaving
a widow and three children, four miles
west of Auburn.

REBECCA J., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to W. M.
Essex, and lives in Macoupin county,
Illinois.

NANCY, born in Sangamon county,
married James R. Patterson. They had
six children, and the whole family died in
Auburn township.

James Fletcher and his wife both died
in Sangamon county.

FLETCHER, JO H N, was born
about 1774? m Rockbridge county, Va.
Job Fletcher, whose name heads the fol-
lowing sketch, was a younger brother of
his. John Fletcher was married in 1803,
in Augusta county, Va., to Elizabeth Mc-
Elvain, a native of Lancaster county,
Penn., and sister of Samuel McElvain.
See his name. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher
had three children in Virginia, and in
1806 emigrated to that part of Christian
which became Todd county, Ky., where
five children were born. They moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the
spring of 1830 in what is now Ball town-
ship. The family, including his son Job,
with his wife and child, consisted of
eleven persons, and their first place of resi-
dence was a log cabin sixteen feet square,
belonging to his brother Job, who had
preceded him eleven years. Of their
children —

JOB, Jun., or Capt. Job, as he was
called in consequence of his military com-
mission from the Governor of Kentucky,
and to distinguish him from his uncle Job,

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only eight years older, and who was called
Esq. Job. Job, Jun., was born Aug. 27,
1801, in Rockbridge county, Va., married
Nov. 24, 1825, in Todd county, Ky., to
Frances Brown, who was born in Ken-
tucky, and moved, in connection with his
father, to Sangamon county, arriving in
the spring of 1830 in what is now Ball
township, where they had six children.
Of their eight children— MAR Y E., born
Aug. 12, 1826, in Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county to Jason N. McElvain.
She died Aug. 3, 1875, near Nilwood,
111. Mr. McElvain resides there. MAR-
GARET F., born Oct. 25, 1828, died in
her eleventh year. JOHN S., born April
28, 1830, died Jan. n, 1854. WILLIAM
D. died in his fourth year. PRESTON
B., born March 4, 1834, married Sarah
Wright. They have two living children,
ELIZABETH and LLOYD, and reside near
Butler, Bates county, Mo. PAULINE
K., born Feb. 15, 1837, married Feb. 22,
1853, to Francis Ewing Dodds. See his
name. They live six miles southeast of
Auburn. BENJAMIN F., born Dec.
17, 1839, in Sangamon county. He en-
listed Aug., 1862, for three years in Co.
B, H4th 111. Inf., and was captured at the
battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10. 1864.
He spent several months in Andersonville
prison, and witnessed the breaking out of
a spring, and confirms all that is said about
it by Stephen Bell. See his name. Mr.
Fletcher was released at the end of the
rebellion, and honorably discharged April,
1865. He was married Feb. 28, 1867, to
Mary E. Drennan. They have two child-
ren, CYRUS o. and MYRA F., and live at
the homestead settled by his father in
1830, in Ball township, near Chatham.
VIRGINIA A., born March 9, 1832,
married March 20, 1860, to Charles G,
Brown, who was born Oct. 4, 1829, in
Jacksonville, 111. They have two children,
MARY c. and ROBERT F., and live in Paw-
nee township, six miles southeast of
Auburn. Job Fletcher, Jun., and his wife
celebrated their golden wedding Nov. 24,
1875, at the residence of their daughter
and son-in-law Dodds. They reside part
of the time at the homestead where they
sejtled in 1830, and part of the time with
their daughters and sons-in-law, Mr. F. E.
Dodds and Mr. C. G. Brown. Capt. Job
Fletcher at one time sold sixteen wagon
loads of smoked hams and shoulders, in

St. Louis, at $1.80 and $200 per one
hundred pounds. It belonged to him-
self and Eddin Lewis. They hauled
it ninety miles, and paid fifty cents
per hundred for the hauling. At that
time coffee sold for fifty cents per pound,
sugar twenty-five cents, and calico fifty
cents per yard; corn was worth six
and a quarter cents per bushel, gathered,
or four cents in the field. Capt. F. says
the whole prairie country abounded with
a kind of green headed fly, that was a
great pest. In hot weather it was hazard-
ous to attempt to drive a team over the
prairie. From the Sugar creek timber to
Carlinville, about thirty miles, was nearly
always driven in the night. Instances are
related of horses having been killed by
exposure to those flies. As the country
improved, the land drained, and the grass
pastured down, the flies disappeared.

ANDRE W, born in Kentucky, was
killed by a falling tree in 1809, in his
eighth year.

WILLIAM, born in Kentucky, died in
Sangamon county Sept. 19, 1830, three
days after the death of his father, in his
twenty-third year.

JOHN, born Nov. 26, 1808, in Todd
county, Ky., married in Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., Jan. 28, 1834, to Theresa Abell.
They had one child in Sangamon county,
and moved, in 1839, to McDonough
county, 111., where they had one child.
LUCRETIA B., born Dec. 26, 1835, in
Sangamon county, died in her sixth year.
JAMES A., born Oct. 26, 1839, in Mc-
Donough county, and went with his
father to Kansas in 1857. As wagon
master in the employ of the government,
he crossed the plains ten times during the
rebellion. He was married in 1871 to
Miss Murray, has two children, GRACE E.
and WALTER w., and live hear Mound
City, Linn county, Kansas. Mrs. Theresa
Fletcher died in McDonough county, 111.,
late in 1839. John Fletcher was married
in the same county, March 9, 1841, to
Sarah Bullington, who was born Jan. 31,
1817, in Orange county, Ind. They had
six children in McDouough county, and,
in 1857, moved to Linn county, Kansas,
where they had one child. Of their
seven children: JOHN S., born May 3,
1843, in McDonough county, 111., resides
with his mother, near Mound City, Kan.
WTILLIAM C., born March 10, 1845, In

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McDouough county, 111., lives near Mound
City, Kansas. LIZZIE, J., born Jan. 22,
1848, in McDonough county, 111., married
in 1867, in Kansas, to Zalmon Kincaid, a
native of Ohio. They have three child-
ren, RALPH, CHARLIE z. and JOHN c., and
live at Pleasanton, Linn county, Kansas.
Mr. Kincaid is a merchant there. JOB
H., born August 28, 1849, is engaged in
farming and stock raising near Mound
City, Kansas. ALBERT A., born Nov.
7, 1851, in McDonough county, 111.,
raised in Kansas, and, in 1873, went to
New York City, and is engaged in business
at Xo. 60, Fulton street. ADALINE R.,
born Nov. 26, 1858, in Kansas, lives with
her mother. John Fletcher died Jan. 8,
1864, near Mound City, Linn county,
Kansas. His widow resides there. He
spent several years as a school teacher,
and was always interested in educational
matters. He was a member of the Pres-
byterian church, and superintended a Sun-
day school. After his death his widow
filled the latter position for several years.

MARGARET, born in 1811, in Todd
county, Ky., married in Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., in 1833, to William Durley. He
had previously been married to a Miss
Mills, who died, leaving one child, Mil-
dred M., born August 6, 1828, and who
married George R. Laughton, in 1844, at
Plattsville, Grant county, Wis. She died
Jan. 8, 1864, leaving five children, George
H., William R., Charles A., Adaline A.
and Frank D., all of whom are living.
William Durley died in 1835, and Mrs.
Margaret Fletcher Durley died in 1836,
leaving one child, ADELINE, who was
born June 9, 1834, in Bloomington, 111.
She was married June 6, 1854, in Platts-
ville, Grant county, Wis., to Rufus A.
Rice, who was born August 29, 1820, in
Monmouth, Kennebec county, Maine.
They have two children, FRANCIS ALLEN,
born July 4, 1860, and EDWIN LEWIS,
born Dec. 28, 1864, both in Chicago.
Mr. and Mrs. Rice reside at No. 594,
west Washington Street, Chicago, 111.

REBECCA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to David C.
Brown. He died Oct., 1872, and she re-
sides in Virden.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky,
died in Sangamon county, unmarried, in

JANE A. born in Kentucky, mar-
ried Leroy M. Paden, and resides in
Macoupin county, near Nilwood.

John Fletcher died Sept. 16, 1830, less
than six months after bringing his family
to the county. His widow survived him
twenty-eight years, and died in the fall of
1858 — he in Sangamon county, and she
in Macoupin county.

FLETCHER, JOB, Sen., was
born Nov. n, 1793, in Rockbridge coun-
ty, Va. His father died when he was an
infant, and his mother moved with her elder
son John, in the autumn of 1808, to Logan
county, Ky., and the next spring to that
part of Christian which was afterwards
Todd county. Job remained in the family
of his brother John, attending school and
teaching. He served as a soldier six
months in the war of 1812, and as such
assisted in burying the dead after the bat-
tle of Tippecanoe, although he was not
in the battle. Mary Kerchner was born
May 25, 1789, in Augusta county, Va.,
and was taken by her parents to Todd
county, Ky. Job Fletcher and Mary
Kerchner were there married, Dec. 22,

1818. They had one child born in Ken-
tucky, and moved to what became San-
gamon county, 111., arriving Nov. 11,

1819, in what is now Ball township,
where- they had six children. Of their
children —

PERMELIA A., born Aug. 5, 1819,
in Christian county, Ky., was married in
1844 to Eddin Lewis. See his name.
He died, and she was married, Feb. 4, 1856,
to Larkin Lewis. See his name.

JAMES H., born Jan. 22, 1821, in
Sangamon county, died in his twentieth
year.

JOHN, born April n, 1822, in Sanga-
mon county, went to Arkansas in 1853.
He was married in 1854 to Mary Fletcher.
He resided in Arkansas until after the
battle of Prairie Grove, when they started
for Illinois. Mrs. Fletcher died on the
way, Dec. 27, 1862, leaving one child.
Mr. Fletcher served his country, in the
ist 111. Cav., part of the time in the south
and the remainder on the frontier against
the Indians. He died in Bates county,
Mo., April 10, 1874.

ELIZABETH, born Feb. 23, 1824,
in Sangamon county, married Albert
Stacy, a native of Montgomery county,
111. They had three living children,

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MARY L., PERMELIA V. and AL-
BERT E. Mr. Stacy died March 22,
1863, and his widow and three children
resided on the farm settled by her father
in 1819 until 1875, when she sold out
and moved to the vicinity of Chanute,
Neosho county, Kan.

JONAS L., born Sept. i, 1826, in
Sangamon county, was married April 22,
1851, to Amanda M. Short, of same
county. They had three living child-
ren, 'EMILY . j., JAMES j. and

EDWARD. Mr. F. and family moved
to Kansas Sept. i, 1859, and settled on
Big creek while the land still belonged to
the Osage Indians. Their title was not
extinguished until 1867. Jonas L. Fletcher
was appointed county clerk at the organi-
zation of Neosho county, Nov. 4, 1864,
served one and a half years, and was then
elected for two years. Was admitted to
the bar in 1867. In 1868 was elected
probate judge of Neosho county for two
years, and was re-elected in 1870 for two
years. Judge Fletcher and family reside
at Chanute, Neosho county, Kan.

ELIJAH /., born Dec. 4, 1827, in
Sangamon county, died Sept. 5, 1846, in
same county.

MAR 2^ died in her seventh year.

Mrs. Mary Fletcher died July 14, 1850,
and Job Fletcher died Sept. 4, 1872,- both
within half a mile of where they settled
in 1819, in Ball township, near Sugar
creek Cumberland Presbyterian chuich.
On the very night of his arrival in the
settlement, Mr. Fletcher was called to
write the will of George Cox, who came
the year before with the Drennan and
Dodds families. That was the first will
from what is now Sangamon county ever
put on record, and was registered at Ed-
wardsville.

Mr. F. had to buy corn for bread and
to feed his stock until he could raise a
crop. The nearest point at which he
found any for sale was three miles south
of Edwardsville. Mr. Fletcher bought of
Major lies the first window glass ever
sold in Springfield, and the first ever put
in a window in Sangamon county. He
also believed that he taught the first school
in the county, in a log cabin built for that
purpose, in 1820 or '21, south of Sugar
creek. A Sunday school was organized
near where he lived in 1825, by Rev. J.
M. Peck, and Mr. F. taught in that school

also. It was near where the Sugar creek
Cumberland Presbyterian church now
stands. William Drennan, Sen., was the
first superintendent, and continued for
about twenty years, as it became the Sun-
day school connected with that church.
His grandson, John L. Drennan, is
now the superintendent. Job Fletcher
and John Taylor were appointed justices
of the peace. The first in what is now
Sangamon county. As such, Mr. Fletcher
organized the first election precinct in the
county. That was in 1819 or '20, when it
was part of Madison county. The titles of
the Indians to the lands were all extin-
guished before Mr. F. came into the county ;
but two and a half years of the time allowed
them to hunt was unexpired, and the
country was full of them. They, how-
ever, were all friendly. Mr. F. was pres-
ent April 10, 1821, when the Commission-
ers, William Drennan, Sen., Zachariah
Peter and Rivers Cormack, located the
county seat. He saw the stake driven,
marked Z and D, declared to be the coun-
ty seat, and named Springfield. Job
Fletcher was one of the representatives
from Sangamon county at one session of
the legislature in Vandalia. He was one
of the Senators for the county at the ses-
sion of 1836 and '7, which legislated for
the removal of the State capital to Spring-
field, and was consequently one of the
" Long Nine. " He served one term in
the Senate after the removal to Spring-
field.

FLETCHER, THOMAS P.,
was born in 1791, near Richmond, Va.
His parents moved, when he was a boy,
to Union county, Ky. He was there mar-
ried to Marion Davis. They had six chil-
dren in Kentucky, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving in 1828 in what
is now Williams township, and in 1831
moved to Tazewell county, and from there
to Logan county, in 1836. The mother
died in 1845, and the father in 1865.
Their children, Thomas J., Melinda, Wil-
liam D., Judith W., Rigdon S., Emily and
James M., are married and live in different
parts of the country. Two only are con-
nected with old settlers families of Sanga-
mon county.

ELIZABETH, born in Virginia,
married Madison M. Merriman. See his

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BENJAMIN F., born March 28,
1834, in Tazewell county, married Corde-
lia L. Merriman. They reside at the old
homestead of her father, where he settled
in 1829, two miles southwest of Williams-
ville. B. F. Fletcher enlisted Aug., 1862,
in Go. B, i3oth 111. Inf., for three years,
served full term, and was honorably dis-
charged in 1865.

FLORVILLE, WILLIAM,
was born about 1806, at Cape Haytien,
\\Vst India. When the revolution com-
menced, in 1821 and 22, his god-mother
took him to Baltimore, Md., and kept him
in St. Mary's Convent until her death,
when he was bound by the orphan's court
to learn the trade of a barber. He then
went to New Orleans, thence to St. Louis,
and with others from St. Louis, on a
hunting excursion, up the Mississippi, Illi-
nois and Sangamon rivers, to New Salem,
then in Sangamon county, arriving in the
fall of 1831. It was late in the evening,
and as he approached the village he fell in
with a tall man, wearing a red flannel shirt
and carrying an axe on his shoulder, just
returning from his day's labor in the
woods. They fell into an easy conversa-
tion and walked to a little grocery store
together. The tall man was Abraham
Lincoln, who soon learned that the
stranger was a barber, nearly out of money
and aiming to reach Springfield. That
was enough to enlist the good will of Mr.
Lincoln, who took him to his boarding
house, told the people his business and sit-
uation. That opened the way for an
evening's work among the boarders, and
the next morning he started on his way
rejoicing, and reached Springfield the sec-
ond day. Mr. Florville was soon recog-
nized by Dr. E. H. Merriman — See his
skc.tcJi — with whom he was acquainted in
Baltimore and St. Louis. Dr. M. proved
his friendship in various ways. Mr. Flor-
ville spent some time in the employ of
Gen. James D. Henry. He was married
soon after his arrival to Phoebe Rountree,
who was born Feb. 4, 181 1, near Glasgow,
K \ . They had five living children,
namely :

SAMUEL H., born May, 1832, in
Springfield, married Oct. 26, 1874, at
Waverly, to Mary Belle Greene, who was
born in 18^.9 in Morgan county. She died
V>v. 23,1875. S. H. Florville is a barber,
and lives in Springfield.

ALSEEN, born Dec., 1833, in Spring-
field, married in 1851 to Mahlon Chaver-
ous. They had two living children.
JULIA C., born April 28, 1852, married
April 27, 1871, to Clark Duncan, who
was born Oct. 5, 1850, near Russelville,
Ky. They have two children, ALSEEN
and OTIS B., and live in Springfield.
ADDIE lives with her mother. Mrs.
Chaverous married Nov., 1863,10 Richard
Wright. They have three children, ED-
WARD, MARTIN and CLIFFORD,
and live in Springfield.*-

SINEET, born Sept., 1837, in Spring-
field, married Gilbert Johnson. They had
three children in Springfield. PHCEBE,
born in 1855, married T. Adams, has one
child, MABEL, and lives in Springfield.
GILBERT, born Feb., 1857, and
ANNIE, born in 1859, live with their'
mother. Gilbert Johnson died in 1858.
Mrs. Sineet Johnson married Henry Scott.
They had one child, ELIZA, and' Mr.
Scott enlisted in the army to suppress the
the rebellion, and was never heard of after.
Mrs. Sineet Scott married March i, 1865,
to Jordan Richardson. They have four
children, JAMES, WILLIAM,
GEORGE and THOMAS. Mf. Rich-
ardson keeps a grocery store, and Hives in
Springfield.

VAR VEEL, was born in 1^839, in
Springfield. In 1862 he went ii^to the
army under Maj. Gen. McClernand, was
with him in all his campaigns, came home
and died Oct. 2, 1864.

WILLIAM L., born March 10, 1840,
in Springfield, married April 9, 1861, to
Mary Jenkins. They have three living"
children, AQUILLA, URETTA and
ELIZABETH, and live in Springfield.

William Floiville died April 13, 1868,
and Mrs. Phoebe Florville was married
May 10, 1873, to Reuben Coleman, and
resides in Springfield.

FLYNN, CATHARINE, was
born May 14, 1828, in Dublin, Ireland,
came with her parents to America when
she was seven years old. They first made
their home in Amherst, Mass., and then
went to Philadelphia. From there she
came with the family of Asahel Thayer
to Sangamon county, arriving in Chat-
ham May 14, 1839. She was married
July 27, 1847, t° Jacob Leonard, who was
born June 17, 1822, in Stafford, Conn.,
and came to Chatham Sept. 14, 1844.

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EARLT SEJ^TLERS OF

They had two children —

CHARLES F., died Jan. 27, 1854,
aged two and a half years.

RICHARD F., died August 27, 1862,
in his second year. Jacob Leonard and
wife reside in Chatham. He is a retired
farmer.

FOLEY, WILLIAM C., born
June 16, 1808, in Prince William county,
Va., and came to Springfield, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1838. He was married in
Springfield, June 16, 1840, to Elizabeth
E. Hutchinson. They had eight children,
namely —

ANN V., born April 8, 1841, resides
with her parents.

JOHN W., born May 18, 1843, in
Springfield, married Sept. 18, 1864, to
Marcia A. Purvines. They have three
•Children, ARTHUR C., CORA MAY,
ami a babe, and live at Pleasant Plains,
Illinois.

A&D1SON F. died, aged seven years.

ELIZABETH C, and FLORA S.
live with their parents.

ADBLIA S. married A. B. Mars.
He is a telegraph operator, and lives in
Springfield.

VVItiLIAM C. and THOMAS E.
live with their parents in Springfield.

FORD, DANIEL, was born
Feb. 2$, 1796, in New Jersey. His pa-
rents ynoved to Fayette county, Ky.,
when/ he was a boy. Mary Randolph
. was foorn in Fayette county, Ky., June 17,
1892. Daniel Ford and Mary Randolph
were married there, May n, 1820. Nine
Children were born in that county, and the
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in Nov., 1838, in what is now
Ball township, where two children were
born. Four of those born in Kentucky,
and one in Sangamon county, died under
four years of age. Of the other six —

WILLIAM R., born July 3, 1824, in
Kentucky, married in Illinois, Nov. 6,
1849, to Minerva J. Scott. They have
two children. SARAH E. married
Charles M. Shepherd. See his name.
WILLIAM P. resides with his parents,
in Ball township, fifteen miles south of
Springfield.

ANN E., born in Kentucky, May 10,
1816, married John Patterspn. They
have eight children: MARY R., the
second child, married Robert Scott. See
his name. WILLIAM V., the eldest

child, JOHN R., AMANDA F., SAM-
UEL E., ROBERT D., IDA MAY and
NENA F. reside with their parents, thir-
teen miles south of Springfield, on the
George Lamb farm — 1874.

AMANDA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried Josephus Parkinson. They had two
children. IDA CORNELIA married
Frank Shores, and resides in Chicago.
KATE ELEANOR lives with her
mother. Josephus Parkinson died May
ii, 1866, and his widow resides in Chicago.

JOHN, born Jan. 13, 1834, in Ken-
tucky, married Nov. 12, 1861, to Ara
Holmes, who was born Jan. 31, 1843, m
Brown county, Ohio. They have four
children, ANNA L., CHARLES A.,
ALEX. E. and FREDDIE T., and live
in Ball township — 1874.

GEORGE W.t born m Kentucky in
1837, died in Sangamon county, Feb. 12,
1858.

MART, born in Sangamon county,
married Thomas J. Scott. See his name.

Daniel Ford died May 21, 1852, in San-
gamon county, and his widow died April
2, 1864, at Macomb, 111.

FORD, THOMAS, was born in
Fauquier county, Va. Mary Paine was
born there also. They were married and
had eleven children in that county. The
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in 1835 in what is now Fancy
creek township, two miles northwest of
Sherman. Of their eleven children —

JAMES G., born Sept. 22, 1801, came
to Sangamon county with his father. He
never married, and resides near Linden,
Johnson county, Wis.

JOSEPH W., born in Virginia, died
unmarried.

SAMUEL, born in Virginia, married
Jane Evans, had one child, and all died in
Sangamon county.

SARAH, born and married in Virginia
to Patrick Welch, had two children, and
Mr. W. died in Virginia. She and her
two sons came to Sangamon county with
her father. JOHN went to Missouri,
married there, enlisted in the Union army,
and died at Memphis, Tenn., in 1862 or
'3. JAMES married Miss Beck, and
lives near Elkhart. Mrs. Welch married
Sanford Cherry, and resides near Elkhart,
111.

DANIEL, born in Virginia, came to

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Sangamon county with his parents, is un-
married, and resides near Linden, Wis.

ELIZA, born in Virginia, married in
Sangamon county to Sanford Cherry.
They had four children, and she died in
Sangamon county. Mr. Cherry married
her sister, Mrs. Welch. They reside near
Klkhart, 111.

MARY, born in Virginia, married in
Sangamon county to William Glascock.
They have three children, and reside near
Linden, Wisconsin.

SYLVESTER W., born No*. 27,
1813, in Fauquier county, Va., married
Dec. 26, 1837, to Amarilla Enos, in San-
gamon county. They had seven children
in Sangamon county. MARY C.,
born Jan. 24, 1839, died in her fifth year.
ABNER T., born Oct. 4, 1840, enlisted
August, 1862, in Co. I, H4th 111. Inf., for
three years, served full term, and was
honorably discharged in 1865, married
October, 1874, to Rebecca McGinnis, near
Williamsville. SARAH E., born July
12, 1842, married Daniel Pottle. See his
name. WILLIAM H., born Sept. 22,
1845, ennsted July 20, 1 86 1, at Spring-
field, in what became Co. B, nth Mo.
Inf., and was drowned Sept. 2, 1861,
while bathing in the Mississippi river near
Cape Girardeau, Mo. SYLVESTER
W., Jun., born Sept. 3, 1847, enlisted
January, 1865, for one year, in Co. I,
H4th 111. Inf., served until the spring of
1866, and was honorably discharged.
AMARILLA, born Nov. 28, 1850, and
ARMINTA, born March 29, 1853, are
unmarried, and reside with their mother.
Sylvester Ford died July 10, 1866, and
his widow resides three miles southeast of
Buffalo Hart station.

WILLIAM, born in Virginia, came to
Sangamon county with his parents, mar-
ried in Wisconsin, and moved to Califor-
nia.

THOMAS, Jun., born in Virginia,
raised in Sangamon county, married in
Wisconsin to Mary Perry, and live near
Linden.

FRANCIS, born in Virginia, came to
Sangamon county with his parents, mar-
ried to Frances Adams in Wisconsin, and
resides near Linden.

Thomas Ford and the younger mem-
bers of the family moved to Johnson
county, Wisconsin, near Linden, in 1849.
He and his wife both died there.

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FORDEN, JOHN, born
Jan. 12, 1798, near Elkton, Md. His par-
ents moved to Bourbon county, Ky.,
when he was quite young. He was mar-
ried April 22, 1824, in Clarke county, to
Emeline Sidener, who was born Nov. 10,
1808, in that county. They made their
home in Bourbon county until four child-
ren were born, and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in the spring of 1831,
and settled five miles east of Springfield.
Of their children —

JAMES W., born March 27, 1825, in
Bourbon county, Ky., died in Sangamon
county Aug. 23, 1851.

SARAH x4.,born Jan. 9, 1827, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to
William S. Currey. She died September,
1854.

GEORGE W., born Jan. n, 1829, in
Bourbon county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county Feb. 15, 1855, to Permelia J.
Rucker. They have six living chjldren,
MARY E., CHARLES T., GEORGE
E. JOHN W., LAURA and JAMES
R., reside with their parents three-quar-
ters of a mile northeast of Sangamon sta-
tion.

JOHN M., born Jan. 28, 1831, in
Bourbon county, Ky., married in S^nga-
mon county Feb. 13, 1855, to Eliza
Wright. They have one living child,
ALICE. Mr. Forden is a merchant, and
resides in Springfield.

Mrs. Emeline Forden died June 29,
1834, and John Forden died Dec. i, 1849,
both in Sangamon county.

FORREST DENNIS, was
born Oct. 25, 1784, in North Carolina.
He was married June 13, 1811, in Nicho-
las county, Ky., to Elizabeth McClintock,
who was born Feb. 17, 1790, in Pennsyl-
vania. They had eight children, all born
in Nicholas county, Ky., and the family
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arrmng
in the fall of 1835 in what is now Chat-
ham township. Of their children —

JANE M., born June 20, 1812, in
Kentucky, was married there to John T.
Webb, and came with her parents to San-
gamon county. They had four children,
and moved to Macomb, where Mrs. Webb
died, September, 1866. Two children
died also. DENNIS and PERMELIA
live with their father at Macomb, 111.

SARAH 7\, born March 20, 1815,
married H. H. Elmore. Sec his name.

EARLY SETTLERS OF

ELIZA, born June 20, 1817, married
L. P. Matthews. See his name. She
died in June, 1866, leaving three children.

JAMES A., born in Nicholas county,
Ky., is living with his third wife. He
has three children. ISABEL married a
Mr. Davis. The other two are ANGE-
LINE and JAMES, Jun. J. A. Forrest
resides in Nodaway county, Mo.

ARJ^AMESIA, born March 2, 1821,
in Kentucky, married William Carter.
.She died, leaving one son, FRANKLIN,
in St. Joseph, Mo.

AMERICA, born Oct. n, 1823, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
March, 1842, to William Gibson. They
had two children. WILLIAM D. died
Aug. 14, 1847. LIZZIE J. died Aug. 22,
1866, in her eighteenth year. Mr. Gibson
died Dec. 26, 1849. His widow married
Sept. 5, 1855, to Thomas J. Darneille, who
died -Nov. 2ist of the same year. She was
married Jan. 13, 1859, to John A. Neal.
See his name.

MARGARET L., born June 25, 1826,
was married June 15, 1845, *° James E.
Gibson. See his name.

HUGH M., born Dec. 6, 1831, married
Angeline Cooley. She died, and he mar-
ried Ann Greenwood, and he died.

Dennis Forrest died July 29, 1855, and
his toidow, Elizabeth Forrest, died Aug.
23, -1873, in Chatham.

/FORTUNE, BENJAMIN,
was born March 16, 1810, in Nelson
/county, Va. His parents moved in 1827, to
Anderson county, Ky. He was married
Nov. 24, 1830, in the adjoining county of
Shelby, to Mary A. Bullard. They had
one child, and moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., arriving April 2, 1832, in what is
now Illiopolis township, four miles east of
Mechanicsburg, where they had two liv-
ing children. Of their three children —

ELIZABETH A., born August 28,
1831, in Shelby county, Ky., married Oct.
2, 1851, in Sangamon county to Riley
Wilkins, who was born Feb. 14, 1820, in
Pickaway county, Ohio. They have two
living children, MARY A. and WIL-
LIAM B., and reside in Mechanicsburg.

THOMAS W., born J.uly 20, 1836, in
Sangamon county, enlisted June 3, 1862,
for three years, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf.
He was elected Ord. Sergt. at the organi-
zation of the company, promoted to 2d
Lieut. Jan. i, 1863, and ist Lieut., Aug.

14, 1863. Becoming physically unable to
discharge the duties of his office, he re-
signed Aug. n, 1864. He was married
in Mechanicsburg, June 17, 1866, to
Martha J. Young, who was born July 3,

1840, in Frederick county, Md. They
have three children, IDA MAY, NOR-
MAN and THOMAS B., and reside near
Mechanicsbnrg.

ELIZA y., born Aug. 7, 1838, in
Sangamon county, married June, 1862, to
James W. Craig. She died Feb. 23, 1871,
leaving four children, CARRIE L.,
MABEL B., CHARLES A. and
LAURA. They live with their father,
who is married a second time, and reside*
near Jacksonville, 111.

Mrs. Mary A. Fortune died April 8,

1841, and Benj. Fortune was married Oct.
25, 1844, to Mrs. Eliza Little, whose
maiden name was Morgan. They had
two living children —

JENNETTA W., born Oct. 17,
1843, in Sangamon county, married Jan.
10, 1860, to George W. Wantling, who
was born Dec. n, 1842, in Fairfield coun-
ty, Ohio, and came to Sangamon county
in 1854. They had three living children,
FANNIE F., HATTIE and GEORGE
O. reside with their parents, four miles
southeast of Mechanicsburg.

ANNIE H., born Oct. 10, 1851, in
Sangamon county, married Nov. 24, 1870,
to William E. Barnes, who was born Oct.
27, 1848, in Chillicothe, Ohio. They
have three children, BENJAMIN, OTIS
and OMO, (the two latter twins,) and live
in Mechanicsburg.

Mrs. Elizabeth Fortune died March 13,
1868, and Benjamin Fortune resides in
Mechanicsburg.

FORTUNE, THOMAS E.,
brother to Benjamin, was born Feb. n,
1791, in Nelson county, Va., married Miss
Wright. They had one child, and Mrs.
F. died there. Mr. Fortune and his only
child went with his father to Anderson
county, Ky. He moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving, in 1834, at Mechan-
icsburg. His daughter —

ELIZABETH J. B., born Sept. 12,
1813, in Nelson county, Va., married in
1831 in Anderson county, Ky., to Samuel
Butts. They had one child born in Ky.,
and came with her father to Mechanics-
burg, in 1834, where they had two child-
ren, and Mr. Butts died. His widow mar-

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ried Dec. 18, 1853, in Mechanicsburg, to
Barnabas Barrows. They have one child.
Of her four children. JULIA F.
BUTTS, born Dec. 8, 1832, in Ky., mar-
ried in Mechanicsburg to Isaac Allen,
have four children, and live in Jackson-
ville. ANN E. BUTTS, born Jan. 8,

1837, *n Mechanicsburg, married March
14, 1866, to Joseph Barrows, have three
children, and reside near Jacksonville.
THOMAS S. BUTTS, born Sept. 20,
1840, in Mechanicsburg, was last heard
from, in 1872, at Montana City.
CHARLES BARROWS resides with
his parents near Jacksonville.

Thomas E. Fortune was in the mercan-
tile business, in Mechanicsburg, for many
years, and left there about the close of the
rebellion. He resides with his grand-
daughter, Ann E. Barrows, near Jackson-
ville.

FOSTER, CONSTANTINE,
born Oct. 18, 1792, in Cape May county,
N. J., was married in Cumberland county,
N. J., to Margaret Sayre, who was born
in same county Feb. 25, 1800. They had
five living children in Cape May county.
The family moved in 1832 to Dayton, O.,
thence to Sangarnon county, 111., arriving
in the autumn of 1833 in what is now
Cartwright township, and two years later
moved into what is now Gardner town-
ship. One child was born in Sangamon
county. Of their six children —

ELIZA L., born May 13, 1820, in
New Jersey, was married June 22, 1837,
in Sangamon county, to F. Ewing Berry.
He died four months after marriage. A
daughter, FRANCES E., born June 4,

1838, in Sangamon county, was married
Aug. 27, 1857, to Henry F. Lyon. He
died April 25, 1858, and a daughter, IDA,
born Sept. 14, 1858, died in infancy. Mrs.
Frances Lyon was married April 21, 1862,
by the Rev. Peter Cartwright, to Rev. B.
F. Lodge, of the M. E. church, who was
born Dec. 26, 1834, in Reading, Hamilton
county, Ohio. Rev. B. F. Lodge was a
member of the Illinois Conference, M. E.
church, for nine years during that time,
traveling the Sangamon and Chatham
circuits. He located at his own request,
and began farming in 1866. They have
four living children, CHARLES A.,
JULIA E., FRANK BERRY and
FANNIE MAY, and reside near Lodge,
Piatt county, 111. Mrs. Eli/.a L. Berry

was married June 2, 1840, at the residence
of her father, to Charles W. Hunt, who
was born May 25, 1805, in Blount county,
Tenn. An incident connected with their
marriage will be appropriate here. Dele-
gations from Cass, Schuyler and McDon-
ough counties, with music and banners,
were on their way to the great Harrison,
or Whig, convention at Springfield, and
passed Mr. Constantine Foster's residence
just as the guests had seated themselves at
the dinner table. The delegations halted
and gave them a serenade. All rose from
the table except two Democrats, who re-
fused to leave their dinners to see a Whig
delegation to what proved to be the great-
est political gathering in the State that
year. Mr. and Mrs. Hunt had nine child-
ren. Of those, eight lived to maturity,
namely: HARRIET J., JOHN B., J.
ELBRIDGE (the latter died Nov. 23,
1875), CATHARINE L., CHARLES
R., JOSEPH F. (the latter died Feb. n,
1776), WILLIAM B. and ESTHER L.,
were all born near Burlington, Iowa,
where the family now reside.

CATHARINE, born June 7, 1833, in
New Jersey, was married Nov. 28, 1839,
in Sangamon county, 111., to John C.
Bone. They had one child, and mother
and child died. Mr. Bone resides in Chi-
cago, 111.

JOHN S., born May i, 1825, in Cape
May county, N. J., was married in Sanga-
mon county, 111., May 27, 1847, to Eliza
A Carson, who was born June 17, 1831,
in Cape May county also. They are
without children, but brought up an adopt-
ed daughter — Elizabeth Nottingham —
who married Alexander Higgins. -See
his name. They adopted another daugh-
ter— Minnie Virden — who lives with
them. John S. Foster was a licensed
preacher in the M. E. church for several
years, and, at his own request, his license
was discontinued in 1874. He resides in
Springfield, 111.

JACO£,\)orn June 18, 1829, in New
Jersey, was married April 6, 1853,111 San-
gamon county, to Roxanna Bates. They
have six living children: CHARLES F.,
ELLA C. (the latter graduated at the
Bettie Stuart Institute, June 10, 1874. She
was married Aug. 23, 1874, to William
W. Cran% M. D. They have one child,
MXA c., and reside in Cincinnati, Ohio.)
OLIVER C., EUGENE E., BUCK-

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EARL T SB 7 TLERS OF

MAN B. and ELIZA K. Jacob Foster
and family reside in Springfield, 111.

JOSEPH R., born June 28, 1831, in
New Jersey, was married Feb. 22, 1854,
in Sangamon county, to Harriet E. Lyon.
She died in November of the same year,
and he married J ane Mathis. They have
five children, HARRIET J., LUELLA
M., IDA, MAGGIE and BERTHA,
and reside in Springfield.

MART J.. born Jan. i, 1834, in San-
gamon county, married John Epler, and
died.

Constantine Foster died Sept. 29, 1865,
and Mrs. Margaret Foster died April 9,
1867, both in Sangamon county, and are
buried at Pleasant Plains.

FOSTER, GEORGE, wasborn
in Clarke county, Ky., and married there
to Sarah Miller, a naiive of the same
county. They had three children in Ken-
tucky, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., in what is now Loami township, in
1826, where they had five children. Of
their eight children —

WILLIAM, born March 15, 1823, in
Clarke county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, in Sept., 1848, to Elizabeth J.
Shutt. They have nine children,
GEORGE R., WILLIAM P., JACOB
F., SARAH E.JOHN D., LEONARD
G., MARIAN E., EVA J., and
CHARLES H., reside with their parents
four and one-half miles northwest of
Auburn.

ELIZABEl^H, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to William
Roach, and reside at Ft. Scott, Kansas.

PEYTON, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Mary J. Foster.
They have two children, and live in Henry
county, Mo.

POLLY, born in Sangamon county,
and married George Organ. See his
name.

LEONARD, born in Sangamon
county, married Elvira Gates, has several
children, and reside in Auburn town-
ship.

SARAH, born in Sangamon county,
married Alexander Orr. See his name.

MATILDA, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married Micajah Cudaway, and reside
in Henry county, Mo.

JOHN, born in Sangamon county,
married Fanny Bogy. She died in Kan-
sas, and he married Fanny Wright. They

have two children, and live in Sangamon
county, near Virden, 111.

George Foster died in Auburn town-
ship, Sangamon county.

FOSTER, PEYTON, was born
about 1799, near Winchester, Scott county,
Ky., and was married there to Polly
Daniels, a native of the same county.
They had six children in Kentucky, and
moved to Sangamon county, 111., with his
brother George, arriving in the year 1826,
and settled in what is now Loami town-
ship, where four children were born. Of
their nine children —

JEANETTE, born in Kentucky,
married Edward Greenwood. See his
name.

WILLIAM H., born in Kentucky,
married Margaret Greenwood, and she
died in Nebraska, on the road to the
Pacific. He and his children live in Cali-
fornia.

GEORGE W., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Lucille
Short. She had four children and died.
He married again, and resides in Louisi-
ana, Mo.

JOHN D., born in Scott county, Ky.,
married in Sangamon county to Eunice
Miller. They had seven children.
GEORGE W. served as Quartermaster
Sergeant in the 22d Mo. Inf., of which
his father was Colonel. He was after-
wards Orderly Sergeant in Co. E, 39th
Mo. Inf. He married Mary M. Scott,
has five children, EMMA D., WILLIAM F.,
ADA, JOHN D. and DORA B., and reside in
Loami township. EMILY M. married
Joseph P. Ringo, in Adair county, Mo.,
has six children, and resides in Oregon.
PEYTON F. married Martha Dunn, and
has two children. LUCINA is married,
and resides in Adair county, Missouri.
LEONORA P. manied William Can-
ham. They have two children, WILLIAM
E. and JENNIE, and live in Chatham town-
ship. JAMES H. B. lives in Chatham
township. Mrs. Eunice Foster resides
with her daughter, Mrs. Canham.
John D. Foster is married to a second
wife, has one child, and is a practicing
attorney at Commerce, Scott county, Mo.
He served one year — from 1846 to 1847 —
in the 4th 111. Inf., under Col. E. D.
Baker, in the Mexican war. He was
Colonel ot the 22d Mo. Inf. in the war to
suppress the rebellion.

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PEYTON, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Maria Col-
burn. They have five children, and re-
side in Kansas.

POLLY, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Alfred C. Camp-
bell. See his name.

JAMES was accidentally killed in in-
fancy.

HIRAM B., born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married Martha Ferguson, have two
children, and reside in Macon county, Mo.

JAMES jffc/!,born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married and died.

Mrs. Polly Foster died January, 1872,
and Peyton Foster died Sept. 7, 1872,
both in Missouri.

FOSTER, IVINS, was born
Nov. 23, 1794, in Harrison county, Ky.
Margaret McKee was born Jan. 24, 1796,
in the same county. They were there
married, Feb. 26, 1819, and had three
children in Harrison county, and then
moved to Gallatin county, where one child
was born. They then moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving in Nov., 1829,
in what is now Curran township, north of
Lick creek, where four children were
born. Three of their children died under
five years. Of the other five —

WILLIAM D., born Jan. 24, 1820, in
Harrison county, Ky., was brought by his
parents to Sangamon county. He studied
medicine three years in Springfield, and
attended one course of lectures in St.
Louis. In consequence of impaired health,
he was advised by the Faculty to take a
sea voyage. In June, 1843, he embarked
for Europe, visiting England, he went to
Scotland intending to complete his educa-
tion there. While visiting a hospital, in
pursuit of knowledge, he contracted small
pox, and would have been kindly cared for
at the residence of a friend, where he was
taken sick, but he preferred being removed
to the Royal Infirmary, of Edinburg,
where he died Dec. 29, 1843.

MART 7., born Dec. 8, 1821, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county April
i, 1847, to Samuel W. Dunn. He was
born Oct. 6, 1821, in Harrison county,
Ky., and came to Sangamon county in
1844. They had eight children, six of
whom died under five years. The others,
NARCISSA'and WILLIAM SHER-
MAN, residj with their parents in Cumin
township.

JOEL S., born March 15, 1824, in
Kentucky, died in Sangamon county aged
twenty-three years.

SAMUEL L., born June 29, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married Dec. 27, 1855,
to Lydia Lee, who was born Feb. 14,
1834, in Dover, Del. They have four liv-
ing children, namely: MARY A.,
LOUIS K., ROBERT and MARGA-
RET B., and live near the family home-
stead in Curran township.

JOHN W., born Jan. 29, 1833, in San-
gamon county, unmarried, and lives with
his mother.

Ivins Foster died Jan. 4., 1866, and his
widow now — 1874 — resides one and one-
half miles southeast of Curran, where they
settled in 1829.

FOSTER, MEREDITH, was
born Nov. 14, 1790, in Louisa county, Va.,
and was married in Culpepper county,
Feb. 10, 1820, to Margaret Boyer, who was
born March 9, 1797, in Culpepper county,
Va. They had six children in Virginia,
and the family moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., arriving in the fall of 1835, lived
several days in camp about four miles
west of Springfield, and then moved on a
farm near by. They had four children in
Sangamon county, one of whom died
young. Of their nine children —

WILLIAM B., born April 9, 1822, in
Page county, Va., came with his parents
to Sangamon county in 1835; went in
1849 to California. He was married there
to Emma Creamer. They had three
children, MAGGIE, IDA and WILLIE,
and Mrs. Foster died. Mr. Foster mar-
ried again, and resides at Richmond, Sac-
ramento county, Cal.

HENRY H., born Sept. 4, 1824, in
Page county, Va. He was married in
Sangamon county Dec. 2, 1847, *° Nancy
Davis. See sketch of John Davis. They
have one child, ROBERT MEREDITH,
and reside in Curran township, near Chat-
ham.

JOHN E., born July 24, 1826, in
Page county, Va. He enlisted at Spring-
field, 111., in 1846, in Co. A, 4th 111. Inf.,
and served under Col. E. D. Baker
through the Mexican war. He died on
his way home, June 13, 1847, at Virginia,
Cass coynty, 111.

ABNER M., born Jan. 25, 1828, in
Page county, Va., married in Sangamon
county, December, 1863,10 Mrs. Hatch,

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EARLT SETTLERS OP

who was formerly Mrs. Murphy, and
whose maiden name was Lawton. She
is a native of Lincoln, Penobscot county,
Maine. They reside two miles east of
Loami.

MART y., born Nov. 21, 1830, in
Page county, Va., married in Sangamon
county to James Lockridge. See his
name. They had ten children, four of
whom died young. Of the six,
CHARLES M., MARY M., SARAH
I., LULA A., LENORA and EVA, re-
side with their parents.

CATHARINE A., born April 20,
1834, in Page county, Va., married in
Sangamon county to James Young.
They have eight children, ABNER,
MAGGIE, JAMES, EUGENE, NAN-
CY, FRANK, ALBERT and ETTA,
and reside near Curran.

ROBERT F\, born Jan. 3, 1837, in
Sangamon county, 111., and lives with his
sister, Mrs. Grissom, near Chatham.

CHARLES N., born Dec. 3, 1838, in
Sangamon county, and was killed July 5,
1868, by an accident on the Chicago &
Alton railroad.

MAR GARE T R., born Dec. 28, 1842,
in Sangamon county, married Nov. 19,
1861, to Thomas Grissom, who was born
Feb. 8, 1841, in Sangamon county, 111.
They have three children, AGNES, IDA
and EDWARD, and reside three miles
northwest of Chatham.

Mrs. Mai-garet Foster died Dec. 13,

1866, and Meredith Foster died Aug. 31,

1867, both in Sangamon county.
FOUTCH, JOHN, was born

May, 1776, in Loudon county, Va. Three
brothers by the name of Fouche came
from France and settled in Loudon county,
Va., before the American revolution.
Two of them were soldiers in that war,
and one of them was Abraham, the
father of John, whose name heads this
sketch. John Foutch went to Fayette
county, Ky., when he was a young man,
and was there married, in 1796, to Nancy
A. Wherrett, who was born March 8,
1778, in St. Mary's county, Md. They
had five children born in Fayette county,
near Lexington, and the family moved to
Dearborn county, near Harrison, Indiana,
where they had four children, and moved
to Franklin county, where one child was
born, thence to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in the fall of 1825 at the south

side of Richland creek, east of where
Pleasant Plains now stands, and in the
spring of 1826 moved to Island Grove,
Sangamon county. Of their ten child-
ren—

ABRAHAM, born April i, 1797, in
Fayette county, Ky., was married in 1820, in
Franklin county, Ind., to Elizabeth Van-
sickle, and came to Sangamon county in
1825. He brought one child from Ind.,
and had seven children in Sangamon
county. In 1849 they moved to Polk
county, near DesMoines, Iowa, and from
there, in 1870, to Elmore, near Browns-
ville, Neb., where they now reside.
Abraham Foutch was justice of the peace
for many years in Sangamon county.
He was one of the three Commissioners
of Sangamon county at the time the State
House (now used as a Court House) was
built.

THOMAS, born Nov. 25, 1709, in
Fayette- county, Ky., was married Dec.
21, 1820, in Fayette county, Ind., to Sarah
Wherrett, who was born Nov. 20, 1800, in
Fayette county, Ky. Her parents moved
to Jessamine county, and from there to
Fayette county. Mr. and Mrs. Foutch
had two children in Indiana, and moved to
Sangamon county, 111., in 1825, where they
had four children. ELIZABETH A.,
born Nov. 21, 1821, in Indiana, was mar-
ried in Sangamon county, 111., Dec. 5,
1839, to Thomas Pollock. See his name.
NANCY, born Jan. 23, 1824, in Indiana,
was married in Sangamon county, Jan. 2,
1842, to J. D. Be van. See his name.
JOHN, born Sept. 6, 1826, in Sangamon
county, was married April 12, 1849, to
Martha M. Smith. They had nine child-
ren. SARAH M,, married F. P. Gillespie,
have three children, Mattie M., Guy ^.,
and William E., and reside one-half mile
south of New Berlin. THOMAS, the second,
and ELLA M., the sixth child, both died
under three years. The other six, HATTIE

S., JOHN W., CARRIE M., LIZZIE D., ED-
WARD L. and GEORGE T., reside with their
parents in New Berlin. Mr. John Foutch
resides within two miles of his birthplace
and has done so all his life, with the ex-
ception of one year. CAROLINE, born
March 8, 1829, in Sangamon county, was
married there April 8, 1847, *° Thomas
A. Kerlin. They had one living child,
LIZZIE A. She lives with her grandfather
Foutch. Mrs. Kerlin died Dec. 31, 1854.

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Mr. Kerlin is married again, and lives
near Bedford, Mo. WILLIAM W.,
born Sept. 4, 1834, in Macoupin county,
was a graduate of Shurtleff College,
Upper Alton, and enlisted Aug. 17, 1861,
for three years in Co. D, 26th 111. Inf.
At the organization of the company he
was elected and commissioned First Lieu-
tenant. He was taken sick while with his
regiment, at Quincy, III., came home and
died of typhoid fever Sept. 25, 1861.
HUGH, born Dec. 19, 1836, in Sangamon
county, was married Sept. 2, 1858, to
Mary Wykoff. They have one child,
WILLIAM \v., and live at Decatur. Thomas
Foutch and wife reside in Island Grove
township, three and a-half miles west of
Berlin.

HUGH, born March 12, 1802, in Ken-
tucky, was married in Sangamon county,
December, 1827, to Nancy Rhea. They
had nine children, and he died December,
1845, in Fulton county. His widow mar-
ried William Meeker, and resides in Iowa.

ELIZABETH, born August, 1804,
in Kentucky, was married September,
1824, to Samuel Blair. They had twelve
children. The parents died at Montezu-
ma, Pike county, 111. Two of their child-
ren, THEOPHILUS and NANCY A.,
are married, and reside near Montezuma,
111.

JOHN, born Oct. 25, 1805, in Ken-
tucky, was married in Sangamon county
in 1827, to Jehoida Rhea. They had
four children, and she died. He married
Letitia Farris. They have nine children,
and reside in Fulton county, five miles
west of Havana.

SUSAN, born June 10, 1809, in Dear-
born county, Ind., was married Dec. n,
1828, to William Rhea. See his name.

DOROTHY, born April, 1811, in
Dearborn county, Ind., was married in
Sangamon county, December, 1830, to
Samuel Feebler. They have had six
children. The parents both died in 1842,
on the same day, and were buried in one
coffin, at F airfield, Iowa.

MART A., born Dec. 25, 1812, in Dear-
born county, Ind., was married in Sanga-
mon county Dec. n, 1828, to Henry Har-
mon. See his name.

SI RON, born May 10, 1815, in Dear--
born county, Ind., was married in Sanga-
mon county, February, 1837, to Anthony
H. ShufF. See his name.

WILLIAM, born Jan. 8, 1818, in Indi-
ana, died in Sangamon county, Oct., 1831.

Mrs. Nancy A. Foutch died March 12,
1845, and J°hn Foutch married Celia
Harmon. He died Sept. 15, 1848, and
Mrs. Celia Foutch died in 1851, all in
Sangamon county.

FOWKES, WILLIAM L.,
was born Jan. 17, 1793, in Loudon coun-
ty, Va. He was married there, July 20,
1813, to Mrs. Margaret D. Saunders,
whose maiden name was Saunders. She
was born March i, 1788, in the same coun-
ty. She had three sons by her first mar-
riage. See names of Presley, Asbury,
John and Cyrus G. Saunders. Mr.
and Mrs. Fowkes had two children in
Loudon county, Va., and Mr^ Fowkes
served a term in the war of 1812, about
the time of his marriage. They moved,
in the spring of 1817, to Warren county,
Ky., where they had four children, and
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in Oct., 1826, and settled three miles west
of Springfield, where one child v/as born.
Mr. Fowkes taught school there in a house
built of round logs, with the earth for a
floor, oiled paper for window lights, and a
fire place as wide as one end of the house.
That house was built in 1827. In the
spring of 1831 Mr. F. moved to German
Prairie, four miles northeast of Spring-
field. Of their seven children —

ROBERT H. S., born May 2, 1814,
in Loudon county, Va., married in San-
gamon county, Jan. 21, 1841, to Mary
G. Pettus. They had four children.
JOHN T. married Sarah O. Hulbert, and
reside near Grove City, Christian county.
ALBERT married Adaline Barnes, and
resides at Topeka, Kan. GEORGE W.
enlisted in 1862, for three years, in Co. I,
41 st 111. Inf., and was killed at the battle
of Jackson, Miss., July, 1863. ELIZA-
BETH A. resides with her father. Mrs.
Mary G. Fowkes died Feb. 26, 1852, and
R. H. S. Fowkes was married Oct., 1852,
to Mrs. Harriet Fuller, whose maiden
name was Pettus. They have four child-
ren: JAMES H., MARY E., WIL-
LIAM E. and NEWTON C., and re-
side near Mt. Auburn, Christian county.

ELIZABETH M., born Feb. 26,
1816, in Loudon county, Va., resides with
her brother, William H., near Spring-
field.

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

HARRIET Z., born April 8, 1818,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, June, 1841, to Simon D. Etzroth, who
died in 1845, and she married James
Clark, in March, 1848. They had two
children. JOANNA married John Cop-
per, and resides near Mt. Pulaski or Lin-
coln. HARRIET J. is married. Mrs.
Clark died Jan., 1852.

WILLIAM H., born April 17, 1820,
in Warren county, Ky., married in San-
gamon county, Nov. 28, 1843, to Mary
Riddle, who was born May 13, 1819.
They had seven living children. LIL-
LIE E. died, aged seven years. MAR-
GARET E., MARY L., GEORGE F.,
SARAH A., WILLIAM D. and MAR-
THA J. reside with their parents, adjoin-
ing Springfield on the west. William H.
Fowkes enlisted in 1861, in Co. F,4th Iowa
Inf., served nine months, and was honor-
ably discharged on account of physical
disability.

LOUISA M., born Aug. i, 1822, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Henry J. King, Nov. 5, 1840. They
had four children, and live near Timber
Creek PostofKce, Marshall county, Iowa.

JOSEPH F., born Oct. 8, 1824, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Jane Curry. Both died ; Mr. Fowkes,
Jan. 6, 1866. Three of their children live
.at Topeka, Kan. MARY J. lives in
Christian countv.

MARGARET S., born March 23,
1827, in Sangamon county, died in her
eighth year.

Wm. L. Fowkes died Nov. 26, 1864,
and his widow died Nov. 20, 1873, both
in Christian county.

FOWLER, MASON, was born
about 1766 in Virginia. He was married
and had five children in that State, and
the family moved to the vicinity of Nash-
ville, Tenn., where they had seven child-
ren. They moved from there to Southern
Illinois in 1816, and in the spring of 1820
Mr. Fowler, with his two sons, Edward
and John and a young man by the name
of Frederick Wise, came to what is now
Cotton Hill township, Sangamon county.
They raised a crop, built a house that
summer, returned «outh and brought Mr.
Fowler's family to their new home on
Horse creek in the fall of that year. Of
their children —

ED WARD and JOHN, born in Vir-
ginia, married in Sangamon county to two
sisters by the name of Hale, and moved to
Wisconsin near Galena. The two broth-
ers and ten other citizens, including an
Indian agent and interpreter, were riding
over the country without suspecting dan-
ger. They were attacked by Indians and
eleven of them killed. One only escaped
— a man by the name of Pierce Holly,
who had the fleetest horse, and that alone
saved his life. The widows of the Fow-
ler brothers married again, and continued
to reside in that region of country.

ELIZABE7^H, born in Virginia,
married in Sangamon county to Mr.
Pierce. They both died, leaving three
sons, who were raised by William South-
wick and Joseph Enslee, in Sangamon
county.

ANN, born in Virginia, married in
Sangamon county to Dr. Samuel D. Sla-
ter. She died in 1832 or '3, leaving two
children.

REBECCA, born in Virginia, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Frederick
Wise. See his name.

TABITHA, born in Tennessee, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to a Mr. Hale.

J^HOMAS, born in Tennessee, came
to Sangamon county with his parents, and
after the death of his brothers Edward and
John, left home with the avowed purpose
of avenging their death. After an ab-
sence of ten years with the Indians, he
visited his friends in Sangamon countv,
went again to the Indians, and was never
heard of after.

NANCY, born in Tennessee, married
in Sangamon county, to Wm. Kirkpatrick.
She died in Sangamon county, leaving
five children.

WILLIAM, born in Tennessee, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, in 1834, to
Polly Durbin, and moved, in 1842, to
Dubuque county, Iowa.

Mrs. Prudence Fowler died about 1823,
in Sangamon county, and Mason Fowler
married Mrs. Anna M. Seeley, whose
maiden name was Slater. They had two
children —

El^IZA A., born in Sangamon county,
married to a Mr. Clarke. They live in
Iowa.

MIL TON F., born in Sangamon
county, went to Iowa, married there, re-
turned to Sangamon county, inherited his

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father's homestead by will, and died there,
Sept. 5, 1867.

Mason Fowler died March, 1844, and
Mrs. Anna M. Fowler, died about 1853,
both in Sangamon county.

FOWLER, THOMAS, was
born about 1800, in Lincolnshire, Eng-
land, and was married there to Millicent
Bowis, who was born about 1803, in the
same shire. Six children were born in
England, and the family embarked at
Liverpool, May 15, 1835, and landed in
New York after a voyage of nine weeks.
They came to Sangamon county in the
latter part of July, 1835, and settled in
Loami township, where three children
were born. Of all the children —

MILLICENT, born in England, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to William Jar-
rett. See his name.

THOMAS, born in England, died in
Sangamon county, at twenty-one years of
age.

JOHN B., born June 10, 1827, in
Lincolnshire, England, married in Sanga-
mon county, Jan. 23, 1849, to Sarah A.
Greening. They have seven children,
AFFYLINE, THOMAS, ABIGAIL,
JOHN, JAMES, WILLIAM and
GEORGE, and reside six miles southwest
of Chatham.

ROBERT, born in England, married
in Sangamon county to Minerva Bilyeu,
have eleven children, and live in Crawford
county, Kansas.

fANE, born in England, married in
Sangamon county to Willis R. Webb,
who died, and she married Young Hudson.
See his name.

ELIZABETH, born Dec., 1833, in
England, married in Sangamon county.
May n, 1854, to William M. Gibson.
See his name.

MAR T, born in Sangamon county,
married to Thomas N. Park. See his
name.

FANNY, born in Sangamon county,
married Charles Strong, have one child,
and live in Crawford county, Kansas.

GEORGE W., born in Sangamon
county, married Mary Brown, and live in
Crawford county, Kansas.

Thomas Fowler died July 7, 1867, and
his widow resides with her daughter, Mrs.
Jarrett — 1874.

FRANCIS.— The records of this
family date back in Connecticut as far as
—40

1^32, but the immediate ancestor of that
family who came to Springfield, 111., was
Simeon Francis, Sen., who was married
May 24, 1793, in Connecticut, to Mary A.
Adams. They were both natives of that
State. Mrs. Francis died Sept. 18, 1822,
and Mr. Francis died Sept. 7, 1823, both
in their native State, leaving nine child-
ren, (seven^sons and two daughters), who
assembled at the family homestead in
Wethersfield, Conn., in the spring of
1829, and decided to sell the property and
seek homes in the west. The eldest bro-
ther—

FRANCIS, CHARLES, was
born March 19, 1794, in Wethersfield,
Conn.; married Elizabeth Haskell there.
He did not unite with the others on the
point of destination, but emigrated to
Cherry Valley, then in Madison, now in
Otsego county, N. Y. Afterwards he
moved to Ohio, and in the autumn of
1834 started for Chicago. At that time
emigrants traveled with wagons, camp-
ing wherever night overtook them. By
the time he reached Laporte, Ind.,
winter set in with great severity. After
leaving that village they met a party re-
turning from Chicago, who represented
that there were no provisions in that set-
tlement, nor work of any kind progress-
ing. This news turned him back, and,
reaching Laporte, he remained there until
the following spring, when he settled in
what was known as the Galena woods,
near Laporte. Charles Francis and wife
had seven children —

AfAfirA.died'm Wethersfield, Conn.,
Aug. 19, 1826.

JOSEPHH.,\>orn Sept. 23, 1821, in
Wethersfield, Conn., was married March
4, 1849, in Laporte county, Ind., to Cath-
arine Martin. They have two children.
MARY E., born Jan. 7, 1850, was mar-
ried Oct. 13, 1872, to Ralph W. Marshall,
who was born in Will county, 111., June i,
1843. He was ist Lieut, in Co. A, 2Oth
111. Reg. Vol. Inf. They have three
children, MARY E., FRANCES B. and JOSEPH
R., and reside in Joliet, 111. FRANCIS
G., born March 10, 1852, resides with
his parents, in Laporte county, Ind.

LUKE,\)orn May 16, 1823, in Weth-
ersfield, Conn., was married June 5, 1848,
to Betsy A. Marshall, in Galena town,
Laporte county, Ind. They are without
family, and reside in Laporte.

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EARLT SETTLERS

SIMEON, born April 23, 1827. in
Wethersfield, Conn., was married in Indi-
ana, May 12, 1859, to Mary E. Martin, of
Laporte county. They have two child-
ren, CHARLES W. and JESSIE G.,
and reside at Three Oaks, Mich.

W. WALLA CE, born Dec. 17, 1828,
in Wethersfield, Conn., was married
March 29, 1851, in Indiana, to Ann M.
Martin. They had six children. SARAH
B., born June 10, 1852, married A. J.
Holman. They had two children, FRED-
ERICK and CATHARINE. Mrs. Sarah B.
Holman died Dec. 17, 1873. FREDER-
ICK, born June 9, 1854, resides at Austin,
Nevada 'Territory. MARY A.,
CHARLES W., HULDAH A. and
JOSEPH F., live with their father. Mrs.
Ann M. Francis died Sept. 29, 1869, and
W. W. Francis was married Feb. 20,
1871, to Mary E. Plimpton, of New Buf-
falo, Berrien county, Mich. They have
one child, DWIGHT P., and reside at
Rolling Prairie, Laporte county, Ind.

CHARLES,]ur\., born April 4, 1831, in
Madison county, N. Y., married Minerva
Weed, Nov. 9, 1856. Mrs. Minerva
Francis died April II, 1865, and Charles
F. Francis was married June i, 1869, to
Miss R. B. Hollingsworth, of Porter
county, Ind. They have one child,
MARY E., and reside at Three Oaks,
Mich.

ED WIN, born August, 1833, in Madi-
son county, N. Y., died in Laporte, Ind.,
October, 1839.

Mrs. Elizabeth Francis died in 1856,
and Charles Francis died in 1870,
both in Laporte, Ind., leaving their child-
ren in good circumstances.

The eight Francis brothers and sisters
who left Connecticut for Illinois, em-
barked on the sloop Falcon, at Hartford,
Conn., Sept. 17, 1829. Their journey
was down the Connecticut river and
across Long Island sound to New York
city; up the Hudson river to Albany,
thence to Buffalo by canal, and from Buffalo
to Lower Sandusky, in a sailing vessel, on
the lake. From there to Cincinnati by
wagons. Many hardships were exper-
ienced in traveling through Ohio, with
poor accommodations, bad roads, and
oftentimes want of provisions. At one
place where they stopped over night, they
had to appease their hunger with honey,
corn bread and fresh pork. After this

meal they were ill for several days. At
Cincinnati they took steamer down the
Ohio and up the Mississippi river to St.
Louis, where they arrived Dec. 3, 1829,
having escaped the wreck of one steamer
on the way, and traveled every day but
one Sunday for seventy-seven days, to
accomplish a journey which can now be
made in half as many hours. They re-
mained together in St. Louis until the
summer of 1831, when Josiah came to
Springfield and issued a prospectus for the
Sangamo Journal, soliciting subscrip-
tions to the same. Simeon and J. Newton
came later, and the first number of the
Journal was issued Nov. 10, 1831. Of
the six brothers and two sisters who
arrived in St. Louis —

FRANCIS, SIMEON, was
born May 14, 1796, in Wethersfield,
Conn, served an apprenticeship in a print-
ing office in New Haven, Conn. After
which he formed a partnership, under the
name of Clapp & Francis, and published
a paper in New London, Conn., in 1824.
He was married in the latter place, sold
out, and moved to Buffalo, N. Y., where
he published the Buffalo Emporium, under
the firm name of Lazwell & Francis. They
being Free Masons, and the Morgan ex-
citement breaking out at the time caused
a suspension of the paper and closing the
business of the firm early in 1828. He
came to Springfield, 111., in 1831. Simeon
Francis and wife were without family, but
brought up Ann Douglas, a niece of Mrs.
Francis, who returned to New York in
1836, married Capt. George Barrell, and re-
sides in Springfield, 111. Simeon Francis, in
connection with his brothers Josiah, Allen
and J. Newton, published the " Sangamo
Journal?"1 through all its changes to the
present daily and weekly '''•State Jour-
nal" In 1840 President Harrison ap-
pointed Simeon Francis, Indian Agent for
Oregon, but after making all necessary
preparation for his trip there he resigned.
He and his brother Allen sold their inter-
est in the State Journal, June, 1856, to
Baker & Bailhache. Simeon then engaged
in mercantile business, under the firm
name of Francis & Barrell. He was for
several years Secretary of the State Agri-
cultural Society. In 1859 he closed his
business in Springfield, and moved to
Portland, Oregon. He edited the Oregon
Farmer, and was President of the Oregon

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State Agricultural Society. In . 1861
President Lincoln appointed him Paymas-
ter in United States army, with residence
at Ft. Vancouver, Washington Territory.
In 1870 he was retired on half pay, and
returned to Portland, Oregon, where he
died, Oct. 25, 1872. His widow resides
there — 1876.

FRANCIS, MARY A., sister
of Simeon, Josiah, Allen, Charles, Calvin,
Edwin and Huldah, was born Aug. 9,
1798, remained with her brother Edwin,
in St. Louis, until his death, when she
came to Springfield, 111., in June, 1834.
She died unmarried, at the residence of
her brother Simeon, Oct. 17, 1834.

FRANCIS, CALVIN, born
June 12, 1802, in Wethersfield, Conn.,
was married Oct. 21, 1823, to Abigail D.
Francis, of his native place. They had
several children, all of whom died except
two. Calvin Francis and family came
with his brothers and sisters to St. Louis,
remained there until Sept. 8, 1836, when
he moved to Wesley city, Tazewell coun-
ty, 111., and in 1837 *° Athens, in what
was then Sangamon county. In 1853 he
moved to Springfield, and was for several
years connected with the Journal office.

Of his children —

JEANETTE, born in Wethersfield,
Conn., was married Jan., 1844, to Abner
B. Hall. They have three children, IDA
F., ABBIE J. and CALVIN, and reside
in Athens, Menard county, 111.

MART F., born in Buffalo, N. Y.,
was married Dec., 1848, to B. C. Whitney.
They have three children, CHARLES
F., JOHN C. and GRACE M., and re-
side in Athens.

Calvin Francis moved from Springfield
to Chatham, 111., in 1863. Mrs. Abigail
D. Francis died there, Oct. 23, 1865. He
resides with his children in Athens, Men-
ard county, 111.

FRANCIS, JOSIAH, born Jan.
17, 1804, at Wethersfield, Conn. He was
the first of the family who came to
Springfield, 111., arriving in the summer of
1831, and at once took measures to estab-
lish the Sangamo Journal, and issued the
first number Nov. 10, 1831. He severed
his connection with the Journal, in 1835,
and was married the same year to Mar-
gery Constant, near Athens, 111., and in
1836 engaged in mercantile pursuits in
Athens. While there, he represented

Sangamon county in the State Legislature,
in 1840. A few years later he returned to
Springfield, and was elected Sheriff of
Sangamon county, and still later Mayor of
Springfield. He was Quartermaster-
General of Illinois, under Gov. Yates,
and resigned a short time before the rebel-
lion commenced. Josiah Francis and wife
had four children, viz :

THOMAS N., born Jan. 8, 1837, at
Athens, 111., learned the printing business
in the Journal office, enlisted in the first
company and regiment raised in Illinois
for the suppression of the rebellion, viz.,
Co. I, 7th 111. Vol. Inf., for three months.
At the expiration of that time he re-en-
listed in same company and regiment for
three years, was chosen 2d Lieutenant of
his company, and promoted at the battle
of Ft. Donnelson to ist Lieutenant and
Adjutant of his regiment. He was
wounded at the battle of Corinth, Miss.,
Oct. 4, 1862, and resigned the following
November. He was married in St. Joseph,
Mo., to Amelia E. Hancock, a native of
Pennsylvania. They have one child,
MARGERY, and reside at 96, west
Adams street, Chicago, 111.

JULIA y., born Dec. 25, 1839, in
Athens, was married Feb. 13, 1866, at
Independence, Mo., to Hobart T. Ives,
who was born Aug. 2, 1839, in Litchfield,
Conn. They returned to Springfield, and
have two children, FRANCIS S. and
MATTIE J., and reside in Springfield.
Mr. Ives served two years as county col-
lector. He also served as Alderman in
the Springfield city council.

ANNA E., born March 31, 1842, in
Springfield, was married Oct. 10, 1866, in
Springfield, to Dr. John E. Hanback, who
was born Sept. 24, 1834, at Winchester,
111., graduated at Illinois College, Jackson-
ville, in 1868, studied medicine in Rush
Medical College, Chicago. They have
two children living, GERTRUDE A.
and CARRIE B. Dr. Hanback was city
physician of Springfield for 1874. They
reside at Winchester, Scott countv, 111.

CHARLES S., born Feb. 21, 1845,
in Springfield, was married in 1868 to
Lydia Newell. She died June 21, 1870.
He was married May 23, 1873, in Chicago,
to Eunice E. Teachoute. They have one
child, CHARLES S., Jim., and reside at
Three Oaks, Michigan.

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Mrs. Margery Francis died Dec. 17,
1846, and Josiah Francis was mairied in
March, 1848, to Jeanette Hicks, in Menard
county. They had three children —

EDWIN G. died May 24, 1875, in
Springfield, 111.

MART A., born in Springfield, 111.,
resides with her sister, Mrs. Ives.

JEANETTE, born in Springfield,
111., resides there with Mrs. Young.

Mrs. Jeanette Francis died Dec., 1861,
and Josiah Francis died Oct. 8, 1867, both
in Springfield.

FRANCIS, EDWI 1ST. was born
Oct. 9, 1807, in Wetherfield, Conn., died
of cholera in St. Louis, Mo., June 4,

FRANCIS, HULDAH, born
May 10, 1811, in Wethersfield, Conn.,
came to Springfield June, 1834, and was
married in 1837 to Joseph Williams.
See his name.

FRANCIS, ALLEN, born
April 12, 1815, in Wethersfield, Conn., re-
sided in St. Louis until the death of his
brother Edwin, in 1834, when, with his
two sisters, he came to Springfield, 111.
Worked in the Journal office, and sub-
sequently became a partner in the same.
He was married Dec. 25, 1838, in Spring-
field, to Cecilia B. Duncan, of Glasgow,
Scotland, and sister of David Duncan,
who was drowned in attempting to cross
the Sangamon river on horseback, in
1837. They had six living children,
namely —

CECILIA J., born in Springfield,
married in Oregon to Hermon Hoffer-
kamp, and now resides in Washington
Territory.

MARIETTA, born in Springfield,
Illinois, married in Victoria, Vancouver's
Island, to David A. Edgar, of Staten
Island, N. Y.

HULDAH G., born in Springfield,
111., married Byron Z. Holmes, of Port-
land, Oregon, and resides there.

ELIZA E., born in Springfield, 111.,
married William T. Gillihan, of Port-
land, Oregon.

ALLEN, BUNN, born in 1849, in
Springfield, accompanied his father to the
Pacific coast. Subsequently became agent
for a fur company in San Francisco, was
stationed at Fort Constantine, in Alaska,
and never saw a white woman or heard his
native lans:ua<re for over eighteen months.

He is. now interested in a quartz mine in
that territory, which he discovered in the
autumn of 1874.

ED WIN H., born in 1851, in Spring-
field, went to Alaska soon after it was
purchased of Russia by the United States,
was appointed deputy collector at Sitka,
and clerk of the city council. He has
seen much of frontier life, is master of the
Russian language, and many of the In-
dian languages, and reside at Sitka,
Alaska.

Allen Francis was for several years a
member of the city council of Springfield,
111., from the first ward. He erected the
Journal buildings, and a brick dwelling
on the corner of Sixth and Carpenter
streets. In Oct., 1861, President Lincoln
appointed him consul at Victoria, Van-
couver's Island. He left for that point
February, 1862, and resigned in 1871.
He, with his two sons, engaged in the fur
trade with the Indians, on the north
Pacific coast. He resides in Victoria,
Vancouver's Island.

FRANCIS, J. NEWTON,
born June 6, 1817, in Connecticut, came to
Springfield with his brother Simeon in
1831, and was married in Springfield to
Julia A. Constant. Mr. F. was connected
with the State Journal until Nov., 1843,
when he accidently shot himself while re-
turning from a hunting excursion, near
Monticello, Piatt county, 111., leaving a
widow and one child —

JANE N., who was married in 1862,
at Little Rock, Ark., to Isaac Treadway,
and lives in St. Louis, Mo.

Mrs. Julia A. Francis married R. V.
Kenedy. They have two children, and
reside in Chicago. This ends the history
of the Francis brothers 'and sisters who
came from Connecticut.

FRANCIS, CHARLES B.,
was born Oct. 30, 1799, in Pittsfield,
Mass., and was there married to Roxanna
Goodrich. They had two living children,
and moved to Springfield, 111., in 1835.
He was for several years engaged in the
manufactm-e of cabinet furniture with his
brother Josiah. They were distant rela-
tives of Simeon Francis and his brothers,
founders of the Illinois State Journal.
Charles B. Francis united with others in
building, under contract, fifteen miles of
the Northern Cross railroad — now Toledo,

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Wabash & Western railroad — from New
Berlin to Springfield. Of his children —

MARIETTA, born Nov. 29, 1826, in
Pittsfield, Mass., was married Feb. n,
1846, in Springfield, 111., to James L.
Riggs. They have one daughter, ALICE,
born July 16, 1853, was married in Peoria,
111., to Alexander G. Tyng, Jun. Mr.
Riggs died June 30, 1859, in Brimfield,
111., and his widow and daughter reside in
Peoria.

JANE A., born Oct. 23, 1830, in Pitts-
field, Mass., was brought up in Spring-
field, 111., and married Dec. n, 1851, at
Brimfield, 111., to Robert A. Smith. They
have seven children, and reside in Peoria,
111.

Charles B. Francis died Oct. 10, 1843,
in Jacksonville, 111., while in attendance
at the Illinois Baptist Convention. Mrs.
Roxanna Francis, after living a widow
twenty-nine years, was married in Pitts-
field, Mass., Oct. 7, 1872, to Jirah Stearns,
and resides in Newberg, N. J.

^ FRANCIS, JOSIAH, was born
Sept. 24, 1801, in Pittsfield, Berkshire
county, Mass. He was married Dec. 2,
1824, in Pittsfield, to Fidelia Clark, who
was born Jan. u, 1803, in Westhampton,
Hampshire county, Mass. In 1825 they
moved to Palmyra, Wayne county, N.
Y., where they had two living children.
They moved to Springfield, 111., arriving
June 30, 1836, and had one child in
Springfield. Mr. Francis engaged in the
manufacture of cabinet furniture, in con-
nection with his brother Charles B., and
continued in that business until 1852,
when he engaged in farming, four miles
northeast of Springfield, near what is
now German Prairie station. Of his
children —

LUCIUS C., born Dec. 26, 1828, at
Palmyra, Wayne county, N. Y., married
Aug. 23, 1860, in Springfield, 111., to Clara
Pierson. She died Nov. 14, 1864. Mr.
Francis was married Dec. 23, 1873, 'n
Atlanta, 111., to Mrs. Susan Leonard,
whose maiden name was Keigwin. She
was born March 21, 1840, in Springfield.
They reside half a mile west of German
Prairie station, but their postoffice is
Springfield, 111.

JAMES S., born Jan. 15, 1831, in
Palmyra, Wayne county, N. Y., resides
with his father.

MARIA E., born Oct. 23, 1837, in
Springfield, 111., and lives with her father.

Mrs. Fidelia Francis died Oct. 21, 1874,
in Sangamon county, and Josiah Francis
resides near German Prairie station, with
his postofHce at Springfield, 111.

FRAZEE, HENRY S., born
April 16, 1811, in Monmouth county, N.
J. His mother died when he was an in-
fant, and his father when he was nine
years old. Henry S. Frazee and Sarah
Van Patten were married Nov. 5, 1836, in
Somerset county, N. J. They moved in
company with her father to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving Aug. 9, 1838, at
Springfield. They had four children in
Sangamon county, namely —

CORNELIA A., born Oct. 24, 1839,
in Sangamon county, married Dec. 25,

1863, to Lewis Large. He enlisted Sept.
21, 1 86 1, for three years, in Co. A, roth
111. Cav., served until April 16, 1862,
when he was discharged on account of
physical disability. He died March 25,

1864, just three months after marriage.
Mrs. Cornelia A. Large was married Dec.
31 > 1868, to Seth W. Wickham. They
have one child, MINNIE L., and reside
one mile south of Farmingdale.

HANNAH, born Nov. 8, 1842, married
March 10, 1864, to Richard G. Large.
He enlisted Sept. 21, 1861, in Co. A, roth
111. Cav., for three years; re-enlisted as a
veteran January, 1864, served to the end
of the rebellion, and was honorably dis-
charged November, 1865, at San An-
tonio, Texas. They had three children.
ROSE B., the youngest, died in infancy.
HENRY GRANT and EDWARD F.
live with their parents, near Fredonia,
Wilson county, Kansas.

ELIZA£ETH,\>orn August 11,1845,
is a teacher, and resides with her parents.

MARGARET, born Dec. 6, 1849,
married Jan. 3, 1869, to Edward M.
Beach. See his name.

Henry S. Frazee and wife resides one
and a half miles south of Farmingdale —
1874.

FULLINWIDER, HENRY,
was born in 1799, near Hagerstown, Md.,
and was taken when quite young to Shel-
by county, Ky. This family, with others,
soon after assembled in a block house for
protection. The men all being out, In-
dians attacked the fortifications, and killed
an elder brother of Henry, a lad who was

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aiming to enter the fort. A hole was dug
under the timbers from the inside, and his
body drawn in, to prevent its falling into
the hands of the Indians. This circum-
stance made an impression on the mind of
Henry that was never effaced. Harriet
Neal was born in 1789, in Fauquier coun-
ty, Va., and was taken when quite young
to Kentucky. Henry Fullinwider and
Harriet Neal were married. They had
thirteen children, all born in Shelby coun-
ty, Ky., four of whom died young. In
the fall of 1833 Mr. Fullinwider visited
Sangamon county, and purchased a farm
adjoining Mechanicsburg on the east. He
returned to Kentucky for his family, and
died there July 21, 1834. The family
moved to the home thus provided, arriv-
ing at Mechanicsburg in the fall of 1834.
Of their nine children —

LUCINDA JV., born Dec. 27, 1809,
in Shelby county, Ky., married in Ken-
tucy, March 8, 1832, to Richard Bird.
See his name.

SAMUEL N., born Feb. 17, 1811, in
Shelby county, Ky., married Matilda
Hathaway. They had three children,
and Mrs. F. died in Sangamon county
from injuries received while riding in a
wagon. Two of their children are dead.
HARRIET married Lee Phillips, and
resides at Fremont, Neb. Samuel N.
Fullinwider married in Chatham to Mary
Thornton. They reside at Fremont,
Dodge county, Neb.

ELIZABETH G., born March 8,
1812, in Kentucky, married there, Feb. 10,
1832, to Talbott Lyon. They had three
children : HARRIET H. married Joseph
Foster, and died. See his name. Mrs.
Elizabeth G. Lyon died, and Mr. Lyon
married Eliza Correll, and he died. See
Correll.

JACOB N., born June 5, 1814, in
Shelby county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, March 23, 1837, to Sarah A.
Ballard. They had eleven children,
three of whom, MARY E., ANN E.
and JOHN W., died under four years.
Of the other eight. ELIZABETH J.,
born March 8, 1838, married David S.
Hall. See his name. WILLIAM A.,
born Nov. 20, 1842, in Mechanicsburg,
was married there, March 4, 1875, to
Alice Elkin, and resides near Mechanics-
burg. HARRIET N., born Sept. n,
1845, near Mechanicsburg, was married

there to Edward W. Bennett. See his
name. HENRY T., born March i,
1846, was married Dec. 28, 1871, to Sarah
C. Lindsly, who was born June 13, 1849,
in Christian county, 111. They had one
child, CHARLES w., who died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. F. reside three miles north-
east of Mechanicsburg. MARCUS L.,
born June 13, 1849, m Mechaniscburg,
graduated in 1871, at the Wesley an Uni-
versity, Bloomington, 111., and graduated
in medicine Jan., 1874, at Rush Medical
College, Chicago, 111. He was married
May n, 1876, in Bloomington, 111., to
Clara F. Munsell, and resides in Mechan-
icsburg. Dr. Fullinwider is practicing his
profession there. SAMUEL T., born
June 21, 1851, in Mechanicsburg, gradu-
ated June 17, 1874, at Wesleyan Univer-
sity, Bloomington, 111., and was married
in Mechanicsburg, May 27, 1875, to
Lucilla Elkin. They reside near Mechan-
icsburg. JACOB T., born Nov. 24, 1853,
and OWEN H., born August 19, 1856.
The two latter live with their parents.
Jacob N. Fullinwider lesides on the farm
where the family settled in 1834, adjoin-
ing Mechanicsburg on the east, and is one
of the most extensive farmers and stock
raisers in Sangamon county.

NANCT N., born July 3, 1818, in
Shelby county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, Nov. 23, 1837, to Rev. Ar-
nold Bowman, of the M. E. church.
They had seven children. LAVINIA
married Capt. Theodore True, of the
U. S. Army, and resides — 1876— at Fort
Bridger, Wyoming Territory. HAR-
RIET F., born in October, 1844, resides
with her mother. JOHN was killed,
aged about twenty years, in Sangamon
county, while hauling logs. JENNIE
married Lewis P. Butler, a practicing
lawyer at Murphysboro, 111. MATIL-
DA married Dr. Josiah Richardson, and
resides in Louisville, Ky. They have one
child, RICHARD H., born Oct. 13, 1860, in
Springfield, 111. HOWARD lives with
his mother. Rev. Mr. Bowman was a
preacher in the M. E. church twenty-
eight years, and died Oct. 3, 1865, near
Mechanicsburg. His widow resides at
Mattoon, 111.

SOLOMON N., born in 1820, in
Shelby county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county to Elizabeth Little. They had three
children, HENRY, HARRIET and

SANGAMON COUNTY.

ELIZABETH. Mrs. Elizabeth Fullin-
wider died, and S. N. Fullinwider mar-
ried Amanda Fox. They had two child-
ren. Mr. F. enlisted in the army to sup-
press the rebellion, and died Jan. 10, 1864,
at home on sick furlough. His widow
married Marion Smith, and resides one
mile east of Buffalo.

SIMON P., born May 14, 1826, in
Shelby county, Ky., was married Aug.
22, 1848, in Sangamon county, 111., to
Louisa C. Hesser. They have five living
children. EDWIN R., born July 2, 1840,
enlisted at Cincinnati, O., March 10, 1865,
in Co. K, 8ist Reg. Ohio Inf., for one
vear or during the war, and was honora-
bly discharged July 13, 1865, at Louisville,
Ky. He was married Nov. 3, 1870, in
Mechanicsburg, 111., to Flora Gore. They
have three children, SIMON p., ESTELLA
j. and EDWIN E., and live near Wheatfield
postoffice, Sangamon county, 111, HEN-
RY N., born May 14, 1851, lives with his
parents. G. SAMUEL born Dec. 22,
1852, is a «lerk in Springfield. KATIE L.
and RICHARD S. reside with their par-
ents, one-half mile east of Lanesville,
Sangamon county, 111. Their postoffice is
Wheatfield.

MARCUS L., born June 29, 1829, in
Kentucky, married in Mechanicsburg to
Sarah Fairbanks. They had two child-
ren, GEORGE and CALVIN, and Mrs.
F. died. He married Maria Ely, and had
two children, LINCOLN and GUY.
Mrs. Maria Fullinwider died. Mr. Ful-
linwider married a third time early in
1876, and lives at Fairmount, Vermilion
county, 111.

JOHN H., born Sept. 17, 1831, in
Shelby county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county Sept. 20, 1855, to Isabel Hall.
They have four living children, HAR-
RIET J., JOHN GRANT, HENRY
A. and NANNIE BELLE, and reside
adjoining Buffalo on the east.

Henry Fullinwider died in Kentucky,
July 21, 1834, and Mrs. Harriet Fullin-
wider died Jan. 31, 1867, in Sangamon
countv.

FUNDERBURK, HENRY,
was born Feb. 18, 1773, in Orange dis-
trict, S. C. Polly Rape was born in
February, 1786, in the same district. They
were married and had two children. They
then moved to Dickson county, Tenn.,
where four children were born, and

then to St. Clair county, 111., in 1816.
From St. Clair county they moved to
what became Sangamon county, arriving
in the spring of 1817 or '18 west of Horse
creek, near where Daniel G. Jones now
resides, in Cotton Hill township. Mr. F.
moved in company with William Nelson.
They both built cabins and raised crops
the year they came. Mr. F. had seven
children born in Sangamon county, mak-
ing a total of thirteen. Of their children —

POLLY, born Dec. 14, 1803, in South
Carolina, came with her parents to what
is now Sangamon county, in the spring
of 1817 or '18, married Elijah Hinkle,
who died, and she married William
Chambers, and he died, and she married
John Bowman, and resides near Taylor-
ville. She had no children. She could
have given me definite information
whether the family came in 1817 or 18,
but I could not obtain any information
from herself or her brother James.

ELIZABETH, born Jan. 31, 1806,
in South Carolina, came to Sangamon
county with her parents in the spring of
1817 or '18, married Thomas Hanks.
They have eleven children, and reside
near Whitehall, Greene county.

JACOB, born Nov. 9, 1808, in Ten-
nessee, married in Sangamon county to
Ruth Sampson. They have ten children,
and live in Vernon county, Mo.

JAMES, born Dec. 14, 1810, in Ten-
nessee, married in Sangamon county to
Nancy Nelson. They have six children,
and live near Taylorville.

HENRY, born Feb. 14, 1813, in Ten-
nessee, married in Sangamon county Nov.
5, 1835, to Jane Snodgrass. They have
eight children. E. JANE, born May 6,
1838, married John Durbin, have five
children, and live near Conesville, Musca-
tine county, Iowa. JOHN S., born April
14, 1840, died April 8, 1842. CARTER,
born August 14, 1857, married Alice
Wenicke, and live near D. G. Jones, in
Cotton Hill township. POLLY, born
Jan. 15, 1846, lives with her parents.
LEWIS, born June 12, 1851, married
Mary Hinkle, and live in Christian
county, east of Pawnee. COOPER,
born Jan. 8, 1851, resides east of Pawnee.
NANCY, born July 17, 1853, and
JAMES H., born Sept. 9, 1857, live
with their parents in Cotton Hill town-
ship.

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MILL T, born March 17, 1815, in Ten-
nessee, married in Sangamon county to
Abishai Rape. They both died, leaving
a daughter, who married George Morgan,
and lives in Christian county.

SALLT, born April 8, 1819, in San-
gamon county, married Henry Dixon.
They had eight children, and Mr. D.
died. The family live near Taylorville.

RAPE, born Feb. 10, 1821, in Sanga-
mon county, married Amanda Jones.
She had one child, ALEXANDER. He
married Harriet A. Levi, who died, and
he married Salena Morrow, and lives in
Christian county. Mrs. Amanda F. died,
and Mr. F. married Mary Sanders, and
she died. He then married Caroline
Armstrong. They had eight children,
MARY J., ABEL, GEORGE W.,
AMANDA, ALBERT C., MELVIN,
EDWARD L., and MILES, and reside
in Ball township.

MARTHA, born June 3, 1826, in San-
gamon county, married John H. Sanders.
See his name.

NANCT, born April i, 1828, in San-
gamon county, married James White. He
died, leaving a widow and seven children,
at Taylorville.

ELIZA, born Aug. 2, 1830, in Sanga-
mon county, married Robert E. Sanders.
See his name.

ORLENA, born Oct. 21, 1832, in San-
gamon county, married William Crow-
der, who died, and she married Benj.
Howard, have four children, and live near
Taylorville.

Mrs. Polly Funderburk died Aug. i,
1841, and Henry Funderburk died Aug.
14, 1843, both near where they settled in
1818, in Cotton Hill township.

FUNDERBURK, DAVID,
born Jan. 9, 1795, in Orange District, S.
C., was bound apprentice to a hatter, but
instead of teaching him how to make hats,
his master put him to work in the fields
with the negroes and otherwise treated
him harshly, so he ran away and enlisted
in the 3d U. S. Rifle Reg. for five years,
from Aug. 15, 1814. It was so near the
close of the war with England that he was
not in any battle. His five years were
spent in garrison duty on the frontier,
and was at Ft. Osage, on the Missouri
river, near the present line between Mis-
souri and Kansas, when his term of enlist-
ment expired, Aug. 15, 1819. He, with

eight other discharged soldiers, fastened
two canoes together, with a platform over
them, and all left for St. Louis with their
knapsacks. Mr. F. says that they were
somewhat crowded, and on the way down
he stole a canoe, and taking a comrade left
the other seven who began drinking and
ran their craft on a sawyer, which upset it,
and they lost everything except what they
had on their persons, but the men clung
to the sunken log, and but for the stolen
canoe they must all have drowned. Mr.
F. and his comrade took them all safely to
shore. He has always, in his quaint wav,
insisted that that was "providential steal-
ing." On arriving at St. Louis, he learned
that his uncle, Henry Funderburk, had
moved into the San-ga-ma country, and
he determined to visit him. He found his
uncle on the 3ist of Aug., 1819, in what
is now Cotton Hill township, between
Brush and Horse creeks, and went to
work to supply himself with clothing, in
place of that which was lost on the river.
David Funderburk was married in March,
1821, to Hannah Hinkle. They had
eight living children, all born in Sanga-
mon county. Of their eight children —

SARAH, born April 2, 1822, married
Henry Voyles. They have eleven child-
ren, and live in Madison county, near
Staunton, Macoupin county.

MART J., born March 18, 1827, mar-
ried Thomas Funderburk. They have
five children, and live near Staunton,
Macoupin county, 111.

JOHN S., born March 1 6, 1831, mar-
ried Mrs. Eliza J. Voyles, whose maiden
name was Davis. They have six children,
EDWARD E., MARY E., JOSEPH
E., WILLIAM A., MARTHA and
VELMA, and live in Madison county,
near Staunton, Macoupin county, 111.

PHEBE, born in Sangamon county,
is married, and resides there.

ALFRED N., born Sept. 27, 1837,
married Emily Ward. They have three
children, WILLIAM B., THOMAS L.
and BENJAMIN A., and reside in Cot-
ton Hill township.

DA F//9, Jun., born Dec. 22, 1839, en-
listed at Springfield in 1861, for three
years, in what became Co. B, nth Mo.
Inf., served full time, and was honorably
discharged in 1864. He was married to
Sarah A. Torry. They have four child-
ren, MINNIE L., ADDIE L., MARY

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A. and a babe — 1873 — and reside at the
homestead settled by his parents in 1821,
in Cotton Hill township.

WILLIAM F., born Nov. 22, 1842,
enlisted in August, 1862, in Co. — , i I4th
111. Inf., for three years. He was wounded
and captured at the battle of Guntown,
Miss., June 10, 1864; one arm was ampu-
tated by a rebel surgeon. He was held a
prisoner until the close of the rebellion.
Is unmarried, and resides in Christian
county.

THOMAS J., born May 6, 1845,
married Angeline N. Carlton. They
have four children, NELLIE VIOLA,
JESSIE MAY, HANNAH E. and
WILLIAM, and reside near the family
homestead in Cotton1 Hill township, San-
gamon county.

Mrs. Hannah Funderburk died Sept.
22, 1873, after nearly fifty-three years of
wedded life. David Funderburk resides
with his children part of the time, near
Staunton, and part in Sangamon county,
Illinois.

Q-

GAINES, RICHARD, was
born Nov. 8, 1777, in Charlotte county,
Va. Amy C. Green was born Feb. 3,
1782, in the same county. They were
married and had three children, and
moved to Barren county, Ky., about 1807,
where they had three children, and the
family moved to Christian county, where
one child was born, and then moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in Novem-
ber, 1825, in what is now Cartwright
township, and settled about one mile north
of where Pleasant Plains now stands. Of
the seven children —

ROBERT G., born June 20, 1801, in
Virginia, married June 26, 1823, to Han-
nah Quaite. They had nine daughters
and one son, and Mrs. Gaines died April
27, 1843. Mr. Gaines is living with his
third wife, in Missouri.

MILDRED, born Oct. 4, 1802, in
Virginia, married Feb. 22, 1823, to Sam-
uel Black. See his name.

RICHARD F., born March 18, 1806,
married in Sangamon county to Mary
Black. They have five children, and live
five miles north of Jacksonville.
—41

JOHN, born April 20, 1808, in Ken-
tucky, married Feb. 25, 1836, in Sanga-
mon county, to Sarah Renshaw, had six
children,, and Mrs. Gaines died. Mr.
Gaines lives with his brother-in-law, Wil-
liam Batterton.

COL EM AN, born Dec. 28, 1809, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
Nov. 17, 1831, to Susan Batterton. They
had one son, JOHN ST. CLAIR, who
died, aged seventeen years. Mrs. Gaines
died in 1833, and Mr. G. was married
Oot. 9, 1834, to Priscilla McDonald, and
lives at Lincoln, 111.

ELIZA, born Dec. 4, 1811, married
Jan. i, 1833, to William Batterton. See
his name.

ABRAHAM CLAT, born June 4,
1814, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county Nov. 21, 1839, to Mary Sackett.
They had eight children, and Mrs. G.
died May 9, 1863, and he was married
Sept. 15, 1864, to Mrs. Sarah. J. Newell,
whose maiden name was Mills. They
have two children, and live near Odell, 111.

Richard Gaines was a local preacher in
the M. E. church for twenty-five or thirty
years. He died Jan. 7, 1845, anc^ Mrs.
Amy C. Gaines died Aug. 19, 1871, both
in Sangamon county.

GARDNER, JOHN, was born
June 21, 1805, in that part of Gallatin
that is now Trimble county, Ky. Mary
C. Duncan was born March 27, 1810, in
the same county. They were married
there June 13, 1830. They had one child
in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving: April 17, 1833, two
miles west of Springfield, and early in
1834 moved to what is now Gardner
township, two miles north of Farming-
dale. They had eight children in Sanga-
mon county. Of their children —

HIRAM #., born April 28, 1831, in
Trimble county, Ky., opposite the city of
Madison, Ind. He was raised in San<ra-
mon county, and married June 17, 1857,
in St. Louis, Mo., to Louisa R. Brown.
They had one child, EDWIN B., born
Sept. 27, 1858, and died July 13, 1873.
Mrs. Louisa R. Gardner died July 23,
1859, and Hiram E. Gardner was married
Feb. 8, 1865, in Sangamon county, to Har-
riet E. Bradford. They have three child-
ren, LOUISA B., HARRIET M. and
HARRY B., and reside in Gardner town-
ship, one mile northwest of Bradfordton.

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

Hiram E. Gardner has represented Gard-
ner township in the Sangamon county
Board of Supervisors for several years,
and is one of the most extensive farmers
in the countv.

SARAH A., born Oct. 15, 1833, in
Sangamon county, lives with her mother.
r NANNIE C, born Sept. 12, 1836, in
Sangamon county, died April 10, 18^7.

JOHN P., born July <?, 1839, in ^San-
gamon county, married Sept. 7, 1869, to
Susan L. Kendall. They had one child that
died in infancy, and Mrs. Gardner died
June 30, 1871. John P. Gardner was
married November, 1874, to Lou. Gibson,
and lives in Curran township, five miles
west of Springfield.

CRANMER died Aug. 3, 1843, aged
two years.

JAMES, born March 27, 1844, in
Sangamon county, lives with his mother.

MART E., born April 3, 1847, 'n San-
gamon countv, lives with her mother.

LUCY M., born June 19, 1851, in San-
gamon county, married Feb. 24, 1869, to
William Hurt, a native of Kentucky.
They have two children, and reside two
miles southeast of Pleasant Plains.

WILLIAM P., born June 13, 1854,
lives with his mother.

John Gardner died Feb. n, 1868, and
his widow, Mrs. Mary C. Gardner, re-
sides two miles north of Farmingdale,
where they settled in 1834.

John Gardner was one of the commis-
sioners who divided Sangamon county in-
to townships, and the township where the
family reside bears the family name, in
honor of his memory.

G-ARDNER/HIRAM K.,was
born June 5, 1803, in Trimble county,
Ky., and was married there May 29, 1827,
to Eliza Morris. He moved in company
with his brother John to Sangamon
countv in April, 1833. He now — 1876 —
lives in Gardner township.

John Gardner was born March i ^,
1772, and his wife, Nancy, was born Jan.
12, 1773, both in Virginia. They were
the parents of Hiram K. and. John Ga/d-
ner.

CARD, EPHRAIM, was born
March, 1776, in Union county, Penn., and
was married there to Susannah Sutton, a
native of the same county. They moved
to Butler county, Ohio, where they had
twelve children. Mr. Gard was captain

of a company from that countv, in the
war of 1812. He moved in 1826 to Fay-
ette county, Ind., and from there to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of
1839, where Pleasant Plains now stands.
Of their children —

KEZ.IAH, born in 1801, in Ohio, mar-
ried there to John McDowell, and came to
Sangamon county a year later than her
parents. They moved about 1845 to
Menard county, where they both died,
leaving several children.

MARIA, born in 1803, in Ohio, mar-
ried Abijah Stout, who died in California,
leaving a widow and nine children in But-
ler countv, Ohio.

REBECCA, born in 1805, married in
Ohio to Joseph Hamilton, moved to Fay-
ette county, Indiana, thence to Little Rock,
Arkansas.

JACOB, born Sept. 23, 1806. in But-
ler county, Ohio, married there, March 10,
183=5, to Jane Campbell, had one child in
Ohio, and moved to Fayette countv, Tnd.,
in 1827, where they had three, and moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Nov.,
1834, in what is now Gardner township,
where they had five children. Of their
nine children — MORRIS, born Aug. 24,
1827, in Ohio, married Rhoda Jackson,
had three children, and died in Gardner
township. His widow married James
Sherwood, and lives at Cuba, Fulton
county, 111. DEMARIS, born Jan. 27,
1829, in Indiana, married Feb. 22, 1849,
to Berry D. Stone. They had two child-
ren. ELIZA j., married June 22, 1869, to
Daniel Diehl, who was born Oct. 5, 1834,
in Berks county, Penn. Thev have three
children, Ora Etta, John H., and Allie
Demaris, and live at Cross Plains Post-
office. JOHN B., lives with his grandfather
Gard. B. D. Stone died, and his widow
married, Nov. 22, 1853, to James M. Pel-
ham. See his name. SUSANNAH,
born Nov. n, 1831, married, Feb. 22,
1849, to Butler Stone, and he died, leaving
one child, ALICE s., who married Win. C.
Price, have two children, Nora and
Henry, and live in Umatilla Oregon.
Mrs. S. Stone married Jacob C. Lacy.
See his name. ABIGAIL M., born
June 27,1834, married Lewis Nelson, who
died, leaving a widow and six children in
DeWitt county. EPHRAIM H., born
June 27, 1838, married Mary E. Garrett.
They have four living children, WILLIAM

SANG AM ON COUNTT.

C., CHARLES D., HENRY and MARY ELLEN,

and live near Ci'oss Plains Postoffice.
RACHEL E., born Jan. 27, 1840, mar-
ried Alfred Ross. See his name.
JOHN L., born March 18, 1841, married
May 17, 1860, to Sarah E. Miller. They
have tour children, OPHELIA, LUELLA,
OLIVER and WILLIAM M., and live two
and one-half \miles southeast of Salisbury.
Jacob Gard and his wife reside three miles
south of Salisbury, in Gardner town-
ship.

JAMES L., born Oct. 22, 1808, mar-
ried Oct. 30, 1829, in Indiana, to Sarah
Sutton, moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving Sept. 21, 1839, where Pleasant
Plains now stands. They brought five
children, and had five in Sangamon
county. MARTIN V., born Oct. 22,
1831, married Elizabeth Jackson, Feb. 22,
1849. They had five children. The
parents and two of the children died.
BENJAMIN B., born June 29, 1833, mar-
ried Mary Shrader, and resides in Cass
county, Mo., near State Line. LU-
CINDA, born April 13, 1835, married
Ephraim Jackson, have two living child-
ren, Buchanan and Adam, and live two
miles east of Salisbury. SAMUEL s., born
Jan. 8, 1836, married Esther Jackson, and
live in Menard county. JEREMIAH, born
June 22, 1838, married Sarah E. Oliver.
He enlisted for three years, Aug., 1862, in
Co. F, 78th 111. Inf., was in many of the
greatest battles, and went with Sherman
in his "march to the sea." He was honor-
ably discharged, in June, 1865, and was
accidentally killed in a well, July if, 1866,
near Hickory Ridge, Hancock county,
111. ANN M., married Newton Goodman.
He died, leaving a widow and four child-
ren in Menard county. THOMAS F., mar-
ried Surrilda Pry or, have five children,
and live in Menard county. ALCEMENA
married S. T. Lewis, who died, and she
married George Neale, and lives in Cass
county, Mo. MARY j., married George
R. Ward, and lives in Menard county,
one mile north of Salisbury. ELIZA A.
married Samuel Hibbs, and lives in Men-
ard county. James L. Gard and wife re-
side three miles south of Athens, in
Menard county.

JOHN S., married Mary Ellis, and
died, leaving a widow and children in
Indiana.

HARRISON, born in Ohio, married
in Indiana to Serena Cook, came to San-
gamon county in 1838, and resides near
Florence, Morgan county, Mo.

JEREMIAH, married in Indiana to
Dicey A. Smith, moved to Little Rock,
Ark., and died there.

EPHRIAM, Jun., born in Ohio, came
to Sangamon county with his father^ mar-
ried, in Morgan county, to Pauline Parr
and died, leaving a widow and children in
Morgan county.

LUCINDA, born Jan. 7, 1821, in
Ohio, married, in 1854, in Sangamon
county, to Solomon Miller. She had one
daughter, RHODA, who married Henrv
Grady, had four children, EMMA j., ALME-
DA, ANNETTA and LUCY. Mr. Grady
died, Nov. 14, 1871, and his family live
near Cross Plains Postoffice. Solomon
Miller died. See his name. His widow
resides in Gardner township.

DA VID, born in Ohio, married in
Indiana to Lydia Hockenberry, came to
Sangamon county, in 1839. They had
three children. David Gard and his son
ALBERT, aged five years, were killed
,by lightning, June 21, 1850, near Salis-
bury. They had taken refuge under a
tree during a shower of rain.

Mrs. Susannah Gard died, Aug. 10
1851, and Ephraim Gard died Nov. 21,
1863, both in Gardner township.

GARRETSON, SAMUEL,
was born Dec. 7, 1785, in York county,
Pa. Ann Pierce was born April i, 1786,
in Chester county, Pa. They were mai--
ried Oct. 26, 1808, in Newbury township,
York county, Pa., according to Friends'
ceremony, in open meeting. They had
one child in York county, and in 1810
moved to Anne Arundel county, Md.,
where they had nine children. Mrs. Ann
Garretson died April 30, 1827, in Mary-
land. Mr. G. was married March, 1834,
at Newbury, Pa., by Friends' ceremony,
to Hannah Cadwallader. His four eldest
children remained east, but Mr. G., with
his six youngest, moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving May 22, 1837, in
Fork Prairie, near Rochester. Of the
six children —

VINCENT, born Dec. 11, 1815, in
Anne Arundel county, Md., married in
Sangamon county, March 31, 1846, to
Elizabeth T. Barrickman, a native of
Clark county, Ind. They had one child,

EA RL Y SE 7 TLERS OF

FRANCES, that died in infancy, and
Mrs. G. died March 18, 1857. Vincent
Garretson was married March 11, 1858,
in Baltimore, Md., to Sarah A. Miller,
who was born Dec. 16, 1815, in Anne
Arundel county, Md. They had three
children in Sangamon county; all died
young. Mr. and Mrs. Garretson reside
four miles southwest of Illiopolis.

HANNAH R., born April, 1817, in
Maryland, married Feb. 22, 1843, in San-
gamon county, to Jacob D. Constant.
See his name. She died Oct. 22, 1850.

THOMAS P., born Sept., 1818, in
Maryland, came to Sangamon county in
1839, married in Menard county, to Mar-
tha M. Harrison. She died in Spring-
field, and he married Phoebe Campbell.
They have seven children, and live near
Lincoln, 111.

ELI, born May 5, 1820, in Maryland,
died in Sangamon county, Sept. 14, 1838.

JOHN, born in 1821, in Mary-
land, married in Sangamon county to
Harriet Sherman. He died August 26,
1843, near Rochester. His widow mar-
ried Mr. Cotton, and lives at Elkhart.

SAMUEL, Jun., born Dec. 4, 1823, in.
Anne Arundel county, Md., married in
Sangamon county, Nov. 7, 1848, to Amelia
J. Dickerson, who was born Feb. 25,
1828, in Kentucky. They had six child-
ren. JAMES T., the eldest, died in his
thirteenth year. HARRIET, the voung-
est, died in infancy. SUSAN "ANN,
born Dec. 7, 1854, CHARLES V., born
July 15, 1856, ARCHIBALD F., born
June 22, 1858, MARY M., born Sept. 9,
1860, live with their parents, three
miles northeast of Rochester.

Mrs. Hannah Garretson died Sept. 26,
1838, and Samuel Garretson, Sen., died
May i, 1847, both in Sangamon county.

GARLAND, NICHOLAS
AUSTIN, born Feb. 23, 1806, in Al-
bemarle county, Va., was married July
16, 1827, at Liberty, Bedford county, Va.,
to Mary C. M. Phillips, who was born
there, May 2, 1810. They had one child
there, and in 1829 moved to the vicinity
of where Carondelet, Mo., now stands.
In moving, he went across the country
with a six horse team, taking with him
seven or eight slaves that he had inherited
from his father's estate. That was about
all the property he had, but soon after his
arrival in Missouri he resolved that he

could not conscientiously hold slaves, and
determined to extricate himself from the
imcongeniel position. He hired them out
for a few years, with a proviso for each
to be free at a given time, and retained
them all under his control until the last
one was liberated. He still farther mani-
fested his aversion to slavery by moving
his family to Illinois, arriving in Spring-
field in 1832. In 1837 Mr. Garland left
the city and settled in what is now Cot-
ton Hill township, in section thirty-two,
town fourteen, range four west, where he
built a horse mill in 1838, and ran a turn-
ing lathe in connection with it, doing gen-
eral cabinet work. He afterwards sold this
farm and entered a tract one mile east, in
section thirty-three. N. A. Garland and
wife had one child in Missouri and six in
Sangamon county. Of their eight child-
ren—

SAMUEL R., born in Virginia, died
in Springfield. 111., in his seventh year.

LUCT P., born Dec. 13, 1831,10 St.
Louis county, Mo., brought up in Spring-
field, 111., was married August, 1856, in
Sullivan, Moultrie county, 111., to Charles
L. Roane. They have five children,
MARY, LUCY, SARAH, CHARLES
and FANNIE, and reside at Sullivan,
Moultrie county. 111.

AUSTIN "M., born Oct. 29, 1833, in
Springfield, was married Nov. 10, 1859,
near Chatham, to Sarah E. Hoppin, who
was born June 17, 1838, in Madison coun-
ty, N. Y., and came with her father,
F. B. Hoppin, to Sangamon county in
1852. They have four children, MARY
H., LUCY H., GERTRUDE G. and
FRANK H. Austin M. Garland learned
the printing business in the State Regis-
ter office. He was a member of the firm
of Garland & Jones in publishing a cam-
paign paper in 1858, called the Illinois
American. That paper was merged into
the Daily Independent by Garland &
Wheler, in the fall of 1859. Garland sold
his interest in the paper the following
summer, and engaged in farming from
Jan., 1860, to Jan., 1871, when he returned
to Springfield. He was elected Secretary
of the State Agricultural Society in 1870,
and continued in that position, by re-elec-
tion, annually, four years, ending in the
winter of 1874-5.

JAMES M., born Sept. 26, 1835, in
Springfield, was married there, Feb. 24,

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1858, to Mary E. Hawley. They have
seven living children, CHARLES HAW-
LEY, CORA BELL, MARYE., JOHN
AUSTIN, ALICE M., JOSIE and
EDWARD M. Mr. Garland has been
for several years and is now a merchant of
Springfield, 111., where he and his family
reside.

ELIZABETH A., born Sept. 19,
1837, in Springfield, was married at Sul-
livan, Moultrie county, 111 , Oct. 6, 1873,
to Kemper Campbell. They have one
child, HATTIE, and reside at Lovington,
Moultrie county, 111.

ELLEN D., born Sept. 16, 1839, in
Springfield, 111., was married Sept. 15,
1857, to Andrew J. Lynn, who was killed
at the battle of Stone's river, Tennessee,
leaving two children, ANDREW J. and
ANNIE, who live with their mother.
Mrs. Lynn was married Sept. 26, 1865, to
Thomas M. Bushfield, of Sullivan. They
have one living child, CHARLES, and
reside in Sullivan, Moultrie county, 111.

MARY F., bom Nov., 1841, in Spring-
field, 111., married Daniel W. Rawlins, of
Jacksonville, 111. They have two living
children, DANIEL WESTERVELT
and ELEANOR GARLAND, and re-
side in Liberty, Bedford county, Va.

Mrs. Mary C. M. Garland died August
6, 1844, anc^ N- A. Garland was married
March 22, 1849, to Mrs. Rhoda G. String-
field, whose maiden name was Jack. She
died Feb. 22, 1852, and N. A. Garland was
married July 28, 1853, to Mrs. Lucy S.
McDaniel, whose maiden name was Burr,
sister of Ho'n. A. G. Burr, of Green coun-
tv, 111. They had five living children —

WILLIAM B., born in Springfield,
111., resides in Denver, Colorado.

ALBERT E., PAULINA C.,
AGNES and LAURA, live with their
m other.

Nicholas A. Garland died Jan. 4, 1874,
and Mrs. Garland and family reside in
.Springfield, 111.

GARVEY, SAMUEL, was born
Aug. 31, 1794, in Culpepper county, Va.
His father, Job Garvey,was born in Scot-
land, and brought to America when he
was quite young. His parents both dying
early, he was bound to a man who proved
to be a cruel master. Determined to
escape the hard servitude, and partly from
patriotic motives, he enlisted as a soldier
in the revolutionary army, and served the

whole seven years. When Samuel was
about one year old his parents moved to
Woodford county, Ky., and four or five
years later moved to Franklin county,
about eighteen miles south of Frankfort.
Samuel volunteered in a regiment of dra-
goons at Frankfort, under Col. Dick John-
son, and was in the battle of the river
Thames, in Canada, in which Col. John-
son is reputed to have killed the Indian
chief Tecumseh. After his return the
family moved to that part of Gallatin
which is now Owen county, Ky. Samuel
Garvey was there married, Dec. 26, 1816,
to Maria Elliston, who was born July 25,
1800, in Franklin county. They lived in
Owen county for some time, then, with a
family of seven children, moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving in the fall of
1830, in the vicinity of what became
Mechanicsburg, where they had five
living children. Of their twelve children —

SCOT7\ born Nov. 12, 1817, in Ken-
tucky, died in Sangamon county in the
twenty-first year of his age.

LEMUEL, born Sept. u, 1819, in
Kentucky, died in Sangamon county in
his twenty-sixth year.

MART A., born Aug. u, 1823, in
Kentucky, married William H. Hampton.
See his name.

SAMUEL, Jun., born Aug. 27, 1825,
in Owen county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, July 31, 1849, to Sarah A.
Gideon. She was born Jan. 13, 1828, in
Champaign county, Ohio, and came to
Sangamon county in 1846. They had
five children. MARY A., born May 21,
1850, married Sept. 9, 1869, to David C.
Fletcher. They have three children,
NEVADA, CORINNA and LENORA, and re-
side in Illiopolis township, three miles
east of Mechanicsburg. D. C. Fletcher
was born May 3, 1843, m Christian coun-
ty. He enlisted Aug. 6, 1862, for three
years, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf., was wound-
ed at the battle of Stone's river, Tenn.,
also at Adairsville, Ga.; served to the end
of the rebellion, and was honorably dis-
charged in June, 1865. ANN M., born
Aug. 23, 1852, CATHARINE J., born
Oct. 1 6, 1854, and HENRY C., born
Aug. 13, 1863, reside with their parents.
ANDREW'S, died Dec. 6, 1871, aged
four years. Samuel Garvey, Jun., resides
two and a half mih'S east of Mechanics-
burs:.

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ELIZABETH A. and NANCT C.,
twins, horn March i, 1827, in Kentucky.

EL I Z ABE rfH A. married in Sanga-
mon county to John P. Jack, and resides
at Edina, Knox county, Mo.

NANCT C. married John S. Hamp-
ton. See his name.

WILLIAM P., born Aug. 22, 1829,
in Owen county, Ky., married in Spring-
field, Feb. 2, 1854, to Elizabeth A. Wil-
liams, who was born Nov. 29, 1829, in
Montgomery county, Md. They had six
children. Their second, THOMAS E.,
died, aged eight years. The fourth, EM- .
MA J., died, aged two years. HORACE
O., CLARA, WILLIAM H. and
SAMUEL, reside with their parents, one
and a quarter miles southwest of'Illiopolis.

JANE, born March 25, 1831, in San-
gamon county, married Nov. 5, 1872, to
Josiah T. Peden, a native of Pennsylvania,
and resides at Illiopolis.

JEREMIAH C. died, aged six years,
and

EMIL 2^ died, aged four years.

JOHN, born June 29, 1839, in Sanga-
mon county, married Oct. 12, 1869, to
Maria F. Darneille. They had four child-
ren. OWEN and OLIN died in infancy.
MINNIE F. and BERTHA live with
their parents at the homestead of his
father, one and a half miles east of
Mechanicsburg.

HENRT C., born July 15, 1844, died
April 26, 1864.

Mrs. Maria Garvey died Jan. 17, 1871,
and Samuel Garvey, Sen., resides one and
a half miles east of Mechanicsburg, and
within that distance of where he settled
in 1830, just before the "deep snow."

GATES, MICHAEL, born Jan.
30, 1776, in Lancaster county, Penn. His
parents moved to the vicinity of Salisbury,
North Carolina, when he was three years
old. He was married there to Catharine
Groves. They moved to Muhlenburg
county, Ky., where seven children were
born, and the family moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1830- —
except Andrew and Mary, the two eldest
children, who arrived May 31, 1831, in
what is now Auburn township. Of their
seven children —

MART A., born October, 1805, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to Simeon Vancil. See his
name. She died March 6, 1873.

ANDREW, born Jan. 17, 1807, in
Muhlenburg county, Ky., was married. in
Sangambn county to Lucinda Wood.
They had twelve children, six of whom
died young. Of the other six, CATH-
ARINE A. married H. B. Organ. See
his name. ANDREW J. Jun., married
Miriam Davis, and live in Auburn town-
ship. MARY E. married Jerome Bald-
win, and live in Macoupin county, 111.
LEANDER A. is a teacher, and lives
with his parents. LUCINDA E. was
married Feb. 20, 1873, to A. J. Leutz,
and resides in Sangamon county, near
Virden. • SARAH F. lives with her
parents. Andrew Gates and wife reside
five miles southwest of Auburn.

PETER, born Sept. 21, 1808, in Ken-
tucky, came to Sangamon county, 111., in
Oct. 1829, and was married there to
Christiana Dukes, who died March 24,
1848, and he married Sarah A. Wood,
October, 1848, in Macoupin county, 111.
They had eleven children ; six died young.
WILLIAM F., born Oct. 14, 1849, was
married Oct. 13, 1872, to Maggie Shank-
lin, in Macoupin county, and resides in
Auburn township. JOHN M., born
Sept. 2, 1852, died Nov. 24, 1872.
GEORGE W., PETER M. and
JAMES E., reside with their parents
near Virden.

ELIZABE7^H, born Jan. 21, 1821, in
Kentucky, was married there to Isham
Gibson. He died in 1875, and Mrs. Gib-
son resides in Missouri.

CA7^HARINE, born August, 1811,
in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to Hardy Gatlin, and died
March. 1852.

MARGARET, born February, 1813,
in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to Samuel Davidson, and died
in 1861.

FANNT, born October, 1815, in Ken-
tucky, was married in Sangamon county
to Joseph Poley. See his name.

Michael Gates died in 1848, and his
wife died in 1849, both in Sangamon
county, 111.

GATTON, MRS. RUTH,
was born in 1775. Her husband, Thomas
Gatton, died in 1828, in Gray son county,
Ky. Mrs. Gatton with her daughters,
Maria and Eliza, came to Sangamon
county, under the care of her son Jo-
sephus, who had returned to Kentucky to

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be present at the death of his father.
Of her children who came to Sangamon
county —

JOHN A., born March n, 1797, in
\Vashington county, Ky., was married in
Gravson county to Anna Newton. They
had two children in Kentucky, and moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct.
16, 1827, in what is now Ball township,
where five children were born. Of their
seven children — MONICA, born in Ken-
tucky, was married in Sangamon county
to Benjamin Burtle. See his name.
THOMAS O., born Feb. 17, 1826, in
( iray son county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county, Dec. 26, 1850, to Me-
linda Harper. They had eleven children,
six of whom died young. Of the five
living — ROSETTA, STEPHEN A. ' D., and
MARY j., were born in Sangamon county,
111. RUTH j. and MARTHA F. were born
in Kansas. T. O. Gatton resides near
Osage Mission, Neosho county, Kansas.
[OSEPHUS, born in Sangamon county,
married Mary E. Harper. They had one
child, and Mrs. Mary E. Gatton died.
Josephus Gatton married Rebecca Mc-
\eely. They live in Cotton Hill town-
ship/ RUTH A. married Robert Gatton,
and lives in Auburn, Sangamon county,
111. JOHN W. lives in Ball township.
SARAH E. married James H. Burtle.
See his name. She died. THERESA
lives with James H. Burtle. John A.
Gatton died in Feb., 1847, anc^ Mrs. Anna
Gatton died Oct., 1865, both in Ball town-
ship, and are buried near St. Bernard
Catholic church, Sangamon county, 111.

THOMAS, born October, 1804, in
Washington county, Ky., was married in
Gravson county, Ky., to Martina Thomp-
son, and came to Sangamon county in
1828. A few years later he went to
Galena and engaged in lead mining. He
moved to Dubuque, thence to DeWitt,
Clinton county, Iowa, where the parents
both died, leaving three children.

JOSEPHUS, born Sept. 13, 1806, in
Washington county, Ky., was taken by
his parents, in 1813, to Gravson county,
Ky. From there he came to Stingamon
county, arriving Oct. 16, 1827, in what is
now Ball township. He returned to Ken-
tucky at the time of his father's death.
He experienced all the hardships of the
deep snow of 1830 and '31. For several

weeks the family lived on bread made of
corn that was beaten with a pestle until
fine enough, then sifted through a deer
skin which was stretched over a hoop and
burned full of holes with a hot iron. He
says the happiest time of his life was
when he was able to go to mill and obtain
two sacks of corn meal. When the
Black Hawk war broke out he did not
wish to go, but his mother said her broth-
ers were soldiers in the Revolution, and
she wished him to go and never return
with a wound in his back. He enlisted in
a Sangamon county company, did his
duty, and returned in safety. Josephus
Gatton was married in Sangamon county,
July 24, 1834, to Mary Burtle. They had
five living children. RUTH E., "born
April 16, 1835, was married in 1859 to
James A. Able. They have five children,

JOSEPH, MARY E., WILLIAM, EMMA and

CHARLES, and reside one and a half miles
southwest of Pawnee. SARAH E.,
born May 25, 1837, married John W.
Bell. See his name. THOMAS J.,
born Aug. 23, 1838, married Angeline
Durbin. He died April 20, 1867, leaving
a widow and three children near St. Ber-
nard's church, Sangamon county, 111.
MARY M., born Feb. 13, 1840, married
Nathan J. Durbin. They have six child-
ren, and reside in Cotton Hill township.
WILLIAM W., born Aug. 19, 1841,
lives with his father. Mrs. Mary Gatton
died May 5, 1843, and Josephus Gatton
was married Jan. 29, 1844, to Eveline
Husband. They had six children. J.
NEWTON, born Oct. 21, 1844, was mar-
ried Dec. 15, 1859, to Georgetta C.
Mourer. They have two children,
GEORGIA and KRANKIE, and reside six
miles south of Springfield. ELIZA J.,
born Feb. i, 1847, was mai'i'ied Oct. 5,
1870, to John L. Bliss, who was born in
Bath county, Ky., Aug. 20, 1846. They
have one child, LUKLLA, and live seven
miles south of Springfield. JAMES H.,
JOSEPHUS M., SUSAN E. and WAT-
SON T., live with their mother. Jose-
phus Gatton died March 25, 1876, and was
buried at Oak Ridge cemetery, Spring-
field. His widow and children reside six
miles south of Springfield.

MARIA, born March 13, 1811, in Ken-
tucky, married James Miller, who died,
and she married Joseph Burtle. See his
name.

EARLY SETTLERS OF

ELIZA E., born May 17, 1813, in
Kentucky, married James Burtle. See
his name.

Mrs. Ruth Gatton died October, 1832,
near St. Bernard's church, Sangamon
county, 111.

GEORGE, EDWARD, born
about 1809, in Fauquer county, Va., went
to Bath county, Ky., about 1815, and came
to Sangamon county in the fall of 1833.
He was married to Catharine Whaley.
They had nine children. She and three of
the children died near the same time. He
married Mary Martin, and she died. He
then married Mrs. Lucinda Jones, whose
maiden name was Pike. They have five
children. He died in 1875. His widow
and children live near Rochester.

GEORGE, WILLIAM, was
born in Cabell county, West Va., came
with his family to Sangamon county, in
1829 or 30, and settled in what is now
Loami township. His sons —

JOHN, WILLIAM and FRAN-
CIS, all have families, and reside near
Edinburg, Christian county, 111.

GELLING, JOHN, was born
Nov. 13, 1805, in the city of Douglas,
Isle of Man, and came to America in 1830.
He landed at New York, and went to the
vicinity of Morristown, N. J. Hannah
Monson was born in 1797, near Morris-
town, N. J. She was of an old French
family that was among the earliest settlers
of New jersey. John Gelling and Han-
nah Monson were married June 23, 1833,
near Morristown. They moved in 1838
to Vevr.v, Switzerland county, Ind. Mr.
Gelling, his wife, and a girl living in the
family, started from Vevay in a wagon,
and drove through Indianapolis to Spring-
field, arriving in October, 1839. Since
that time he has resided four years in
Morgan county. With that exception, he
has been in Sangamon county to the pres-
ent time. They never had any children.
Mrs. Hannah Gelling died Dec. 30, 1872,
and John Gelling resides two and a half
miles south of Dawson.

Miss Ellen C. Gelling, sister to John
Gelling, resides with him. She was born
on the Isle of Man, and came to Sangamon
county in 1852.

Robert Gelling, brother to John and
Ellen C., born in 1809 on the Isle of Man,
and married there, came to Sangamon
county in 1855. He has two sons and two

daughters, and resides two miles south of
Dawson.

GIBSON, WILLIAM, was
born about 1780, near Staunton, Va., and
was taken by his parents, at six or seven
years of age, to Fayette county, Ky. He
was married in Boone county, in 1809, to
Mary Holman. She was born July 29,
1789, in Woodford county. Her father,
Edward Holman, and Jesse Holman — for
many years Judge of the Supreme Court
of Indiana — were brothers. She was
consequently a cousin to Hon. Wm. S.
Holman, of the Fifth Congressional Dis-
trict of Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson
had six children, near Lexington, Fayette
county, Ky., and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving Nov. i, 1829, and
settled in what is now the northwest cor-
ner of Chatham township. Of their
children —

DAVID E., born April 16, 1811, in
Fayette county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, April 14, 1831, to Mary
Greenwood. They had five children:
MARY A., born Feb. 12, 1832, married
May 12, 1855, to John C. Cresswell, who
was born Feb. 21, 1832, in Jersey county.
They have four living children, ALICE D.,
DAVID E., LIZZIE and LAURA, and live
five miles south of Loami. WILLIAM
M., born Jan. i, 1834, married May u,
1854, to Elizabeth Fowler, who was born
Dec., 1833, in Lincolnshire, England.
They have five children: MAR v, JOANNA,

DAVID E., THOMAS and WILLIAM M., Jim.

JOHN T., born March 5, 1836, married
March 7, 1861, to Millicent Jarrett. They
have four children, MARGARET L., ARTA-
MESIA, WILLIAM E. and JOSEPH F., and
live five miles south of Loami. AMER-
ICA, born Sept. 6, 1838, married James
M. Coley. See his name. ELIZA-
BETH, born Jan. 12, 1841, married
Henry A. Weber. They had five child-
ren ; all of them died under three years,
and Mr. W. died Sept. 2, 1872, at White
Oak, Montgomery county. Mrs. Weber
resides with her father. Mrs. Mary Gib-
son died March 24, 1842, and David E.
Gibson was married June 25, 1851, to
to Julia A. Hall. They had five children.
JANE died, aged four years. SUSAN,

ILLINIA, HARRIET and DAVID E., Juil.,

reside with their parents, five miles south
of Loami. David E. Gibson started to
Jacksonville, about twenty-five miles dis-

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tant, when there was but little improve-
ment on the prairie. A snow storm set
in soon after he started, and as night
approached and he thought himself almost
at the end of his journey, he discovered
that he was only one and a half miles
from home. He had been riding around
a circle all day.

David E. Gibson remembers that in
1832 seed corn was so scarce that his
father sent him to St. Clair county for
some. He paid $1.00 per bushel, and shelled
it himself. Settlements were so far apart
that no food could be obtained. With
two small scraps of bread — one from corn
meal, the other from shorts — a drink of
buttermilk and some wild onions, he
traveled seventy-five miles, to reach home.
WM. HOLM AN, was born March 16,
1816, in Kentucky, was married March 3,
1841, in Sangamon county to America
Forrest. They had one child, ELIZA-
BETH, who died, aged eighteen years.
W. H. Gibson died Dec. 26, 1849. His
widow married Thomas J. Darneille. See
his name.

ABIGAIL, born Jan., 1822, in Ken- •
tucky, married James M. Brown, in San-
gamon county. They had two living
children, and moved to California. He
was murdered and robbed there of $3,000
in gold, Oct., 1870. His family moved
from California to Nevada, thence to Os-
wego, Kansas. Of their children — ELI-
ZABETH, married, and JAMES lives
with his mother. Sec name of Joshua
Broivn and his son, James M.

JAMBS E., born May 16, 1823, in
Kentucky, married, June 5, 1845, in San-
gamon county, to Margaret L. Forrest.
He died, Jan. 13, 1873.111 Chatham. His
widow resides at Pioneer, Williams county,
Ohio.

AfARY, born in 1825, in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county, 111., to
Charles R. Campbell. See his name.
They have two children, WILBUR and
ABIGAIL.

JOHN A., born in 1827, in Kentucky,
brought up in Sangamon county, went to
California, in 1851, last heard from in
1865.

William Gibson died, Oct. 5, 1838, and
his widow died, Sept., 1869, both in San-
gamon county.

GIBSON, JAMES M., brother
to Preston H., born May 19, 1812, in Gal-
—42 ,

latin county, Ky., eight miles above War-
saw. He came to Sangamon county
about 1829, and was married April 14,
1832, to Sally Greenwood. They had
eight living children —

NANCY J., born March 21, 1833,
married James E. Campbell, who was
born Oct. 22, 1824,31 Delphi, Ross coun-
ty, Ohio. They have eight children,
MARY A., GEORGE W., PERME-
LIA C., MARGARET R., THEO-
DORE M., COMMODORE P.,EMMA
F. and ALLEN EVA, and reside three
miles southwest of Curran.

JOHN W., born Nov. 18, 1534, in
Sangamon county, went to California in
1859, and lives at Saratoga, Santa Clara
county.

SAMUEL P., born Feb. 10, 1836, in
Sangamon county, married Sarah Van
Doren. They have three living children,
EMMA, PETER and WILLIAM, and
live in Piatt county.

THOMAS B., born Sept. 8, 1838,
married March i, 1864, to Sophia A.
McComas, have three children, LONA
M., ARCHIE C. and NELLIE E., and
live five miles west of Chatham.

PRESTON H., born July 19, 1840,
in Sangamon county, married Mary E.
Sommers, have one child, HELEN, and
live at Brownsville, Neb.

MARGARET R., born Feb. 10, 1842,
in Sangamon county, married G. W.
Campbell. They have three living child-
ren, EUGENE, ROBERT and JAMES
L., and live in Piatt county, 111.

MARTHA A., born Jan. 7, 1844,
married Dec. 30, 1869, to James Kinter,
who was born Dec. 23, 1846, in Jefferson
county, Pa. She died May 24, 1873, in
Curran township.

DA VI D W., born June 6, 1848, re-
sides in Curran township.

Mrs. Sally Gibson died May 12, 1853,
and J. M. Gibson was married Sept. 7,
1854, to Cynthia McComas. They had
five children —

VAN OSCAR, GARRETT ^f.,
CHARLES L., ETTA F. and
JAMES A., all live with their mother.

James M. Gibson died May 12, 1865,
and his widow, Mrs. Cynthia Gibson, re-
sides two miles south of Curran

GIBSON, PRESTON H.,
was born Sept. 28, 1810, in that part of
Boone which is now Gallatin county, Ky.,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

eight miles above Warsaw. He was
married in that county May 14, 1835, to
Ann Finley. She was born Dec. 26,
1811, in the city of Philadelphia. When
she was an infant her parents moved to
Cincinnati, Ohio, where they both died
when she was quite young. She was
adopted by her aunt, Mrs. Robinson, and
taken to Gallatin county, Ky., at sixteen
years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Gibson
moved immediately after they were mar-
ried to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
June 10, 1835, in what is now Curran
township, north of Lick creek. They
had four children in Sangamon county —

JOHN E., born Jan. 28, 1838, mar-
ried Feb. 7, 1861, to Sarah McGinnis, and
had one child. It died on the i2th, and
the mother on the 28th, of March, 1865.
John E. Gibson lives with his mother,
but spends much of his time at his farm
in Nodaway county, Mo.

NANCY A., born Jan. 26, 1840, mar-
ried, Oct., 1864, to William H. Trimble.
See his name.

JAMES W., born Sept. 20, 1842, is
unmarried, and resides with his mother.

HAMPTON, born Nov. 12, 1844,
married Oct. 25, 1866, to Susan A. Patte-
son, have three children, JEAN W.,
PRESTON A. and JOHN E., and lives
near the family homestead in Curran
township.

Preston H. Gibson died Sept. 8, 1863,
and his widow, Mrs. Ann Gibson, resides
on the farm settled by herself and husband
in 1835. It is in Curran township, north
of Lick creek.

GIBSON, JAMES H., was
born Sept., 1809, in Gallatin county, near
Warsaw,. Ky. He came to Berlin, San-
gamon county, in 1840, and practiced
medicine there more than thirty years.
He died near Berlin, Nov. 22, 1873, leav-
ing a widow, and a daughter who is mar-
ried, and has two children.

GIGER, GEORGE, was born
June 9, 1748, and was married in Green-
brier county, Va., to Mrs. Anna Auts,
whose maiden name was Creek. She was
born Nov. 19, 1765. He died in Tennes-
see, and she came to Sangamon county
with her children, sketches of whose lives
are found below. She died, Oct. 12,
1837.-

GIGER, SUSANNAH, born
Sept. 26, 1795, in Jefferson county, Tenn.,

and was there married to John Cooper.
See his name.

GIGER, MARY, was born June
n, 1797, in Jefferson county, Tenn., and
was married there to John Eckel. See
his name.

GIGER, HENRY, was born
May 14, 1799, in Jefferson county, Tenn.
Nancy Todd was born. May 7, 1798, in
Cocke county, Tenn. They were married
March ii,-iSi9, in Jefferson county, and
moved, in company with their brother-in-
law, John Cooper, to Sangamon county,
111., arriving April 2, 1820, at a point two
miles north of Rochester, and one year
later moved into what is now Cooper
township, where they had five living
children, namely —

ANNA, born April 4, 1821, married
April 3, 1836, to James Wilson. They
had one child, NANCY A., born Jan. 28,
1837, niarried March 9, 1858, to Harrison
Furrow. The"y had six children, GEORGE

LINCOLN, MARY, LAURA B., EDWARD,

ANNA and WILLIAM, and live in Christian
county, seven miles east of Rochester.
James Wilson died Sept. 12, 1839, and his
widow married in October, 1843, *° ^^"
ward Jones, who died May 3, 1867, and
she married April 17, 1873,10 Peter Gore.
They live in Mechanicsburg.

ALEXANDER T., born June 23,
1824, married Dec. 15, 1845, to Mary J.
McCoy, had eight children; three died
young. JAMES H.,ADDISON, OTTO,
ADELIA and ELBRIDGE, live with
their parents, in Mitchell county, near
Cawker City, Kan.

BENJAMIN A., born Jan. 8, 1827,
married Nov. 30, 1848, to Mary A. V.
Kirke. She died May 10, 1853. Mr.
Giger was married Oct- 26, 1853, to Mar-
garet J. Kirke. They had three children.
IDA L. died, aged four years. WIL-
LIAM E. and H. DOUGLAS, live
with theii father. Mrs. M. J. Giger died
May 19, 1869, and he was married March
i, 1870, to Mary E. Johnson, who was
born May 14, 1845, in Springfield. They
had one child, NOLA B., who died
young. B. A. Giger and wife live in
Sand Prairie, Cooper township, where his
parents settled in 1822. It is five miles
east of Rochester. Mr. G. is serving his
second term as justice of the peace — 1874.

ADDISON, born Jan. i, 1829, mar-
ried January, 1862, to Susan Benson, had

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one child, and Mr. Giger died Jan. 15,
1864. His widow married and went to Cali-
fornia, where his son FRANKLIN died.

MARTHA /?., born J3n. 30, 1831,
married July 26, 1848, to John L. Green.
They had two children, and Mr. G. and
both children died. Mrs. G. married
Lewis J. Eyman, who enlisted in Macon
county Sept. 2, 1862, in Co. E, u6th 111.
Inf., for three years, was commissioned
Capt. Sept. 6, 1862, and was killed in bat-
tle at Arkansas Post, July n, 1863. His
widow and two sons, HENRY A. and
EDWARD O., reside temporarily — 1874
— at Eureka, 111., for educational purposes.
Their home is at Mechanicsburg.

Henry Giger died Nov. 21, 1844, on the
farm where he settled in 1822. His widow
resides in Mechanicsburg.

GIGER, BENJAMIN, was bom
July 25, 1803, in Jefferson county, Tenn.
He came to Sangamon county on a visit
in 1828, returned to Tennessee, and moved,
in company with his widowed mother and
his brother-in-law, John North, arriving
April 12, 1829, in what is now Cooper
township. Benjamin Giger was married
in Sangamon county, Nov. 18, 1832, to
Susanna Todd, who was born Dec. 20,
1808, in his native county. They had
three living children in Sangamon coun-
ty, namely —

LETITIA A., born Sept. 15, 1836, in
Sangamon county, married Jan. 27, 1853.
to Aaron H. Martin, who was born Dec.
4, 1825, in Clarke county, Ind. They
had five children, ALBERT T., SUSAN
A., MARY L., FLORA L. and JEN-
NIE I., and live in Mechanicsburg.

HENRY, born June 28, 1840, in San-
gamon count}', married Feb., 1863, to
Mary J. Kirk. They have two children,
ALBERT O. and LAURA B., and live
near Norborne, Corroll county, Mo.

BENJAMIN H., born June 30,
1846, in Sangamon county, married April
6, 1865, to Sarah A. Dickson. They had
three children: SUSANNA, the young-
est, died in her fourth year. ALVIN C.
and MATTIE T. reside with their par-
ents in Mechanicsbui'g.

Benjamin Giger had natural talents for
inventing useful machinery. It is believed
by his descendents that it was from some
machinery of his inventing that the origi-
nal ideas embodied in the McCormick
reaper were obtained. He did invent and

construct many ingenious and useful im-
plements. He would often study for days
at a time, sometimes quitting his work in
the daytime, would go to bed, cover up
head and ears, and continue in the deepest
study. When a plan or design was fully
matured, he would leave his work, or arise
from bed, as the case might be, and write,
without stopping to eat or sleep, until his
thoughts were transferred to paper. He
invented a machine for heading grain ;
also some plows and other agricultural
implements, and was on his way to Wash-
ington with his models, for the purpose ot
obtaining patents. He was taken sick on
board a steamer ascending the Ohio river,
and died at Brownsville, Pa., June 23,
1850. His widow died Nov. 28, 1858, in
Sangamon county.

GIGER, ANNA, born Nov. 4,
1807, in Jefferson county, Tenn., married
there to John North. See his name.

GLASCOCK, DANIEL M.,
was born May n, 1795, in Louclon coun-
ty, Va. Three brothers by the name of
Glascock came from France, with LaFay-
ette, and fought in the revolutionary army
until Independence was acknowledged by
England. They all remained, married
and raised families on James river, Va.
One of them had a son James, and it is
his son, Daniel M., whose name heads this
sketch. Mary E. Lake was bdrn Sept.
20, 1798, in Loudon county, Va. Daniel
M. Glascock and Mary E. Lake were
there married, Aug. 18, 1818. They made
their home in Fauquier county, until seven
children were born, and then moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall
of 1833, in what is now Fancy Creek
township, where they had three children.
Of their ten children —

LUC IND A C., born Aug. 12, 1819,
in Fauquier county, Va., married in San-
gamon county, Sept. 19, 1837, *° Elisha
Primm. See his name.

BA YL,IS K., died in Virginia, June 4,
1832, aged eleven years.

MARY E., born Oct. 30, 1823, in Vir-
ginia, married in Sangamon county to
Elijah S. Primm. See his name.

MARGARET E., born July 16,
1826, in Virginia, married in Sangamon
county to Martin L. Bishop. They have
five children, and live in McLean county,
Illinois.

EARLY SETTLERS OF

JAMES B., born Nov. n, 1828, in
Fauquier county, Va., raised in Sangamon
county, married, Aug. 31, 1850, to Sarah
M. Stone, who was born Aug. 4, 1831, in
Menard county. They have four living
children, WILLIAM M., MARY E.,
MARGARET A., and EMMA E., and
reside in Menard county, two and one-half
miles north of Cantrall.

THOMAS, born Feb. 24, 1831, in
Fauquier county, Va., married in Sanga-
mon county to Mary J. Brittin. She died
Feb. i, 1859. Thomas Glascock was mar-
ried, Aug. 28, 1860, to Mrs. Eliza F. Brit-
tin, whose maiden name was Mallorv.
They have three living children, LIZZIE
FLORENCE, WILLIAM O., and
NETTIE A., and reside in Fancy Creek
township, four miles northwest of Sher-
man. Thomas Glascock served several
years as a member of the Board of Super-
visors of Sangamon county.

DANIEL, died May 15, 1848, aged
thirteen years.

ELIAS L., born Oct. 24, 1837, in
Sangamon county, married Emeline
Miller. They had three children, and she
died. Mr. G. married Margaret King,
and live in Butler county, Kansas.

EZEKIEL F., born Feb. 5, 1840, in
Sangamon county, married Mary Hurt,
who was born Feb. 6, 1844, in Menard
county. They had four children. LY-
DIA A., the second child, died in her
third year. MARGARET E., MARY
L., and EMMA E., reside with their
parents three miles southwest of Can-
trail. — 1874.

Daniel M. Glascock died March 4, 1840,
and his widow died April 4, 1840, both in
Sangamon county.

GOO DELL, CALVIN, born
Nov. 5, 1783, in Connecticut, was married
in New York to Martha Coley, who was
born Feb. 14, 1789. They had six child-
ren in New York, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving in 1824, in what
is now Loami township, where five child-
ren were born. Of their children —

CHLOE, born May n, 1809, in New
York, was married in Illinois to Philip
Aylesworth. She died, leaving four
children.

HARRISON, born April 9, 1811, in
New York, was married in Sangamon
county to Mary Taylor. They have

seven children, and live in Woodford
county, 111.

PHTLATTA, born March 13, 1813,
in Madison <5bunty, N. Y., married John-
son Harding, had three children, and Mr.
Harding died, and she married George
Beach, who was born in 1810, in Mary-
land. They had eight children, three of
whom died under ten years. Of the other
five: LAFAYETTE, born Nov. 5, 1842,
married May 29, 1862, to Catharine
Alexander, have one child, CHARLES D.,
and live five miles west of Chatham.
MARY, born Oct. 19, 1839, married June
2, 1860, to Josiah S. Kirk, who was born
Dec. 7> J834, in Washington county, Va.
They have three children, MARY j.,
GEORGE A. and MARTIN F., and live in
Loamiv JOSEPH, born Feb. 8, 1852,
OSCAR F., born Oct. 13, 1854, and
JULIA A., live with their parents.
George Beach and wife reside in Loami.

SCHUTLER, born July 18, 1815,
married Melinda Sowell, have eleven
children, and live in Miami county, Kan.
See SOTJO ell family.

WILLIS, born Sept. i, 1817, in New
York, married in Sangamon county to
Sally Sowell. They had one child,
ALICE, and he died. See So-well
family.

JOSEPH, born Jan. 5, 1820, in New
York, married in Sangamon county,
moved to California, and died there, leav-
a widow and two children.

WILLIAM, born Sept. 21, 1822, mar-
ried to Mrs. Sally Goodell, whose maiden
name was Sowell, and lives in Missouri.

MART A., born .Dec. 3, 1824, in San-
gamon county, married Martin Thurber.
They had six children, and Mr. T. died.
The widow and children live in Hancock
county, 111.

CAL VIN, Jun., born April 13, 1827,
in Sangamon county, was a soldier in an
Illinois regiment, and died in the army.

ADAL1NE, born Dec. 30, 1829, in
Sangamon county, married Herman
Burt, had five children. He died in Indi-
ana. She resides in Madison, Wis.

NE WTON M., born in 1840, in San-
gamon county, married, has three child-
ren, and lives in Menard county.

Mrs. Martha Goodell died Sept. 13,
18=52, and Calvin Goodell died March 10,
1863, both at Loami.

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Mr. Goodell was always engaged in
milling. Rebuilt a mill on a small stream
one mile east of Loami. Cultivation
soon drained the country and cut off his
supply of water. True to his Yankee
origin, he then put horses inside the
wheel, and ran it on the principle of a
squirrel cage.

GOODAN, LEVI W., was born
in Pennsylvania, taken by his parents to
Bath county, Ky., was a soldier from that
county in the war of 1812, and after the
war was married in that county to Garner
Crouch. They came to Sangamon county
in 1820 or '21, and settled at what is now
Sangamon station, where they had two
children, and Mrs. Goodan died there. Of
their children —

WILLIAM died in Springfield.

DA VID married in Springfield to
Catharine VanNostrand, and died, leaving
a widow and children near Pana.

Levi W. Goodan died near Pana, also.

GOODAN, ELEANOR, sister
to Levi W., married Andrew Jones. See
his name.

GOLD, HEZEKIAH S., was
born June 6, 1807, at Cornwall, Litchfield
county, Conn. He married Sept. 6, 1836,
to Chloe A. Peet, who was born April
26, 1812, in the town of Warren, in the
same county. They had one child there,
and moved to Waverly, 111., in the fall of
1839. In the summer of 1840 he bought
land and built a house three and a half
miles east of Waverly, in what is now
Talkington township, Sangamon county,
where they had two children. Of their
three children —

HENRY M., born July 25, 1837, in
Litchfield county, Conn., raised in Sanga-
mon county, enlisted in 1861 for three
years, in Co. I, i4th 111. Inf. He was
accidentally wounded September, 1861,
and died Nov. 7, 1861, in the court house
hospital at Rolla, Mo.

MTRON S., born Dec. i, 1842, in
Sangamon county, enlisted in 1862 for
three years, in Co. G, loist 111. Inf. He
was discharged on account of physical
disability late in 1862, and lives in Talk-
ington township, near Waverly.

ETHEL EDWARD, born Feb. i,
1847, in Sangamon county, lives in New
York city. He is — 1874 — superintendent
of the Gold Heating company, manufac-

turers of sanitary heaters, 105 Beekman
street.

Mrs. Chloe A. Gold died Sept. 3, 1857,
in Talkington township. Hezekiah S.
Gold enlisted Oct. 15, 1861, in the fifty-
sixth year of his age, at Springfield, in
Co. K, 2nd Reg. 111. Light Art,, for three •
years, served more than full term, and
was honorably discharged Dec. 30, 1864,
and now resides on the farm where he set-
tled in 1840, being the second settler in
what is now Talkington township, Wil-
liam Eustace being the first.

GRAGG, MRS. MARTHA,
whose maiden name was Runnels, was
born in Albermarle county, Va., and taken
by her parents, when she was quite
young, to Montgomery county, Ky.,
where she was married to John Gragg.
They moved to Nicholas county, where
Mr. Gragg died, leaving a widow and
three children, who returned to her friends
in Montgomery county, Ky., where the
eldest —

JESSE, died, aged eighteen years.

Mrs. Gragg and her two children
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1838, near Mechanicsburg.
Of the two children —

MARGARET, born Nov. 13, 1814, in
Nicholas county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county to Elder John L. Wil-
son. See his name.

WILLIAM, born June 10, 1818, in
Nicholas county, Ky., came to Sangamon
county in 1838, and was married March
26, 1844, to Sophia McBride. They had
four living children in Sangamon county,
namely: THOMAS J., born Jan. i,
1845, was married Jan. 20, 1870, in San-
gamon county, to Lucinda Fry, who was
born Nov. 6, 1850, in Shelby county, Ky.
They have one living child, CLARA, and
live five miles southeast of Mechanics-
burg. JOHN H., born Aug. 17, 1847,
was married May 31, 1871, to Matilda
D, Blair, who was born Sept. 22, 1851,
near Moro, Madison county, 111. They
have one child, WILLIAM B., and live four
and a-half miles east of Mechanicsburg.
WILLIAM, Jun., born June 10, 1851,
was married, Feb. 8, 1876, at the house of
Vincent Garretson, to Fanny Hissey, and
live near Mechanicsburg. HARVEY,
born Jan. 21, 1853, lives at the home-
stead. Mrs. Sophia Gragg died Dec. 26,
.. 1872, and William Gragg died July 30,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

1875, five miles southeast of Mechanics-
burg, in Illiopolis township.

Mrs. Martha Gragg died Aug. 31, 1843,
in Sangamon county.

GRAHAM, ROBERT, was
born about 1794, in Washington county,
Penn. Sarah Mitchell was born in 1797,
in the same county. They were married,
Jim. 24, 1819, and had three children in Penn.
The family moved, in 1834, to Richland
county, Ohio, where two children were
born, and then moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., arriving, Nov., 1838, in what is
now Woodside township. Of their five
children —

JOHNL., born March 8, 1821, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, in 1844, to
Mary Johnson. They have eight children,
and live in Bates county, Mo.

WILLIAM M., born Jan 5, 1830, in
Penn., married in Sangamon county to
Rebecca Trumbo. She had one child,
REBECCA, who married Mitchel Law-
son. Mrs. Graham died, and Mr. G. was
married, Aug. 26, 1857, to Lucy Marsh.
They have three children, WILLIAM
M., LYDIA C., and CORDELIA, and
live in Springfield.

ROBERT S., born Sept. 24, 1833,
married Nov. 21, 1856, to Adaline B. Me-
gredy. They have five children, MARY
A., WILLIAM P., JOHN C., SARAH
E., and NELLIE G., and live in Chris-
tian county, near Pawnee.

GEORGE W., born May 5, 1835,
married Ellen S. Shutt. They have two
children, and live in Fayette county.

THOMAS P., born March 2, 1837,
in Ohio, died in Sangamon county, aged
twenty years.

Robert Graham died Nov. i, 1840, in
Sangamon county. His widow married
Charles Rice. He died June 7, 1862, and
she lives with her Graham children.

GRAHAM, NATHANIEL,
was born in Pennsylvania. When a
young man he went to Columbus, Ohio,
and a few years later to Fleming county,
Ky., where he was married to Sarah Har-
bor. They had eight children in Fleming
county, and the family moved to Spring-
field, 111., arriving in the fall of 1826. In
the spring of 1827 they moved three and
a half miles east of Springfield, between
Sugar creek and the South fork of Sanga-
mon river. Of their eight children —

NANCY, born in Fleming county,
Ky., married in Sangamon county to
James Woods. They had ten children,
two of whom lived to be married, but all
are dead. Mr. and Mrs. Woods live at
Darlington, Lafayette county, Wis.

WILLIAM,\)orn in 1808, in Fleming
county, Ky., married in Sangamon county
to Elizabeth Trotter. They had four
living children. JAMES lives in Spring-
field. HESTER married David Carver,
and lives in Springfield. CHARLES
married Jane Hart, and lives in Spring-
field. William Graham and wife are both
dead.

SARAH, born in Kentucky, raised in
Sangamon county, married in Lafayette
county, Wis., to John Woods.

THOMAS, KEZIAH and HES-
TER, all died.

MART, born Jan. 3, 1818, in Ken-
tucky, married Dec. 22, 1840, to Turner
Lloyd. They have six children, and live
in Springfield.

JOSHUA, born Jan. 6, 1821, in
Fleming county, Ky., married Sept. 25,
1848, in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth
A. Branch. They had eight children,
five of whom died under two years.
NANCY ELIZA, GEORGE E. and
REBECCA E., reside with their parents
near Sangamon station, on the farm where
his parents settled in 1827.

Nathaniel Graham and his wife both
died in Sangamon county, on the farm
where they settled in 1827.

GRANT, JAMES, was born in
Rutherford county, N. C. He was there
married to Sarah Elliott, sister to Andrew
Elliott. They had two children in North
Carolina, and moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, arriving in the fall of 1834, near
Springfield, where two children were
born. Of their four children —

WILLIAM, born in North Carolina,
raised in Sangamon county, and married
Mrs. Sarah Gibbons. They have child-
ren, and live at Greenview, Menard
county.

MTRA, born in North Carolina,
raised in Sangamon county, was a deaf
mute, and died at the Institution for the
Deaf and Dumb, at Jacksonville.

JOHN A., born in Sangamon county,
is unmarried, and lives at 439 north Fou/th
street, Springfield.

SANG AM ON COUNTY.

JAMES, Jun., is married, and lives at
439 north Fourth street.

James Grant and his wife both died in
Sangamon county.

GREENWOOD, JOHIST, was
horn in Virginia. His parents moved to
Warren county, Ky., when he was quite
young. He was a fellow student with
Judge S. T. Logan, at Glasgow, Ky., and
intended making the law his profession,
hut abandoned it. He was married in
Barren county, Ky., to Tryphena Garri-
son, and had two living children there.
The family moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the fall of 1831, in what is
now Fancy Creek township. In the
spring of 1832 they moved to Fort Clark,
now Peoria, where Mrs. Greenwood died,
May 26, 1832. Mr. G. returned with his
two children to Sangamon county, and
was married Nov. 20, 1832, to Mary Sale.
They had one child there, and the family,
except the eldest son, moved to Bush's
ferry, on Rock river, in Lee county, 111.,
where Mr. Greenwood was accidentally
killed while raising a house for himself.
His widow and children returned to San-
gamon county, and she was three times
married. She and all her husbands are
dead. Of Mr. Greenwood's three child-
ren—

BASIL, born Sept. 29, 1819, in Bar-
ren county, near Glasgow, Ky., married
Nov. 15, 1849, near Pleasant Plains, San-
gamon county, to Eliza A. Townsend,
who was born May 29, 1823, in Cape
May county, N. J., and came with her pa-
rents to Sangamon county in 1841. Basil
Greenwood and wife had five children:
TRYPHENA A., born Sept. 27, 1850,
in Sangamon county, was married April
28, 1870, to Charles Whitmer. They
have one living child, NELLIE MAY, and
live in Taylorville, 111. PARTHENIA
J. died in Springfield, aged five years.
JOHN R., born Oct. 13, 1854. SARAH
M, born Dec. 11, 1856, live with their pa-
rents. JULIA A., born July 8, 1859, in
Sangamon county, was married Sept. 19,
1875, to Asa H. Culver, formerly of Ohio.
They live in Edinburg, 111. Dr. Basil
Greenwood and family reside in Edinburg,
Christian county, 111., where he is engaged
in the practice of his profession. He was
isolated from his relatives by the death of
his mother, and fared exceedingly hard.
When a boy he walked and led an ox

from Illinois to Philadelphia for a drover,
who failed there and left the boy without
a cent of money, to work his way back
as best he could. He apprenticed him-
self and learned the trade of a carpenter
in Springfield. After spending twelve
years without knowing where a single
relative was, he accidentally met his bro-
ther John, and after a long interview, be-
came satisfied that they were brothers, and
for the first time learned that his father
was dead. From the business of a car-
penter he went to dealing in drugs and
medicines, and then studied medicine. For
the last twelve years he has been engaged
in practicing his profession.

JOHN, Jun., born April 2, 1829, near
Glasgow, Ky. He had both his hands
seriously crippled when he was a child.
He enlisted at Springfield, in May, 1846,
in Co. I, 4th 111. Inf., and served thirteen
months in the Mexican war; was honor-
ably discharged, and received one hundred
and sixty acres of land. He was married
in Springfield, August 7, 1854, to Emily
Blakely, who was born Sept. 30, 1836, in
Cincinnati, Ohio. They have three living
children, ANNIE G., MINER VA A. and
JOHN W., and reside at Williamsville.
By the second wife —
WILLIAM C., born August 24, 1833,
in Sangamon county, married near Galena
to Elizabeth Keithley. They have one
living child, CHARLES E., and reside
at 522 south Ninth street, Springfield,
Illinois.

GREENWOOD, WIL-
LIAM, was born about 1772, near
Petersburg, Va. He was there married
to Ruth Brooks, and moved to Cabell
county, W. Va., where eight children
were born. They moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in Oct., 1824, in what
is now Curran township. Of all their
children —

ELIZABETH, born in 1804, in Va.,
was married in Sangamon county, 111., to
Montague A. Morris, and for a second
husband married George Hilyard. She
died without children, in Pike county,
Illinois.

THOMAS, born Jan. 5, 1806, in West
Virginia, was married in Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., to Ann Lindley. They had
eleven children, two of whom died under
ten years of age. Of the other nine —
ELIZA, married John Mullen, had two

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

children, and she and one of the children
died. The other child, HENRY, lives in
Decatur, 111. SIMON L., born Aug. 27,
1827, was married, Jan. 16, 1853, to Eliza-
beth Myers. She died, Dec. 30, 1871,
leaving four children, JOHN T., ANN M.,
BYRON s. and GEORGE w. Simon L.
Greenwood died, June, 1874, in LaFay-
ette county, Mo. MARY died in her
eighteenth year. RUTH A., born Feb.
27, 1832, was married, Aug. 30, 1855, to
Hugh M. Forrest, who died Jan. 7, 1857,
and she was married, Jan. 20, 1859, to
David E. McGinnis. See • his name.
WILLIAM B., born Aug. 28, 1836, mar-
ried Anna Young. They had three chil-
dren, and he enlisted in Co. I, 33d 111.
Inf., for three years. He was discharged
on account of physical disability, and died
of disease, at Pilot Knob, Mo., in 1864.
SARAH M. married Robert McCartney.
They have four children, and reside in
Jacksonville, 111. CAROLINE married
James M. Coley. See his name. She
died six weeks after marriage. SUSAN
married Newton Harlan, have three chil-
dren, and live in Nebraska. THOMAS,
Jun., born Nov. 14, 1845, enlisted in Co.
I, 73d 111. Inf., and died at Nashville,
Tenn., Jan. 17, 1863. Mrs. Ann Green-
wood died, Oct. u, 1848, and Thomas
Greenwood died, Nov. 7, 1868, both in
Sangamon county, 111.

'ANN, born in 1808, in West Virginia,
was married in Sangamon county, 111., to
Calvert J. Morris. They moved to Mis-
souri, and both died there, leaving three
children.

JOHN, born Jan. 3, 1810, in Cabell
county, W. Va., was married in Sanga-
mon county, Oct. 20, 1832,10 Eliza Mil-
ler. They had three living children.
JAMES W., born Feb. 2, 1834, was mar-
ried, Dec. 1 8, 1856, to Margaret Baker,
who was born Oct. 27, 1834. They had
five children — JOHN w. died in his tenth
year. HARRIET c. died in her third year.
NANCY j., JAMES w. and THOMAS SHERI-
DAN. The three latter live with their
parents in Loami township. LEAH M.
was married, Jan. 25, 1855, to Fielding
M. Neal. See his name. RUTH J.
was married, Jan. 3, 1855, to Joel L.
Franklin. They have three children,
MARY E., JI>J,IA B. and EMILY A., and live
near Tolono, Champaign county, 111.
Mrs. Eliza Greenwood died, Feb. 10,

1841, and John Greenwood was married,
March 10, 1842, to Emily Miller, who
died April 21, 1866. John Greenwood
resides five miles west of Chatham.

POLLY, born Jan. 8, 1812, in West
Virginia, was married in Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., to David E. Gibson. See his
name.

SALLY, born in West Virginia, was
married in Sangamon county, 111., to
James M. Gibson. Sec his name.

EDMUND was born Jan. 8, 1814, in
Cabell county, West Virginia, and at ten
years of age was brought by his parents to
Sangamon county, 111. He was married
Aug. n, 1835, in Springfield, to Jeanette
Foster. They had four children in San-
gamon county, and in the fall of 1852,
moved to Adair county, Mo., where they
had one child. Of their children, JAMES
M., born Nov. 15, 1836, in Sangamon
county, 111. He first attended school at
the McGinnis school house, on Lick
creek, and at the public school in Loami.
He was always noted for his love of fun,
and the facility with which he learned all
his lessons, generally " working the sums "
for all the boys in school. At the age of
sixteen — the very time his facilities for
education should have been increased — the
family moved to Missouri, and the next
four years was spent on the farm without
entering school : but his ardor for learning
could not thus be quenched. He managed
to buy an old algebra, geometry, Latin
grammar and Butler's Analogy, and
studied them of nights, rainy days and
Sundays, until their contents were mas-
tered. In the winter of 1855 he taught
the first public school ever held in the
township where his father now lives, re-
ceiving fifteen dollars per month for his
services. The next wintei he attended
school at Kirksville, Mo. He continued
laboring on the farm until September,
1857, when he entered the seminary at
Canton, Mo., taking in one year the en-
tire course with the exception of Greek,
passing examinations in twenty branches;
but nature rebelled against such overwork,
and he was not able to graduate, although
his oration was ready for delivery. For
a year books were thrown aside. From
1859 to 1866 his winters were spent in
teaching, and the remainder of each year
in farming. In August, 1867, he accepted
the chair of Mathematics, Astronomy,

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Mechanical Philosophy and Logic, in the
North Missouri State Normal School, at
Kirksville. He rilled that position until
June, 1870, when he was elected to the
same position in Mt. Pleasant College,
lluntsville, Mo. In December following
he was re-elected, and accepted his former
position in the State Normal School, at
Kirksville, Mo., which he held until June,
1874. At the latter date Prof. Green-
wood was elected out of seventeen ap-
plicants to the position of Superintendent
of the Kansas City public schools. After
that he was elected Principal of the South
Missouri State Normal School, at War-
rensburg, also of the Northwest Normal
School, at Oregon, Holt county, Mo., both
of which he declined, justly regarding his
present connection with the Kansas City
schools as the second educational position
in the State. For the last ten years he
has done as much to popularize and de-
fend the cause of education as any man in
the State, having delivered upwards of five
hundred public addresses to Missouri audi-
ences-on educational topics, besides hav-
ing written extensively on similar subjects
for the leading Journals of the State. He
has been and is now an untiring student,
not only of the ablest American authors
in his favorite department, but also of the
best English, French and German writers
on the more advanced Mathematics. His
mathematical library is said to be the best
collection in Missouri. The State Univer-
sity of Missouri, as a slight recognition of
his services, conferred upon Prof. Green-
wood the degree of Master of Arts. It
will thus be seen that what appeared to be
the crushing out of his aspirations for educa-
tion, by removing him from all schools,
was only placing him on missionary
ground, where he could see the impera-
tive needs of the growing State, and edu-
cate himself for the great work before
him. I imagine that the early settlers of
Sangamon county will take special pleas-
ure in perusing this brief sketch of the
trials and triumphs of a son of one of
their own families. JAMES M. Green-
wood was married Nov. i, 1859, in Car-
roll county, Mo., to Amanda A. McDaniel.
They have three children ADA M , HER-
VEY v. and NETTIE E., and reside in
Kansas City, Mo. RUTH E., born April
5, 1838, in Sangamon county, married
March 26, 1857, in Adair county, Mo., to

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James J. Hatfield, and have three child-
ren, EDMUND B., NETTIE and JAMES P.

Mr. and Mrs. Hatfield live near Bruns-
wick, Chariton county, Mo. PEYTON
F., born Feb. 12, 1840, in Sangamon
county, attended district school with
his brother, James M., in his native coun-
ty, and private schools in Kirksville, Mo.
He also spent one year in the Baptist
College at Lagrange, Mo. He was mar-
ried Sept., 1 86 1, to Frances M. Foster,
who died in six weeks after marriage. In
April, 1864, he married Julia Bryan, and
has three children, EVA, SAMUEL E. and
GRACE. Peyton F. Greenwood is a prac-
ticing lawyer, and resides in Kirksville,
Mo. SARAH E., born Oct., 1852, in
Sangamon county, and POLLY, born
May 5, 1854, in Adair county, Mo., live
with their parents. Edmund Greenwood
and wife reside near Brashear, Adair
county, Mo. The business habits of Mr.
Greenwood are somewhat remarkable.
He was never sued, nor never sued an-
other, and for nearly thirty years has not
given a note or any evidence of indebted-
ness. His son, Prof. James M., never
gave but one note, and paid that within
two weeks. Their motto is, "If you can't
pay, don't buy."

MARGARET, born in West Vir-
ginia, was married in Sangamon county,
111., to William H. Foster. See his
name.

WILLIAM V., born April 18, 1826,
in Sangamon county, was married there,
Dec. 4, 1845, to Barbara A. Starr. They
have two children. CHRISTOPHER
C. enlisted Dec., 1863, in Co. B, loth 111.
Cav., served until the close of the rebel-
lion, and was honorably discharged, in
Nov., 1865, at Galveston, Texas. He was
married Dec. 21, 1875, at Chatham, 111.,
to Zula Hillerman, and lives in Chatham.
GEORGE W. enlisted, Dec., 1863, in
the same company and regiment with his
brother, and was honorably discharged, on
account of physical disability, in 1865.
He was married, Dec. 16, 1875, to Emma
A. Baker, and lives in Chatham. William
V. Greenwood enlisted in Co. I, 73d Reg.
111. Inf., in July, 1862, for three years, was
appointed first Duty Sergeant, served until
Dec.. 1863, when he was discharged on
account of physical disability. He resides
in Chatham, Sangamon county, 111.

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Mrs. Ruth Greenwood died July 6,
1837, and William Greenwood died Aug.
1 6, 1855, both in Sangamon county, 111.

GREENING, THOMAS A.,
was born Nov. 19, 1796, in Fauquier
county, Va. His parents, Reuben Green-
ing and Sarah Allen, were born and mar-
ried in that county. In 1804 they moved
to the vicinity of Cumberland Gap, Clai-
borne county, Tenn., and in 1808 moved
to Clarke county, Ky., where they spent
the remainder of their lives. Thomas A.
was a soldier from that county in the war
of 1812. He was married there, in 1816,
to Elizabeth Dawson. She was born Jan.
I, 1789. They had six children in Ken-
tucky, moved to Montgomery county,
Mo., and from there to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the fall of 1830, at Buffalo
Hart Grove, where they spent the winter
of the " deep snow." In the spring of
1831 they moved to what is now Loami
township, where they had four living
children. Of their children — '

ELIZA A., born in Clark county,
Ky., married to John A. Neal. See his
name.

THOMAS, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, to Dicey Bilyeu,
and both died.

DAVID, born Sept. 20, 1822, in
Clark county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, Dec. 6, 1842, to Mary P. Colburn,
who was born March 25, 1827. They
have seven children. JAMES enlisted in
1861, in Co. — , 3Oth 111. Inf., for three
years; re-enlisted as a veteran, Jan. i, 1864,
served to the end of the rebellion and was
honorably discharged, July 17, 1865. He
was married to Florence Skinner, and has
five children, DAVID o., ANNIE E., WIL-
LIAM T., JAMES o. and MINNIE o., and
live in Chatham township. MARIA E.
married Charles T. Dodd, has one child,
WARREN L., and lives in Loami township.
ZACHARY T., NOAH L., GEORGE
W., WILLIAM D. and ULYSSES
TECUMSEH live with their parents in
Loami township, north of Lick creek.
David Greening remembers that during
the winter of the " deep snow " the deer
would assemble in the rush flats in Buf-
falo Hart Grove, beat the snow down, and
secure sufficient food to sustain life. He
saw twenty-five or thirty deer in an open
space with the snow banked up fifteen or
twenty feet around them. It had driftecl

in that form. The crust was of sufficient
strength to bear a man, and they could
walk to the brink and look down. Dogs
that ventured in were soon killed, and
even wolves fared no better, except that
some of them burrowed out, in order to
escape from the enraged deer.

„ 1 MANDA died at eleven years of age.

ABIGAIL, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to A. J. Sweet,
had three children, and Mr. Sweet died.
She married Levi Church, has four child-
ren, and resides at Waverly.

SARAH A., born in "Clark county,
Ky., married in Sangamon county to John
B. Fowler. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born Oct. 17, 1830,
in Sangamon county, married John H.
Miller. See his name.

JOHN W., born Sept. 17, 1833, in
Sangamon county, married Mahala A.
Neal, and have two children. CHARLES
W. lives with his parents. CAROLINE
married George W. Neal. See his name.
John W. Greening enlisted August 9,

1862, in Co. B, 3oth 111. Inf., for three
years, was forty-seven days under fire at
the siege of Vicksburg, was with Sherman
in his march to the sea, served full term, and

, was honorably discharged at Springfield,
June, 1865, and resides in Chatham town-
ship.

JULIETTE married John Cutter.
See his name.

JAMES M., born Dec. 14, 1839, in
Sangamon county, married March 5,

1863, to Margaret C. Darneille. They
have four children, MARY E., JAMES
F., EMMA MAY, HARVEY E. and
LAURA EDITH, and live at the home-
stead settled by his parents in 1831. It is
in Loami township.

Thomas A. Greening died May 4,
1855, and his widow died Jan. 31, 1872, in
her eighty-fourth year.

Thomas A. Greening kept a store for
several years where his son, James M.,
now lives. His goods were all hauled
from St. Louis and Alton. He would
send teams down loaded with produce,
which was exchanged for goods and hauled
back. There was no competition nearer
than Springfield.

GREENING, JOHN F.,
brother to Thomas A., was born Nov. 20,
1806, in Powell's Valley, near Cumber-
land Gap, Claiborne county, Tenn, His

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parents, moved, in 1808, to Clark county,
Ky. He was married in Bracken county,
May 26, 1831, to Elizabeth G. Rose, who
was born Sept. 6, 1814, in that county.
They had one child in Kentucky, and
moved, in the fall of 1834, to Hamilton
county, Ind., where they had one living
child, and the family moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving Oct., 1839, on Ger-
man Prairie, northeast of Springfield,
where they had two children, and in Feb.,
. 1844, moved to Buffalo Hart Grove, where
they had four children. Of their eight
children —

URSULA L., born May 4, 1832, in
Kentucky, married Sept. 30, 1856, in
Sangamon county, to Thomas F. Burns.
See his name.

SARAH E., born July, 4, 1838, in
Indiana, died Dec. 29, 1861, at Buffalo
Hart Grove.

GERSHOM A""., born May 31, 1841,
near Springfield, enlisted July 25, 1862,
in Co. I, ii4th 111. Inf., for three years,
served full term, and was honorably dis-
charged Aug. 8, 1865, was forty-seven
days under fire at the siege and capture of
Vicksburg, was with Gen. Thomas at the
battle of Nashville, and was at the siege
and capture of Mobile, and now — 1874 —
lives with his brother Zachary T.

MARY F., born Jan. 8, 1844, married
Adam H. Constant. See his 'name.

ZACHARY T., born Aug. 3, 1846,
in Sangamon county, married Dec. 27,
1871, to Mary Elder. They' have one
child, GEORGIE, and live two miles
south of Buffalo Hart station.

WINFIELD S., born March 27,
1849, in Sangamon county, lives with his
brother Zachary T.

ISADORE A., born May 22, 1852,
and

; JOHN F., Jun., born July 29, 1857,
live with their parents.

John F. Greening and his wife are both
living — 1874 — and reside one and one-half
miles east of Buffalo Hart station, Sanga-
mon county.

GREEN A WALT JACOB,
was born Oct. 27, 1804, in Hardin county,
Ky. Mary Bradley was born Aug. 4, 1810,
in Larue county, Ky. They were there
married, Jan. 29, 1827, and had two child-
ren in Kentucky, and moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving Oct., 1830, in
what is now Ball township, and the next

year moved to Putnam county. The
Black Hawk Indian war breaking out, he
returned to Sangamon county. After the
capture of Black Hawk, he went back
to Putnam, but sold out there, and re-
turned to Sangamon in 1836. They had
six children in Illinois. Of their child-
ren—

FRANCIS M., born Jan. 11, 1828,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Louisa Proctor. They have seven
children, and live in Edinburg.

JOHN W., born July 23, 1830, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Elizabeth A.
McAtee. They have four children,
JAMES H., SMITH, JOHN T. and
LUNETTA F., and live in Cotton Hill
township, four and one-half miles north of
Pawnee.

GEORGE W., born Feb. 24, 1833^11
Sangamon county, married Lemira Ho.lo-
way, and live at Raymond, Montgomery
county, 111.

SARAH E., born Feb. 24, 1836, in
Illinois, married in Sangamon county to
Wm. A. Penn, moved to Texas in 1853,
aud he was killed at the battle of Pea
Ridge. His widow married Mr. McCann,
and lives in Texas.

WM. JASPER, born Oct. 14, 1839,
in Sangamon county, married Mrs. Eliza-
beth Hayden, whose maiden name was
Vancil. He died, leaving a widow and one
child. The widow married Absolom
Scott, who died, and she lives in Piatt
county with her children.

JAMES N., died July 8, 1861, in his
eighteenth year.

MARY F., born July 19, 1853, in
Sangamon county, married Thomas Wm.
Dozier. See his name.

Jacob Greenawalt died Feb. 24, 1863, in
Cotton Hill township. Mrs. Mary Green-
await married Michael Fay, and live in
Cotton Hill township. See Bradley fam-
ily in the Omissions.

GREENAWALT, THOMAS
B,, was born in 1816 or '17, in Hardin
county, Ky., and came with his brother
Jacob to Sangamon county, in 1830.
David B. and Lewis B. are younger
brothers to Thomas B. and Jacob, but have
not been in the county sufficient time to be
included as "early settlers.,' Thomas B.
married in Sangamon county to Mary E.
Gatton. They had four living children
in Sangamon county, namely:

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WILLIAM R., born July 25, 1841,
married Mary E. Burtle. They have five
children, THOMAS B., JAMES F.,
MINNIE E., LAURA R., and JOHN
E., and live two miles southeast of
Pawnee.

SARAH A. died at twelve years of
age.

MART J., married G. J. Boll. See
his name.

JAMES R., lives with his brother
Wm. R.

Thomas B. Greenawalt died Jan., 1848,
and his widow died July, 1849, both in
Ball township.

GREENSLATE, JOHN, vas
born Nov. 18, 1801, near Lexington, Ky.,
and raised in Greenup county. He was
married June 8, 1826, in Portsmouth, O.,
to Sarah M. Oliver, who was born Feb.
18, 1808, in Lewis county, Ky. They
made their home in Greenup county until
they had four children, and moved to
Louisville, Ky., thence to Alton, 111., and
from there to Sangamon county, arriving
in May, 1836, four miles northeast of
Springfield, where four children were
born; two died, each in their eighth year.
Of the other six children —

GEORGE, born Sept. 8, 1827, in
Greenup county, brought up in Sanga-
mon county, and married in Logan coun-
ty to Mary J. Iden. They had four child-
ren, and he enlisted in 1862, for three
years, in the n6th 111. Inf., at Lincoln,
and died at Jackson, Tenn., Dec. 8, 1862.
His widow married James Broughton,and
lives near Mt. Pulaski.

LUCINDA M., born June 12, 1830,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-
ty to Jackson Kelly, had two children,
and Mr. K. died. She then married John
Napier, and lives near Camp Butler.

MART J., born April 17, 1832, in
Kentucky, married William Scroggins,
had three children, and Mr. S. died. She
married Benj. Baker, has five children,
and lives in Logan county.

SILAS M., born in Kentucky, died in
Sangamon county in his eighteenth year.

SARAH E., born and died in Sanga-
man county, in her twenty-first year.

JAMES C, born April n, 1842,511
Sangamon county, enlisted in 1861, for
three years, in the $2cl 111. Inf., at Spring-
field, and was killed in battle, April 6,
1862, at Pitsburg Landing, Tenn.

John Greenslate died June 26, 1845, in
Sangamon county, and his widow mar-
ried William Bedinger. See his name.

GREEN, GEORGE M., born
Dec. 25, 1809, in Prince William county,
Va. He was married Dec. 26, 1833, in
Loudon county, to Mary Miller. They
had two children, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving Oct. 2, 1839,
near Mechanicsburg, and May 9, 1840,
moved south of the Sangamon river into
what is now Rochester township, where
two children were born. Of their four
children —

ANN N., born Sept. 16, 1836, in Lou-
don county, Va., married Feb. 21, 1856,
in Sangamon county, to William H.
Rhodes. She died, Sept. 17, 1870, leav-
ing six children, JOHN D., CHARLES
W., GEORGE W., MINNIE V.,
HARRIET E. and MARY O. They
live with their father near Rochester.

MARGARET J., born May 10,
1839, in Loudon county, Va., married in
Sangamon county to Robert H. Sattley.
See his name.

CHARLES F., born June 4, 1842,
in Sangamon county, died July 7, 1861.

GEORGE H., born March 5, 1844, in
Sangamon county, married in the same
county, Dec. 24, 1869, to Catharine
Hughes. They have two children, and
reside near Coon Creek PostofHce, Barton
county, Mo.

Mrs. Mary Green died Aug. 3, 1848, in
her native county of Loudon, where she
had gone hoping to improve her health.
George M. Green was married Jan. 3,
1849, in Sangamon county, to Harriet Satt-
lev. They have eight children —
'EMIL T F., ED WARD F., JOHN
W., MART E., IDA E., ROBERT
W., LE WIS M., and JESSIE L.

George M. Greene and family reside
two miles southeast of Rochester.

Mrs. Margaret Green, mother of
George M., John, James and William,
came to Sangamon county, with her four
sons, in the fall of 1839. Her husband,
Rolla Green, and her second son, Sumner,
having died in Virginia. She died in San-
gamon county, at the house of her son
George M.

GREEN, JOHN, born in Loudon
county, Va., came to Sangamon county in
1839, with his mother and brothers, and
after a few years stay went to the \Vis-

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consin lead mines, thence to the northern
pineries, and from there to California, in
1854. He now — 1874 — lives near Merced,
California.

GREEN, JAMES, was born
Oct. 9, 1830, in Loudon county, Va., and
brought by his mother to Sangamon
county, in 1839. He was married in San-
gamon county, Feb. 18, 1858, to Caroline
Horning, who was born Oct. 29, 1836, in
Baden, Germany, and came to Sangamon
county in 1857. They have five children
in Sangamon county, namely —

MARGAREl^ C., EMILT P.,
GE OR GE W., BER THA and J OHN
P., and reside in Sand Prairie, Cooper
township, five miles east of Rochester.

GREEN, WILLIAM, born in
Loudon county, Va., was brought by his
mother to Sangamon county, in 1839, is
unmarried, and lives east of Rochester.

GREEN, GEORGE, was born
about 1 800, in Lexington, Ky. He was
married in Kentucky to Nancy Danley,
and had three children there. They
moved to Sangamon county, 111., about
1830, and settled in what is now Clear
Lake township, where they had four liv-
ing children. Of their seven children —

ELIZABE7^H, born in Kentucky,
came with her parents to Sangamon coun-
ty, went to Missouri on a visit, and was
there married to William Lee, and died
there, leaving several children.

VIRGINIA died at sixteen years of
age.

DANIEL M., born in Kentucky, died
in Sangamon county, Oct. 27, 1861, un-
married.

MELINDA A., born in Sangamon '
county, married Cyrus Sponsler. She
died Sept. 9, 1860, in Sangamon county,
leaving one child, ALICE, who resides
with her father, in Iowa.

GEORGE W., born in Sangamon
county, married Lydia Turner, in Macon
county. Mr. Green died March 5, 1874,
leaving a widow and ten children at Har-
ristown. G. W. Green was a soldier in
the loth 111. Cav.

MART S., born Oct. 6, 1839, in San-
gamon county, married Sept. 2, 1860, at
the residence of Rev. Albert Hale, in
Springfield, to Henry P. Hankins, who
was born Oct. 31, 1831, in Mercer county,
N. J. They had four children. AME-
LIA T. and IDA MAY died in infancy.

HENRY T. died Nov. 4, 1871, in his
ninth year. IRVIN T. resides with his
parents at Illiopolis. Mr. Hankins is a
manufacturer of and dealer in cabinet
furniture.

Mrs. Nancy Green died Oct. 9, 1839,
and George Green died Nov. 17, 1862,
both in Sangamon county. George
Green was a soldier in the Black Hawk
war.

GREEN, JOSIAH, was born in
1800, in South Carolina. Rebecca Long
was born in South Carolina also. The
father of each of them were Baptist preach-
ers. Josiah Green and Rebecca Long were
married in Kentucky. They had six
children there, and the family moved to
Sangamon county, arriving in 1828, in
what is now Mechanicsburg township,
where five children were born. Of their
ten children —

CA THAR1NE B., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county, in her fif-
teenth year, to Hugh Dickerson. See his
name.

JOHN L., born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county, July 28, 1848, to
Martha D. Giger. He was a traveling
preacher in the M. E. Church for seven
years, and died Feb., 1850. His widow
married Lewis Eyman. See Giger
family.

WILLIAM H., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Sarah E.
Burch. They have one living child,
LULU, and reside at Kearney Junction,
Nebraska.

ELIZA A., born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Robert T.
Penn, have ten children, and live near
Frankfort, Ky.

LEANDER, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, Nov. 5, 1852,10
Mary E. Baker. They have two living
children. Mr. Green served three years
as Lieutenant and Quartermaster in the
4ist 111. Inf., and now resides at Medoc,
Missouri.

SO WEL M., born in Sangamon coun-
ty, spent several years in California,
returned, and was married in Sangamon
county to Eliza Keller. She died June
u, 1864, leaving one child. Mr. Green
was married in 1867 to Mary Powell.
They have three children, and live in
Sullivan, Moultrie county.

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BARLT SETTLERS Ob

SAMUEL, born in Sangamon county,
married Mary Mclntyre, have six child-
ren, and live in Gainesville, Texas.

MARTHA A., born August 9, 1835,
in Sangamon county, married at Mechan-
icsburg, Jan. 9, 1856, to Samuel K. Skeen,
who was born Dec. 31, 1828, in Rock-
bridge county, Va. They have four
children, namely: ARABELLA, born
Feb. 24, 1857, married Dec. 28, 1873, to
Samuel Hearing, a native of Reading,
Pennsylvania. They live in Springfield.
ELLA M., ROLVIN B. and JENNIE
MAUD reside with their parents, at Illi-
opolis. Mr. Skeen is Station and Express
Agent of the T., W. and W. R. R. at
that place.

FRANCIS M., born May, 1839, in
Sangamon county, married in Moultrie
county to Caroline Steutsman, and she
died in 1860. He enlisted in 1861 in the
7th 111. Inf., for three years; served full
term. He then raised Co. I, 415! 111. Inf.,
.was commissioned ist Lieutenant, and
promoted to Captain. Served to the end
of the rebellion, and was honorably dis-
charged. He was married Sept., 1865, in
Smithland, Ky., to Hannah Richardson.
They have four children, and his family
reside near Hutchison, Kan.

ELIZAS E7^H, born May 28, 1841,
in Sangamon county, married Mr. Sny-
der, and died six months after marriage,
at Sullivan, 111.

Mrs. Rebecca Green died Aug. n,
and Mr. Green married March, 1848, to
Mrs. Eliza Smith, whose maiden name was
Burch. She died, and Josiah Green died
August ir, 1855, all in Sangamon county.

GREGORY, GEORGE, was
born Jan. 7, 1808, at Ripley, Derbyshire,
England. Sarah Knowles was born
Sept. 15, 1 8 10, at Brackenfield, and they
were married, June 6, 1830, at Matlack,
all in Derbyshire. They had one child
at Brackenfield, and Mr. Gregory came
to America alone, landing at Philadel-
phia, in March, 1832. After about four-
teen months spent in building steam en-
gines, he returned to England, to learn
that his family had already sailed for
America. He came back at once to Phil-
adelphia. They had two children in
Chester county, Penn., and came to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving late in the fall
of 1836, at Springfield, where they had
one living child, and the family moved to

a farm he had previously purchased, five
miles west of Springfield, and north of
Spring creek, where they had six living
children. Of the ten children —

GEORGE, ]nn., born Feb. 2, 1832, at
Breckenfield, Derbyshire, England, was
killed Jan. i, 1842, by a horse running
away with him while he was riding from
Springfield to the farm.

ISAAC, born Nov. 6, 1834,511 Penn-
sylvania, was married in Sangamon coun-
ty, in 1856, to Susan Ray. They had four
children, SAMUEL, ISAAC and
THOMAS, twins, and ALBERT. Mrs.
Susan Gregory died, and Isaac Gregory
married Delia V. Moore. They have one
child, FANNIE, and live near Macon,
Macon county, 111.

SAMUEL, born Sept. 30, 1836, in
Pennsylvania, married in Sangamon coun-
ty to Harriet Wardaugh. They had two
children, and Mrs. Harriet G. died.
Mr. Gregory was killed, Jan. n, 1868, by
being thrown from a horse, in Macon
county. His two children, SARAH and
EMMA, live with their grandfather Gre-
gory-

JACOB, born Sept. 23, 1838, in
Springfield, 111., married Laura Stone.
They have two children, MARY and
GEORGE, and live near Macon.

BENJAMIN, born Jan. 12, 1842,
the first on Spring creek, died in his fifth
year.

ELIZABETH, born Jan. 25, 1844, in
Sangamon county, married April 26, 1862,
to William Day, a native of Louisiana.
They have three children, EDWARD,
ORLAND and SUSAN, and live with
her parents.

MART, born April 25,1848, in Sanga-
mon county, married Benjamin Wallace.
They have two children, GRACIE and
STELLA, and live in Keokuk, Iowa.

EMMA, born April 13, 1852,

ELIZA, born Jan. 6, 1854,

GEORGE, Jun., born Dec. 28, 1856,
live with their parents.

George Gregory commenced work in
Philadelphia, in the machine shops be-
longing to the State of Pennsylvania, in
connection with the first railroad built in
that State, which is now the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad. He assisted to remove
the first five locomotives that came from
England, from the ships, and put them to
work on the road in 1832. The people

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were afraid of the engines, and when the
first eighty-two miles . were built, from
Philadelphia to Columbia, the passenger
trains were run by horses; locomotives
being used to draw the freight trains only.
Parties interested in stage lines, taking
advantage of the general distrust, caused
placards to be published, with cuts repre-
senting the blowing up of locomotives,
with the air full of legs and arms of human
beings. Mr. Gregory remembers that a
stage overturned, and killed foui passen-
gers, between Lancaster and Harrisburg.
They were members of the Legislature,
and their bodies were put on board a
freight train, at Lancaster, and taken back
to Philadelphia for interment. Mr. Gre-
gory grimly remarked that they were the
first passengers ever drawn by a locomo-
tive over that road.

After working three years in connection
with that road, rather than submit to a re-
duction of his wages, from $80 per month,
Mr. Gregory came to Springfield, in 1836,
and engaged in blacksmithing on his own
account, running six fires. He was after-
wards induced to take charge of the en-
gines on the Northern Cross, now part of
the Toledo, Wabash & Western railroad.
He ran the roud for about three years, and
in the capacity of engineer, with T. M.
Averitt as fireman, ran a locomotive from
Jacksonville to Springfield, arriving Feb.
15, 1842, being the first railroad engine
that ever entered the Capitol of the State
of Illinois. Mr. Gregory long since aban-
doned railroading, and has for many years
been a successful farmer. He resides five
miles west of Springfield.

GREGORY, JAMES, was born
about 1784, in New York City, and was
married to Mrs. Abigail Johnson, whose
maiden name was Carter. She had six
children by her first husband. JOEL
JOHNSON, of the Revere House in
Springfield, is the only one of them that
ever came to Sangamon county. See his
name. Mr. and Mrs. Gregory had four
children in New York, and in 1819 or 20,
moved to Gallatin county, 111., and from
there to Sangamon county, arriving
Dec. 31, 1824, in what is now Rochester
township. Of their four children —

DELIA ANN, born Sept., 1808, in
New York, married in Gallatin county to
Nelson Alley. They moved .to Sanga-
mon county in 1829, had five children,

and moved to Monmouth, 111., where Mr.
Alley died. The widow and children re-
side there.

CLARA ANN, born April 2, 1810, in
New York, married in Sangamon county
to Henry C. Stafford. See his name.
He died, and she married David Crouch.
See his name.

WILLIAM, born Oct. 12, 1812, in
New York, married in 1837, in Sangamon
county, to Martha Asbury, had four child-
ren, and he died March 8, 18=55, near
Rochester. His family moved to Mis-
souri.

JAMES, Jun., born Sept., 1817, in
New York died in Sangamon county,
March 4, 1834.

James Gregory died May, 1834, and
Mrs. Abigail Gregory died Dec. 25, 1847,
both in Rochester township.

GROESBECK, CORNELI-
US, was born March i, 1817, in Rens-
sellaer county, N. Y. He was there mar-
ried, Feb. 14, 1838, to Rebecca Brown,
who was born Jan. 13, 1817, in New
York also. They moved to Springfield,
111., arriving Oct. 25, 1839, had three liv-
ing children in Springfield, namely :

HARRIET, born Sept. 18, 1840,

IDA, born in 1853, and

MART, born in 1862, all live with
their parents in Springfield.

Mr. Groesbeck has three brothers who
were early settlers in Sangamon county.
Nicholas and Stephen live in Utah City,
Utah Territory, and Jacob lives in Mis-
soui'i.

GROVE, JOHN R., was born
August 28, 1805, in Montgomery county,
Ky. Maria L. Grooms was born Feb.
n, 1812, in the same county. They were
married in Mt. Sterling, Ky., Feb. 14,

1832, and had two children in Bath coun-
ty. The family moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving late in 1835, in what
is now the northeast corner of Chatham
township, where they had two children.
Of their four children —

ELIZABETH C., born July 15,

1833, in Bath county, Ky., married in
Sangamon county to Andrew T. Thomp-
son. See his name.

SARAH* B., born Jan. 11, 1835, in
Bath county. Ky., married in Sangamon
county to William O. Jones. They had
five children: CHARLES L., FRED-
.ERICK O., MARIA L., ALBERT

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HALE and EDNA G. Mr. Jones died
Dec., 1873, near Decatur, and his family
reside there. — 1874.

LOUISA y., born April 17, 1837, in
Sangamon county, married about 1860, in
Decatur, to Noah Matkin. They had two
children, OTTO and JOHN. Mr. Matkin
died in 1868, and his family reside in
Greencastle, Ind.

MARIA E., born Jan. 15, 1843, in
Sangamon county, died Nov. 26, 1858, in
Jacksonville, 111., while attending school
there.

Mrs. Maria L. Grove died Nov. 7, 1844,
and Mr. Grove was married Sept. 21,
1846, to Priscilla M. Thompson. They
had one child —

yOHNH.,\>ovn Dec. 5, 1847, and died
Dec. 18, 1862.

John R. Grove died Sept. 20, 1849, in
Mechanicsburg. His widow married
Rev. Joseph M. Grout. See sketch of
the Thompson family.

GROVE, HENRY, born Oct.
20, 1784, at Ephrata, Lancaster county,
Penn. His father, Jacob Grove, moved to
Dauphin county, Penn., nine miles east of
Harrisburg, about the year 1800. The
ancestors of this family came from Ger-
many and settled at Ephrata, Lancaster
county, Penn., about 1725. They spelled
* their name Graff, and were seventh day
Baptists. As early as 1728, there was a
church of that order established at the
aforesaid place, as the church records still
show. There are deeds of land at Eph-
rata, bought by Abraham Graff, dated
1760. lie had five children, and died in
Lancaster county in 1 788. His son Jacob,
born in 17515 wrote his name Groff, and
there are many of his descendants still
living in Lancaster county, Penn., who
adhere to that spelling. He married
Nancy Kneisley, of Ephrata, about 1780,
They had sixteen children, one of whom
was Henry, the subject of this sketch.
He spelled his name Grove, and the change
to Groves has since been made. Henry
Grove was married in Hummelstown,
Dauphin. county, Penn., June 7, 1808, to
Eve Hammaker, who was born Jan. 9,
1791, in that county. They had twelve
living children there. He and his family
moved to .Springfield, 111., arriving Nov.
i, 1836, and in March, 1837, moved into
what is now Williams township. Of their
twelve children —

ADAM, born March 16, 1809, in
Pennsylvania, was married at Xenia, Ohio,
to Sarah A. T. Horn, and came to Spring-
field, 111., in 1830, preceding his father six
years. They had seven children, and
Mr. G. died at Athens, 111., in 1851. His
widow married John England. See his
name. One only of Adam Groves' child-
ren reside in Sangamon county, viz —
JOHN H., born in 1837, in Springfield, is
unmarried, and resides at Williamsville.

JA COB, born in 1811, in Pennsylvania,
was married about 1847, 'n Harrisburg,
Penn., to Barbara Phillips. They came
to Sangamon county, where they had one
living child, LYDIA A. She married
Robert McClelland, Jun. See his name.
Jacob Groves died about April, 1865,
and his widow died in the autumn of
1870.

SUSAN, born July 28, 1815, near Har-
risburg, was married Dec., 1838, in San-
gamon county, to John W. Constant.
See his name.

JOHN,\)orn Feb. 27, 1817, in Dauphin
county, Penn., was married Nov. 9, 1865,
at Williamsville, to Pauline Keck, who
was born in 1843. They have two child-
ren, HENRY C. and BARBARA C.,
and live at Elkhart, Logan county, 111.

HENRY, born in 1819, in Pennsyl-
vania, married Feb., 1844, to Sarah Flem-
ing, of Scott county, 111., and died in June,
1844, leaving a widow without children.

ELIZA, born Dec. 27, 1820, in Penn-
sylvania, was married Dec. 23, 1847, 'n
Sangamon county, to Andrew Lester.
Mr. Lester died in 18^9, and his widow
died in 1866, both in Williamsville.

GEORGE, born Sept. 22, 1822, in
Hummelstown, Penn., was married Nov.
26, 1844, in Fancy Creek township,
Sangamon county, to Jane Brown, who
was born April 29, 1826. They had six
living children: JAMES H., born Oct. 8,
1847, was married March, 1871, in Wil-
liamsville, to Mary A. Constant, daughter
of G. W. "Constant. See his name.
They have one child, FRANK, and live near
Williamsville. JOHN W., born June 13,
1849, was married in Williamsville, Dec.
24, 1875, to Isabel J. Shick. They live in
Chicago. GEORGE A., born April 19,
1851, lives in Williamsville, 111. ISAAC
F., MARY E. and EDWIN L. reside
with their parents, in Chicago, 111.

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', born Dec. 25, 1824, in Dau-
phin county, Penn., was married in San-
gamon county, 111., in 1844, to Shelby
Starr. See his name.

SARAH, born Jan. i, 1828, in Penn.,
was married in Sangamon county, Aug.
12, 1849, to James Lester. They had ten
living children— HENRIETTA, MAT-
TIE, the latter was married, in 1872, to
Edward Van meter. See his name.
BARBARA A., ANDREW J..
GEORGE W., CLARA B., LYDIA
A., JAMES N., WALTER S. and EL-
MER G. James Lester and family re-
side one mile northeast of Williamsville.

ISAAC, born Jan. 25, 1830, at Harris-
burg, Penn., was married June 5, 1851, in
Sangamon county, to Lucinda Alexan-
der, daughter of Henry Alexander. They
had six children, three of whom died
young.1 SUSANNAH, born May 31,
1854, was married Feb., 1872, in Williams-
ville, to John McClelland. They have
two living children, and reside near Wil-
liamsville. HENRY A. and ISAAC
N. live with their parents, at Chicago,
Illinois.

AFFINDA, born July 28, 1833, in
Pennsylvania, was married Oct., 1861, in
Sangamon county, to Alanson Albright.
They have seven children, SUSAN,
GEORGE, CHARLES, CATHA-
RINE, FREDERICK, AARON and
MARY, and live near Rosevjlle, Ver-
milion county, 111.

RACHEL C., born July 28. 1835, in
Pennsylvania, was married in Sangamon
county to James H. Taylor. "Sec his
name.

Mrs. Eve Groves died Nov. 6, 1862, and
Henry Groves died Jan. 7, 1863, both in
Sangamon county, 111., near Williams-
ville.

GRUBB, SAMUEL, was born
July 23, 1819, in London county, Va. He
went to Catawba, Clarke county, Ohio, in
1838, and to Sangamon county 111., in the
fall of 1839. After one or two visits back
to Virginia, and three years spent in Cal-
ifornia, Samuel Grubb was married Nov.
19, 1853, in Rochester, to Adaline E.
Lock. They have eight living children —

SAMUEL C., JESSIE A.,
RACHEL J., ALBERT C., WIL-
LIAM O., OSCAR B., C ROM AR-
TIE J. and JOHN TRACT, and re-
side two miles northeast of Rochester.

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GRUBB, SAMUEL, born May
1 6, 1794, in Chester county, Penn., was
married in Perry .county, Penn., to Ann
Rogers, who was born about 1798 in the
same State. They had six living children
there, and moved to Madison county, 111.,
in 1836, and to Springfield, May 10,
1838. Of their children —

HENRT B., born July 31, 1820, was
married in Sangamon county, July 3, 1850,
to Sarah A. Constant, daughter of Rezin
H. Constant. They had six living child-
ren: WILLIAM R., AMANDA P.,
ROBERT, GEORGE and HARLAN
R. H. B. Grubb is a bridge builder, and
resides in Springfield.

JANE, born Dec. 17, 1821, was mar-
ried in Springfield to William C. Beam,
in August, 1849. They live in Spring-
field.

RICHARD R., born Jan. 31, 1824,
was married in Springfield, May 13, 1852,
to Catharine Hawker. She died Dec. 2.
1852, and he was married May 8, 1854, in
Sangamon county, to Matilda Rusk, a
daughter of Benj. F. Rusk. Richard R.
Grubb died Jan. 28, 1862, and his widow
died March 30, 1871, leaving one child,
MARGARET J., who lives with her
aunt, Jane Beam.

SAMUEL and WILLIAM, twins,
born March 18, 1827.

SAMUEL, was married April 27,
1855, in Springfield, to Elizabeth Dren-
nan. They had two living children,
namely: SAMUEL, is a clerk in the
Postoffice in Springfield. FLORA lives
with her mother. Samuel Grubb died
Dec. 3, 1873, and his widow and children
reside in Springfield, 111.

WILLIAM Grubb, the other twin,
died in May, 1857.

MART A., born April 16, 1834, was
married about 1854, in Springfield, to
Willis H. Whitehurst, a native of Ken-
tucky. They had one child, WILLIAM
H., who is a railroader, and lives in Rock
Island.

Mrs. Ann Grubb died July 14, 1873, in
Springfield, 111. Samuel Grubb was a
Fife Major in the war of 1812. He built
many bridges in Sangamon and adjoining
counties, and had the reputation of being
a skillful workman. He died August 26,
1875, m Springfield, Illinois.

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EXPLANATION: — For the convenience
of those consulting this volume, the explan-
ation is again inserted, .by which it may
be known what generation of a family any
person belongs to, by the kind of type used
in printing his or her name. Original
earlv settlers or heads of families are in
LARGE LETTERS; second gen-
eration, ITALIC CAPITALS; third,
in CAPITALS; fourth, in SMALL CAPI-
TALS; fifth, in Italics.

HAINES, CHRISTOPHER,

was born July 4, 1795, in Russell county,
Va. His parents soon after moved to
Allen county, Ky. He was married in
that county, Oct. 12, 1815, to Myrah Gate-
wood, who was born June 9, 1797' m Ala-
bama, and partly raised in Georgia. They
had two children in Allen, and moved to
Barren county, where five children were
born, thence to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving Oct. 22, 1829, in what is now Cot-
ton Hill township, where they had three
children. Of their ten children —

NANCT W., born Aug. n, 1816, in
Allen county, Ky., was married in Sanga-
mon county, 111., to Samuel D. Snodgrass.
See his name.

JOHN G., born Jan. 5, 1818, in Allen
county, Ky., was married in Springfield,
Feb. 20, 1840, to Mary A. Palmer, who
was born March 5, 1820, in "East St.
Louis. Her parents came from Oswego,
N. Y. She was educated at Rock Spring
Seminary, 111., and came to Springfield in
Jan., 1835. They had eight children, five
of whom died under five years of age.
HESTER A., born July 29, 1841, was
married May 22, 1859, to A. J. Maxfield,
who was born July 29, 1837, at Cam-
bridge, Ohio. They have two living
children, WILLIAM o. and VIRGINIA T.,
and live in Cotton Hill township. DO-
CIA C., born April 15, 1843, was marrie(l
Oct. 6, 1866, to John R. Moore. She
died Jan. 8, 1873. MARTHA J., born
Jan. 15, 1854, was married June 12, 1873,
to A. B. Allen, and live at Roodhouse.
Mrs. Mary A. Haines died Jan. 31, 1874,
and John G. Haines was married, Sept.
7, 1874, to Eliza P. Criteser. They have
one child, WINFORD i. J. G. Haines en-
isted in Springfield, 111., April, 1861, in the

7th 111. Inf., for three months, and was
discharged at Paducah, Ky., re-enlisted
in 2nd 111. Art., served one year and
one day. He and his family live in Cot-
ton Hill township, ten miles southeast of
Springfield. He has served eight years as
Justice of the peace.

SAMUEL, born July 5, 1820, in Bar-
ren county, Ky., was married in Sanga-
mon county, 111., May 10, 1842, to Mrs.
Matilda J. Stout, whose maiden name
was Willian. They had six children;
two died in infancy. THOMAS M. died
August 28, 1868, in the twentieth year of
his age. He was a member of the High
school in Springfield at the time. SAM-
UEL G. died in his fifth year. MARY
P. and SARAH V. reside with their par-
ents, in Springfield, Illinois.

MARIA, born Sept. 2, 1822, in Barren
county, Ky., was married Jan. 8, 1840, in
Sangamon county, 111., to Eri Darwin.
She died May 4, 1841, leaving one child,
LAURA, who has been twice married,
and is now the wife of James Masterson.
They live in Washington Territory, and
have four children.

FLETCHER born Nov. 5, 1824, in
Barren county, Ky., was a soldier in the
Mexican war from Sangamon county, un-
der Col. E. D. Baker. He married Lu-
cinda J. Hatler, who died, leaving one
child, JAMES WM., who married Susan
Kessler, and lives in Taylorville. Mr. F.
Haines married Lydia Anderson. They
have five children, MILLARD F., ELI-
ZABETH, MARY J., EDITH and
SHERMAN, and live near Taylorville.

JAMES M., born Nov. 23, 1826, in
Barren county, Ky., brought up in San-
gamon county, was married May 24, 1853,
in Christian county, 111., to Mira O. Ricks,
who was born Oct. 31, 1835, in Trigg
county, Ky. They had six living child-
ren in Sangamon county, 111. ALICE
E., BENETTIE L., MARGARET
E., ULYSSES G., IDA M. and AR-
THUR G. reside with their parents, at
the homestead settled by Mr. Haines' pa-
rents in 1830, in Cotton Hill township, at
the Junction of Horse creek and the
South Fork timber, ten miles southeast of
Springfield, near New City, 111.

D&CIA, born June, 1829, in Barren
county, Ky., was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to John B. Ricks, who was
born Nov. 14, 1831, in Trigg county, Ky.

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They have five children: JAMES B.,
born Dec. 25, 1852, was married Dec. 23,
1872, in Bloomington, to Pammie L.
Geltmacher. They have one child, and
live in Taylorville. He is a lawyer, and
engaged in practice there. HENRIETTA
L, LAURA B., MARGARET E. and
QUINTUS A. reside with their parents
in Taylorville. John B. Ricks has served
one term or more as sheriff of Christian
county, was a representative of that coun-
ty in the legislature of 1867, and aided in
enacting the law for building the present
State House, and is now — 1876 — clerk of
the circuit court of Christian county.

FRANCIS A., born March 22, 1832,
in Sangamon county, went to Oregon in
1852, returned in 1859, and was married,
Jan. 17, 1859, at Princeton, Bureau coun-
ty, 111., to Zerilcla A. Britt, and now —
1876 — live at New City, Sangamon coun-
ty, 111.

BENJAMIN K., born Aug. 20,
1834, in Sangamon county, enlisted April
1 8, 1861, for three months, in Co. G, 7th
111. Inf., served until July 25, 1861, en-
listed in the 2d 111. Art., for three years,
served full term, re-enlisted as a veteran,
and served to the end of the rebellion, in
1865, when he was honorably discharged.
He was married, June 9, 1873, to Nancy
J. Haines, and lives near Palmer, Christian
county.

WILLIAM P., born Oct. 23, 1839,
in Sangamon county, was married, May
17, 1858, to Burrilla Ashford, who was
born March 8, 1840, in Allen county, Ky.
Mr. Haines enlisted April 18, 1861, in
Co. G, 7th 111. Inf., for three months,
served until July 5, 1861, when he was
discharged for physical disability. Mr.
and Mrs. Haines had three children,
THOMAS E., the eldest, died in his
fourth year. LENA L., the youngest,
died in infancy. ETTA FRANCES,
born Aug. 24, 1864, lives with her parents
in Springfield, 111.

Christopher Haines died March 29,
1850, and Mrs. Myrah Haines died Nov.
n, 1859, both on the farm where they
settled in 1830.

HALBERT, DR, JAMES,
was born Aug. 19, 17855 m Essex county,
near Port Royal, Va. Nancy Reynolds
was born in the same county, and they
were married there Dec. 24, 1816. They
had six children and moved to Ross coun-

ty, near Chillicothe, Ohio, about 1831,
where one child was born. Mrs. Nancy
Halbert died there in Nov., 1834.- The
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving at Springfield in the fall of 1839,
and a few weeks later settled in what is
now Clear Lake township. Of their
eight children —

MART L., born Nov. 15, 1817, in Es-
sex county, Va., married March 31, 1836,
in Ohio, to Eli Harbert, who was born
Aug. n, 1811, and moved at once to the
vicinity of West Point, Tippecanoe coun-
ty, Ind., where two children were born,
and Mr. Harbert died there Nov. 29,

1839. The widow came with her two
children to the house of her father, in
Sangamon county, in Jan., 1840, where
one child was born. Of her three child-
ren— SAMUEL M., born May 31, 1837,
near West Point, Tippecanoe county,
Ind., married in Sangamon county, Dec.
25, 1862, to Serilda Miller, who was born
Feb. 14, 1844, in Sangamon county.
They have two living children, JOHN and
ANNA, and live four miles northwest of
Illiopolis. NANCY R., born Sept. n,
1838, near West Point, Tippecanoe coun-
ty, Ind., married in Sangamon county,
Sept. 14, 1858, to Amariah D. Gilbert,
who was born April 10, 1828, in Portage
county, Ohio. They have three children,
ELI j., OLUE M. and FANNIE j. Mr. Gil-
bert was appointed, April i, 1869, Post-
master at Illiopolis, and continues to hold
the office— 1876. ELI C., born Feb. 3,

1840, in Sangamon county, after the death
of his father. He enlisted July 25, 1862,
in Co. I, H4th 111. Inf., was captured after
the battle of Guntown, Miss., June, 1864,
and spent six months in Andersonville
prison. After that he was in other pris-
ons, and was honorably discharged Aug.
3, 1865. He was married in Sangamon
county, Sept. 21, 1870, to Mary E.
Griggs, who was born March n, 1849, at
Leroy, 111. They have two children,
MINNIE PEARL and HENRY OTIS, and live
four miles northwest of Illiopolis. Mrs.
Mary Harbert was married in Sangamon
county to Rezin H. Constant. See his
name. She died May 18, 1863.

SALLY, born Jan. 23, 1820, in Vir-
ginia, married in Sangamon county to
James S. Taylor. See his name.

SIDNEY R., born Feb. 3, 1822, in

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Virginia, married in Sangamon county to
John C. Woltz. See his name.

FANNT, born June 22, 1825, in Vir-
ginia, married in Sangamon county to
Thomas L. Simpson. See his name.

KITTT, born Nov. 19, 1827, in Vir-
ginia, married in Sangamon county to
Ninian R. Taylor. See his name.

ALEXANDER S., born June 15,
1830, in Essex county, Va., came with his
father to Sangamon county, was educated
at Illinois College, in Jacksonville, gradu-
ated at Jefferson Medical College, N. Y.,
and was^married, May 8, 1855, to Marv
E. Latham. Dr. A. S. Halbert died
Feb. n, 1859, leaving one child, KATIE
TODD. His widow and child reside with
her mother on seventh street, Spring-
field.

MARGARET J., born Sept. 13,
1833, in Ohio, married in Sangamon
county to Isaac J. Taylor. See his
name.

Dr. James Halbert died Nov. 5, 1858,
in Sangamon county. He was a regularly
ordained minister in the Baptist church.
Dr. Halbert was among the first to intro-
duce sheep raising into Sangamon county,
and was the first in Clear Lake township.
He was a man of great energy, strong in-
tellectual abilities, and great originality of
mind.

HALE, ALBERT, was born
Nov. 29, 1799, in Glastenbury, Hartford
county, Conn. At the age of fourteen
years he became a clerk in a store in
Wethersfield, Conn., remaining eight
years. During that time he embraced re-
ligion. He attended Yale College, and
graduated there in 1827, and then com-
menced studying for the ministry. He
next became an agent of the American
Tract Society, spending one and a half
years in South Carolina, Florida and
Georgia, part of the time in Sunday school
work among the "Sand hills" of the lat-
ter State. He returned , to Yale, was
licensed and ordained to preach in 1830,
by the New Havan Association East —
Congregational. After preaching a few
months in the vicinity of Boston, making
his home in the family of Rev. Dr. Lyman
Beecher, he came west, landing at Shaw-
neetown, 111., Nov. 11, 1831, remained
there a few weeks, and went to Green-
ville, Bond county, and made his home in
the McCord settlement, where he labored

half the time and spent the other hal"
traveling over the State, doing the work
of an evangelist, for about eight years.
During that time he visited Springfield
a few times. He received a call from the
Second Presbyterian Church, to become
its pastor, and accepting the call, he came
and entered upon its duties in 1839. Rev.
Albert Hale was married April, 1839, at
what is now Godrey, Madison county,
111., to Abiah Chapin, a teacher in Monti-
cello Female Seminary at that place.
They had three children, all born in
Springfield.

CATHARINE and

SOPHIA reside with their father.

ALBERT F., born Oct. 2, 1844, in
Springfield, graduated at Yale College in
1866, studied theology, and was licensed
and ordained to preach by Springfield
Presbytery in 1871.

Mrs. Abiah Hale died Jan., 1865, in
Springfield. Rev. Albert Hale was
pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church
in Springfield for twenty-seven years,
until 1866, when, in consequence of the
infirmities of age, he resigned. He con-
tinues to preach, both in city and county,
as his strength will permit, and resides in
Springfield.

HALL, DAVID, was born Dec.

25, 1799, in Shelby county, near Shelby -
ville, Ky. David Hall and Juliet Owen
were there married, Dec. 23, 1823. They
had six children in Shelby county, and
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
Sept. 23. 1834, at Mechanicsburg, and
soon after settled about four miles further
west, in the same township, where five
children were born. Of their eleven
children —

GEORGE M., born Oct. 10, 1824, in
Kentucky, died in Mechanicsburg, Oct.

26, 1852.

MART M., born Dec. 31, 1825, in
Kentucky, married Sept. 18, 1845, m
Sangamon county, to Wesley Hathaway.
See his name.

OWEN, born Jan. n, 1828, in Ken-
tucky, died Nov. 6, 1847, in Sangamon
county.

DA VID S., born Jan. 9, 1830, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county,
March 15, 1855, to Elizabeth J. Fullin-
wider. They had five children. The
second, ADA G., died in her second year.
GEORGIA E., CHARLIE B., ED-

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WIN P. and JACOB F. live with their
parents in Mechanicsburg.

WILLIAM, born Dec. 22, 1831, in
Kentucky, married Sept. 30, 1856, in San-
gamon county, to Sarah A. Mantle.
They had one child, EVA MAY, who
died at seven years of age. Mrs. Sarah
A. Hall died in March, 1863, and William
Hall was married June 13, 1871, in Shelby
county, Ky., to Fannie Saunders, a native
of that county. He is a merchant in
Mechanicsburg, and resides there.

ALLEN,\)orn Oct. »i, 1833, in Shelby

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county, Ky., married in Sangamon coun-
ty, March 13, 1862, to Rachel A. Mantle,
who was born Nov. 3, 1838, in Fayette
county, Ohio. They have one child,
CARRIE MAY, and reside in Mechan-
icsburg. Mr. Hall is a merchant there.

ISABEL, born Feb. 22, 1836, in San-
gamon county, married John H. Fullin-
wider. See his name.

PRESTON, born Feb. 7, 1838, in
Sangamon county, married March 12,
1867, at Mt. Sterling, Ky., to' Sarah L.
Davis, who was born there, August 28,
1840. They had four children, OWEN
D., ELIZA E., HARRISON P. and
ARVIL C. Mrs. Sarah L. Hall died
in 1875, and Preston Hall lives near
Mechanicsburg.

HENRT H., born Dec. 13, 1840,' in
Sangamon county, studied at the Hahne-
man Medical College, Chicago, and is a
practicing physician at Pana. — 1874.

HATTIE E., born April 12, 1844, in
Sangamon county, married May 10, 1870,
to John C. O'Conner. They had one
child that died in infancy in 1872. J. C.
O'Conner was born Feb. 16, 1845, at
Fredonia, Licking county, Ohio. He en-
listed August 4, 1862, for three years, in
Co. C, 1 24th 111. Inf.. at Cairip Butler.
In August, 1863, he was detailed to take
charge of the regimental medical stores,
and was detailed in April, 1865, as Medi-
cal dispenser for Post Hospital, at Mont-
gomery, Ala. He was mustered out with
his regiment at Chicago, in Sept., 1865.
He studied medicine at Ann Arbor, Mich.,
in 1867 and '8, and is now a druggist at
Buffalo.

E VELINE 0., born April 18, 1845,
died August 28, 1849.

David Hall died April 25, 1864, in
Mechanicsburg, and his widow, Mrs.
Juliet Hall, resides with her daughter,

Mrs. O'Conner, at Buffalo, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

HALL, BENJ. LOGAN,
brother to David Hall, was born Jan. 6,
1806, in Shelby county; Ky. He was
there married Jan. 6, 1831, to Eveline
Pickrell. They had one child in Ken-
tucky, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in Sept., 1833, in what is now
Mechanicsburg township, where ten chil-
dren were born, three died young. Of
their eight children —

OLIVER P., born March n, 1832,
in Shelby county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, Jan. 24, 1855, to Susan M.
Short, who was born Oct. 14, 1833, in
Pickaway county, Ohio, and came to San-
gamon county in 1846. They had six
children. HARVEY E., the second
child, born Oct. 7, 1857, died March 12,
1864. The other five, WILLIAM L.,
LEWIS B., J. LESLIE, RENA and
OSCAR E., live with their parents, one
and one-half miles north of Mechanics-

GEORGE W., born Feb. 19, 1836,
in Sangamon county, married Jan. 14,
1859, to Eliza G. Hammitt. They had
three children, and Mrs. Hall died Nov.
10, 1869. The children, MATTIE B.,
VIRGINIA M. and ELIZA L., live
with their aunt, Mrs. Rev. H. Buck, in
Decatur. Geo. W. Hall was married,
Aug. 1 6, 1870, to Laura McNeill, in Me-
chanicsburg, and in August following,
moved to Ottawa, Kansas, where Mr.
Hall died Jan. 15, 1872. His widow lives
in Mechanicsburg.

MARIA B, born- June 18,1838, mar-
ried Nov. 1 6, 1865, to David H. Hall, who
was born Jan. 19, 1828, in Shelby county,
Ky. They had five children; three died
young. EVELYN and FLORENCE,
twins, live with their parents in Wood-
side township, four miles southwest of
Springfield.

FRANKLIN, born Aug. 10, 1840,
married Sept. 13, 1864, to Cecelia Hanks,
in Sangamon county. Thev had one
child, and Mrs. Hall died March 23, 1866.
F. Hall and Elizabeth Hanks — sister to
his first wife — were married Sept. 18,
1867, in Decatur. They have two child-
ren, and live in Taylorville.

WILLIAM T., born Dec. 21, 1844,
in Sangamon county, married Jan. 9,1872,

EARLT SETTLERS OF

in Jacksonville, 111., to Florence M. Winn.
They live at Salina, Kansas.

HARD IN O., born April 2, 1849,
married Oct. 18, 1870, near Mexico, Mo.,
to Irene Lucky. They have one child,
ROBERT L., and live three miles north-
west of Mechanicsburg.

MART L., born Sept. 29, 1851, died
Feb. 28, 1866.

E VA F., born July 14, 1855, died
Sept. 26, 1867.

BENJAMIN Z., Jun. born Sept. n,
1858, lives with his parents.

Benj. Logan Hall and wife reside in
Buffalo, Sangamon county, 111.

HALL, MRS. ELIZABETH,
whose maiden name was Foster, was born
in Bedford county, Va., and married there
to John Hall. They had five children in
Va., and moved to Adair county, Ky.,
where four children were .born, and Mr.
Hall died there. His widow and children
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1830, north of Spring creek,
and six miles west of Springfield. Mrs.
Hall was married there to Samuel Willis,
and in 1844 or '5, moved to De Witt coun-
ty, where Mr. Willis died. She now lives
with her son,

CAS WELL HALL, near Leroy,
McLean county, 111. Her son —

JOEL HALL, born Feb. 19, 1821,
in Adair county, Ky., came with his
mother to Sangamon county in 1830. In
1841 he went to DeWitt county, and was
there married to Martha Banta. They
moved to Missouri, in 1856, have nine liv-
ing children, and reside in Eagleville,
Harrison county, Mo. Her daughter
married Trulove Sparks. See his name.

HALL, MRS. HANNAH,
whose maiden name was Cunningham,
was born in 1798, in Pendleton county,
Va. She was married Nov. 3, 1814, in
that county, to Dr. Samuel B. Hall, and
they had eight children in Virginia. Dr.
Hall died Oct. 16, 1827, and Mrs. Hall,
with her children, moved to Sangamon
county, 111, arriving Nov. 20, 1833, in
what is now Chatham township, and the
next year moved to what is now Loami
township. Of her children —

JOHN C., born Feb. 17, 1816, in
Virginia, married in Sangamon county,
Feb. 20, 1840, to Susan Cutter. They
had six living children. ELIZABETH
married John W. Joy, who enlisted in

Co. I, 73d 111. Inf., for three years, was
discharged on account of physical disabil-
ity, and died in 1863. Mrs. Joy married
John Brigham, has three children, and
lives in Travis county, near Onion creek
Postoffice, Texas. Mr. Brigham was a
Union soldier also. JOHN C., Jun., en-
listed in Co. B, 30th 111. Inf., March 28,
1864, for three years, and was discharged
July 14, 1865, at Springfield, 111. He
married Catharine Williamson. They
have three children, and live near Onion
creek, Texas. SETH R. served six
months in the Union army, and now lives
in Texas. SARAH C. married Newton
Young, and lives near Loami. ADA D.
and VIRGINIA D. reside with their pa-
rents, near Onion creek Postoffice, Travis
county, Texas.

ELIZABETH M., born Oct. n,
1817, in Virginia, was married Jan. 15,
1838, in Sangamon county, to Harness
A. Trumbo. See his name.

WILLIAM C., born May 30, 1819,
in Virginia, was married in Sangamon
county, April 26, 1849, to Leah Priddy.
They had two children, and the parents
both died. Their son, SAMUEL B.,
born Jan. 26, 1850, and LEE, born Oct.
25, 1851, live in Loami township.

JAMES A., born Jan. 23, 1821, in
Virginia, was married in Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., to Elizabeth McGinnis. They
had two children, and mother and child-
ren died. Mr. Hall was married Dec. 16,
1852, to Margaret Darneille. They had
eight children. ELIZABETH and
VIRGINIA died under seven years.
JEFFERSON died, aged eight years.
The other five, LAURA, HANNAH,
JOSEPH, JOHN and JAMES, live with
their parents, one half mile east of Loami.

REBECCA A., born Oct. 7, 1822,
married James Megredy. See his name.

SAMUEL B., born July 18, 1824, in
Virginia, brought up in Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., went to California in 1849, re-
turned to Sangamon county in 1874, is
unmarried, and lives near Loami.

GEORGE W., born June 18, 1826, in
Virginia, died in Sangamon county, un-
married, April 17, 1873.

JOSEPH, born March 19, 1828, in
Virginia, raised in Sangamon county,
went to California in 1850, is unmarried,
and resides near Loami.

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Mrs. Hannah Hall was married May
i, 1835, to Adam Trumbo. See his name.
He died, and she died at the house of
her son, James A. Hall, Jan. 30, 1872.

John Cunningham, the father of Mrs.
Hannah Hall, was a native of Hardy
county, Va. He came with Mrs. Hall, in
1833, to Sangamon county, and died a
few years later, near Loami.

HALL, HENRY, was born in
1774, near Hagerstown, Md., and married
in London county, Va., to Sally Harper,
who was born about 1783. They had five
children in Pittsylvania county, Va., and
in 1816, the family moved to Martin coun-
ty, Ind., where three children were born,
thence to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
Oct., 1828, in what is now Loami town-
ship. Of their eight children —

NANCY, born in 1801, in Virginia,
married William Taylor, and had five
children— GEORGE W., married Lu-
cinda Turpin, have five children, and live
in Christian county, 111. LOUISA mar-
ried Wm. Hays, have four children, and
live in Shelby county, near Mowequa.
SALLY JANE married Peter Work-
man. See his name. NANCY mar-
ried Jacob Workman. See his name.
MARY married Ezekiel Preston, have
five children, and live in Mowequa, 111.
Wm. Taylor died Aug., 1830, and his
widow married David Hays, had four chil-
dren, and live in Christian county, near
Mowequa.

AARON, born Dec. 25, 1802, in Vir-
ginia, married Feb. 10, 1825, to Nancy
Hays, in Indiana, had two children there,
and came with his father to Sangamon
county, in 1828, where they had eight
children. Of their children — PRIS-
CILLA A., born Sept. 21, 1825, married
Henry Jacobs. See his name. ELIZA
J., born Sept. 20, 1827, married William
Hays. Mr. and Mrs. Hays died, leaving
three children. JEANETTE died, aged
fourteen years. ELIZA JANE married
Charles I. Turpin, Jun. See his name.
CAROLINE K. married Dennis Turpin.
See his name. ELIZABETH D. mar-
ried George Jacobs, and both died, in
Christian county. HENRY W., WIL-
LIAM and ALFRED T., died under
four years. AARON, Jun., born Aug.
25, 1837, in Sangamon county, married
Rebecca Turpin, had five children — EL-
MER E. 'died young. CHARLES D., THOMP-

SON A., JAMES M. and JOSEPH E., live with
their parents near Loami. NANCY
married Asa Turney, and lives in Morgan
county. JOHN died at two, and SUSAN
at eleven years old. Aaron Hall died
Dec. 13, 1851. His widow married, July
6, 1852, to Wm. L. Dodd, and live three
and one-half miles south of Loami.

THOMAS, born in Virginia, died in
Indiana, aged fifteen years.

WASHINGTON, born May 8, 1809,
in Pittsylvania county, Va., married in
Sangamon county, Nov. 6, 1831 to Susan-
nah H. Wyckoff. They had nine living
children in Sangamon county. JULIA
A., born April 23, 1833, married David
E. Gibson. See his name. THOMAS
M. died in his tenth year. JAMES
WARREN, born Oct. 16, 1836, married
Nov. 22, 1868, to Mary A. Dodd, who
was born Dec. 13, 1842, in Bradley coun-
ty, Tenn. They live four miles south of
Loami. MARY J., born March 27, 1838,
married Thomas Baker. See his name.
SUSANNAH H. and JOHN W., twins,
born Aug. 16, 1841. SUSANNAH H.
married, Jan 22, 1858, to Thomas Cosser,
a native of England. He went from San-
gamon county to Navarro county, Texas,
in Feb., 1860, and Mrs. Cosser went in
September following. Mr. Cosser went
into partnership with Maj. H. P. Darling,
in the business of wool growing. Whilst
engaged in sheep shearing, at Laredo,
near Ft. Mclntosh, Webb county, Tex., in
April, 1866, Mr. Cosser, a Mr. Smith and
a negro boy were killed by Indians, who
made a raid on them and were gone be-
fore the soldiers in the fort were aware of
their presence. Mr. Darling was killed
at the same time, but some miles away.
Mrs. Cosser, Mrs. Smith, and a daughter
of Maj. Darling, buried the bodies with
their own hands. Mrs. Cosser returned
to Sangamon county, and was married to
Thomas Baker. See his name. JOHN
W. enlisted in 1862, for three years, in
Co. I, 73d 111. Inf., served full time and
was honorably discharged. He was mar-
ried in Oct., 1873, to Nancy J. Watts.
They have one child, FRANK w., and live
at Charleston, 111. ALBERT T. died in
his ninth year. CYRUS, born Jan. 5,

1856, and "DAVID W., born Feb. 12,

1857, live with their father. Mrs. Susan-
nah H. Hall died March 10, 1867, and
Washington Hall resides three and one-

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EA RL r SE 7 TLERS OF

half miles south of Loami, on the farm
where he settled in 1832. He was the
administrator of the estate of his brother-
in-law, Wm. Taylor, in 1830. From that
time to 1867 he administered on the es-
tates of at least fifty of his deceased neigh-
bors. He filled many local offices, and
during the great rebellion, he three times
enrolled the names of those subject to
military duty in the townships of Talking-
ton and Loami, for the United States
Government.

THOMPSON, born Aug. 19, iSn,
in Pittsylvania county, Va., married in
Sangamon county, Jan. 17, 1839, to Eve-
line Jacobs. They had eight children,
three died young. 'Of the other five —
WILLIAM T., bo'rn Sept. 7, 1841, in
Sangamon county, married Nov. 7, 1869,
to Jennie Lowry, who was born May 3,
1849, in county Down, Ireland. They
have two children, EVA A. and SAMUEL
E., and reside four and one-half miles
south of Loami. SARAH A. married
Wm. G. Miller. See his name. AMAN-
DA married James M. Joy, had two chil-
dren, WARREN, died in infancy, and
IDA E. lives with her parents in Loami
township. MARY E. and GEORGE
T. live with their parents, three and one-
half miles south of Loami.

SALLY A., born in 1821, in Indiana,
married in Sangamon county to Andrew
Hays, have eight children, and live in
Christian county, near Mowequa.

HENRY, Jun., born in 1823, in Indi-
ana, mnvried in Sangamon county to Erne-
line WyckofF, had six children, and Mrs.
Hall died. Mr. Hall married Margaret
.McNeely, had three children, and he died
in Loami township.

EMILY, born in 1828, in Indiana,
married in Sangamon county to James
Dobson. She died April 28, 1852.

Henry Hall died Dec. 24, 1846, and his
widow died Oct. 22, 1860, both in Loami
township.

HAGGARD, HARMON, was
bom July 13, i79°i near Bponesboro,
Clark county, Ky. Sally B. Steele was
born May 26, 1804, in the same county.
Their parents moved to Christian county,
in the same State, where they were mar-
ried, Nov. 25, 1822, and had two children
there. They moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, arriving in 1830, in what is now Gard-

ner township, where they had four child-
ren. Of their six children —

ELIZABETH,\)orn August 6, 1825,
married Daniel Whitehead, and died near
Joliet, leaving two children.

ZARELDA, born April 12, 1828, in
Christian county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, to William P. Hazlitt. See
his name.

ROBERT, born August 26, 1833,111
Sangamon county, married Elizabeth
Ray. See Ray family. She died, and
he married again and lives near Labette,
Kansas.

MARTIN, born Jan. 2, 1836, married
Catharine Tigar, who died, and he lives
near Labette, Kansas.

SALLY, born March 14, 1841, mar-
ried E. J. Robinson, and lives in Labette
county, Kansas.

HARMON, Jun., born May 12, 1846.

Mrs. Sally B. Haggard died Sept. 3,
1852, and Harmon Haggard married Mrs.
Sarah Humphrey, whose maiden name
was Worley. He died August 28, 1874,
near where he settled in 1830.

HAM, HEZEKIAH, was
born Oct. i, 1807, in Nicholas county,
near Carlisle, Ky. He came to Sanga-
mon county, 111., in the fall of 1831, and
was married Dec. 22, 1837, to Mary A.
Arnold. They had six living children in
Sangamon county, namely —

MARY J., married March 25, 1858,
to Henrv T. Zeigler.

JOSEPH C. enlisted in Co. G, i4th
111. Inf., in 1861, for three years. He was
mortally wounded at the battle of Pitts-
burg Landing, April 6, 1862, and died the
next day on the battlefield.

SARAH E., married James Steele,
has five children, and lives in Menard
county.

JOHN W., born Jan. 8, 1846. He
enlisted Dec. 15, 1863, in Co. G., U4th
111. Inf., for three years, served until
March 7, 1865, when he was discharged
on account of physical disability. He was
married August 29, 1867, to Rebecca
Yocom. They had two children.
CHARLES E. died in his third year.
WILLIAM T. lives with his mother,
two miles northwest of Dawson. John
Ham died in the spring of 1875.

WILLIAM T., born Dec. 5, 1847,
married Jan. 16, 1872, to Alice A. Smith.
They have one child, LEWIS, and live

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353

near Belle Plain, Sumner county, Kan-
sas.

LAURA F., born Dec. 17, 1852, mar-
ried John B. Jones, have one child,
HARRY, and live in Logan county,
near Buffalo Hart Postoffice.

Hezekiah Ham died April 21, 1859, in
Sangamon county, and his widow, Mrs.
Mary A. Ham, resides with her daughter,
Mrs. Jones.

HAM I LTON, GEORGE
K.NOX, was born August 17, 1798, in
Davidson county, Tenn. He came, in
company with his father, four brothers
and two sisters, to Sangamon county, ar-
riving in the fall of 1819, and settled near
what is now Bradford Station. He was
married March 5, 1823, to Jane Colman.
they had three children, namely —

ROBERT F., born Nov. 15, 1824, in
Sangamon county, married Oct. 28, 1847,
to Tabitha J. Purvines. They had ten
children; two died in infancy. FRAN-
CES A. married Abraham Weir. They
have two children, NELLIE T. and FRANK
MILTON, and reside one mile east of
Pleasant Plains. MARY J. married
Andrew Zane. See his name. MAR-
THA E. married Samuel Ayers. SYL-
VIA H.died April 3, 1876, in her twenty-
second year. CLARA M., WILLIAM
L., CORDIA A. and KATIE C. reside
with their parents, one and a quarter
miles northeast of Pleasant Plains. Mr.
Robert F. Hamilton has in his possession
documents showing that the Richland
Primitive Baptist Church was organized
Sept. 1 6, 1820, by Robert Brayle, moder-
ator, and Simon Lindley, clerk. It was
the second church of any kind organized
in Sangamon county; the first having
been effected May 15, 1820, by Elder
Stephen England. See his name.

MARTHA M., born March 28, 1827,
in Sangamon county, married Azro Eme-
ry, in Crawford county, Mo., had two
children, and died. Her husband and
children reside in Missouri.

GEORGE K., Jun., born April 11,
1829, after the death of his father, raised in
Sangamon county, married in Crawford
county, Mo., to Nancy Anderson. They
had three living children, and both died
in Cartwright township. Of the child-
ren— WILLIAM F. is a clerk in Spring-
field. ELLA J. and THEODOSIA B.
live with their grandmother Purvines,

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George Knox Hamilton died Oct. 14,
1828, in Sangamon county, and his widow
married Alexander C. Purvines. See his
name.

Robert Hamilton, the father of G. K.
Hamilton, was born in North Carolina,
married in Tennessee, moved to Pope
county, 111., and was one of the early rep-
resentatives of that county in the State
Legislature, came to Sangamon county in
1819, moved to Arkansas a few years
later, and died there in 1833 or '4. His
sons and daughters, all except Geo. Knox,
left Sangamon county many years ago.
Some went to Missouri, and three of them
from there to Oregon, where two of them
have families, and now reside.

HAMILTON, WILLIAM
S., born in New York — a son of Alex-
ander Hamilton, the distinguised States-
man who was slain by Aaron Burr — came
to Springfield when it was regarded as
the temporary county seat. He was
elected one of the representatives of the
county in the State Legislature of 1823-4.
He was an advocate of the movement to
make Sangamo the county seat. After
that he went to Galena and engaged in
lead mining. On the discovery of gold
in California, he went there, and died.

HAMLIN, HENRY N., was
born Jan. 30, 1816, in Oneida co'unty,
N. Y. He came to Sangamon county in
the Spring of 1837, to assist his uncle,
Asa Hamlin, who had a contract to build
several miles of the Northern Cross —
now T., W. & W. R. R. His uncle
died in the fall of that year, leaving his
contract unfinished. Henry N. had loaned
him all his savings from several years
school teaching. He not only lost that,
but his wages while he was with his uncle,
also. On realizing the situation, he went
to Morgan county, near Franklin, and re-
sumed his profession as a teacher. He
was there married, Dec. 30, 1838, to Eve-
line Scott. In March, 1839, they moved
to Sangamon county, in what is now
Chatham township. He engaged in
farming, and taught school in the winter.
In the spring of 1840 he returned to Mor-
gan county, and remained there until
1847, when he came back to Sangamon
county. They had five children —

MART ANTIONETTE,\>orn Oct.
3, 1839, in Sangamon county, married
Dec, 29, 1859, to James N. Puntenney.

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

They have five children, CHARLES
SUMNER, LIZZIE ETTA, MINNIE
ETHEL, SARAH EVELINE and a
daughter, and live near Butler, Mont-
gomery county, Illinois.

D WIGHT MONSON, born Oct. 23,
1843, *n Morgan county, enlisted at
Springfield, August, 1862, for three years,
in Co. D, 1 26th 111. Inf., served to the end
of the rebellion, and was honorably dis-
charged in 1865. He was married Jan.
23, 1872, to Anna Chambers, who was
born Dec. 6, 1850, near Madison, Ind.
They have two children, HENRY
NOBLE and CHARLES CARROLL,
and live in Springfield.

ERASTUS EMMONS, born July
9, 1845, in Morgan county, raised in San-
gamon county, and lives at Centralia,
Nemaha county, Kansas. — 1874.

FRANCIS Z., born June 8, 1848, in
Sangamon county, lives with his mother.

LAURA H., born April 10, 1851, in
Sangamon county, married Dec. 26, 1871,
to Samuel L. Ridgeway, and lives in
Atchis6n county, Mo.

Henry N. Hamlin died July 30, 1853,
in Sangamon county, and his widow re-
sides near the centre of Ball township,
four and a half miles southeast of Chat-
ham.

H. N. Hamlin was an ordained minis-
ter in the M. E. Church, but never entered
into the traveling connection. Emmaus
Hamlin, of Mason & Hamlin, Organ
Manufacturers, Boston, and W. Hamlin,
manufacturer of the George Wood organ,
at Cambridge, Mass., are brothers of
Henry N.

HAMMOND, CHARLES,
was born about 1767, in Virginia, near
where the river Rappahannock empties
into Chesapeake Bay. He was there
married to Nancy Carter, and had two
children. About I79S they moved to
Woodford county, Ky., where twelve
children were born. Their fourteen
children grew to be men and women.
Two died unmarried, and nine of them
married in Kentucky, and remained there.
One son moved to Sangamon county in
1825, and a son and daughter came with
the parents, arriving Sept. 26, 1839, in
Island Grove township. Of the three
children who came to this county —

JOHN, born in Woodford county,
Ky., married there to Nancy Smith, and

moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
about 1825 in what is now Island Grove
township, where they had four living chil-
dren. FLORINDA married William
Fink, and lives in Macoupin county. EM-
ILY married Wilson Moore, has one
child, and lives in New Berlin. LUCIN-
DA married Jacob Bartley, and lives in
Piatt county. JOHN A. -married Miss
Hudson, and lives in Piatt county. John
Hammond moved, in 1866, to the vicinity
of Cerro Gordo, Piatt county, 111.

EMIL Y, born in Kentucky, married
John Ryan, had one child, and Mr.
Ryan died in Dubuque, Iowa. His
widow married William Thorpe, and lives
at Kingston, Peona county, 111.

WILLIAM, born June i, 1816, in
Woodford county, Ky., married March 6,
1842, in Sangamon county, to Emeline
Underwood. They had three children —
ARTHUR C. enlisted, Aug. 9, 1861, in
Co. B, 3Oth 111. Inf., for three years, re-
enlisted as a veteran, Jan., 1864, served
until July 27, 1865, and was honorably
discharged at Springfield. He was musi-
cian during the whole time; was with
Sherman in his "March to the Sea." He
lives in Loami. MARY H. married Oct.
i, 1865, to James C. Thralls, who was
born Dec. i, 1843, in Vigo county, Ind.
He enlisted, in 1861, in Co. B, 2ist Mo.
Inf., for three months, enlisted Sept. i,
1 86 1, in Co. B, 3d Mo. Cav., for three
years, served until Feb., 1864, when he
was honorably discharged, at St. Louis.
Mr. and Mrs. Thralls have three children,
OWEN P., FRED c. and ARTHUR, and live
in Loami — 1874. William Hammond
and wife live in Loami — 1874.

Charles Hammond moved from Island
Grove to Jacksonville, 111., in March, 1843,
and died there, July 4, 1843. His widow
died Sept., 1845, at Island Grove.

HARBUR, LEVI, was born
Nov. 21, 1797, in Garrard county, Ky.
When he was a child his parents moved
to Christian county, in the same State.
He was there married, June 29, 1817, to
Eleanor Ashley, and moved to Madison
county, 111., in Sept. following, accom-
panied by his wife and his brother Samuel.
He left his brother in Madison county,
and with his wife went to the southern
part of Missouri, remaining one and a
half years, and had one child there. He
returned to Madison county, where Mrs,

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Eleanor Harbur died, Sept. 10, 1819.
Leaving his child in the care of a friend,
he came to what is now Sangamon coun-
tv, one and a quarter miles east of the town
of Loami. He went eighty miles to Ed-
wardsville, obtained a license, returned to
the San-ga-ma country, and was married
March 25, 1820, to Mary Sawyers. They
had ten living children in Sangamon
county. Of his children —

WILLIS, born April 24, 1818, in
Southern Missouri, was married in San-
gamon county to Elizabeth Darneille.
Thev have five children, and live in Scot-
land county, Mo.

By the second wife —

DELILAH, born March 9, 1821, mar-
ried Benjamin WyckofF, had one child,
and Mr. W. died, and she married Peter
Ellicott. Thev have two living children,
and live in Scotland county, Mo.

ELIZABE7^H, born Sept. 13, 1822,
married Joseph Farrer, who died, leaving
two children, and she married Lorenzo
Garner, had several children, and she died
near Warsaw, 111.

REBEC CA,\)orn April 2, 1825, mar-
ried Elza Boyer, had one child, and she
and her husband both died.

MART, born Jan. 8, 1827, married
Turner Underwood. See his name. He
died and she married Mr. Thompson, and
resides at Hamburg, Fremont county,
Iowa.

SAMUEL B., born Sept. 10, 1830,
married Lucinda Thurman. They have
seven children, and live in Greene coun-
ty, Mo. •

WILLIAM R., born Sept. 19, 1832,
married Elizabeth Fisher, have six child-
ren, and liv^ in Moultrie county, 111.

NANCT JANE, born Sept. 6, 1835,
married Robert Gray, had three children,
and Mr. Gray died, and the widow mar-
ried Miles Meacham, and lives in Warren
county, 111.

MARION D., born Sept. 21, 1842,
married Martha Meacham. She died,
leaving one child, and he married Sarah
Meacham. They haye one child, and
live in Warren county, 111.

SARAH A., born Feb. 16, 1845, mar'
ried Martin Landgrebe, have four child-
ren, and live in Moultrie county, 111.

LE VI ,!/., born August 5, 1848, lives
with his father. — 1873.

Mrs. Mary Harbur died Sept. 8, 1857,
and Levi Harbur was married Oct. i,
1861, to Frances Young. They have two
living children —

ELISHA T. and

ORA ELLEN, live with their par-
ents on the farm where Mr. H. settled in
1827. It is three miles south of New
Berlin.

Levi Harbur says that the snow of
1830-31 was three feet four inches on an
average, and that he resolved if it
ever went off, Illinois would not hold
him long. The snow went off, but he
did not. I have measured a stump near
where Mr. H. resides. It is white oak,
eight feet high and two feet in diameter
at the top. Mr. Harbur says he cut it not
more than two feet above the snow, so
that the snow must have been six feet
deep at that place, but that was drifted.
It will be seen that the two brothers spell
the family name differently ; each claim to
be right.

HARBOUR, SAMUEL, was
born Sept. 24, 1799* in Garrard county,
Ky., and was taken by his parents, in in-
fancy, to Christian county. In 1817 he
accompanied his brother Levi to Madison
county, 111., and from there he came to
what is now Chatham township, Sanga-
mon county, arriving Oct., 1819. He was
married March, 1823, to Elizabeth Briscoe.
They had one child —

ELIZABETH, born Jan. 26, 1824,
married James McBride. They had five
children, and she died, April 5, 1854, leav-
ing her family in Brown county, ill.

Mrs. Elizabeth Harbour died Feb.,
1824, and Samuel Harbour and Elizabeth
Lindley were married July 28, 1826.
They had nine children —

LEVI, born March 11, 1827, married
Jan. 27, 1847, to Cynthia Bilyeu. They
have ten children — ANNA married Sam-
uel Workman. See his name. SAM-
UEL married Mary Workman, have two
children, PETER and LEVI, and live in
Loami township. PETER married Sally
Workman, and live in Loami township.
MARY J. married John Brewer, have
one child, JESSE, and live in Chatham
township. NANCY married Jacob.
Workman, have one child, and live in
•Loami township. ELIZABETH, DI-
CEY, SALLY, LEVI, Jun., and JOHN

EARLY SETTLERS OP

W., reside with their parents, two miles
south of Loami.

WILLIS, born Oct. 17, 1828, married
Oct. 14, 1858, to Matilda L. White. They
have five living children, ELIZABETH,
JOHN W., MARTHA J., WILLIS,
Jun., and BENJAMIN F., and reside
five miles southwest of Chatham.

ANNA, born July 6, 1830, married
Jacob Workman. See his name.

ELISHA, born March 4, 1832, mar-
ried Manvilla Shelton. They had six
children, and Mrs. Harbour died, and he
married Tabitha Ribble, and lives in Ma-
coupin county.

JOSEPH, born Dec. 13, 1833, in
Sangamon county, married March 15,
1860, to Rachel L. White, who was born
Nov. 10, 1842, in Lafayette county, Wis^.
They had nine children, three of whom
died under three years of age. Of the
other six— EMMA J., RACHEL A.,
GEORGE B., MATILDA E.,
CHARLES M. and DAVID F., reside
with their parents, five miles west of
Chatham.

LAV IN A J., born Dec. n, 1835,
married Oct. 19, 1856, to Jasper Harbour.
Mr. H. died Nov. 25, 1869, in Barton
county, Mo., leaving a widow and three
children, who live in Chatham town-
ship.

NANCT D., born Feb. 26, 1839, lives
with her mother.

SAMUEL, Jun., born Dec. 10, 1841,
died Jan. 23, 1865.

Samuel Harbour died in 1874, and his
widow resides on the farm where they
settled, in 1829. It is five miles west of
Chatham.

HARDIN, ASA, born Nov. 22,
1785, in Adair county, Ky., was married
there, Feb. 4, 1813, to Elizabeth Taylor,
who was born Feb. 29, 1790, in Orange
county, Va. They had ten children in
Kentucky, and moved to Morgan county,
111., and two years later to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1832, at
Island Grove. Of their children —

JAMES T., born Dec. 3, 18:3, in
Adair county, Ky., came to Sangamon
county, with his parents, and was married
May i, 1843, in Iowa, to Mary A. Pitzer.
She died, leaving two children — OLI-
VIA died young. BEN is a teacher, and
lives with his uncle, William Stitt, in
Sangamon county. James T. Hardin

went to California, and was drowned by
the upsetting of a skiff on Feather river
Nov. 3, 1849.

NANCY y.y born April 29, 1815, in
Adair county, Ky., was married in Sanga-
mon county, 111., to George Crane. They
have five children, and live at F airfield,
Iowa.

SARAH P., born Nov. 25, 1816, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., Aug. 14, 1834, to Greenburv
Rucker. They had two children. MY-
RA married James Phillips. They have
two children, and live at Centre Ridge,
Woodson county, Kansas. MARY lives
with her uncle, William Stitt. Mr.
Rucker died in 1846, and Mrs. R. died in
1854; he in Morgan county, and she in
Sangamon county, 111.

STEPHEN, born March 25, 1818, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, Dec. 25, 1844, to Elizabeth C.
Parker. They had five children. ALICE
died, aged seventeen. VIRGINIA died
in her twentieth year. JULIETTE and
CLARA live with their uncle and aunt
Stitt. CHARLES is a member of Co.
G, ist United States Dragoons now —
1873 — and stationed in California.

MARY, born July 5, 1819, in Ken-
tucky, was married in Sangamon county
to John R. Reagor, who died, leaving
four children. Mrs. Mary Reagor mar-
ried M. D. Archibald. They had two
children, and she died in Iowa.

JOHN J., born Nov. 25, 1820, in
Adair county, Ky., was married in San-
gamon county, Sept. 12. 1855, to Mrs.
Frances C. Butler, whose maiden name
was Brown. They have one living child,
J. DICK. Mr. Hardin was 'elected city
assessor and collector of Springfield,
in 1864, elected clerk of Sangamon
county, in Nov., 1873, and resides in
Springfield.

E VAN T., born Dec. 23, 1822, in
Kentucky, brought up in Sangamon
county, was married there Jan. 29, 1852,
to Leutha A. Boynton. They have seven
children. Evan T. Hardin and family
live near Calhoun, Harrison county,
Iowa.

ELIZABEJ^H, born Sept 5, 1824,
in Adair county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county, 111., to William Stitt.
See his name.

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WILLIAM, born Nov. 25, 1827, in
Kentucky, was brought up in Sangamon
county, 111., and enlisted in June, 1846, in
Co. A, of the 4th 111. Inf., under Col. E.
D. Baker, and died in Mexico, Oct. 30,
1846.

ALBERT, born Sept. 17, 1830, in

Adair county, Ky., brought up in Sanga-

mon county, enlisted in 186-, in Co. C,

- 111. Inf., for three years, and died at

Howling Green, Ky.

Asa Harding died Aug. 22, 1847, an(^
Mrs. Elizabeth Harding died Feb., 1854,
both in Sangamon county, 111.

HARMON, MRS. CATHA-
RINE^ whose maiden name was Sears,
was born about 1755, in North Carolina.
She was married to George W. Harmon,
and had three children in North Carolina.
They moved to Simpson county, Ky.,
where they had six children. Mr. Har-
mon died there about 1825. Mrs. Har-
mon, with eight of her children, moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the
fall of 1827, in Island Grove. One of her
children married in Kentucky and came
later.

A DAM, born in 1780, in North Caro-
lina, came to Sangamon county in 1847 or
'8, and married Mrs. Polly Weaver, whose
maiden name was Donner, daughter of
George Donner. See his name. They
had two children, and he died in 1853.
His family moved to the vicinity of Fair-
field, Iowa.

JACOB, born in North Carolina,
married in Kentucky, to Esther Imler,
came to Sangamon county, had three
sons, and moved to Fairfield, Iowa,
where Mr. H. died. His sons went to
Lone Tree, Oregon, and reside there.

FRANCES, born in North Carolina,
married in Kentucky to David Charlock,
came to Sangamon county in 1827, and
had four children. Their eldest and
youngest sons went to Mason county, and
died there. ABSOLOM P., born Jan. i,
1829, in Sangamon county, married Jane
Foster, have eight children, MARY F.,

JOHN W., SARAH L., ROXANA, MARIA,

MARTHA, MINNIE and ROSABEL, and live
near Berlin. Absolom P. Charlock en-
listed Aug., 1862, in Co. A., io6th 111.
Inf., for three years, served full term, and
was honorably discharged. ELIZA-
BETH, born April, 1830, married James
Walker, and lives in Berlin. David Char-

lock died in 1842, and his widow resides in
Berlin. — 1875.

MAR T, born in Kentucky, married in
Island Grove to Jacob Sears, and she died
in 1849, *n Sangamon county. He went,
in 1855, to Missouri, and was then nearly
one hundred years old.

ABSOLOM S., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth
Donner, daughter of George Donner.
They had eight children in Sangamon
county, and Mrs. H. died May 16, 1850.
The family moved to Libertyville, Iowa,
where Mr. Harmon died, April, 1871.

CELIA, born Sept., 1818, in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to John
Foutch, Sen. See his name.

HENRT M., born May 4, 1805, in
Simpson county, Ky., married Dec. u,
1828, in Island Grove, to Mary A. Foutch.
They had eight living children in Sanga-
mon county. CAROLINE, born Dec.
20, 1829, married June 4, 1852, to Joel
Ellis. See his name. GEORGE W.,
born Oct. n, 1831, married Dec. 30, 1858,
to Nannie H. Taylor, who died Sept. 23,

1860. He enlisted August, 1862, in Co.
A., io6th 111. Inf., for three years, was
commissioned ist Lieutenant at the organ-
ization of the company, promoted to Cap-
tain, April, 1863, anc^ resigned in Oct.,
1864, after which he spent four years in
the gold diggings of Montana. He was
married Dec. 31, 1871, to Mrs. Almira E.
J. Melvin, whose maiden name was James.
She was born Jan. 29, 1842, in Rock-
bridge county, Va. G. W. Harmon and
wife reside in Berlin. CATHARINE,
born Dec. 27, 1833, married Dec. 25,
1866, to John W. Bucher, have four child-
ren, and live in Island Grove. JOHN
W., born Dec. 23, 1835, married March
23, 1862, to Isadora Montague. They
have three children, and live near River-
ton, Fremont county, Iowa. THOMAS
W., born March 14, 1838, enlisted Aug.,

1 86 1, in Co. D, 26th 111. Inf., for three
years, was wounded at Mission Ridge in

1863, and died from its effects, May 16,

1864, at Camp Butler. NANCY" A.,
born Dec. 26, 1840, married Dec. 25, 1860,
to Anthony A. Rhodes, had one child,
and she died Dec. 14, 1868. HENRY
H., born Nov. i, 1844, married Dec. 26,
1870, to Millie Garrard, have one child,
and live at Marysville, Kan. FRANK-
LIN P., born Nov. 21, 1852, lives with

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EA RL T SE 7 TLERS OF

his mother. Henry M. Harmon died
August i, 1871, and his widow resides in
Berlin.

MARGARET, born in Kentucky,
married to Govert Fleharty. They have
five children, and live near Oxford, Henry
county, 111.

CATHARINE, born in Kentucky,
married David Weger. They had five
children; two died. She resides in Iowa.

Mrs. Catharine Harmon moved to Iowa
in 1854, and died near Liberty ville, Jeff-
erson county, in the summer of 1860,
aged about one hundred and five years.

HARNSBERGER, JACOB,
was born in 1781, in Rockingham county,
Va., and was there married to Catharine
Harnsberger. They had two children in
Virginia, and moved to Clarke county,
Ohio, where seven children were born,
and from there to Clinton county, Ind.,
where one child was born, and Mrs.
Harnsberger and one child died there.
The eldest son went to Wisconsin, mar-
ried, had one child, and died there. Two
sons and thi-ee daughters remained in
Indiana. Mr. Harnsberger and three
sons came to Sangamon county, arriving
Aug. 29, 1839, in what is now Cartwright
township. Of the three sons —

HENRT M., born Feb. 2, 1823, in
Clarke county, Ohio, married Feb. 18,
1846, in Sangamon county, to Melinda A.
Harrison. They had four children —
JOHN J. married Nancy C. Campbell,
has one child, CARRIE, and lives in Men-
ard county, near Pleasant Plains. G.
LEONARD, S. AMANDA C. and M.
A. VIRGINIA, live with their parents.
Henry M. Harnsberger and wife reside
three and one-half miles northeast of
Pleasant Plains — 1873.

GEORGE G., born in 1825, in Ohio,
and married Mary Scott. They have four
living children, and 1'eside six miles north-
east of Decatur.

JACOB S., born in 1829, married
Sarah Starr, have three children, and re-
side near Tionus, Bibb county, Ala.

Jacob Harnsberger died Sept., 1847, 'n
Montgomery county, Ala.

HARRISON, EKEKIEL,
was born Oct. 6, 1752, in Rockingham
county, Va. Sarah Bryan was born July
31, 1753, in the same county. They were
there married in 1775, and had nine chil-
dren in Virginia. The family emigrated,

about 1816, to Christian county, near
Hopkinsville, Ky. Mr. H., with his wife,
three spns and one daughter, moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving Nov. 4,
1822, north of Richland creek, in what is
now Cartwright township. Of the four
children —

JESSE, born May 24, 1777, married
in Virginia to Rachel Harrison, moved
to Christian county, Ky., and from there
to Sangamon county, and after a stay of
but two years, moved to Missouri. , His
first wife died in Missouri. He married
again, had five children, and died on the
evening of Dec. 31, 1872, at Mexico,
Audrain countv, Mo.

REUBEN, born June 12, 1779, in
Rockingham county, Va., married there,
May 1 6, 1804, to Parthenia Harrison.
She had one child, and died in Virginia.
Mr. H. was married Nov. 29, 1810, to
Barbara A. Harnsberger. They had
three children, and moved, in 1818, to
Christian county, Ky., where one child
was born, and came to Sangamon county,
111., in company with his father, arriving
Nov. 4, 1822, on Richland creek. Of his
five children: LEONARD C., the only
child by the first wife, was born Feb. 4,
1805, in Virginia, entered the ministry in
the M. E. Church at eighteen years of
age, was married in South Carolina,
moved to Summerfield, Alabama, and
died there, in 1867, leaving a widow and
eight children. Of the children by the
second wife, GEORGE M., born March
20, 1813, in Virginia, came to Sangamon
county with his parents in 1822. He
studied medicine in Springfield under Dr.
Jacob M. Early, rode on horseback to
Virginia, sold his horse there and went
by stage to Philadelphia, and graduated
in April, 1840, at Rush Medical College.
He was the second graduate in any medi-
cal college, from Sangamon county, Dow
Matheny being the first. Dr. George M.
Harrison was married May 28, 1840, near
Harrisburg, Rockingham county, Va., to
Maria B. C. J. Houston. They came at
once to Sangamon county, and he engaged
in practice on Richland creek, where they
had three living children, namely: ANN
AMANTHA, born August 13, 1841, in San-
gamon county, 111., was married June 7,
1866, in Virginia, to Frank W. Elliott.
They have three children, Irene H.,
Charles E. and William H., and livejn

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Cartwright township. REUBEN n., born
Nov. 9, 1842, in Sangamon county, en-
listed in 1862, for three years, in the H4th
Reg. 111. Inf., served full time, and was
honorably discharged in 1865. He was
married in the spring of 1875, in Nebras-
ka, to Mary J. Hendrickson, and resides
on land received for his services in the
army, situated near York Center, York
county, Nebraska. SARAH B. c., born
May 8, 1844, married Thomas Cummings.
See his name. Mrs. B. C. J. Harrison,
died Jan. n, 1845, an^ Dr. "• M. Harri-
son was married Nov. 25, 1847, *° Mary
A. Megredy. They had nine living chil-
dren: EMMA E., born April 27, 1849,
was married March 28, 1872, in Sanga-
mon county, to Philip Oscar Hodgen, who
was born Nov. 19, 1845, near Burlington,
Iowa. They have two children, William
O. and Clara J/., and reside in Peters-
burg, Menard county. 111. M. JENNIE,
born May 22, 1850, was married Dec. 26,
1872,10 George S. Beekman. They have
one child, Harry ^., a/id live in Tallula,
Menard county, 111. JULIA s. was mar-
ried Jan. i, 1874, in Sangamon county, to
William E. Beekman. They had one
child, Edward ^., and Mrs. Julia S.
Beekman died June 18, 1875. ABBIE,

MELINDA, JOHN E., WILLIAM H., MARY B.

and HENRIETTA live with their mother.
Dr. George M. Harrison died Sept. i,
1873. He had been to the house of a
neighbor on business, and was returning
late in the evening. His horse arriving
at home without a rider, search was in-
stituted, and his body found at the cross-
ing of a sharp ravine, where it was
thought the horse had tripped arid thrown
him over its head. His widow resides on
the farm where he commenced practice
in 1840. It is north of Richland creek,
and two and a half miles west of Salis-
bury. JOHN H., born April 6, 1815,
in Rockbridge county, Va., raised in San-
gamon county, and married in Menard
county, May 17, 1843, *° Sarah A. Con-
over, who was born March 15, 1825, near
Princeton, N. J. They had eight living
children. PARTHENIA E. F., died Feb. 2,
1862, in her seventeenth year. CHARLES
H. lives in Kansas. SUE, SAM. H., GEORGE
R., HOAT and v ANNIE live with their pa-
rents. John H. Harrison resides on the
farm where his grandfather Harrison set-
tled in 1822. From that to the present

time (1873) his home has been on the
same spot, included within an area of four
rods square. SARAH U., born Dec. 20,
1817, in Kentucky, married Feb. 14, 1849,
to Daniel Megredy, and died July 4, 1849,
less than five months after marriage.
MELINDA A., born March 20, 1820, in
Christian county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Henry M. Harnsberger. Sec
his name. Mrs. Barbara A. H. died Aug.
23, 1842, in Sangamon county, and her
husband, Reuben Harrison died May 3,
1852, at Summerfield, near Selma, Ala-
bama.

EZEKIEL B., born July 19, 1786, in
Virginia, married Ann Bell. They had
six children in Kentucky. One, a twin,
died when they were moving to Illinois,
and they had four children in Sangamon
county. Their son, MILTON B., mar-
ried Mrs. Martha Sutton, whose maiden
name was Hunter. They have one child,
MARTHA H. AN ABEL, and reside in Peters-
burg. LUCINDA P. married Enoch
Megredy. See his name. Mrs. Ann H.
died, and Ezekiel B. Harrison married
Elizabeth Stewart, and he died in June,
1851, at Petei'sburg.

LUCINDA B., born March 13, 1792,
in Virginia, married in Sangamon county
to Rev. Theophilus Sweet. See his
name. She died August 20, 1873, at the
house of her nephew, J. H. Harrison.

Ezekiel Harrison died about 183^, and
Mrs. Sarah Harrison died June 6, 1845,
both in Sangamon county.

HARRISON, FIELDING,
was born about 1777, in Rockingham
county, Va. Anna Quinn was born
about 1779* m Culpepper county, Va.
They were married in Culpepper, and
made their home in Rockingham county,
until they had one child. They moved
about 1805 to Christian county, Ky.,
where they had five children, and from
there moved to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving Nov. 1822, at the north side of
Richland creek, in what is now Salisbury
township. Of their six children —

PEYTON L., born Sept. 7, 1804, in
Rockingham county, Va., married Nov.
13, 1827, in St. Louis, Mo., to Eliza B.
Cartwright, both of Sangamon county.
They had nine children .in Sangamon
-county. FRANCES A., born Nov. 27,
1828, married William H. Purvines. See
his name. WEALTHY M.J., married

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Nathan S. Purvines. See his name.
SARAH M. married, Feb. 22, 1854, to
Amos Ely, a native of Philadelphia.
They had two children. HARRY died,
aged six years. ALBERT lives with his
parents in Chicago. P. QUINN, born
May 20, 1837, married June 4, 1867, to
Emeline L. Lamothe, who was born Dec.
12, 1843, in Alton. They have one child,
LUELLA, and live two miles east of Pleas-
ant Plains. CATHARINE married
William P. Crafton. See his name.
PETER L. married Elizabeth F. Cart-
wright. They have two children, and
live near Pleasant Plains. EMILY W.
married Benjamin Berry, of Morgan
county, 111. They have one child, WIL-
LIAM PEYTON, and live at Pleasant
Plains. CAROLINE A. married Josiah
W. Owen, and live five miles west of
Pleasant Plains. VICTORIA M. mar-
ried Dr. James T. Logan. They have
one child, EVA MAY, and live at Tolona,
111. Peyton L. Harrison remembers see-
ing sixteen hundred Pottawattomie In-
dians camped about one mile north of
where he now lives. They were about
leaving the country, in the winter of 1823
or '4. While the Indian.s were there he
fired into a herd of deer and killed one.
Some of the Indians saw him, and he
feared they would take his .game, but his
fears were soon dispelled by their express-
ing admiration for the young hunter, in
saying boy ! boy ! then pointing to the deer
they said, buck! buck! Pevton L. Harri-
son and wife reside one mile west of
Pleasant Plains.

JOHN F., born Feb. 5, 1807, in
Christian county, Ky. — the day was long
known as the cold Friday — He married
Parthenia Harrison (a sister to Milton B.
Harrison of Petersbui'g.) They had six
children, and live in Petersburg.

PEACHY A., born Nov. 19, 1809, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Robert Harrison. They had nine chil-
dren. Of their children— FIELDING
T. lives in Alton. CASTLE R. lives in
Jacksonville. JOHN H. lives in Taylor-
ville, 111. SIMEON B lives at Morrison-
ville, 111. JAMES married and lives in
Kansas. Robert Harrison died in 1855 or
'6, and Mrs. Peachy A. Harrison died in
1866, both in Alton.

MART E., born June 5, 1811, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to

Irwin Randall. They have seven child-
ren, and live in Edwardsville.

SIMEON j^., born Sept. 27, 1816, in
that part of Christian which is now Trigg
county, Ky., married in S'angamon coun-
ty to Mary A. Renshaw. They had five
living children. ROBERT P. married
Almeda J. Bone. ANNIE Q., born
May 26, 1848, married, Jan. 19, 1870, to
Dr. Joseph B. Cloud (son of Rev. New-
ton Cloud, of Jacksonville, Illinois.)
He died Dec. 31, 1872, in Pleasant Plains.
Mrs. Cloud lives with her father — 1873 —
JENNIE E., born Dec. 19, 1850, married
Dec. 24, 1868, to Frank Cassell. They
have one child, s. QUINN, and live in Pe-
kin. Mr. Cassell is a practicing lawyer.
MARY R., IDA V. and SUE A., reside
with their parents, two miles northeast of
Richland station, Sangamon county.

MARTHA J., born Jan. 31, 1820, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to James Harrison. They had four child-
ren. James Harrison died July 8, 1873,
near Shullsburg, Wis., and his widow re-
sides there. Their son, Dr. W. H. Harri-
son, lives at Warren, 111. — 1873.

Fielding Harrison died June n, 1829,
and his widow died Aug., 1835, he in
Sangamon county, and she in Alton,
Illinois.

HARROWER, WILLIAM,
born Aug. 20, 1808, in Stirling, Scotland.
In 1833 he came to New York city, and
returned to Scotland in about three years,
and came back in company with a number
of Scotch people ; his future wife being of
the party. He was married, May 9, 1838,
in New York city, by Dr. Brownlee, to
Janette Blacklock, who was born June 18,
1809, in Lockerbie, Scotland. They at
once moved to Springfield, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1838, where they had four
children.

DA VI D W., born Sept. 29, 1839, lives
with his mother.

JAMES, born Jan. 22, 1841, died
March 6, 1871, in Springfield, 111.

A GNESy born June 2, 1842, in Spring-
field, was married Oct. 12, 1864, to James
B. Smith, son of Rev. James Smith, D.
D. J. B. Smith was born June 3, 1840,
in Nashville, Tenn, graduated at Cincin-
nati Medical College, in 1865, and prac-
ticed medicine in Cerro Gordo and Daw-
son, 111. Dr. J. B. Smith and wife had
four children, BRAINARD HAR-

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ROWER, NETTIE E., ANNIE F.,
and JAMES B. L. Dr. J. B. Smith died
Dec. 30, 1869, in Springfield. Mrs. Agnes
Smith and children reside with her mother.

ANN JANET., born July 17, 1844,
died June 7, 1851, in Springfield, 111.

William Harrower died July 27, 1869,
in Springfield. His widow resides on
eas,t Monroe street, Springfield, 111. Mr.
Harrower was a stone mason, and worked
on the Capitol which he found in course
of construction by the State of Illinois.
He completed it by building the porticos.
He was an earnest, consistent member of
the Presbyterian church, and as such won
the esteem of the community generally.
He served several years as a member of
the city council of Springfield.

HARGIS, THOMAS, was born
in 1775? in West Virginia, and was
married there about 1800 to Susan Riley.
She was born in 1782. They had two
children in Virginia, and moved to Cum-
berland county, Ky., where they had
eight children, and then moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving in the fall of
1830 in what is now Fancy creek town-
ship. Of their ten children —

NANCY married James McDaniel,
and died, leaving four children, who live
with their father at West Point, Iowa.

ELIZABETH married Spencer
Stone, had nine children, and Mr. S. died.
Two of their children— JEFFERSON
married Sarah Moran, and lives one
mile east of Athens. SARAH married
James B. Glascock. See his name. Mrs.
Stone lives at Wapella, 111.

JOHN C. died in Kentucky, at twenty-
five years old.

SARAH married Jeremiah Dooley,
moved to Galena, and she died, leaving
three children there.

DORCAS married Jefferson Smith,
moved to Wisconsin and died, leaving two
children there.

WILLIAM married Nancy Strode.
They had nine children, and moved to
Doniphan county, Kan., in 1857, and he
died there, One son, THOMAS J., was
living in Sangamon county in 1862, and
enlisted in Co. K, n5th 111. Inf., for three
years. He was wounded at the battle of
Chicamauga, and discharged on account
of physical disability. He was married,
while a soldier, to Harriet Judd, and re-
sides three miles east of Springfield. The
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family of William Hargis live near Troy,
Kansas.

THOMAS married Druzilla Shepherd.
He died, leaving a widow and four child-
ren, in Fulton county, 111.

AL VA W. was killed in Kentucky by
a cotton gin, at seven years of age.

MINER VA J. married John Smith,
have nine children, and live in Fulton
county, 111.

AMANDA married Alonzo McCauley,
have five children, and live in Fulton
county.

SUSAN B. married James B. Strode.
See his name.

Thomas Hargis established a pottery
soon after he came into the county. He
was a local preacher in the M. E. church
in Kentucky, and joined the traveling
connection in Illinois. He was in charge
of a circuit at the time of his death, which
took place in Fulton county in June, 1850.
His widow died there in 1860.

HARPER, JAMES, was born
Jan. 3, 1801, in Tennessee. He was mar-
mied there to Elizabeth Cochran, who
was born Oct. 7, 1801. They had five
children in Tennessee, and moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving June 10, 1831,
where they had three children. Of their
children —

LOUISA, born Sept. 29, 1821, in Ten-
nessee, was married in Sangamon county
to Allison Lucas.

MARTHA, born May 15, 1823, in
Tennessee, and died in Sangamon county,
Illinois.

WILLIAM, born Oct. i, 1825, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county
to Lucretia Penick, and live in Christian
county, 111.

LAFAYETTE, born Aug. 9, 1827,
in Tennessee, raised in Sangamon county,
was a soldier, from Galena, in the Mexi-
can war, married, Sept. 18, 1847, to Mar-
tha J. Smith, have eight children, and live
near Osage Mission, Kansas.

ELIZABETH J., born March 10,
1831, in Tennessee, married in Sangamon
county to Zacharia Burtle. See his
name.

MELINDA, born April 17, 1833, in
Sangamon county, married Thomas O.
Gatton. See his natne.

FRANCIS M., born July 16, 1835, in
Sangamon county, married Bell Deboe,

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and live in Cotton Hill township, Post-
office, Pawnee.

MART E., born April 16, 1839, in
Sangamon county, married Josephus Gat-
ton, Jun. See his name.

James and Elizabeth Harper both died
in Sangamon county, and were buried at
St. Bernard Catholic church.

HARLAN, JpHN C., was born
April 18, 1815, in Cecil county, Md.; came
to what is now Ball township, Sangamon
county, April 2, 1839. He remained one
year, returned to Maryland, came to San-
gamon county the second time, traveling
all the way in a wagon, and most of the
time alone. He was married in Ball
township, east of Chatham, July n, 1843,
to Lydia A. White, who was born Sept. 3,
1825. They moved to the vicinity of
Waverly, Morgan county, and had nine
living children there. Of their childi-en —

LOUIS E., born April 13, 1844, mar-
ried Dec. 25, 1872, in Shelby county, 111.,
to Susan Humphreys, and resides near
Buckley, 111.

JOHN C. and WILLIAM P., twins,
born Jan. 2, 1848, reside with their pa-
rents.

JOANNA, born Oct. 21, 1850, mar-
ried William R. Megredy, Oct. 8, 1872.
See his name.

SARAH A., born Sept. 24, 1852,
GEORGE F., born Sept. 20, 1856,
CHARLES O., born Sept. 17, 1858,
MART L., born March n, 1861, and
ELMER E., born July n, 1863, all re-
side with their parents.

John C. Harlan moved in March, 1868,
to the vicinity of Buckley, Iroquois coun-
ty, 111., and now — 1876 — resides there.

HARLAN, SILAS, was born
Jan. 5, 1781, in Berkley county, Va. He
went to Christian county, Ky., and came
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1827.
He entered about one thousand acres of
land, and improved a farm, three and a
half miles south of Chatham. Elizabeth
Messick was born March 26, 1809, in
Rockingham county, Va., and her father
moved the next year to Christian county,
Ky. In 1827 Elizabeth came to Sanga-
mon county with the family of John
French. Silas Harlan and Elizabeth
Messick were married Sept. 10, 1829, and
had nine children in Chatham township,
some of whom died young. Of their
children —

GEORGE W., born in 1830, died un-
married in 1860.

MAR T J. married Hugh Aldrich, and
died in 1863, leaving four children.

SARAH E. married Francis M. Cook,
and lives near the old homestead.

SILAS, Jun., died in 1860, aged
twenty-three years.

RA CHEL, born in 1839, in Sangamon
county, and married James Irwin. He
enlisted July, 1862, for three years, in the
Springfield Light Artillery, was pro-
moted, June 28, 1864, to Second Lieuten-
ant; and Oct. 4, 1864, to First Lieutenant.
He served until the end of the rebellion,
and was mustered out with the battery at
Springfield, 111., June 30, 1865. Mr. Ir-
win is a farmer, and resides three miles
south of Chatham.

Silas Harlan died Nov. 9, 1844, and his
widow married Sept. 8, 1846, to George
Roberts, who was born Oct. 2, 1818, in
Jefferson county, N. Y. They had six
children in Sangamon county, namely —

ERASTUS enlisted in 1861 in Co. B,
loth 111. Cav., was wounded at the battle
of Little Rock, Ark., Sept. 10, 1863, came
home and died Dec. I, 1863.

NORA, born Aug. 2, 1849, married in
1866 to William H. Beardon, and lives in
Chatham township.

MINER VA C. married Asa Brewer,
and lives in Loami township.

George Roberts enlisted Sept. 21, 1861,
for three years, in Co. B, loth 111. Cav.,
re-enlisted as a veteran Jan. i, 1864, and
was honorably discharged with the regi-
ment at San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 22,
1865. He was appointed train master
April I, 1862, and was company farrier
during the whole term of his second en-
listment. Mr. Roberts resides three miles
south of Chatham.

HARRIS, JOB F., was born
Sept. 19, 1798, in Rockbridge county, Va.,
and was taken by his parents to Barren
county, Ky., in 1806. He was apprenticed
to learn the business of cabinet making,
and moved to St. Louis, in 1816. Busi-
ness being dull, his master released him,
and he spent some time on the lower
Mississippi, and went from New Orleans
to the Rocky mountains, with a company
of trappers, returning in the fall of 1818.
In the fall of 1822 he came to Sangamon
county, in what is now Ball township. In
1827 he enlisted in a Sangamon county

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company to fight the Winnebago Indians,
but the campaign ended without fighting.
Job F. Harris was married, May 24, 1844,
to Mrs. Mary Phillips. They had two
children —

ELIZABETH B. and JOHN M.

Mr. Harris died July 29, 1866. His
widow and children live two and a half
miles northeast of Auburn.

Mr. Harris voted for Abraham Lincoln
every time he was a candidate for any office,
from Captain of a military company to
President of the United States for the
second time.

HARVEY, ABNER, was born
April 13, 1804, in Adair county, Ky.
Eliza A. Davis was born May 9, 1809, in
Kentucky. They were married, had
one child in Kentucky, and moved to
what is now Irish Grove, Menard county,
and from there to what is now Gardner
township, Sangamon county, arriving in
the spring of 1831, where five children
were born. Of all their children —

THERESA, born July 18, 1829, in
Kentucky, died in Sangamon county,
aged twenty-two years.

JOHN F., born Dec. 10, 1831, in San-
gamon county, married at Irish Grove,
Nov. n, 1857, to Lydia J. Stone, who
was born there, July 25, 1835. They have
five living children: MAUD O., HAL-
LECK, AGNES, WILLIE and CORA,
and reside in Urbana, Illinois.

ALFRED C., born Jan. 7, 1834, died
aged seventeen years.

ELIZABETH J., born Oct. 15,
1835, in Sangamon county, married Dec.
19, 1856, to Sylvester M. Bailey, who
was born Oct. 19, 1834, in Fairfield coun-
ty, Ohio. They had seven children.
MARION E. died in his second year.
EVA MAY died in her ninth year.
WALTER H., THERESA A., WIL-
LIAM A., SARAH L. and MAUD E.
The five latter reside with their parents.
S. M. Bailey enlisted August, 1862, for
three years, in Co. K, ii5th 111. Inf.,
was commissioned ist Lieutenant at the
organization of the company, and acted
as Captain, but never was mustered, as he
was soon after wounded at the battle of
Chickamauga, Sept. 20, 1863, while in
command of his company. He has since
served three years as a member of the
Sangamon county Board of Supervisors

for Salisbury township, and now resides
near Sylvandale, Labette county, Kansas.

OLIVER G., born July 20, 1838, in
Sangamon county, married Josephine
Reeves. They have three children,
LILLIAN, FRANKLIN C. and PAUL
CLIFFORD, and reside at Cantrall,
Sangamon county.

MAR Y, born August 30, 1 840, and
died aged two years.

Abner Harvey died about 1840, and
his widow died soon after, both in San-
gamon county.

HARVEY, WILLIAM, was
born in Harrisburg, Pa., and when a young
man went to Washington county, Md.
He was there married, in 1 829, to Eliza
Rice, who was born Nov. 9, 1804, in
Chambersburg, Pa. They had three chil-
dren in Maryland, and came to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in Nov., 1835, at
Springfield, where they had two children.
Of their five children —

CHARLES C., born June, 1831, in
Maryland, raised in Springfield, went to
California, in 1849, and died there in

i853.

MART J., born April n, 1833, in

Williamsport, Washington county, Md.,
married in Springfield, March 9, 1853, to
William Stadden, who was born March
9, 1826, in Licking county, Ohio. They
had six living children. CLARA M.
died, aged seven years. WILLIAM H.
and RICHARD M. live near Sanford,
Orange county, Fla., engaged in the culti-
vation of oranges and lemons. GEORGE
B., EDWIN L. and EVA DELL, live
with their mother. William Stadden died
Oct. 23, 1873, and his widow resides in
Springfield.

Mr. Stadden was for twenty-five years
connected with the Auditor's department
of the State of Illinois. After that he
was for several years Superintendent of
Insurance, and died in office.

WILLIAM R., born Oct., 1835, in
Williamsport, Md., and raised in Spring-
field. At the beginning of the rebellion
he was in New Mexico, went with a fron-
tier regiment of the Union army, and was
never heard of after.

SAMUEL S., born Oct., 1837, in
Springfield, and raised there. He was
married at Montgomery, Alabama, and
resides at Pensucola, Florida.

EARLY SETTLERS OF

MARIA L., born Oct. 13, 1839, in
Springfield, married William F. Elkin,
Jun. See his name.

William Harvey was elected Sheriff of
Sangamon county, in 1846, serving one
term. He died Sept., 1854, and Mrs.
Eliza Harvey died Sept., 1870, both in
Springfield.

HATHAWAY, WESLEY,
was born Dec. 2, 1814, in Boone county,
Ky. His parents moved to Montgomery
county when he was about twelve years
old. He came to Illinois in May, 1831,
first stopping at Jacksonville. Mr. Hath-
away returned to Kentucky in 1832, and
remained two years at Sharpsburg and
Mt. Sterling as a clerk. He came back
to Morgan county, 111., in 1834, and in
1835 went to the Job settlement in Mc-
Donough county, and engaged in mer-
chandising as a partner of Dr. George B.
Rogers, with whom he came to the State
in 1831. He closed his business there, and
came to Mechanicsburg, Sangamon coun-
ty, in 1838, and first engaged in teaching.
A year or two later he commenced mer-
chandising with B. Logan Hall. Wesley
Hathaway and Mary M. Hall were mar-
ried Sept. 1 8, 1845, *n Sangamon county,
where they had seven children, namely —

ALICE 0., born Dec. 30, 1847, mar-
ried May 9, 1872, to Joseph H. Grubb,
who was born Nov. 21, 1848, in Perry
county, Pa. He enlisted at Springfield
for one year, March 2, 1865, in Co. I,
H4th 111. Inf., served in that regiment
until it was mustered out in July, 1865,
when he was transferred to Co. D, 58th
111. Inf., served full term, and was honor-
ably discharged March 2, 1866. Mr. and
Mrs. Grubb live at Illiopolis.

JULIET, born Aug. 22, 1849, died in
her sixth year.

WALTER A., LUELLA B.,
DAVID Z., MART AUGUSTUS
and ANNA MA T, live with their parents
in Buffalo, Sangamon county, 111. Mr.
Hathaway is a merchant there.

HATLER, JAMES, was born
March 23, 1800, probably in Tennessee,
and taken by his parents to Allen county,
Ky. He was there married to Nancy
Dean, Jan. 30, 1823. She was born in that
county. They had five children, and came
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the
fall of 1834, in what is now Cotton Hill
township. The next year three members

of the family died, including both parents,
namely : Mrs. Nancy Hatler died July 9,
1835; their daughter, Rebecca, died July
14, aged eleven years; and James Hatler
died Sept. 4, 1835. That broke up the
family, and the four children were taken
to Greene county, and raised by their
grandfather and uncle. Of the children —

GRANVILLE, born Sept. 14, 1825,
in Allen county, Ky., married Oct. 22,
1846, in Greene county, 111, to Sarah Fin-
ley, who was- born in that county, Nov.
17, 1828. They have nine children; one
born in Greene county, and eight in San •
gamon, namely : JAMES H., born Jan.
17, 1848, in Greene county, married, Nov.
ID, 1871, to Salome Bomhoff, who was
born in Sangamon county, Nov. 30, 1851.
They reside in Cotton Hill township.
The third child, NANCY J., born Oct.
22, 1851, married Silvan Williams. See
his name. The other seven children,
LEWIS J., JOHN H., MARY E.,
ROSA M., EMMA J., EFFIE and
RUFUS CARROLL, live with their
parents, in Cotton Hill township. Gran-
ville Hatler owns and lives on the farm
purchased by his father on coming to the
county in 1834.

GILBERT, born Jan. 20, 1828, in
Allen county, Ky., married in Greene
county, 111., to Delilah Finley. He died
April 13, 1872, leaving a widow and five
children— SARAH J., JOSEPHINE,
NANCY E., ALBERT and DAISEY.
The family live in Cotton Hill town-
ship.

LUC 2ND A y., born April 14, 1830,
married Fletcher Haines. See his name.

FRANCIS M., born Feb. 28, 1833,
in Allen county, Ky., married in Greene
county, 111., to Sarah Overbey, have three
children, and reside near Athensville,
Greene county, 111.

HAWLEY, ELIPHALET,
was born Dec. 17, 1782, either in New
York or one of the New England States.
He was married Aug. 24, 1815, in Albany,
N. Y., to Elizabeth McMurdy, who was
born there Feb. 26, 1 797, of Scotch ances-
tors. Mr. and Mrs. Hawley had two
living children in Albany. In September,
1821, they left for the west, the family
traveling in a carnage, and hauling their
household goods in wagons. When they
arrived at Olean Point, on the Alleghany
river, they transferred their goods to a

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raft and floated down to Pittsburg, where
they remained until the next spring. One
child was born there. Mr. Hawley and
Mr. Wheelock united in purchasing a
boat, in which their two families descended
the Ohio river to Shawneetown, arriving
in April, 1822. Mr. Wheelock settled in
Atlas, Pike county, and Mr. Hawley came
to Sangamon county, arriving in April or
May, 1822, in what is now Fancy Creek
township, in the same carriage, and drawn
by the same, horses, they started with. Mr.
Hawley had soldiers' claims, and located
them in the military reservation west of
the Illinois river, and began improving a
farm on Spoon river, in Fulton county,
five miles northwest of the present town
of Havana. He was returning to his
family on horseback, and, in attempting to
swim his horse across Salt creek, in Mason
county, was drowned, June 21, 1822.
The horse came home, and upon search
being made, the body was found a week
later and interred. It was afterwards
moved to Indian Point, in Menard county.
The widow and children removed to
Springfield the next winter. William S.
H. Hamilton (See his name) was then a
practicing lawyer in Springfield. The
court appointed him guardian of the three
orphan children. James Adams (See his
name) was appointed administrator of the
estate. Of the three children —

ELIPHALET B., born May 30,
1816, in Albany, N. Y., raised in Sanga-
mon county, and married in Springfield,
July 12,. 1838, to Mary D. Sayre, who was
born June 26, 1815, in Lebanan, O. They
had four living children in Springfield,
namely: MARY E., born July 19, 1839,
in Springfield, married James M. Gai'land.
See his name. ISABELLA G., born
July 21, 1843, in Springfield, married
Aug. 4, 1862, to George M. BrinkerholF,
who was born Aug. 20, 1839, in Gettys-
burg, Penn., graduated at Pennsylvania
College in the class of 1859, and soon
after came to Springfield. Mr. and Mrs.
BrinkerhofF have four children, JOHN 11.,

MARIAN B., GEORGE M., JU11., and MARIA

c., and reside in Springfield. Mr. Brink-
erhoff is Secretary of the Springfield Iron
Company, and one of its stockholders.
MARIA D., born June 22, 1848, in
Springfield, married in her native city,
July 10, 1872, to Edward B. Springer,
who was born July 15, 1847, in N,ew

York city. They have one child, GEORGE
HAWLEY. Mr. Springer is connected
with the firm of Keith Brothers, mer-
chants- of Chicago, and resides in that
city. BENJAMIN died Sept. 9, 1864,
aged twelve years. Eliphalet B. Hawley,
when quite young, entered a dry goods
store in Springfield as clerk, and thus
qualified himself for mercantile pursuits.
.He was in that business about thirty years,
the greater part of the time on his own
account. He retired a few years ago, but
still resides in Springfield. He has for
many years been a Ruling Elder in the
Second Presbyterian church of this city.

ISAAC A., born Nov. 26, 1819, in
Albany, N. Y., brought up in Sangamon
county, married in Springfield April 30,
1851, to A. Eliza McCauley, who was
born Jan. 13, 1828, in Washington county,
Penn. They have one daughter, ADDIE
E., living with her parents in Springfield.
Isaac A. Hawley commenced as a clerk,
and from 1837 to ^57 was a dry goods
merchant in the same building, southwest
corner of Adams and Sixth streets. In
1864 he was elected Treasurer of Sanga-
mon county, serving two years. He is
now — 1876 — engaged in the insurance
business.

ISABELLA G., born Nov. 28, 1821,
in Pittsburg, Penn., brought up in Spring-
field and educated in Monticello Female
Seminary, at Godfrey, 111. She made
teaching her profession until her health
failed. She died April 15, 1845, in Schuy-
ler county, 111.

Mrs. Elizabeth Hawley was married
Aug. 9, 1823, in Springfield, to John
Moore. See his name.

HAWN, FREDERICK, was
born June 5, 1810, at Indian Castle, now
Danube, Herkimer county, New York.
His ancestors were of German origin;
his grandfather, Conradt Hahn, was born
in the kingdom of Bavaria, and married
there to a Miss Windacre. They emi-
grated to America about 1765, and settled
in Canajoharie, Tryon county, now Mont-
gomery county, New York. Mrs. Hahn
died in 1775. Conradt Hahn was a soldier
in the Revolutionary army, and was killed
in battle at Oriskany, Oneida county, New
York, leaving four children. The eldest,
Conrad, married Catharine Young.
Frederick, whose name heads this sketch,
is their son. By assimilation with the

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EA RLY SE1 TLBRS OF

English language the name was changed
from Hahn to Hawn. Frederick Hawn
studied civil engineering, and was thus
employed on the first railroads constructed
in the States of New York and Pennsyl-
vania. He came to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in Oct., 1835, where he was
married, Nov. 9, 1837, to Abigail Cutter.
See Cutter family . Mr. and Mrs. Hawn
had two children in Sangamon county?
and in 1-843 m°ved to Weston, Platte
county, Missouri, where they had one
child. Of their children —

MARIA G., born Sept. 9, 1838, in
Springfield, 111., was married in Weston,
Missouri, Nov. 4, 1857, to Joseph C.
Hemingray, a native of Pittsburg, Penn.
They have two children, REUBEN
PHELPS and LILEON KERR, and
reside in Leavenworth, Kansas. Mr.
Hemingrav is a practicing lawyer.

MARTHA, born Feb. 17, 1842, in
Sangamon county, 111., was married June
21, 1875, in Leavenworth, Kansas, to
Charles H. Lamar, a native of Tennessee.
They live near Weston, Platt county,
Missouri. Mr. Lamar is a farmer. Mrs.
Hemingray and Mrs. Lamar have for
many years been active members of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in Leaven-
worth.

LAURENS, born Sept. 4, 1847, at
Weston, Missouri, graduated at Cornell
University, Ithica, New York, in the
class of 1875. He is now — 1876 — studying
law in Leavenworth, Kansas.

Frederick Hawn was professionally en-
gaged in the earlier public improvements
of Illinois. After his removal to Mis-
souri he was the civil engineer in the con-
struction of the Hanibal & St. Joseph Rail-
road, and in the geological survey of the
State of Missouri. In 1860 he moved to
Leavenworth, Kansas, and was connected
with the survey of the United States
lands, and later was engaged in the geolog-
ical survey of the State of Kansas. He
has written extensively on the natural re-
sources of the latter State, and climate of
the west. Frederick Hawn and family
reside in the city of Leavenworth, Kan-
sas.

HAZLETT, ROBERT, was
born Dec. 20, 1799, in Stokes county, N.
C. Rebecca Daigh was born Dec. 12,
1802, in Bath county, Va. They were
married March 29, 1820, in Virginia, had

three children there, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving in the fall of
1828, at Springfield. In the spring of
1831 they moved to what is now Cooper
township, where they had three children.
Of the six children —

WILLIAM P, born Nov. 29, 1821,
in Bath county, Va., married in Sangamon
county, Oct. 19, 1843, to Zerilda Haggard.
Thay had ten children, three of whom
died under three years. Of the other
seven — SARAH R. married Dec. 24,
1863, to Brice A. Patton, has three chil-
pren, and lives in Lawrence county, Mo.
ROBERT H., born July 6, 1847, is a
graduate of the Law School of the Univer-
sity of Michigan, at Ann Arbor. He re-
sides in Springfield, and is one of the law
firm of Hazlett & Kane. ELIZABETH
A. married Feb. 23, 1870, to Henry Spen-
gler. They have one child, LOURETTA
B., and live two miles southeast of Farm-
ingdale. WILLIAM J., MARTIN M.,
CHARLES E. and AMELIA B., reside
with their parents, three-quarters of a mile
east of Bradfordton.

JOHN A., born Feb. 9, 1823, in Ma-
son county, Va., was married in Sanga-
mon county, 111., to Mary J. Drennan.
They have nine living children, and live
five miles north of Edinburg, 111.

ELIZA J. married Isaac Troxell.
They had two children, WILLIAM E.
and GEORGE L., and Mrs. Troxell
died.

ELIZABEJ^H A., born Feb. 14,
1828, in Sangamon county, was married,
Feb. 13, 1851, to Henry W. Neeley. They
had one child, and moved to Grimes coun-
ty, near Anderson, Texas, in 1852, where
they had five living children. JOSEPH
W., born in Sangamon countv, married
.Sept. 8, 1870, to Frances C. Criger, and
live near Anderson, Texas. REBECCA
L., born in Texas, married Nov. 30, 1871,
to Daniel McMahon, and live near Ander-
son, Texas. GEORGE L., ELIZA A.
and ADA E., live with their mother. H.
W. Neeley died July 3, 1871, near Ander-
son, Texas, and his widow and child re-
side there.

CHARLES F., born Feb. 29, 1832,
in Sangamon county, went to California
in the spring of 1853, and reside at Teha-
ma, Tehama county, Cal.

REBECCA V., born May 29, 1833,
married Ephraim Nelms, had two child-

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ren, and Mr. N. died. She married John
M. Abel, have four children, and live near
Niantic.

Robert Hazlett died Aug. 15, 1835, and
his widow married Joseph Firey, of Chris-
tian county. They had two children;
both died young. Mr. Fiery died, and
his widow resides near her son, John A.
Hazlett, in Christian county.

HEDGES, JOS I AH, born about
1788, in Maryland, and was taken to Vir-
ginia, and from there to Grayson county,
Ky., when he was about twelve years
old. Anna Brown was born Dec. 25,
1798, in Davis county, Ky. Josiah
Hedges and Anna Brown were there mar-
ried and made Grayson county their
home until they had three children, and
then moved to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving in the fall of 1826, at the north
side of Island Grove, two and a half miles
northwest of the present town of Berlin,
where two children were born. Of their
five children —

LUCINDA, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Henry Hawkins.
They have nine children, and live near
Beatrice, Gates county, Nebraska.

LEAH, born in Kentucky, died in
Sangamon county, Sept. 25, 1842, aged
about twenty-four years.

MARINDA, born in 1820, in Ken-
tucky, married William D. Chilton, and
live near Berlin.

CALEB, born July 4, 1828, in Sanga-
mon county, married Jan. n, 1866, to
Theresa Dunlap, who was born May 30,
1841, in Knox county, Ky. They have
three children, HARDIN W., LOGAN
H. and DORA BELL. Caleb Hedges
lives on the farm settled by his father in
1826, and where he was born. It is
two and a half miles northwest of Berlin.

ELIZABETH A., born April 4,
1833, in Sangamon county, married Nov.
18, 1863, to George W. Dunlap. He was
born March 29, 1829, in Knox county,
Ky. They have four children, IRVIN
T., SARAH A., WILLIE H. and
GEORGE A., and live north of Island
Grove, and two and a half miles north-
west of Berlin.

Mrs. Anna Hedges died June 9, 1872,
and Josiah Hedges died August 29, 1872,
both on the farm where they settled on
coming to the county in 1826.

Mr. Hedges moved from Kentucky
with an ox team. One of his oxen was
trained to work in shafts. He made a
light wagon all of wood, and with that ox
did all his marketing after coming to the
country. When he came he brought
money to enter forty acres of land. By
industi'y and economy he became the
owner of nine hundred acres of the rich-
est land in the county.

HEDRICK, CHARLES. See
family sketch in Omissions.

HELM, MEREDITH, was
born March 2, 1802, at Williamsport,
Md. His father died when he was quite
young, leaving ample means for his educa-
tion. After graduating in his literary
studies, he attended the Baltimore Medical
College, graduated there also, and en-
tered on the practice of medicine in his
native town. Elizabeth Orendorff was
born in 1805. Her mother died when she
was quite young, and she was raised by
an aunt who is yet living (1873) near
Hagerstown, aged more than one hundred
years. Dr. M. Helm and E. Orendorff
were married in 1824. They had two
living children in Maryland. Dr. Helm
traveled on horseback in the summer of
1833, visited Springfield, and returning to
Maryland, brought out his family in the
summer of 1834. He bought land and
tried farming near Rochester, but soon
abandoned it, returned to Springfield and
practiced medicine to the end of his life.
They had two living children in Sanga-
mon county. Of their four children —

THOMAS M., born Jan. 22, 1829, in
Williamsport, Md., studied medicine under
his father in Springfield, and attended lec-
tures in Chicago during the winter of
1849 and '50. He also attended lectures
in the winter of 1852 and '3, at the Uni-
versity of St. Louis, where he graduated.
Since that time he has been engaged in
practice. Dr. Thomas M. Helm was
married March 12, 1857, to Henrietta B.
Jones. They have two living children,
CHARLES W. and LULU, and reside
at Williamsville.

DA VID, born Feb. 22, 1832, in Mary-
land, qualified himself for, and engaged in,
the practice of medicine in Springfield.
He was soon after thrown from a sulkey
by a fractious horse, which caused his
death, in August, 1857.

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

WILLIAM McK., born in 1836 in
Sangamon county. At sixteen years of
age he went to California, and was with
the Walker (Nicaragua) expedition. Re-
turning home he studied medicine, gradu-
ated at the McDowel Medical College of
St. Louis, and is now a practicing physi-
cian. Dr. William McK. Helm married
Harriet Wilson. They have four children,
and reside at Mt. Auburn, Christian
county.

HENRT, born in Springfield, and
lives there.

Dr. Meredith Helm died March 9, 1866,
and his widow died Jan. 14, 1870, both in
Springfield.

HENDRIX, ANTHONY,
was born Dec. 19, 1789, in Fleming coun-
ty, Ky., and married there to Nancy
Dean, who was born in Clark county.
They had six children in Kentucky, and
the family moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the fall of 1830, first in
Williams and then in Clear Lake town-
ship, where four children were born. Of
their ten children —

SUSAN,\)wr\\ in Fleming county, Ky.,
married Simeon Taylor. See his name.

REBECCA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried Philip Smith. See his name.

AMY, born in Fleming county, Ky.,
married in Sangamon county to Charles
Kinnaman. She had three children, and
died in Clear Lake township. Her son,
ANTHONY W., married "Emily Blue,
and lives in Logan county. ANDREW
J. married Miss Hendrix, and lives in
Clayton. CELIA J. is unmarried and
resides in Williamsville.

SAMUEL W., born March 29, 1822,
in Fleming county, Ky., married in San-
gamon county to Mary E. Neville, Jan.
28, 1845. They had seven living children.
HIRAM A. married Nancy Blue, have
four children, and live in Logan county.
CYNTHIA A. married Henry Marshall,
have four children, and live near Barclay.
MARY E. married Felix Jones, and lives
near Barclay. IRENA C. and HER-
SCHEL V. live with their mother.
Samuel W. Hendrix died Feb. 13, 1874,
and his widow lives at Barclay.

SALL Y A., born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Benjamin
Kinnaman, have two children, and live in
Clayton, 111.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to John
Smith. They had three children, namely :
SUSAN married William Smith, had one
child, and died. ALICE A. married
William T. Ham. See his name. JEN-
NIE married George Strawn, and lives in
Williamsville. John Smith died, and his
widow married Stephen King. See hi<>
name.

NANCY A. married Jesse Alexander.
See his name.

MARY married George Fisher, have
six children, and live in Kansas.

ELIZA married Hiram Alexander.
See his name.

JOHN, born in Sangamon county,
Sept. 19, 1835, married Caroline Taylor.
They have three children, EMILY F.,
NANCY A. and MARY J., and live in
Illiopolis township.

Mrs. Nancy Hendrix died August 29,
1839, and Mr. H. married Catharine
Wickoff. She died May, 1866, and An-
thony Hendrix died Dec. 6, 1866.

HENKLE, JUSTUS, was born
about 1775, in Virginia. Elizabeth Judy
was born about 1778, in Randolph county,
Va. They were married in Randolph
county, and had eleven children in Vir-
ginia, and moved from there to Belleville,
111., in the fall of 1817. They moved
from there to the San-ga-ma country, ar-
riving about the middle of March, 1818,
at the west side of Horse creek, in what
is now Pawnee township, about one 'mile
north of Pawnee. Mr. Henkle made im-
provements there, and entered the land
when it came into market. Of their chil-
dren born in Virginia —

MARTIN married in Sangamon coun-
ty to Martha Bagby; both died without
children.

SARAH, married twice, is now a
widow, and resides with her only daugh-
ter, who is the wife of James Card, and
lives in Taylorville.

CATHARINE died unmarried, in
Sangamon county, aged sixty-two years.

ELIJAH married Polly Funderburk.
They never had any children, but adopted
and raised Marshall Henkle, who lives in
Christian county. Elijah Henkle died
there.

LE VI married Nancy Vandever.
She had one child, and died, and he mar-

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ried Harriet McWilliams. They had two
children, and Mr. Henkle died.

HANNAH, born in Virginia, married
in Sangamon county to David Funder-
hurk. See his name.

ELIZABETH married Garret De-
Mor, and died, leaving one child.

ABIGAIL died, aged thirty-two
years.

JESSE married Nancy Johnson, and
had four children. He and^all except one
of his children are dead.

DELILAH died, aged eighteen years.

JACOB, born July 25, 1812, in Ran-
dolph county, Va., served three months in
the Black Hawk war, from March, 1831.
He was married in Sangamon county,
Nov. 20, 1836, to Nancy Hatchett. They
have ten children, all born in Sangamon
county. DICEY E. married Samuel N.
Galloway, April 14, 1853. He was born
Oct. 28, 1821, in Bath county, Ky. They
have one child, JAMES ALPHEUS, and live
in Cotton Hill township, Sangamon coun-
ty, 111, JOHN Y. married Dulcina Lock-
ridge. They have one child, ADA. DI-
ANA F., born April 23, 1842, was
married April 7, 1863, to Michael Baker,
who was born Sept., 1830, in Prussia.
They have one, child, GEORGE c., and live
three-fourth of a mile south of Pawnee.
MARTIN'V., born Aug. 12, 1844, mar'
ried March 13, 1867, to Sarah E. Hoover,
who was born in Christian county, Aug.
22, 1849. They have two children,
CHARLES M. and NANCY L., and live near
Pawnee. SARAH J., born April, 1847,
married Aug. 15, 1869, to Charles H.
Willison, who was born Dec. 15, 1830,
in county Tyrone, Ireland. He had pre-
viously married Sarah O'Neal. See
Samuel O'Neal, They had one child,
LAURA BELL, and .live one mile east of
Pawnee. ELVIRA, HARRISON H.,
MARY A., AMANDA and LAURA
A., reside with their parents, two miles
north of Pawnee. Jacob Henkle remem-
bers that when his father moved from St.
Clair county, it was with the following
named families : John Neeley, from Ten-
nessee; Henry Funderburk, of South Car-
olina; Joseph Dixon, of St. Clair county;
Robert Davis and a Mr. Short, both from
the south, numbering in all fifty-three per-
sons. They were the first settlers in that
part of the country, and they kept as close
together as possible for protection against

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the Indians. They were Kickapoos and
Pottowattamies, and were friendly with
the whites; but it was not pleasant to be
alone and know that you were in their
power.

Mrs. Elizabeth Henkle died in 1836,
and Justus Henkle died in 1842, near
where they settled in 1818.

HENKLE, JASON C., was
born Oct. 10, 1820, in Pendleton county,
Va., and came to Springfield July 8, 1838.
He was married April 16, 1849, in Clarks-
ville, Mo., to Kate Travis, who was born
Nov. 25,^1825, in Calhoun county, 111.
They had nine living children in Spring-
field—

ANNA T., born March 20, 1850, died
Jan. i, 1873.

ELLA died in her twelfth year.

CLINTON M. died in his fourth year.

VIRGINIA died in her twenty-second
year.

GEORGE E., CHARLES C.,
EMMA, IR VING and JESSE C.,
live with their father.

Mrs. Kate Henkle died Jan. 26, 1871,
and Jason C. Henkle resides in Spring-
field. He has been for many years in the
mercantile business, and is now a member
of the firm of Woods & Henkle. For
ten years he has been a director of the
First National Bank of Springfield.

HENRY, JAMES D., was a
native of Pennsylvania, but the exact date
and place of his birth is not known. His
earlier years being devoted to manual
labor, he was barely able to read and write
when he arrived at the age of manhood.
In 1822 he came to Edwardsville, 111.,
where he labored as a mechanic during
the day, and at night attended school. He
next engaged in merchandising there, and
moved to Springfield in 1826, where he
continued in the same business, and was
soon after elected Shei'iff of Sangamon
county. While discharging his duties as
Sheriff, the Winnebago war of 1827 came
on. A battalion of four companies was
raised, and under command of Col. Tom
M. Neale, with Sheriff Henry as Adju-
tant, started in pursuit of the savages.
Six of the leaders gave themselves up,
and thus ended the campaign.

When the Black Hawk war began in
1831, Adjutant Henry was appointed to
command the first of the two battalions
from Sangamon county. The Indians re-

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treated before the soldiers across the Mis-
sissippi river, and the chiefs returned and
made a treaty of peace June 30, 1831. In
the spring of 1832, when the chief Black
Hawk again commenced hostilities, Col.
Henry was once more appointed to com-
mand abatallion; but before meeting the
enemy, the term of enlistment of the
whole eighteen hundred men in the field
expired. A regiment was immediately
organized of those among the disbanded
forces who were willing to volunteer for
the purpose of holding the savages in
check while more permanent forces could
be raised. Col. Henry acted as Lieuten-
ant-Colonel of this temporary organiza-
tion. Three thousand two hundred men
were raised, and Lieut.-Col. Henry was
appointed General of the third brigade of
twelve hundred men. Gen. Henry com-
manded in the battle of Wisconsin, July
2ist, and the battle of Bad Axe, Aug. 2,
1832, winning both battles, which termin-
ated the war. (See account of the Winne-
bago and Black Haivk wars, pages jj
and 54?) He had achieved these victories
against not only the wishes, but machina-
tions, of the officers of the regular army.

On his return from the scene of conflict,
the citizens of Springfield gave him a
public reception in recognition of his ser-
vices; but owing to his extreme sensi-
tiveness in presence of the ladies, he never
entered the apartment presided over by
them. The exposures and hardships of
the campaign brought on disease of the
lungs, and he went south, hoping by
spending the following winter in a warm
climate to avert its effects; but it was too
late. He died March 4, 1834, in New
Orleans. Such was his singular modesty,
that those in whose hands he fell for the
closing scenes of his life, did not know until
after his death that he was General Henry,
the hero of the Black Hawk war. Gov.
Ford, in his History of Illinois, speaks of
Gen. Henry as the idol of the people, and
says : "• If he had lived he would have been
elected Governor of the State in 1834 by
more than twenty thousand majority : and
this would have been done against his
own will, by the spontaneous action of the
people."

HENTQN, WILLIAM, was
born Oct. 22, 1807, in Green county, Ky.,
taken by his parents to Washington coun-
ty, Indiana, and from there to Bond coun-

ty, Illinois, in 1818. In 1828 he came to
Sangamon county, and was married Aug.
16, 1832, to Pauline Short. They had
seven living children in Sangamon county,
namely —

JAMES J., born Sept. 30, 1835,
married Janette Barger, who died Nov.
21, 1864, leaving four children. Mr. Hen-
ton is married again, and lives near Lin-
den, Kan.

MART £v born Dec. 31, 1838, died
March 4, 18^9'

CATHARINE A., born Feb. 19,
1840, in Sangamon county, is unmarried
and lives — 1873 — at the old homestead of
her grandfather, Caleb Short. It is two
and a half miles north of Curran.

THOMAS W., born Aug. 6, 1841,
lives with his sister Catharine.

JOHN R., born Feb. 18, 1843, mar-
ried Vinley A. Patterson, has two child-
ren, and lives near Linden, Osage county,
Kansas.

ELIZABETH A., born Aug. 6, 1845,
lives with her sister Catharine.

CHARLES G., born June 6, 1847,
married Rebecca Taylor, has three child-
ren, and lives two and a half miles north
of Curran.

William Henton«died Nov. i, 1848, and
Mrs. Pauline Henton died Oct. 24, 1853,
both in Sangamon county.

HENTON, ALLJE M., was
born June 16, 1814, in Shelby county,
Ky., came to Springfield in the fall of
1829, and lived in the family of her uncle,
Andrew Laswell, until the marriage of
her brother William, in whose family she
lived until she was married to Daniel K.
Callerman. See his name.

HENSLEY, SIMON, was born
Feb. 26, 1785, in Washington county, Va.
He was married Feb. .2, 1820, near Day-
ton, Montgomery county, Ohio, to Mary
Arnold, who was born Aug. 24, 1792, in
Ohio. They had two children in Ohio,
and moved to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving in the fall of 1823, in what is now
Island Grove township, north of Spring
creek, where two children were born. Of
their four children —

JOHN, born Jan. 20, 1821, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county, Thursday,
between Christmas and New Year, Dec.,
1 86 1, to Leanah Lynch. She was born
Jan. 12, 1841, in Pickaway county, Ohio.
They had six children — MARY and

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TAMES died young. KATIE, WIL-
LIAM, SAMUEL and HARRY, live
with their parents, in Cartwright town-
ship, four miles east of Berlin.

SAMUEL, born June 16, 1822, in
Ohio, is unmarried, and lives with his
brother John.

JAMES, born Jan. 2, 1824, in Sanga-
mon county, died Aug. 18, 1831.

GEORGE, born Dec. 13, 1825, in
Sangamon county, married, in 1857, to
Calista Huber, a native of Ohio. They
have three children, MARY J., HOR-
ACE and BELLE, and live near Topeka,
Kansas.

Simon Hensley died Aug. 12, 1826, in
Sangamon county, and his widow married
Aug. 22, 1827, to Josiah Kirkpatrick.
They had two children —

JACOB KIRKPATRICK, born
Oct. 5, 1828, in Sangamon county, mar-
ried Huldah Atkinson. They have three
children, HENRY, WILLIAM and
MARY, and live — 1873 — near Roseville,
Warren county, 111.

MART A. KIRKPATRICK, born
Aug. 19, 1831, in Sangamon county, mar-
ried Dr. Remer Sanders. They have two
children, MARINDA and CLARA, and reside
near Avon, Fulton county, 111. Dr. San-
ders is a practicing physician, now — 1873 —
on a tour to Europe.

Mrs. Mary A. Kirkpatrick died, in
1857, and Josiah Kirkpatrick died March
18, 1872, both in Warren county, 111.

HENWOOD, BE'RRY-

MAN, was born July n, 1821, in
Cabell county, West Va. He came to
Sangamon county, stopping with his
uncle, Berrvman Knight, near Chatham.
He was married to Sarah Jordan. They
had three children in Sangamon county —

MARGARET E, born Jan. 18, 1843,
in Sangamon county, married Aug. 15,
1856, to John McLaughlin. They had
two children, ELIZABETH A. and
JOHN B., and Mr. McLaughlin died
Nov. 28, 186 1, in Arkansas, and his widow
married George W. Saunders. See his
name,

MARTHA A., born March, 1844. and

SARAH /., born in 1846, are both
married, and live in Missouri.

Mrs. Sarah Henwood died, and he was
married twice after, and lives in Osceola,
Arkansas.

HERMON, DAVID H., was
born Jan. 12, 1805, in Wilkes county,
North Carolina. His grandfather was
German and his grandmother English.
Sally Mitts was born Feb. n, 1811, in
Grant county, Ky. They were married
in that county, August 27, 1827, had one
living child there, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, arriving Oct. 26,
1830, in what is now Ball township.
They lived in a cabin one mile west of
Sugar Creek timber, and spent the winter
of the "deep snow" there. But one
other family lived away from the timber.
The recollection of Mr. Hermon is that
rain fell for a day or two until the earth
was saturated. The day before Christ-
mas the rain turned to snow, and by
night it was about six inches deep. Snow
continued to fall almost every day for six
weeks. Feb. n, 1831, was the first time
he saw the sun, and then it was partially
eclipsed. He burned all the rails and
loose timber of every kind near his house,
and it was all he could do to keep him-
self and family from freezing. Mr. and
Mrs. Hermon had four children in San-
gamon county. Of their children —

MART A., born August 26, 1829, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county to Green Ray. They had three
living children, GEORGE R., REZIN
L. and DAVID. Mr. Ray died, and
Mrs. Ray was married June 28, 1855, to
T. Stopperun. They had two children,
FREDERICK and LIZZIE. Mr. Stop'
perun died, and his widow married
Thomas McCallum. They live in
Chicago.

JOHN H., born Nov. 12, 1831, in
Sangamon county, was married May 8,
1856, to Nancy Drennan, who died, and
he was married Oct. 15, 1872, to Mrs.
Gracie Smith, whose maiden name was
Levi. They have one child, FLOR-
ENCE M., and live in Chatham.

PRTOR J., born Dec. 22, 1833, in
Sangamon county, near Chatham. He
attended the district school until he was
twenty years of age, after that the Spring-
field University one winter, and spent
much of his time in teaching until May i,
1855, when he entered the office of Dr
J. N. Wright, of Chatham. He gradu-
ated at Rush Medical College, Chicago,
Jan. 21, 1863, and was married to Eliza
A. Neale, April 15, 1863. They have

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four living children, FRANCIS E.,
JULIA A., HARRIET L. and FLOR-
ENCE M. Dr. P. J. Hermon is a prac-
ticing physician, and resides in Raymond,
Montgomery county, 111.

DA VID C, born April 24, 1838, in
Sangamon county, was married April 4,
1861, to Lousetta Shidy. They have two
living; children, EMMA F. and MIL-
DRED L., and live in Chatham.

GEORGE W., born May 17, 1840,111
Sangamon county, was married Feb. 26,
1863, to Sarah Childers. They have four
children, NORA E., EMMA D., AU-
GUSTA M. and LENA P., and live
near Raymond, 111.

WILLIAM, born Nov. 20, 1842, near
Chatham, was married Nov. 17, 1875, to
Emma Mitts.

JAMES D., born Nov. 13, 1844, died
Nov. 7, 1865.

SARAH E., born April 28, 1849, was
married Sept., 1865, to John Mitts. They
have two children, NORA and CORA
L., and live near Chatham.

JOSEPHINE, born Sept. 2, 1853,
and died Jan. 3, 1860, in Sangamon
county.

David H. Hermon and wife reside two
miles east of Chatham, near where they
settled in 1830.

HERRI N, JAMES, was born
April 6, 1802, in Harrison county, Ky.,
was married in that county Aug. I, 1833,
tp Mary A. McDaniel, and soon after
started, in company with her parents, to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving Nov. 14,
1833, in what is now Clear Lake town-
ship, east of the Sangamon river. They
had four children, all born in Sangamon
county, namely —

DA VID C., born May 25, 1834, mar-
ried May 22, 1862, to Sarah J. North.
They have five children, ROBERT E.,
JAMES W., GEORGE E., DAVID A.
and JESSE LEE, and reside three quar-
ters of a mile northwest of Lanesville,
Wheatfield Postoffice, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

WILLIAM F., born Nov. 18, 1836,
married Sept. 10, 1863, to Mary A. North.
They have four children, BELLE N.,
JAMES E., CHARLES F. and BURT
A., and reside one and a half miles east of
Buffalo, Sangamon county, Illinois.

HARRIET F., born Jan. 6, 1838,
mavried in 1860 to Robert Hewitt, who

was born in New Jersey. They have
three children, MARY FRANCES,
IMLA and JOHN E., and reside in
Menard county, one and a half miles north
of Ashland, Cass county, Illinois.

JOHN A., born Aug. 4, 1841, died at
fifteen years old.

Mrs. Mary A. Herrin died March 25,
1868, in Clear Lake township, on the farm
where they settled in 1835. James Her-
rin resides with his son, William F., near
Buffalo, Sangamon county. Illinois.

HERNDON, ARCHER G.,
born Feb. 13, 1795, in Culpepper county,
Va., went to Greensburg, Green county,
Ky., when he was about ten years old,
and was there married, in 1816, to Mrs.
Rebecca Johnson, whose maiden name
was Day. Her father was a revolutionary
soldier. Mr. and Mrs. Herndon had one
child in Kentucky, and they moved to
Troy, Madison county, 111., where one
child was born ; from there they moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the
spring of 1821, settling on what is now
German Prairie, five miles northeast of
Springfield, where two children were
born, Of their four children —

WILLIAM H., born Dec. 25, 1818,
in Green county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county, March 26, 1840, to
Mary J. Maxcy, who was born July 27,
1822. They had six children. JAMES
N., born April 26, 1841, in Springfield,
111., married Mary Dunlap, and lives in
Fancy creek township. ANNIE M.,
born April 9, 1843, in Springfield, was
married June 26, 1863, in her native place,
to Frank Fleury, who was born Sept. 28,
1840, in Meadville, Penn. They have
one child, ANNIE MAY. Mr. Fleury was
city clerk during 1868, '69, '70 and '71.
He is now engaged in the drug business,
in Springfield, where he resides. BEV-
ERLY P., born Dec. 30, 1845, lives in
Colorado. ELIZABETH R., born Nov.
n, 1849, married, Aug. 27, 1867, to
James S. Cooper, who was born July 16,
1842, in Belleville, St. Clair county, 111.
They live in Springfield, 111. LEIGH W.,
born Oct. 22, 1852, lives with his father.
MARY, N. lives with her. sister, Mrs.
Fleury. Mrs. Mary J. Herndon died
Aug. 18, 1860, and W. H. Herndon was
married July 31, 1861, to Anna Miles,
who was born March i, 1836. They have
two children, NINA BELLE and WIL-

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LIAM M., and live in Fancy Creek
township, six miles north of Springfield,
Illinois. Win. H. Herndon was for many
years a practicing attorney in Springfield,
111., and was the law partner of Abraham
Lincoln, from 1848 to the death of Mr.
Lincoln.

ELLIOTT B., born Aug. i, 1820, at
Troy, Madison county, 111., has practiced
law in Springfield since 1842. He was
city attorney during 1854 and '5, and
county attorney in 1856. He was United
States District Attorney, under President
Buchanan, and was corporation counsel
during 1874 and '5. E. B. Herndon was
married, Sept. 30, 1875, to Mrs. Jerusha
Lee, whose maiden name was Palmer.
She was born April 16, 1833, in Ogdens-
burg, St. Lawrence county, N. Y. Mr.
Herndon is a practicing lawyer, and re-
sides in Springfield, 111.

ARCHER G., Jun., born Nov. 29,
1825, in Sangamon county, 111., was mar-
ried in DeWitt county, Oct. 15, 1846,
to Roanna R. Robbins, who was born
April 17, 1829, in Campbell county, Ky.
They had eleven children, three of whom
died under two years. Of the other
eight— WILLIAM FRANCIS, born
April 9, 1848, was married Sept. 14, 1871,
to Mary H. Bryant, who was born Sept.
21, 1852. They have one child, EDGAR
BRYANT, and live in Springfield, Illinois.
NONA R. died Jan. 17, 1876, from burns,
caused by the explosion of a lamp. LO-
AMI D., ELLIOTT G.^ RODELIA
A., MOLLIE E., ROMEPEER R. and
ELMA R.; the six latter live with their
parents. Archer G. Herndon, Jun., and
family, reside near the southeast corner
of Rochester township.

NATHANIEL F., born in 1827, in
Sangamon county, 111., died there, in
1834.

Archer G. Herndon, Sen., was engaged
in mercantile pursuits, from 1825 to 1836,
in Springfield, and during that time
erected the first regular tavern in town.
He was one of the "Long Nine" who
were instrumental in having the capital re-
moved from Vandalia to Springfield, hav-
ing been elected State Senator in 1836.
He was receiver of public moneys, from
1842 to 1849, in the Land Office, in
Springfield. A. G. Herndon, Sen., died
Jan. 3, 1867, and Mrs. Rebecca Herndon

died Aug. 19, 1875, both in Springfield,
Illinois.

HESSER, SAMUEL L., born
June 2, 1797, in Winchester, Va. He was
married May 31, 1821, to Sarah Fry.
They had one child, viz —

MARY A., born in Virginia, married
Edward Huffman. They have one child,
SALLIE P., and reside in Winchester,
West Va.

Mrs. Sarah Hesser died Jan. 15, 1825
and Samuel L. Hesser was married Sept.
12, 1826, to Ann Maria Slagle, in Hagers-
town, Md. She was born in. that city
Oct. 4, 1803, and brought up in Winches-
ter, Va. They had five children in Berry -
ville, Frederick county, Va., and the fami-
ly moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriv-
ing at Springfield June 6, 1836, where
they had four living children. Of their
nine children —

LOUISA C., born June 26, 1827, in
Berryville, Va., married in Mechanics-
burg, 111., Aug. 22, 1848, to Simon P.
Fullinwider. See his name.

ANN M., born Oct. 16, 1828, in Vir-
ginia, married in Sangamon county to
Jefferson McBride. See his name.

EDMONIA E., born May 31, 1831,
in Virginia, married in Sangamon county
Feb. 4, 1852, to Dial Davis. She died
July 4, 1064, leaving six children —
FRANKLIN P., SALLIE M.,
CHARLES E., HENRY S., DIAL
W. — the latter died Nov. 25, 1875 — and
CARRIE E. The five living children
reside with their father at Mt. Auburn,
Christian county, 111.

GEORGE W^born Sept. 30, 1833,111
Berryville, Va., married in Sangamon
county May 15, 1860, to Caroline Mor-
gan. They have five children, BYRON
B.JESSE M.,HOMER H., ARTHUR
A. and CLARA B., and reside two miles
northeast of Wheatfield postoffice, Lanes-
ville, Sangamon county, 111.

JOHN Z., born March 16, 1835, in
Virginia, brought up in Sangamon coun-
ty, enlisted Aug. 7, 1862, at Camp Butler,
for three years, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf. He
went in as 1st Corporal ; promoted to 5th
Sergeant Oct. 25, 1862; promoted to
Orderly Sergeant Jan. 8th, and 2d Lieu-
tenant Sept. 17, 1863. He never had a
day's sickness or missed a march or battle
while in the service, except when he was
in prison. He was captured at the battle

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of Chicamauga, Sept. 20, 1863, and was
in different rebel prisons nineteen months,
principally at Andersonville. Mr. Hesser
says the battlefield was pleasant compared
with the gloomy prisons, where starvation,
filth, vermin and disease prevailed. He
expresses his gratitude that through the
whole eighteen months he had one friend
who was ever faithful and true, John W.
North, of the same company and regiment.
See his name. Mr. Hesser says that hy
the aid of each other and the will of God,
they escaped with their lives. It was not
death they dreaded so much as the
" thought of staying with those south-
down sons of sin, dead or alive." He served
full time, and was honorably discharged
at the close of the rebellion. He was
married in Sangamon county, 111., to Mary
J. Crumley. They have one child,
SARAH M., and reside two miles east of
Riverton, Sangamon county, Illinois.

HENRIETTA C.,born Nov. 6,1836,
in Springfield, married Oct. 18, 1859, in
Sangamon county to Samuel Pheasant,
who was born Nov. 24, 1819, in Washing-
ton county, Md. Came to Sangamon
county in 1857. They had four children.
DANIEL Z. died, aged eight years.
HENRIETTA M., WILLIAM L. and
SAMUEL E., died under two years.
Mr. and Mrs. Pheasant reside one mile
south of Buffalo, Sangamon county.

JACOB A., born Nov. 12, 1838, in
Springfield, went to Texas in 1859, and
there married Maggie Marchbanks.
They have one living child, CHARLES,
and reside at Corsicana, Nevarro county,
Texas.

CORNELIUS N., born Nov. 17,
1843, in Springfield, died, aged seven
years.

CHARLES S., born Sept. 3, 1845, in
Springfield, married April I, 1873, in
Nebraska, to Fannie Stillwell, and reside
near York, York county, Neb.

Samuel L. Hesser was one of the eight
men who organized the first Masonic
Lodge in Springfield. He died Oct. 15,
1871, at Buffalo, Sangamon county, and
his widow resides there.

HESSER, ARMSTEAD N.,
younger brother to Samuel L., came to
Springfield in 1837, raised a family of
several children, and himself and wife both
died in 1847. Their daughter —

M. ADDIE, married Richard C. Bird.
See his name.

HICKMAN, WILLIAM,
born Sept. i, 1790, near Winchester, West
Virginia, went to Shelby county, Ky., in

1812, and his father's family moved there
the same year. He was married there in

1813, t° Mary M. Card well, who was born
March 18, 1795, in Virginia. They had
seven children in Shelby county, and
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
Nov. 8, 1833, at Springfield, and in the
spring of 1834 settled near Mechanics-
burg, where one child was born. Of
their children —

GEORGE T., born Nov. 8, 1814, in
Shelby county, Ky., was married in San-
gamon county, 111., April 7, 1842, to
Elizabeth Lyon, who was born Dec. 21,
1823, in Shelby county, Ky. They had
seven children in Sangamon county.
WILL AM H., born Sept. 15, 1843, en-
listed August 5, 1862, in Co. B, 30th 111.
Inf., for three years. He was taken sick
in going to the field of conflict, and died
Jan. 17, 1863, in military hospital, Mem-
phis, Tennessee. JAMES F. married
Sophia C. Burns, and lives in Menard
county, near Buffalo Hai't, Sangamon
county, 111. MARY E., RICHARD
O., CALVIN WESLEY, HENRIET-
TA and THOMAS C. reside with their
parents, five miles southeast of Williams-
ville.

WILLIAM A., born Oct. 26, 1816, in
Shelby county, Ky., was married in Nel-
son county, Ky., to Burnett Barber, who
died, leaving two children. W. A.
Hickman married Sue Elsuit. They have
one child. William A. Hickman is a
practicing physician, and resides at Owens-
boro, Ky.

JAMES F., born Feb. 14, 1819, in
Shelby county, Ky., was married in San-
gamon county, 111., Nov. 3, 1863, to
Sarah E. Bice. They had four children,
WILLIAM and ARTHUR, the first
and fourth, died under two years. MARY
IRENE and GEORGE THOMAS live
with their parents, one and a half miles
north of Barclay, at the Bice family
homestead.

JOHN F., born April 8, 1821, in
Shelby county, Ky., was married at Har-
rodsburg, Ky., to Sally Curry. She had
one child, and died, and he married Em-

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ma Wilson. He is a practicing physician
at Bardstown, Ky.

If ART A. E., born May 19, 1823, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county to Harrison D. Lyon. See his
name.

JULIET A., born March 26, 1825,
in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to H. C. Linsley. They have
seven children, and live near Grove City,
Christian county, 111.

RICHARD O., born Nov. i, 1831,
in Shelby county, Ky., brought up in
Sangamon county, 111., was married there,
August 8, 1872, to Maggie Perill. They
have one child. He was, in 1873, Treas-
urer of Montana Territory, and resides at
Virginia City.

SUSAN E., born April 26, 1834, near
Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, 111.,
was married there, June, 1859, to Am-
brose J. Sell, who was born Dec., 1827,
in Hanover, York county, Penn., and
came to Springfield in May, 1851. Mr.
and Mrs. Sell have one child, EDWIN
A., and reside in Springfield, 111. Mr.
Sell is a grocer on north Fifth street.

Mrs. Mary M. Hickman died July 17,

1835, and Mr. Hickman was married Oct.
u, 1837, to Mary Ann Lemon. Their
only living child —

EUCLID L., born May 4, 1840, in
Sangamon county, is unmarried, and lives
near Barclay, Sangamon county, 111.

Mrs. Mary Ann Hickman died Jan. 19,
1843, and William Hickman was married
Feb. 14, 1845 to Mrs. Elizabeth Burrell,
whose maiden name was Short. William
Hickman died Jan. 15, 1874, in Spring-
field, 111., in his eighty-fourth year. His
widow resides on north Seventh street,
Springfield, 111.

HIC16OX, ADDISON, was
born May^ 1798, in Middlebury, Conn.,
was a brother to Horace and Virgil. He
was married Nov. 10, 1823, in Jefferson
county, N. Y., to Rhoda Stanley, who
was born March 10, 1803, in that county.
They had three living children in New
York, and moved to Springfield, 111., in

1836, and had three children in and near
Springfield. Of their six children —

HARRIET M., born March 18, 1826,
in Jefferson county, N. Y., married in
Springfield, 111., Jan. i, 1857, to Benjamin
F. Haines, who was born March 19, 1824,
in Xenia, Ohio, raised in Bloomington,

111., came to Springfield in 1863 or '4, and
was engaged in milling until 1873, when
he moved to Florida, and engaged in the
culture of oranges and lemons. Mr. and
Mrs. Haines now reside at Spring Garden,
Florida.

EATON R., born Nov. i, 1827, in
Jefferson county, N. Y., and raised in
Springfield, 111. In 1851, Mr. Hickox
went to California, returning in 1857, he
t soon after engaged in mercantile business,
in Atlanta, 111., where he was married,
Aug. 7, 1858, to Sallie B. Mahew, a na-
tive of New Jersey. They had three
children, ADDISON, RAY and HUGH,
and Mrs. Hickox died Dec. i, 1863. Mr.
Hickox was married, Sept.' 7, 1864, to
Hannah L. Mahew, in Atlanta, and soon
after moved to Springfield, where they
had one living child, ANNA B., and re-
side in Springfield. At one time Mr.
Hickox was engaged in the milling busi-
ness with his father. He is now in the
grain trade, in connection with the Spring
field Elevator. While in Atlanta, he was
Postmaster.

ADA A., born Sept. 3, 1830, in Jeffer-
son county, N. Y., married in Springfield,
May i, 18*54, to William H. Ames, of St.
Louis. Mrs. Ames died Feb. 4, 1855, in
Springfield.

MARTIN, born Sept. 14, 1837, in
Springfield, married Jan. 25, 1859, in At-
lanta, 111., to Mary James, a native of
Ohio. They had one son, L. JAMES,
and Mrs. Hickox died April 28, 1863.
Mr. Hickox and his son reside in Spring-
field. He is proprietor of the Excelsior
flouring mills.

SILAS W., born Aug. 12, 1840, in
Sangamon county, enlisted on the first
call for 75,000 men, in April, 1861, in Co. I,
7th 111. Inf., served three months, and was
honorably discharged. Enlisted in 1862,
in Co. M, loth 111. Cav., for three years.
He was captured at darks Mills, south-
east Missouri, in 1863, forced to take an
oath not to go into the service again.
Silas W. Hickox was married, June 15,
1864, to Susan F. Keyes. They have
three children, WALTER, ELLA and
CLARA, and reside in Springfield, 111.
S. W. Hickox is a member of the firm of
Leggott & Hickox, in the stove and tin-
ware trade.

DOUGLAS, born March 10, 1846, in
Springfield, 111., was married, Sept. 5,

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1867, to Martha Jane Keyes. They have
four children, FLORENCE MAY,
REED KEYES, HENRIETTA M. and
GEORGE L., and reside in Springfield,
Illinois.

Addison Hickox went to St. Augustine,
Fla., for the benefit of his health, and died
there Jan. 10, 1872. His remains were
brought' to Springfield, and interred in
Oak Ridge Cemetery. His widow, Mrs.
Rhoda Hickox, resides in Springfield.

HICKOX, HORACE, brother
to Virgil and Addison, was born Oct. 18,
1795, in Middlebury, New Haven county,
Conn. He was married in 1817, at Rut-
land, Jefferson county, N. Y., to Eliza
Stanley, who was born Oct. 28, 1799, at
Augusta, Oneida county, N. Y. They
had five children, three of whom died
young. The family moved to Springfield,
111., arriving early in 1836. Of their two
children —

VOLNET, born Nov. i, 1835, in Rut-
land, N. Y., brought up in Springfield,
prepared for college by Prof. Beaumont
Parks, graduated at Yale College in the
class of 1857, and admitted to the practice
of law in 1858 at the bar of St. Louis,
Mo. Early in the war of the rebellion he
was appointed additional aid-de-camp on
Gen. McClellan's staff; was mustered out
in the spring of 1862. He was re-
appointed, with the rank of Captain, on
Gen. Fremont's staff, and soon after
assigned to duty on Gen. Hunter's staff,
and wa^ honorably mustered out in Janu-
ary, 1864. From the spring of 1865 to
1866, he was an army correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial, In the fall
of 1 866 he went to New York, and was
sent to the City of Mexico as correspond-
ent of the New York 7^ribune, returning
from there in 1867. Volney Hickox was
married Oct. i, 1873, at Batavia, Illinois,
to Cassandra Browning Moore, who was
born at that place, Sept. c^, 1849. They
have one child, HART, and reside in
Springfield. Mr. Hickox is a practical
stenographer.

LELIA, born March n, 1838, in
Springfield, married in her native city in
1860 to John Hunter, an attorney of Cin-
cinnati. She died December, 1871, in
Springfield.

Mr. Horace Hickox was engaged in
milling, in connection with his brother

Addison, for many years. Mr. and Mrs.
Hickox reside in Springfield.

HICKOX, VIRGIL, was born
July 12, 1806, in Jefferson county, New
York, his parents having moved there in
1803, from New Haven county, Connecti-
cut. He received a common school edu-
cation in his native county, and started,
August 25, 1828, for the southwest.
After a wearisome journey of two months
by wagon, he arrived in St. Louis, at that
time a city of but 5,500 inhabitants. In
one hour after his arrival he was engaged
to work as a journeyman carpenter, at
one dollar per day. From that time he
was busily employed until 1833, when he
went to the Galena lead mines, where he
spent one year. He then came to Spring-
field, 111., and opened a store, May 5, 1834,
and continued in the mercantile business
nearly nineteen years. In 1851 he united
with other business men in organizing a
company to build a railroad from Alton to
Springfield, and continued in the directory
until the road was constructed to Joliet,
and had charge of the right of way in
constructing that much of the present
Chicago and St. Louis railroad. From
him emanated the law regarding the as-
sessment and taxation of railroad property,
which was in force from 1855 to 1872. He
withdrew from active connection with the
road in May, 1874. In May, 1869, he
was appointed by Gov. Palmer to the of-
fice of Canal Commissioner, serving two
terms of two years each. He was a direc-
tor of the old State Bank of Illinois, in
1839-40-41. In January, 1874, he became
President of the Springfield Savings
Bank, and as such continues to manage its
business to the present time. He has
always been a Democrat in politics, and
acted as Chairman of the Democratic
State Committee for nearly twenty years.
In that capacity he received and still holds
the last letter ever dictated by his lifelong
personal and political friend, Hon. Stephen
A. Douglas, that of May 10, 1861, in
which he declared there could be but two
parties, that of patriots and traitors, and
advised his political friends to lay aside
every feeling that would impede united
action for the preservation of the Union.
Mr. Hickox has some peculiar views with
regard to government. He believes that
the United States should not own any
property except what is necessary for

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forts and arsenals, and for the transaction
of business at the seat of government.
He also holds that the whole postal sys-
tem should be abolished, and that the
laws of trade should regulate the transpor-
tation of what is called mail matter in the
same manner as such laws regulate all
other transportation. He thinks that if
men and women were as careful to obey
the scripture injunction, " six days shalt
thou labor," as they are to rest on the
seventh, there would be less sufferiug
from want.

In Oct., 1839, Mr. Hickox was mar-
ried in Springfield to Miss Catharine
Cabanis, a native of Kentucky. She died
Sept. 25, 1875, leaving three sons and
three daughters. Mr. Hickox resides in
Springfield, in the same house he brought
his young wife to, nearly thirty^seven
years ago.

HIGGINS,- WILLIAM, was
born Sept. 7, 1770, in Virginia. His pa-
rents moved to Fayette county, Ky.,
when he was a young man. He was
married there to a Miss Young, who died,
and he was married March 2, 1804, in
Boone county, Ky., to Mary Moseby,
who was born July 10, 1781, in North
Carolina. They had twelve living child-
ren in Fayette county, Ky., and the fami-
ly moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriv-
ing Oct. I, 1830, in what is now Wood-
side township, seven miles south of
Springfield. Of their twelve children —

DRUCILLA W., born Jan. i, 1805,
in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county in
1836 or 1837.

BEDFORD, W., born May 6, 1806,
in Kentucky : came to Sangamon county
with his parents; went back to Kentucky
and married Susan Dozier. They had
one living child, ROBERT, born Nov.
22, 1835, in Montgomery county, Ken-
tucky; married in Sangamon county Oct.
3, 1860, to Lydia Stair. They have five
living children, CHARLES W.,
FRANK H., ELMER E., DORA B.,
and CATALINA, and reside in Paw-
nee. Mrs. Susan Higgins died, and
B. W. Higgins was married July 27,
1841, to Marv A. Norris. Of their seven
children, ELLEN married John L. Par-
ker, and lives in Cotton Hill township.
WILLIAM A. enlisted Aug., 1862, in
Co. E, i I4th Illinois Infantry ; served
until Feb., 1865, when he was discharged
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on account of physical disability, and now
draws a pension. He was married Dec.
1 6, 1873, to Sarah Durrell, and lives in
Palmer. MARTHA S. married John
Lockwood,and lives near Oconee. JOEL
T., ANNA, BENJAMIN H., and EM-
MA F. live with their parents in Cotton
Hill township.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to James
M. Haley, and died, leaving one child,
ELEANOR, who married Joseph Lock-
ridge. See his name.

ROBERT 0., born July 4, 1811, in
Fayette county, Kentucky; was serving
an apprenticeship when his parents came
to Sangamon county, and he arrived in
1832. He was married in Franklin, Mis-
souri, to Camilla A. Donaldson, a native
of Baltimore, Maryland. They had one
child in Missouri, and then moved back
to Sangamon county, where they had six
living children. EDWIN L., born
March 24, 1840, at Boone ville, Missouri,
and brought up in Sangamon county; en-
listed April 24, 1861, in Company I, 7th
Illinois Infantry, for three months; served
full term, and was honorably discharged.
He enlisted Aug. 21, 1861, for three years
in Company K, 33d Illinois Infantry-Nor-
mal. He was wounded June 18, 1863, at
the siege of Vicksburg. The wound
was a remarkable one. A musket ball
entered his face below and forward of the
right ear, passed over the roof of the
mouth, and came out of the left eye. He
recovered without totally losing the sight
of that eye. He re-enlisted Jan. i, 1864,
as a veteran in the same company and
regiment. He was promoted through all
grades from private, and was commis-
sioned as Captain Nov. 16, 1864, and
served to the end of the rebellion, and
was honorably discharged Dec. 7, 1865.
He was appointed by Gov. Palmer, March
24, 1869, Assistant Adjutant General, and
was appointed by Gov. Beveridge, Jan.
20, 1873, Adjutant General of the State of
Illinois, which he held two years. Gen.
E. L. Higgins was married Sept. 7, 1870,
to Mrs. Mary J. Hoskins, whose maiden
name was Huntington. She was born
July 30, 1847, at Geneva, New York.
She had one child, Charles H. Hoskins
who died July 26, 1874, in his sixth year.
Mr. and Mrs. Higgins have one living
child, FLORA BELLE, and reside in

EARLY SETTLERS OF

Springfield. ALEXANDER D., born
Dec. 21, 1844, in Sangamon county, 111.,
enlisted August 15, 1862, in Co. G, ii4th
111. Inf., served three years, and was hon-
orably discharged, August, 1865. He
was married in Springfield, Nov. 29,
1872, to Lizzie Nottingham. They have
one living child, RALPH, and live in
Springfield. JULIA E. and ROBERT
ALONZO live with their parents. EM-
MA married Justus Graves, and lives at
Evanston, 111. FRANK and WALTER
L. live with their parents. Robert O.
Higgins and wife reside in Springfield,
Illinois.

VIRMANE T, born in Kentucky, died
in Sangamon county, aged thirty-one
years.

WILLIAM E.y born in Kentucky,
went from Sangamon county to Missouri,
and from there, in 1849, to California.
He was on his way home, and died on
shipboard, on the Pacific ocean in 1851.

SINAI MEL VINA, born in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to
Thomas J. Haley. They had two child-
ren. BENJAMIN H., born in Sanga-
mon county, enlisted May 29, 1861, in%
Co. A., 3d 111. Cav., served full term, and
was honorably discharged Sept. 5, 1864.
He is married, and lives at Palmer, 111.
EDWARD enlisted May 10, 1861, in Co.
A, 3d 111. Cav., for three years, served
until May n, 1864, when he was dis-
charged on account of physical disability,
and died, in 1865, at Woodside. T. J.
Haley and wife live at Palmer, Christian
county, Illinois.

JOEL V., born Oct. 8, 1817, in Fay-
ette county, Ky., came to Sangamon
county in 1830, and was married June 16,
1850, to Margaret B. Womack, who was
born Nov. 13, 1822, in Butler county, Ky.
They had eight living children in Sanga-
mon county, JAMES N., GEORGE B.,
SINAI M"., J^OEL E., MARY A., AN-
NIE E., JOHN A. and IDA L., live with
their parents on the farm where Mr. Hig-
gins father settled in 1830. The house in
which he lives was built by his father in
1831, entirely of black walnut lumber; the
frame, doors, door and window casings,
sash, weather boarding, shingles, and
everything else. It is two stories high,
two rooms long, and stands seven miles
south of Springfield.

THOMAS W., born March 2, 1819,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Mary Husband, have five children,
and live in Bates county, Missouri.

ALONZO, born in 1822, in Kentucky,
died in Sangamon county, in 1844.

CAROLINE, born July 31, 1823, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
June 24, 1847, to Thomas A. Rogers, who
was born June 16, 1822, in Kentucky.
They have seven children — ALONZO
H., born Aug, 6, 1848, married Eliza Ad-
ams, and reside in Cotton Hill township.
The other six moved with their parents,
in 1873, to the vicinity of Gerard, Craw-
ford county, Kansas.

BENJAMIN died, aged ten years.

William Higgins died Aug. 7, 1840,
and his widow died Dec. 7, 1866, both on
the farm where they settled in 1830.

HIGGINS, WILLIAM, was
born April 12, 1774, ift Barren county,
Ky. He was married to Elizabeth Down-
ing. She had one child, and died, and he
was married, March 6, 1800, to Rosanna
Megery, who was born Dec. 18, 1778, in
the same county. She had five child-
ren, and died there. In 1817 Mr. Higgins
moved his family to St. Clair county, 111.,
and was there married to Rosanna Dun-
can. He started with his family, in the
fall of 1818, to the San-ga-ma country.
They stopped, on Sugar creek, with the
Drennan's, until Jan. or Feb., 1819, when
they moved about fifteen miles north, and
built a cabin on the south side of the San-
gamon river, above where the Chicago &
Alton railroad now crosses. While he
was living in camp, before his cabin was
completed, himself and wife crossed to the
north side of the river on horseback.
They were belated, and spent one night
in the river bottom, near the mouth of
Fancy creek. A few days later Mr. Hig-
gins went to the north side alone, found
five bee trees, and killed a panther, which
measured nine feet from tip to tip. He
went over soon after, accompanied by his
wife and two daughters, one of whom is
now — 1876 — the wife of David England.
These three are believed to have been the
first white women who ever crossed to the
north of the river, in what is now Sanga-
mon county. Stephen England and his
two sons-in-law came on their exploring
expedition, and stopped with Mr. Higgins
who accompanied them t° the north side,

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and led the way to the vicinity of where
Cantrall now stands, and all four selected
sites for improvement. The creek was
for several years called, in honor of his
having first visited the locality, Higgins
creek; since changed to Cantrall's creek.
Soon after this, a Mr. Chapman, son-in-
law of Judge Latham, crossed the river
and built a cabin on the north side, be-
tween where the Chicago & Alton and
Oilman, Clinton & Springfield railroads
now cross. His wife is thought to have
been the fourth white woman on that side
of the river. Mr. Chapman established a
canoe ferry there, which for three years
was the onlv chance for crossing the river.
Persons could be taken over safe and dry,
animals could swim, and wagons were
taken to pieces, and with their loads were
carried over, piece by piece. About three
years later a boat was first used for a ferry.
The latter part of April, 1819, Stephen
England, his two sons-in-law, his son
David, and two of his daughters crossed
over and finished building their houses
and planting their crops. Those two
daughters of Mr. England were the fifth
and sixth women north of the river. One
of them, Lucy, was the wife of John
Chine. This account was given to me by
David England and his wife, who was
Margaret Higgins. Of the five children
of Wm. Higgins, by his second wife —

CATHARINE, born May 12, 1801,
in Kentucky, married Wm. Bradbury in
St. Clair county, and both died there,
leaving four children.

MARGARET, born Sept. 6, 1804, in
Barren county, Ky., married David Eng-
land. See his name.

LOUISIANA, born Nov. 16, 1806, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to George Harper, raised a family, and
lives in Oregon.

INDIANA, born March 24, 1809, in
Kentucky, married Wm. Crane, in San-
gamon county. She died, leaving one
child, JOSEPH A. CRANE, who is
now a practicing attorney, in Freeport,
Illinois.

WILLIAM H., born Feb. 25, 1813,
in Kentucky, married Priscilla Kearney,
have five children, and live in Cedar coun-
ty, Missouri.

ROSANNA^ born Dec. 16, 1816, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Milton Claypool. He died, leaving a

widow and eleven children, in JoDaviess
county, Illinois.

William Higgins built a boat, and in
1823 took his goods down the Sangamon,
and up the Illinois rivers to a point near
Lewiston, and after that built a mill near
Canton, 111. He moved from there to the
northern part of the State, where he and
his third wife died, leaving four children.

HILL, WILLIAM R., was born
August 7, 1820, in Jessamine county, Ky.
His father, John H. Hill, came with his
family to Sangamon county, in Auburn
township, Oct. 15, 1836. In 1837 they
moved to Christian county. William R.
went with the family, and returned to
Auburn township when he was about
twenty-one years of age. He was there
married, Oct. 6, 1858, to Jennie Mason.
They have four children —

MARTHA E., FANNT M., WIL-
LIAM M. and JENNIE M., and re-
side one mile northeast of Auburn.

HILDRETH, HARVEY.
See his name in connection with the
" sudden change" page 65.

HILLMAN, OLIVER, born
May 10, 1785, in Philadelphia, was mar-
ried July 23, 1807, in that city, to Rachel
Smith. They had six children in Phila-
delphia and New Jersey, and moved with
a part of their family to Springfield, 111.,
arriving in April, 1839. Of their child-
ren—

RICHARD S., born July 7, 1808, in
New Jersey, was married Aug. 11,1831,
in Philadelphia, to Margaret Knorr.
They had four children there, two of
whom died under three years of age.
The family moved to Springfield, 111., in
1840, where two children were born.
In 1846 or '7 Mr. Hillman moved to St.
Louis, where twins were born, one of
whom died young. Of their five living
children: MARY C., born July, 1833,
in Philadelphia, was married in Sanga-
mon county, 111., to Joseph P. Hesser.
They have five children, and live in
Bloomington, Illinois. RACHEL S.,
born Sept. 30, 1835, in Philadelphia, was
married Oct. 18, 1855, in Springfield, 111.,
to Daniel P. Hopping, who was born
Feb. 21, 1832, in Morris county, New
Jersey. They have five children, JOSEPH

F., MARY E., WILLIAM P., HERBERT P.

and SAMUEL M., and reside in Springfield.
D. P. Hopping is a contractor and builder.

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EARLT SETTLERS OP

He, in connection with Mr. Henry Ridge-
ly, established a planing mill in 1867. It
was the first of the kind in Springfield.
ELMIRA J., born March n, 1841, in
Springfield, 111., was married in 1863 to
William Wyatt. They live in Jackson-
ville, 111. ANN E., born Sept. 7, 1845,
in Springfield, 111., married Lewis A.
Wood. See his name. MARGARET,
born April 3, 1848, in St. Louis. (Her
twin mate, Richard, died in his third year.)
She was married Jan. 22, 1868, to Francis
C. Fessenden. They have four living
children, FRANCIS E., Jun., BIRDIE L.,
GEORGIE and RICHARD p. Mr. Fessenden
is a stairbuilder, and resides in Spring-
field, 111.

Mrs. Margaret Hillman died May 23,
1848, in St. Louis. Richard S. Hillman
was married Feb. 8, 1849, m t^iat c'ty> to
Mrs. Eliza J. Vinton, whose maiden
name was Bell. She died without child-
ren, Feb. 15, 1852, at Campbellsville,
Ky. R. S. Hillman brought his family
back to Springfield, 111., in 1853, and was
there married, Dec. 14, 1854, to Ann J.
Williamson. Thev had two living child-
ren, RICHARD and MARY JANE live
with their mother. Richard S. Hillman
died May 31, 1862, in Springfield, and
his widow married Samuel Yocom. See
his name.

JOHN S., born Nov. 29, 1809, in
Philadelphia. He was married three
times, and all his wives and three children
died there. He came to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., in 1839 or '40, and was married in
the same county to Mrs. Sarah A. Uncles-
bee, whose maiden name was PofFenber-
ger. They had eleven children, three of
whom died under six years. Of the other
eight, RICHARD, born Sept. 26, 1843,
married Dec. 29, 1874, to Elizabeth J.
Rape. They have one child, EARNEST s.,
and live in Cotton Hill township. MAR-
GARET A., born March 7, 1848, was
married May 8, 1867, to William T. John-
son. They have two children, and live
in Springfield. He is engineer at the new
State house. RACHEL E., born April
20, 1849, was married March 7, 1871, to
Isaac Fisher. They have one child, JES-
SIE, and live near Mt. Pulaski. GEORGE
H. lives with his mother. WILLIAM
A. married Dec. 15, 1875, to Flora E.
Cooper, and lives near Williamsville.
DANIEL R., MARY E., SARAH J.,

TOHN L. and LIZZIE, the six un-
married, live with their mother. John S.
Hillman died March 22, 1872, and his
widow resides in Cotton Hill township,
near New City Post-office.

ALLEN^orn Sept. 3, 1811, in Phila-
delphia, was married there and had two
children. He moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., and died there. His family re-
turned to Philadelphia.

MARY, born August 29, 1813, in
Philadelphia, was married there to John
Unsworth. Their son, WILLIAM, lives
with his third wife in Springfield, 111.

MARGARET, born Jan. 28, 1816, in
Philadelphia, was married there to John
Hardin, and never came west.

FRANCIS, born Oct. 8, 1817, in
Philadelphia, died in Springfield, 111.

Mrs. Rachel Hillman died March 21,
1842, in Springfield, 111. Oliver Hillman
married Mrs. Mary A. Short, and he died
March II, 1856, in Sangamon county.

H1NMAN, JOHN B., wasborn
Sept. 12, 1804, in Madison county, N. Y.,
came to Sangamon county, 111., with his
uncle, Henry Kinney, Sen., arriving May
6, 1822, in what is now Loami township.'
He was married Dec. 25, 1824, to Jane
Smith, who was born Dec. n, 1802, on
Long Island, N. Y., and came to Sanga-
mon county in Sept., 1822, with her sister,
Mrs. Julia Colburn. They had eight
children in Sangamon county —

EMILY, born March 3, 1826, mar-
ried, Feb. 5, 1846, to George Dill, who
was born June 2, 1825, in Preble county,
Ohio. They had eight children — EMMA
C. died in her sixth year. HENRY H.
married Alice Wilson, have one son, and
live in Curran township. SARAH J.
married Martin Shelton. See his name.
JOHN B., AMOS S., SUSAN A.,
JULIA M. and GEORGE W., live with
their parents, in Chatham township.

LOLA A., born Aug. 15, 1827, mar-
ried Joseph Sweet, have seven children,
and live in Chatham.

DICEY, born Dec. i, 1829, married
Samuel Dill, and live in Girard, Illinois.

NANCY, born Jan. 25, 1832, married
Abraham Dill, had five children; one was
killed by a runaway team. The other
four live with their parents, east of
Auburn.

yULIA A.} married Joshua Hender-

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son, had two children, and mother and
both children are dead.

JOHN B., Jim., died, at ten years of
age.

SMIl^H J. married Jan. i, 1859, to
Melvina Catlett, who was born in Garrard
county, Ky., have four children, and live
in Chatham township.

CAL VIN A., married Laura A. Em
mons, of Preble county, Ohio, have two
children, and live one mile east of Loami.

John B. Hinman and his wife reside
one mile east of Loami, where they set-
tled in 1832. »

Mrs. Lola Hinman, the mother of John
B., came to Sangamon county with him,
in May, 1822, and died in September of
the same year.

HINSLEY, ALFRED, was
born in 1792? m North Carolina. He was
there married, in 1819, to Lucy Elkin,
who was born April, 1803. They had
two children in North Carolina, and
moved to Jones county, Ga., where two
children were born, from there to Smith
county, Tenn., where one child was bqrn.
The family moved to White county, 111.,
and from there to Sangamon county, ar-
riving Nov., 1834, at old Salem, and in
1836 moved to what is Viow Gardner
township, where they had one living child.
Of their children —

CAROLINE, born in 1810, in North
Carolina, died in Illinois, unmarried, in

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JANE, born in North Carolina, mar-
ried in Illinois to Alfred Wagoner. They
have five children, and live in Peters-
burg.

MARTHA, born in Georgia, married
in Illinois to James S. Carter, have four
children, and live in Petersburg.

ALFRED N., born Dec. 27, 1826, in
Jones county, Ga., married in Sangamon
county, July 23, 1851, to Margaret A.
Lemmon. Thev have three children,
SUSAN A., MILDRED L. and ULICK
P., and live at Salisbury.

LECT, born in Smith county, Tenn.,
married in Illinois to James Bryant, have
four children, and live in Petersburg.

JAJMES F., born in Sangamon coun-
ty, has been twice married, and lives in
Petersburg.

MART, born Jan. n, 1840, in Menard
county, married S. Spear, and lives in
Bates county, Missouri.

SARAH, born Dec. 3, 1842, in Menard
county, was killed March 7, 1868, at
Greenview, 111., by an accident on the
Jacksonville branch of the Chicago & Al-
ton railroad.

Alfred Hinsley died Oct. 13, 1844, and
his widow resides in Petersburg.

HOAG, WILLIAM C., was
born Aug. 8, 1816, at Oxford, Butler
county, Ohio. He came to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving at Springfield, Aug.,
1836, and was married at Salisbury, Feb.
16, 1837, to Melinda Miller. They had
seven living children —

JANE died at sixteen years old.

ALONZO, at fourteen, and

FL OR ILL A at three years old.

BARILA born Dec. 18, 1844, married
Thomas C. Yoakum. See his name.

SOLOMON M., born Dec. 31, 1846,
married Ida Carman, have one child,
NORMAN, and live in Salisbury.

WINFREY V., born July 3, 1851,
and

FRANKLIN T., born Nov. 5, 1857;
the two latter live with their parents.

William C. Hoag and wife are both liv-
ing— 1874 — in Salisbury, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

HODGE, RICHARD, born
May 19, 1819, in Smithfield, Jefferson
county, Virginia, was married April, 1838,
to Catharine Divelbiss, in Westmoreland
county, Penn. They moved to Spring-
field in the fall of 1839, and had five liv-
ing children —

JACOB, born Oct., 1840, was married
March 19, 1863, to Elizabeth J. Dennis,
who was born June 7, 1844, in Spring-
field. They have five children, MIN-
NIE, MARGARET, LIZZIE, AB-
BIE and SALLIE, and live in Spring-
field. Jacob Hodge is a wagon manufac-
turer.

NOAH, born Feb. 6, 1842, in Spring-
field, 111., was married in Jackson, Missis-
sippi, to Miss D. L. O. Johnson. She
died Aug. 10, 1874, leaving two children,
EDGAR O. and D. L. O., who live with
their father. Noah Hodge was Circuit
Clerk of Hinds county, Miss., from Sept.
12, 1869, to Jan. 4, 1876. He moved to
Akron, Ohio, and was married there,
May 1 6, 1876, to Sarah W. Ashmun. Mr.
Hodge is a practicing lawyer,* and resides
at Akron.

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BA RL T SB 7 TLERS OF

RICHARD, Jun., born June 25, 1846,
was married in Springfield, 111., Oct. 21,
1872, to Sallie Pierce. He is a wagon-
maker, and lives in Springfield.

GEORGE W., born Feb. 22, 1849,
lives near Springfield, Illinois.

KA TE, born Oct. 10, 1851, was mar-
ried Feb. 8, 1871, in Springfield, 111., to
Jonas F. Stuver, who was born May 12,
1846, in Northampton county, Pennsyl-
vania. They have two children, EL-
SIE E. and, NELLIE E., and live in
Akron, Ohio.

Richard Hodge died May 30, 1852, on
his way to California. It was his second
trip there. Mrs. Catharine Hodge lives
with her son, Noah, in Akron, Ohio.

HODGERSON, JOHN, was
born in Ireland, and brought to America
at ten years old. He was married in
Greenbrier county, Va., to Betsy Martin,
moved to Cabell county, and from there to
Sangamon county, 111., bringing seven
children, and settled five miles west of
Loami, where two children were born.
Mr. Hodgerson died, about 1843, and his
widow in 1850 or '51. Their daughter —

REBECCA, married John C. Buch-
anan. They had seven children. Mr.
Buchanan and five of the children died.
Mrs. Rebecca Buchanan lives five miles
southwest of Springfield.

HOFFMAN, MOSES, was
born Nov. 24, 1 798, in Greenbrier county,
Va. His parents moved to Clark county,
Ohio, when he was a boy. He was mar-
ried there, Dec. 2, 1823, to Mi's. Rhoda
Winn, whose maiden name was Turman.
She was born Feb. 14, 1806, near Spring-
field, Ohio. They had three children
there, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving Nov., 1829, in what is now
Fancy Creek township, where they had
three living children. Of their six child-
ren—

MART A., born Dec. 10, 1824, in
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county,
Sept. 12, 1844, to James W.Dunn. They
had seven living children, namely: AL-
WILDA, RICHARD M.. HENRY C.,
IDA, MARGARET, JAMES W. and
MARY, and live near Corvallis, Ben-
ton countv, Oregon.

MARGARET, born Jan. 2, 1827, in
Ohio, was married, April 10, 1845, *n
Sangamon c6unty, 111., to James H. Thax-
ton. See his name.

LEWIS F., born Sept. 21, 1828, in
Champaign county, Ohio, was married,
Jan. 17, 1861, in Sangamon county, to
Hannah A. Gamble, a native of Holmes
county, Ohio. They had two living
children, LORA and ELMER G., and
live at the homestead settled by Mr. Hoff-
man's parents in 1829; it is six miles north
of Springfield.

AMANDA, born Dec. 20, 1832, in
Sangamon county, was married, Jan. i,
1850, to John B. Huffman. They have
eight children, and reside near Winterset,
Iowa.

LUCINDA, born Oct. 3, 1835, in
Sangamon county, was married, May 23,
1852, to John L. B. Dunlap. They had
four children— CATHARINE married
James H. Blue. See his name.
CHARLES F., FLORENCE and ELI-
ZA. J. L. B. Dunlap died, June, 1863.
His widow and children live two miles
north of Cantrall. See his name.

CLARISSA, born Aug. 20, 1840, in
Sangamon county, was married, March
u,.i858, to Willard R. Shepherd. They
had three children; one died in infancy.
JENNIE H. and JULIA G. reside with
their parents, in Menard county, sixteen
miles north of 'Springfield.

Moses Hoffman was a soldier in the
Black Hawk war. He died in Sangamon
county, June 3, 1842. His widow was
married, Feb. 6, 1847, to Solomon Wood.
They have one child —

SOLOMON S., was born Feb. 23,
1848, was married April 8, 1868, to Mary
J. Wolf, who was born Jan. 8, 1850, near
Mansfield, Ohio. They have two children,
JOHN W. and CHARLES O., and live
one mile south of Sherman. Solomon
Wood died April 18, 1848, in Logan coun-
ty, and his widow resides with her son,
Lewis F. Hoffman.

Mrs. Wood remembers that her first
husband measured the snow of 1830 and
'31, and it was full four feet on a level;
she also remembers the steamboat, Talis-
man, that came up the Sangamon river to
Bogues' Mill, or Portland, as it was
sometimes called. It was on the south
bank of the Sangamon river, about half
way between the Chicago & Alton and
Gilman, Clinton & Springfield railroad
bridges.

HOLLAND, TURNER, was
born July 17, 1806, in Maryland, and was

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taken by his parents to Bath county, Ky.
When a young man he went to Mays-
ville and learned the tanning business,
and then came to Springfield, 111., arriv-
ing in August, 1831. He was sick several
weeks, and when he became convalescent
was introduced to Levi Cantrall, who he
was told, had a tannery in connection
with his farm in Fancy Creek township.
He engaged to work for Mr. Cantrall,
and in Feb., 1832, was married to his
daughter, Nancy Cantrall. They had
eight living children in Sangamon county,
namely —

AMANDA, born May 30, 1833, mar-
ried Elias B. French. She had one child,
and died April 3, 1854.

FANNY, born Dec. 5, 1835, married
Oct. 8, 1854, to Thomas R. Claypool.
He was born Feb. 19, 1826, in Champaign
county, Ohio, came with his parents to
what was then Sangamon, but now Me-
nard county, in 1827. They have five
living children, IDA M., CLARA B.,
LEVI B., CHLOE L. and FREDDIE
D. Thomas R. Claypool lives adjoining
Cantrall on the north.

MILAM A., born July 19, 1837, mar-
ried Mary A. England. He died in Feb.
1857, about one month after marriage.

FRANCIS M., born March 2, 1839,
died in March, 1857.

WILLIAM H. y/.,born Oct. 28, 1840,
enlisted August 12, 1862, for three years,
in Co. C, ii4th 111. Inf. He was captured
at the battle of Guntown, June, 1864, and
spent nine months in prison — at Ander-
sonville three months, Charleston six
weeks, and the remainder of the time at
Florence, S. C. He served his full term,
and was honorably discharged July I,
1865; was married Feb. 12, 1867, to Ruth
A. Canterbury. They have two children,
ALBERT C. and CHARLES T., and
live near Cantrall.

BENJAMIN F., born July 8, 1842,
married Dec. 28, 1865, to Margaret Hunt,
who was born Sept. 30, 1843, in Clarke
county, Ohio. They have two children,
and live near Cantrall.

LUCINDA, born Feb. 17, 1844, mar-
ried March i, 1866, to James I. Wood.
They had one child, JAMES L, Jun.
Mr. Wood died July 2, 1870. His widow
lives near Ciintrall.

PR1SC1LLA, born March 17, 1846,

married to William Hurt. They have
three children, and live at Elkhart.

Mrs. Nancy Holland died, and Turner
Holland was married in March, 1852, to
Mrs. Hannah Lloyd, whose maiden name
was Whitney. They had four living
children in Sangamon county.

NANCT M. lives with her brother,
B. F. Holland.

ELIZA J., lives with her sister, Mrs.
Wood.

ROZETTA lives with her sister, Mrs.
Hurt.

ABIGAIL lives with her brother,
Wm. H. H. Holland.

Turner Holland died March 6, 1866,
and his widow died March n, 1866, both
at Athens, 111., to which place they had
moved a short time before.

HOLLENBACK, AN-
DREW F., born Jan. 14, 1807, in
Great Barrington, Berkshire county,
Mass. He came to Sangamon county,
111., arriving Nov. n, 1830, at Rochester,
but a few days before the "deep snow,"
and remembers that Archibald Sattley
and himself gathered corn during the
whole winter, and fed sixty head of
cattle and fifteen horses. They kept
a wagon road open through the fields
and each would take a basket and
bring the corn to the wagon. He thinks
the snow was from four to four and one-
half feet deep. He was married in
Rochester, Dec. 30, 1838, to Juliann E.
St. Clair, who was born Oct. 9, 1818,
in Vermont. They had three children;
two died in infancy. Their son —

RANSOM A., died at Buffalo, Dec.
21, 1867, in his twenty-fifth year.

Mrs. Hollenback died Aug. 29, 1873.
Mr. Hollenback was appointed Postmaster
at Buffalo, in April, 1870, and holds the
office to the present time. A. F. Hollen-
back was married Feb. 3, 1875, in Joliet,
111., to Mrs. Mary A. Ledyard, whose
maiden name was Carpenter. She was
born Dec. 18, 1818, in Barre, Orleans
county, New York. She has a son,
George R. Ledyard, who lives with them,
at Buffalo, Sangamon county, 111.

HOPPIN, FRANKLIN B.,
brother to Daniel and Charles T., was
born May 18, 1815, in Madison county,
N. Y., married there to Sarah McConncll,
and had two children there. He moved
to Sangamon county,' and settled near

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his brothers, Charles T. and. Daniel, ad-
joining Chatham on the southwest. Of
his children —

SARAH, born in New York, married
in Sangamon county to A. M. Garland.
See his name.

FRANKLIN S., born in New York,
raised in Sangamon county, married Sarah
Pierce, and lives in Louisiana.

F. B. Hoppin died June, 1866, and was
buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery, Spring-
field. His widow resides with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Garland, in Springfield.

The three Hoppin brothers and the Mc-
Connell brothers were among the earliest
' wool growers in Sangamon county. They
prosecuted the business very extensively,
from about 1840 until the close of the re-
bellion in 1865, when the busines declined
for a time.

HOPPI N, CHARLES T., born
June 8, 1817, in Madison county, IS. Y.,
was married there to Eliza McConnell.
They had one child and moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., and settled near Chat-
ham, where his brother Daniel then lived.
They had two children in Sangamon
county. Of their three 'children —

SARAH L., born in Madison county,
New York, married in Sangamon county,
111., to E. F. Richmond. They have two
children, CALISTA and CHARLES S.,
and live in Davenport, Iowa. Mr. Rich-
mond is a lawyer in practice there.

MAR T E., born in Sangamon county,
married Allen E. Parmenter, and died
March, 1870, in Sangamon county. Mr.
Parmenter was born Dec. 30, 1842, in
Madison county, New York. See his
name in connection with the family of
Daniel Hoppin.

CHARLES C., born in Sangamon
county, lives with his father.

Mrs. Eliza Hoppin died in Oct., 1852,
in Talkington township, and Charles T.
Hoppin was married Feb., 1855, in Madi-
son county, N. Y., to Phirietta G. Par-
menter. They have seven children born
in Sangamon county, GEORGE L.,
NETTIE A., KATE L., FLOR-
ENCE M., FREDDIE P., ANNIE
F. and CARRIE P., and reside in
Talkington township, seven miles west of
Auburn.

HOPPIN, DANIEL, was born
Sept. 1 6, 1819, in Madison county, N. Y.
He visited Sangamon county, in company

with his father, in 1839, and bought land
near Chatham. In the fall of 1840 he
came out with a flock of five hundred
sheep for himself, and about two hundred
for Edward F. McConnell. He was one
of the earliest and most extensive wool
growers in the county, and continued it
for many years. Daniel Hoppin and Cor-
delia Bradley were married, March, 1848,
at Chatham. They had three living
children—

ANNA E. married Allen E. Parmen-
ter. She died in 1875, in Talkington
township. See his name in connection
ivith the family of Charles 7\ Hoppin.

GEORGE B., and

CHESTER B. live with their pa-
rents.

Daniel Hoppin and wife reside near
Pocahontas, Bond county, 111. — 1874.

HAUGHTON, ALVIN. Sec
family sketch in Omissions.

HOUSTON, JOHN, born May
i, 1770, in Rockingham county, Virginia,
was married April 23, 1807, in Augusta
county, Va., to Mrs. Jane^ Curry, whose
maiden name was Curry. She was born
June 29, 1776, in Augusta county, and had
one child by her first marriage —

ELIZABETH CURRT, born Mar.
31, 1801, in Augusta- county, Va., was
married there to James Curry, Feb. 17,
1817. They had three children in Vir-
ginia, and moved to Rush county, Ind.,
where two children were born, thence to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1841.'
Of their five children: ROBERT J.,
born Nov. 9, 1818, in Virginia, was mar-
ried March 27, 1839, in Indiana, to Mary
Bracken. They had seven children :
SARAH j. married David Myers, who died,
leaving three children, and she married
Wesley Sparks. They have two children,
and live near Dawson. AMERICA, died
in 1862, aged nineteen years. WILLIAM,
born Dec. 25, 1845, lives in Berlin.
GEORGE B., THOMAS j., ROBERT w. and
JOHN w. reside at the homestead. Mrs.
Mary Curry died Jan. 24, 1869, and R. J.
Curry was married August 8, 1869, to
Sarah French, a native of Onondaga
county, New York. They had two child-
ren, ESTELLA and COQUILLA. Robert
J. Curry died Feb. 23, 1874, suddenly,
while waiting at German Prairie station
for a train to Springfield. Mrs. Sarah
Curry was married August 14, 1875, at

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Barclay, to George Whitesides, and re-
side five miles northeast of Springfield.
John Houston and wife had three living
children. They moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving Nov. 14, 1828, and
on the twenty-eighth of the same month
moved to German Prairie, five miles east
of Springfield. Their eldest child —

JAMES M. died, aged fourteen
years.

MARY, born Oct. 19, 1809, in Augusta
county, Va., married in Sangamon county
to David Newsome. See his name.

SAMUEL, born Feb. 23, 1813, in
Augusta county, Va., was married in
Sangamon county, 111., Nov. 7, 1833, to
Lucretia Rudder, who was born Sept. 6,
1816, in Bath county, Ky., and came to
Sangamon county in the fall of 1830, with
her grandfather, Andrew Cartmell. They
had ten living children — NANCY J.
married Jonathan T. Payne, and died
April 8, "1852. MILETUS C. married
Eliza W. Miller. JOHN A. enlisted in
1862, for three years, in Co. I, 114111 111.
Inf., was at home on sick furlough, and
died May 27, 1865. WILLIAM, T. en-
listed in 1862, for three years, in Co. G,
ii4th 111. Inf., served full time, and was
honorably discharged in 1865. He was
married in Sangamon county, Sept., 1866,
to Permelia Churchill. -They have one
child, WILLIAM F., and live at Edinburg,
111. CHARLES G. was married in San
Francisco, Cal., to Maggie E. Hall. They
have three children, and reside in Balti-
more, Md. JAMES W. married Fran-
ces Nave. They have one child, and live
in Springfield, 111. ANNA M. married
Alexander Dixon. They have one child,
and live five miles east of Springfield.
F. EDWARD, GEORGE S. and VIR-
GIL T., live with their parents. Samuel
Houston and wife reside near German
Prairie station, on the farm where his
father settled in 1828.

John Houston died Jan. 31, 1841, and
his widow died Oct. 18, 1852, on the farm
where they settled in 1828.

HUDSON, JOHN, was born
April 25, 1794, in Mecklenberg county,
Virginia, and taken by his parents to Ca-
bell county, West Va. John Hudson was
a soldier from that county, serving from
Sept., 1813, to April, 1814. He was
married in Cabell county, Oct. 8, 1814, to
Margaret McCray, who was born April

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7, 1803, in Rockingham county, Virginia.
They had three children in Cabell county,
and moved to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving in the autumn of 1826, in what is
now Loami township, where they had
eight children. Of their children —

YOUNG M., born Sept. 22, 1819, in
Cabell county, W. Va., was married in
Sangamon county, 111., Oct. 5, 1843, *°
Minerva L. Meacham. They had one
living child, ELSA JANE, who married
Daniel Staley, Jun. See his name. Mrs.
M. L. Hudson died Sept. 2, 1851, and
Y. M. Hudson was married, Feb. 2, 1853,
to Mrs. Jane Webb, whose maiden
name was Fowler. They reside in New
Berlin.

JANE C, born Aug. 3, 1821, in Ca-
bell county, W. Va., married in Sanga-
mon county to Win. Hodgerson. They
have eight children, and live five miles
south of Waverly.

WILLIAM E., born Dec. 31, 1824,
in Cabell county, W. Va., married in San-
gamon county to Harriet Nipper, who
died Aug. 31, 1851. Mr. H. married
Mary Lacey. They have three children,
MARY M., ELLIE K. and LUCINDA
A., and live three and one-half miles west
of Loami.

RACHEL S., born Feb. 22, 1830,
married Willis Meacham. See his
name.

JOHN M., born Jan. 4, 1833, mar-
ried March 29, 1860, to Sarah J. Camp-
bell, have one living child, LUCY E.,
and live three and one-half miles south of
New Berlin.

GEORGE W., born Jan. 30, 1836,
married Nancy H. Park, and he died,
without children. She married James
L. Short.

ANDREW J., born Jan. 23, 1839,
married Feb. 20, 1862, to Mary M. Smet-
ters. She was born Aug. 28, 1840, in
Ohio. They live three and one-half miles
south of New Berlin, in Loami town-
ship.

FRANCIS M., born Nov. 14, 1842,
in Sangamon county. He enlisted April
16, 1861, (the first man to enlist in Loami
township) in Co. G, 7th 111. Inf., on the
first call for 75,000 men; served full term,
and was honorably discharged. He was
elected Coroner of Sangamon county, in
1864. He lives with his father near
Loami.

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

SARAH E., born Feb. 9, 1845, mar-
ried Thomas N. Park. See his name.

Mrs. Margaret Hudson died Oct. 2,
1854, and John Hudson was married June
21, 1855, to Mrs. Grezelle McNew, whose
maiden name was Park. They reside
now — 1873 — in Loami township, three
and one-half miles west of Loami, and
the same distance south of New Berlin.

Mr. John Hudson says that his father
and the father Bishop, Thomas A. Morris,
lived neighbors, in Cabell county, W.
Va. When Thomas A. was a young
man, he was a deputy under his brother
Edward, who was clerk of Cabell county.
While in the office, at Guyandotte, the
county seat, Thomas A. attended a Meth-
odist camp meeting there, and was con-
verted. He visited his father soon after
and told him he felt it to be his duty to
preach the gospel. His father then pro-
posed to give out an appointment for his
son in two weeks from that time, with
the promise that if he (the father) thought
the son could preach, he would tell him
so. The appointment was filled, the
father listened very attentively, and at the
close said to his son: "Well, Tommy, I
think that if you don't get the big head,
you will make a preacher." That was
thought to be an evidence of remarkable
liberality on the part of the old gentle-
man, in view of the fact that he belonged
to the anti-mission or predestinarian Bap-
tists.

Mr. Hudson heard that effort of the
boy, and the criticisms of the father, and
has been familiar with the history of the
young preacher through all his progress
to the present superanuated Bishop Mor-
ris.— 1873. Two brothers of Bishop Morris
were early settlers in Sangamon county.
See their names.

HUDSON, JOHN, was born
Dec. 25, 1 799, on Roanoke river, Virginia.
He was taken by his parents to Wilson
county, and from there to Rutherford
county, Tenn. Nancy Pitts was born
April 4, 1805, in Wayne county, N. C.
Her father died there, and her mother,
with seven children, moved to Ruther-
ford county, Tenn., in the fall of 1815.
John Hudson and Nancy Pitts were mar-
ried in that county, near the junction of
east and west Stone's river, Sept. 30,
1824, had two children there, and moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the

fall of 1829, about two miles east of
Loami, where five children were born.
Of their children —

LOUISA P., born July 20, 1825, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county
to William Herrold, had one child,
SARAH J., who married August 2,
1870, to Benjamin Card, a native of Eng-
land. They have one child, WILLIAM H.,
and live in St. Louis, Mo. Mr. Herrold
died, and she married Homer E. Starks.
She died, leaving four children. NAN-
CY A. lives with her aunt Edwards.
LOUISA M. lives with her grandmother
Hudson. JULIA A. and ELLEN T.
live with their father, who is married, and
resides in Kansas. He served in an Illi-
nois regiment, and was with Sherman in
his "march to the sea."

ROBERT W., born April 4, 1828, in
Tennessee, died in Sangamon county,
July 6, 1849.

CAROLINE,bovn Feb. 13, 1830,111
Sangamon county, married David Ed-
wards. They have three children.
NANCY ^E. married John W. Smith;
have three children, MARK c., NELLIE c.
and KATIE A., and live in Curran town-
ship. VAN GOLTRA and JANE
M. M. reside with their parents in Chat-
ham township.

AMERICA A., born Feb. 15, 1832,
married Henry R. Burton, and had nine
children. MARY F. married William
Bell, and died, leaving two children.
H. R. Burton enlisted in Dec., 1863, for
three years, in Co. H, loth 111. Cav.,
served to the end of the rebellion, and
was honorably discharged. He died
March 28, 1872, in Brown county. His
widow married John Bell, and lives in
Chatham.

JOHN H., born Jan. 7, 1836, in San-
gamon county, married March 4, 1855,
to Elizabeth McLaughlm. She died Jan.
10, 1856, and he was married April 12,
1868, to Charlotte E. Smith, in Milford,
Wis. She was born in Fulton county,
N. Y., Oct. 26, 1842. They live in Talk-
ington township, eight miles west of
Auburn — 1873.

WILLIAM V., born April 8, 1838, in
Sangamon county, and lives with his bro-
ther, John H.

BLANET Z., born Oct. n, 1841,
died Oct. 6, 1864.

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John Hudson died Oct. 24, 1844, in
Sangamon county, and his widow lives
with her sons, John H. and William V.

Benjamin Hudson, the father of John
Hudson, with his wife, two sons, William
and Richard, and his daughter, Susan,
came to Sangamon county in 1827. In
the fall of 1839 they all moved to Wash-
ington county, Iowa.

Mrs. Nancy Pitts, the mother of Mrs.
Nancy Hudson and Blaney Pitts, the
youngest brother of Mrs. H., came with
herself and husband to Sangamon county,
and both went to St. Clair county, where
the mother died. Blaney Pitts has been
twice married, and lives in Marion
county.

Mrs. Hudson vividly remembers the
privations she endured on coming to the
country. The first year they all shook
with ague. The next year the "deep
snow" came. Their cabin was built with
the door outside. One morning they got
up and could not open it; the snow was
drifted higher that the door. By loud
calls they attracted the attention of her
father-in-law, who came and shoveled the
snow away, and relieved them from their
imprisonment. They were for a long
time without tea, coffee or sugar, and had
to substitute hominy for bread. She
thought that if she could only get out of
Illinois she would never want anything
more, but would be happy the remainder
of her mortal life. Four years later her-
self and husband visited Tennessee. The
hills seemed higher — she thought the
stone on the land had increased ten fold,
and the soil was a deeper red than ever
before. Her chief desire Was to return to
Illinois, and she has always been satisfied
since that time.

Mrs. Hudson, describing a visit to St.
Clair county to see her mother, says they
traveled in a one-horse carriage over
country where it yielded at least forty
bushels of green flies to the acre. It was
all they could do to save the life of their
horse by wrapping it up with bed cloth-
ing. After that they laid up in daylight
and traveled at night.

HUCKLEBERRY, HEN-
RY, was born about 1779, in Pennsyl-
vania. His parents had just emigrated
from Baden, Germany, and soon after his
birth they moved to Kentucky, a short
distance above Louisville. A few years

later, while returning from school, his
youngest brother was captured by In-
dians. The father pursued them, and
when about to rescue his boy, an Indian
sunk a tomahawk in the boy's head, and
threw him from the canoe into the Ohio
river. It was near the mouth of a small
stream that is called Huckleberry creek to
the present time. The family soon after
moved to Clark county, Ind. Henry
was married there to Susan Wigal. She
was born in 1792, in Virginia, and taken
by her parents to Clark county. They
had ten children in that county, and the
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in Oct., 1833, and settled in what
is now Mechanicsbiirg township, where
they had one child. Of their children —

ANNA, born Nov. 15, 1807, in Indi-
ana; married there to Wm. B. Johnson.
•See his name.

ELIZABETH, born Feb. 21, 1810,
in Indiana; married there to Blakely
Smith. They had two living children,
and Mr. Smith died Aug., 1847, at Car-
lington, Louisiana, while traveling on
business. His widow married March 18,
1851, in Sangamon county, to John Lang-
ley. They had one child. Of her three
children, ANGELINE SMITH mar-
ried Silas Igo, have seven children, and
live in Christian county. HENRY J.
SMITH married Aug. 27, 1859, to Nancy

A. Martin. They have three living child-
ren, ELIZA A., LAURA J., and BENJAMIN

F.,and live near Mechanicsburg. LAURA

B. LANGLEY married Henry Framp-
ton, have two children, and live near
Mechanicsburg. John Langley and wife
live four miles south of Dawson, Sanga-
mon county.

JONATHAN, born Feb. 5, 1814,
in Clark county, Ind., married in Sanga-
mon county April, 1841, to Luann Mc-
Daniel. They had five children. MARY
E. died Sept. 22, 1873, in her 3Oth year.
MARIA, born June 20, 1846, married
James H. McDaniel (son of Jeptha). Mr.
McDaniel died Aug. 14, 1870, leaving
two children. His widow and children,
ALBERT and LESLIE, live with her father.
CAROLINE lives with her father.
JAMES H. married Lavica Lenville, and
lives near Illiopolis. ANN E. lives with
her aunt, Mrs. North. Mrs. Luann
Huckleberry died Jan. 2, 1855, and Jona-

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than Huckleberry lives two miles southeast
of Illiopolis — 1874.

ELIZA, born July 19, 1816, married
Wm. Laughrey; had two children, and
all the family died.

DA VID, born Nov. 5, 1818, in Clarke
county, Ind., married Nov. 19, 1848, in
Sangamon county, to Almyra Cherry.
They have five living children, namely :
WILLIAM H., BENJAMIN F.,
OWENO., ORAH A., and CHARLES
I., and live three miles south of Riverton,
Sangamon county.

JOHN W., born Sept. 2, 1822, in Ind.
He enlisted in Sangamon county in Co.

D, 4th 111. Inf., and served from 1846 to
1847, m tb-e war w'th Mexico. He was
married Jan. 12, 1851, to Barbara S. Der-
ry, who was born March i, 1834, in
London county, Va. They had six child-
ren; three died under five years. ALICE

E. married Absalom J. Barracks, have
four children, and live near Illiopolis.
ALONZO E. and IDA MAY live with
their parents, three miles south of Daw-
son, Sangamon county. John W. Huck-
leberry enlisted Aug. 6, 1862, for three,
years, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf. He was
captured at Stone's River Jan. i, 1863;
was paroled at Richmond, Va., and ex-
changed at St. Louis; served in the In-
valid Corps the rest of his term, and was
honorably discharged in 1865.

CHRISTIANA, born Feb. 4, 1824,
in Indiana; married in Sangamon county
Nov. 28, 1850, to John R. Williams, who
was born July 30, 1824, in Dearborn
county, Ind. They have six children,
JOHN H., FLORENCE A., GEORGE
L., EDGAR H., LUCIUS A., and
MELISSA B., and live three miles south
of Dawson. John R. Williams served
one year, from June, 1846, in Co. D, 4th
111. Inf. in the war with Mexico.

ELI L., born April 7, 1829, in Ind.,
married in Sangamon county Dec. 14,
1856, to Emily H. Derry, who was born
Aug. 26, 1840, in London county, Va.
They have seven children; three died un-
der five years. The other four, MARY
M., SAMUEL L., HATTIE MAY
and NORA, live with their parents at
Illiopolis. E. L. Huckleberry enlisted Aug.
6, 1862, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf., for three
years; served until Jan. 23, 1863, when he
was discharged on account of physical
disability.

AMERICA, born April 14, 1832, in
Ind., married Nathan Potts; have two
living children, and live near Taylorville.

SUSAN, born March n, 1835, in
Sangamon county, died at seventeen years
of age.

Henry Huckleberry died March 13,
1859, and his widow died Dec. 31, 1868,
both near where they settled in 1833, in
the vicinity of Mechanicsburg. Henry
Huckleberry was a soldier in the war of
1812. He fought at the battle of Tippe-
canoe, and it is well attested that he killed
the last Indian that was slain at that battle.

HUFFMASTER, WM., was
born about 1800, either in Germany or
immediately after the arrival of his
mother in Virginia, his father having died
in Germany. The widow married a man
named Sawyers, had two children, and
he died, and she married Henry Brown,
and moved from St. Clair to Sangamon
county, as early as March, 1819, and set-
tled at the north side of Lick creek, in
Loami township. William had a sister,
Lucinda. They came with Mr. Brown,
their stepfather, to Lick creek, and while
he went back after another load of goods,
HufFmaster cut logs, built a cabin, and
had it ready for the family when Mr.
Brown returned. He had also made a
trough, placed it in the cabin, cut down
bee trees, and filled the trough wfth
honey. When John Campbell came and
settled at the south side of Lick creek,
he thought himself the first settler, but
hearing the sound of an axe, he went
over and found that HufFmaster had been
there before him. After more settlers
came in, HufFmaster was in the woods
with Samuel Harbour, and they found a
panther up a tree. Harbour went for a
gun, and the panther came down. HufF-
master urged on the dogs, and securing a
large club, went to their assistance, and
when Harbour returned, to his surprise,
found the panther stretched out dead with
HufFmaster and the dogs standing around
it. HufFmaster's powers of endurance
were remarkable. It is well attested that
he split 7°° raHs in one day. He was
married, about 1821, to Clarissa Smith,
who was born in Kentucky, and came
with her parents to Sangamon county,
about 1820. They had eleven children —

SARAH, born Sept. 4, 1823, married
in 1844 to Asa Morris. They have several

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children, and live in Missouri. Their
son, Mayhew Morris; lives near Loami.

ELIZABETH, born Nov. 8. 1824,
married Brice R. Weir, had two children,
and she died. Their daughter, SUSAN,
married Jesse Dodd, and lives in Chat-
ham township. JANE married Lawrence
Underwood, and lives in Loami town-
ship.

EDMUND, born April 26, 1827, mar-
ried Elizabeth Colburn, and for a second
wife married Susan Parker, and lives in
California.

WILLIAM, Jun., born Dec. 9, 1829,
married in 1848 to Emeline Colburn, and
had two children. IRA W. lives at
Loami. PAUL E. is a member of Co.
B, i6th U. S. Inf.— 1873. Mrs. Emeline
Huffmaster died in 1854, and he married
Achsa Underwood, have several children,
and reside near Owanaco, Christian
county, Illinois.

DA VID, born Feb. 17, 1831, married
Adelia Parker, had one child, and Mrs.
Huffmaster died in Sangamon county.
Mr. H. started to California overland, in
1856, and lost his life in a singular man-
ner. He was playing with a favorite
dog, while holding a gun in his hand.
The dog struck the hammer and the gun"
went off, lodging the charge in the shoul-
der of Mr. H., causing his death in a few
days. His daughter, LYDIA, is now in
California — 1873.

LUCINDA, born June 15, 1832, mar-
ried Daniel W. Colburn. See his name.

MART, born June 12, .1834, married
James Davis, had two children, and she
died. Her sons, ADIN and SIDNEY,
live in Loami.

JOHN, born May 21, 1836, married,
Jan. 4, 1866, to Mary Davis. They have
four children, FRANK, EZRA, WAL-
TER and LUCY, and live near Loami.

NANCT A., born May 26, 1838, mar-
ried Ebenezer Colburn. See his name.

ROBERT, born 'Nov. 31, 1842, lives
in Loami.

DANIEL, born Nov. 21, 1844, en-
listed in 1861, in Co. C, nth Mo. Inf., for
three years, and died in the army, March
8, 1862.

William Huffmaster died Oct. 19, 1861,
and his widow died Sept. 23, 1866, both
at Loami.

HUGHES, CHARLES F.,
was born July 9, 1807, in Baltimore, Md.

His father, John E manual Hughes, was
born March 13, 1767, in Montpellier,
France, and married in Baltimore, Md.,
U. S. A., Oct. 7, 1806, to Juliana S. B.
Wiesenthal, who was born in Baltimore,
Jan. 12, 1785. Her father was physician
to Frederick the Great, of Prussia.
Charles F., the subject of this sketch,
graduated at St. Mary's College, Em-
mettsburg, Md., at the age of twenty;
studied medicine under Dr. Edrington, in
Baltimore, and graduated three years
later at Maryland Medical College, Balti-
more. His health being impaired, he took
a sea voyagfe, immediately after graduat-
ing. On their arrival at Guatemala,
Central America, they were surprised by
the negroes, who were in successful in-
surrection. They killed all the officers,
crew and passengers, except Dr. Hughes
and another physician, whose lives they
spared solely because they were "medicine
men." For seven years he practiced his
profession among those savages, watching
for an oportunity to escape. He was
always under surveillance when vessels
• were in port. Finally, while discharging
his duties in a hospilal near the landing,
he saw an American vessel approaching,
and secreted himself among some barrels
until the way was clear, when he reached
the vessel and returned to his native
land. He was married, Sept. 3, 1835,
to Sarah J. Chambers, who was born in
1812, in Chestertown, Maryland. She
was the daughter of Gen. Campbell
Chambers, an officer of the war of 1812.
He was born April 2, 1783, and married
Jan. 1 8, 1807, to Sarah J. Clarkson, who
was born Oct. 18, 1787, in Kent county,
Md. Dr. Hughes came to Springfield in
1836, and engaged in the drug business
for a short time. For two years he prac-
ticed medicine in the different small towns
of the county, then resumed the drug busi-
ness in Springfield. Dr. Hughes and wife
had six children, two of whom died
young. Of the four living children —

ANNA C., born July 23, 1836, in Bal-
timore, was married Oct. 31, 1861, in
Springfield, 111., to Charles W. Salisch.
See his name in connection with the
Capps family.

MART E., born Oct. 14, 1838, in San-
gamon county, was married Feb. 4, 1861,
in Springfield, to Herman H. Abrams,
who was born in 1837, in Springfield.

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They have four living children, NINA,
JOHN, VICTOR and FREDERICK.
Mrs. Abrams died Oct. 8, 1874, at Camer-
on Junction, Missouri, and is buried at
Palmyra, Mo. Mr. Abrams and his
children reside at the former place.

JOHN C., born Jan. 10, 1841, in Mt.
Auburn, Christian county, Illinois, en-
listed August 15, 1862, in Co. B, 114111
111. Inf., and was appointed Corporal.
He was at the siege and capture of Vicks-
burg, and in the battle of Jackson, Miss.,
and was discharged on account of physi-
cal disability, Sept. 18, 1863. John C.
Hughes was married Feb.- 14, 1865, in
Springfield, 111., to Sarah C. Henry, who
was born Dec. 19, 1845, near Pleasant
Plains, Sangamon countv. They have
four living children. BERTHA B.,
OLIVE I., S. LUCRETIA and KATE.
Mr. Hughes has been employed in the
book room of the State Journal Com-
pany for sixteen years — except the time
spent in the army — the last six years as
Superintendent of the State printing, is
so engaged at the present time — 1876 —
and resides in Springfield.

JULIANA B., born Sept. 4, 1843, in
Rochester, Sangamon county, 111., was
married March 20, 1865, in Palmyra,*
Missouri, to Oliver T. Prickett, who was
born Feb. 26, 1845, in Fairmont, Virginia.
They have two children, RALPH and
GUY, and reside at Carbondale, 111.

Dr. Charles F. Hughes was one of the
founders of the Episcopal church in
Springfield, and was treasurer of the same
several years. He died Sept. 2, 1850,
and Mrs. Hughes died May 20, 1871 —
both in Springfield.

Dr. Hughes was the eldest of three
brothers and two sisters, all natives of
Baltimore, Md. Andrew W. came to
Springfield in 1836, and after a stay of a
year or two, returned east and died in
1875, in Washington, D. C. John T.
was a Surgeon in the U. S. army, sta-
tioned at Jefferson Barracks, Mo. He died
in the Island of St. Thomas, in 1848. Maria
E. was married in Baltimore to Henry Rei-
gart, and resides there. Sophia J. came to
Springfield in 1840, and married Mr. Bier-
sted in 1858. He died in 1860, in Carroll-
ton, 111., and she resides in Baltimore. Mrs.
Juliana S. B. Hughes, mother of the above
named, came to Springfield with her daugh-
ter, Sophia J., in 1840, and died here in 1848.

HUGGINS, JOHN, was born
about 1788, in New York, and raised in
Greenbrier county, Va., and went to
Gallia county, Ohio, when he was a young
man. Jane Hazlitt was born about 1797,
in Stokes county, N. C., and was taken to
Gallia county, Ohio, when she was quite
young. They were married, had seven
children, and moved to Virginia, where
one child was born; thence to Cartel-
county, Ky., where one child was born,
and to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in
the fall of 1840, in what is now Loami
township. Of their children —

HANNAH, born in Ohio, June 5, 1818,
married in Sangamon county to James
Short, and had two children. Mr. Short
went to California, was on his way home,
and is believed to have been lost on the
ship Central America, about 1855. His
widow died July 7, 1871. Their daugh-
ter, FANNIE, married Peter Workman.
See his name. His wife and two children
live with their grandmother Huggins.
JAMES A. SHORT lives with his grand-
mother Huggins, also — 1874.

CHARLES, born April 30, 1820; died,
aged 23.

JOHN T., born April 16, 1822, mar-
ried Mrs. Lucy Runyon; has two child-
ren, and lives near Bethany, Harrison
county, Missouri. «

ELIZABE7^H} born April 22, 1824,
lives with her mother.

SARAH, born June 18, 1826, in Ohio;
married Jan. ^o, 1852, in Sangamon coun-
ty, to Ethan A. Bell, who was born July
25, 1829, in Madison county, 111. They
have three children, SUSAN J., MAR-
THA E., and THOMAS B., and reside
three and one-half miles west of Loami.

MARTHA, born Aug. 4, 1828; lives
with her mother.

FRANCES M., born July 22, 1831,
married Daniel Whitehead; have eight
childrer and reside near Edinburg, Illi-
nois.

PHk,BE, born Jan. 22, 1833, in Vir-
ginia, married James Lindsay, who died,
leaving a widow and five children, in Da-
vis county, Missouri.

JUNIOR, born June 3, 1837, in Car-
ter county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county to Lavina Bartlett; had two child-
ren, and live near Edinburg, Illinois.

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John Huggins died Sept. 19, 1845, and
his widow lives half a mile west of Loami,
Illinois.

HU MH PREYS, OWEN, was
born May 27, 1769, near Humphreysville,
now Bryn Mawr, Montgomery county,
Penn. his parents moved to Fleming
county, Ky., when he was quite young.
Mrs. Isabel Keith, whose maiden name
was Lee, was born Sept. 7, I771' but
whether it was in Virginia or Kentucky is
not known. Owen Humphreys and Mrs.
Isabel Keith were married in Fleming
county, Ky. They had seven child ren
born in Fleming and Bath counties, and
Mrs. Isabel Humphreys died April 12,
1823, in Bath county. Owen Humphreys,
with some of his children, came to Sanga-
mon county, 111 , arriving in the fall of
1828 or 1829, and settled three and a half
miles southeast of Springfield, and west
of Sugar creek. Of his seven children —

THO-\[AS L., born Jan. 24, 1799, in
Fleming county, Ky., married in Bath
county, to Sally Foster. They had four
living children in Fleming county, and
moved to Bath county, where one child
was born, and then moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in the spring of 1830,
three and a half miles southeast of Spring-
field. Mr. Humphreys being sick that
summer, they returned to Bath county,
Ky., and came back to Sangamon county
in 1844, settling at the same place he
occupied in 1830. Some of his children died
young, and he brought but three with him
to Sangamon county the second time, viz:
MARY, born June 6, 1824, near Flem-
ingsburg, Ky.; married March, 1847, in
Sangamon county, to George W. Wil-
liams, who was born Oct. 27, 1822, at
Columbus, Ohio. He is a descendant of
Roger Williams, of Rhode Island. Mr.
and Mrs. Williams had five children, three
of whom died in infancy. LLEWELLYN
died in her ninth year. MARY T., born
born Jan. i, 1848, in Sangamon county,
was married Dec. 28, 1865, to Charles E.
Payne. They had four children, all of
whom died under four years. Mr. and
Mrs. Payne live five miles southwest of
Edinburg. Mr. and Mrs. Williams reside
five and a half miles southwest of Edin-
burg, Christian county, 111. MINERVA,
born June 12, 1828, in Fleming county,
Ky.; died Oct., 1854, in Christian county,
111. CHARLES, born Dec. 8, 1830, in

Bath county, Ky. ; came with his parents to
Sangamon county; enlisted Aug. 5, 1861,
in Co. C, 2d 111. Light Artillery, for three
years. After serving two and a half years,
he was commissioned Lieutenant of Co. C,
8th U. S. Colored Artillery, and served
eleven months. Charles Humphreys was
married March 23, 1865, near Virclen,
111., to Julia Goodrich. They have three
children, CHARLES, NELLIE and HATTIE.
He is a merchant in Virden, and resides
there. Mrs. Sally Humphreys died March
18, 1852, and Thomas Humphreys died
Aug., 1855, both in Christian county, Illi-
nois.

CHARLES .F., born June 18, 1801,
in Fleming county, Ky. ; never married.
He superintended an establishment for
producing iron from the ore, in Greenup
county, Ky., until his health failed, when
he came to Sangamon county, and died at
his father's house, Feb. 9, 1831.

ALEXANDER, B. V., born Nov.
27, 1803, in Fleming county, Ky., married
Oct., 1827, in Bath county, to Nancy R.
Whitecraft. They moved, in a few
weeks, to Springfield, 111., arriving Dec.,
1827. They had one child born in Spring-
field, and in 1829 moved to Sugar creek
timber, three and a half miles southeast of
Springfield, where six children were born.
Of their children— JOHN O., born July
18, 1828, in Springfield, is unmarried, and
resides seven miles southwest of Edinburg.
BENJAMIN F., born Sept. 10, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married Oct. it, 1866,
in Christian county, to Mrs. Mary J.
Martin, whose maiden name was Wood.
She was born Jan. 13, 1842, in Montgom-
ery county, Ky. They had one child,
and B. F. Humphreys died Nov. 30, 1870.
His widow and daughter, IDA, resides at
Edinburg, 111. CHARLES F., born Feb.
3, 1833, in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug.
5, 1861, in Co. C, 2d 111. Light Art. He was
promoted through all the grades to First
Lieutenant. Served exactly four years,
and was honorably discharged at Spring-
field, 111., Aug. 5, 1865. He was married
Jan. 19, 1875, to Jane A. Williams, and
reside one-half mile southeast of Roches-
ter, Sangamon county, 111, DAVID C.
died in his second year. THOMAS E.,
born Sept. 29, 1838, in Sangamon county,
enlisted Aug. 15, 1862, in Co. E, 114111
111. Inf., for three years. He was color
bearer of his regiment, and was wounded

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Dec. 1 6, 1864, the second day of the battle
of Nashville; recovered, served his full
time, and was honorably discharged at the
close of the rebellion. He died at the
family homestead, in Christian county,
111., Dec. 26, 1868. MARY M. J., born
Feb. 29, 1840, in Sangamon county, 111.,
was married March 3, 1875, to Dr.
J. Henry Dickerson, who graduated
Feb. 23, 1870, at the Philadelphia
University of Medicine and Surgery.
Dr. Dickerson and wife reside ten
miles northwest of Taylorville, Christian
county. See Dr. Dickersoti's name in
connection 'with the name of his grand-
father, Robert Bell. JOSEPH A., born
Jan. 2, 1843, is unmarried, and resides at
the family homestead. Alexander B. V.
Humphreys was engaged in blacksmithing
while he lived in Springfield; but the
business of his life was farming, in which
he was eminently successful. In March,
1850, he moved with his family to Chris-
tian county, seven miles southwest of
Edinburg, where Mrs. Nancy R. H.
died Feb. 28, 1862, and A. B. V. Hum-
phreys died Oct. 8, 1865.

MART A., born Jan. 17, 1807, in
Fleming county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Philetus G. Pierce. They
had five children in Sangamon county.
ISABEL died young. The family moved
in 1851, to the vicinity of Roseburg,
Douglas county, Oregon, where Mr.
Pierce died, in 1858 or '9, and Mrs. Pierce
died Jan., 1872. Their four children,
JOHN D., ELIZABETH, CARO-
LINE and OWEN reside in Oregon.

JOHN D., born Oct. 2, 1809, in Bath
county, Ky., married Nov. 8, 1832, in
Sangamon county, to Mary McKinnie.
They had two children. MIRANDA,
born August i, 1833, died in her third
year. DAVID, born Dec. 4, 1834, in
Sangamon county, married June 9, 1857,
to Mary A. Chapman, who was born
March 2, 1835, in Devonshire, England.
They have three children, JOHN j., MARY
A. and MINNIE E., and reside at Farming-
dale, Sangamon county, Illinois. He is
station agent and postmaster there. John
D. Humphreys died in July, 1835, three
and a half miles southeast of Springfield,
and his widow married John Branson.
See his name.

ELIZABETH, born Feb. n, 1812,
in Bath county, Ky., married in Sanga-

mon county to Willoughby Churchill.
See his name. They had four children,
and started, in 1850, to Oregon. Mrs.
C. died at the Delles, a narrow gorge in
Columbia river. The family reside near
Harrisburg, Linn county, Oregon.

DA VI D, born Feb. 4, 1819, in Ken-
tucky, died in Sangamon county, Sept. 6,
1834.

Owen Humphreys died Jan., 1846, in
Sangamon county, near Mechanicsburs:.

HUNTER, JAMES, was born
August 14, 1778, in London county, Va.,
and went, when a young man, to Gallatin
county, Ky. He was there married to
Rachel Scott, who was born Oct. 17, 1783,
in Virginia. They had nine children in
Gallatin county, and moved to Sangamon
county, 111,, arriving Dec., 1828, in what
is now Illiopolis township. Of their
children —

WILLIAM, born Feb. 17, 1807, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Polly Dickerson. They both died,
leaving a large family near Mt. Auburn,
Christian county.

ELIZABE7^H. born May i, 1809,
in Gallatin county, Ky., married in San-
gamon county to William Donner. See
his name.

JOHN, born Aug. 8, 1811, in Gallatin
county, Ky., married in Sangamon county
to Martha Dickerson, who was born Sept.
25, 1811. They had six children — MARY
J., born May 18, 1840, married Harrison
P. Hampton. See his name. HUGH
L., born Oct. i, 1841, enlisted July 19,
1861, for three years, in Co. I, 41 st 111.
Inf., served full term, and was honorably
discharged, Aug. 20, 1864, was married,
March 30, 1865, in Sangamon county, to
Rose Ann Ream, and lives three and one-
half miles southwest of Illiopolis.
RACHEL F., born Feb. 9, 1843, married
Nov. 14, 1 86 1, to James Lee, who was
born Nov. 16, 1838, in Gallipolis, Ohio.
They had five children — HARRIET A. died
in infancy. WM. GRANT, FLORENCE,
LAURA v. and ALLIE live with their pa-
rents, three miles southwest of Illiopolis.
SARAH E., born July 4, 1845, married
Thomas Sidener, have two children, and
live near Rochester. THOMAS S.,
born Sept. 18, 1847, and ARCHER
SCOTT, born Sept. 28, 1852, live in Illi-
opolis township. Mrs. Martha Hunter

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died Aug., 1854, and John Hunter died
Dec. 22, 1856.

JAMES, Jun., born Feb. 14, 1814, in
Gallatin county, Ky., was brought by his
parents to Sangamon county, in 1828, and
was married in Macon county to Lucinda
Warnick. They had one child— SARAH
L., born Dec. 25, 1839, married, April 18,
1 86 1, in Springfield, to Sylvanus Dake,
who was born Feb. 26, 1834, in Cattarau-
gus county, N. Y. They had three child-
ren— JULIA ANNA died in her second
year. CORNELIA F. and OSCAR H., live
with their parents in Illiopolis. Mrs. Lu-
cinda Hunter died Dec. 31, 1839, and Mr.
Hunter married Rebecca Newell. They
had two children, WILLIAM and MAR-
GARET A. They live in .Iowa. James
Hunter died in 1845. His widow married
a Mr. Feeds.

CELIA, born Feb. 29, 1816, in Galla-
tin county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county to Archibald Dickerson. See his
name.

SALLY, born in 1818, in Kentucky,
raised in Sangamon county, married in
Macon county to Joseph Hanks, and had
four children. RACHEL married Oct.
26, 1857, to Elijah Gathard, have six
children, and live seven miles east of
Springfield. MARGARET married
Dr. Frank Hall, and died. CELIA mar-
ried Dr. Frank Hall. See his name. Mr.
and Mrs. Hanks died in Macon county.

MARGARET J., born Dec. 26,
1819, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county to Wm. Freeman, had three child-
ren, and the parents died in Macon
county.

RACHEL, born April 26, 1822, in
Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county,
married Lewis Freeman, had three child-
ren, and Mrs. F. died in Macon county.
Mr. F. moved to Iowa City, Iowa.

THOMAS, born Sept. 14, 1824, in
Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, at
about twenty years of age.

Mrs. Rachel Hunter died April 18,
1865, and James Hunter died April 22,
1867, both in Illiopolis township, near
where they settled in 1828.

HUNTER, THOMAS S.,
was born Feb. 8, 1814, in Hardin county,
Ky. His father died in 1818, his mother
married Wm. Y. Singleton, and the fam-
ily came to Sangamon county 111., in the
spring of 1837. Mi's. Singleton died in

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1855. Thomas S. Hunter was married
June 13, 1844, to Martha Darneille. They
had three children, namely —

MARTHA R., married James W.
Barger. See his name.

JAMES W. and ROBERT S., live
with their parents, five miles west of
Chatham.

Of the three sisters —

HUNTER, ELIZA, married
James Lampton, and died, leaving three
children in Mason county.

HUNTER, MARY M., mar-
ried G. R. Vigus, who died, leaving a
widow and one son near Ottawa, Kansas.

HUNTER, REBECCA H.,
married Absolom D. McGraw. See
his name.

HURST, CHARLES R., was
born Sept. 20, 1811, in Philadelphia, Pa.
He came to Springfield in March, 1834,
and first engaged as clerk with Bell &
Tinsley, dry goods merchants, on Jeffer-
son street, between Second and Third,
where the Springfield Manufacturing
Company's works now stand. He bought
out the dry goods business of Joshua F.
Speed, and has been in the mercantile
business to the present time; now as one
of the firm of Hurst & Ruth. Charles
R. Hurst was married in Springfield to
Ann Taylor, a daughter of Col. John
Taylor. They had six living children, all
in Springfield —

JENNIE E. and

ANNA W. reside with their parents.

GEORGIA S. was married April,
1874, to Maurice Starne, a son of Hon.
Alexander Starne, and resides in Spring-
field.

CHARLES H.,

ED WARD S. and

HUIZINGA M. reside with their pa-
rents in Springfield.

Mr. Hurst served the city of Spring-
field as alderman eight years. He was
chairman of the committee on finance dur-
ing the whole of that time. He also
served three years as Waterworks Com-
missioner.

HUSBAND, HARMON, was
born April 10, 1791, in Noi'th Carolina,
and taken by his parents to Christian
county, Ky. Sarah Pyles was born Nov.
12, 1790, in South Carolina. Her parents
moved about 1795, to the vicinity of Mt.
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EARLY SETTLERS OF

later moved to Christian county. Harmon
Husband and Sarah Pyles were there
married in 1811, and had five children in
that county. The family moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving in Oct., 1820,
and settled three miles east of the present
town of Auburn, where seven children
were born. Of their children —

EVELINE, born April i, 1814, in
Christian county, Ky., married Josephus
Gatton. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born about 1816, in
Kentucky, married Thomas Mason. See
his name. She died Dec. 23, 1850, leaving
four children.

MART A., born in Kentucky, married
Thomas J. Higgins. See his name.

JANE, born in Kentucky, is unmar-
ried, and lives at the family homestead.

MARTHA, married Wm. M. Snow,
and died March 8, 1856, in Carlinville,
leaving one child, ENOCH W. SNOW.
He lives at the Husband family home-
stead.

SUSAN died in 1850, aged twenty-
eight years.

JAMES E. D. is unmarried, and
lives at the family homestead.

JOHN J|>. A., born Feb. 19, 1828, in
Sangamon county, married Jan. 7, 1864,
to Ann E. Barrow. They have three
children, EFFIE A., MINNIE A. and
CLARLES H., and live six miles south
of Springfield.

SARAH R., and

WILLIAM H., twins, born in San-
gamon county, are both unmarried, and
live at the family homestead.

EMIL T, born in Sangamon county,
married Lockwood M. Todd. See his
name. They live in Virginia City,
Montana Ter.

Harmon Husband died Feb. 15, 1848,
and Mrs. Sarah Husband resides— 1874 —
on the farm where they settled in 1820.
It is three miles east of Auburn, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

HUSTON, MARTHA, was
born May 4, 1819, in Cumberland county,
Penn. She came to Chatham, May 14,
1839, on a visit to her sister, Mrs. Wm.
P. Thayer, and was married in Chatham,
Sept. 28, 1843, to Henry Thayer, who
was .born July i, 1812, in Boston, Mass.,
and came to Sangamon county, in April,
1841. They had eight children —

JOSEPH L., died at two years of
age.

HENR T, died in his thirteenth year.

Of the other six Thayer children —

ELLEN M., born June 29, 1844,
married, Aug. 25, 1864, to Thomas Mc-
Elwain. They have one living child,
ANNA ROSA, and live in Chatham.

OLIVE J., E. RUGGLES,
CHARLES M., ANNA C. and EM-
MA A., reside with their parents in Chat-
ham— 1874.

HUSSEY, NATHAN, was
born Sept. 20, 1785, in York county,
Penn,; went to Washington county, Va.,
when a young man. Mary Stewart was
born in the latter county Oct. i, 1785.
They were there married in 1803, and
soon moved to Green county, Ohio,
about fourteen miles southeast of Xenia.
Seven of their children were born there,
and the family moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., arriving May 10, 1819, in what is
now Fancy Creek township, where two
children were born. Of their nine child-

fpn

CHRISTOPHER and MA R T,
twins, were born March, 1805, in Ohio.

CHRISTOPHER was married Sept.
12, 1828, in Sangamon county, to Eliza-
beth Primm, and died Sept. 16, 1830,
leaving a widow without children.

MART\v&& married Feb. 27, 1829, to
Joseph R. Young. They had three liv-
ing children in Sangamon county. In
1850 they moved overland to Oregon,
with their three children. DAVID died
on the summit of the Rocky mountains.
MARGARET died soon after their arri-
val in Oregon. Mr. Young died there in
1855, from the effects of a gun-shot wound,
received in the Black Hawk war as a
soldier from Sangamon county. His
only son, STEPHEN, is married, and
practicing medicine at or near McMin-
ville, Oregon. Mrs. Mary Young still re-
sides on her farm near McMinville, Yam-
hill county, Oregon.

WILLIAM, S., born Nov. 2, 1809, in
Green county, Ohio, was married Dec. 18,

1834, in Sangamon county, 111., to Sarah
Yocum. They had seven children, all '
born in Sangamon county, and in 1851
moved overland to Oregon. Of their
seven children — NATHAN, born in

1835, married Charlotte Keagle. They
have four living children, IIENHY c.,

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MATTIE R., ANNIE L. and SARAH A., who

reside with their parents, three miles
south of Williamsville. JACOB Y.,
born in 1836, in Sangamon county, 111.,
enlisted Sept., 1861, in Co. A, $2d 111.
Inf., for three years; was wounded in the
battle of Pittsburgh Landing, April, 1862,
and was discharged on account of physi-
cal disability Sept., 1862. He now draws
a pension. He married Sarah Yocum.
They have two children, WILLIAM M.
and CHARLES H. Jacob Y. Hussey is sta-
tion agent at Barclay, and resides on a
farm near that place. HENRY CLAY,
born Feb. 13, 1838, enlisted Sept., 1861,
in Co. A, $2(1 111. Inf., for three years,
and died of typhoid fever, near Pitts-
burgh Landing, May, 1862. MARY
J., born in Sangamon .county, April 15,
1839, was married in 1856, in Oregon, to
Alfred F. Thompson, who was born in
McMinn county, Tenn. They have six
living children, WILLIAM H., JOHN w.,

MARY E , ROBERT E. and LULA B., and

reside two miles northeast of Barclay.
WILLIAM F., born Sept. 3, 1841, en-
listed Oct. 3, 1864, in Co. B, 30th 111. Inf.
In Feb., 1865, that regiment was merged
into another, and he became a member of
Co. A, 77th 111. Inf. He was honorably
discharged Aug. 31, 1865, and was mar-
lied Feb. 14, 1866, to Alice C. Irwin.
They have two living children, ALICE M.
and WILLIAM H., who reside with their
parents in Williamsville, Sangamon coun-
ty, 111. STEPHEN, born Nov. 28, 1842,
enlisted in the same company and regi-
ment with his brother, William H., and
was honorably discharged at the same
time. He married Mary Darnall. They
have three living children, who reside
with their parents at Lawndale, Illinois.
MARIA E., the youngest child, lost her
life in Oregon, in 1860, by her clothes ac-
cidentally taking fire while attending a
sick friend. Her father's hands were so
badly burned in his efforts to extinguish
the fire that it made him a cripple for
life. %lrs. Sarah Hussey died in 1852,
and William S. Hussey was married in
Oregon, May, 1855, to Mrs. Jemima
Gilbreath, whose maiden name was
Thompson, a native of Tennessee. They
had two living children in Oregon, and
in 1864, Mr. Hussey returned with his
family to Sangamon county, 111. Of their
two children— JOSEPHINE C. was

married in 1872, to Richard W. Barger.
They have one child, SARAH, and R. W.
Barger is a practicing attorney -at-law, and
resides in Des Moines, la. CHARLES A.
lives with his parents. Mrs. Jemima Hussey
had two children by a former marriage.
SARAH C. died in 1865. WILLIAM

C. Gilbreath graduated June 18, 1875, at
the Wesleyan University, at Bloomington,
111. He was married, Aug. 6, 1875, to Lillie

D. Lyon, of Pontiac. He is now a mer-
chant in Williamsville. W. S. Hussey was
elected Justice of the Peace, in 1858, in Ore-
gon, which office he held until his return
to Illinois, when he was elected a member
of the Board of Supervisors of Sanga-
mon county, twice, and tendered the office
the third time, but declined. William S.
Hussey and wife reside in Williamsville,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

NANCY A., born March 29, i8n,in
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county,
to Abraham D. VanMeter. See his name,

^O/W//t, born July 18, 1813, in Ohio,
was married in Sangamon county, 111., to
James Brown, and moved to Oregon in
1850. They have seven children, and re-
side in McMinnville, Yamhill county,
Oregon.

NATHAN, born Dec. 14, 1815, in
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county
to Sarah Burton. They had five children
in Sangamon county, and in 1845 moved
to Oregon, where their family was increas-
ed to eight children. The mother and
three children died, and the father and
five children reside near Fort Haskins,
Oregon.

STEPHEN, born Oct. 16, 1818, in
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county,
111., to Cornelia Crowl. They had five
children in Sangamon county, and moved
to Oregon, in 1850, where others were
born. Mrs. H. and four of their
children died there. One of the living
children, ELIZABETH, is married to
James Peterson, and resides in Portland,
Oregon. The other three, with their
father, moved to California, where he
died.

MARGARET, born April 5, 1821,
in Sangamon county, married Henry Bird.
See his name.

ELIZABETH S., born Aug. i, 1823,
in Sangamon county, married William
Lynch. They have two sons, and reside
in F airfield, Iowa.

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BARLT SETTLERS OF

Mrs. Mary S. Hussey died in Sanga-
mon county June 30, 1841, and Nathan
Hussey accompanied two of his children
to Oregon, and died there Oct. 29, 1857.

HAMPTON, JAMES P., was
born April 17, 1787, in the vicinity of
Hampton Roads, Va. In 1790 his pa-
rents crossed the Alleghany mountains,
and embarking in boats, at Pittsburg,
went down the Ohio river. Some fami-
lies had been massacred a short time be-
fore, at Limestone, now Marysville. The
Hamptons and their friends intended
landing at the same point, but were con-
vinced by the movements of the savages
on shore that it would not be safe. They
landed further down, and thus saved their
lives, but the Indians captured one of their
boats with all their stores. Mr. Hampton
settled in what became Franklin county,
Ky. James P. was a soldier from that
county, in the war of i8i2-'i3, under
Gen. Harrison. He was married in 1818,
in the adjoining county of Woodford, to
Sarah Poindexter, who was born in that
county, March 24, 1800. They made
their home in Franklin county, four miles
from Frankfort, until they had five living
children. The family moved .to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving Oct., 1829, in
what is now Illiopolis township, where
they had two living children. Of their
seven children —

WILLIA M H., born July 17, 1821,
in Franklin county, Ky., married April
20, 1843, in Sangamon county, to Mary
A. Garvey. They had ten children in
Sangamon county— EMILY J., ANNIE
M., JAMES W., SURRILDA E.,
FRANKLIN P., HATT1E; LOUISA
died in her eighth year ; LAURA,
NANCY and ELBIE, the nine living,
reside with their parents in Illiopolis
township, two miles east of Mechanics-
burg.

JAMES M., born about 1823, in
Kentucky, died in Sangamon county,
Tuly 17, 1845.

JOHN S., born Aug. 29, 1824, in
Frankfort, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, April 29, 1847, to Nancy C. Gar-
vey. They had eight children born in
Sangamon county; one died in infancy.
MARY E., born Sept. 6, 1848, married
March 26, 1872, to John S. Ford, have
one child, HORACE N., and live three
miles east of Mechanicsburg, in Illiopolis

township. ELIZA F., SUSAN B. and
SARAH, live with their parents.
CHARLES LINCOLN was drowned
while bathing, July 27, 1875. ELEA-
NOR and ARTHUR E. reside with their
parents. John S. Hampton had one foot
amputated in June, 1875. He has acted as
a Justice of the peace many years, and
part of the time was engaged in merchan-
dizing. He now — 1876 — resides in Illi-
opolis, Illinois.

MARTHA J., born Nov. 23, 1826, in
Kentucky, is unmarried, and lives in Illi-
opolis.

MART A., born Aug. 29, 1828, in
Franklin county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, Aug. 7, 1862, to Simon P.
Williams, who was born Sept. 17, 1825,
in Tuscarawas county, Ohio. They had
two children, ROLLIN E. and RENA
A., and Mrs. W. died July 19, 1873. Mr.
Williams and his children live in Illiopolis.

PRES7 ON B., born Jan. 28, 1831-
during the "deep snow" — in Sangamon
county, married in Mechanicsburg, March
5, 1857, to Dorothy Rankin, who was
born March 25, 1832, in York county,
Maine, raised in New Hampshire, and
came to Mechanicsburg, April, 1855.
They have five children, SHERIDAN,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, JOHN LO-
GAN, FLORA MAY and JAMES
GRANT. Preston B, Hampton enlisted
Aug. 4, 1862, for three years, in Co. A,
73d 111. Inf., served until April 18, 1863,
when he was discharged on account of
physical disability. He resides in Illiop-
olis township, five miles east of Mechan-
icsburg, on the farm where his parents
settled in 1829, and where he was born.

HARRISON P., born April 2, 1840,
in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug. 4,
1862, for three years, in Co. A, 73d 111.
Inf., served to the end of the rebellion,
and was honorably discharged with the
regiment, June 24, 1865. He was married
March 14, 1867, to Mary J. Hunter. They
have two children, EBER and CALLIE,
and live in Illiopolis.

James P. Hampton died Dec. 15, 1853,
and his widow died Jan. 14, 1858, both
near Illiopolis, Sangamon county, Illinois.

HAMPTON, SAMUEL C.,
brother to James P., was born about
1791, in Franklin county, Ky. He was
there married, in 1819, to Catharine John-
son, a native of Virginia. They had four

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children in Frankfort, Franklin county,
Ky. The eldest, J. Henry, died there.
Mr. Hampton moved with his family to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the
fall of 1830, in what is now Mechanics-
burg township, where they had one child.
Of their four children —

JAMES W., born Oct. 4, 1823, in
Frankfort, Ky., married in Springfield to
Elizabeth Johnson. They had three
children, two of whom died young. JOHN
T. is married, and resides in Decatur, 111.
Mrs. Elizabeth Hampton died, and
James W. Hampton married Ada Baker.
They had three living children, FRANK,
NETTIE and CHARLES R. James
W. Hampton died Oct. 25, 1875, in Spring-
field, 111. His widow and children live
at 817 South Fourth street.

ELIZASETH^orn in 1825, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county in
1842 to Isaac Hart. They had five child-
ren, and in 1860 moved to, and are now
living at, Ottumwa, Iowa.

SETH COOK, born April 18, 1828, in
Frankfort, Ky., was married Sept. 8, 1853,
in Springfield, to Mary A. Conant. They
had seven children— SETH COOK, Jun.,
the eldest, and EMERY E., the young-
est, died under five years. The other
five, HARRY L., L YDIA C., ALBERT
S., RUTH M., and RUFUS C. live
with their parents. Mr. Hampton has
been, from his boyhood, engaged in mer-
chandizing, and is now in that business in
Springfield — 1876.

CHARLES B., born March, 1830, in
Sangamon county, died March I, 1874, in
Springfield, leaving neither wife nor
children.

Samuel C. Hampton died about 1839,
and Mrs. Catharine Hampton died
Jan. 19, 1859, both in Sangamon county,
Illinois.

iLES, ELIJAH, was born Mar.
28, 1796,111 what was then Fayette county,
Ky., about sixty miles east of Lexington.
His grandfather was an Englishman, and
his grandmother Welch. Thomas lies,
the father of Elijah lies, was born in
Chester county, Pa., in 1765, emigrated to
Kentucky about the year 1790, married
Elizabeth Crockett, a relative of David

Crockett. Their five children were
Mary, Elijah, William, Washington and
Elizabeth. The latter was eight days
old when the mother died. Elijah, the
subject of this sketch, attended school for
two winters, where reading, writing and
arithmetic were the highest branches
taught. He became proficient in these
studies, and taught school himself two
winters. His father then gave him $300
with which he bought one hundred head
of yearling cattle. These he herded
among the mountains in the eastern part
of Kentucky, about twenty miles outside
of civilization, on the Little Sandy river.
Here he camped, his only companions
being his horse, dog, gun, milk cow and
the cattle. These last he shifted from
one valley to another, wintering the cat-
tle without grain, and they would be in
tolerable condition in the spring. His
meals generally consisted of a stew made
of bear meat, venison, turkey, and a piece
of fat bacon. He baked his corn bread on
a johnny-cake board or in the ashes. This,
together with sweet milk (not skimmed)
and honey, he thought good living, and
although alone, enjeyed life. Sometimes
the young, men from Lexington and Paris
would join him for a hunt, always bring-
ing good •whisky and other refreshments.
He sold his cattle, in three years, for about
ten dollars a head, realizing a large sum
of money for that time, and with this left
for Missouri, on horseback, arriving at St.
Louis in 1818, which was only a French
village of 2,500 inhabitants. From there
he went to Old Franklin, Mo., opposite
where Brownsville now stands. Here he
engaged as clerk in a store, and acted as
land agent for eastern capitalists. He re-
mained there three years, investing his
money in lands. In 1821 he visited Ken-
tucky ; returning, he passed through cen-
tral Illinois. There were no roads then,
and his only guide from Vincennes to
Vandalia, and from the latter place to the
Sangamon valley, was the surveyors
stakes. He was so much pleased with
what is now Sangamon county that he de-
termined to locate here, and returned to
Missouri to sell some of his land and col-
lect some money. Proceeding to Illinois,
on horseback, he crossed the Mississippi
river at the present town of Louisiana,
swam his horse across the mouth of the
Illinois river, rode from there to Carrol-

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ton, thence to Diamond Grove, near where
Jacksonville now stands. There he found
a settlement. From there he proceeded
by way of Island Grove to the head of
Spring creek, and thence to Springfield,
arriving in June, 1821, just after it had
been made the temporary county seat of
Sangamon county, which embraced all of
Illinois north of Greene and Madison
counties. The inhabitants of Springfield
consisted of the families of Charles R.
Matheny, John and William Kelly, An-
drew Elliott, Levi D. and Jacob Ellis, Lan-
terman, Little and Lindsay. Mr. lies board-
ed with John Kelly about a year. He
describes it as being the best board-
ing house he ever had, before or
since. Two of Mr. Kelley's brothers
were hunters, and the table was well sup-
plied with venison, wild turkey, prairie
chickens, squirrels and fresh fish. The
bread was the old fashioned hoe cake,
with plenty of milk and honey. Soon
after domiciling himself at Mr. Kelly's,
Mr. lies concluded to visit some friends
north of the Sangamon river. Arriving
at the stream he found the banks full, and
a horn left on the south side, opposite the
ferry, to be blown by persons desiring to
cross. Mr. lies blew this horn, at inter-
vals, for several hours, but failed to at-
tract the attention of the ferryman. Des-
pairing of crossing for that day, he re-
turned to Springfield that night, and the
next day started again, with the same re-
sult. He returned the second night to
Springfield, and the third day, by loud
and continuous blowing, he succeeded in
crossing and visiting his friends. On re-
turning, Mr. lies contracted for the build-
ing of a log store, sixteen feet square,
with a shed attached, and set out on horse-
back for St. Louis, to buy goods. He re-
mained four weeks, and bought fifteen
hundred dollars worth of merchandise,
consisting of wrought iron, pot metal, dry
goods and groceries. Mr. lies loaded
these on a keel boat, which was towed up
the Mississippi by six men having a rope,
which they pulled from the shore. He
found but one house at Alton, one at the
mouth of the Illinois river, and an empty
cabin, built by Mr. Beard, where Beards-
town now stands. Here he was landed
with his goods, and the men returned
with their boat, leaving Mr. lies alone on
the bank in a wilderness. He paid seven-

ty-five dollars freight to Beardstown.
After a month's delay, he succeeded in
bringing all his goods to Springfield, and
opened the first store in town, July, 1821.
The Indians were about as numerous as
the whites, and his sales were about equal.
Everyone seemed honest, and he often
left his store open. The Indians paid him
in furs and undressed deerskins. The
whites in silver coin, homemade jeans, and
cotton and linen cloth, beeswax, honey,
butter, etc. His trips to St. Louis were
made on horseback. Silver was the only
currency. This he carried in saddlebags,
thrown over the saddle, and when he
stopped at a house on the way, took them
in, dropping them behind the door of the
room he entered, without fear of their
being molested. Indeed, any one travel-
ing with money in those days rather made
a show of it, to impress the early settlers
•with their importance. When Mr. lies'
first stock was reduced, he locked the
store, leaving the key with Mr. Matheny,
and left for St. Louis, in perfect confidence
that all would be safe; but on his return
found the store had been robbed of nearly
everything. About a month afterwards he
heard of a man by the name of Cotteral,
who had been living with two families by
the name of Percifield, on the bluffs, not
far from where Naples now stands, travel-
ing with a two-horse wagon, and ped-
dling such goods as were stolen from him.
Mr. lies took an officer and searched the
Percifields, finding goods like his, but
could not identify them, as the marks were
removed, so he abandoned the search.
Several persons were robbed about this
time, and his searching the Percifields led
to the belief that they were the thieves,
and a regulating company, headed by
Murray McConnell, drove them from the
country. Mr. lies heard afterwards that
one was hung and the other sent to the
penitentiary. Aside from this, Mr. lies be-
lieves no country was ever settled by a
more honest and industrious people. He
invested in land as soon as it came into mar-
ket, and among his entities was the south-
west quarter of section twenty-seven, town
sixteen north, range five west, being £he
northeast part of the present city of Spring-
field. This entry was made in 1823, at one
dollar and a quarter per acre. P. P. Enos,
D. P. Cook and Thomas Cox entered the
other three-qnarters of the section joining

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his on the southwest corner. This is near
the intersection of Washington and Second
streets. These four laid off the original
town plat, the title being, by agreement,
in the names of P. P. Enos and Elijah
lies. The legislature of 1825, then meet-
ing in Vandalia, appointed three Commis-
sioners to locate the county seat of Sanga-
mon. The competing points were Spring-
field, Sangarno, about seven miles north-
west, on the Sangamon river; a point
near the mouth of Spring creek, and one
on Prairie creek, near Salisbuiy. The
Commissioners had visited, on horseback,
all the competing points except Spring-
field and the one near the mouth of Spring
creek. A strong opposition had sprung
up between the two latter points, owing
to the efforts of a land company, which
had bought up the Spring creek site
for a speculation. But Messrs. Enos and
lies were too shrewd for them, and they
employed Andrew Elliott to pilot the
Commissioners to the Spring creek site.
He was, of course, a Springfield man, so
he concluded to take them the longest and
roughest route he knew of. There were
neither bridges or roads, so he had it all
his own way, and they swam several
creeks, waded through marshes and
almost impenetrable thickets, but finally
arrived at the place, and pronounced it a
fine site for a city, but suggested that the
people who were to fill it might never
find it. And they directed Mr. Elliott to
take them by a more direct route, but the
return route was even more perilous than
the other. By this time the Commis-
sioners were convinced that the Spring
creek site was inaccessable, and, on a pro-
mise from Messrs. Enos and lies that they
would give the county forty-five acres
of land, and what was of more conse-
quence to the Commissioners, namely,
cashing their warrants issued at a dollar a
day for their services, they decided to
locate the county seat permanently at
Springfield. This forty-five acres in-
clude the old State house sqimre. A
court house was built on Jefferson street,
between First and Second, of rough logs,
and the space between them filled with
black mud. It consisted of one room,
thirty feet square, without a floor, a small
platform was erected for the Judge, and
the jury on retiring had all out-doors for
their deliberations. When court was not in

session, which was the greater part of the
time, the room was used as a refuge for
emigrants until more permanent quarters
could be provided. In 1826, Elijah lies
was elected a State Senator, and again in
1830.

In 1827, the Winnebago Indians became
troublesome. Troops were called for, and
Mr. lies was elected Major of the regi-
ment commanded by Col. Tom M. Neal.
On arriving at Galena, they found the
Indians suing for peace; a treaty was
made, and the troops disbanded. This
was the Winnebago war. The Black
Hawk war occurred in 1831, and a regi-
ment was raised in this part of the State.
Major lies was a private in one of the
companies from Springfield. See sketch
of the Black Haivk war, page 54. In
this expedition were — Gen. Stillman,
commanding; Zachary Taylor, afterwards
President; Lieut. Jeff. Davis, afterwards
President of the Confederacy; Abraham
Lincoln, Hon. John T. Stuart, Gen. Har-
ney, William S. Hamilton, son of Alex-
ander Hamilton; Lieut. Robert Anderson,
of Fort Sumter fame; Major Fry, and
many others, who afterwards became
distinguished. They had some skirmishes
with the Indians, and were discharged.
Volunteers were called for to protect the
frontier, until new recruits could be
brought forward. A battallion was
formed, and Mr. lies was elected Captain
of a company. He insists that he was the
least qualified of any of them for the of-
fice, and he was chosen because the as-
piring members were envious of each
other. But it is more than probable that
his qualifications were as good as any of
them. The title of Major still clings to
Mr. lies, and has become almost part of
his name. In 1838 and '9, he built the
American House (now the Central Hotel),
located on the southeast corner of Sixth
and Adams streets. This was the largest
hotel at the time in Illinois, and created a
greater sensation while building than the
Leland, which was built in 1866, at a cost
of $350,000.

In the early settlement of Illinois, Ma-
jor lies invested largely in land, that
became valuable in after years, placing
him in independent circumstances. He
has reached a ripe old age, and enjoys the
respect and confidence of ALL WHO KNOW
HIM. He was a member of the commit-

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tee to secure the removal of the State
capital from Vandalia to Springfield.

In 1824 Elijah lies was married, in
Springfield, to Melinda Benjamin, a na-
tive of Lima, Livingston county, N. Y.
They had two children, namely :

LOUISA ELIZABETH, born in
1825, in Springfield, married in 1856,
to T. J. Carter. Mrs. Carter died
in 1857, without children. Mr. Carter
was born Sept. 15, 1817, at Wilmington,
Middlesex county, Mass. ; his ancestors
were among the earliest settlers of New
England. Rev. Thomas Carter was edu-
cated at Exeter, England, emigrated to
Boston, in 1630, and finally settled in
Charlestown, then a portion of the town
where T. J. Carter was born. It was
from him that the Carter family in Amer-
ica descended. One of the fifth or sixth
generation from Rev. Thos. Carter was
Timothy Carter, who married Sabra
Jaquess. They were the parents of Thos.
J. Carter. The first fifteen years of his
life was spent with his parents on a large
dairy farm, and attending a district school.
In 1832 he entered Phillip's Academy, at
Andover, Mass. Failing health, caused
by too close application to study, caused
him to abandon a collegiate course, and
devote himself to civil engineering. His
earliest labors in this profession were in
connection with some of the most distin-
guished civil engineers of his time, who
were in charge of the public works then
in progress in the eastern part of the
United States and in Canada. In 1850
Mr. Carter was solicited by Boston capi-
talists to accompany them on a western
tour. During that trip they devised plans
out of which grew the great lake rail-
road route, connecting Boston with Chi-
cago and the west. In 1852 Mr. Carter
was appointed Vice President and Gen-
eral Superintendent of Engineers for the
construction of the Wabash line from To-
ledo to St. Louis. He was engaged on
this work four years, with residence in
Springfield.

During that time he was married, and
so soon lost his wife. In 1857 he left for
Kansas, and in 1859 for Texas, where
he built a short railroad. He obtained a
charter from the State of Kansas for a
railroad from the Missouri river to the
Pacific, now known as the Kansas Pacific
route, and commenced building it in 1863.

In that year he was appointed by Presi-
dent Lincoln, U. S. Government Director
for the Union Pacific Railroad, the duties
of which he discharged for five years.
In 1868 he was requested to report on a
branch road from the Union Pacific to the
Colorado mines, which was the origin of
the narrow guage system in that section
of the country. In 1869 Mr. Carter
visited portions of Europe, intending a
more extended tour at some future time,
which he took in 1875, accompanied by
his bride, formerly Miss Allie S. Hoge,
of Brooklyn, N. Y. They spent six
months in visiting Great Britain, France,
Germany, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Egypt,
Palestine, Turkey and Greece. The title
of Colonel was confered on Mr. Carter in
civil life, as a compliment for the aid he
rendered during the canvass and election
of the first Whig Governor of New
Hampshire. He has worn it to the
present time. He is now, while this
is in press, on a visit to the Centennial
Exhibition. — June, 1876.

IRA THOMAS, born in 1830, in
Springfield, resides with his father, Major
lies, who is now in his eighty-first year.
While Springfield continues to be his
home, he spends much of his time travel-
ing, and with relatives in other parts of
the country.

ILES, WASHINGTON, was
born July 18, 1800, in Bath county, Ky.
At eighteen years of age, he visited
Illinois on business for another man,
traveled over the country along the San-
ga-ma river, and found that the land was
very rich. A wealthy man from Ken-
tucky had brought out a drove of horses,
sold them on credit, and when the money
was due, came to collect it, but found his
customers unprepared to pay. It was
then lawful to imprison men for debt, and
he threatened to collect his money in that
way. His creditors combined and con-
vinced him that it would not be very
pleasant to attempt it, and he left the
country in haste. On reaching home he
offered Mr. lies one-half the amount of
the claims if he would collect them. The
offer was accepted He found the men
were honest, and by kind treatment he
succeeded in collecting every dollar.
Mr. lies returned to Kentucky, and
was married in Flemingsburg, May
21, 1822, to Ann Foster, who was

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born there Dec. 3, 1804. They lived
near Owensville, Bath county, Ky., for
some time, and then, with two children,
moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, ar-
riving at Springfield in the year 1825.
Nine children were born in Sangamon
county. Of their children —

MARTHA H., born June 14, 1823,
in Kentucky, died Aug. 26, 1827, in San-
gamoir county, Illinois.

MART E.y born Aug. 4, 1825, in Bath
county, Ky., was married in Sangamon
county to Jacob G. Loose. See his
name.

CORDELIA M., born May 25, 1827,
in Sangamon county, 111., married Obed
Lewis. See his name.

ME LINDA A., born April 23, 1829,
in Sangamon county, married Joseph B.
Pirkins. See his name.

ANN E., born May 27, 1831, in San-
gamon county, was married there to
William H. Bourne. They, have five
children, namely: CARRIE, ANNIE,
KITTIE, VIRGINIA .and BENJA-
MIN. W. H. Bourne and family till re-
cently lived near Sharpsburg, Bath
county, Ky. Removed in 1876 to Spring-
field, Illinois, and reside one mile south.

WASHINGTON T., born April 6,
1833, in Springfield, 111., was married in
Bath county, Ky., Dec. 6, 1864, to Emily
Jones, who was born in that county April
4, 1844. They have three children — JU-
LIA J., LINNA L., and BENJAMIN,
and live four and one-half miles southeast
of Springfield.

NANCT V., born July 23, 1835, in
Sangamon county, was married there
Nov. 1856, to Norman M. Broad well,
who was born Aug. i, 1825, in Morgan
county, 111. Of their seven children —
Two died young. ANNA, LOUIE,
LUCY, STUART and VIRGINIA
live with their parents in Springfield. N.
M. Broadwell served one term in the
State Legislature of Illinois. In the
spring of 1862, he was elected County
Judge, to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Judge William D. Power, and
served until Dec., 1865. He was mayor
of the city in 1867, and again in 1869, and
is a practicing attorney in Springfield.

ELIJAH F., born Feb. 18, 1838, in
Springfield, was married, Oct. 6, 1863, in
Lincoln county, Mo., to Mildred Steele,
who was born in that county, Feb. 16,

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1844. They have four children born in
Sangamon county, LEWIS W., DA-
VID S., ELIJAH F., jun., FRANK B.
and a boy, and live two and one-fourth
miles south of Springfield, Illinois.

EDWARD, born Oct. i, 1841, in
Sangamon county, is an extensive im-
porter and breeder of thoroughbred cat-
tle. He is unmarried, and resides two
miles south of Springfield, on the farm
where his father settled in 1826.

JULIA E., born Feb. 9, 1843, died in

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MARIA) born Nov. n, 1845, died in
her third year.

Mrs. Ann lies died Aug. 25, 1866, and
Washington lies died July 4, 1871, both
near Springfield, Illinois.

Washington lies was a soldier in the
Winnebago and Black Hawk wars. He
aided in bringing the steamboat, Talis-
man, up the Sangamon river, opposite
Springfield — the only steamboat that ever
ascended that stream so high.

INGELS, JAMES V., was born
April 5, 1815, in Fayette county, Ky.
His father, Thomas Ingels, was born
April 20, 1789) m Penn., was taken by his
parents to Bourbon county, Ky., and was
married in Fayette county to Judith Haley.
They had six children, and moved to
Jacksonville, 111., thence to that part of
Schuyler which is now Brown county,
where they had three children, and Mrs.
Judith Ingels died. Thomas Ingels mar-
ried again, his wife died, and he moved,
with part of his children, to Gentry
county, Mo., and died there. Two of
his sons came to Sangamon county,
James V. and John. The former, whose
name heads this sketch, came in Oct.,
1837, an(^ was married March 22, 1838, to
Henrietta Earnest. They had four living
children, namely —

SARAH J., born Feb. 13, 1840, mar-
ried Jan. 31, 1867, to Charles W. Hall.
They live in Piatt county, near Weldon,
DeWitt county.

JACOB E., born June 25, 1841, in
Sangamon county, went to Idaho Terri-
tory in 1862, married there July 14, 1867,
to Augusta Thompson; moved to Cali-
fornia, where she died. He returned to
Sangamon county, and was married Jan.
25, 1871, to Salome O. Turner. They
have two children, EDWARD E. and

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JAMES T., and live six miles west of
Springfield, Illinois.

vS1. GERARD, born Aug. 22, 1848,
and

HENRIETTA E., born Feb. 14,
1858, live with their parents.

James V. Ingels resides in Island
Grove township, four miles east of Berlin
-1874.

INGELS, JOHN, was born
Sept. 2, 1819, in Fayette county, Ky. He
is a brother of James V. John Ingels
was married in Sangamon county, March
14, 1843, to Elizabeth King. They have
eight children born in Sangamon county,
namely —

JOHN T., born Sept. 12, 1845, mar-
ried Dec. 29, 1870, to Martha J. Morri-
son, a daughter of John B. Morrison.
She was born March 5, 1852, in Island
Grove township. They reskle near
Berlin.

MARIA A., born Nov. i, 1847, lives
with her parents.

CHARLES K., born June 3, 1850,
married, Nov. 5, 1873, to Nannie Reed,
daughter of Calvin Reed. They live
near Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois.

SOPHIA F., born May 7, 1852, mar-
ried Nov. 6, 1873, to John Bates, and live
near Virginia, Cass county, 111.

JOANNA B., born Nov. i, 1856.

WILLIAM W., born Jan. 27, 1859.

JAMES V., Jun., born May 31,
1863, and

ELIZABETH, born July 14, 1865;
the four latter reside with their parents,
near Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois.

INNIS, ALEXANDER, was
born Nov. 26, 1780, in Bellarona, county
Down, Ireland. Ann Wilson was born
March 16, 1794? in Drumlee, in the same
county. They were married in Drumlee,
in Aug., 1812, had one child, and emigra-
ted to America, settling in St. Lawrence
county, New York, in 1826. Their only
child—

ELIZABETH, born Dec. 13, 1813,
in Backaderry, county Down, Ireland,
married in St. Lawrence county, New
York, to Charles Watts. See his name.

Mr. and Mrs. Innis moved from New
York to Sangamon county, III., arriving
in the spring of 1835 at the house of their
daughter, Mrs. Charles Watts. They
purchased a farm one mile southwest of
the present Farmingdale station. Alex-

ander Innis died Nov. 27, 1854, and his
widow died Sept. 16, 1869, both in Gard-
ner township, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

IRWIN, SAMUEL L., born
June 6, 1779, in Cabarras county, N. C.
Rachel Hudson was born Oct. 15, 1785,
in Rockingham county, Va. She was
taken by an uncle to Cabarras county, N.
C., where she was married Sept. 23,
1802, to Samuel L. Irwin. They had ten
living children born in North Carolina,
and in the fall of 1818 the family moved
to that part of Tennessee then called the
Cherokee purchase, where one child was
born. The family moved to what became
Sangamon county, 111., arriving April 20,
1820, and first pitched their tents in what
is now the northeast part of Pleasant
Plains. After a few months' stay, they
moved about two miles down Richland
creek, at the south side, where four
children were born. Of their fifteen
children —

HANNAH, born July n, 1803, in
North Carolina, married in Sangamon
county to William Miller. They had
eight children; three died young. Four
of the living are married, namely : FRAN-
CIS, VIRGIL, JANE and SARAH.
Hugh is unmarried, and lives with his
mother. Mr. Miller died in Feb., 1870,
and his widow resides in Morgan county.

MART, born Jan. 10, 1805, in North
Carolina, married in Sangamon county to
Samuel Purvines. See his name.

JANE, born June 26, 1806, in North
Carolina, died in Sangamon county Jan.
15, 1832.

DEBORAH, born Nov. 7, 1807, in
North Carolina, married in Sangamon
county to Miles Stevenson. See his
name.

WILLIAM C., born Feb. 7, 1809, in
North Carolina, married in Sangamon
county to Matilda Plunkett. They had
eight children. NANCY J., born Sept.
13,1833, married Daniel Penny, and died
Jan. 19, 1863. CHRISTOPHER C.,
born Sept. 4, 1835, married Jan. 25, 1858,
to Lucinda C. Capps, who was born April
i,. 1841, in Hardin county, Ky. They
have three living children, WILLIAM c.,
ELMER E. and EVA MAY, and live two
miles east of Pleasant Plains. MARTHA
married Elder C. C. Purvines. See his
name, RUFUS R. and ELIZABETH

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J. live with their mother. SAMUEL
G., born Feb. 20, 1844, enlisted in 1862
for three years, in Co. F, ii4th 111. Inf.
He was captured June 10, 1864, at the
battle of Guntown; was starved three
months in Andersonville prison pens; es-
caped ; served to the end of the rebellion,
and was honorably discharged in 1865.
He was married Aug. 27, 1867, to Martha
C. Davis, who was born Nov. 19, 1848.
They have three children, OLLA B., MARY
j., and SUSIE E., and live near Bates, San-
gamon county, 111. JULIUS H., born
March 28, 1846, enlisted Feb. 6, 1865, m
Co. A, i52d 111. Inf., served to the end of
the rebellion, and was honorably dis-
charged Sept. n, 1865; married Feb. 27,
1870, at Mount Pleasant, Iowa, to Har-
riet I. Cassiday, who was born in Jeffer-
son county, Iowa. Her mother was a
daughter of Shadrach Scott, brother of
Dallas Scott. They live three miles
northeast of Pleasant Plains. JAMES
M. and William H. live with their moth-
er. William C. Irwin died in 1852, and
his widow resides in Menard county,
eight miles north of Pleasant Plains.

NANCT, born Oct. 2, 1810, died in
1824.

HUGH B., born Aug. 30, 1812, in
North Carolina, married in 1836 in San-
gamon county, to Priscilla Kyle. They
had five children, and he died Oct. 18,
1852, and his widow resides in Menard
county. THOMAS, .the eldest, and
CHARLES, the youngest, live in Mis-
souri. Their son, HENRY, was a sol-
dier in Co. F, 1 14th 111. Inf., from Aug.,
1862, to the end of the rebellion. He
was married, had one child, and his wife
died Oct., 1873. He resides in Menard
county, and is married again. JANE
is dead, and CYNTHIA lives in Menard
county, Illinois.

ALEXANDER B., born Feb. 7,
1814, in Cabarras county, N. C., married
in Sangamon county Oct. 18, 1838, to
Cynthelia Broadwell. They had four
living children. AMOS D., born Oct.
12, 1839, married Rebecca J. Plunkett;
have two children, ROBERT A. and ADOL-
PHUS j., and live at Pleasant Plains.
JOHN B., born March 27, 1841, enlisted
Sept., 1861, for three years, in Co. C,
64th 111. Inf. He was wounded Oct. 4,
1862, at the battle of Corinth, Miss., and
tdied of his wounds at Jackson, Tenn.,

March 20, 1863. BETSY J., born
April i, 1843, married William Huber;
have one child, and live near Medina,
Jefferson county, Kansas. SAMUEL
P., born Feb. 22, 1845, enlisted Jan., ^62,
in Co. C, 64th 111. Inf., for three years.
He was wounded in June, 1864, at Kenne-
saw mountain, Ga., by a musket ball en-
tering the left side of his face and coming
out of the back of -his neck. He recov-
ered, and went with Sherman in his
"march to the £ea;" served to the end of
his term, and was honorably discharged.
He was married Feb. 21, 1867, to Almeda
Howard, who was born in St. Lawrence
county, N. Y. They have three "children,
JOHN A., SAMUEL and CYNTHELIA, and
live three miles east of Pleasant Plains.
Mrs. Cynthelia Irwin died Aug. 10, 1847,
and Alexander B. Irwin was married Feb.
28, 1855, to Mrs. Jane S. Seaman, whose
maiden name was Broadwell. They have
four children, namely: JAMES H.,
ARABEL A., RACHEL A., and
•MAGGIE S., and reside in Cartwright
township, two miles east of Pleasant
Plains. Mr. Irwin has served a number
of years as a Justice of the Peace, also as
a member of the Board of Supervisors of
Sangamon county. On the seventh day
of Feb., 1874, Alex. B. Irwin gave a fes-
tival commemorating the sixtieth anniver-
sary of his birth. The invitations were to
relations, only, with, perhaps, the sin-
gle exception of the writer of this sketch
and his wife, which they were very
reluctantly compelled to decline. There
were two hundred and sixty-four
guests present. By way of recognizing .
the fact that they were all descendants of
a family of the earliest settlers in the
county, no meat except that of wild game .
was served — buffalo and venison, from
the western plains, and wild turkeys from
Wisconsin, with- prairie chickens, quails,
etc., taken nearer home. Four States
were represented by the different branches
of the family, and if all had been present
it would have included half a dozen more
States. The host was not in good health
at the time, but still enjoyed the company
of so many of his relatives. He was the
recipient of a number of presents ; among
others, a fine gold-headed cane, and a
beautiful silver watch, the two latter ac-
companied by some cheering words from
a niece, appropriate to the occasion.

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RACHEL,\)orn March 26, 1816, died
in 1852.

MATILDA B., born Feb. 13, 1818,
married William Conner, and lives in
Cartwright township.

ROBERT 7\ born March 7, 1820, in
that part of Tennessee then called the
Cherokee purchase, married in Sangamon
county Jan. 14, 1847, to Mary E. Day,
who was born March 20, 1820, at Ogdens-
burg, N.Y. They had twins. SOPHIA
J. married Joseph . J. Dillon. See his
name. FRANCES MARIA married
Peter S . Cartwright. See his name.
Robert -T. Irwin resides near Pleasant
Plains, in Sangamon county, Illinois.

BENJAMIN F., born May 18, 1822,
in Sangamon county, married Oct. 11,
1844, to Jane Combs, of Menard county.
They had one child, MARY T., born
March 28, 1846, married Aug. 5, 1869, to
John W. Whitcomb, who was born Dec.
6, 1842, in Owen county, Ky.; went to
Missouri in 1859, and when the rebellion,
broke out, he entered the enrolled State
militia (loyal); served nine months; came
to Sangamon county in June, 1863, and
enlisted in Feb., 1864, for three years, in
Co. C, 64th 111. Inf. He was with Sher-
man on his "march to the sea;" was in
North Carolina when the rebellion ended,
and was present at the great review in
Washington, D. C., in May, 1865; was
honorably discharged at Chicago July 18,
1865. Mr. and Mrs. Whitcomb have two
children, LIZZIE ETHEL and CHARLES
FRANKLIN. They live one and one-half
miles south of Farmingdale, in Sangamon
county. Mrs. Jane Irwin died March 7,
1848, in Sangamon county, and B. F. Ir-
win was married Jan. 16, 1870, at Mount
Florence, Kansas, to Mattie Huber. Her
mother resides there. They had two
children. ETHEL died in infancy, and
EDWARD F. lives with his parents, at
Pleasant Plains, Illinois. B. F. Irwin
has served several years as Justice of the
Peace and Police Magristrate.

JULIUS H., born July 22, 1824, in
Sangamon county, married Oct. 24, 1851,
to Sarah Kyle; had six living children,
SAMUEL W., MARY L., ARMIN-
TA A., EMMA D., CHARLES H.,
and BENJAMIN F. Mrs. Sarah Irwin
died Nov. 24, 1873, and Julius H. Ir-
win died Oct. 5, 1875. Their children re-

side at the homestead, one mile southeast
of Pleasant Plains.

JAMES C, born May 6, 1827, mar-
ried March 18, 1862, to Jane Howard,
who was born Nov. 29, 1839, in St. Law-
rence county, N. Y. They have four
living children, LIMIE E., ROBERT
H., FRANCES M. and KATE B., and
reside two miles southeast of Pleasant
Plains.

JOHN M., born April 24, 1829, in
Sangamon county, married March 15,
1859, to Sarah May, who was born April
6, 1831, at Circleville, Ohio. They had
two children, ABRAHAM L., and
MARY M., and Mrs. Irwin died Oct. 8,
1864. He was married May 16, 1867,
to Ann Williams, who was born Jan. 30,
1841, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y.
They have two children, LULU M. and
ALBERT W., and reside at Pleasant
Plains.

Samuel L. Irwin died March i, 1845,
and his widow died July 6, 1867, both
on the farm where they settled in 1820.
Samuel L. Irwin was, at the time of his
death, in his sixty-seventh year, and
his widow, at her death, was in her
eighty-third year.

IRWIN, WILLIAM, was born
March 31, 1789, in Cabarras county, N.
C. He was cousin to Samuel L. Irwin.
Robert Irwin, the father of William, was
killed by a runaway team, about the
time of the war of 1812. There is a tra-
dition in the family that the original name
was Erwin. William Irwin was married,
Oct. 2, 1811, in his native county, to Mar-
garet Purviance. They had five children
born in North Carolina, one died in in-
fancy, and Mr. Irwin, with his wife and
son, came to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving in the fall of 1827 on Richland
creek, in what is now Cartwright township.
He returned to North Carolina the next
spring, and brought out the remainder of
the family, arriving in the fall of 1828. They
traveled in wagons, and were seven weeks
on the road. Three children were born
in Sangamon county. Of their child-
ren—

ROBERT S., born Nov. 14, 1813, in
Cabarras county, N. C., was married in
Sangamon county, Jan. 19, 1837, to Cyn-
thia Duncan, who was born Aug. 18,
1818, in Adair county, Ky. They had
ten children— S A NFORD, JAMES S., .

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MARY and ROBERT died under
twelve years. WILLIAM F., born Oct.
21, 1837, was married, May 23, 1872, to
Ellen J. Williams.' They have one child,
\v VRREN H., and reside in Salisbury town-
ship, near the Iron Bridge. MARTHA
}., horn Dec. 15, 1839, was married, Jan.
14, 1864, to Franklin W. Duncan. They
have tour children living, MARY M., JAS-
PER x., CYNTHIA and GREEN, a;id live in
Mcnard county, 111. GREEN P. died
vSept. 4, 1871, aged twenty-six years.
OSCAR; HARVEY D. was married
Dec. 31, 1874, to Mary E. Wells. They
have one child, ADA R., and live in Salis-
bury township. CHARLES CAR-
ROLL. The two unmarried sons reside
at the homestead. Mrs. Cynthia Irwin
died April 6, 1872, and Robert S. Irwin
died May 3, 1874, both in Salisbury town-
ship, east ot" the Sangamon river, and near
the Iron Bridge.

JOHN C., born June 16, 1816, in
North Carolina, was married, June 12,
1842, in Sangamon county, to Minerva
Duncan. They have eight children,
EVVIN, VIRGINIA and HARRIET
died under four years. AUSTIN F.,
horn Aug. 12, 1845, married Ann Brown,
and live near Ft. Scott, Kansas. TAR-
LETON, SILAS, JANE, CHARLES
and LUELLA reside with their parents,
two miles northwest of Salisbury, in San-
gamon county.

WILLIAM F., born March 12, 1820,
in North Carolina, was married in Sanga-
mon county, Jan. 23, 1851, to Matilda D.
Campbell/ They have one child, MARY
E., and reside in Menard county, two and
one-half miles northwest of Salisbury.

JANE E., born July 6, 1822, in North
Carolina, married John B. Gum, in San-
gamon county, 111. They have live child-
ren, and live seven miles west of Peters-
burg, Menard county.

SAMUEL L., Jim., born Jan. 25,
• 82 s, married Matilda Green, and live in
Jncoln, 111.

JAME.S //., born Nov. 9, 1828, mar-
ried and lives in Logan county, Illi-
nois.

A". L\rC r, born Nov. 15, 1831 , married
Enoch Wiseman, who died, and she mar-
ried Abraham Wiseman, and lives in Dela-
yan.

WARREN J"., born June 16, 1834,
married Marv Shi\elv, who died. He

married Eli/a \V.iseman, and lives in Lo-
gan county.

Mrs. Margaret Irwin died Oct. 25,
1852, and William Irwin died June 13,
1871, and both were buried at the Baptist
church, in Cartwright township, where
they settled in 1828.

fRW IN, JOHN, was bom Jan.
20, 1804, in Williamsport, now Monon-
gahela, Washington county, Penn. He
came west, stopping a short time in St.
Louis, and joined his brother Robert in
Sprinfield, 111., in 1838. He remained a
few years, returned to his native place,
and was married there, Jan. 31, 1844, to
Margaret Jack Guthrie, who was born
May 23, 1820, at Greensburgh, Westmore-
land county, in the same State. They
came at once to Springfield. Mr. Irwin
was for several years in business as a dry
goods merchant, first with his brother
Robert and Col. John Williams. Then
the Irwin brothers bought out the interest
of Col. Williams, and a few years later,
when Robert became connected with the
Marine and Fire Insurance Bank, John
continued in the mercantile business alone,
and still later admitted as a partner,
Walter Davis. In consequence of declining
health, Mr. Irwin retired from business
about 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Irwin had
three children in Springfield —

WILLIAM is married, and lives in
Colorado.

HETTY W. resides in Springfield,
Illinois.

MARGARET, born Jan. 2, 1850, in
Springfield, married Nov. 22, 1871, to
Cleveland J. Salter, who was born Oct.
12, 1845, m Waverly, Morgan county, III.
They have one child, CLEVELAND I.,
and reside in Springfield. Mr. Salter is
in the mercantile business with his father,
J. D. B. Salter.

Mrs. Margaret J. Irwin died June 14,
iS^o, and John Irwin died Mav 21, 1859,
both in Springfield, Illinois.

IRWIN, ROBERT, was born
Nov. 7, 1808, in Monongahela City, Pa.
He came west when a voting man, and
was married in St. Louis, Mo., Mav 30,
1833, to Clara C. Doyle, who was born in
Philadelphia, Pa., March 9, 1815. Mr.
and Mrs. Irwin left St. Louis, crossing
the Mississippi river on the ice when it
was in motion, jumping the open space
between the ice and the shore. They

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

came by stage, stopping two nights on
the way, and arrived in Springfield in
January, 1834. They had five children in
Springfield, two of whom died young —

ELIZA J., born Feb. 7, 1834, in
Springfield, was married there, August
n, 1859, to William H. Marston, who was
born August 19, 1832, in Deerfield, New
Hampshire. He went to New York in
1851, and came to Springfield first in 1853,
spending part of each year in the latter
city, until 1861. Mrs. Marston died Feb.
25, 1868, in New York, leaving three
children, ROBERT I., LAURA and
ELLA, who live with their fathei.
After the death of his wife, Mr. Marston
spent part of 1870 and '71 in London,
England. He is now engaged in business
at No. 36, Broad street, and resides at No.
110, West Forty-fourth street, New York
City.

SARAH ELLA, born March 9, 1839,
was married Oct. 5, 1865, in Springfield,
Illinois, to Charles D. Chase a native of
New Hampshire. They have one living
child, a daughter, and reside in Deerfield,
New Hampshire.

ROBERT T., born Oct. 30, 1844, is
unmarried, and resides in his native city.

Robert Irwin formed a partnership
with John Williams, as dry goods mer-
chants, soon after he came to Springfield.
His brother John was -admitted to the
firm, and still later the Irwin brothers
transacted business alone, until Robert be-
came connected with the Fire and Marine
Insurance Co. Bank, first as Secretary,
then as Cashier. He continued in the
latter position until his death, March 8,
1865. His widow resides in Springfield,
Illinois.

JAYNE,GERSHOM,bornOct.
15, 1791, in Orange county, New York,
received his diploma from the New York
medical authorities, and came west, locat-
ing, in 1820, at what became Springfield,
Illinois, being the first practicing physician
that settled in the place. He was mar-
ried in 1822, to Sibvl Slater. They had
four children —

JULIA J\L, born in June, 1824, in
Springfield, was married there, June i,
1843, t° Hon. Lyman Trumbull, a native
of Colchester, Conn. He was, at the time,

Secretary of State for Illinois. In 1848
he became one of the Supreme Court
Judges of Illinois. In 1854 he was elect-
ed representative in Congress, and elected
in January, 1855,35 one of the two United
States Senators from Illinois. He was
twice re-elected, serving, in all, eighteen
years, ending in 1873. Mr. and Mrs.
Trumbull had six children. Three only
are living, WALTER, PERRY and
HENRY. Mrs. Julia M. Trumbull died
in August, 1868, in Washington, D. C.
Hon. Lyman Trumbull resides in
Chicago Illinois.

WILLIAM, born Oct. 8, 1826, in
Springfield, was educated at Illinois-Col-
lege, Jacksonville, studied medicine with
his father in Springfield, and graduated in
the medical department of Missouri State
University in 1849. Dr. William Jayne
was married Oct. 17, 1850, in Jacksonville,
111., to Julia E. Witherbee, who was born
in 1830, in Vermont. They had six child-
ren, four of whom died young. Of their
two living children, WILLIAM S.,
born Oct. 18, 1851, in Springfield, Illinois,
was married in his native city, Nov. 18,
1875, to Margaret E. Palmer, daughter of
Ex-Governor John M. Palmer. She was
born March 20, 1854, in Carlinville, 111.
William S. Jayne is connected with the
office of the Auditor of State, and resides
in Springfield, 111. LIZZIE, born July
10, 1855, in Springfield, resides with
her parents. Dr. William Jayne, in addi-
tion to his professional duties, has found
time to engage in politics. He was elected,
in 1859, Mayor of Springfield. In 1860
was elected State Senator for one term
of four years, and resigned, in 1861,
to accept an appointment by President
Lincoln, of Territorial Governor of Da-
kota. In April, 1876, he was again elected
Mayor of Springfield, and is consequently
. the Centennial Mayor of the Capital city.
Dr. Wm. Jayne still continues the practice
of medicine, and resides in Springfield,
Illinois. As this goes to press — June,
1876 — he is on a visit to the great Ameri-
can Centennial Exposition, at Philadel-
phia.

HENR T, born June S, 1837, in Spring-
field, enlisted as a private in Co. I, 7th
111. Inf., for three months, re-enlisted in
the 7th 111. Cav., was hospital steward,
and afterwards commissioned Lieutenant
of Co. K, bv Gov. Yates. He was ap-

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pointed, by President Lincoln, aid-de-
camp, with the rank of Captain in the
fifteenth army corps, and in that 'capacity
served until the close of the rebellion,
when he was appointed, by President
Johnson, Lieutenant in the United States
Cavalry, but did not accept. Henry
Jayne attended medical lectures at Ann
Arbor, Michigan, University, in 1865, and
located in Taylorville in 1866, for the
practice of medicine. He was married
Sept. 8, 1868, to Jennie Cheney, daughter
of Thomas Cheney. See name of Archi-
bald Sattley. Dr. Henry Jayne is en-
gaged in the drug business in Taylor-
ville', and resides there.

MART ELLEN, born Nov., 1842, in
Springfield, resides with her mother.

Dr. Gershom Jayne was one of the
first Commissioners of the Illinois, and
Michigan canal, appointed in 1830 and '31.
When he located in Springfield there was
not another physician so far north in the
State. He practiced forty-seven years,
and died April 17, 1867, in Springfield,
and his widow resides there.

JACOBS, DANIEL, was born
May 27, 1795, near Winchester, Clark
county, Ky. Charlotte Webb, was born
April 19, 1797, in Jessamine or Clark
county, Ky. Her father, Adin Webb,
was a soldier from Clark county, in the
war of 1812, and died somewhere in the
northern lake region. Daniel Jacobs and
Charlotte Webb were married, Jan. 30,
1819, in Clark county. They had four
children in Kentucky, and moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving Nov 7, 1825,
in what is now Loami township, where
seven children were born. Of their
eleven children —

HENR T W., born March 5, 1820, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
July, 1846, to Priscilla A. Hall. They
had eight living children; and AARON
died, aged nineteen years. Mr. Jacobs
lives in Graysonville, Missouri.

MART, born Oct. i, 1821, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county, Dec.
17, 1840, to Benjamin F. Darneille. See
his name.

AMANDA, born April 19, 1823, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to John T. Wyckoff. She had one child,
and died.

ELIZABETH, born Feb. 17, 1825,
n Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-

ty to L. P. Bradley. They have nine
living children, and reside two miles west
of Girard, Illinois.

MAR7'HA, born April 2, 1827, in
Sangamon county, married, July 16, 1850,
to James L. Foster, who was born Jan. 8,
1822, in Boone county, Ky., and came to
Sangamon county in 1848. They had
eight children— LIZZIE and MARTHA
W. died, aged four years each. ELLEN,
born May 25, 1851, married Feb. 18, 1874,
to Luther Rigg, and live in New Berlin
township. GEORGE W., JAMES A.,
HUBBARD C., SUSAN and
CHARLES reside with their parents,
one and one-fourth miles west of Loami.

JAMES A., born Aug. 4, 1829, in
Sangamon county, married Oct. n, 1855,
to Mary E. Neal. They had five child-
ren—LIZZIE, the third child, died Feb.
24, 1865, aged five years. AMANDA,
HENRY C., CHARLOTTE and AL-
PHEUS live with their parents, at the
homestead where Mr, Jacobs' parents set-
tled in 1825, and where he was born. It
is two miles southeast of Loami.

SUSAN, born Nov. 20, 1831, in San-
gamon county, married, March 4, 1852,10
Hubbard S. Coley. See his name.

ISABEL, born Jan. 30, 1834, in San-
gamon county, married Stephen Staley.
See his name.

CHARLOTTE, born Jan. 22, 1836,
in Sangamon county, married W. Wash-
ington McGinnis. See his name.

KATE, born Feb. 16, 1838, married
Greenberry McGinnis. See his name.

ANN IS, born Oct. 10, 1840, in San-
gamon county, married Feb. 10, 1859, to
James E. Dodd, have five children, and
live five miles west of Auburn.

Daniel Jacobs died Oct. 5, 1853, and
his widow resides — 1874 — at the home-
stead settled by them in 1825, two miles
southeast of Loami.

JACpBS, GEORGE, was born
in 1793, in Clarke county, Ky. He was
married there to Nancy Haney. They
had five children, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., with his brother Daniel,
arriving Nov. 7, 1825, in what is now
Loami township, where five children were
born; about 1839 the family moved to
Christian county, where one child was
born. The only representative of the
family in Sangamon county is —

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EARLT SETTLERS OF

EVELINE, born Oct. 12, 1819, in
Clark county, Ky., married Thompson
Hall. See his name.

SARAH married Willis Virden, have
two children, and live in Shelby county.

JAMES married Elizabeth Atter-
bury. She died, leaving two children,
and he married Belle Covington, and live
in Macon county.

The other children are all dead.

George Jacobs died Jan. i, 1845, and
his widow died Jan. 16, 1857, both in
Christian county, 111.

JAMES, ABRAHAM, was
born in 1792 in Pennsylvania. He was
married in Nicholas county, Ky., to Jane
Beatty. They had five children in Ken-
tucky, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the fall of 1829 in Roches-
ter township. Of their five children —

WILLIAM, born in 1812, in Ken-
tucky, came with his parents to Sangamon
county, and died, unmarried, in Missouri
in 1858.

MART J., born in 1814, in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to William
Herbert. They have four children,
and live in Orangeville, Stephenson coun-
ty, Illinois.

RA CHEL, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to William Coe;
have three children, and live in Cotton
Hill township.

ELLEN, born in 1826, in Kentucky,
raised in Sangamon county, married in
Missouri to Richard Opie; have four
children, and live near High Point, Moni-
teau county, Missouri.

JAMES A., born Jan. 28, 1828, in
Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, August 28, 1856, to Amanda
Bashaw. They have six children, MAH-
LON F., ISABEL J., HANNAH L.,
ARMINDA E., IRA H. and IRENE
A., and reside in Clear Lake township,
seven miles due east of Springfield.

Abraham James moved to Stephenson
county, Illinois, in 1846, and Mrs. James
died there. He moved to Missouri, mar-
ried; had two children, and he died June,
1867, in Moniteau county, Mo.

JACK, ROBERT, was born-
Nov. 9, 1778, in Virginia. His parents
moved to Kentucky when he was a boy.
He was married there to Nancy Fleming,
who was born Nov. 25, 1786, in Pennsyl-
vania. They had five children in Ken-

tucky, and the family moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving in 1825 or '6,
near Old' Berlin. Of their children —

JAMES died at fourteen or fifteen
years of age.

MARGARET married Elias Jefferies.
See his name.

RHODA G., born June 30, 1813, mar-
ried Nov. 21, 1833, to John W. Stringfield.
He died Dec. 6, 1847, and she was mar-
ried March 22, 1849, to Nicholas A. Gar-
land. See his name.

MARIA, born in 1815, married about
1833 to Robert Patton. They moved to
Lawrence county, Mo., had five children,
and returned to Sangamou county during
the war, and Mr. Patton died here in
1863. His family live in Missouri.

JOHN D. died at eight or ten years
of age.

Robert Jack died about the spring of
1834, and his widow died January, 1863,
both in Sangamon county.

JARRETT, JONATHAN,
was born July 23, 1778, in Kanawha
county, West Virginia. He was married
there to Sarah Anderson. They had six
children, and Mrs. Jarrett died Oct. 28,
1812. Mr. Jarrett married Jan. i, 1814,
to Rebecca Wilson. They had six child-
ren in West Virginia, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving Nov., 1826, and
settled one and one-half miles south of the
present town of Loami, where two child-
ren were born. Of his fourteen child-
ren—

MORDECAI,\>orn Dec. 21, 1803, in
West Virginia, was a soldier in the Black
Hawk war, and died, unmarried, in San-
gamon county Feb. 5, 1856.

LEAH, born Feb. 27, 1805, in West
Virginia, married there to Achilles Mor-
ris. See his name. He was Captain of
a company, and died in 1847, in Mexico.
His widow married L. Samples. He died
in Sangamon county, and she moved to
Missouri with her children, and died there
in 1871.

DA VIS, born Dec. n, 1806, in Vir-
ginia, enlisted in Sangamon county under
his brother-in-law, Capt. Morris, and died
near Carlinville, just as the company had
started for the Mexican war in 1846.

NANCT, born Jan. 15, 1808, in West
Virginia, married there to Joshua Morris.
They moved to Ray county, Mo., and
both died, leaving six children.

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MARY, born Sept. n, 1809, in West
Virginia, married in Sangamon county to
Peter Morris, moved to Ray county, Mo.,
where he died. She married Charles
Shrewsbury, had three children, and she
died.

MARGARET, born Feb. 15, 1810, in
West Virginia, married in Sangamon
county to Rowan Morris; had eight child-
ren, and moved to Dallas county, Texas.

By the second marriage —

WILLIAM, born Oct. 17, 1814, in
West Virginia, married in Sangamon
county, Aug. 12, 1841, to Milicent Fow-
ler. They had three children— THOM-
AS, born July 27, 1842, in Sangamon
county, married Nov. 7, 1868, to Florence
Lowery, had three children — ROSAN-
NA died in infancy. ABNER W. and
THOMAS L. live with their parents,
five miles south of Loami. MILI-
CENT, born Feb. 5, 1845, married John
T. Gibson. See his name. JONA-
THAN died in his third year. William
Jarrett and wife reside five miles south of
Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

SARAH, born Feb. 24, 1817, in West
Virginia, married in Sangamon county,
Aug. n, 1836, to Charles J. Turpin. See
his name.

JONATHAN, Jun., born Aug. i,
1818, in West Virginia, married in San-
gamon county to Emily Meacham. She
died, leaving one child, SARAH A., who
married Cyrus W. Baker. See his name.
Jonathan Jarrett, Jun., married Sarah J.
Baker. They had seven children — AR-
MINDA J. married Thomas Westfall,
have one child, and live in Ottawa, Kan-
sas. MARGARET married, Sept. 22,
1871, to Charles Dood, and live in Talk-
ington township. PAULINE lives near
Loami. MARY JOSEPHINE married,
April 5, 1876, to Wm. Abner Knight.
See his name. EMMA, JAMES M.
and CHARLOTTE MAY live near
Loami. Jonathan Jarrett, Jun., died Dec.
4, 1863, and his widow died Feb. 15, 1876.
Their unmarried children live near Lo-
ami, on the farm settled by his father in
1826.

REBECCA A., born July 16, 1822,
in Virginia, married in Sangamon county
to Robert Coley. Sec his name.

SIBTL, born May 8, 1825, in Vir-
ginia, married in Sangamon county to
Charles Priddy, They had six children,

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and she died in Loami township. The
children live with their father in Mis-
souri.

PE7"ER L., born Dec. 20, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married, Dec. 13,
1849, to Mary M. Meacham. Both died,
leaving one child, LEWIS L., who lives
with his uncle, William Jarrett.

CHARLES, born July 26, 1832, in
Sangamon county, married Ursula Col-
burn. They have four children, REBEC-
CA, LILLIE MAY, LAURA and
ALVA, and live four miles south of
Loami.

Jonathan Jarrett, Sen., died Apr. 28,1834,
and Mrs. Rebecca Jarrett died Dec. n, 1863,
both in Loami township. He owned slaves
in Virginia, and brought two of them with
him to Sangamon county. Others fol-
lowed, and they were all content to work
as they had done in slavery — some of
them even better. One of them was a
tanner, and by his aid Mr. Jarrett carried
on tanning for many years.

JARRETT, WILLIAM B.,
born March n, 1814, in Kanawha coun-
ty, Va. ; was second cousin to Jonathan
Jarrett, Sen. He came to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in 1828, with his sis-
ter, Mrs. Elizabeth Swan, who after-
wards returned to West Virginia. Wm.
B. Jarret was married, Aug. 16, 1838, in
Morgan county, where Waverly now
stands, to Jane Huggins, who was born
Dec. 26, 1816, in Gallia county, Ohio, and
came to Sangamon county with her
mother and step-father, Charles Alsbury,
arriving at Springfield in 1825. Wm. B.
Jarrett and wife had nine children —

ELI, born June 4, 1839, in Sangamon
county, married Sarah Robinson, have
two children, and live in Christian
county.

IRVIN, born Sept. 25, 1840, married
Joanna Wheeler, have four children,
MARY J., NANCY, SARAH am!
JOANNA, and live five miles west of
Loami.

LEAH, born Aug. 18, 1842, mar-
ried John H. Meacham. See his name.

GEORGE R., born Aug. 28, 1844,
married, Feb. 22, 1867, to Elizabeth
Buchanan, have one living child, WIL-
LIAM W., and live four miles west of
Loami.

NANCT J. born Nov. 7, 1846, in
Sangamon county, married Robert Hug-

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EARLY SELLERS

gins. He served in an Ohio regiment in
suppressing the rebellion. They have
three children, and live at Osage Mission,
Kansas.

HARRIET A., born Jan. 25, 1848,
in Sangamon county, married, Sept. 22,
1870, to James A. Hill, who was born
May 8, 1838, in Greene county, 111. They
had two children— ANDRE W J. died in
his second year. MARY A. lives with
her parents, four miles west of Loami.
James A. Hill was five years in Co. G,
Third Arkansas Infantry, Confederate
army.

WILLIAM W.,

JOHN H., and

STEPHEN A. D. live with their
parents.

Wm. B. Jarrett and wife reside five
miles west of Loami, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

JEFFERIES, ELIAS, was
born March, 1800, in Ross county, Ohio.
His ancestors were from Hardy county,
Va. Elias was married March 11,1824,
to Rachel Johnstone. She was born in
the same county in 1805. Her ancestors
were from Monroe county, Va. Mr. and
Mrs. Jefferies had one child in Ohio, and
moved to Springfield, 111., arriving in the
fall of 1826, where they had one child.
Of the two children —

GEORGE y., born May 13, 1826, in
Ohio, raised in Sangamon county, and
died in Ohio, in his nineteenth year.

NIREM A., born Aug. 2, 1828, in
Springfield, raised in Ohio, married in
1861 to Ruth J. Weese, in Sangamon
county. They had four living children,
and Mrs. Jefferies died June 4, 1872. Mr.
Jefferies married in 1874 to Miss Weese,
and, with his four children, JOHN,
f HENRY C.,LAUR A L. and GEORGE,
live four miles north of Springfield.

Mrs. Rachel Jefferies died Dec. 3, 1830,
and Elias Jefferies was married to Mar-
garet Jack. They had four children,
three of whom died under five years of
age.

ROBERT J., born April 27, 1836,
married April 30, 1857, to Mary Weese.
Mr. Jefferies has served four years as
Justice of the Peace, and is now — 1874 —
in- his second term. He has no children,
and lives in Fancy creek township, eight
miles north of Springfield.

Mrs. Margaret Jeffefies died in the fall
of 1838, and Elias Jefferies died in the
spring of 1840, both in Springfield town-
ship, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOHNSON, ANDREW, was
born in Dumfrieshire, Scotland, and came
to America when he was a young man,
and to Sangamon county as early as 1826
or '7. He was a millwright, and built a
mill on the South Fork of Sangamon
river for Edwark Clark. Andrew John-
son was married about 1827 to Mrs. Mary
Barker, whose maiden name was Wil-
liams. They had three sons, namely —

JOHN, born Oct. 23, 1828, in Sanga-
mon county, married March i, 1849,10
Phoebe E. Bell. They had five living
children. ISAIAH B.,born May 9, 1851,
married April 27, 1871, to Annie Love-
lace. They have one child, ELIZABETH,
and live two and one-half miles south of
Rochester. LAURA J., born Feb. 14,
1854, married Dec. 30, 1869, to Henry R.
Hedrick. They have two children, and
live two miles west of Clarksville.
ROBERT SUMNER died, aged four
years. JOHN A., born March i, 1861, and
MINNIE S., born Sept. 17, 1866. The
two latter live with their father. Mrs.
Phoebe E. Johnson died Feb. 17, 1871, and
John Johnson was married June 13, 1873,
to Theresa Taff, who was' born Oot. 21,
1846, near Mechanicsburg. They reside
two miles south of Rochester.

SAMUEL, born Sept. 18, 1831, in
Sangamon county, married Sept. 22, 1852,
to Lavina J. Baker; had one child, JAN-
ETTA F., born Sept. 5, 1854, married
Dec. 14, 1871, to Joseph Sharp, and live
in Cotton Hill township. Mrs. Lavina
J. Johnson died March 24, 1856, and
Samuel Johnson was married Aug. 26,
1856, to Louisa Taff, who was born July
4, 1839, near Athens, Menard county, Illi-
nois. They have eight children, MARI-
ETTA, THERESA A., JAMES E.,
IDA F., FLORA A., MARTHA C.,
ARTHUR and IRO. and reside three-
quarters of a mile southwest of Clarks-
ville, Berry Postofrice.

ANDRE W} Jun., born in 1833, and
died, aged twelve or thirteen years.

Andrew Johnson died in Sangamon
county, and his widow married Greenberry
Baker. See his namk.

JOHNSON, JOHN, was born
about 1795, in Cazenovia, Madison coun^

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ty, N. Y. He was married to Elizabeth
Coley, had three children in New
York, and moved, in company with her
brother, Willis Coley, to Shawneetown,
Illinois, and came to Sangamon county in
1825, where they had one child. Of tneir
four children —

E ME LINE, born in New York, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, in 1836,10 Rev.
Peter Wallace. She died in 1862, at Sid-
ney, Champaign county, leaving four chil-
dren, who live with their father, who is
married again, and is presiding Elder at
Quincy, Illinois. — 1874.

LUCINA, born in New York, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to James Lang-
ford, and lives in St. Louis, Mo.

JAMES, born in New York, married
in 1838 to Margaret Cheney. He died,
and his widow married, and lives in San
Francisco.

FRANCIS M., born Oct. u, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married in 1851 to
Columbia Withrow. They had five chil-
dren in Sangamon county. OSCAR,
born July 5, 1852, married July 4, 1872, to
Mary A. Sanborn. They have one child,
LOUIE GLENN, and live in Loami. FLO-
RA B., CHARLES L., NELLIE and
HARRIET E. live with their parents at
Onarga, Iroquois county, Illinois.

John Johnson died Sept. 15, 1870, and
his widow lives with her son, F. Marion
Johnson, at Onarga, Illinois.

JOHNSON, ELIAS, was born
in Delaware, and went to Fayette county,
Ky., when a young man. He was there
married to Margery Martin, a native of
Delaware also. They had four children
in Kentucky, and moved to Clark coun-
ty, Ind., where six .children were born,
and in 1830 the family moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., and settled in what is
now Cooper township. Of their child-
ren—

AARON, married in Indiana, moved to
Texas, had four children, came to Sanga-
mon county on a visit, and died in 1851
in Cooper township.

JOHN, born about 1805 in Casey
county, Ky., went back from Indiana, and
was married near Lexington to Elizabeth
Martin ; came to Sangamon county ; his
wife died. He married again, and died in
1866 in Sangamon county, leaving child-
ren by both marriages.

DANIEL, born Aug. i, 1807, m>
Casey county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, in 1838, to Mary E. Ferguson.
They had two children — one died young.
ELIAS J., born April 10, 1841, in Sanga-
mon county, enlisted Aug., 1862, for three
years, in Co. E, H4th 111. Inf., served full
term, and was honorably discharged. He
was married, Jan., 1869, to Mary M.
Boyce, and lives near Breckenridge.
Mrs. Mary E. Johnson died in Aug.,
1845, and Daniel Johnson was married,
April, 1846, to Sarah Young, who died in
Sept., 1846. Daniel Johnson was married
in Jan., 1851,10 Mrs. Julia G. Dickerson,
who had previously been Mrs. Welch,
and whose maiden name was Cooper.
They had four children; all died under
seven years. They reside in Breckenridge,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILL JAM B., born in 1809, in Ca-
sey county, Ky., came with his parents to
Sangamon county, returned to Clark
county, Ind., and was married there, in
1831, to Anna Huckleberry. They had
six children in'Sangamon county. TODD
S. is married, and is a traveling preacher
in the M. E. Church, and resides at Oco-
nee, 111. — 1874. SARAH lives with her
mother. EARLY S., MELVILLE C.
and ASBURY C., have families, and live
near Monticello, 111. NORMAN A.
lives with his mother. Wm. B. Johnson
was a local preacher in the M. E. Church.
He died in 1870, and his widow resides at
Monticello, Piatt county, 111 — 1874.

JAMES, born in Clark county, Ind.,
united with the M. E. Church, in Spring-
field, went to Texas, about 1850, and be-
came a traveling preacher, and Presiding
Elder in the M. E. Church, South; mar-
ried there, and resides at Huntsville, Walk-
er county, Texas — 1874.

ELISHA, born July 16, 1814, in Clark
county, Ind., married Sarah A. Hutchins,
had three children in Sangamon county,
and in the fall of 1847 moved to Arkansas,
where they had three children — COL-
BERT R., born Jan. 28, 1843, in Sanga-
mon county, married in Texas, and died
there, leaving a widow and two children.
MARY, born May 14, 1845, in Spring-
field, married Benj. A. Giger. See his
name. ELIZABETH, born April 13,
1847, 'n Sangamon county, married in
Springfield, Sept. 19, 1869, to John W.
Corby, and lives in Springfield. MAR-

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GERY, born and died in Arkansas, aged
fourteen. JAMES H., born April 25,
1854, in Arkansas, lives with his sister,
Mrs. Giger. NANCY I. died, aged
seven years. Mrs. S. A. Johnson died in
1857, in Arkansas. Elisha Johnson was
married to Mrs. Jane L. Creger, moved
back to Sangamon county in 1865, and
died Dec., 1866, in Cooper township,
leaving a widow and one c hild, who soon
returned to Arkansas.

ZA CHARIAH, born in 1816, in Indi-
ana, married in Sangamon county to De-
lilah Todd, and had three children — SA-
RAH A. and MARY E., twins, born
Aug. 29, 1848. SARAH A. married
Joseph Bardwell, and live near Brecken-
ridge. MARY E. married Hosea B.
Ross, and live near Rochester. JAMES
F., born June 11,1850, married Fannie
Rhodes, and lives near Breckenridge.
Z. Johnson died about 1855, and his
widow married Joseph Johnson. See his
name.

JOSEPH, born in Indiana, married
in Sangamon county to -Mrs. Delilah
Johnson, whose maiden name was Todd.
They had three children, and she died in
1866. He married Amanda J. Frazee.
Joseph Johnson died in Cooper township,
and his widow and one child live at Ma-
con, Macon county, Illinois.

ELI AS H., born about 1830, in Indi-
ana, died unmarried.. in 1860.

ELIZABETH, and

SARAH A., born in Indiana, and
died in Sangamon county, the former at
twenty, and the latter aged four years.

Elias Johnson and Mrs. Margery John-
son both died in Cooper township, Sanga-
mon county.

JOHNSON, JOEL, was born
May 21, 1806, in Berkshire county, Mass.
His father died when he was five months
old. His mother married a Mr. Gregory,
and when Joel was five years of age she
left him with an uncle, and moved to San-
gamon county, 111. See the name of
Gregory. Joel Johnson saw his mother
no more for twenty-one years. He left
Massachusetts and first visited an elder bro-
ther in Salem, Columbiana county, Ohio.
He then traveled by steamboat down the
Ohio and up the Mississippi rivers, to St.
Louis, and from there to Sangamon coun-
tv, to visit his mother, arriving in July,
1832. He was returning to his brother in

Ohio, and had reached St. Louis, when he
discovered that he had only five dollars.
That would pay for a deck passage on a
steamboat, but he lacked a single dollar to
buy food for the trip; and for want of that
the whole course of his life was changed.
He found work in St. Louis at his trade
as a boot and shoe maker. But when he
had saved fourteen dollars, there was no
farther employment for him. By this
time he abandoned the idea of returning
to Ohio, because he had heard so much said
in favor of 111. With his fourteen dollars
he procured leather and other materials,
and left for Edwardsville, 111., where he
opened a shop and went to work. He
had a severe fit of sickness during the
winter of 1832 and '33. In April, 1833,
he moved to Springfield, coming with
Alexander B. Irwin, who was hauling
goods from St. Louis. Mr. Irwin only
charged him fifty cents for bringing him-
self and goods. Joel Johnson was married
in February, 1834, at Carlinville, 111., to
Eliza Newman, who was born in 1815, in
Madison county, 111. They had five
children, two of whom died under three
years —

CHARLES, born in Springfield, died
aged twenty-one years.

ED WARD S., born Aug. 9, 1843, in
Springfield. Served a four years' ap-
prenticeship at the printing business, and
was engaged with his father in the boot,
shoe and leather business when the rebel-
lion broke out. He enlisted at the first
call for 75,000 men, April, 1861, in Co. I,
7th 111. Vol. Inf., for three months; was
appointed first sergeant, and served as
such full time. He re-enlisted July 24,
1861, for three years, in the same company
and regiment, at Mound City, 111. Ser-
geant Johnson remained there in charge
of the property, while the company re-
turned home on furlough. At the elec-
tion of officers in Springfield, although
absent, he was elected First Lieutenant,
and served as such until Feb. 15, 1862,
when he was promoted to Captain, to fill
the vacancy caused by the death of Capt.
Noah E. Mendell, who was killed at
Fort Donelson two days before. Capt.
Johnson commanded his company until
Dec. 22, 1863, when he re-enlisted
with his company, 'as a veteran. He
continued in command until April 22,
1864, when he was promoted to Major

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of the regiment. Major Johnson was
appointed hy Gen. John M. Corse, Sept-
ember 30, 1864, Post Commandant at
Rome, Ga., and served as such until the
movement of the grand army on Sher-
man's "march to the sea," in November
following. He then returned to his regi-
ment, and served with it until all were
mustered out, July 25, 1865. He partici-
pated in the battles of Fort Henry, Fort
Donelson, Pittsburg Landing, siege and
capture of Corinth, Florence, Savannah,
Bentonville, besides innumerable skir-
mishes. Major E. S. Johnson was en-
gaged in business in Springfield from the
close of the rebellion for more than two
years. In consequence of impaired health,
and for observation, he planned a
European tour, and in company with Dr.
Rufus S. Lord, left Springfield March
30, 1868. They went by steamer from
New York to Liverpool, thence to Lon-
don, and from there to Paris. Thence to
Nice on the Mediterranean ; entered Italy
at Genoa, thence to Pisa, Leghorn and
Naples. They visited Herculaneum,
Pompei, Vesuvius, etc. From Naples to
Rome, Florence and Verona. In Aus-
tria, they visited Trieste and Vienna, thence
to Dresden in Prussia. From there to
Berlin, Pottsdam, Cologne, down the
Rhine to Coblentz and Mayence, where
they left the Rhine, and visited Baden-
Baden, Heidelberg and Strasbourg, en-
tered Switzerland at Basle, thence to
Berne, Luzerne, Mount Rigi, Martigny,
and by the mountain pass Tete Noir to
Chamounix, in the midst of the mountain
region, including Mont Blanc. Thence to
Geneva, by Diligence, and from there to
Paris, where he met Dr. Lord, whom he
had previously left at Strasbourg. They
proceeded to London, thence to Edinburg,
Scotland, and back to Liverpool, where
they took steamer for New York. From
the latter city they proceeded to Saratoga,
Ticonderoga, on Lake George, Platts-
burg, Ogdensburg, Prescott, Montreal,
Quebec, Toronto, Niagara Falls, Buffalo
and Sarnia, where they took steamer on
the lakes for Chicago, reaching Spring-
field early in September.

Edward S. Johnson was married, Aug.
10, 1869, in Springfield, to Laura I. Clin-
ton, who was born Oct. 21, 1848, in
Springfield, also. They have one child,

EDWARD RUSSELL, born May 9,
1875, and reside in Springfield, Illinois.

JOHN W., born April 15, 1845, in
Springfield, enlisted Dec., 1863, for three
years, in Co. I, yth 111. Inf. He was
killed, Oct. 4, 1864, at the battle of Alla-
toona Pass, Ga.

Mrs. Eliza Johnson died, and Joel John-
son was married, Jan. 3, 1852, to Mrs.
Elizabeth T. Campbell.

Joel Johnson Engaged in the boot and
shoe business, on coming to Springfield,
in 1833, and in 1835 opened a hotel. He
has been in that business forty-one years,
and is the oldest hotel keeper in central
Illinois, if not the oldest in the State, and
is now the proprietor of the Revere
House.

JOHNSON, LUE, was born
about 1786, at Mitldlebury, Vermont. A
short time before his birth, his father had
a difficulty with an Indian of the St. Re-
gis tribe, who were on friendly terms with
the whites. In a scuffle the Indian threw
Mr. Johnson, and was about to take his
life, when a chief of the same tribe came
to his rescue, and killed the Indian, in order
to save the life of his white friend. The
name of that chief was Lue — pronounced
Lu-e, and Mr. Johnson named his first
born son for the dusky friend who saved
his life. The father of Lue Johnson died
when he was five years old, and his
mother married Orson Douglas, an uncle
to Stephen A. Douglas. Lue Johnson
was married in Ferrisburg, Vt., to Betsy
Benham, who was born in 1787, in Che-
shire, New Haven county, Ct. They had
seven children in Vermont, and moved in
1829 to Pontiac, Michigan, where Mrs.
Johnson died in 1833. Lue Johnson
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the spring of 1836, near Rochester. Of
his seven children —

HENRY, born June 30, 1816, at Bur-
lington, Vt., went with his parents to
Michigan, and preceded his father to San-
gamon county, arriving Oct. 7, 1832, at
Rochester. He left Michigan by stage.
The stage broke down in Indiana, fifty
miles from Chicago. He enjoyed the hos-
pitality of an Indian wigwam one night,
walked to Chicago, which then consisted
of a fort, a few huts, and 1,000 Pottowat-
tomie Indians. He did not think the
place worth stopping at, and came on to
Sangamon county. Henry Johnson was

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BARLT SETTLERS OF

married Nov. 8, 1838, near Rochester,
to Joanna Twist. They had nine child-
ren in Sangamon county. CALVIN C.,
born Jan. 14, 1840, married in Sangamon
county to Amelia St. Clair. They have
one child, EMMA FAY, and live at the
Union Stock- Yards, Chicago. MARY
N., born March 9, 1842, married in 1868
to William Lowe. They have two child-
ren, and live near Edinburg, Christian
county. ELIZABETH A. and ORSON
D., twins, born Aug. 3, 1844. ELIZA-
BETH A. married William Shipley.
They have one child, ALBERT R., and live
in Springfield. ORSON D. enlisted
Aug. 4, 1862, for three years, in Co. I,
i i4th 111. Inf., and died at Memphis, Tenn.,
Jan., 1864. His remains were brought
home, and buried west of Rochester.
LAURA R., born Sept. 19, 1853, HEN-
RY F., born Nov. 25, 1857, CHARLES
A., born Aug. 25, 1859, and FLORA E.,
born Sept. 6, 1861, reside with their par-
ents, three miles northeast of Rochester,
Sangamon county, 111. Henry Johnson
served from 1867 to 1872 in the Sangamon
county Board of Supervisors. He dis-
played such splendid horsemanship at the
Sangamon county "Fair, in a contest not
mentioned in the programme, Sept., 1875,
that he was presented with a fine gold-
headed cane, purchased by an improptu
collection from the spectators.

MART A., born July, 1830, in Ver-
mont, was married in Springfield, 111., to
William Cole. They had one child,
FLORA, born in 1851, in Springfield,
married Abner Thompson. They have
two children, and live in Decatur. Mr.
and Mrs. Cole died in Iowa.

ANNELlZABETH,\)vv\\ in 1825, in
Vermont, was married in Springfield, 111.,
to Peter Fields, who died in 1852. She
married Alexander Fisher. See his name.

ORSON D., born in 1827 in Vermont,
married in Rochester to Lydia Eggleston.
They have four children, two of whom
are married, and live in Mt. Pulaski, Lo-
gan county, 111.

FLORA A., born in 1829 in Vermont,
died in 1845 in Springfield.

LUE , Jun., born in 1831 in Vermont,
and died in 1837 near Rochester.

Lue Johnson, Sen., died Sept., 1838,
near Rochester, 111.

JOHNSON, LEWIS, was born
Jan. 1 6, 1812, in Somerset county, Penn.

He came to Springfield July 8, 1838. He
was married to Martha J. VanDeren.
They had one child, MARTHA J., and
Mrs. Johnson died July, 1845, m Somer-
set county, Penn., while on a visit to his
parents. Lewis Johnson married in 1854,
to Mrs. Margaret W. Thompson, whose
maiden name was VanDoren. They had
four children. LE W1S W. died at six
years. GEORGE W. died in his fourth
year. MARGARET E. and GEOR-
GIE E. reside with their parents in
Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois. — '74.

JONES, ALEXANDER, bro-
ther to Robert, William and Thomas.
He was born in 1786, in Orange county,
N. C. His parents moved, when he was
a child, to Madison county, Ky., and from
there to Pulaski county, in the same
state. Susan Woozley was born in 1788,
in Halifax county, Va., and taken when
young to Pulaski county, Ky. Alexander
Jones and Susan Woozley were married
in Pulaski county about 1808. They had
one child in that county, and moved to
Bedford county, Tenn., where one child
was born, and then moved to that part of
Barren which has since became Hart
county, Ky., where three childien were
born. In 1821 they moved to Wayne
county, 111., where they had two children,
and then moved to Sangamon county, ar-
riving Oct. 9, 1827, in what is now Ball
township, where one child was born. Of
their eight children —

THOMAS W., born in Pulaski coun-
ty, Ky., married in Sangamon county to
America Pittman, moved to Missouri, and
died there in 1853, leaving a widow and
children. T. W. Jones was a soldier in
the Black Hawk war. He was also Capt.
of a company from Sangamon county in
the Mexican war. His company was in
several battles, but every man lived to re-
turn except one, who sickened and died.

JAMES B., born in Bedford county,
Tenn., raised in Sangamon county, mar-
ried three times, and died in Missouri in
1853.

ROBERT W., born in 1814, in Hart
county, Ky., died in Sangamon county in
1833.

JOSHUA W., born Sept. 9, 1817, in
Hart county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county to Polly Ann Wills. They had sev-
en living children, viz: ADOLPH W.,
born July 19, 1846, was a soldier in the

SAN GAM ON COUNTY.

I ml. Inf.; residence not known.
LAURA J., born Oct. 25, 1847, married
Jan. 20. 1869, to J. W. Renn, who was
born Oct. 15, 1847, in Sangamon county.
They have three children, JESSIE A.,
LAURA s. and EDNA, and live half a mile
east of Woodside, Sangamon county.
WILLIS A , WILEY E., AMERICUS
V., JAMES A. and HORATIO S. live
with their father. Mrs. Polly A.Jones died
Apr. 8, 1867, and J. W.Jones married Sept.
3, 1869,10 Mary E. Dryer of McLean coun-
ty, and have two children, LUELLA and
JUNETTIE. Joshua W. Jones resides in
Ball township, adjoining the farm where
his father settled in 1827. It is three
miles east of Chatham. He studied med-
icine, and practiced it eight years, but now
confines his business to farming.

MOSES A., born July 31, 1820, in
Hart county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, Jan. 18, 1846, to Nancv Arm-
strong, who was- born in Virginia, Feb.
16, 182*4. They had eleven children.
SUSAN J. and MARY E. died, each in
their second year. The other nine:
CAROLINE A. married William D. Pat-
ton. See his name. ELIZABETH A.,
and THOMAS A. live with their
parents, JAMES B. is a druggist,
and lives in Springfield, ROBERT W.,
JOHN M., ANDREW J., ELIZA B.
and CHARLOTTE F. reside with their
parents in Ball township, ten miles due
south of Springfield.

BURRELL T., born in Wayne coun-
ty, Illinois, raised in Sangamon county,
married in Missouri to Charlotte Williams,
moved to Clinton, DeWitt comity, 111.,
and died in 1864, leaving a widow and
two children. They now live in Cali-
fornia. He practiced law in Missouri,
and edited a paper in Clinton, Illinois.

AMANDA J., born in Wayne coun-
ty, married Rape Funderburk. See his
name.

SUSAN D., born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married in Missouri to Caswell Wil-
liams, and died there in 1847.

Mrs. Susan Jones died Jan. 20, and
Alexander Jones died Oct. 20, 1844, and
both are buried in Ball township.

JONES, ROBERT, born Sept.
25, 1790, in Orange county, North Caro-
lina, was a brother of Alexander, William
and Thomas. When he was a child his
parents moved to Madison county, Ky.,

and from there to Pulaski county, same
State, where his father died, and all the
family moved to Bedford county, Tenn.
He went from that county as a soldier in
the 4th Tenn. Reg. during the war of
1812, and was in a battle against the In-
dians on the Tallaclega river, Alabama, in
which Gen. Jackson was in immediate
command. Robert Jones served three
months and fourteen days. He went
from Tennessee to Hart county, Ky.,
where he was married about 1816 to Ta-
bitha Lard, who was born June 18, 1795.
She was a sister of John Lard. Mr. and
Mrs. Jones had one child in Kentucky, and
moved to Wayne county, 111., where
four children were born; thence to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving May 13, 1828,
in what is now Ball township, where
they had three children. Of all their
children —

MAHALA, born Nov. 9, 1818, in Hart
county, Ky., died Aug. 7, 1838, in Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

ALEXANDER J., born Jan. 9,
1820, in Wayne county, 111., brought up
in Sangamon county, was married June
26, 1871, in Christian county, 111., to Cas-
sandra E. Hunt. Mrs. C. E. Jones died
May 5, 1875, leaving one child, MELISSA
A., who lives with her father in Ball
township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOAB, born Aug. 27, 1823. in Wayne
county, 111., died Aug. 30, 1844, in Sanga-
mon county.

JOHN G., born July 21, 1825, in
Wayne county, died Sept. 2, 1838, in San-
gamon county.

MADISON, born Aug. 7 1827, in
Wayne county, 111., died Feb. 16, 1849, in
Sangamon county.

DRURY, born June 12, 1830, in San-
gamon county, was married there July
n, 1850, to Amanda M. Porterfield.
They had three children. JAMES M.
lives with his father. ROBERT P.
died, aged seven years. MINER VAJ.
died in infancy. Mrs. A. M.Jones died Apr.
22, 1855, and Drury Jones was married
Sept. n, 1856, to Susannah Meredith.
They had seven children. SARAH M. A.
died in infancy. AMANDA J. was mar-
ried Oct. i, 1874, to Charles R. McClure,
and lives near Pawnee, Sangamon county,
111. The other five, CHARLES C. L.,
DAVIS A. W., WILLIAM A. E.,
FRANCIS M. J.and MARY E. T. M.,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

live with their ^parents, in Ball township,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

CAL VIN, born Aug. 22, 1832, in San-
gamon county, died, unmarried, Dec. I =5,

^55-

ROBERT WILET, born May 17,
1838, in Sangamon county, died Dec. 12,
1845.

Mrs. Tabitha Jones died Sept. 22, 1861,
and Robert Jones died May 16, 1874,
both in Ball township. He was in his
eighty-fourth year.

JONES, WILLI AM, was born
about 1793, in Orange county, N. C. He
was married in Wayne county, 111., in
1824, to Lucinda Gore, had three
children in that county, and the family
moved to Sangamon county with his
brothers, Alexander and Robert, in 1827
or '8 and settled in Ball township, where
eight children were born. Of all the
children —

MARGARE7\ born March 28, 1825,
married Elijah Wall, who died, and she
married Smith McAtee, and had two
children — JANE McATEE is unmarried
and lives in Cotton Hill township. MA-
RY McATEE married Henry B. Rose,
and lives near Independence, Kansas.
Smith McAtee died, and she married Fe-
lix Stovall, and he died.

MART, born Sept. 16, 1826, in
Wayne county, married Richard Wall.
See his name.

SARAH, born Jan. 30, 1827, married
Johnson Wall, and she died.

JAMES, born Nov. 5, 1828, in San-
gamon county, was a member of an Illi-
nois regiment, and died in Mexico, in
time of the war in 1846 or '7.

E L I Z A BE TH married Logan
Lightfoot, as her third husband, and lives
in Davis county, Iowa.

DELILAH married to Wm. Calla-
way in Marysville, California.

ANDRE W J., born in 1835, in San-
gamon county, served three years in
the Union army, married Elizabeth Lard,
and lives near Independence, Kansas.

SUSAN, born Feb. 21, 1837, in San'
gamon county, married, Jan. 8,' 1853, to
David B. Greenawalt, who was born
June 30, 1819, in Hardin county, Ky.
They have three children, MARY M.,
DAVID M. and IVEY D., and live two
miles north of Pawnee.

ROBERT A., born in 1839, in San-
gamon county, served in the Union army,
married Sarah J. Keys, and live near In-
dependence, Kansas.

NEWTON C, born in Sangamon
county, served three years in the Union
army, mai'ried, and lives near Grafton,
Kansas.

Mrs. Lucinda Jones died May 19, 1843,
and Wm. Jones died April 2, 1844, both
in Sangamon county.

JONES, THOMAS, brother to
Alexander, Robert and William, was born
in Pulaski county, Ky., about 1800, mar-
ried in Wayne county, 111., to Zilpha
Green, came to Sangamon county in 1828,
bringing three children, and had seven
children in Sangamon county. Of the
ten children —

ABIGAIL, born in Wayne county,
married Richard Kelly, who died, and
she married Benj. Howard, and she died
in Christian county, leaving one child.

MARY A. married Dempsey Tucker,
and had four children. Mr. Tucker and
one child died. The widow married
James Davidson, and she died.

PIERCE, born in 1827, in Wayne
county, 111., married in Sangamon county
to Elizabeth Enochs, and live in Iowa.

SALLY, born in 1829, in Sangamon
county, married Eli Davidson.

FIELDING, born in Sangamon
county, was twice married, and lives in
Iowa.

EMERINE, born in Sangamon
county, married James Enochs, and live
in Iowa.

GREEN, born in Sangamon county,
married Susan Smith, and lives in Ball
township.

AIAHALA, born in Sangamon county,
married Wm. Fry, who was killed on the
road south of Springfield, leaving four
children. The widow and children live
near Edinburg, Christian county, Illi-
nois.

ALEXANDER, born in Sangamon
county, married to Mrs. Mary A. Pugh,
and live near Edinburg, Christian county.

Mrs. Zilpha Jones died in 1850, and
Thomas Jones married Polly Kelly, and
he died about 1855 — both in Sangamon
county.

JONES, WILLIAM, Jun., was
born about 1808, in Kentucky. His father,
James Jones, was a brother to Alexander,

SANGAMON COUNTY.

417

Robert, Thomas and William. William,
Jun., came to Sangamon county, when a
boy, with his uncle, Robert Jones. He
was married in 1831 to Martha A. Lillard,
who was born July 24, 1815, in Rocking-
ham county, N. C., and came to Sanga-
mon county in 1829. They had seven
living children —

J^EMPERANCE, born August 25,
1832, married April 8, 1852, to A. C.
Campbell.

SARAH E., born Dec. 24, 1834, mar-
ried in 1854 to W. C. Enix. They have
three living children, and live near Mora-
via, Monroe county, Iowa.

TAB1THA A, born Nov. 6, 1837,
married Alexander Elliott, August, 1853,
have five living children, and live near
Palmer, Christian county.

ROBERT A., born April 14, 1840,
married March, 1862, to Rachel A. Sears,
have three living children, and reside at
Palmer, Illinois.

JAMES T., born July 10, 1845, in
Sangamon county, is married and living in
Washington Territory.

WILLIAM C., born April 28, 1848,
in Sangamon county, married Burnetta
Hill, who died, and he married Alice M.
Shadrick, and lives in Palmer, Christian
county, Illinois.

NANCY y., born Jan. 10, 1851, mar-
ried James P. Lawley. See his name.

William Jones, Jun., died in 1858, in San-
gamon county, and his widow, Mrs.
Martha A. Jones resides near Palmer,
Christian county, Illinois.

JONES, ANDREW, was born
Jan. 10, 1783, in Culpepper county, Va.
His- parents died when he was quite young,
and about 1808 he went to Bath county,
Ky., and was there married, in 1812,
to Eleanor Goodan, who was born March
1 6, 1793, in Pennsylvania, and was taken
by her parents to Kentucky when she
was young. They had five children in
Bath county, and the family moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the
fall of 1825, on Round Prairie, where
one child was born. Of their six child-
ren—

RA CHEL, born Sept. 8, 1814, in Bath
county, Ky., was married in Sangamon
county to George W\ PofFcnberger. See
his name.

LEVI W., born April 26, 1817, in
Bath county, Ky., was married in Sanga-

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mon county, Feb. 23, 1837^ to Grace Mc-
Clees, who was born Feb. 22, 1817, in
Bath county, Ky. They have three
children. EMILY, born Nov. 28, 1837,
married William Beadle. They have two
children, ELIZA E. and WILLIAM A., and
live in Springfield, ELIZABETH E.,
born Oct. 29, 1842, married William Un-
derwood. They have three children,
JOSEPH, CLARA and ETTIE F., and live
near Santa Fe, Missouri. LEVI W.,
Jun., born Dec. 22, 1848, lives with his
parents, one and a half miles west of
Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ELIZA, born Sept. 12, 1819, in Bath
county, Ky., was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to Samuel Miller. See his
name.

DANIEL G., born Nov. 15, 1822, in
Bath county, Ky., was married in 1849, in
Sangamon county, to Amanda J. Brunk.
She died Sept. 28, 1865, leaving two chil-
dren. LAURA, born Feb. 3, 1852, died
Jan. 1 8, 1870. GEORGE A., born May
31, 1860, lives with his father. Daniel G.
Jones was married May, 1869, to Mary F.
Rickard. They have two children,
MARY R. and HELEN, and live four-
teen miles south of Springfield, in Cotton
Hill township.

E VELINE, born May i, 1825, in
Bath county, Ky., was married in Sanga-
mon county, 111., to Joseph E. McCoy.
See his name.

JOHN A., born Oct. 4, 1829, in San-
gamon county, was married there to
Louisa Smith. They have four children,
ARTHUR E., EVA E., GEORGE A.
and LOUELLA, and live in Clinton,
DeWitt county, Illinois.

Andrew Jones died Oct. 20, 1854,, and
Mrs. Eleanor Jones died March 8, 1859,
both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

JONES, REUBEN, brother of
Andrew and Levi, was born in Virginia,
and married in Fleming county, Ky., to
Jennie Bracken. They had four children
in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., in 1824, where Mrs. Jennie
Jones died. Reuben Jones married again
and moved to McLean county, Illinois.
He died in southeastern Illinois.

JONES, LEVI, brother of An-
drew and Reuben was born in Virginia,
and married in Fleming county, Ky., to
Fanny Shackleford. They had three
children there, and came to Sangamon

418

EA RL Y SB TTLBRS OF

county in 1824.* The parents settled on
German Prairie, northeast of Springfield.
Their three children married and moved
to Iowa.

JONES, EMANU EL, was born
Jan. i, 1818, in Fleming county, Ky.
His parents moved in 1828 to Kaskaskia,
111. He came in 1836 to Sangamon
county, to join his two brothers, and was
married early in 1837 *° Eliza Shane.
They had seven children, namely —

JOS I AH, born May 5, 1838, enlisted
July 20, 1 86 1, at Springfield, in what be-
came Co. C, nth Mo. Inf., for three
years. He was wounded May 22, 1863,
in one knee and one hand, at the assault
on the rebel fortifications at Vicksburg.
After recovering, he was transferred to
the Vet. Res. Corps, and was detailed as a
ward master and steward in the military
hospital at Keokuk, Iowa, served full
term, and was honorably discharged Aug.
5, 1864. He was married March 17,
1 868, at Loami, to Laura E. Davis, and had
three children. CARRIE, died in in-
fancy. HARRY and ALICE live with
their parents at Loami.

CATHARINE, born 1841, married
George Brewer, and lives in Macon
county.

JOHN, born 1844, enlisted in 1862 in
Co. I, 63d 111. Inf., for three years, and
died at Columbus, Ky., in 1863.

C2WT/?IAtmamed Alexander Scott,
and lives in Macon county.

WILLIAM lives at Decatur.

THOMAS and

MARTHA live with their mother.

Emanuel Jones moved from Loami to
Macon ocunty in 1854, and died there Aug.
9,11858. His widow, Mrs. Eliza Jones, and
two youngest children, live in Shawnee-
town, Illinois.

JONES, JAMES, elder brother
to Emanuel and John, was born in Flem-
ing county, Ky., was taken by his parents to
Kaskaskia, 111., in 1828, and came to San-
gumon county in 1831. He was married
in Sangamon county to Jane Snyder;
raised a family, moved to Macon county,
and now resides near Decatur.

JONES, J O H N , eldest brother to
James and Emanuel, was born in Fleming
county, Ky., went to Kaskaskia, 111., in
1828, from there to Sangamon county, with
his brother James, in 1831, was married in
Sangamon county, at fifty-five years of

age, to Emeline Shane, and both died
without children.

JONES, ENOCH, was born
in Maryland, came to Sangamon county
among the earliest settlers, and located in
Island Grove. He brought a wife and
seven children. Six of his children were
by a former wife, who had been a widow,
Halliday, with four children. Her daugh-
ter, Sarah Halliday, married Starling
Willis. See his name. The whole fam-
ily moved to Knox county, where the
parents died.

JONES, HENRY, was born
August 25, 1793, in Caroline county, Va.
He was a soldier in the war of 1812.
Mary F. Chiles was born Nov. n, 1801,
in the same county, and they were mar-
ried there, Jan. 9, 1819. They had six
children in Virginia, and moved to Todd
county, Ky., where two children were
born. The family then moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving in the fall of
1834, in what is now Springfield town-
ship, south of Sangamon river. Of their
children —

SARAH A. M., born Oct. 16, 1819, in
Virginia, married in Sangamon county to
Thomas McKinnie. Sec his name.

WILLIAM B., born July 4, 1821, in
Virginia, married Jan. 31, 1843, to Eliza-
beth A. McKinnie, and live five miles
west of Springfield.

HENRY H., born Sept. 17, 1822, died
August 25, 1835.

MART W., born Feb. 15, 1824, lives
with her mother.

JOSEPH W. and RICHARD J.,
twins, born Sept. 14, 1825, in Virginia.

RICHARD J. married Melhida
Browning, have three children, and live
in Springfield. He is a cabinet maker.

JOSEPH W., married Lucy Rans-
dell, have five children, RICHARD N.,
JOHN H., ELIJAH ARTHUR, WIL-
LIAM E. and GEORGE E., and live in
the northwest corner of Springfield town-
ship.

ELEANOR L., born June 30, 1829,
in Kentucky, married Sept. 8, 1853, in
Sangamon county, to Levi Bowker, who
was born April 27, 1823, in Cape May
county, N. J. They have seven children,
WILLIAM H., JOHN L., EDMUND
F., MARY E., THOMAS E., JAMES
M. and ALBERT CHILES, and reside
five miles northwest of Springfield.

SANG AM ON COUNTY.

419

JONATHAN If., born July 21, 1833,
in Kentucky, married Nov. 29, 1866, to
Martha E. Marshall, who was horn Sept.
12, 1842, at Columbus, Ohio. They had
two children, JENNIE 13., the youngest,
died in infancy. CHARLES HENRY
lives with his parents, five and a half
miles northwest of Springfield.

Henry Jones died Jan. I, 1848, and his
widow resides in the northwest corner of
Springfield township, six miles from
Springfield, Illinois.

JONES, STROTHER G., was
born Dec. 18, 1813, in Lincoln county,
Ky., and was taken by his parents in 1818
to Shelby county. His grandfather, Jo-
siah Jones, was born in Wales, and was
married there. His wife was of Scotch
descent. They emigrated to America be-
fore the Revolution. Strother G. says
they were both sold to pay for their pas-
sage across the ocean; that they were
both in the battle of Bunker Hill, and
that his grandmother received a wound
in the breast. They afterwards settled in
Rappahannock county, Va., and raised a
family. Four of their sons emigrated to
Kentucky. One of them, Josiah, walked
the whole distance, without shoes or hat.
His entire wardrobe consisted of a single
garment, a sack made of tow linen, and
fastened by a draw-string around the
neck. He was married in Mercer county
to Nancy Finley, a daughter of Col. Oba-
diah Finley. Mrs. Finley's maiden name
was Gaines. She was a sister to the
mother of President Harrison. There is
a family tradition, that in the early trou-
bles with the savages, in Kentucky, Mrs.
Finley slew four Indians. Strother G.
Jones was married July 10, 1834, in Mer-
cer county, Ky., to Lucy Newton, who
was born in that county March 5, 1817.
They embarked at Louisville, on a steam-
boat, and came by the Ohio, Mississippi
and Illinois rivers to Beardstown, and
from there by wagon road, stopping at
the house of John B. Broadwell, at a place
then called Clayville, one mile south of
the present town of Pleasant Plains, ar-
riving in Springfield March 16, 1836.
They had four living children in Spring-
field, namely —

ELIZABETH A., born June 12,
1836, in Springfield, married, Sept. 4,
1853, to Nimrod Nooe. They have eight
children, and live near Mattoon.

MART E., born Sept. 2, 1839, in
Springfield, married Daniel Pottle. See
his name.

JAMES W., born July 15, 1846, in
Springfield. He enlisted June 28, 1862,
in Co. F, yoth 111. Inf., for three months;
served until Oct. 23, 1862, when he was
honorably discharged. He enlisted in the
nth Mo. Inf., but was taken out by his
father because he was under age. He
was married, Oct. 12, 1865, to Sidney E.
Taylor. They have two children, MAG-
GIE and WILLIAM A., and live one
and one-half miles northwest of Dawson.

LUCT E., born Aug. 30, 1850, in
Springfield, married to Wm. A. Burns.
See his name.

Strother G. .Jones married, June 14,
1865, in Logan county, for his second wife,
Lucy E. Cass. They have four child-
ren—

MORRIS A., born at Morris, Grundy
county, Illinois.

SHIRLEY A., EARNEST,
S 7"R O THE R J. and JESSIE
MA Y ; the three latter born in Sanga-
mon county, and all four live with their pa-
rents, at Dawson.

S. G. Jones was City Marshal of Spring-
field, under Mayor John Calhoun. He
was justice of the peace and Postmaster
at the same time, in Dawson. He took an
active part in organizing the Old Settlers'
Society, and was President of the same
for two years — 1868 and '9 — and vice-
President and acting-President the year
after.

JONES, THOMAS, was born
August 31, i77o» h's descendents think in
Virginia, and that he emigrated to Ken-
tucky when a young man. He was mar-
ried in Bourbon county, Ky., August 20,
1799, to Polly Bryan, a daughter of the
founder of Bryan's Station. They had
eight children in Kentucky, four of whom
died there. Mr. Jones came to Spring-
field in the spring of 1834, and purchased •
a farm adjoining Springfield on the north.
He built a house on the land which is
now part of the residence of Judge S. T:
Logan. He returned to Kentucky for
his family, and found his wife sick. She
died soon after, and Mr. Jones moved,
with three of his children, to Springfield,
arriving in Nov., 1834. Of those three
children —

420

EARLT SETTLERS OF

SARAH, born Jan. 21, i8n,in Ken-
tucky, was married there to N. G. Bal-
dock. He died in Kentucky, and she came
with her father to Sangamon county,
where she was married in March, 1837, to
Thomas P. Smith. They moved to
Missouri, and both died there, leaving
four children, namely: MARY, THOM-
AS, AFFIA and JULIA— the latter
dead. Mary returned to Illinois, where
she married, and now resides in Menard
county, Illinois.

WILLIAM T., born May 8, 1817, in
Bourbon county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county, 111., April 12, 1840,10
Lavina J. Merriman. They have two
children born in Sangamon county.
HENRIETTA B. married Dr. Thomas
M. Helm. See his name. GEORGE
B. married Frances W. Ellis. They
have three children, WILLIAM, ALLIE and
BELLE, and live with his parents, two
and one-quarter miles west of Williams-
ville.

7^HOMAS N. died, unmarried, Jan.,
1838, in Sangamon county, Illinois.

Thomas Jones died Oct. 23, 1841, about
three miles west of Williamsville, Sanga-
mon county.

JUDD, EZEKIEL, was born
Feb. 14, 1797, in Mason county, Ky., and
was taken by his parents to Clermont
county, Ohio. He was married in the
adjoining county of Brown, to Delilah
Lakin. They had two children in Brown
county, and moved with his brother, Cor-
ban, to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1825 in what is now Clear
Lake township, where they had several
children. After a residence of nearly a
quarter of a century in the county, he
moved, about 1850, to Winchester, Scott
county, 111., where Mrs. Delilah Judd died.
Ezeziel Judd and his four living children
reside in Jackson, Michigan.

JUDD, REZIN, was born Dec.
26, 1 798, in Mason county, Ky., and taken
when a child to Clermont county, Ohio.
He was married, in the adjoining county
of Brown, Jan. 3, 1822, to Eve Shinkle,
who was born in that county Dec. 2, 1804.
They had two children, and moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall
of 1826, in what is now Clear Lake town-
ship, where his brothers, Ezekiel and
Corban, had settled the year before. They
had eight children in Sangamon county —

ALBERT J. and MART I. died,
each in their fourth year.

ELIZA A., born Oct. 18, 1822, in
Brown county, Ohio, married in Sanga-
mon county to Thomas A. Magee. They
had six living children. Mr. Magee died,
in 1863, and his widow lives five miles
south of Mechanicsburg, in Christian
county, Illinois.

NELSON S., born Oct. 22, 1825, in
Brown county, Ohio, married in Sanga-
mon county, Nov. 15, 1849, to Susan
Miller, who was born April 20, 1831, in
Champaign county, Ohio. They have
six living children, ELIZA J., SARAH
E., GEORGE W., MARY M., ANNA
E. and EMMA A., and live three miles
southwest of Dawson, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

JOHN A., born Sept. 6, 1830, in
Sangamon county, died Oct. 7, 1848.

ARMINDA R., born April 17, 1833,
in Sangamon county, married John H.
Shankland. They have three children,
and live in Riverton.

WILLIAM W., born Aug. 19, 1836,
in Sangamon county. He served three
months in Co. F, 7oth 111. Inf.; and en-
listed in May, 1864, for one hundred days,
in Co. I, 1330! 111. Inf., served full term,
and was honorably discharged. He is
Postmaster, at Dawson, and lives with his
mother — 1874.

MARGARET E., born Feb. 13,
1839, in Sangamon county, married, May
30, 1871, to Robert Alls. He was born
Dec. 2, 1833, in Montgomery county, Va.,
was married in Clinton county, Illinois, to
Mary M. Potts, who died, leaving one
child, REBECCA V. He was married
in Sangamon county, Feb. 11, 1867, to
Mrs. Maria L. Grabendich, whose maiden
name was Morgan. See Morgans name.
She died, leaving one child, CHARLES
A., and he married M. E .Judd. They
have one child, REZIN A., and live near
Dawson, Illinois.

MARQUIS L., born Dec. 23, 1841,
in Sangamon county, enlisted in 1862, for
three years, in Co. F, 7oth 111. Inf.; served
full term, and was honorably discharged.
He lives in Dawson.

REZIN A. V., born Dec. 16, 1846, in
Sangamon county, and lives with his
mother.

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Rezin Judd died, July 7, 1873, and his
widow resides with her three sons, in
Dawson, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JUDD, COR BAN C., born Nov.
16, 1800, in Marion county, Ky., was mar-
ried in Brown county, Ohio, March 7>
1824, to Nancy Lakin. She was a twin
sister of his brother Ezekiel's wife, with
whom they moved to Sangamon county,
111., in the autumn of 1825. They had
eight children —

MILTON r., born June 18, 1825, in
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county,
about 1850, to Rebecca Miller. They
had four children, MARY, NATHAN,
ELIZABETH and SARILDA. Milton
V. Judd enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio, for
the Mexican war, served his term, and
died, Nov. 5, 1872, in Minneapolis, Min-
nesota. His widow and children live in
Champaign county, Ohio.

ADD IS ON B., a twin brother of

MIL7^ON T., died near Mechanics-
burg, Sangamon county, February 22,
1844.

MARIA L. died in infancy.
WILLIAM D., born June 8, 1830, in
Sangamon county, was married, about
1852, to Charlotte McCord, of Mt. Pleas-
ant, 111. He served three years in the
Federal army, and died at Dewitt, Ohio,
leaving four children — ADA J. and D.
WILLIS, who live with J. S. Judd, in
Whitehall, and MAMIE and BELLE,
who are married, and live in St. Loim,
Missouri.

CAROLINE M., a twin sister of
WILLIAM D., was married to James
McFarland, in 1849, at Carrolton, 111.
He died, in 1858, leaving a widow and
two daughters, DORA and BELL. Mrs.
Caroline M. McFarland married John J.
Bell, who died Jan. i, 1875, leaving a
widow and three children, JAMES, DA-
VID and LEMPE, who live near Ber-
dan, Greene county, Illinois.

JOHN S., born April 30, 1835, in
Platte Valley, Grant county, Wisconsin,
accompanied his father and family to
Whitehall, 111., arriving in June, 1847.
He was married there, Oct. 20, 1858, to
Sarah E. Culver, of Whitehall, daughter
of Rev. S. H. Culver, D. D. She died
without issue, Feb. 4, 1862. John S.
Judd enlisted June, 1862, as first Lieuten-
ant, in Co. I, pist 111. Inf., returned home
in 1865, and was married, Jan., 1866, to

Melissa J. Culver. She died April 29, 1869,
without issue. J. S. Judd was married,
June 20, 1870, to Melissa A. McCallister,
of Whitehall. They have three children
NORMAN W., HERMAM S. and
CORBAN E. John S. Judd has been a
leading merchant of Whitehall, Greene
county, 111., since 1858.

MELINDAA., born about 1837, mar-
ried Rev. John C. Wood, of Bunker Hill,
111., in 1854 or '5. They have five child-
ren, and live at Bunker Hill, Macoupin
county, Illinois.

WATSON W., born about 1840, en-
listed in 1861, and died in service Jan. 13,
1862, at Laclede Hotel, St. Louis, Mis-
souri.

MARY E., was born about 1842, and
died in 1853, at Waterloo, Iowa.

Corban C. Judd served as a soldier two
terms, from Sangamon county, in the
Black Hawk war. He served in the
Mexican war, under Gen. Scott, and died
at Pueblo, Mexico, Dec. 17, 1847. His wid-
ow, Mrs. Nancy Judd died April 26, 1851.
John S. Judd writes to the author that
the four youngest children of Corban C.
Judd were given a kind home by J. S.
Hackney, one of the noblest sons of Illi-
nois, formerly of Logan county.

KANE, ANDREW J., was

born Feb. n, 1818, in Guilford county,
North Carolina. His father died when
he was an infant, and his mother, with
her three children moved to Greene coun-
ty, Ind., in 1830. Andrew J., when ap-
proaching manhood, went to Indianapolis,
where he remained several years, learning
the trade of a carpenter. Mr. Kane next
traveled by the way of Michigan City to
Chicago. That place was such a misera-
ble quagmire, he did not think it worth
stopping at, and started for Springfield.
He stopped one night at Irish grove, in
Menard county, paid his last cent for
lodging, and left without breakfast and
without letting the family where he stop-
ped know that it was because he had no
money. When within five or six miles of
his destination, his hunger prompted him
to stop and 3sk for something to eat, stat-
ing that he had no money. Breakfast
was readily prepared, and enjoyed with a

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keen relish. He came on toward Spring-
field, and found men building a bridge
across the Sangamon river, where Car-
penter's mill now stands. He obtained
employment there, and when he received
his first pay, he walked back to the house
where he had been supplied with break-
fast, and handed the man a twenty-five
cent piece, and told him what it was for.
The old gentleman turned to his wife,
handed her the money, and said : "There,
mammy, give him back a bit" — meaning
a twelve- and one-half cent piece. Mr.
K. refused to take any change. The
host was Nathan Hussey, whose name
heads a sketch in this volume. Mr.
Kane's arrival was in July, 1839. He
was married May 13, 1847, to Caroline
M. Beers. They had seven living child-
ren— MATTIE E., CHARLES P.,
JULIA E., HENRY B., EUGENE
S., CAMPBELL N., and BELLE
C., all live with their parents, Charles
P. is a practicing attorney, of the
firm of Kane & Hazlett, Springfield.
Henry B. is one of the letter-carriers em-
ployed by the United States govern-
ment.

Andrew J. Kane and wife reside in
Springfield. He was ordained to preach
the gospel in 1842, in connection with the
Christian church, and has continued
preaching to the present time — June,
1876.

K EAGLE, JOHN, was born
July 14, 1794, near Harrisburg, Pa. He
was married there to Mary A. Parker.
They had two children in Pennsylvania,
and moved to Ross county, Ohio, where
they had six living children, and moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1835,
in what is now Fancy Creek township.
Of their eight children —

JOHN, Jun., born in Pennsylvania,
married in Sangamon county to Adaline
Cooper. They have six children. Their
daughter CHARLOTTE married Nathan
Hussey. See his name. John Keagle
and family live in Logan county, Illinois.

JOSEPH, born Sept. 8, 1818, in
Pennsylvania, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, in 1842, to Angeline Hall. They
raised six children, and Mr. Keagle died
in 1871. His widow lives near Barclay,
Illinois.

MARY married Robert Stringfield,

have three children, and live in Williams-
ville.

SAMUEL, married Christiana Farris,
and lives in Fancy Creek township.

DOR O THY married Ambrose Coop-
er. See his name.

LETU^IA married James C. King,
and lives in Logan county.

HARRISON lives in Logan county,
Illinois.

Mrs. Mary Keagle died August, 1851,
and John Keagle died June, 1872, both in
Sangamon county, 111.

KEEDY, JpHN A., was born
in Pennsylvania^ in the year 1800, was
married in Maryland about 1830, to Susan
Wolgamot, who was born in 1800, in
Washington county, Md. Two children
were born in Maryland. The family
moved to Springfield, 111., in 1838, com-
ing all the way in wagons. They
brought with them the first carriage ever
used in Sangamon county. They had
one child in Springfield. Of the three
children —

MARGARET, was born July 4, 1832,
and was married in Springfield Sept. 19,
1855, to Amzi McWilliams, a native of
Ohio, a lawyer by profession, and who
was at one time State's Attorney for this
circuit. They had one living child,
FREDERICK V., born August 7, 1856,
now attending school at Litchfield, 111.,
and living with his uncle, Maj. Robt. Mc-
Williams.

JOHN D., born July 15, 1832, in
Washington county, Md., married in
Springfield, Jan. 18, 1855, to Charlotte
Opdycke, a daughter of Stacy B. Opdycke.
See his name. She was born in Chester, 111.,
March 19, 1835. They had five living child-
ren, viz : STACY B. died at eight years of
age. SUSAN, CHARLOTTE, JOHN
D., Jun., and HANNAH live witH their
parents. John D. Keedy was several
years Deputy Sheriff, is now serving his
second term as Justice of the Peace in
Springfield, where he resides. — 1876.

WILLIAM, born about 1839, in San-
gamon county. He left home some time
in 1863, in declining health. The family
received one letter from him, from New
York City, since which time they have
heard nothing from him, but suppose that
he is dead.

Mr. John A. Keedy was alderman one
term in 1846, and was for a while mer-

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chandising with Tinsley & Co. He died
Sept. 27, 1854. His widow is still living
in Springfield, Illinois.

KEIGWIN, STERRY S.,
born Oct. n, 1803, in Windham county,
Connecticut. Susannah Morse was born
Feb. 14, 1811, in Sutton, Massachusetts.
They were married May 23, 1833, in
Millberry, Mass., and made their home
there until they had one child, and then
moved to Illinois, first stopping in Mc-
Lean county, and then moved to Spring-
field in May, 1838, where one child was
born. Of their two children —

CORNELIA, M., born July 10,
1835, a*- Millberry, Mass., married in
Springfield, 111., to F. A. Moore, and died
Sept. 13, 1856, at LaCrosse, Wisconsin.

vS" USA N K., born March 21, 1840, in
Springfield, 111., married June n, 1868, in
Atlanta, 111., to John P. Leonard. He
died at the latter place March 16, 1872.
Mrs. Susan K. Leonard was married Dec.
23, 1873, to Lucius C. Francis. See his
name.

Sterry S. Keigwin moved from Spring-
field, in 1858, lo Washington county, Mo.,
and in 1861 to Atlanta, 111., where he now
resides.

KELLY, HENRY, was born
about 1742. The place of his birth is not
certainly known to his descendants. He
was married, and had five sons and two
daughters, all born in Rutherford county,
North Carolina, namely: J O PI N,
ELISHA, ELIJAH, WILLIAM
and GEORGE W. The daughter,
ELEANOR, married in North Caro-
lina to Joseph Reavis. SALL T married
a Mr. Greenawalt. Two of the sons,
John and Elisha, preceded their father to
Sangamon county. Henry Kelly owned
slaves, but none of the sons, except
George, would have them ; so he freed
the slaves, and gave land to his sons, in-
stead. The daughters had three slaves,
each; and, after tarrying less than thirty
days in Sangamon county, moved on to
Missouri. Henry Kelly died in June, 1832,
and was buried about two miles north of
Curran. He was about ninety years old.
His widow moved several years later to
the vicinity of Bolivar, Polk county, Mo.,
and died there about 1840. The follow-
ing sketches are headed with the names
of the five sons.

KELLY, JOHN, was born about
1783, in Rutherford county, North Caro-
lina. He was there married to Mary
Whitesides, had five children there, and
moved to Illinois in the fall of 1818, first
stopping on Macoupin creek. In the
spring of 1819 he moved to what is now
Springfield, and built the cabin in which
the first court of Sangamon county was
held, in May, 1821. It stood at what is
now the northwest corner of Seqond and
Jefferson streets. It was the first build-
ing of any kind erected within the city
limits of Springfield. In September or
October of that year Mrs. Kelly died.
Mr. Kelly had business unsettled in North
Carolina, and returned for that purpose.
While there he was married, in the fall of
1821, to Margaret Waldrup, and brought
her at once to his new home. She never
had any children. Of his five children —

JONATHAN, born Sept. 19, 1808, in
Ruhherford county, N. C., married Sept.
8, 1831, in Fayette county, 111., to Sarah
Cook, who was born Dec. 3, 1812, in Ten-
nessee. They had eight children in San-
gamon county, namely: WILLIAM
W., born Feb. n, 1833, married Mrs.
Almeda McMurray, whose maiden name
was Davis. She had two children by her
first marriage, and they have two, THOMAS
j. and SARAH E., and live with his mother,
near Curran. MARY F., born June 10,
1834, married Wm. B. Cobb. They had
eight children. Mr. Cobb and two of the
children died. The widow and six child-
ren live in Gardner township. JOHN C.,
born March 27, 1837, niarriecl Emily J.
Kellums, had four children, CASSIUS E.,
IDA B., MARY E. and LYDiA A., and Mrs.
Kelly died, and he married Mary J.
Woods; have two children, EMMA L. and
JOHN H., and live in Hancock county, 111.
ELIZABETH A., born Oct. 5, 1839,
married Oct. 10, 1872, to Charles A.
Jackson, of New York, and live in Ne-
braska. HARRIET L., born Jan. 20,
1842, married William D. Kelly. See
his name. BENJAMIN F., born April
12, 1848, married Margery S. Hibbs, of
Mason county, and live two miles north
of Curran. MELISSA E. died in in-
fancy. SARAH ELLEN lives with her
mother. Jonathan Kelly died June 23,
1873, and his widow resides one and
three-quarter miles north of Curran. —
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SARAH married Ewell Rigg. See
his name. She died July 16, 1854.

ELIZABETH married Henry
Robertson, and had thirteen children.
Mr. R. and seven children died. The
widow lives two and a half miles east of
Loami.

WILLIAM R. married Florella M.
Alford, have six children, and live near
Edinhurg, 111.

MAR r M. married William S. Mc-
Ginnis. See his name. Their . son,
JOHN, married Sarah F. Vestal, in Mis-
souri, and lives in Loami township.

John Kelly died about 1823, in Spring-
field, and was buried north of Hutchison
cemetery, where his first cabin was built.
His widow married Zachariah Peter.
Sec his name.

KELLY, ELISHA, born March
13, 1787, in Rutherford county, North
Carolina. He came to Macoupin county,
111., about 1817, and remained there for
two years, spending most of his time in
hunting. He is the old bachelor spoken
of on page thirty-two. His selecting the
place for a hunting ground and inducing
others to come, was the beginning of
Springfield. The parties caused to come
were his father, Henry Kelly, and his three
brothers, William, John and Elisha. The
younger brother, George, came a few years
later, at the same time the sisters halted
here on their way to Missouri, where they
went because they could not keep their
slaves in Illinois. Elisha Kelly abandoned
his bachelor life, and was married in San-
mon county Feb. 24, 1823, to Nancy
Sims, who was born Sept. 27, 1803, in
Sparklenberg county, S. C. She was a
sister of John Sims. They had six child-
ren in Sangamon county, namely —

JOHN R., born Dec. 24, 1823, mar-
ried Sarah Yeaman, and had three child-
ren, and the family moved to Texas.
CHARLES died there at twenty-one
years. CAROLINE married, and lives
in Dallas county, Texas. ANNA lives
with her sister, Caroline. The parents
both died in Texas. Mr. Kelly tried to
reach the Union lines, but was forced into
the rebel army, contracted disease, and
went home and died.

LOUISA E., born Dec. 24, 1824, mar-
ried Sept. 3, 1846, to Isaac L. Ewell. See
his ?tame.

MARTHA, born Aug. 27, 1826, mar-
ried Thomas Desper; had several children,
and live in Missouri.

ELMIRAH, married James Wilson,
and died in Texas, leaving several child-
ren. Mr. Wilson married again, and
lives in Sangamon county.

WILLIAM I)., married Harriet,
daughter of Jonathan Kelly. He died,
and she married Erastus Canfield; has
two children, and live near Plymouth,
Hancock county, Illinois.

ZILPAH M. is living with her third
husband in Texas.

Mrs. Nancy Kelly died Jan. 27, 185=;,
and Elisha Kelly died April 6, 1871, both
in Curran township, Sangamon county.

KELLY, WI LLI AM, was born
in Rutherford county, North Carolina;
married there to Dicey Ann Cook; came
to Sangamon county in company with his
son-in-law, Andrew Elliott, in the fall of
1819. They had children, and some live
in North Carolina, and some in Sanga-
mon county. Of their children —

ZILPA H.y born March 12, 1797, in
North Carolina, married there to Andrew
Elliott. See his name.

ZILLA, married John Holt.

E MM A LEE C A married Lucien
Berry.

JANE married Jacob Cooper. See
his name.

ALZIRA married Benjamin Cook.

ALTA married William McGinnis,
who died, and she married John Fullerton,
and resides at Carthage, Jasper county,
Missouri.

CLEMANTINE married Nathan
Ralstow.

William Kelly and wife moved to Jas-
per county, Mo., in 1836, and both died
there, near Carthage.

KELLY, ELIJAH, born in
Rutherford county, North Carolina, mar-
ried there to Esther Cook, came to San-
gamon county in 1821 or '2. They had
seven children. Elisha Kelly died in
Sangamon county about 1832. His
widow and children moved to Mis-
souri.

KELLY, GEORGE, born in
Rutherford county, North Carolina, came
to Sangamon county about 1821; married
Elizabeth Orendorff; moved about 1836 to
the vicinity of Bolivar, Polk county,
Mo.; raised a family of eight children,

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and Mr. Kelly and his wife both died
there.

KENT, JOSIAH P., was born
Nov. 28, 1804, near Bainbringe, Ross
county, Ohio. Clarissa Poole was born
Nov. 19, 1816, in the same county, near
Chillicothe. They were there married
Aug. 2, 1836, and came to Sangamon
county, arriving in November of that
vear, in what is now Illiopolis township.
They had two children —

ADALINE, born Aug. 7, 1837, in
Sangamon county, married Nov. 8, 1854,
to Charles M. Turner, who was born
Dec. 2, 1820, in Juniata county, Pa., and
came to Sangamon county in 1847, to
visit his sister, Mrs. S. G. Nesbitt. Mr.
and Mrs. Turner had seven children,
three of whom died under two years.
ELIZA A., MARY E., CHARLES A.
and LAURA BELLE reside with their
parents in Illiopolis.

JAMES T., born August 8, 1842, in
Sangamon county. He served nine
months in the U. S. Navy in the war to
suppress the rebellion, and was married
Sept. 6, 1869, in Sangamon county, to
Jennie Dorrell. Thev have two children,
HORACE G. and GEORGE, and re-
side at Washington Heights, office 202,
LaSalle street, Chicago, Illinois. — 1874.

Josiah P. Kent died July 26, 1856, in
Illiopolis township. Mrs. Clarissa Kent
was married March 17, 1861, to Albert
Booth. He died March i, 1873, in Spring-
field, Illinois, and his widow resides there.

KENT, JESSE H., born in
1809, near Bainbridge, Ross county, Ohio.
He was married in 1838, in Christian
county,- to Lydia A. Walker, but soon
after made their home in the eastern part
of Sangamon county, 111., where one child
was born, and they moved to Springfield,
where they had four children. William
and John T. died young. Of the other
three children —

SARAH E., born June 25, 1840, near
Mechanicsburg, married George W. Con-
stant. See his name.

JAMES H., born in Springfield, en-
listed in 1861, in Company I, 7th 111. Inf,
for three years, was wounded in 1864, and
discharged on account of physical disa-
bility, married Jane Howard, and she
died.

JOSIAH P., born in Springfield,
married Lou Rogers, and lives with his
father, near Savannah, Mo.

Jesse H. Kent lived in Springfield until
1874, when he moved to the vicinity of
Savannah, Mo., where he now resides. .

KENNEY, MATTHEW P.,
was born Sept. 3, 1808, in Christian
county, Kentucky. He came to Sanga-
mon county, 111., in 1827, and was married
Ian. 6, 1829, to Amanda Viney. They
had seven living children in Sangamon
county, namely:

JAMES T. married Mary Crane,
and lives in Auburn township.

JOHN N. married Amanda Wallace,
and lives one and a quarter miles south of
Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM married Martha A. Dren-
nan, and live in Bates .county, Mis-
souri.

REBECCA married Elias Tusker,
have three children, and reside three and
a half miles east of Auburn, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

MA TTHE W S.,

NINIAN E. and

ABRAHAM V. live with their
mother.

Matthew P. Kenney died Dec. 13, 1851,
and his widow resides — 1873 — on the farm
where they settled in 1829. It is three
miles east of Auburn, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

KESSLER, ADAM, was born
Oct. 22, 1807, in Baden, near Heidelburg,
Germany. May 10, 1839, he embarked
for America, and spent the whole summer
on the Atlantic ocean, arriving in the fall.
He went to Ohio, and found employment
in constructing one of the canals of that
State. He went from there to St. Louis,
Mo., and in the fall of 1840 arrived in
Springfield. His parents came to this
country in 1842, and died in Springfield.
Adam Kesslerwas married, Feb., 184*9, to
Catherine Weis, who was born in Baden,
Germany, also. They had four child-
ren—

ELIZABETH, born in Springfield,
married, Jan. 27, 1870, to John C. Schu-
ler, who was born July 22, 1846, in Duir-
wangen, Germany. They have four
children, CATHARINE, JOHN, CON-
RAD and MARY, and live in Spring-
field.

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

GEORGE,
JOHN and

MAR Y, all reside in Sangamon county,

Mrs. Catharine Kessler died in 1859,
and Mr. Kessler was married, Nov., 1859,
to M.rs. Mary Giesler, whose maiden
name was Hies. They have six child-
ren—

CHRISTINA, ADAM, BARBA-
RA, EMMA, MART and FREDE-
RICK, and reside in Springfield.

Mr. Kessler was for many years en-
gaged in horticulture and market garden-
ing, by which he has acquired a compe-
tence. In the summer of 1870 he visited
Germany, returning in the fall of that
year.

KESSLER, BENJAMIN,
was born Dec. 28, 1803, in Botetourt
county, Va., came to Sangamon county in
1827, raised a family, and lives in Auburn.

KEYS, ISAAC, was born Jan. n,
1790, in Fayette county, Kentucky, and
when a young man went to Pickaway
county, Ohio. Elizabeth Hess was born
about 1795 in Virginia, and was taken by
her parents, when she was a child, to
Pickaway county, Ohio. Isaac Keys
and Elizabeth Hess were married, and
had three children in that county. They
moved to what became Sangamon county,
111., arriving in 1819, in what is now the
southwest corner of Rochester township,
where they had five children. Of their
eight children —

MARY, born in Pickaway county,
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Tim-
othy Shoup. See his name.

SAMUEL, born in Pickaway county,
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Elizabeth Delay. They had six living
children. HENRY, born in 1845, went
to Washington Territory in 1871; has
not been heai'd from since 1872. MARY
married John Poffenberger, and died in
1870. LORENZO D., born Aug. 10,
1862, died, aged thirteen years. JULIA
A., FLORENCE G. and WINNIE live
with their parents. Samuel Keys and
wife live in the southwest corner of Roch-
ester township, Sangamon county, on the
farm where his father settled in 1819.

DANIEL, born in 1817, in Ross
county, Ohio, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., Jan. 3, 1844, t° Sarah J. Arm-
strong, who died, Sept. 28, 1844, leaving
one child, SARAH J. She married

Robert A. Jones. See his name. They
live near Independence, Montgomery
county, Kansas. Daniel Keys married,
May 7, 1845, to Nancy A. Dozier, who
was born Sept. 26, 1823, in Montgomery
county, Ky. They had eight children in
Sangamon county, and in 1860 moved to
Christian county, where they had two
children. Of their children— JAMES
A., and ISAAC W. live with "their pa-
rents. NANCY A. died young. MI-
RANDA A., borii Jan. 28, 1852, married,
in 1871, to Sylvester Miller, and live in
Christian county, Illinois. JOHN,
CHARLES, EDWIN S,, JESSIE F.,
MARY J. and HATTIE M. All the un-
married children live with their parents,
one and one-half miles northwest of Pana,
Christian county, Illinois.

ISAAC, Jun., born Jan. 16, 1825, in
Sangamon county, married, February
14, 1852, near Rochester, to Almira J.
Neal. They had three children. ED-
WARD D. is bookkeeper in the Fire and
Marine Insurance Bank, and lives with his
parents. ANNIE E. lives with her par-
ents also. NELLIE I died Sept. 5, 1875,
aged eighteen years. Isaac Keys was
Deputy United States Marshal in the
southern district of Illinois, from 1857 ^°
1862, when he was appointed by Presi-
ident Lincoln, Provost Marshal for the
eighth congressional district of Illinois,
and served until Sept., 1865, all that
time without the slightest complaint
of irregularity. He was one of the origi-
nal proprietors of the Fifth street horse
railroad, and superintened the construc-
tion of the same. After that, he was
interested in the Barclay coal mine, and
superintended that. He now resides in
Springfield.

JAMES, born April n, 1828, in San-
gamon county, married Jan. i, 1863, to
Nannie Gardner, daughter of Hiram K.
Gardner. She was born Feb. 6, 1835, in
Trimble county, Ky. Mr. and Mrs.
Keys have one daughter, IDA, born Oct.
21, 1863. Mr. Keys is a dealer in real
estate, and lives in Springfield, Illinois.

CLARISSA, born in Sangamon
county, married Allen Miller; has seven
children, and lives in Springfield.

ELIZA A., born April 3, 1832, in
Sangamon county, married May 16, 1852, to*
Jasper Newton Inslee. They had five child-
ren. ANN E. died in her second year.

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EMMA J., MARY L., MELISSA and
JOSEPH W. live with their parents in
Cotton Hill township, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

MARINDA, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married Marion Goldsby; has a family
of children, and live in Cass county, Mis-
souri.

Mrs. Elizabeth Keys died in May, 1847,
and Isaac Keys, Sen., died May 2, 1848,
both on the farm where they settled when
they came to the county in 1819.

KEYES, HUMPHREY, was
born in 1763, at Keyes' Ferry, Jefferson
county, Va. It is on the Shenandoah
river, six miles from the junction with the
Potomac. He was married in London
county to a Miss Strider. They had five
children, and Mrs. Keyes died. Humphrey
Keyes was married in Monroe county,
Va., to Sarah Hanley, who was born in
that county in 1776. They had six child-
ren in Monroe county, and moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving at Spring-
field, Nov. 10, 1830. Of his children by
the first marriage —

ISAA C, born and married in Virginia,
died in the Wabash Valley, Indiana, leav-
ing a widow and four children. She mar-
ried Mr. McCullough, and lives in Edgar
county, Illinois.

JOSEPH, born and married in Vir-
ginia, brought up a family there.

LUCRET1A, born in Virginia, was
married there to Joseph Fawcett, and
both died in St. Charles, Missouri, leaving
five children.

THOJMAS, born and married in Vir-
ginia, died in Bond county, 111., without
family.

PHCEBE, born in Virginia, was mar-
ried there to Joseph Bywater. They
brought up a family in Rockingham coun-
ty, Virginia.

The children of Mr. Keyes by the sec-
ond marriage are —

GERSHOM, born Feb. 16, 1804, in
Monroe county, Virginia, one hundred
and eighty miles south of Richmond, was
married in that county, June 17, 1830, to
Amanda Nichols, and came to Sangamon
county with his parents in 1830. They
had one child, and Mrs. Keyes died, Sept.
23, 1832. Her son, ISAAC P., died,
aged twelve years. Mr. G. Keyes was
married June 12, 1836, in Springfield,
111., to Matilda Matheny. They had two

children. DOW, born May n, 1837, in
Springfield, 111., was married Dec. 5, 1872,
near Springfield, to Elizabeth H. Wil-
son, who was born in St. Lawrence coun-
ty, New York. They reside at Pana,
Illinois. C. HUMPHREY, born Feb.
4, 1840, in Springfield, Illinois, enlisted in
1861, in Co. B, 33d 111. Inf., was wounded
at Mobile, and came home in 1865, where
he was honorably discharged. He went
to Kansas in the summer of 1866, and was
there married in May, 1867, to Mary
Smith, who was born in Sangamon coun-
ty, 111. She was a daughter of Colby
Smith, of Cotton Hill township. She
died in 1869. C. Humphrey Keyes was
married in August, 1871, to Hattie Burt.
They have one child, GERTIE, and live
near Xenia, Bourbon county, Kansas.
Mrs. Matilda Keyes died, Sept. 18,
1840, and Gershom Keyes was married,
June 8, 1843, in Springfield, Illinois, to
Priscilla Norris. They had ten children
near Springfield. ELLA, the sixth
child, died, aged nine years. MARY
A. lives with her parents. JAMES,
born April 29, 1845, was married July
3, 1872, in Pana, to Nellie Elmore, and
lives in Carlinville. ROBERT C.,
born July '15, 1848, lives in Springfield
with Henson Robinson. ARNOLD
R. lives with his parents. MAGGIE,
born July 3, 1851, was married June 25,
1874, to Samuel R. Ray, have one child,
GERSHOM, and live in Shelby county,
postoffice, Pana. NOAH G., GEORGE
B., VIRGINIA N. and S. ROBERTA.
The four latter live with their parents.
Gershom Keyes and family moved, in
1870, to a farm four miles north of Pana,
Illinois, where they now reside — 1876.

JAMES W., born Nov. i, 1805, in
Monroe county, Va., was married Jan. 9,
1827, in Botetourt county, Va., to Lydia
Spickard, who was born June 17, 1807, in
same county. They had two children
born and died there, and moved to Spring-
field, 111., arriving April, 1831. They had
nine children in Springfield; one died in
infancy. Of their eight children —
CHARLES A., born Dec. 4, 1831, in
Springfield, graduated at Illinois College,
in 1854, was admitted to the bar in 1856,
and was city attorney during 1857 and '58.
Charles A. Keyes was married in Xenia,
Ohio, to Elizabeth Lanman. They have
two living children, LILLIAN and MARYE.

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C. A. Keyes represented Sangamon county
in the State Legislature of Illinois, in 1862.
He was appointed Master in Chancery of
Sangamon county, by Judge E. Y. Rice,
in 1867, re-appointed by Judge B. S. Ed-
wards, and again by Judge John A. Mc-
Clernand. He held the position until
May, 1875, and with his family resides in
Springfield. MARY C., born Aug. i,
1833, in Springfield, was married Jan. 11,
1864, to William H. VanDoren. They
had three children — VIRGINIA E. died,
aged three years. SUSAN F. and JAMES
K. live with their parents, in Springfield,
111. EDWARD L., born Aug. 26, 1835,
married Ann Dillard. They had four
children, CORA, OSCAR, ANNIE and MAR-
CUS, who live with their father. Mrs.
Ann Keyes died in the summer of 1874,
and E. L. Keyes and family live four miles
north of Springfield, 111. HENRIETTA
M., born July 29, 1839, in Springfield, 111.,
was married, May 8, 1861, to Henson
Robinson, who was born March 15, 1839,
in Xenia, Ohio, where he learned the tin-
ning business, and came to Springfield,
111., July i, 1858. They have three living
children, LYDIA M., MARGARET H. and
CHARLES H., who live with their parents.
Henson Robinson is now, and has been
for fourteen years, engaged in the tinware
and stove business in Springfield. His
father, John Robinson, came to Illinois,
and bought land in Sangamon county,
in 1838. He returned to Ohio for his
family, but before they were ready to
start he died, in 1842, in Xenia, Ohio.
THOMAS R., twin to Henrietta M., is
unmarried, and lives with his parents.
SUSAN F., born Nov. i, 1841, in Spring-
field, married Silas W. Hickox. See his
name. MARGARET E., born July 17,
1846, married William Day. See his
name. MARTHA J. born Sept. 6, 1848,
married Douglas Hickox. See his name.
James W. Keyes was Postmaster in Spring-
field seven months, under President Van-
Buren, and again during the administra-
tion of President Buchanan. He was
Justice of the Peace fourteen years. Mr.
Keyes and family reside four miles north-
west of Springfield, Illinois.

ALEXANDER, born in 1811, in
Virginia, died in Springfield, in 1831.

MARGARET W., born March 31,
1814, in Union, Monroe county, Va., was
married in Sangamon county, 111., to L.

C. Backenstoe. They had one child,
VIRGINIA E. Mr. Backenstoe died,
in 1833, and his widow married James F.
Reed. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born in 1816, in Vir-
ginia, died, in 1832, in Sangamon county,
Illinois.

ROBERT CAD EN, born in 1818,
in Monroe county, Va., came to Sanga-
mon county with his parents, in 1830,
went, in 1845, to .California, with a drove
of cattle belonging to other parties, from
there to Oregon, and returned to Califor-
nia, where he met his sister, Mrs. Reed,
July 4, 1847, a*- the house of Capt. Yontz,
where a party had assembled to celebrate
the national anniversary. R. C. Keyes
brought eighty-one Americans with him,
and found one hundred and twenty-seven
others on the ground. They united in
what is believed to have been the first cel-
ebration ot the fourth of July on the Pa-
cific coast. Capt. Yontz furnished all the
provisions, and the ladies present made a
fl:ig by sacrificing their underclothing.
Mr. Keyes was fourteen years superintend-
ent of the Almaden quicksilver mines in
California. Robert C. Keyes was married
about 1853, in California, to Mrs. Roberts,
of Australia, but of English birth and
parentage. She was the widow of an
Episcopal clergyman, who was married in
Australia, and died soon after coming to
California. Mr. and Mrs. R. C. Keyes
had three children, and he died Sept. 14,
1865. His widow and children reside in
San Jose, California.

Humphrey Keyes died Oct. 11, 1833,
near Springfield, 111., and his widow, Mrs.
Sarah Keyes, died May 29, 1846, four
miles above the mouth of Blue river, and
near where Manhatten, Kansas, now
stands. She was on her way to Califor-
nia with her daughter, Mrs. Reed. See
Reed and Donner party.

KING, JEREMIAH, was born
Sept. 10, 1808, in Kentucky. His father
was a soldier in the war of 1812. His
mother died during the war, and his
father was wounded, from the effects of
which he died on his way home. Jere-
miah was taken to Xenia, Ohio, where
he was apprenticed to the tanning busi-
ness. He came to Sangamon county in
1827, and was married Aug. 21, 1828, to
Julia A. Brown. They had ten children,

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four of whom died in infancy. Of the
other six —

MARTHA A., born May 9, 1831, mar-
ried James L. Plunkett. See his name.

JACOB, born Dec. 15, 1832, married
Elizabeth Carson, and resides near Lamor
Station, Nodaway county, Mo.

ELIZA J., born Jan. 12, 1835, mar-
ried William C. Langston. See his
name.

MART E., born Oct. 4, 1841, married
Beatty J. Strode. See his name.

MARGARET L., born Dec. 9, 1845,
married Elias Glascock. See his name.
They reside in Menard county, Illinois.

LEV I 7\, born Jan. 24, 1848, was
married Oct. 8, 1871, to Mary E. Rhodes.
They have one child, MAGGIE M.,
and live with his mother, seven miles
north of Springfield.

Jeremiah King died Dec. 21, 1869, and
his widow lesides in Fancy Creek town-
ship, seven miles north of Springfield.

KING, JOHN, was born Jan. 22,
1804, in Kentucky. He was a brother to
Jeremiah King, came to Sangamon county
about 1821, and was married Feb. 18,
1824, to Sarah Earnest. They had ten
children, three of whom died in infancy.
Of the other seven —

WILLIAM E., born June 12, 1826,
married Almyra Bradley. He died Feb.
1 6, 1856, leaving a widow and two child-
ren. She married Henry Morgan. See
his name. He died, and she resides near
Fredonia, Kansas.

E LIZ ABE TH, born Feb. i, 1828, in
Sangamon county, married March 14,
1843, to John Ingels. See his name.

JEREMIAH, born Sept. 19, 1830,
married Aug. 29, 1862, to Mary E. Doug-
las, who was born Sept. 19, 1843, in San-
gamon countv. They have six children,
IDA, SARAH, ANNIS, ELIZABETH,
EDWARD and MARY, and reside two
and one-half miles west of Curran.

JOHN E., born Dec. 21, 1832, mar-
ried Nancy Campbell; have four children,
and live near Fredonia, Kansas.

CHARLES W., born July 6, 1835,
married Oct. 3, 1872, to Virginia Beach,
and live with his mother.

SARAH C., born May 12, 1836, mar-
ried Daniel H. Brundage; have six child-
ren, and reside in lola, Allen county,
Kansas.

MARTHA F., born March 18, 1839,
married Feb. 14, 1860, to Jacob J. Ingels,
who was born Aug. 25, 1834, in Bourbon
county, Ky. They had three children.
The two youngest died in infancy. Mrs.
Ingels died May 23, 1866. LIZZIE,
born Sept. 14, 1861, is the eldest child,
and the only member of the family living,
resides with her grandmother King.

John King died Dec. 29, 1838, and his
widow resides four miles northwest of
Curran, Sangamon county.

KING, TURNER Rv born
Jan. 12, 1812, at Sutton, Worcester county,
Mass., came to Springfield, 111., arriving
Dec., 1840, remained until 1842, and went
to Missouri. From there, in 1844, he
went to Pekin, 111., and in June, 1849, he
returned to Springfield, 111. .President
Taylor appointed him Register of the
Land Office. He retained the position
during that administration. In 1854 he
was elected, unsolicited by himself, Police
Magistrate, and served one year. In the
autumn of 1862 was appointed United
States Collector for the eighth Congres-
sional District, by President Lincoln, and
held the office until 1865. In 1868 he
moved to his farm, near McLean station,
McLean county, 111., where he now re-
sides. He never married.

KING, WILLIAM B., was born
April 23, 1783, in Fauquier county, Va.,
and when a young man went to east Ten-
nessee. Anna R. Greening — a sister to
Thomas A. and John F. Greening —
was born July 5, 1788, in Fauquier coun-
ty, Va., and taken by her parents to east
Tennessee. William B. King and Anna
R. Greening were there married about
1807, and at once moved to Fayette coun-
ty, Ky., and from there to Clark county,
Ky., where they had four children; and
the family moved to Bracken county,
Ky., about 1815, where seven children
were born, and all the family, except the
eldest son, moved to Sangamon county,
Illinois, arriving Oct., 1830, and settled
three miles east of Springfield, where
one child was born. Arriving so late
in the season gave but little opportunity
to prepare for winter. They built a log
cabin, roofed it with clap-boards, and cut
out a place for a door and a chimney; but
the snow come on before they could build
a chimney, make a door, or chink and
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with the cabin in that condition.
Thirty-one snows fell that winter, mak-
ing the "deep snow." Of their thirteen
children —

THOMAS A., born April 22, 1809,
in Clark county, Ky., married Nov. n,
1830, in Bracken county, to Ann Mann,
and came to Sangamon county, arriving
Oct., 1831, and settled three miles east of
Springfield. They had twelve children
in Sangamon county; five died young.
ELIZABETH, born April 16, 1832, mar-
ried Anderson Todd; have ten children,
and live in Illiopolis township. WIL-
LIAM, born Nov. 21, 1835, died Jan. 23,
1862. MELVIN, born Oct. 6, 1839, en-
listed July, 1862, for three years, in Co.
I, 114 111. Inf. Served full term, and was
honorably discharged Aug., 1865. He
was married in Sangamon county Nov.
12, 1867, to Artamesia M. Kipps, who
was born July 2, 1850, in Cobb county,
Georgia. They have two children, AN-
NIE A. and LINNIE j., and live half a mile
east of Riverton. URIAH, born Aug.
20, 1842, enlisted at Chicago, June 17,
i86i,inCo. E, 24th 111. Inf., for three years.
He was wounded at the battle of Chick-
amauga, Sept. 19, 1863, and captured the
next day, and after enduring the horrors
of nearly all the famous rebel prisons, at
Richmond, Danville, Andersonville, Sa-
vannah, Millen, Thomasville, and back to
Andersonville, was released March 20,
1865, and returned, via Vicksburg and St.
Louis, to Springfield, and was honorably
discharged June 7, 1865, being within ten
days of one year over time. Uriah King
was married Oct. i, 1868, to Melvina
Bailey, who was born March 17, 1850, in
Sangamon county. They have two child-
ren, JULIA BELLE and MANETTA, and live
one and one-quarter miles east of River-
ton. JOHN H., born June 28, 1848,
lives with his parents. JULIA A., born
Dec. 6, 1851, married Dec. n, 1872, to
John G. Turney, who was born July 27,
1844, in Northumberland county, Canada
West. They live one mile east of River-
ton. THOMAS A., Jun., born July 29,
1855, lives with his parents. Thomas A.
King and wife reside where they settled
in 1831. It is one mile east ot Riverton,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

RE UBEN, born Jan., 1811, in Clark
county, Ky., came with his parents to
Sangamon county in 1830, and was a soldier

in the Black Hawk war in 1831-32. He
was married to Susan Howell. They
raised a large family in McLean county,
and moved to Iowa, where Mrs. Susan
King died, and he married a second time.
When the rebellion commenced, he en-
listed in the I2th Iowa Inf., at fifty-two
years of age, and was killed at the battle
of Pittsburg Landing, April 6, 1862.
His son, THOMAS, enlisted in 1862 in
Co. I, ii4th 111. Inf. Served to the end
of the rebellion, and was honorably dis-
charged. He died in McLean county in
1874. JAMES enlisted in the loth Mo.
Cav., and was never heard of after the
Price raid of 1862 in Missouri. ISABEL
married George Arnold, and lives in Mc-
Lean county, ten miles east of Lexington.
She is the only living member of Reuben
King's family.

ELIZABETH, born March 2, 1812,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county to Uriah Mann. See his name.

JAMES M., born Jan. 30, 1815, in
Clark county, Ky. He went to the Wis-
consin lead mines, in 1834, and worked
for three and one-half years at smelting
lead for William S. Hamilton, son of
Alexander Hamilton, who was killed by
Aaron Burr. He married, Nov. 14, 1839,
in Sangamon county, to America Elliott.
They had nine children ; three died young.
CLIFTON H., born Sept. 18, 1840, en-
listed July, 1 86 1, at Springfield, in what
became Co. B, nth Mo. Inf., served
three years, and was honorably discharg-
ed, at St. Louis. He was married, March
7, 1865, to Alida Yocom, had one child,
ALIDA, and Mrs. King died March 27,
1866. He was married Dec. 12, 1867, in
Sangamon county, to Martha Wilson.
They have three children, ARTHUR w.,
LUELLA and MARGARET, and live in Mur-
ray county, near Worthington, Noble
county, Minn. CLARISSA A., born
Jan. 6, 1843, died Oct. 12, 1863. HES-
TER F., born July 3, 1845, married John
E. Constant. See his name. WIL-
LIAM T., born June 30, 1849, married
Sept. 25, 1873, at Petersburg, to Mary F.
McCrea, and live three-quarters of a mile
east of Barclay. MARY F., born May
26, 1853, and RUFUS H., born Dec. 25,
1855, live with their parents, three-quarters
of a mile east of Barclay.

WILLIAM G., born in 1817, in
Bracken county, Ky., raised in Sangamon

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county, married in New Orleans to Sarah
R. Tonguelet, had two children, went to
California in 1849, an<^ c^e(^ there in
1871.

HENRY J., horn in 1819, in Bracken
county, Ky., married in Sangamon coun-
ty, in 1840, to Louisa Fowkes. They
had six children, and moved to the vicini-
ty of Marshaltown, Iowa. His son,
WILLIAM, enlisted in an Iowa regi-
ment, and died at New Madrid, Missouri.

SARAH, born in 1821, in Bracken
county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county to Nathaniel B. Neal. See his
name. He died, and she married Hudson
Lanham, and had four children. ROSA
married John Brantner, and resides in
Springfield. Mrs. and Mrs. Lanham died
at Riverton.

STEPHEN,\)orn in 1823,111 Bracken
county, Ky., married in Sangamon coun-
ty to Mrs. Elizabeth Smith, whose maid-
en name was Hendrix. They had seven
children: ALBERT died, aged fourteen
years. NELLIE, LINCOLN,
CHARLES, WILLIE, KATIE and
EDDIE, and reside four* miles southeast
of Williamsville.

HES7^ER P., born Jan. 21, 1825, in
Bracken county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Culvin S. Churchill. See
his name.

ANNA JR., born August 21, 1826, in
Bracken county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, Nov. 10, 1843, to Christopher
Mann. See his name.

FIELDING A., born Nov. 14, 1828,
in Bracken county, Ky., raised in Sanga-
mon county, went around Cape Horn to
California in 1849, enlisted and fought In-
dians there three years during the rebel-
lion, is unmarried, and resides at You
Bet, Nevada county, California.

JOHN F., born Dec. 12, 1831, in San-
gamon county, married Oct. 18, 1860, also
in Sangamon county, to Mary J. Threl-
keld. She was born Jan. 5, 1838, in
Bracken county, Kv. They have seven
children, ELM A E.", JOHN L., JESSIE
V., CHARLES W., THOMAS M.,
HENRY O. and TILLIE M., and re-
side two miles southeast of Riverton,
Sangamon county. John F. King was
commissioned as Justice of the Peace in
1858, and served until he enlisted, July 18,
1862, in what became Co. I, 114111 111.
Inf. He recruited the company, and was

elected Captain, but was not commissioned,
but when the regiment was organized he
was elected and commissioned, Sept. 18,

1862, as Lieutenant Colonel. He was
commissioned August 23, 1864,35 Colonel,
but never mustered, because the regiment
was then reduced to a minimum. He re-
signed Dec, 9, 1864. Col. King was
commissioned, in 1866, as assistant asses-
sor in charge of distilleries. Commis-
sioned as gauger in 1867, and in 1869 as
U. S. Storekeeper, all in the eighth dis-
trict of Illinois. He served three years as
Secretary of the Old Settlers' Society.

William B. King died Oct. 19, 1863,
and Mrs. Ann R. King died March" 27,
1873, both in Sangamon count v,, Illinois.

KILGOUR, JAMES W., was
born Dec. 14, 1823, near Chillicothe, Ohio.
His father died when he was quite young,
and his mother married William V.
Brown. They had one son, who died at
seven years of age. The family moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the
fall of 1832 in what is now Fancy Creek
township. Mrs. Brown died, April 17,
1857, an<^ William -V. Brown died in
1871.

James W. Kilgour was married, Aug.
10, 1846, to Hannah H. Alexander. They
had four children, namely —

WILLIAM J. died, at ten years of
age.

MARY E., aged eight, and

GEORGE, in infancy.

SARAH ANN, born Sept. 23, 1851,
married, Sept. 29, 1870, to B. F. Larkin,
and live in Logan county, two and one-
half miles west of Williamsville, Illi-
nois.

Mrs. H. H. Kilgour died, March 12,
1855, and J. W. Kilgour was married,
Dec. 5, 1855, to Nancy E. Tipton, who
was born March 17, 1824, in Carter coun-
ty, Tenn. They have one child —

ISAAC F., born Oct. 17, 1856, and
lives with his parents.

James W. Kilgour enlisted Feb. 17,

1863, in Co. G, 7th 111. Inf.,, for three
years, served until July 17, 1865, when he
was honorably discharged with the regi-
ment. He resides at Sherman, Sangamon
county, Illinois — 1874.

K I N N E Y, H E N R Y, was
born March i, 1774, in Woodstock, Con-
necticut. In 1795 he went to Cazenovia,
N. Y., and from there to Clinton, Oneida

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county, in the same State, and was there
married, March 4, 1798, to Dicey Pond.
She was born Sept. 4, 1778, in Hartford,
Conn. They lived at Cazenovia, Madi-
son county, N. Y., until they had three
children, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving May 6, 1822, in what is now
Loami township. Of their three child-
ren—

HENRT, Jun., born Aug. 4, 1807, in
New York, married in Sangamon county,
Oct. 23, 1828, to Margaret Dorrance.
They had five children in Sangamon
county, namely — DANIEL married An-
nis Elmore. They have two children,
HENRY H. and EDITH c., and live one and
one-quarter miles east of Loarni. CLA-
RISSA, born April 9, 1831, married
James M. Darneille. See his name.
CAROLINE died, March 6, 1853, in her
twenty-first year. ELIZA J., born Oct.
9, 1834, married, Nov. 30, 1854, to John
R. Shelton. Seehisname. REBECCA
married David M. Vanderen. See his
name. Henry Kinney, Jun., and his wife
reside in Chatham. He was a soldier in
the Black Hawk war, in 1831, in a cavalry
company, under Capt. Jonathan Saun-
ders.

MAJOR, born Jan. 2, 1810, in New
York, married, Nov. 15, 1834, to Melissa
S. Pond, who was born March 12, 1819,
at Meadville, Penn. Her father, Martin
T. Pond, moved to Logan county, Illinois,
before the "deep snow," and was living
there when his daughter Melissa was mar-
ried. He moved to Concord, Morgan
county, and died there, Feb. 2, 1864.
Major Kinney and wife had five children
in Sangamon county, namely — DICEY,
born Nov. 25, 1840, married, March 29,
1860, to Wm. D. Farrar, have three child-
ren, FRANK D, ALLICE G. and STELLA B.,

and live in Osage county, Kan. A MAN-
DA, born Aug., 1842, married, in 1862, to
James N. Moore. She died, Nov. 7, 1864,
leaving one son, HERBERT B., who lives
with his father, near Virginia, Cass coun-
ty, 111. HENRY, born Nov. 21, 1844,
married, April 9, 1868, to Anna F. Hes-
ser, who was born June 3, 1845, near Pal-
myra, Mo. They have two children,
WILLYS H. and EUGENE E., and live near
Loami. JULIUS M. died March 4,
1864, in his sixteenth year. ALICE,
born July 18, 1851, lives with her parents.
Major Kinney and wife reside near Con-

cord, Morgan county — 1874. He was a
soldier in a Light Horse company in the
Black Hawk war.

JOHN, born Sept. 2, 1813, in New
York, married in Sangamon county, Nov.
3, 1836, to Asenath Sweet. They have
two children, both married. Mr. and
Mrs. Kinney live at Linden, Osage coun-
ty, Kansas.

Mrs. Dicey Kinney died, Sept. 1^,1850,
and Henry Kinney, Sen., died March 18,
1859, both in Loami township. He was a
member of the Baptist church sixty-seven
years, and a deacon the greater part of that
time.

KIRK, WILLIAM B., was
born Jan. 18, 1787, in Virginia; was mar-
ried there Aug. 31, 1809, to Mary Young,
a native of Virginia also; and moved to
Bath county, Ky.. where they had seven
children. They moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving Nov., 1836, in what
is now Cartwright township. Of their
children —

RA CHEL B. married S. A. Craig,
and remained in Kentucky.

JOHN A. Jot™. Oct. 17, 1812, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to
Julia W. Cunnin, who died, and he mar-
ried in Kentucky to Isabel Frazier, who
died in Menard county, leaving one child,
MARYJ. She married Henry Giger.
See his name. J. A. Kirk married Sarah
Ferguson, who died, leaving one child,
JOSIAH B. He enlisted in an Illinois
regiment, and died of disease near Mem-
phis, Tenn., in March, 1863. J. A. Kirk
died in Cooper township, Jan., 1861.

WILLIAM T., born Feb. 21, 1815, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Alletta A. Earnest. They had one
child, JULIA F., married and lives in
Missouri. Mr. K. died in Sangamon
county in 1852. His widow married a
Mr. Watson, and lives in Missouri.

MART A. V., born April 15, 1820, in
Bath county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county to Benjamin A. Giger. See his
name.

ANDRE W ST. CLAIR, born April
13, 1822, in Bath county, Ky., raised in
Sangamon county, was farming there,
and in February, 1861, left home unex-
pectedly, and the first heard of him
at the end of two years, he was in the
Union army. Served three and a half
vears, and was honorably discharged. He

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433

resides four miles north of Athens, Illi-
nois.

MARGARET J., born Oct. 6, 1824,
in Bath county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Benjamin A. Giger. See
Ills name.

AGNES S., horn Sept. n, 1827, in
Kentucky, died unmarried in Sangamon
county, Oct. 29, 1866.

William B. Kirk died April 12, 1847,
and his widow died March 22, 1848, both
at Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

KNIGHT, MRS. ELIZA-
BETH, whose maiden name was Bow-
en, sister to Zaza Bowen, was born Jan.
i, 1796, in Guilford county, N. C. She
was married in that county to Abner
Knight. They had two children there,
and she and her husband, in company
with her widowed mother and family,
moved to Cabell county, West Va., where
Mr. and Mrs. Knight had six children.
Abner Knight died there, Dec. 17, 1838.
Mrs. Knight, with six of her children,
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
April, 1839, in what is now Loami town-
ship. Of all her children —

EZEKIEL, born in North Carolina,
left home in Virginia about the time the
family came west. He went down the
Mississippi river, and has never been heard
of by the family since.

MINERVA, born Aug. 21, 1817, in
North Carolina, married, May 26, 1837,
in West Virginia, to Wm. F. Joy. They
had seven living children in West Vir-
ginia, and came to Sangamon county in
1857, where one child was born. Of the
eight children — JOHN W. married Eliza-
beth Hall. Mr. Joy enlisted, Aug., 1862,
in Co. I, 73d 111. Inf., for three years, was
wounded at the battle of Perryville,
brought home, and died. JAMES M.
enlisted in Aug., 1862, in Co. I, 73d 111.
Inf., for three years. He was captured at
the battle of Chickamauga. He was five
weeks in Libby prison, at Richmond, five
months at Danville, eleven months in
Amlersonville, with its usual bill of fare.
He was released from that place, March
27, 1865, and honorably discharged, June
17, 1865, He married Amanda Hall, has
one child, and lives in Loami township.
WILLIAM E. enlisted Aug., 1862, in
Co. I, 73d 111. Inf., for three years, was
wounded at the battle of Perryville, Ky.,

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and discharged on account of physical dis-
ability. He married Celestine Cook, has
two children, LETTIE MAY and WILLIE,
and lives in Loami. JOSEPH O. enlist-
ed Aug., 1862, for three years, in Co. I,
73d 111. Inf., was wounded at the battle of
Mission Ridge, Nov. 24, 1863, recovered,
served full term, and was honorably dis-
charged, June 24, 1865, at Springfield.
He was married to Jane Baker. They
have three children, and live near Loami.
MARY E. married John D. Nevins, had
two children, NELLIE and JOSEPH o., and
Mr. Nevins died. His widow and child
live with her mother. BUENA V. en-
listed in 1863, for three years, in Co. I,
i6th 111. Cav., He was captured, and first
put in Libby prison, was one winter at
Belle Isle, taken thence to Andersonville,
where he died, July 5, 1864. WIRT W.,
and ZAZA B., live with their mother.
Wm. F. Joy died, March 17, 1873, and
his widow resides two and one-half miles
southwest of Loami, Sangamon county.

NANCT L., born Feb. 2, 1821, mar-
ried Michael Cassity.

JAMES M., born Oct. 8, 1823, in
West Virginia, married, Sept. 17, 1850,
in Sangamon county, to Rachel Tilley.
They have ten children — ZAZA B. lives
near Loami. WILLIAM A. was mar-
ried, April 5, 1876, to Mary Josephine
Jarret, and live near Loami. LEROY
G., JOHN M., SUSANNA, MARY A.,
LIZZIE M., JAMES M., NANCY J.
and LYDIA; the seven latter live with
their parents, one and one-half miles west
of Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

SUSANNA^ born in 1825, in Virginia,
married Wm. Boyd, and died, leaving five
children in Indiana.

ZAZA D., born in Virginia, died in
Sangamon county, at twenty-six years of
age. t

ABNER W., born May 18, 1832, in
Virginia, married in Sangamon county,
Oct. 14, 1858, to Hepsey Nipper, who
died, leaving one child, ALICE. Mr.
Knight was married, Oct. 17, 1872, to
Catharine R. Langston, who was born
Aug. 17, 1851, in Mason county. They
live near Mason City, Illinois.

WILLIAM, born in West Virginia,
died in Sangamon county, aged twenty-
two years.

Mrs. Elizabeth Knight resides with her
son, James M., in Loami township — 1874.

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

KNOTTS, THOMAS, was
born in Lee county, Virginia, and was
married there to Ella Young. They
moved to Washington county, Ind., and
from there to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in the spring of 1819, in what is
now Ball township. They had ten
children, four of whom, or their de-
scendants, live in Ball township, namely —

LUCT married Martin G. Pulliam.
See his name.

ALBION, born April i, 1814, was
married April 16, 1835, in Sangamon
county, to Linna Davidson, who was born
Dec. 23, 1819. They had seven children
in Sangamon county. THOMAS, born
Nov., 1837, man"ied Cassandra Pedde-
cord, a native of Ohio county, Ky., and
daughter of Jonathan Peddecord, now of
Ball township. Thomas Knotts and wife
had two children, CORDELIA E. and
THOMAS. Mr. Knotts died Dec. 26, 1870,
and his widow and children live in Ball
township. JOHN, unmarried, and lives
with his father. ELLA married George
S. Pulliam. See his name. SAMUEL
was born a cripple, in 1845, lives with his
father. ELIZABETH married Joseph
Dragoo, and lives in Ball township.
JOSEPH O. married Martha Brawner,
and lives in Pawnee township. WIL-
LIAM J. lives with his father. Mrs. Linna
Knotts died, and Albion Knotts was
married March 2, 1854, to Mary J. Ped-
decord. They have four children,
CHARLES W., ALBERT, HENRY
J. and EDDIE, all live with their parents
on the farm where their grandfather
Knotts settled in 1819. It is in Ball
township, two and a half miles southeast
of Chatham.

THOMAS, Jun., married in Sanga-
mon county to Elizabeth Brawrter. They
have six children, and live two and a half
miles southeast of Chatham.

RUTH married Henry Shoup. See
his name.

AMELIA married Mr. Withrow, and
lives in Macoupin county, Illinois.

DANIEL married Martha Keagle.
She lives in Springfield.

ETTA married John M.Taylor, and
lives in Iowa.

Thomas Knotts, Sen., died within one
year after bringing his family into the
new country.

KNOX, THOMAS J., was born
in 1802, at Wheeling, Va. He went to
Kentucky when a boy, and came to San-
gamon county in 1820, stopping in what
is now Clear Lake township. He was
commissioned 3d Lieutenant of 25th 111.
Militia by Gov. Edwards, March 4, 1830,
and served in the Black Hawk war. He
was married in 1830 to Mrs. Mary Myers,
whose maiden name was Danley. She
had four children by her first marriage.
Her son, Samuel Myers, lives north of
Riverton, Illinois.

Mr. and Mrs. Knox had six children in
Sangamon county, namely —

RUTH M., married Lewis Allen, had
one child, and lives near Carthage, Mis-
souri.

MARGARET J., married John
Hawker, have five children, and lives in
Pana.

CAR T J. married Peter Mann. Sec
his name.

NANCT A. married Charles Parker.
They had one child. Air. Parker enlisted
August, 1862, for three years, in Co. C,
1 1 4th 111. Inf., was wounded and captured
June 10, 1864, at Guntown, Miss. He
died from the effects of privation in An-
dersonville prison. His widow married
Charles Cruser, has two children, and
lives near Carthage, Mo.

JAMES M., born in Sangamon
county, enlisted August, 1862, for three
years, in Co. I, i i4th 111. Inf. He was
transferred to the quartermaster's depart-
ment, served his full term, and was hon-
orably discharged in 186^. He was mar-
ried in 1867, in Sangamon county, to
Elizabeth Johnson. They have two
children, and live near Danvers, McLean
county.

MART ALICE A., born May 7,
1843, married Dec. 24, 1867, to William
Richardson, who was born May u, 1840,
in New Haven, Conn. They have two
children, GERTRUDE and JANET,
and live two miles east of Riverton.

Thomas J. Knox died Dec. 8, 1857, and
his widow was killed by a team backing
off an embankment in Clear Lake town-
ship, August 15, 1 86 1.

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LAMB, GEORGE, was born
Dec., 1789, near Hagerstown, Maryland,
and when quite young went to Mt.
Pleasant, Westmoreland county, Pennsyl-
vania, where he learned the business of
saddle and harness-making. He was mar-
ried at Mt. Pleasant May 24, 1820, to
Eliza H. Hubbs, who was born in that
place in 1794. She was the daughter of
Dr. Charles Hubbs, who, although a
a member of the Society of Friends, was
a surgeon in the American army, near the
close of the Revolution. Later in life,
Dr. Hubbs became a preacher in the Bap-
tist church. George Lamb's ancestors
were members of the Society of Friends
also. Mr. and Mrs. Lamb had three
children in Pennsylvania, and moved to
Kaskaskia, Randolph county, 111., in the
spring of 1830, where two children were
born. One died in infancy. Mrs. Eliza
H. Lamb died Aug. 15, 1834, in Chester,
111., and in June, 1836, George Lamb
moved to Springfield. Of his four child-
ren—

CHARLES H., born May 19, 1822,
at Brownsville, Fayette county, Penn.,
accompanied his parents to Illinois, and
came to Springfield in 1832, preceding his
father, to attend school. He remained
one year, and returned to his parents, who
had moved from Kaskaskia to Chester,
111. He afterwards learned the printing
business, in the Sangamo Journal in
Springfield, with Simeon Francis & Co.
In 1841, Charles H. Lamb started the
Rock River Register, at Grande de
Tour, Ogle county, 111., but sold out the
following spring. He was afterwards,
with his uncle, James L. Lamb, in the
pork packing business. He is unmarried,
and resides on hi.? farm, near Pawnee, in
Ball township, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

MART ELIZA, born Oct. 6, 1824,
near Mt. Pleasant, Penn., died Aug. 23,
1834, at Chester, Illinois.

WILLIAM H., born Nov. 14, 1826,
in Pennsylvania, died Oct. I, 1834, at
Chester, Illinois.

SUSAN /I/., born Sept. 3, 1830, in
Kaskaskia, 111., was brought up by her
aunt, Hannah G. Mather, and married in
Springfield, 111., Nov. 14, 1855, to Dr. C.

Perry Slater, who died at Springfield
March 12, 1858, leaving two children.
JULIA died in infancy. HANNAH M.,
born Sept. 10, 1850, in Springfield, lives
with her mother in Chicago. Mrs. Susan
M. Slater was married Nov. 9, 1870, to
James H. Roberts. See his name.

George Lamb was married March 28,
1840, in Springfield, to Mrs. Lucinda
Crowder, whose maiden name was San-
ders, a native of Kentucky. They had
three children —

JAMES 7'., born May 23", 1841, in
Sangamon county, was married Dec. 5,
1867, to Mary Weber. They had four
children, CHARLES W., who died
Sept. 8, 1875; EMILY O., GEORGE
CARROLL and JOSEPH F., and live
in Ball township, four miles northwest of
Pawnee, Sangamon county, Illinois.

GEORGE G., born Aug. 16, 1845,
in Sangamon county, was married there
Feb., 1869, to Marietta Clayton. They
have three children, JAMES, ESTEL-
LA and CHARLES, and live in Cotton
Hill township, three and a half miles north
of Pawnee.

MAR T E., born Oct. u, 1848, in San-
gamon county, was married there Nov.
14, 1867, to William O. Matthews. See
his name. They have two children,
IDA M. and FANNIE A., and live in
Cotton Hill township, three and a half
miles north of Pawnee, Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois.

George Lamb died Aug. 26, 1867, and
Mrs. Lucinda Lamb died Jan. 18, 1872,
both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

LAMB, JAMES L., brother to
George Lamb, was born Nov. 7, 1800, at
Connellsville, Fayette county, Penn. His
father, George Lamb, died while he was
quite young, leaving six children to be
cared for by the widowed mother. The
family were members of the "Society of
Friends." James early desired to assist
his mother in bringing up the family, and
at twelve years of age went to Cincinnati,
making his trip on horseback, and engaged
as clerk with Hugh Glenn, a relative of
the family, and a prominent merchant of
that city. In 1820 J. L. Lamb removed
to Kaskaskia, 111., where he engaged in
mercantile pursuits and pork packing, in
company with Col. Thos. Mather and S. B.
Opdycke, at that place and at Chester, 111.
This firm packed and shipped the first

436

EARLT SETTLERS OF

barrel of pork ever sent to New Orleans
from Illinois. J. L. Lamb was married,
Jan. 13, 1824, at Cincinnati, Ohio, to Susan
H. Cranmer, daughter of Dr. Cranmer of
that city. She was born there, Aug. 13,
1803. They moved to Springfield, 111., in
1831, and in moving his effects it was
necessary to charter a boat at St. Louis,
and take it up the Kaskaskia river to the
village. This was the only instance of a
steam boat ascending that stream. The
goods were landed at Beardstown, and
transported to Springfield in wagons.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Lamb had seven
children ; two died young. Of the other
five —

JOHN C., born June 16, 1825, in
Kaskaskia, was married in Goshen, N. Y.,
Dec., 1868, to Anna Pougher, a native of
England. J. C. Lamb was engaged with
his father in pork packing, and is now the
proprietor of the ^xEtna foundry and ma-
chine works, in Springfield, Illinois.

SUSAN A., born April 3, 1828, in
Kaskaskia, Was married in Springfield,
Oct. 20, 1847, to John Cook, who was
born June 12, 1826, in Belleville, 111. Mr.
and Mrs Cook had seven children, four of
whom died in infancy. JAMES L.,
JOHN C. and WILLIAM J. live with
their parents. John Cook was the only
son of Hon. Daniel P. Cook, one of the
early congressmen from Illinois, who mar-
ried a daughter of Gov. Ninian Edwards.
She died when the subject of this sketch
was quite young, and he was brought up
by his grandfather, Gov. Edwards. He
was under the instruction of Rev. John
F. Brooks (then of Belleville, but now of
Springfield), from 1834 to 1840, and en-
tered Illinois College, at Jacksonville, in
1841. He was obliged to abandon his
studies the next year, from a temporary
loss of sight, and afterwards attempted to
finish his education at Kemper College,
St. Louis, Mo., but failed from defective
sight; and clerked in a commission house
in the latter city for three years. Jan. 8,
1846, he formed a partnership with Haw-
ley & Edwards, in Springfield, 111., in the
dry goods business. In 1854 John Cook
was elected Mayor of Springfield, and in
1856 Sheriff of Sangamon county. At
the expiration of his term, Gov. W. H.
Bissell appointed him Quartermaster Gen-
eral of Illinois, and in 1858 he organized
an independent military company, called

the Springfield Zouave Grays, and was
chosen Captain. This company was ac-
cepted by Gov. Yates, under the State's
quota of 75,000 men in 1861, and was the
nucleus of the ist Reg., 111. Vol. Inf., of
which he was chosen Colonel, and which
was called No. 7, in honor of the six regi-
ments furnished by Illinois for the Mexi-
can war. Col. Cook's commission was
dated April 24, i86i,and the regiment was
mustered in at Camp Yates, April 25, 1861,
by Capt. John Pope of the regular army,
and was, consequently, the first regiment
to enter the field from Illinois for
suppressing the rebellion. They wefe
ordered to several different points,
and at Fort "Joe Holt," Ky., Col.
John Cook was assigned command of a
Brigade. Feb. 3, 1862, he was assigned
to the command of Gen. Charles F.
Smith, in the movement up the Cumber-
land and Tennessee rivers. After the cap-
ture of Fort Donelson Col. Cook was
commissioned Brigadier General, for gal-
lant conduct. During the advance on
Corinth he was ordered to report to the
Secretary of War, and was assigned a
command consisting of his brigade, with
two brigades from Gen. Shields division,
eleven batteries of Artillery, and two reg-
iments of cavalry. After McClellan's re-
treat from Harrison's Landing and Pope's
retreat from the valley, Gen. Cook was
relieved, at his own request, and the fol-
lowing fall was ordered to report to Major
Gen. John Pope, commanding the military
department of the northwest, under whom
he remained until Oct. 9, 1864, when he
was assigned command of the military
district of Illinois, with headquarters at
Springfield. He was there mustered out,
having been previously commissioned by
President Johnson, Major General by
brevet. He was elected in the fall of
1868, Representative in the Illinois State
Legislature, from Sangamon county. He
was instrumental in securing the second
appropriation for the erection of the New
State House. Gen. Cook and family re-
side in Springfield, Illinois.

CAROLINE F., born Feb. 8, 1831,
was married in Springfield, Dec. 19, 1855,
to William J. Black, who was born in
Vandalia, 111., Nov. n, 1828. He died,
Nov. 24, 1861, leaving a widow, who re-
sides with her mother in Springfield.

HANNAH M., born July 6, 1838, in

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Springfield, was married there, June 18,
1862, to Legh R. Kimball, who was born
Aug. 7, 1826, in New Hampshire. They
had one child JULIA L., who died in in-
fancy. Mr. Kimball was paymaster on
the Chicago & Alton railroad, and after-
wards General Agent on the T. W. &
\\ . railroad. He died May 30, 1865, in
Springfield, 111., and his widow resides
there with her mother also.

ELIZABETH T., horn July 29,
1844, m Springfield, was married June 8,
1864, to Gideon R. Brainerd. They have
four living children, LEGH K I M-
BALL, BENJAMIN H., JAMES L.
L. and SUSAN L. Mr. Brainard was
book-keeper in the Marine and Fire Insu-
rance Company's Bank. He is now en-
gaged in farming, two miles west of
Springfield, Illinois.

James L. Lamb was an elder in the
First Presbyterian church of Springfield,
and a director of the Theological Semi-
nary of the Northwest, at Chicago. He
was an active, earnest, Christian gentleman,
always interested in education, and a
friend to those in need, as the writer of
this can testify from personal knowledge.
He was in the pork packing business,
in Spi'ingfield, from 1842 to the time of
his death, which occurred Dec. 3, 1873.
His widow and children reside in Spring-
field, Illinois.

LAMB, HANNAH G., a native
of Pennsylvania, and sister to George and
James L. Lamb, was married to Col.
Thomas Mather. See his name.

LAM UN, JAMES, was born
Dec. 12, 1802, in Ross county, Ohio, and
was married May 25, 1822, in that coun-
ty, to Ann McCafFerty, had three living
children, and Mrs. Lamun died there,
May 31, 1830. Mr. Lamun came to
Springfield alone in 1839, and four or
five years later returned to Ohio and
brought out his three children, namely —

JOHN, born July 2, 1823, in Ross
county, Ohio, and after spending several
years in Sangamon county, returned to
Ohio, and was there married; has six
children, and lives in the northwest cor-
ner of Cooper township, two and a half
miles southeast of Mechanicsburg.

ELEANOR, born March 3, 1825, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Flemuel Prickett, and lives near Mt.
Auburn, Christian county, Illinois.

ANDRE W, born March 25, 1829, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Hettie Robbins. They moved to the vi-
cinity of Shady Grove Postoffice, Dallas
county, Mo., where he died in 1870, leav-
ing a widow and six children.

James Lamun has remained a widower
forty-five years, and resides in the north-
east corner of Cooper township, two and
a half miles southeast of Mechanicsburg,
Illinois. — 1874.

LACY, CLAWSON, was born
April i, 1800, in Morris county, New
Jersey. Phebe Force was born March
23, 1799. They were there married,
Dec. 24, 1820, and had five children in
that county. The family moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving June 5, 1830,
in what is now Salisbury township,
where they had five children. Four of
their children died young. Of the other
six —

HARRIET, born May 27, 1822, in
New Jersey, married Jacob Carman in
Sangamon county, and she died August,
1859, in Christian county. Mr. Carman
and his threfc daughters, all married, live
in Missouri.

SARAH F., born Feb. 14, 1828, in
New Jersey, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, March 19, 1848, to John Hale, who
was born April i, 1818, in Muskingum
county, Ohio. They had three living
children, OSCAR A., ELLIS A. and
ELMER E., live with their parents in
Salisbury township. John Hale enlisted
August 12, 1862, in Co. H, ii4th 111. Inf.,
for three years, served full term, and was
honorably discharged August 8, 1865.

MAHLON S., born Feb. 20, 1830, in
New Jersey, died in Sangamon county,
Jan. 25, 1855.

^ JACOB C, born Nov. 3, 1835, in
Sangamon county, married Mrs. Susan
Stone, whose maiden name was Gard.
They have four living children, LOTTIE,
HARRIET C., MARY J. and MAG-
GIE D., and live in Salisbury township.
Jacob C. Lacy enlisted August 12, 1862,
in Co. H, H4th 111. Inf., for three years,
was captured at the battle of Guntown,
Miss., June 10, 1864, was more than nine
months in Andersonville prison. His
hearing and health is impaired from priva-
tion and suffering.

JOHN, born March 31, 1840, in San-
gamon county. He enlisted August 12,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

1862, for three years, in Co. H, i I4th 111.
Inf., was captured at the battle of Gun-
town, June 10, 1864, taken to Anderson-
rille, remained seven months and eighteen
jays, and was exchanged ; served full
term, and was honorably discharged. He
weighed one hundred and sixty-five
pounds when he went into Andersonville,
and ninety pounds when he came out.
He was married to Elizabeth Cox. They
had one child, JAMES H., who died,
aged three years. John Lacy and wife
live with his parents, near Salisbury. —
1874.

PHCEBE, born June 20, 1843, in San-
gamon county, married Alvetus Jackson,
who was born at Jay, Oxford county,
Maine, about 1830. They have four chil-
dren, BENJAMIN F., ORPHA, AN-
NIE and ADA, and reside in Salisbury
township.

Clawson Lacy lives, now — 1874 — in
Salisbury township, near where they set-
tled in 1830.

LAKE, BAYLISS G., was born
Nov. i, 1795, in Fauquier county, Va.
He was married in Frederick county
Oct. 5, 1820, to Eliza Glascock, who was
born in London county Oct. 31, 1800.
They at once moved to Clark county,
Ohio, where they had three children.
B. G. Lake and John McBeth started
April 3, 1827, on foot, to see Illinois.
They arrived at Springfield April 141!!.
Mr. Lake had some friends in the county.
After spending about one month with
them, he made an engagement to help
herd some cattle and drive them east, ar-
riving at his home in June with more
money than when he started. He moved
his family in a wagon drawn by four
horses, arriving in the fall of 1827, in what
is now Fancy Creek township, where
they had six children. Of their nine
children —

MARY, born May 16, 1823, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county to Stephen
Wilcockson. See his name.

THOMAS W., born July 4, 1825,
in Clark county, Ohio, married in Sanga-
mon county June 27, 1847, *° Ju"a J^-
England. They had ten children. Four
died in infancy, and DANIEL was
drowned when ten years old. Of the
other five, MARY F. married Eugene
Hockaday ; has two children, NOURMA and
WILLIAM E., and live near Champaign

city, 111. WILLIAM F. married Annie
Driskill; has one child, OLLIE MAY, arid
live near Lincoln, 111. LAURA E.,
MARGARET E. and JOSEPH A. live
with their parents in WiHiatnsville, San-
gamon county, Illinois.

PHEBE, born June 23, 1827, m wi,,^,
married in Sangamon county to William
Mount, who was born April 20, 1826, in
Monmouth county, New Jersey. They
had three children. JOHN W. and
TOM E. live with their parents. AUS-
TRALIA died, aged eight years. Mr.
and Mrs. Mount reside in Menard coun-
ty, six miles northwest of Williamsville,
Illinois.

HARRID, born April n, 1830, in
Sangamon county, was killed in 1843 by
a horse running away with himself and
sister, Mary.

EDNA, born June 7, 1831, in Sanga-
mon county, married John H. Council.
See his name.

HENRY, born April 24, 1834, in San-
gamon county, lives near Lawndale, Lo-
gan county — 1874.

JOHN S., born Jan. 9, 1840, in San-
gamon county, married Feb. 26, 1867, to
Charlotte Brittin. They have one child,
DORA E., and live in Fancy Creek town-
ship.

MARGARET, born Dec. 15, 1843, in
Sangamon county, married Andrew J.
Barber, who was born Oct. 5, 1836, in
Fauquier county, Va. They have two
children, JOHN and BAYLISS L., and
live in Fancy Creek township.

HARRIET C., born Oct. 22, 1845,
in Sangamon county, married Evans E.
Brittin. See his name.

Mrs. Eliza Lake died Aug. 28, 1864,
and Bayliss Lake was married Sept. 26,
1865, to Sallie McKendree. She was
born Dec. 6, 1804, in Jefferson county,
Va. They reside four and a half miles
northwest of Sherman, Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois.

LAKE, THOMAS, was born
Dec. 30, 1800, in Fauquier county, Va.
Harriet Dillon was born Nov. 27, 1808, in
the same county. They were there mar-
ried, Jan. 4, 1826, and had two children
there. The family moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in what is now Fancy
creek township, where seven children
were born. Of the nine children —

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ANN E., born July 17, 1830, in Vir-
ginia,'(lied unmarried in Sangamon coun-
ty, aged thirty-two years.

BATLISS E., born August 10, 1832,
in Fauquier county, Va., raised in Sanga-
mon county, married Sarah Rogers.
They have one child, JAMES, and live
near Winterset, Iowa. Bayliss E. Lake
enlisted in July, 1861, in Co. D, ist Iowa
Cav., for three years, re-enlisted as a vet-
eran, served to the end of the rebellion,
and was honorably discharged.

SUSANNA, born Nov. 20, 1834, in
Sangamon county, married John L. Har-
ris. They have two children, THOMAS
M. and HATTIE, and live near Bedford, .
Taylor county, Iowa.

JAMES, born June i, 1837, m ^an~
gamon county. He enlisted in Sept.,
1862, for three years, in Co. G, H4th 111.
Inf., and was appointed Sergeant. He
was wounded at the battle of Guntown,
Miss., June n, 1864, captured, and died in
rebel prison at Mobile, Alabama.

JOHN P., born June 6, 1839, in San-
gamon county. He enlisted August 9,
1861, for three years, in Co. A, 3d 111.
Cav., and was discharged on account of
physical disability, Dec. 25, 1861. He was
married Nov. 29, 1865, to Matilda Lemon,
who was born June n, 1847, in Ireland.
They have two children, CHARLES W.
and CORA A., and live in Fancy Creek
township.

ELIZABETH A., born May 13,
1842, in Sangamon county, married Win.
F. Constant. See his name. They have
one child. MARY E.

AGNES C., born June 5, 1844, in
Sangamon county, married Charles Uns-
by. She died March 16, 1871, in Wil-
liams township.

WILLIAM B., born August 23, 1847,
in Sangamon county, resides with his
mother.

.\f.\l\T .I/., born June 28, 1850, in
Sangamon county, married John W.Jones.
They have one child, DORA A., and re-
side in Logan county.

Thomas Lake died April 10, 1853, and
his widow lives two and a half miles west
of Williamsville, Illinois.

LANGSTON,JECHONIAH,
was born in the year 1769, in South Car-
olina. His father was a Whig, and Jech-
oniah was often sent by his father to
convey information to Whigs of the

whereabouts and doings of the Tories.
On one occasion the Tories were about to
kill his father, and he informed the
Whig soldiers in time to save his life.
He was then about ten years old, and
soon after, some of the Tory soldiers
caught him, and taking a leather strap
used for fastening their extra clothing
behind them on their saddles, they hung
hung him to a beam outside his father's
• barn, and watched him until he ceased
to manifest any signs of life; and then
took him down to save the strap, and left
him on the ground dead, as they supposed ;
but after a long time he came to life. He
was married in South Carolina, and after
the birth of one child, his wife died. He
left the child there, and went to Wayne
county, Ky., where he was married to
Nancy Dodson. They had three children
in Kentucky, and moved to Champaign
county, Ohio, where two children were
born; and then moved to Sangamon
county, J 11., arriving Feb., 1820, in what
is now Fancy Creek township, where
they had four children. Of their child-
ren—

JOSEPH D., born Dec. 25, 1805, in
Wayne county, Ky., married July 23,
1829, to Elizabeth Cantrall. She was
born Aug. 29, 1808, in Ohio. They had
five living children in Sangamon county.
WILLIAM C., born April 25, 1830,
married Oct. 28, 1851, to Elizabeth J.
Fagan, who died Dec. 26, 1853, and he
married June 17, 1855, to Eliza J. King.
They live in Fancy Creek township, seven
miles north of Springfield. EMILY,
born in 1832, married Asaph Bates.
They had five children, THERESA E.,

JOHN T., EMZABETH A., EMILY S., and

JOSEPH w., and Mrs. Bates died May 8,
1872. THERESA and JOHN, twins,
born May n, 1834. She died June 22,
1856. JOHN married April n, 1862, to
Martha Price. They had one child, EVA
JANE, and he enlisted Aug., 1862, in Co.
C, I I4th 111. Inf., for three years. He was
killed at the battle of Nashville, Tenn.,
Dec. 15, 1864. JAMES B. born Nov.
29, 1836, married Eliza Taylor; have five
children, SARAH A., MARY A., JOHN o.,
IDA s., and BKUI.AH, and live near his
father, in Menard county. Joseph D.
Langston and wife reside in Menard
county, one mile north of Sangamon
county line, and one mile west of Peoria

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EARLT SETTLERS OF

road, and fifteen miles north of Spring-
field.

Joseph D. Langston remembers that
during the fourteen months from the time
his father moved into his new home until
Sangamon county was organized, they
were under the jurisdiction of Madison
county, and the authorities at Edwards-
ville claimed that they were entitled to
some revenue from the isolated settlers.
They were so scattered that it was not
thought advisable to send out an assessor,
and after him a collector, but the sheriff,
Bowling Whitesides, would send out a
deputy, with instructions to assess and
collect as he went. Mr. Langston re-
members that late in 1820 or early in 1821,
the deputy came, riding one horse and
leading another, with a pack saddle on it.
He would engage in a promiscuous con-
versation, and without making his business
known, would fix some value on their pro-
perty. He would direct the conversation
in such a manner as to ascertain how many
coon skins they had on hand. He would
then make his business known, and pro-
ceed to make his assessment and col-
lection. Mr. Langston said it was a re-
markable fact that the tax in almost every
case amounted to exactly the number of
coon skins they had on hand. When the
officer had accumulated all his horse could
carry, he would go to Edwardsville, make
a deposit, and return for another load.
And that was the way the first revenue
was collected in Sangamon county.

JAMES W., born June 15, 1808, in
Wayne county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, Nov. n, 1838, to Mrs. Har-
riet L. Skinner, whose maiden name was
Constant. They had five children in Sanga-
mon county. WILLIAM H., born July
6, 1841, enlisted June 10, 1862, in Co. H,
yoth 111. Inf., for three months, served
four months and thirteen days as Sergeant,
and was honorably discharged Oct. 23,
1862. He again enlisted, Jan. 30, 1864, in
the naval service for one year, at Mound
City, 111., served until May 4, 1865, when
he was honorably discharged at Philadel-
phia. He was married -Nov. 3, 1870. at
Jacksonville, 111., to Belle B. Rowe, who
was born Sept. 12, 1848, at Hazleton,
Luzerne county, Pa. They have one
child, IRENE, and reside at Louisana,
Pike county, Mo. MARY G., born
July 19, 1843, married April 10, 1866, to

George W. Thompson, who was born
March, 1837, in Washington county, f^ew
York. He was Captain of a company in
the 1 6th 111. Inf., and served from 1862 to
the end of the rebellion. TJiey have four
children, HARRIET M., LAURA L., LILIAN
GRANT and GERTRUDE, and reside near
Warrensburg, Macon county, Illinois.
ELIZA J., born April 23, 1846, is un-
married, and lives with her mother.
MARTHA E., born Oct. 3, 1849, and
died in her eleventh year. LAURA
died in her second year. James W. Langs-
ton died March 16, 1855, and his widow,
Mrs. Harriet Langston, resides in Me-
chanicsburg, Illinois.

JECHONIAH, 7^., born in Wayne
county, Ky., married in Sangamon county
to Mary Martin. They had eight child-
ren. Mr. Langston died, and his family
live near Macomb, McDonough county,
Illinois.

MARTHA, born April 20, 1816, in
Champaign county, Ohio, married in
Sangamon connty, Dec. i, 1844, *° Jonn
R. McKee, who was born Nov. 10, 1820,
near Cincinnati, Ohio. They had one
child, EMMA, who died in her third
year. Mr. McKee enlisted, Aug. i,
1861, in Co. F, 33d 111. Inf., for three
years. He re-enlisted Dec. 31, 1863, at
Indianola, Texas, and served until Oct.,
1865, when about one month before his
regiment he was mustered out. Mr. and
Mrs. McKee live at Williamsville, Illi-
nois.

MARY G., born in Ohio, married in
Sangamon county, Aug. 13, 1840, to Al-
exander M. Doake, who was born in
Kentucky. They both died, leaving one
child, MARGARET J., who married to
Lewis Ludy. They have five children,
and live at Emporia, Kansas.

MARGARET, born in Sangamon
county, married Isaac Booth. They both
died, leaving one child, ALICE, who
married George Simpson. They live in
Missouri.

NANCY H., born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married Joseph Shepherd. They had
one child, CHARLES, who died, aged
seven years. Mr. S. died, and she married
Samuel Yocom. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born in Sangamon
county, married John Ludy, moved to
Emporia, Lyons county, Kansas. Mrs.
Ludy died, leaving five children, three of

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whom died. The family live at Emporia,
Kansas.

JANE, born in Sangamon county,
married Lewis Ludy, and died in Sanga-
mon county, leaving two children.

Jechoniah Langston died, Feb., 1852, in
Sangamon county. His widow moved
to Kansas, and died, Aug. 19, 1866, near
Emporia, Lyons county.

LANHAM, MRS. ANN E.,
whose maiden name was Havner, was
born May 29, 1800, in London county,
Va. She was married in Harrison coun-
ty, Ohio, to Walter Lanham, and moved
to Perry county, Ohio, where they had
three children, and Mr. Lanham died
there. Mrs. Lanham, with her children,
came to Sangamon county, 111., arriv-
ing in the fall of 1840, at Mechanicsburg.
Of her three children —

SOLOMON, born May 4, 1821, in
Perry county, Ohio, married in Sanga-
mon county, Nov. 25, 1846, to Mary E.
Sparks. They had seven living children,
ANNIE, WILLIAM T., MINNIE M.,
LEWIS A., LUELLA A., CHARLES
W. and HARVEY O., and live with
their parents, two and one-half miles
southwest of Dawson, Illinois.

WES LET, born May 26, 1823, in
Ohio, married, Aug. 4, 1844, in Sangamon
county, to Nancy A. Steele. They had
four children— FRANCIS M., born Dec.
8, 1847, Carried, May 26, 1871, to Emma
Skinner, had one child, and mother and
child died. He lives near Harristown, 111.
EDWARD W., born July i, 1850, mar-
ried, March 26, 1874, to Frances M.
Leeds, and live near Harristown, Illinois.
CHARLES O., born April 27, 1854, lives
near Harristown. ANNA L., born July
2, 1856, lives with her mother. Wesley
Lanham died Aug. 26, 1861. His widow
married William Graham, and reside one
mile northeast of Illiopolis.

NANCT, born in 1825, in Ohio, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, Aug., 1844, to
Asa Maxfield. They have two living
children, MINERVA A. and EDGAR,
and live in Carrollton, Missouri.

Mrs. Ann E. Lanham died Feb. 27,
1874, in Sangamon county.

LANHAM, ELIJAH T., was
born Jan. 28, 1801, in Frederick county,
Md. His grandfather on his mother's
side was Benjamin Penn, who was a rela-
tive of William Penn, the founder of the

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colony of Pennsylvania. E. T. Lanham
was married in 1823, in Clermont county,
Ohio, to Eleanor Constant. See her
name. They had two children in Ohio,
and moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
with her parents in 1826. They had
seven children in Sangamon county. Of
their nine children —

NANCT ELLEN, born May 15,
1824, in Ohio, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, to A. W. May. They have six child-
ren, and live near Cornland, Logan
county.

RACHEL A., born March 8, 1826, in
Clermont county, Ohio, married in San-
gamon county to John W. Mathews. See
his name.

BENJAMIN F., born July 8, 1827,
in Sangamon county, married Miranda
Stockton. They have five living children,
and reside at Decatur, 111.

HARRIE7\ born July 25, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married Ebenezer
Coe. See his name.

JOHN H., born July 18, 1833, in San-
gamon county, married April i, 1856, to
Elizabeth M. Matthews. They have
three living children, ELEANOR J.,
JOHN W. and ELIJAH, live with their
parents near Barclay, Illinois.

GEORGE W., born Sept. 4, 1835, in
Sangamon county, married in 1862, to
Pauline Blankenbaker, and enlisted soon
after, at Springfield, in Co. C, i24th 111.
Inf., for three years. He was killed in
battle at Vicksburg, Miss., June 27, 1863.

WILLIAM N., born Oct. 21, 1837, in
Sangamon county. He enlisted in 1861,
in Co. H, 3Oth 111. Inf., for three years,
served full term, and was honorably dis-
charged. He was married August i,
1865, to Rebecca Hartsrnan, who was
born Sept. 27, 1845, in Cumberland coun-
ty, Pa. She died Feb. 11,1874, in De-
catur, 111., and he resides there.

MART J.y born Nov. 20, 1839, in
Sangamon county, married James Can-
trail, have one child, and live in Decatur,
Illinois.

CAROLINE H., born May 24, 1842,
in Sangamon county, married Jesse Hen-
ard, have two children, and live near
Forsyth, Macon county, Illinois.

Elijah T. Lanham died Sept. 16, 1847, in
Sangamon county, and Mrs. Eleanor
Lanham died Nov, 3, 1869, at Decatur,
Illinois.

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

LANPHIER, CHARLES

H., was born April 14, 1820, in Alexan-
dria, Va. He went^ to Vandalia, 111., in
May, 1836, and from there to Springfield,
arriving Aug, 6, 1839. He was married,
Feb. 25, 1846, in Gallatin county, near
Equality, Illinois, to Margaret T. Cren-
shaw, who was born there, Dec. 4, 1828.
Her father, John Crenshaw, settled there
in 1812, being one of the earliest pioneers
in that part of the State. Mr. and Mrs.
Lanphier had seven children in Spring-
field, two of whom died young. Of the
other five —

FRANCINE E., born Dec. 24, 1846,
in Springfield, married James W. Patton.
See his name.

ROBERT G., born Oct. 21, 1848, in
Springfield, is farming in Gallatin county,
Illinois.

^ JOHN C., born Oct. 19, 1850, in
Springfield, is a practicing lawyer with
his brother-in-law, J. W. Patton, in
Springfield, Illinois.

CHARLES H., Jun., born Sept. 26,
1854, in Springfield, is in the drug busi-
ness in his native city.

MAR G ARE 7^ C., resides with her
parents.

Charles H. Lanphier, Sen., came to
Springfield as an apprentice in the Regis-
ter office. On the death of one of the
proprietors (Mr. Walters), in 1846, he, in
connection with George Walker, pur-
chased the office. From that time he was
part or entire owner, and published the
Illinois State Register until 1863, when
he sold out to a company, who
afterwaids published the paper about one
year, and sold it to E. L. Merritt & Bro., the
present proprietors. During the time
Mr. Lanphier was publishing the Regis-
ter^ he was once elected State Printer,
being the last one elected under the con-
stitution of 1818. He was also elected
Printer to the Constitutional Conventions
of 1847 an{l 1 86 1. Mr. Lanphier was
elected, in 1864, clerk of the circuit court
of Sangamon county, for one term of four
years, and in 1868, re-elected for another
term of four years. He has also served
several terms as alderman in the city coun-
cil. He now — 1876 — resides in Spring-
field, Illinois.

LANTERMAN, PETER,
was born Jan. 8, 1749, in Germany, but
when he came to America is not known

by his descendants. He was married
about 1779 to Alletta Applegate. * They
had nine children in Maryland, and came
to Sangamon county in 1819. I find in
the family record, in the hands of Mrs.
Martha H. Britt in Springfield, that Peter
Lanterman died June 14, 1821. The pro-
bate court of Sangamon county admitted
his will to record Aug. 26, 1821, the first
ever recorded in the county. See page 41.
His widow, Alletta Lanterman, died Dec.
30, 1839. From the record in the hands of
Mrs. Britt, I copy the date of the birth of
each of their nine children, as follows —

LANTERMAN, SOPHIA,
was born July 7? 1780, and married John
Lindsay. See his name. They are both
dead, but left two sons, JOHN and
ABRAHAM. Sec the Lindsay family.

LANTERMAN, RICHARD,
born Sept. 13, 1782, never came to San-
gamon county.

LANTERMAN, JOHN, was
born Oct. 18, 1784; his sons think in
Maryland. He was married Nov. 28,
1811, in Fleming county, Ky., to Eliza-
beth McKinnie, who was born June 30,
1793. They had five children in Fleming
county, and moved to Sangamon county,
arriving in the fall of 1819, two and a half
miles northwest of where Springfield now
stands, where they had eight children.
Of their thirteen children —

ABRAHAM, born Dec. 22, 1812, in
Fleming county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county to Catharine Cabanis.
They had several children, and moved to
Kansas, in the vicinity of Medoc, Mis-
souri. Their son, JOHN L., enlisted in
a Wisconsin regiment, and died in the
army, during the war for the suppression
of the rebellion.

NAATCT, born March 30, 1815, in
Fleming county, Ky., was left there with
her grandmother until 1822. She was
married in Sangamon county Oct., 18, 1832,
to Joseph W. Duncan. See his name.
J. W. Duncan died, and she married Har-
rison Bishop. He died ; she is now living
with her son, David Duncan, at Williams-
ville, Illinois.

ANDRE W J., born May 6, 1816, in
Fleming county, Ky., was brought up in
Sangamon county, and married in Mar-
shal county, 111., to Elizabeth Bell. They
had four children; two died young.
NANCY E., and JOHN R., live with

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their father. Mrs. Elizabeth Lanterman
died ifi 1855, and A. J. Lanterman mar-
ried Martha M. Berry. They have three
children, JANE, McCLELLAN and
LYCURGUS, and live near Elkhart,
Logan county, Illinois.

PETER, born Sept. 4, 1817, in Flem-
ing county, Ky., was married in Sanga-
mon county, 111., to Dolly A. Lightfoot.
They had ten children, five of whom died
young. Of the others, SUSAN J., mar-
ried Jacob Yocum. See his name.
JOHN H. married Isabel Dunham.
They have five children, FRANCIS R.,

CHARLES P., EDWARD S., W. GROSS, and

EARNEST H., who reside with their par-
ents, near Elkhart, Logan county, 111.
JOSEPH M. married Lizzie Constant,
and lives at Colorado Springs, Colorado.
SCOTT and JAMES live with their pa-
rents, four and a half miles southeast of
Elkhart, Logan county, Illinois.

ALLETTA J., born June 13, 1819,
in Kentucky, and brought up in Sanga-
mon county, was married in JoDaviess
county, to Sutton Gott. They have five
children, three of whom are married.
Sutton Gott died Sept. 17, 1873. His
widow and children reside near Elizabeth,
JoDaviess county, Illinois.

MART A., born Feb. 17, 1821, in
Sangamon county, married George Ca-
banis. They had two children. JAS-
PER N. was captured in a Wisconsin
regiment, and died in the army, leaving a
widow and one child. JAMES H. re-
sides with his parents, near Big Patch,
Grant county, Wisconsin.

ELEANOR A., born Nov. 14, 1822,
in Sangamon county, married Milton
Carpenter. They had four children, and
Mr. Cai'penter died. His widow married
Russell Godby- They have two child-
ren, and reside near Petersburg, Menard
county, Illinois.

SOPHIA L., born Oct. 25, 1824, in
Sangamon county, married Calvin Cloyd.
See his name.

JAMES, born 1826, in Sangamon
county, married twice. Has children, and
resides in Georgetown, Grant county,
Wisconsin.

LEWIS McK., born Jan. 31, 1827,
died Sept. 4, 1835.

JOHN L., born June 30, 1829, in
Sangamon county, married Mary With-
row. She had one child, and mother and

child died. J. L. Lanterman married
Ann Lindsay. He enlisted in the 73d
Reg., 111. Inf., and died at Murfreesboro,
Tenn., leaving his widow and children in
Logan county, Illinois.

SARAH E., born Dec. 30, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married John Askins.
They had one child, and Mrs. A. died.

ME LINDA) born May 13, 1833, 'n
Sangamon county, married William Mer-
gethaler. They had one child, and Mrs.
M. died.

CHARLOTTE T., born May 17,
1836, in Sangamon county, married Wal-
lace Reed. They had four children, and
she died. Her husband and children re-
side near Petersburg, Illinois.

John Lanterman died March 14, 1842,
and his widow died May 10 or n, 1857 —
he in Sangamon county and she in Logan
county, Illinois.

LANTERMAN, DANIEL
A., born Dec. 24, 1786, in Maryland,
was twice married, and lived in Madison
county, 111. He never resided in Sanga-
mon county.

LANTERMAN, JAMES,
born April 15, 1789, in Maryland. He
brought up a family in Lawrence county,
111., but never lived in Sangamon
county.

LANTERMAN, ABRA-
HAM, was born Jan. 20, 1792, in Ma-
ryland, came with his parents to Sanga-
mon county, about 1819, and was married
Jan. 12, 1826, in Menard county, to Mar-
tha White, who was born Sept. 30, 1795,
in Green county, Ky. They had six
children, namely —

ELIZABETH J., born Aug. 10,
1827, in Sangamon county, was married,
June 24, 1847, to Hiiam Westlake.
They have six children— CLARA B,
CHARLES, SAMUEL, MARTHA,
WILLIAM and FRANK, and reside in
Salinas, Monterey county, California.

ALLETTA M., born May 23, 1829,
died about 1849.

SOPHIA, born May 3, 1831, in San-
gamon county, was married, Feb. 2,
1854. to David N. McCandless, who was
born Feb. 9, 1828, in Butler county,
Penn. They have six children, ED-
MONDSON S. resides with his parents.
JULIA E. was married, Feb. 24, 1876, to
Dudley Jones. MARTHA E., HELEN
B., MARY F. and CHARLES N. live

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with their parents, six miles southeast of
Springfield, Illinois.

NANCY G., born Jan. 26, 1834, was
married in Springfield, June 24, 1853, to
James A. McCandless, cousin of David N.
They have six children — EDITH married
Albion Baker. GEORGE, GRACE,
ALBERT and CARL, all live in Salinas,
Montery county, California.

MARTHA H., born April 27, 1837,
in Sangamon county, was married, July i,
1859, in Springfield, to Henry Britt, who
was born April 2, 1826, in Sussex, Eng-
land. They have four children —
CHARLES A., MOLLIE E. HAN-
NAH M. and CLARA E., and reside
in the northwest part of Springfield, on
part of the land entered by Mrs. Britt's
father.

ISABEL W., born Dec. 23, 1841, in
Sangamon county, was married. Nov. 30,
1865, to Wm. Albert Crowder. See his
name.

Mrs. Martha Lanterman died, June 14,
1861, and Abraham Lanterman died May
28, 1863, both near Springfield, Illinois.

LANTERMAN, HETTY,
born Dec. 8, 1793, in Maryland, never
lived in Sangamon county, Illinois.

LANTERMAN, PETER,
Jun., was born July 26, 1795, in Mary-
land, came to Springfield with his parents,
in 1819, married Eliza Purviance, and
moved to Dewitt county, Illinois.

LANTERMAN, A L L E T-
TA, born March 19, 1799, in Maryland,
was married in Sangamon county to
Thomas Earnest. See his name.

LARD, JOHN, was born Feb.
12, 1792, near Charleston, S. C., was taken
by his parents to Kentucky, where his
father died. At fifteen years of age he
went to St. Louis to visit an uncle, and
was married there in 1812, to Lydia Tocld.
She died in Feb., 1824, leaving one child.
John Lard went to Wayne county, 111.,
and was there married to Elizabeth Kelly,
and returned to St. Louis about 1830, and
came to Sangamon county in March,
1835, an^ settled in what is now Ball
township. They had six children. Of
his seven children —

JOS I AH, born May 12, 1819, in St.
Louis, Mo., married Sept. 22, 1842, in
Sangamon county, to Jemima J. Crowder.
She had six children, and died April 3,
1855. Mr. Lard was married Nov. 25,

1857, to Amelia Funderburk. They had
four living children. Of all his children,
MARTHA A., married John Marshall,
and lives in Missouri. JOAB J. mar-
ried Mary J. Stroud, has three children,

ELECTA A., JAMES J. and PHILEMAN S.,

and live in Ball township. LYDIA E.
married J. J. Jones, and lives in Mont-
gomery county, Kansas. SARAH T.,
married Alfred Curtis, have one child,
LAURA, and live in Ball township. AL-
CY or ALICE, GEORGE R., JACOB
F., JOHN H., EMMA and MINNIE
live with their parents. Josiah Lard lives
on the farm where his father settled in
1835, in Ball township, twelve miles
south of Springfield.

CYNTHIA A., married Robert
Maher, have one child, LOUISA P., and
reside in Ball township, six miles south of
Springfield.

THOMAS K. died in 1851, aged sev-
enteen years.

AMELIA 'married William J. Atter-
bery, and lives in Christian county, Mis-
souri.

ROBER7^ J., married Sarah Rupert,
have two children, MARY E. and LU-
ELLA MAY, and live in Ball town-
ship.

MAHALA married Ninian M. Taylor.
See his name.

HEZEKIAH is unmarried, and lives
with his sister, Mrs. Maher.

Mrs. Elizabeth Lard died Feb. 9, 1843,
and John Lard died Nov. 16, 1845, both in
Sangamon county.

LASWELL, ANDREW, was
born in Feb., 1781, in London county,
Va. When thirteen years old, he went
on a pack-horse, in company with his
brothers and sisters, to Shelby county,
Ky. When a young man he went to
Greene county, and was there married to
* Nancy Wright, who was born in 1784, in
Culpepper county, Va., and taken by her
parents to Green county, Ky. They had
nine children in Kentucky, and moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in Nov.,
1824, and settled one mile west of Spring-
field. Of their children —

POLLY, born in 1805, in Kentucky,
married to John Crowder. See his
name.

THOMAS, born Nov. 13, 1806, in
Green county, Ky., married Feb. 4, 1830,
in Sangamon county, to Sally Henry,

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445

who was born June 4, 1811, in Gallia
county, Ohio. They had ten living chil-
dren. MARY married James Tomlin-
son, has six children, and lives in Gardner
township. ANDREW J. married Eve-
line Jones in Missouri. She died, leaving
three children, and he married Drucilla
Rick, has one child, and lives in
Gardner township. NANCY married
Jules Beauloss, and died, leaving three
children. AMANDA married John
Turner, has five children, and lives in
Labette county, near Fort Scott, Kansas.
EMILY married Thomas Vance;
has four children, and live in La-
bette county, Kansas. ELIZABETH
married Jacob Hurst, and lives in Labette
county, Kansas. LUCINDA married
Newton Simpson, who died, leaving one
child. Mr. Simpson served three years
in the loth 111. Cav. His widow mar-
ried John Ryan, who was a veteran sol-
dier, and was "with Sherman in his
march to the sea." Mr. and Mrs. Ryan
have two children, and live in Spring-
field. JOHN, HENRY and LAURA
E. live with their parents, five miles
northwest of Springfield.

MOSES, born May, 1809, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to
Mary Enyart. His wife and children
are all dead. He lives in Springfield.

PE 7^ER, born in 1811 in Kentucky,
has been twice married, and lives in Ore-
gon.

SAL LT died, aged nineteen years.

ELLEN married Martin McCoy, who
died in 1870, leaving a widow and child,
near Auburn, Illinois.

JOHN, born in 1815 in Green county,
Ky., married in Sangamon county to
Virginia Barrett. He died in Dec., 1871,
leaving three children. His family lives
in Springfield.

ELI Z ABE TH married William
Robbins. See his name. They have
four children, and live near Mechanics-
burg.

Andrew Laswell died April n, 1853,
and his widow died April, 1855, both near
Springfield.

LATHAM, JAMES, was born
Oct. 25, 1768, in London county, Virginia,
of English parents. He emigrated when
a young man, to Kentucky, and was there
married, June 21, 1792, to Mary Briggs,
who was born Feb. 3, 1772, in Virginia,

of Scotch parents. They had nine child-
ren in Kentucky, and moved to Elkhart
Grove, in what is now Logan county, but
was formerly a part of Sangamon county,
111., arriving in 1819. Mr. Latham and
his son Richard built a horse mill, at Elk-
hart, in 1823. It was the first mill north
of the Sangamon river. When he settled
at Elkhart, their nearest mill was at Ed-
wardsville, more than one hundred miles
south. When Sangamon county was or-
ganized, James Latham was appointed
Judge of the Probate Court, May 27,
1821. He was also Justice of the Peace.

Of his children —

ELIZABETH, born Nov. 25, 1793,
in Kentucky, was married there, May 9,
1810, to James W. Chapman. They
moved to Illinois with her parents, and
settled north of the Sangamon river, near
the mouth of Fancy creek, where Mr.
Chapman established a ferry, in 1818, on
the Sangamon river, near Bogue's mill.
He remained there two or three years,
and moved farther north. Two only of
their children are living. ELIZA mar-
ried Hiram Lloyd, and lives near Broad-
well, Logan county, 111. ADALINE
married Thomas Gale, and lives in Mem-
phis Tenn. The parents both died at
Elkhart. Mr. Chapman, in 1871, being
'the last of the two.

LUCT, born Aug. 18, 1797, in Ken-
tucky, came with her parents to Sangamon
county, and married Grant Blackwell.
They returned to Kentucky in 1827, and
died there, leaving one child, THOMAS,
who lives near Morganfield, Union coun-
ty, Kentucky.

RICHARD, born Dec. 23, 1798, in
Bowling Green, Warren county, Ky.
came with his parents in 1819 to Sanga-
mon county, He was married, Sept. 16,
1824, at Elkhart, 111., to Emily Hubbard,
a native of Kentucky. They had one
child, and mother and child died, in 1825,
at Elkhart. Richard Latham was mar-
ried, Nov. 27, 1825, to Mrs. Margaret
Broadwell, whose maiden name was Ste-
phenson. She was a sister of James C.,
John and Robert Stephenson, See their
names. Mr. and Mrs. Latham had thir-
teen children, seven of whom died young.
Of the other six— MARY A., born Feb.
25, 1829, was married, Nov. 25, 1848, to
Dr. Timothy Leeds. See his name.
MARTHA E. married James S. Major.

446

EARLY SETTLERS OF

She died Sept. 20, 1852. HENRY C.,
born April n, 1837, at Elkhart, is
dealing in conveyancing and furnishing
abstract titles to real estate. He resides
in Springfield. LUCY lives with her
mother. KITTIE S., born Jan. 24, 1841,
at Elkhart, was married in Springfield,
Jan. 30, 1 868, to Elder J. H. McCullough,
a minister of the Christian church, and
resides in Denver, Colorado. NANNIE,
born Dec. 6, 1843, a* Elkhart, was married
Sept. 1 6, 1873, in Springfield, to George
H. Souther. They have one child, LA-
THAM, and reside in Springfield. Richard
Latham died, June 5, 1868, and his widow
lives with her son Henry C. in Spring-
field, Illinois.

MART L., born in Kentucky, married
John Constant. See his name.

PHILIP C., born Jan. 25, 1804, in
Bowling Green, Ky., came to Elkhart
Grove with his father, in 1819. In Feb.,
1827, he entered the county clerk's office,
in Springfield, under C. R. Matheny,
county clerk. He remained there eight
years, and was married in Springfield,
May 15, 1831, to Catharine R. Taber,
who was born Feb. 25, 1812, in Cham-
paign county, Ohio. They had five living
children in Springfield. MARY E.,
born in 1836, married Dr. Alexander'
Halbert. See his name. JULIA M.,
born Jan. 1 1, 1838, was married in Spring-
field to B. D. Magruder, a native of Baton
Rouge, Louisiana. They have two
children, ELLA and HARRY L., and live in
Chicago. WM. HENRY, born Nov. 27,
1839, enlisted in 1862 for three years, in
Co. B, ii4th 111. Inf., was elected ist
Lieutenant at the organization, and at
once promoted to Adjutant. He died
Dec., 1863, in Springfield, of disease con-
tracted in the army. GEORGE C.; born
May 16, 1842, was married, Oct. 2, 1867,
to Olive Priest. They have three child-
ren, OLIVE, MARY M. and JOHN P., and
live in Springfield. G. C. Latham is con-
nected in business with his father-in-law,
Jonn W. Priest. PHILIP C., Jun., born
July 18, 1844, was married to Lucy
George, a native of Canada. He died
suddenly, Feb. 16, 1871, leaving one child,
HENRY i. Mrs. Lucy Latham married,
and resides in Nebraska. Mr. Philip C.
Latham, Sen., was killed by lightning,
near Shawneetown, 111., May 25, 1844.

His widow resides in Springfield, in a
house built by her husband in 1838.

NANCT resides with Mrs. Richard
Latham.

MARIA, born Nov. 14, 1809, in Bowl-
ing Green, Ky., was married to Archibald
Constant. See his name.

JOHN, born Sept. 9, 1812, in Bowling
Green, Ky., was married in Sangamon
county to Lucy Bennett, a native of Ken-
tucky. They had two children — MARY
E. married William Dustin, a banker,
and resides in Lincoln, 111. MARGA-
RET E. married Morgan H. Bailhache,
and resides in Martinez, California.

ROBERT B., born June 21, iSiS, in
Union county, Ky., was married in San-
gamon county, Nov. 5, 1846, to Georgiana
Gillette, a native of New Haven, Conn.
She died in 1853. R. B. Latham w_:;
married July 24, 1857, in Logan county,
to Savilla Wyatt, a native of Morgan
county, 111. They have five children,
MARY, RICHARD, ROBERTIE,
WILLIAM W. and GEORGIANA,
and reside in Lincoln, 111. Robert B.
Latham was elected Sheriff of Logan
county in 1850, and served two years.
He was elected Representative in Illinois
Legislature for 1861-62. He raised a reg-
iment and became Colonel of the io6th
111. Vol. Inf., and served twenty months
in the war to suppress the rebellion, and
then resigned on account of impaired
health. He is now a dealer in real estate
in Lincoln, Logan county, Illinois.

After James Latham had served a year
or two as Judge of the Probate Court of
Sangamon county, he was appointed, on
the part of the U. S. Government, to
superintend the Indians around Fort
Clark. Soon after, he moved his family
there, making that place his headquarters.
The town of Peoria was laid out,
on land including the fort. Judge Latham
died there, Dec. 4, 1826. His widow
returned with her family to Elkhart,
where she died.

LAUGH LIN, JOHN, was born
in I757> place not known, and was mar-
ried in South Carolina to Elizabeth Orr,
who was born in 1779. They went to
Caldwell county, Ky., and had eight
children there, and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in 1828, in what is
now Ball township. Of their children —

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447

MARGARE7\ born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to William
S. Viney. See his name.

WILLIAM L. married Isabel Hol-
land, and both died without children in
Sangamon county.

JANE married Matthew Crowder.
See his name.

LE WIS A. married ; has five children,
and lives near New London, Iowa.

THOMAS married Nancy Lowrey.
They had two children. He was a prac-
ticing physician, and died in Clinton, 111.,
leaving his family there.

JOHN married Catharine Lowrey.
He died, leaving a widow in Ball town-
ship.

JAMES died, aged eleven years.

ISABEL, born in Caldwell county,
Ky., married Washington Crowder. See
his name.

John Laughlin died Nov., 1829, and
his widow died in Feb., 1833, both in
Sangamon county.

LAVELY, WILLIAM, born
Aug., 1811, in Baltimore, Maryland.
His father and uncle were captains of
war vessels during the war of 1812—15
with England. When a young man,
William Lavely came west, by the way of
Cincinnati, arriving in Springfield during
the summer of 1830, where he joined his
sister, Mrs. Dr. Merriman. He was mar-
ried April 2, 1839, in Menard county, 111.,
to Lavinia Constant. They had three
children, namely —

SUSAN died in infancy.

WILLIAM T., born July 19, 1843, in
Springfield, married in his native city
Feb. 5, 1868, to Lora Dunton, who was
born June i, 1850, in Racine, Wisconsin.
They have one child, RUFUS W., and re-
side in Springfield, Illinois.

ELLEN MA T, born July 14, 1848,
in Springfield, was married in her native
city Feb. 28, 1871, to Park E. Temple,
who was born April 29, 1845, *n Bloom-
ington, 111. He graduated in the law de-
partment of Michigan University, Ann
Arbor, in 1870. They have two children,
MAI and DAISY. Mr. Temple, after
his marriage, served one year as City
Attorney of Springfield. He is now a
newspaper correspondent, and practices
law in Bloomington, 111., where he and
his family reside.

William Lavely has filled a number of
civil offices, such as Justice of the Peace
ten or twelve years, Mayor of the city of
Springfield for the year 1852, chairman ot
the Board of Supervisors of Sangamon
county three years, etc. He was Grand Mas-
ter of the Masonic Grand Lodge of Illi-
nois for the years 1847 an(^ '^- During
the greater part of his life, he has been
engaged in mercantile pursuits, and now
— 1876 — resides in Spi'inggeld. •

LAV/, BENJAMIN C., was
born March 31, 1805, in Huntington
county, Penn. His parents moved to
Ohio, thence to Bath county, Ky., where
he was married Sept., 1824, to Janetta
McClees. They had one child in Ken-
tucky, and moved to Dickson county,
Tenn., where three children were born;
and from there to Sangamon county 111..,
arriving April, 1836, five miles east of
Springfield, where six children were born.
Of their ten children —

ANNA, born March ^, 1827, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to J.
Perry, and both died of cholera in 1851,
leaving two children.

THOMAS, born Sept. 21, 1831, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county
to Louisa Gibson; have five children, and
live in Mechanicsburg township.

REBECCA, born June 3, 1833, in
Tennessee, married Henry Harwood, an
engineer of the T., W. & W. They have
six children, and live in Springfield.

MART, born March 31, 1835, in Ten-
nessee, married David McCarthy; have
five children, and live in Mechanicsburg.

JANE, born Dec. 5, 1837, in Sanga-
mon county, and lives with her parents.

MATTHEW and MARK, twins,
born Sept. 30, 1839, in Sangamon county,
both live with their parents, five miles
ea§t of Springfield.

MARK enlisted July, 1862, for three
years, in Co. I, 1 141!! 111. Inf. Served to
the end of the rebellion, and was honorably
discharged with the regiment in July,
1865.

NARCISSA, born June 9, 1842, in
Sangamon county, married May 19, 1872,
to Silas Thomas, a native of Clermont
county, Ohio. She died Dec. 31, 1873.
Silas Thomas enlisted in July, 1861, in
Co. G, 7.th 111. Inf.; re-enlisted as a vet-
eran, served until July, 1865, when he
was honorably discharged. Himself and

448

EARLY SETTLERS OF

four brothers served through the whole
war, and came out without a wound.

GR1ZELLA, born Feb. 17, 1844,
died, aged seven years.

LTDIA C., born Feb. 17, 1846, lives
with her parents.

Benj. C. Law and wife — 1874 — live on
the farm where they settled in 1836, five
miles east of Springfield.

Mark Law, the father of Benjamin C.,
was born March 6, 1762, in county Ty-
rone, Ireland, came with his son to San-
gamon county, and died Feb. 23, 1840.

LAWLEY, STEPHEN, born
July 22, 1777, in North Carolina, was
married there to Mrs. Abigail Wilson,
and moved to Smith county, Tenn., where
they had four children, and moved to
Springfield, 111., arriving in the spring of
1828. He remained one year near Spring-
field, and in the spring of 1829 moved to
what is now Ball township, ten miles
south of Springfield. Of their four chil-
dren—

MAR Y, born in Tennessee, was mar-
ried there to William Wright. They
came to Sangamon county in 1827, one
year before her father, lived two years
near Springfield, and in the spring of 1829
moved to what, is now Ball township.
The next year the family returned to Ten-
nessee. The parents died there, leaving
five children.

ELIZABETH, born in Tennessee,
was married there to Paschal Wright.
They came to Sangamon county in 1828,
with her father. About 1835, the family
returned to Tennessee. They had seven
children; all lived to be men and women.

PRUDENCE, born in Smith county,
Tennessee, was married there to Leonard
Fry. They moved to Sangamon county,
in 1827, first living in what is now Cotton
Hill township, and afterwards moved- to
Ball township, where they raised a family
of eight children. In the fall of 1870,
they moved to Bates county, Mo., except
one daughter, Mary, who married Barnes
Peak, have three children, and live near
Edinburg, Christian county, Illinois.

WILLIAM B., born June 24, 1811,
in Smith county, Tennessee, came to
Springfield with his father, in 1828, and
in 1829 went to what is now Ball town-
ship. He was married, Dec. 25, 1831, to
Amy Meredith. They had two children.
DAVIS W., bom Nov. 15, 1832, in San-

gamon county, was married there to
Cassandra Peddecord. They had two
children, MARY E. and DAVIS F. D. W.
Lawley enlisted Aug. 15, 1862, in Co. E,
H4th 111. Inf., for three years; served full
term, and was honorably discharged Aug.
3, 1865. For a second wife, he married
Mary Ann Ray. They had four children,

IDA F., JAMES W., LUELLA MAY and EVA

i. D. W. Lawley lives in Cotton Hill
township. STEPHEN T., born Nov.
23, 1836, married in 1859 Mary A. Gaines,
a native of Indiana. They have six
children, SARAH E., AMY j., MARY M.,

MARGARET L., ALBERT W., CHARLES A.,

and LAURA H., and live in Cotton Hill town-
ship. Mrs. Amy Lawley died .Sept. 12, 1838,
and William B. Lawley was married
Nov. 28, 1839, to Sarah M. Duncan.
They have eight living children. RUTH
J., born Sept. 13, 1840, in Sangamon
county, married in 1850 to Lawrence
Saltenger. They have six children, WIL-
LIAM S., ELMER E., JAMES E., FRANCIS E.,

MINNIE c., and MARY v., and live near
Palmer, Christian county, 111. ELIJAH
D., born Sept. 9, 1842, in Sangamon
county, enlisted in Aug., 1862, in Co. E,
i I4th 111. Inf., for three years. He was
wounded and taken prisoner at the battle
of Guntown, Mississippi, June 10, 1864.
He was a prisoner to the close of
the rebellion, and was disabled for
life. He was married in 1868 to Sarah J.
Boyd. They have two children, LEWIS
E. and FREDDIE, and live at Macon, Ma-
con county, 111. JAMES P., born Dec.
10, 1844, in Sangamon county, was too
young to enlist with his brothers, but ran
off, and enlisted July, 1863, in Co. E,
1 1 4th 111. Inf., at Black River. Miss.
Served to the end of the rebellion, and
was honorably discharged. He was mar-
ried in 1869 to Nancy J. Jones. They
have one child, ROBERT w., and live
in Palmer, Christian county, Illinois.
AMANDA E., born June 9, 1849, in
Sangamon county, married in 1868 to
John B. Matthew. See his name. They
have two children, CHARLES E. and GEORGE
R, and live at Mt. Auburn, 111. SARAH
M., LEONARD W., FRANCIS J.,
JEROME F. and PRUDENCE A. live
with their parents. William B. Lawley
and wife live ten miles south ot Spring-
field, in Ball township, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

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449

Mrs. Abigail Lawley died Jan. 6, 1853,
and Stephen Lawley died Dec. 28, 1861,
both on the farm where they settled in
1829, in Ball township, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

LAWSON, WILLIAM P.,
was born Nov. 19, 1794, at what was then
called Grassy Lick, Kentucky. Priscilla
Duncan was born Dec. 12, 1797, in Bath
county, Kentucky. They were married
Feb. 3, 1820, and had two children, and
Mrs. Lawson died in Fleming county,
Ky, Aug. 20, 1824. Mr. Lawson was
married Oct. 19, 1826, in Fleming coun-
ty, to Frances Dunn. They had one
child, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving Nov. 18, 1828, at Buffalo
Hart grove, where they had eight living
children. Of all his children —

MARGARET, born Jan. 8, 1821, in
Fleming county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county Aug., 1852, to John Fletcher.
They have three children, and live one
and one-quarter miles southeast of Buffalo
Hart station, Sangamon county.

SARAH J., born Dec. 25, 1823, in
Fleming county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Robert Cass, Jun. See
his name.

2^4 CO#, born Oct. 4, 1827, in Flem-
ing county, Ky., raised in Sangamon
county, married to Martha Davis. They
have nine children, and live near Catlin,
Vermilion county, Illinois.

NANCT A., born Aug. 7, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married James Tim-
mons; have six children, and live four
miles northwest of Illiopolis.

MARTHA A., born July 10, 1833, in
Sangamon county, married Hepry Bell.
They had six children, and Mr. Bell died
June, 1868, in Petersburg, 111. His widow
and children reside there.

CLARINDA, born Aug. 3, 1836, was
drowned by crawling in an open well the
very day she was one year old.

LUCINDA, born Aug. 29, 1839, in
Sangamon county, married Marcus Cos-
tilla, a native of Ireland, have four child-
ren, and live in Buffalo Hart township.

CHRISTIANA, born May 9, 1842, in
Sangamon county, married Lewis Cass.
See his name.

ELIZA y., born July 14, 1845, in
Sangamon county, married Lafayette
Ball; have four children, and live at
Fairmount, Vermilion county, Illinois.

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JULIA C., born Feb. 6, 1848, in San-
gamon county, married Hiram Amos, and
lives at Jacksonville, Illinois.

ISABEL, born Feb. 13, 1851, in San-
gamon county, married John Shaver.

Mrs. Frances Lawson died Oct. 10,
1867, in Sangamon county, and Wm. P.
Lawson lives with his daughter, Mrs.
Robert Cass, Jun. — 1874.

LEEDS, PETER T., was born
March 29, 1801, near Leeds' Cove or
Leeds Landing, in Gloucester county, N.
J. His ancestors emigrated from Leeds,
England, about the year 1700. His pa-
rents, James and Rhoda Leeds, were mem-
bers of the Society of friends. They had
five sons and three daughters in New J er-
sey, and with their family left there, May
15, 1806, and settled near Moscow, Cler-
mont county, Ohio. The girls married
farmers, and three of the sons became far-
mers also; the whole six settling in Cler-
mont county. One son, Josiah, learned
the hatter's trade, and Peter T., the sub-
ject of this sketch, selected a profession,
and commenced the study of medicine at
the age of twenty. Not having the
means to attend medical school, he taught
during the day and read medicine at night
until he was theoretically qualified for
practice. While teaching, he had one pu-
pil who attended his school two summers,
and who has since been known as Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant, the leader of the U. S.
armies in crushing the great rebellion,
also twice President of the United States.
Dr. P. T. Leeds remembers having seen
the first steamboat that ascended the Ohio
river as far as Moscow. He was married,
in 1821, to Jane Harden. They had six
children in Ohio, one of whom died young.
Dr. Leeds moved with his family to Illi-
nois, arriving at Mechanicsburg, Sanga-
mon county, April i, 1836. Of his child-
ren—

DA VI D, born Oct., 1822, in Clermont
county, Ohio, studied medicine with his
father, and located in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
He was married there to Martha Shaw.
They had three children, JOHN, MAT-
TIE and ARTEMAS. Dr. David
Leeds died in Mt. Pleasant, September,

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TfAfOTf/r, born Jan., 1825, in Ohio,

studied medicine with his father, and
graduated at St. Louis Medical College.
He married Mary A. Latham. Dr. Tim-

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othy Leeds practiced medicine in Mt.
Pulaski, until 1856, when he moved to
Lincoln, 111. He died there May i, 1857,
and was buried at Mt. Pulaski with
Masonic honors. His widow died in
Springfield, Dec. n, 1857, leaving her
two children, MAGGIE and TIMO-
THY, with their grandmother, Mrs. Mar-
garet Latham, in Springfield.

L YD I A, the only daughter, born
March, 1827, in Clermont county, Ohio,
and brought up in Sangamon county, mar-
ried to her cousin, John M. Leeds, at Mt.
Pleasant, Iowa, and moved to Clinton,
Illinois. They had five children — DAR-
THULA J., born Jan. 5, 1847, in Glas-
gow, Jefferson county, Iowa, married
April 21, 1871, in Clinton, 111., to A. H.
C. Barber, formerly of Portsmouth, Ohio.
They have three children, VIOLET, JOHN
and FANNIE, and reside in Clinton, 111.
ALICE A., was born in Mechanicsburg,
and died, aged two years. MARY E.,
born Dec. 24, 1850, in Marion, Dewitt
county, 111., was married, March i, 1871,
to J. H. Morse, formerly of Milford Cen-
tre, Union county, Ohio. They have one
child, GEORGE B., and live in Clinton, 111.
SARAH ARGILLIA,bornJan.9, 1855,
and LYDIA LENORAH, born Sept. 3,
1857, in Clinton. The two latter live
with their mother. John M. Leeds went
to California, in 1862, and on returning he
was killed by Indians, in the Sierra Ne-
vada mountains. His widow and two un-
married daughters reside in Clinton, De-
witt county, Illinois.

DANIEL K., born Nov., 1829, in
Ohio, enlisted in the regular army during
the Mexican war, was wounded in the
battle of the City of Mexico, and died in
that city, in 1847, of inflammation of the
lungs.

LUCIAN LAV ASS A, was born
April, 1831, in Clermont county, Ohio,
commenced the study of medicine with
his father, at seventeen years of age, and
graduated at Rush Medical College, Chi-
cago, 111., in 1852. He practiced medicine
with his father three years, and during
that time he married Susan Shoup, of Lo-
gan county. She died, in 1854, leaving
one child, SARAH ALICE. He then
located in Lincoln, 111., and in 1855 mar-
ried Sarah J. Shoup; she only lived ten
weeks, and in the autumn of 1856 he mar-
ried Hannah Wilson, of Lo^on county.

They have three children, viz: ANNIE
M., MYRTIE j. and HANNAH E. The
eldest child, Sarah Alice, married E. Spell-
man, and lives in Lincoln. Dr. L. L.
Leeds has owned one horse thh'teen
years, and kept a record of his travels,
which has been 82,000 miles, to January,
1876. His name is Gray Bill, and he is yet
able, ready and willing to travel, and he
will probably yet make his 100,000 miles.
Dr. L. L. Leeds continues in the practice
of his profession, at Lincoln, Logan coun-
ty, Illinois.

Dr. Peter T. Leeds moved from Me-
chanicsburg to Buffalo, Sangamon
county, Illinois, August 19, 1859; re-
mained in active practice until 1865, but
has now partially withdrawn, and only
attends to office business. He has been a
successful practitioner, and is strictly a
self-made man.

LEMON, JOHN I., born March
6, 1803, in Scott county, Kentucky, came
to Sangamon county, arriving at Berlin
in 1834 or '5. He was married near
Washington, Tazewell county, to Ann
Maria White. They made their home in
Sangamon county until they had five
living children. The family moved to
Farmer City, and from there to El Paso,
where three children were born. Their
eldest children, JAMES D., WIL-
LIAM U. and JOHN 7., Jun., were
all born in Sangamon county, and were
Union soldiers in Co. A, io7th 111. Inf.

JAMES D. was Lieutenant, and was
killed in battle on the Potomac.

WILLIAM U. and

J O H N I. died of disease in the
army, the former near Paducah, and the
latter in Tennessee.

John I. Lemon resides at El Paso, Illi-
nois.

LEMON, MARY ANN, sister
to John I., was born Nov. 3, 1805, in
Scott county, Ky., came to Sangamon
county in 1835 or '6, married to William
Hickman. See his name. They had one
son, Euclid.

LEMON, ELIZA, sister to John
I., born March 29, 1808, in Scott county,
Ky., came to Sangamon county in 1835 or
'6, married William Underwood. See
his name. He died, and she married
John Churchill. See his name.

LEMMON, ULICK, was born
July 30, 1791, in Baltimore, Md. He

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visited the western States, and entered
land in Sangamon county. He was mar-
ried in Sangamon county, in 1826 or '7, to
Mrs. Susan Bachus, whose maiden name
was Pearce. She was born Sept. 19,
1799, near Nashville, Tenn. She had one
child by her first marriage —

NANC T BA CHUS, born Oct. 28,
1823, and married Willard Mitchell.
They had two living children. Mr.
Mitchell was at one time employed on the
Panama railroad, contracted disease, went
to California, and died therein 1850. His
widow married Benjamin Force, had
three children, and lives in Athens, Me-
nard county, Illinois.

Mr. and Mrs. Lemmon had six child-
ren in Sangamon county, namely —

WILLIAM E., born Nov. 17, 1828,
married Elizabeth Martin, have seven
children, and live in Logan county, Illi-
nois.

MARGARET A., born March 5,
1830, in Sangamon county, married Alfred
N. Hinsley. See his name.

EL VIRA, born June 22, 1835, mar-
ried May i, 1853, to Alexander Hale.
They have ten children, and live in Athens,
Menard county, Illinois.

JAMES and JOHN, twins, born
May 19, 1838. They are both preachers
in the Christian church, and reside at
Athens, Menard county, Illinois.

CTNl^HIA S., born Sept. 25, 1840,
married Madison Batterton. See his
name.

Ulick Lemmon died Jan. 6, 1852, and
his widow died Jan. 18, 1866, both in San-
gamon county.

LEVEL, JAMES M., was born
Dec., 1817, in Pickaway county, Ohio.
His parents died when he was a child, and
he was brought to Sangamon county by
Abel Powell. They arrived June 27,
1828. James M. Level was married Dec.
2, 1855, to Margaret Sawyers, who was
born Nov. 3, 1830, in Fayette county,
They had six children, two of whom
died —

CLARISSA E. in her eighth year;
and WILLIAM- T. in infancy. The
other four —

JOHN S., born April 5, 1858,

JAMES H., born Sept. 23, 1859,

MART E., born July 15, 1861, and

CLARA M., born May 28, 1866, live
with their parents. James M. Level re-

sides on the farm settled by Levi Cantrall
in 1820. It is adjoining Cantrall on the
southwest.

James M. Level remembers that about
1838 he helped to cut wheat with the old-
fashioned sickle or reap-hook, tramped it
out with horses, fanned the chaff out by
two men taking a linen sheet and using it
for a fan, while a third one stood on some
elevated place, and poured the wheat and
chaff down before the fan. This fanning
operation cannot be described to a person
who never saw it; and, therefore ought to
be enacted at some Old Settlers' meeting.
He then drove a four-horse team and
hauled fifty bushels of the wheat to St.
Louis, one hundred miles, and sold it for
twenty-five cents per bushel. It required
from ten to twelve days to make the trip.

LEVI, JOHN M., born about
1800, came to what is now Ball township,
with his pai'ents, among the early settlers,
and was married to Eliza J. Hurley. They
had five children —

MART married John Hartsock, and
lives in Christian connty.

GRACIE J. married James Smith,
had one child, FRANCIS A., and Mr.
Smith died August 23, 1869, and his wid-
ow married Oct. 15, 1872, to John H.
Hermon. See his name.

SARAH married Daniel H. Funder-
burk, has four children, and lives in Chris-
tian county.

LOUISA married Rev. Franklin
Doughty, of the M. E. Church, have
five children, and live at Fairfield, Iowa.

ELIZABETH married Joseph C.
Dodds. They have two children, JOHN
and IVY PEARL, and live in Ball
township, Sangamon county.
• Mrs. Eliza J. Levi died, and Mr. Levi
married Fannie demons,, and he died
Dec. 23, 1872. His widow lives in Roch-
ester, Illinois.

LEWIS, JOHN R., was born in
1806 in Farmington, Connecticut. He
studied medicine at New Haven, came
West in 1831 or '2, and established him-
self in practice at Carlinville, 111. He
returned to his native place, and was there
married Nov. 16, 1835, to Mrs. Ruth
Stanley, whose maiden name was Cramp-
ton. He brought his wife to Carlinville,
ceased practicing medicine, and engaged
in farming. Mrs. Ruth Lewis died Aug.
28, 1839, at Carlinville, leaving one child.

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EARLY SETTLERS OP

Dr. Lewis soon after moved to Chatham,
in Sangamon county, and engaged in
practice there. His son —

CHARLES H., born April 4, 1837,
near Carlinville, brought up in Chatham,
graduated in 1862 from the academi-
cal department of Yale college, and from
the medical department of the same col-
lege in 1867. He spent the intermediate
time in the army, and afterwards prac-
ticed a short time in Chatham. Dr.
Charles H. Lewis was married April n,
1869, in Oswego, Kansas, to Imogene
Lewis. They have two children, ED-
WARD H. and FLORENCE M., and
reside near Cedar Vale, Chautauqua
county, Kansas. Dr. Lewis is engaged in
farming and the drug business.

Dr. John R. Lewis, soon after remov-
ing to Chatham, became acquainted with
Miss Sarah M. Thompson, a native of
Monson, Massachusetts, whose home in
the West was with her brother-in-law,
Rev. James A. Clark, in Fort Madison,
Iowa, where Dr. Lewis and Miss Thomp-
son were married Aug. 25, 1844, and at
once came to Chatham. They had five
children. Of the three living —

MARIA L. was married Jan. i, 1874,
to Dr. Charles B. Johnston, a practicing
physician at Tolono, Champaign county,
111., where they reside.

JOHNT.W&

EDWARD V., both born in Chat-
ham, and live there with their mother.

Dr. J. R. Lewis assisted in organizing
the First Presbyterian church in Carlin-
ville, and was one of the ruling Elders as
long as he lived there. He was elected to
the same office in the church at Chatham,
and contiuued to discharge its duties to
the end of his life. He died Aug. 5,
1858, in Chatham, where his widow and
two sons now reside — 1876.

LEWIS, EDDIN, was born
Dec. 23, 1803, in Caldwell county, Ky.
He was there married, about 1825, to
Winnifred Easley, who was born in the
same county, March 10, 1806. They had
two children in Kentucky, and moved to
Sangamon county, 111., in the fall of 1830,
in what is now Ball township, where they
had six children —

WILLIAM R., born Oct. n, 1826, in
Kentucky, died in Sangamon county,
aged twentv vears.

JAMES M., born May 27, 1828, in
Caldwell county, Ky., married March 6,
1851, in Sangamon county, to Berrilla M.
Lockridge. She died May 4, 1857, leav-
ing one child, CYRUS E. James M.
Lewis married August 30, 1860, to Mrs.
Emily Ricks, whose maiden name was
Simpson. She died April 20, 1864, leav-
ing one child, LAURA BELLE, who re-
sides with her uncle, Andrew Simpson, in
Taylorville. James M. Lewis married
Mary A. Clayton. She died June 20,
1868, leaving two children, JULIA M.
and MANFORD S. T. M. Lewis was
married August 30, 1869, to Jane Burris.
They have one child, MINNIE ALICE,
and reside five miles southeast of Auburn.
James M. Lewis remembers one event
connected with the deep snow, beginning
in December, 1830. His father had just
finished his first cabin, and moved into it,
as the snow began falling. In building it
he dug the earth out in front of the hearth
and used it in forming the side walls to his
fireplace. That hole under the floor was
for keeping vegetables, but he had none.
When the snow became quite deep, he
found that he would certainly loose a fine
litter of pigs unless he could find protec-
tion for them. He could think of no
other place than his rude cellar. He
raised a puncheon, dragged the sow in,
and pitched her, with the pigs, down that
cavity. The record shows that James M.
was but two and a half years old, but the
squealing of the hog almost frightened
him into fits, making an impression on his
mind that remains indelible. If all his-
tory was written it would be found that
many of the best families and fortunes
were built on as rude foundations as this
incident implies.

JOHN W., born May 27, 1831, in
Sangamon county, spent six years in Cal-
ifornia, returned home, started for Pikes
Peak, and died at St. Joseph, Mo., in
1860 or '61.

MARGARET E., born in Sangamon
county, married George F. Kessler, who
was accidentally shot dead, while on a
hunting excursion, in 1858. She married
Sylvanus Wineman, who died July 29,
1875. She resides near Auburn.

SARAH y., born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married George W. Armstrong.
They have two children, LAURENTI-

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US B. and ALONZO W., and reside in
Auburn.

MARTHA A., born in 1838, in San-
gamon county, married Abraham Gish,
has two children, namely: CHARLES
and ARRAH, and reside in Virden.

SAMUEL, born Sept. 17, 1840, in
Sangamon county. He was married Feb.
7, 1861, in Auburn, to Emma Wheeler.
Mr. Lewis enlisted August 9, 1862, for
three years, in %Co. B, ii4th 111. Inf., and
was commissioned ist Lieutenant of his
company in April, 1865. He was wound-
ed and captured at the battle of Guntown,
Miss., June 10, 1864, was taken to Ander-
sonville prison, and enjoyed its hospitalities
for ten months; sent to Vicksburg for ex-
change, where he first heard of the assas-
sination of President Lincoln. He had a
silver ring, with a quarter dollar gold
piece set in it. By giving that to the rebel
guard he was permitted to escape before
the time for exchange. He was honorably
discharged at Camp Butler, August 12,
1865. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis have five
children, EDITH M., MARY B.,
FREDERICK L., MAGGIE J. and
JAMES H., and reside in Auburn. Mr.
Lewis is a merchant there, and President
of the Auburn Bank.

MARY M., born in Sangamon county,
was married there to Thomas Black. See
his name.

Mrs. Winnifred Lewis died Nov. 15,
1843, and Eddin Lewis was married May
28, 1844, to Permelia A. Fletcher. They
had two children —

ED WARD H. was married Nov. 4,
1869, to Margaret Whetstone. She died
Feb. 8, 1872, leaving one child,
CHARLES D. E. H. Lewis lives in
Auburn.

PERMELIA P., married Jan. 7,
1864, to James A. Ogg, who was born
Oct. 9, 1842, in Madison county, Ky. He
enlisted for three years, March 29, 1862,
in Co. F, i2th 111. Cav., served until Apr.
2, 1865, when he was honorably discharg-
ed. Mr. and Mrs. Ogg have three child-
ren, JAMES F., WILLIAM A. and
MARY E., and live in Auburn, Illinois.

Eddin Lewis died Jan. 29, 1850, and
his widow married Larkin H. Lewis, and
resides in Auburn.

Eddin Lewis was an energetic farmer
and business man. He was one of the
earliest men engaged in buying and drov-

ing fat hogs and cattle, and packing pork
in Sangamon county.

LEWIS, LARKIN, brother to
Eddin Lewis, was born in Caldwell coun-
ty, Ky., married there to Elizabeth
Welch. They had three children in
Kentucky, and she died there, May 17,
1835. He moved with his children to
Sangamon county, in 1838 or '9, and was
married, Feb. 28, 1856, to Mrs. Permelia
A. Lewis, whose maiden name was
Fletcher. They had two children. Of
his children —

WILLIAM J., married Sarah Clay-
ton, have two children, ALFRED and
SARAH, and live in Ball township.

SAMUEL married Mary Henderson,
have three children, and live in Kansas.

DA VID married Margaret Henderson,
have three children, MARY, NETTIE
and LOTTIE, and live in Pawnee town-
ship.

By the second wife —

GEORGE W., and

yAMES L., live with their parents,
in Auburn, Illinois.

LEWIS, WILLIAM, born in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Jemima Easley, and lives at St. Joseph,
Missouri.

LEWIS, NANCY, born in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to
James O. Wilson, and lives in Bates coun-
ty, Missouri.

LEWIS, MORGAN, born in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Sarah Walters, and both died, without
children.

LEWIS, JOHN, born in Ken-
tucky, married Nancy Campbell, and have
four children —

WILLIAM H. married Lorilla Wil-
son, and lives in Ball township.

ELIZABETH,

JOHN F., and

AMANDA, live with their parents, in
Ball township.

Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, the mother of
Eddin, Larkin, William, Nancy, Mary
Morgan and John, died in 1857, in Ball
township, in the seventy-fifth year of her
age.

LEWIS, OBED, was bom April
25, 1812, in Chester county, Penn. He
came to Springfield, 111., in 1838, was mar-
ried, Sept. 23, 1851, to Cordelia M. lies.
They have three children —

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BARLT SETTLERS OF

WILLIAM T.,

KA TE, and

MARY, and reside in Springfield.

From 1839 to 1868 Mr. Lewis was en-
gaged in manufacturing carriages and
wagons. He served the city as alderman,
from 1862 to 1864, and from 1868 to 1873.
He was elected mayor, in April, 1874,
serving a term of one year. Obed Lewis
and family reside in Springfield.

LEWIS, SAMUEL, born Feb.
1 6, 1767, in Pennsylvania, about sixteen
miles above Philadelphia, on the Dela-
ware river. He crossed the Allegheny
mountains on horseback five times, and
was married on the Kanawha river, West
Virginia, about 1799, to Sally Floro, who
was born there in 1785. They moved in
1814, to St. Francis county, Mo., and
from there to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving May, 1830, in what is now Cotton
Hill township. They had children in
West Virginia, in Missouri, and in San-
gamon county, making a total of fifteen.
In June, 1844, Mr. Lewis moved his fam-
ily to Delaware county, Iowa. Mrs.
Sally Lewis died there in 1847, ag£d
sixty-two years. Her mother lived to be
one hundred and six years of age, and was
living at Strawberry, Texas, at the time
of her daughter's death. Samuel Lewis
died in Iowa, Aug. 9, 1867, being in his
one hundred and first year. His mother
lived to be one hundred and fourteen
years old. Of their fifteen children, six
only are living — four of them in Iowa.
One only resides in Illinois, the seventh
child.

ALFRED, born March 26, -1823, in
St. Francis county, Missouri, raised in
Sangamon county, married March 14,
1850, in Loami, to Eliza J. Abell, a
granddaughter of Adam Barger. Mr.
and Mrs. Lewis had nine children in
Sangamon county, four of whom died
young. SARAH S., MARIA A.,
JOHN S., LOUISA F. and CORNE-
LIA E. J. live with their parents. Al-
fred Lewis made his home in Sangamon
county, near Breckinridge mill, until the
fall of 1872, when he moved to Taylor-
ville for the purpose of educating his
children, and now resides there. He
carries the first month's wages he ever
earned in his pocket to the present time.
It is in the shape of a watch.

LEWIS, MARIA, sister to Alfred,
born April 6, 1815, married in Missouri
to William Cooper. He died Sept., 1836,
in Sangamon county, leaving four child-
ren, two of whom are living in Benton
county, Mo. His widow married Hamil-
ton McCoy. See his name.

LEWIS, LEVI D., born Aug.
26, 1801, near Morristown, N. J. Eliza
Sutton was born Feb. 4, 1804, at the same
place. They were there .married Aug.
13, 1823, and had six children, one of
whom died, aged five years. The family
moved to Springfield, 111., in Nov., 1835,
where they had one child. Of their six
children —

WILLIAM C. B., born Sept. u,
1824, in New Jersey, went as musician in
an Illinois regiment, to the Mexican war,
returned, and died Oct. 6, 1847, in Spring-
field.

SARAH, born July 30, 1826, near
Morristown, N. J., married in Springfield
to Reuben Coon, who was born July 22,
1821, in New Jersey. They had eight
children in Springfield, one of whom died
young. LEVI L., born June n, 1849,
married in Springfield, Jan. 8, 1872, to
Mary J. Tully, who was born Jan. 8,
1855, at Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr. L.
L. Coon is engaged in the manufacture of
boots and shoes, in Springfield. ANN
ELIZA, born July 27, 1851, married in
Springfield, Feb. 25, 1873, to William H.
Billington, who was born March 31, 1849,
in Shrewsbury, England. They have one
child, LINA MAY, and reside in Spring-
field. Mr. Billington is conductor on the
T. W. & W. railroad. FRANKLIN P.,
born May 12, 1853, is farming. CHAR-
LEY, LINA, SUSAN and GEORGE
reside with their mother. Mr. Reuben
Coon was for several years engaged in
the leather trade, and the manufacture of
boots and shoes. He died, Nov. 7, 1871,
and his widow and children reside in
Springfield, Illinois.

MART E., born Sept. 19, 1834, in N.
J., married in Springfield, in 1853, to
Thomas H. Palladay. She died May 18,

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JAMES S., born Feb. 10, 1837, in
Springfield, was married March 27, 1862,
to Mary A. Smith, in Monmouth, War-
ren county, 111., and reside there.

JOHN BERGEN, born Nov. 15,
1843, in Springfield, married in Nov.,

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1871, near Monmouth, 111., to Eliza
Smith, and resides at Lenox, Iowa.

Levi D. Lewis was connected with his
brothers, Joseph and Thomas, in the boot
and shoe business for several years. In
1849 he went to California, and died
there Feb. 24, 1850. Mrs. Eliza Lewis
resides with her daughter, Mrs. Coon, in
Springfield.

LEWIS, THOMAS, born July
9, 1808, near Baskingridge, Somerset
county, New Jersey, was married at New
Brunswick, N. J., April 4, 1832, to Mar-
garet A. VanNorstrand, who was born in
Somerset county, N. J., Oct. 4, 1810. In
July, 1836, Mr. Lewis took a trip West,
with the view of selecting a future home.
After passing through Indiana, Illinois
and Missouri, he selected Springfield, 111.,
and returned to New Jersey for his fami-
ly, consisting of his wife and two child-
ren. They started West June 9, 1837, *n
company with Mr. Lewis' two brothers,
John and Eliphalet C., with their families;
his sister, Susan A., and his brother-in
law, C. VanNostrand, in all twenty-
seven persons. They arrived in Spring-
field Aug. i, 1837. Mr. and Mrs.
Lewis had five children; one died in in-
fancy. Of the others —

ADALINE, born Sept. 12, 1833, in
New Brunswick, New Jersey, married in
Springfield March, 1858, to Stephen D.
Ay res, who was born May 20, 1829, in
Trumansburg, N. J. They have six chil-
dren living. WILLIAM J., NETTIE,
LEWIS C., STELLA, ALBERT T.
and OLIVE. S. D. Ayres and family
reside in Cairo, Illinois.

WILLIAM T., born Sept. 25, 1836,
in New Brunswick, New Jersey, was
married April 20, 1862, in Macon
county, 111., to Sarah C. Sprouse, who
was born April 20, 1843. They have
six children living— CHARLES A.,
SARAH M., EDWARD P., OWEN,
STELLA A. and ANNIE. W. T.
Lewis and family reside in Chilicothe,
Missouri.

CHARLES H., born Aug. 12, 1839,
in Springfield, 111., died Feb. 6, 1855.

ALBERT, born Aug. i, 1849, in
Springfield, is unmarried, and resides in
Cairo, Illinois.

Thomas Lewis had nine brothers and
one sister. His brothers all died, each
leaving a widow. For several years Mr.

Lewis had nine widowed sisters-in-law,
and eight are still living. His brothers,
Eliphalet C. and John, settled in Warren
county, 111., and died there. Thomas
Lewis has been an active, energetic busi-
ness man all his life. He lived in Spring-
field until 1875, when he moved to Cairo,
111., where he now resides — 1876.

LEWIS, SUSAN, born April 19,
1814, in New Jersey, the only sister of
Thomas Lewis, was married in Spring-
field, 111., to Henry VanHoff. See his
name. Mr. VanHhff died, and his
widow married Rev. J. G. Bergen. See
his name.

LJGHTFOOT, HENRY F.,
was born Feb. 22, 1787, near Madison
Court House, Virginia, and was there
married Feb. 21, 1811, to Mary T. Jones,
who was born Jan. 6, 1792, at the same
place. They moved to Adair county,
Ky., where they had three children, and
from there to Warren county, near Bowl-
ing Green, where three children were
born; thence to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving Oct. 23, 1830, near Springfield.
Two children were born in Sangamon
county. Of their children —

JOHN A., born Sept. 3, 1814, in
Acteir county, Ky., was married Sept. 24,
1838, to Susan J. Jones. She died Sept.
5, 1844, in Chester, 111., leaving one
child, HENRY F., who was born Sept.
i, 1840, at Georgetown, Randolph county,
111. He was married in the fall of 1864,
at Rock Island, 111., to Fannie F. Kelly.
H. F. Lightfoot died in St. Louis, leaving

two children, HENRY w., and , who

live with their mother in St. Louis, Mo.
John A. Lightfoot married Cornelia Sig-
ler. She died, leaving three children,
CHARLES W., MARY A. and SU-
SAN M., with their relatives in Jackson-
ville, 111. J. A. Lightfoot is employed in
the U. S. Custom House at New Orleans.

GOODRICH, born April 19, 1817, in
Adair county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county Dec. i, 1842, to Nancy Callerman.
They had eight living children. MARY
E., born Sept. 18, 1847, married Sept. 2,
1868, to John F. Fagan. See his name.
ELIZABETH J., born June 22, 1849,
married Sept. 6, 1870, to Richard T.
Lewis, who was born April 18, 1838, in
Delaware county, Ohio, came to Sanga-
mon county in 1844. He enlisted at
Springfield, Sept. 28, 1861, in Co. G, loth

456

EARLY SETTLERS OF

111. Cav., for three years. Re-enlisted
as a veteran Dec. 12, 1863; served until
the end of the rebellion, and was honor-
ably discharged Nov., 1865, at San An-
tonia, Texas, and mustered out at
Springfield Jan. 6, 1866. He resides at
Elkhart, Logan county, Illinois. JAMES
R., born April 17, 1852, -married Dec. 24,
1873, to Julia A. Plunkett, and live near
Marysville, Nodaway county, Mo. SU-
SAN M. married Jan. 8, 1874, to John L.
Callerman, Jun. See his name. JOHN L.,
JUDITH L., ALICE B. and JULIA
ANN live with their parents, three miles
north of Springfield, Illinois.

DOLLY A., born Feb. 9, 1820, in
Adair county, Ky., married Dec. 6, 1839,
to Peter Lanterman. See his name.

MARGARET S., born Nov. 16,
1822, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county to Philip F. Lightfoot. They had
two children. REUBEN enlisted in
1862, for three years, in Co. A, 38th 111.
Inf. He was wounded at the battle of
Stone's river, and died Jan. 4, 1863.
GABRIEL lives near Springfield, 111.
Mrs. Margaret S. Lightfoot died Dec. 15,
1847, while on a visit in Alabama.

ROBERT S., born March 13, 1825,
in Kentucky, came to Sangamon county
with his parents, went to California soon
after the discovery of gold, and died
there.

ELIZABETH M. married in San-
gamon county to Henry Shuck, and died,
leaving one child, ANNIE, who lives
with her father in Springfield.

PHILIP H., born August 24, 1829, in
Kentucky, died in Sangamon county in
his seventh year.

GABRIEL M., born August 8, 1832,
died March 12, 1846.

Henry F. Lightfoot died Feb. 10, 1846,
while on a visit to Kentucky near Dan-
ville. His widow died Oct., 1858, in San-
gamon county.

LILLARD, THOMAS, born
in North Carolina, married there to Tem-
perance Duncan. They moved to Ten-
nesee with her father, and from there to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1830
in what is now Woodside township. Mrs.
Lillard died, and he married again, and
moved to Missouri, taking all except two
of his children —

MARTHA A. married William Jones,
Jun. See his name.

The other is the wife of Burril McKin-
ney, and lives in Wisconsin.

LINCOLN, ABRAHAM,
was born Feb. 12, 1809, in that part of
Hardin, which is now Larue county, Ky.
He was taken by his parents, in his eighth
year, to Spencer county, Indiana. His
mother died there, and his father returned
to Kentucky, and married again. In 1830
the family moved to Macon county, 111.,
and spent the winter of the "deep snow"
there. In the spring of 1831, Abraham
Lincoln passed through Springfield and
went to New Salem, near where Peters-
burg, Menard county, now stands. He
labored at boat building, rail making and
like employments, also clerking in a store,
until the Black Hawk war came on, when
he was elected captain of a volunteer
company. After the war he was elected
to the Legislature four times. He studied
surveying and practiced that, usually in
summer, after having spent the winter in
the legislature. During all the intervals
between other employments for gaining a
livelihood, he studied law, and when quali-
fied to practice he sold his surveying im-
plements, and in 1837 moved to Spring-
field He was married in Springfield,
Nov. 4, 1842, to Mary Todd. They had
four children —

EDDIE, WILLIE and THOMAS
(Tad) are all dead.

ROBERT T., born in Springfield,
graduated at Harvard College, married in
Washington, D. C., to the daughter 01
Senator Harlan, of Iowa, is now a practic-
ing lawyer in Chicago.

Abraham Lincoln was elected, in 1846,
Representative in Congress, serving one
term of two years. From the close of
that term until 1854, he "practiced law
more assiduously than ever before." Dur-
ing that time he took but little interest in
politics, but the repeal of the Missouri
compromise ai'oused him to the encroach-
ments of slavery, and he united with kin-
dred spirits in organizing the Republican
party, at Bloomington, 111., in 1856. In
1858 he was a candidate for United
States Senator to succeed Stephen A.
Douglas, whose term was drawing to a
close. Contrary to the usual custom with
candidates for that office, instead of aiming
to influence the members of the legisla-
ture, by whose votes the choice is made,
the contest was brought directly before

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457

the people, in order to influence their ac-
tion in choosing members of the legisla-
ture, who were to choose a United States
Senator. That led to seven joint debates
between Mr. Lincoln and Mr. Douglas,
in different parts of the State of Illi-
Mr. Douglas was elected as his

own successor, but Air. Lincoln's speeches
in that campaign gave him a national repu-
tation, and proved that his understanding
of the slavery question was more clear
and comprehensive than that of any other
man in the nation. That led to his being
chosen by the Republican National Con-
vention, assembled in Chicago, in June,
1860, as the candidate of that party for
the office of President of the United
States. He was elected in November of
that year. When he took his seat at
Washington, D. C., March 4, 1861, he
found fifteen States in armed rebellion
against his authority, the treasury of the
nation empty, its arsenals plundered, and
its ships of war scattered to the most re-
mote parts ot the globe. War — cruel,
bloody and relentless, followed. He was
re-elected President in November, 1864,
and when he took the oath of office for
.the second time, March 4, 1865, the armed
hosts of the rebellion had almost melted
away, and in his Heart he was beginning
to sing the glad anthem of" Peace on earth
and good will to men," when he was shot
by the hand of an assassin on the evening
of April 14, and breathed his last on the
morning of April 15, 1865, at the capital
of the nation.

His remains, accompanied by a large
delegation of the most distinguished men
of the nation, civilians, statesmen and sol-
diers, occupying a railroad train of nine
cars, were conveyed to his. former home.
For twelve days and nights the train
moved on, and was hailed everywhere
more like a triumphal procession than a
funeral cortege. May 4, 1865, his body
was deposited in the receiving tomb at
Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illi-
nois.

A grateful people have erected to' his
memory a monument, and upon it placed
his statue, in bronze, of heroic size. It
was unveiled Oct. 15, 1874, in the pres-
ence of the Society of the Army of the
Tennessee, at their eighth annual re-union,
with a host of citizens, making an assem-
blage of about twenty-five thousand per-
—58

sons. When the four groups of statuary,
representing the Infantry, Cavalry, Artil-
lery and Navy, are put in position on the
monument, the total cost will be about
two hnndred and twelve thousand dollars.

Mrs. Lincoln resides with her sister,
Mrs. Edwards, in Springfield, Illinois. —
July, 1876.

The following are the only words Mr.
Lincoln ever wrote concerning himself or
his ancestors. They were not intended
for publication, but were written as an act
of personal regard for an old friend, and
placed in the hands of Hon. Jesse W.
Fell, of Bloomington, 111., in December,
1859. It is very properly termed by Mr.
Fell, the

AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

"I was born Feb. 12, 1809, in Hardin
county, Kentucky. My parents were both
born in Virginia, of undistinguished fami-
lies— second families — perhaps I should
say. My mother, who died in my tenth
year, was of a family of the name of Hanks,
some of whom now reside in Adams, and
others in Macon counties, Illinois. My
paternal grandfather, Abraham Lincoln,
emigrated from Rockingham county, Va.,
to Kentucky about 1781 or '2, where, a
year or two later, he was killed by In-
dians, not in battle, but by stealth, when
he was laboring to open a farm in the for-
est. His ancestors, who were Quakers,
went to Virginia from Berks county,
Pennsylvania. An effort to identify them
with the New England family of the
same name ended in nothing more definite
than a similarity of Christian names in both
families, such as Enoch, Levi, Mordecai,
Solomon, Abraham, and the like.

" My father, at the death of his father,
was but six years of age, and he grew up
literally without education. He removed
from Kentucky to what is now Spencer
county, Indiana, in tny eighth year. We
reached our new home about the time the
State came into the Union. It was a wild
region, with many bears and other wild
animals still in the woods. There I grew
up. There were some schools, so-called,
but no qualification was ever required of a
teacher, beyond "readin', writin' and
cipherin'" to the rule of three. If a
straggler, supposed to understand Latin
happened to sojourn in the neighborhood,

EARLY SETTLERS OF

he was looked upon as a wizard. There
was absolutely nothing to excite ambition
for education. Of course, when I came
of age, 1 did not know much; still, some-
how I could read, write, and cipher to the
rule of three, but that was all. I have
not been to school since. The little ad-
vance I now have upon this store of
education, I have picked up from time to
time, under the pressure of necessity.

" I was raised to farm work, which I
continued till I was twenty-two. At
twenty-one I came to Illinois, and passed
the first year in Macon county. Then I
got to New Salem, at that time in Sanga-
mon, now in Menard county, where I
remained a year, as a sort of clerk in a
store. Then came the Black Hawk war,
and I was elected a captain of volunteers,
a success which gave me more pleasure
than any I have had since. I went
the campaign, was elated; ran for the
legislature the same year — 1832 — and was
beaten, the only time I ever have been
beaten by the people. The next, and
three succeeding biennial elections, I was
elected to the legislature. I was not a
candidate afterwards. During this legis-
lative period I had studied law, and
removed to Springfield to practice it. In
1846, I was once elected to the lower
house of congress; was not a candidate
for re-election. From 1849 to 1854, both
inclusive, practiced law more assiduously
than ever before. Always a Whig in
politics, and generally on the Whig elec-
toral tickets, making active canvasses; I
was losi:;g interest in politics, when the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise
aroused me again. What I have done
since then is pretty well known.

" If any personal description of me is
thought desirable, it may be said, I am in
height, six feet four inches, nearly, lean in
flesh, weighing on an average one hun-
dred and eighty pounds, dark complexion,
with coarse black hair and gray eyes; no
other marks or brands recollected.
" Yours, very truly,

"A. LINCOLN."
Hon. J. W. Fell.

During the war to suppress the rebel-
lion, as is well known, Mr. Lincoln was
frequently waited upon by delegations
from religious bodies. Among others, a

large number of women belonging to the
Society of Friends gave him a call. One
of their number, the widow of Joseph John
Gurney, a distinguished Quaker preacher
of England, wrote him a letter. The fol-
lowing is Mr. Lincoln's reply. It will be
highly prized, because it contains such em-
phatic and unequivocal expressions of his
belief in the overruling providence of
God.

" EXECUTIVE MANSION*, )
" WASHINGTON, Sept. 4, 1864. \

" Eliza P. Gurney :

" MY ESTEEMED FRIEND — T have not
forgotten — probably ne^er si. all forjet —
the very impressive occasion when your-
self and friends visited me, on a Sabbath
forenoon, two years ago; n T has your
kind letter, written nearly a year later,
ever been forgotten. In all, it has been
your purpose to strengthen my reliance
on God. I am much indebted to the good
Christian people of this country for their
constant prayers and consolations; and to
no one of them, more than yourself. The
purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and
must prevail; though we erring mortals
may fail to accurately perceive them in ad-
vance. We hoped for a happy termina-
tion of this terrible war long before this;
but God knows best, and has ruled other-
wise. Wre shall yet acknowledge His
wisdom and our own error therein. Mean-
while, we must work earnestly in the best
light He gives us, trusting that so work-
ing still conduces to the great ends He or-
dains. Surely, He intends some great
good to follow this mighty convulsion,
which no mortal could make, and no mor-
tal could stay.

" Your people, the Friends, have had,
and are having, a very great trial. On
principle and faith, opposed to both war
and oppression, they can only practically
oppose oppression by war. In this hard
dilemma, some have chosen one horn and
some the other. For those appealing to
me on conscientious grounds, I have done,
and shall do, the best I could and can, in
my own conscience, under my oath to the
law. That you believe this, I doubt not;
and believing it, I shall still receive, for
our country and myself, your earnest
prayers to our Father in Heaven.
" Your sincere friend,

"A. LINCOLN."

SANGA.UOJV COL NTT.

459

LINDLEY, SIMON, was born
Jan. 20, 1769, in Orange county, N. C.
Anna Standley was born Feb. 3, 1766, in
Kent county, Del. Her parents moved to
Pendleton District, S. C. Simon Lindley
and Anna Standley were there married,
July 14, 1789. Their home was in
Orange county, N. C., until four children
were born, and they moved to Christian
county, Ky., wheie they had three child-
ren. In the fall of 1807 they moved to
Madison county, 111., and the next spring
to what is now Bond county. All was
quiet there for about three years, but in
the latter part of 1811 the Indians became
hostile, and began to murder the settlers
and steal property. Mr. Lindley was
warned by a very old, whitehaired Indian,
of the threatened danger. Then the set-
tlers united in building a fort or stockade,
about two and a half miles from where
Greenville now stands. They lived in
that fortification during the whole time
the war with Great Britain was raging.
They could not have held their ground
and provided for their families, but the
soldiers who were stationed there guarded
the men while they worked in the fields.
They lived that way four years, many of
their members being murdered. The In-
dians continued to swarm about them in
greater numbers, and they abandoned the
fort, and all went back to the vicinity of
Edwardsville, in September, 1814, and
the next spring, 1815, a treaty was made,
in consequence of which, hostilities
ceased. Mr. Lindley remained near Ed-
wardsville four or five years, and moved
to what became Sangamon county, arriv-
ing April 14, 1820, in what is now Chat-
ham township. The farm is now owned
by the heirs of Benjamin F. Darnielle.
Of his seven children —

JOHN, born Jan. 23, 1791, in North
Caroliaa, married twice, and died in Mad-
ison county, Illinois.

JOSEPH, born Jan. 7, 1793, in
North Carolina, married in Bond county
to Nancy Hicks, moved to Sangamon
county, then to Tennessee, and from there
to Freestone county, Texas.

Af ART", born May 11, 1795, married
George Bridges, raised a family, and died
in St. Clair county.

SARAH, born Dec. 4, 1797, married
Allen Bridges. They raised a family and
live in Polk county, Mo.

SIAfON, Jun.y born August 16, 1799,
in Christian county, Ky., came to Sanga-
mon county with his parents, went to
South America when a young man, mar-
ried there, and has not been heard of for
several years.

ELIZABETH, born Sept. 3, 1803,
in Christian county, Ky., married July 30,
1826, in Sangamon county, to Samuel
Harbour. See his name.

ANNA, born May 9, 1806, married
April 13, 1826, to Thomas Greenwood.
•See his name.

Simon LinJley died August 30, 1827,
and his widow died Jan. 23, 1849, both
near where they settled in 1820.

Simon Lindley was a minister of the
Regular, or Predestinarian Baptist church.
In July, 1821, himself and wife, John
Bridges and wife, united with others for
the purpose of keeping up worship, and
on the second Saturday in June, 1826,
the Liberty Baptist church, on Lick creek,
was organized by Elders William Crow,
Thomas Ray and Micajah Rowland, and
brethren Austin Sims and Peter Robeson.
There were thirteen members: —

Males.

John Morris,
John Hilyard,
Wm. D. Morris,
Levi Harbour,
Simon Lindley,
Joseph Hilyard,
Morris Hilyard.

Females.

Ruth Greenwood,
Elizabeth Hilyard,
Clarissa Huffmaster,
Polly Harbour,
Polly Hilyard,
Clarinda Morris.

The church worships now hi a school
house in Curran township, and is under
the pastoral care of Elder C. C. Pur-
vines.

Mr. Lindley was a very eccentric man,
and many anecdotes are related of him,
both 'in connection with his preaching
and in private life. Mr. Lindley was
also a man of liberal education. He was
educated at some college in Philadelphia,
but whether he was a graduate or not, I
cannot say. After the town of Spring-
field was laid out, there was a discrepancy
between the surveyors of that and the
former town of Calhoun, and Mr. Lind-
ley was called on to re-survey it and har-
monize the differences, which he did, to
the satisfaction of all parties.

460

EARLY SETTLERS OF

LINDSAY, JOHN, was born in
Virginia, and married Sophia Lanterman.
See his name in Omissions.

LINDSAY, ISAAC, born May
16, 1819, in Franklin county, Penn., was
married in Jacksonville, 111., in 1841, to
Mary Dyer. Their four children all died
young, and Mrs. Mary Lindsay died in
the spring of 1850. Mr. Lindsay was
married in Jan , 1851, in Springfield, to
Mercy Elder, a n-.itive of Kentucky. See
Elder family. They had three children,
and all died young. Mrs. Mercy Lindsay
died Jan. 27, 1858. Mr. L. was married
in Springfield, 111., to Mrs. Sarah Rogers,
whose maido-i lame was Elder, a sister of
his second wuc. They have five living
children, MARTHA A., FRANK R.,
WILLIAM E., ADA and IDA, twins,
who all live with their parents.

Isaac Lindsay was a bricklayer by trade,
and was for about seven years, from
1858, clerk in the recorder's branch of the
circuit court of Sangamon county. He
was assessor and collector for the city two
years — 1856 and 1857. He and his family
reside in Springfield, Illinois.

LINDSAY, MORRIS, born
June 30, 1818, in Franklin county, Penn.
He came to Springfield with his brother,
Isaac, in 1836, and was married April 2,
1844, at Salisbury, to Sarah Miller, a
daughter of Solomon Miller. They had
four children, two of whom died young.
Of the other two —

SOLOMON L., born March 12, 1846,
in Sangamon county, was married Jan. 8,
1872, in Arkansas, to Dora Moore, a na-
tive of Tennessee. They have two child-
ren, MORRIS W. and ALBERT
CHARLES, and reside in Springfield,
Illinois.

ALLIE, born Aug. 26, 18^0, in San-
gamon county, and resjdes with her
mother.

Morris Lindsay was appointed postmas-
ter, at Springfield, in 1858, and served
until 1861. He also served several terms
as a member of the city council of Spring-
field. In 1863 or '4 he moved to Carbon-
dale, 111., where he died March 25, 1869.
His remains were brought to Springfield,
and interred in Oak Ridge Cemetery. His
widow and daughter reside Hn Carbondale,
Jackson countv, Illinois.

LITTLE, SAMUEL, born in
1776, in Virginia. He was married in the

year 1797, in Fleming county, Ky., to
Mary Newcomb. They had nine children
in Kentucky, and moved to St. Clair
county, Illinois, where two of their child-
ren died. Mr. Little moved with his fam-
ily to what became Sangamon county, ar-
riving in 1819 or 1820, and settled two and
one-half miles southwest of the present
State House. Six of their children mar-
ried and raised families, and all except one
has died, and their children have moved
away from the county. The only remain-
ing one —

SAMUEL N., born March 1,'iSq, in
Fleming county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon countv, Jan. 29, 1843, to Eliza M.
Morgan. They have seven children —
WILLIAM H., born March 16, 1845,
near Springfield, married, Oct. 31, 1872,
to Delia Pirkins. Wm. H. Little was
killed Aug. 16, 1873, by an accident on
the Chicago & Alton railroad, at Sag
Bridge, near Chicago, and interred in Oak
Ridge Cemetery. His widow resides
with her father, R. Pirkins. Sec his
name. GERSHOM J., born Feb. 19,
1847, near Springfield, married, Jan. 2,
1867, to Nellie Crafton. She died Jan.
14, 1868. G. J. Little was married, Oct.
27, 1874, to Maggie E. Conner, who was
born June 22, 1851, in Springfield. G.
J. Little is of the firm of S. N. Little &.
Sons, and resides in Springfield. SAN-
FORD H., born June 21, 1849, lives in
Springfield, and is of the firm of S. N.
Little & Sons. HARRIET C., born
Dec. 12, 1853, near .Springfield, married
Feb. 14, 1867, to John W. Crafton. They
had one child, WILLIAM H., who died in
his third year. Mr. and Mrs. Crafton re-
side in Springfield. MARY E., born May
10, 185 1, died Oct. 30, 1855. MINERVA
C., died Aug. i, 1857. FANNIE Z.,
born Jan. S, 1869, resides with her parents.
Samuel N. Little owns and resides on
the farm where his father settled in 1819,
and received the title from the United
States government soon after it came into
market, in 1823. He is also engaged in
the livery business, in Springfield, with
his sons, Gershom J. and Sanford H.,
under the firm name of S. N. Little &
Sons.

Of his parents — Mrs. Mary Little died
in July, 1823, and Samuel Little died Jan.
i, 1847, both near Springfield.

SANG AM ON COUN7Y.

461

LITTLE. THOMAS S., born
March 16, 1820, in Northampton, Mass.,
came to Springfield, 111., Aug., 1838,
where he was married, May 30, 1844, to
Ann M. Watson. They had five child-
ren, two of whom died in infancy. Of
the other three children —

MARIA W., born Jan. 27, 1846, in
Springfield, was married, Aug. 7, 1865, to
Samuel A. Slemmons, who was born Jan.
28, 1842, at Cadiz, Harrison county, Ohio,
and came to Springfield in 1859. Mr.
and Mrs. Slemmons have three children,
GEORGE B., ELLA L. and ALICE
H. Mr. Slemmons was a member of an
independent military company, of which
John Cook was captain, and it was part of
a regiment of which E. E. Ellsworth was
Colonel. * In connection with that com-
pany, Mr. Slemmons volunteered on the
first call for 75,000 men, in April, 1861,
but being under age he was prevented by
his father from going. He returned to
Ohio, in 1862, and became Lieutenant of
Co. E, 88th Ohio Inf., a three months
regiment, in whic,h he served four and
one-half months. During that time he
was appointed Major of a three years
regiment, but could not serve on account
of a crippled arm. He came back to
Springfield, and engaged in business.
Mr. Slemmons was one of the original
projectors of the Springfield Spice and
Hominy Mills, and aided in building and
running the same, as a member of the
firm of Conkling, Slemmons & Co. He
went out of the firm in April, 1876, and
is now — July 1876 — residing in Spring-
field.

ELLEN C., born Dec. 14, 1847, ^n
Sprin Afield, was married, Oct. 20, 1870,
to William O. Converse, who was born
June 30, 1840, in Painesville, Lake
county, Ohio, and was brought
with the family of his father, Henry Con-
verse, to Springfield, in 1846. Mr. and
Mrs. Converse have two daugh-
ters, NIANA and , and reside

in Springfield. Mr. Converse is a
farmer, and trader in stock, land, etc. He
united with A. M. Garland, who first
suggested it, in obtaining a pledge from
the board of supervisors of Sangamon
county, that they would lease the old poor
house grounds to an Agricultural Society.
Mr. Garland and Mr. Converse induced
others to unite with them in organizing

the present Sawgamon county Agricultural
Society, and securing the lease for the
grounds for twenty-five years — from 1872.
Wm. O. Converse served the society four
years as secretary, and is now — 1876 — its
treasurer, elected for two years.

EMMA J3., born March 2, 1850, in
Springfield, was married, Dec. 9, 1869, to
Charles E. Blake. They have one child,
PAUL, and i-eside at Anoka, Minn. He
is cashier and manager of the Anoka
Bank.

Thomas S. Little was in business as a
merchant tailor and clothier, from 1844 to
the spring of 1876, when he retired
in consequence of impaired health, and
resides in Springfield.

LOCK, JOHN was born Jan. 10,
1799, in the town of Farrisburg, Addi-
son county, Vermont. Maria Jaquays
was born Aug. 31, 1802, in the same
county. They were there married Jan.
5, 1820, had three living children in
Vermont, and moved to Essex county, N.
Y., where two children were born. The
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving May 2, 1832, at Rochester,
where they had six children. Two died
young. Of their nine children —

HANNAH, born Jan. 13, 1821, in
Vermont, was twice married in Sanga-
mon county, and died there Nov. 27, 1844.

JONA'THAN, born Feb. 3, 1823, in
Vermont, died in Sangamon county July
8, 1838.

MER C Y, born June 4, 1825, died in
her eleventh year.

RACHEL S., born May 30, 1829, in

.New York, married in Sangamon county

Aug. 17, 1852, to Isaac May. They have

a family, and live near Greenville, Dade

county, Missouri.

ADELINE E., born Aug. 3, 1831, in
Essex county, N. Y., married in Sanga-
mon county Nov. 19, 1853, to Samuel
Grubb. See his name.

SYLVESTER, born June 14, 1834,
in Sangamon county, died in his four-
teenth year.

WILLIAM H., born Aug. 16, 1840,
in Sangamon county, married Nov. 28,
1861, to Amanda M. Delay. They had
two children, LOLA and WILLIAM
H., Jun., and Mr. Lock died Jan. 25, 1871.
His family live in Rochester.

VILROY, born Nov. 21, 1843, died in
in his fourth vear.

462

EARLT SETTLERS OF

JOHN, Jun., born Feb. 26, 1848, in
Rochester, lives with his parents.

John Lock and his wife have been living
together nearly fifty-six years, and reside
in Rochester. May 3, 1832, the day after
his arrival, and before he had unloaded
his wagon, he was notified to appear at
Springfield on the morning' of the 4th, to
stand draft to fight the Indian under
Black Hawk. He was there in time, but
more men had volunteered than had been
called for, and his services were not want-
ed. There was no corn in Sangamon
county at the time, and Mr. Lock went
thirty miles below St. Louis, paid five
dollars for ten bushels, and hauled it home
for seed, and bread for his family. He
has known corn to sell for four dollars per
bushel, and has seen equally as good corn
sell at eight cents per bushel, a difference
of fifty fold. Mr. Lock donated timber
and labor to aid in building the 'first
steam mill in Rochester. After it was
built, the proprietors refused to grind for
toll, and demanded twenty-five cents per
bushel for grinding. Mr. Lock offered
two bushels for grinding one, but the
miller refused. The price of corn was
ten cents. He was forced to the necessity
of hunting a purchaser for two and one-
half bushels, take the twenty-five cents
and pay it for grinding one bushel. The
usual toll is one-eighth of the grain.

LOCKRIDGE, JOHN, was
born about 1758, in Augusta county, Va.
He enlisted about 1775, in the revolution-
ary army, and was in the battles of Guil-
ford Court House, the Cowpens, and
many others. For his services he drew a
pension to the end of his life. Mr. Lock-
ridge married in his native county, and
moved to Montgomery county, Ky., raised
a large family, and came to Sangamon
county, 111., with his son, William A., ar-
riving in 1835. He died in 1848. He
had four sons and four daughters, who
came to Sangamon county, nafaely —

JOSEPH H., born Dec. 10, 1791,
in Montgomery county, Ky., was mar-
ried there to Martha Cassity. They
moved to Sangamon county in 1835, in
what is now Ball township, where he
died. His widow married James Phelps,
and lives in Auburn.

ELIJAH, born Dec. 19, 1806, in
Montgomery county, Ky., married in
Kentucky, to Lavina Cassity, and moved

to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in 1835,
in what is now Ball township. They
had eight children, namely: ELIZA-
BETH A. married Charles Bridges,
moved to Missouri, and Mr. Bridges died
there. JOSEPH W. married Oct. i,
1848, to Eleanor Haley. They had two
living children, EDWARD and JULIETTE,
who live with their mother. Joseph W.
Lockridge died Dec. 27, 1865, in Sanga-
mon county. His widow married July
19, 1867, to George Young, who was
born November, 1832, in Pittsylvania
county, Va. They had three children,

WILLIAM E., LUELLA and THOMAS M.,

and live half a mile north of Pawnee.
JOHN married Elizabeth A. Hart. They
have two children, ROSE and ROBERT, and
live in Henry county, Mo. He served
three years in an Illinois regiment, nine
months of the time in Libby prison, and
came -as near starving to death as it was
possible to do, and live. FRANCIS M.,
served three years in an Illinois regiment,
and was honorably discharged. He lives
in Henry county, Mo. ROBERT en-
listed in an Illinois regiment, and died in
the army. MARTHA J. married Henry
Kitch. They moved to Missouri, where
he died, and she married again. MARY
married James Mollihorn. They have
three children, AMBROSE, CORDELIA and
LILLIE BELLE, and live three miles north-
west of Pawnee. AMANDA L. mar-
ried John Forahner, and lives in Missouri.
Elijah Lockridge died in Ball township,
about 1856. His widow lives with her
children, in Missouri.

LOCKRIDGE, WILLIAM

A., was born Jan. 17, 1810, in Montgom-
ery county, Ky. He was married there
to Sally Moore, June 3, 1830. They had
two children in Kentucky, and moved in
company with his father, John Lockridge,
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct. 22,
1835, in what is now Ball township,
where five children were born. Of their
seven children —

BURRILLA TV., born June n, 1832,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, to James M. Lewis. See his name.

JULIA A., born in Kentucky, mar-
ried to Napoleon Lloyd. They have
three children, WILLIAM, ROBERT
and HATTIE,and reside at Mt. Sterling,
Kentucky.

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463

MART E., born March 14, 1836,111
Sangamon county, married William Gard-
ner. They reside in Chatham, Illinois.

MARGARET, born in Sangamon
county, is an invalid, and resides with her
sister, Mrs. Ingels.

SARAH J3., born Jan. i, 1841, in
Sangamon county, married - Nathaniel
Ingels, who was born Jan. i, 1837, near
Paris, Ky. T.hev have five living child-
ren, SARAH P"., HENRY G., FRED-
ERICK L., JOHN A. and JESSIE N.
WILLIAM B. died, aged two years.
They live in Ball township, two and a
half miles southeast of Chatham, Illinois.

WILLIAM 7?., born in Sangamon
county, married April 22, 1869, to
Mary Nuckolls. They had one child,
CHARLES W., and reside adjoining
Pawnee on" the north. William R. Lock-
ridge is a farmer, stock-raiser and mer-
chant.

JOHN R., born in Sangamon county,
married to Sarah J. Headley. They have
one child, JAMES W., and live in Ball
township, near Sugar creek Cumberland
Presbyterian church, on the farm settled
by Joseph Dodds in 1818.

Mrs. Sally Lockridge died Nov. 23,
1857, 'n Sangamon county, and Wm. A.
Lockridge was married June 10, 1858, to
Amanda E. Goodbar, who was born in
Kentucky, June 2, 1826. They have
three children, EMMA, RACHEL L.
and MART M.

Wm. A. Lockridge resides in Ball
township, two and a quarter miles south
of Chatham, 111. *j When Mr. Lockridge
came to Sangamon county the timber
land was all taken, and it was almost im-
possible to buy it at any price. Prairie
land could be obtained for two or three
dollars per acre, and at the same time he
has known timber land to sell as high as
eighty dollars per acre. Timber land
equally good can now be bought for
forty dollars per acre, while the prairie
land that was then so cheap sells from
forty to sixty dollars per acre. Railroads,
coal and the hedge plant have wrought the
change. Mr. Lockridge says he raised
wheat, tramped it out with horses, hauled
it ninety miles to St. Louis, and sold it
for thirty seven and a half cents per
bushel. It required ten days to make the
trip, and a full four-horse load would
bring about seventeen dollars and fifty

cents. The best he could do in selling
net pork in Springfield was one dollar
and a quarter per hundred pounds, and
half of that in trade at very high prices.
Mr. Lockridge is now one of .the most
extensive farmers in the county.

LOCKRIDGE, JOHN, was
born July 17, 1799, either in Montgomery
or Fayette county, Kentucky. He was
married in Kentucky Sept. 3, 1811, to
Margy Killough, and moved in 1826 to
Owen county, Indiana, and from there to
Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct.
20, 1838. Of their eight children —

NANCY, born in Kentucky, married
in Indiana to John M. Hart, and died,
leaving a family in Putnam county,
Indiana.

JOHN MILTON, born Jan. 15,
1814, in Montgomery county, Kentucky,
cane to Sangamon county, near Auburn,
in 1837, one year before his father c.me.
He was married July 2, 1840, to Jane
Nuckolls. They had five living children
in Sangamon county. ROBERT H.,
the fourth one, born Jan. 17, 1850, mar-
ried May 3, 1871, to Ella Hough, who
was born July 22, 1853, in Lewis county,
New York. They live two and a half
miles southeast of Chatham. The other
four, JOHN W., JAMES M., AN-
DREW H. and CHARLES E., live
with their parents. J. Milton Lockridge
and family reside one mile west of Au-
burn, Illinois. Mr. Lockridge has served
several years as a member of the Board
of Supervisors of Sangamon county

JAMES W., born in Kentucky, mar-
ried Margaret A. Bridges. She died, and
he married Jane Foster. They reside at
Elkhart, I ogan county, Illinois. He has
children by both marriages.

MARGARET married Alexander
Smith, and died, leaving seven children
in Chatham.

MATTHEW K. married Pauline
Landers. She died, and he lives in Cali-
fornia.

JOSEPH H. married Mrs. Elizabeth
Frazier, whose maiden name was Wal-
lace, and live in Auburn, Illinois.

ELIZABETHm*\v\z<\ Madison Cur-
vey, and died without children.

LOUISA married Franklin Steele,
and lives in Owen county, Indiana.

John Lockridge died in Oregon Sept.
20, 1852, having left his family in Sanga-

EARLY SETTLERS OF

mom county, expecting to return. His
widow, Mrs. Margy Lockridge, died in
Montgomery county, Illinois, November 2,
1864.

LOCKRIDGE, ELIZA-
BETH, born in Kentucky, married
Alexander Cassity. See his name.

LOCKRIDGE, ISABEL K.,
born July 4, 1815, in Kentucky, married
William Bridges. See his name.

LOCKRIDGE, MARGA-
RET, married James Bridges. See his
name.

LpCKRIDGE, REBECCA,
born in Kentucky, married George Bridg-
es. See his name.

LO NG N I N E*.— In the State Leg-
islature of Illinois that assembled at Van-
dalia, in December, 1836, and continued
until March, 1837, the delegation from
Sangamon county was composed of two
Senators and seven members of the
House of Representatives. They were
the most remarkable body of men from
any one county, for the reason that they ^
were much taller than the average of
human stature. Some of them were a
little less and some a little more than six
feet, but their combined height was ex-
actly fifty-four feet. They were then,
and are yet, spoken of as the "Long
Nine."

The names of those in the Senate
were Archer G. Herndon and Job Fletch-
er; in the House of Representatives,
Abraham Lincoln, Ninian W. Edwards,
John Dawson, Andrew McCormack, Dan
Stone, William F. Elkin and Robert L.
Wilson. One or two were as tall, but
none taller, than Abraham Lincoln, who
it will be seen, by reference to his Auto-
biography, could add four inches to be di-
vided among those who fell below the
average. A sketch of each of them will

•

be found in their appropriate places, in
the alphabetical arrangement.

The settlement of the State began in
the southern part, and Kaskaskia was
made the capital of the territory because
it was more easy of access to a majority of
the inhabitants than any other point. Set-
tlements moved northward, and Vandalia
was created for the purpose of making it
the capital. A feeling prevailed at the
time that it would again be necessary to
move further north. For that reason a

clause was inserted in the law establishing
the capital at Vandalia, that it should not
be moved from there for twenty years.

Before the expiration of that time, it
Was everywhere conceded that the capi-
tal must again be moved north, Spring-
field was early a candidate, and the mem-
bers of the legislature from Sangamon
county were chosen with direct reference
to that subject. The people of Illinois
were at that time nearly insane on the
subject of internal improvements. The
previous session of the legislature com-
menced chartering railroad companies, but
the session of 1836-' 7 was devoted largely
to business of that kind. The capital
stock authorized to joint stock companies,
chiefly railroads, clown to the end of the
session of i836-'7, was twelve millions of
dollars. The internal improvement act ol
Feb. 27, 1837, appropriated ten million,
two hundred thousand dollars, directly
from the State treasury; more than nine
millions of that sum was for railroads. At
the same session private laws were enact-
ed, chartering joint stock companies with
authorized capital stock, to the amount of
nearly eight millions, making an aggre-
gate of nearly thirty millions of dollars
involved in efforts to legislate railroads in-
to existence, before the business of the
country would justify it.

In order to accomplish this legislation,
a great amount of what is understood
among politicians as "log rolling," was
done. That is, you help me to get my pet
scheme through, and I will help you.
The "Long Nine" did not ask much for
their section in the way of internal im-
provements, but they never lost an op-
portunity to make a vote for the removal
of the capital to Springfield. It is only
surprising that, with such opportunities,
they did not accomplish more. It will be
seen, by reference to the forty-third
page, that there were seven candidates
for the location, and that on fhe first ballot
Springfield received thirty-five of the one
hundred and twenty rone votes cast, and
continued to gain until the fourth ballot,
when she received seventy-three of the
one hundred and eight votes cast. It
was thus decided that Springfield was to
be the future capital of the State, and as
surely determined that the men who se-
cured that result should ever after be
known as the "Long Nine."

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465

LONG, THOMAS, was born
May 6, 1775, in Nelson county, Ky.; went
to Caldvvell county, married there Feb. 4,
1819, to Annis Hurlbut, who was born in
Vermont Feb. 14, 1801. They had three
living children in Kentucky, and moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving April
19, 1824, seven miles south of Spring-
field, where three children were born, and
they moved to Rochester, in the same
county, where they had two children. Of
their nine children —

MATTHE IV E., born June 12, 1820,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-
ty Feb. 4, 1844, to Eliza Thompson,
daughter of General Lewis Thompson.
Mr. Long moved to Taylorville in the
spring of 1850. Mrs. Eliza Long died
Nov., 1857, in Taylorville, and he was
married July 4, 1861, to Mary Sattley.
Mr. Long was elected Justice of the
Peace in 1869, and is now serving his
second term. Matthew E. Long and
wife reside in Taylorville, Illioois.

JOHN H., born Aug. 26, 1822, in
Kentucky, died March I, 1841, in Sanga-
mon county.

JAMES G., born Dec. 8, 1824, mar-
ried Feb. 3, 1857, in Washington, D. C.,
to Virginia Stone. Tney had one child,
VIRGINIA. Mr. Long was Sheriff of
Menard county two terms, after which he
obtained a clerkship in the pension office,
and served sixteen years. He was then
elected and served one term in the legis-
lature of the District of Columbia. Mrs.
Virginia Long died Sept. 15, 1860, in
Washington, D. C. Mr. Long and
daughter reside there.

THOMAS W., born March 8, 1830,
in Sangamon county, married Oct. 19,
1854, to Mary Trotter, who was born
Aug. 6, 1835. See Trotter family. They
had one child, JAMES E., and Mrs.
Long died March 21, 1856. T. W. Long
was married May 15, 1864, to Harriet
Logan, a native of Ohio. They had one
child, FLORA B., and Mrs. Long died
Jan. 6. 1871. Mr. Long was Deputy
Sheriff of Christian county in 1863 and
'64, and is now keeping the Long House
in Tavlorville, Illinois.

GEORGE W., born March 3, 1833,
in Sangamon county, married in Taylor-
ville, June 22, 1852, to Sarah J. Stockdale,
a native of Kentucky. They had one
child, WILLIAM F., and Mrs. Sarah

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Long died April 2, 1861. Mr. Long
was married in 1871, to Millie Tickle, a
native of New York State. They have
one child, FLORENCE E., and reside
in Taylorville, Illinois.

ELIZABETH A., born Aug. 27,
1835, in Sangamon county, married in
Taylorville, Oct. 2, 1861, to Charles A.
Manners, who was born Aug. 2, 1827, in
Somerset county, New Jersey. His
mother was a Stout, a descendant of
"Penelope." See Stout family. Her own
name was Penelope, also. Mr. Manners
came to Christian county, and settled in
Taylorville, July, 1851. He was county sur-
veyor from 1852 to '54, and then was ap-
pointed Government surveyor in Kansas
and Nebraska, and was there from 1855 *°
'60. He was the*n elected sheriff, in 1862, in
Christian county for one term, since which
time he has been engaged in the construc-
tion of railroads and fanning. They have
two children, FRANCES C. and TOM,
who reside with their parents, in Taylor-
ville, Illinois.

BENJAMIN F. and FRANCIS
M., twins, born Oct. 21, 1837, in Roch-
ester, Sangamon county.

BENJAMIN F. married in Taylor-
ville, April 17, 1862, to Eliza Rice, of
Kentucky. They have one child, VIR-
GINIA, and reside in Taylorville.

FRANCIS M. was Captain of Co.
G, 4ist 111. Inf., was promoted to Major,
at Memphis, in 1862. Was wounded at
Jackson, Miss., July 12, 1863, from which
he died the sixteenth of the same month.

Thomas Long was Major in the Black
Hawk war — first campaign. He left
Springfield as Captain, and was elected
Major, at Beardstown, and commanded
what was known as Long's Odd Batalion.
He died July 13, 1875, in Taylorville.
His widow still resides there — 1876.

LOGAN, JAMES M., born
Sept. 22, 1815, in Bourbon county, Ky.
He came to Springfield in May, 1840, and
was married April, 27, 1843, near Roches-
ter, to Elizabeth W. Bowling. She was
born Sept. 22, 1818. They had five
children, two of whom died young.

NANCTM., born March 31,1845, in
Springfield, married Jan. 2, 1868, to Sam-
uel F. Ridgeway. See fits n<~me.

JAMES C. and COLUMBIA J.,
twins, were born June 2, 1848, in Spring-
field.

466

EARLT SETTLERS OF

JAMES C. was married Dec. 3, 1873,
in Marys v Hie, California, to Libbie Wil-
bur. They have one child, JAMES W.,
and reside in Oroville,--Butte county, Cali-
fornia.

COLUMBIA J. was married in
Springfield Dec. 7, 1871, to Isaac C.
Preston, of Maryland. They live in Es-
sex, Page county, Iowa.

James M. Logan resides in Springfield.

LOGAN, STEPHEN T., was
born Feb. 24, 1800, in Franklin county,
Ky. His parents moved to Lincoln
county HI 1802. Stephen T. attended
school at Frankfort, and became a clerk
in the office of the Secretary of State,
under Martin D. Hardin, the father of
Col. John J. Hardin, who fell at the bat-
tle of Buena Vista, Mexico, in 1846.
Although Stephen T. Logan was but
thirteen years old at the time, it so hap-
pened that in the discharge of his duties
he issued all the commissions to the officers
under Governor and Gen. Shelby in his
campaign to the northern frontier in the
war of 1812. The office of the Secretary
of State was kept in the third story of the
capitol, which was burned soon after, and
S. T. Logan came very near being burned
with it. In 1817 he went to Glasgow,
Ky., studied law and practiced there.
He was married in Glasgow, in June,
1823, to America T. Bush, who was born
there in 1806. They had four children in
Glasgow, two of whom died young. Mr.
Logan moved his family to Springfield,
111., arriving May 16, 1832. They had
four children in Springfield. Their chil-
dren were two sons and four daughters.
Both sons and two daughters are dead.

Mrs. America T. Logan died Feb. 24,
1868, and Stephen T. Logan resides in
Springfield. He has lived in the same
house forty years.

Stephen T. Logan was elected Judge
of a circuit that included about one-fourth
of the State. After serving a short time,
he resigned in 1837. He was again elect-
ed, in 1839, without his consent, but re-
sigited in a few weeks, both times because
he could not live on the salary, and could
do better by private practice. Judge
Logan served four terms in the State
Legislature, and was a member of the
State Constitutional Convention of 1847.
early in life he established a reputation
as one of the most able lawyers in the

country, and long enjoyed a lucrative
practice. He retired several years ago,
and is now in his seventy-seventh year.
He was at one time a partner with Abra-
ham Lincoln. Success never affected him
injuriously. His whole life has been
plain and unostentatious.

LOGS DON, JOSEPH, was born
about 1780, in Madison county, Kv. He
was there married to a Miss Simmons.
They had several children born in Ken-
tucky, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in 1824, in what is now Ball
township, near where St. Bernard church
now stands. In 1832 or '33, he moved
his family to Missouri, and from there to
Texas. He died in 1848 on his road
from Texas to California. He is partic-
ularly remembered in the vicinity of St.
Bernard church from the fact that the first
religious services ever conducted by a
Catholic priest in Sangamon county was
held at his house, in 1829.

LOOSE, JACOB G., born about
1812, in Washington county, Penn., and
came to Springfield, 111., in 1836 or '7.
He was married in Springfield, Dec. 18,
1845, to Elizabeth lies. They had ten
children in and near Springfield, three of
whom died young. Ot the other seven
children —

S ALL IE C., born Dec. 25, 1848, in
Springfield, was married, Jan. 9, 1865, to
Junius D. Crabb, a native of Harrison
county, Ohio. They have five children,
and reside adjoining Springfield on the
south.

JESSIE V., born Nov. 2, 1850, in
Springfield, was married there, Feb. 7,
1872, to Dr. Jacob S. Price, who was born
in Kentucky. They have two children,
and reside in Springfield, Illinois.

JOSEPH /., 'FRANK E., GEO.

PAS FIELD, ROBERT D. and
ELIZABE7^H;\\-\z five latter live with
their mother.

Jacob G. Loose died Nov. 4, 1874,
and his widow and children reside two
miles southwest of the State House,
Springfield, Illinois.

When Mr. Loose came to Springfield,
he first engaged as clerk in a dry goods
store, and later engaged in business on his
own account, at one time in partnership
with Col. John Williams, again with E.
B. Hawley. He afterwards purchased
land and engaged in farming and stock

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467

raising, which he continued until he be-
came the own£r of seventeen hundred
acres of land adjoining Springfield, south
and southwest. Becoming satisfied that
his land contained coal, he made arrange-
ments with Mr. P. L. Hewlett, who was
then horing for coal at Riverton, to use
his machinery, but afterwards decided not
to wait, and sent to the oil regions of
Pennsylvania, obtained a complete outfit,
and commenced boring in June, 1866. He
bored down to coal, satisfied himself that
it would pay to mine it, and commenced
sinking a shaft in September. He com-
menced taking coal from the shaft in
April, 1867, being the first shaft within
fifteen miles of Springfield to supply the
market with coal. The mine is 237 feet
deep, reaching a bed of coal five feet ten
inches in thickness. The entire cost when
first fitted up, including steam engine,
hoisting machinery, etc., was eighty thou-
sand dollars. The mine is at the junction
of the C. & A., and the T. W. # W. rail-
roads, two miles south of the State house,
and is yet owned by his heirs. This
was only the beginning 6f the develop-
ment of the underground treasures of
Sangamon county. There are now —
1876 — seven shafts in the county.

L Y MAN, JOHN, was" born Apr.
2, 1780, at Lebanon, New Hampshire.
The Lyman family in America trace their
origin to Richard Lyman, of High On-
gar, near London, England, who emi-
grated to America in 1631, and settled at
Northampton, Mass. He had three sons,
one of whom, Richard, removed to
Lebanon, N. H. He had five sons, Eben-
ezer, Thomas, David, John and Richard.
John was married in 1731 to Hannap
Burchard. They had one child, Mary,
and Mrs. Lyman died. He married in
1747 to Mary Strong. They had one
daughter and six sons. Four of their
sons, John, Abel, Elijah and Josiah,
moved to Brookfield, Vermont. Abel
had six sons, five of whom — John, Azel,
Alvan, Ezra and Cornelius — emigrated to
Sangamon county, Illinois. It was the
latter John whose name heads this sketch.
He was married Nov. 13, 1804, at Lebanon,
New Hampshire, to Martha Storrs, a
native of that town. They made their
home at Randolph, Vermont, until they
had two living children. He was, mean-
time, privately studying medicine, and

took his family to his father's house at
Brookfield, while he attended medical
lectures at Dartmouth college. Having
completed his studies about 1808, he com-
menced practice at New Haven township,
Vt. During the war of 1812, he was part
of the time surgeon in the United States
army, and was stationed at Swanton, Vt.
In 1817, he removed to Williston, Vt.,
and in 1824 to Potsdam, N. Y. In. 1832
he and his brother, Azel, traveled over
the Western country; and in the fall of
1833, in company with fifty-two persons,
including his four brothers, he removed to
Sangamon county, and settled on Prairie
creek, in what is now Gardner tow nship,
nine miles northwest of Springfield.
They were eight weeks on the road, and
observed the fourth commandment by
resting every Sabbath and assembling for
divine worship, which was conducted by
Rev. Billious Pond, who fell in with the
company at Oswego, N. Y. Dr. John
Lyman and wife had eight children, three
of whom died young. Of the other
five —

HENRY P., born Aug. 10, 1805, at
Randolph, Orange coun'y, Vt., married
Aug. 7, 1833, at Madrid, St. Lawrence
county. N. Y ., to Mercy Sanders, who was
born Dec. 4, 1805, at Bethel, Windsor
county, Vt. They started soon after
marriage to Sangamon county, arriving in
the fall of 1833. They had four children
in Sangamon county, namely : CALIS-
TA M., born July 14, 1834, married
March 5, 1864, to R. C. Curtis, and re-
sides in Waverly, Illinois. JOHN
STORRS, born July 31, 1841, enlisted
Aug. 9, 1862, for three years, in Co. G,
loist 111. Inf.; served to the end of the
rebellion, and was honorably discharged
June 22, 1865, at Springfield. He was
married Sept. 13, 1870, to Mary Carrie
Happer, who was born July 26, 1849, in
Sangamon county. The} have two child-
ren, EDWARD H. and NELLIE c., and reside
one and three-quarters miles northwest
of Farmingdale — 1876. SARAH A., born
Jan. 1 6, 1844, married Aug. 15, 1865, to
Rev. Jomes D. Kerr. They have three
children, HARRY p.. JAMES M. and RALPH
c., and reside at Nebraska City, Neb.
He is pastor of the First Presbyterian
church there— 1876. GEORGE H., born
Oct. 4, 1850, married Jan. 16, 1873, to
Emelie Stewart, and resides at Carmi. 111.

468

EARLY SETTLERS OF

— July, 1876. Henry P. Lyman and his
wife reside at Farmingdale, Sangamon
county, Illinois — 1876.

HANNAH, born Sept. 16, 1807, at
Randolph, Vt., married Stephen Child.
See his name.

BENJAMIN RUSH, born March
10, 1815, at New Haven, Vt., married in
Sangamon county Dec., 1837, to Eliza
Estabrook. They had three children, and
Mr. Lyman died Feb. 16, 1847, in Sanga-
mon county. His widow married Seth
Child, and moved to Manhattan, Kansas,
taking two of her children. Her son,
LEWIS J. LYMAN, went there later,
and is now — 1876 — a practicing physician
at St. George, Pottawattomie county,
Kansas.

MARTHA, born March, 1817, mar-
ried Lewis Judd, and died Dec., 1835, in
Madison county, Illinois.

LAURA, born Jan. 14, 1819, married
Augustin Curtis, and died Aug., 1847,
at Waverly, Til., leaving one daughter,
LAURA, who married Wm. Brown,
and died Jan., 1870. Mr. Brown lives in
Waverly, Illinois.

Mrs. Martha Lyman died March 8,
1862, and Dr. John Lyman died Aug. 4,
1865, after one hour's illness. Both died
near Farmingdale, Sangamon county.

LYMAN, AZEL, was born Aug.
i, 1784, at Lebanon, Conn., and was
taken by his parents two years later, to
Brookfield, Vt. He was married in 1808,
in Randolph, Vt., to Roxana Fisk, who
was born there, Dec. 12, 1788. They
moved to Potsdam, N. Y., in 1810,
had three living children, and Mrs. Ly-
man died there, June 7, 1829. He was
married in 1830 at Potsdam, to Mary P.
Bates, who was born there, Feb. 2, 1809.
They moved to Sangamon county with
his four brothers, arriving in 1833, at
what is now Farmingdale They
had eight children, six of whom were
born in Sangamon county. Four only of
their children are living. Of his child-
ren—

AZEL S., born in New York, mar-
ried in Cincinnati, Ohio, raised a family,
and resides in New York City. He in-
vented a way of making paper from wood,
a refrigerating vessel and a historical chart,
.•ill of which are valuable.

ROXANA, married, and died in
Chicago about the time of the great fire.

MART is unmarried, and resides with
her brother, Azel S., in ^jTew York City.
She was educated in Jacksonville by Rev.
Theron Baldwin.

By the second wife—

ELLEN, born April 2, 1831, in Pots-
dam, N. Y., married in Sangamon coun-
ty, May i, 1852, to S. Simonson, who
was born March 22, 1824, in Norway.
They have one child, and reside at Green
Valley, Tazewell county, Illinois.

THERON B. married Miss Mundy,
has three children, and lives in Tallula,
Menard county.

ALMTRA, married, has two children,
and resides with her mother.

O7^TO married and resides near Green
Valley Postoffice, Tazewell county.

Azel Lyman died Jan. 3, 1873, near
Delavan, 111., and his widow resides there.
The family moved from Sangamon to
Tazewell county in 1852. Azel Lyman
was an active Sunday school worker. He
established Sunday schools in thirty-five
counties of Illinois.

LYMAN, ALVAN, born Mch.
5, 1786, at Brookfield, Vt. He was mar-
ried, February, 1813, at Royalton, Vt., to
Lucy Perrin, who was born there Dec.
22, 1790. They became acquainted in
St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and returned
to Vermont to be married. They had
two children born and died in St. Law-
rence county, N. Y., and moved with a
colony of fifty persons to Sangamon
county, arriving in the fall of 1833 near
Farmingdale. Mr. Lyman helped to haul
the silver coin from Alton to Springfield,
to establish the State Bank of Illinois.
He arrived with one of four loads of coin,
July 4, 1835. Alvan Lyman lived thirty-
three years in Sangamon county, and died
September. 1866, near Farmingdale. His
widow resides with her niece, Mrs. T. H.
Ferry, four miles southwest of Pleasant
Plains. — 1874.

LYMAN, EZRA, born Feb. 23,
1789, at Brookfield, Vt. He went to
Potsdam, N. Y., in May, 1809, and in
1811 went back to Brookfield, Vt., and
was married to Mercy Cushman. They
made their home in Potsdam, until four
children were born, one of whom, BET-
SY, died at three years of age, and the
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
in 1833, with a colony, and settled in what

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is now Gardner township. Of their child-
ren— «

EZRA C., born May 19, 1814, in
Potsdam, N. Y., married in Sangamon
county, March 28, 1840, to Caroline Van
Patten. They had eight children in
Sangamon count}'. AL V AN, horn June
33, 1842, died, aged seven years. HAN-
NAH H., born Oct. 14, 1844, married,
Nov. 15, 1863, to Thomas H. Earnest.
See his name. MARY E., born Feb. 23,
1846, married, Dec. 12, 1867, to Robert
Morris, a native of New Jersey. They
have two children, ETTIE c. and WILLIAM
E., and reside near Maroa, Macon county.
CORNELIUS, born Oct. 14, 1849.
CUSHMAN, born Oct. 21, 1851. AL-
VAN, born Jan. 31, 1853. JOHN D.,
born Oct. 7, 1856. LAURA A., born
Oct. 16, 1858; the five latter reside with
their parents, near Maroa, Macon county,
111., where they moved from Sangamon
county in 1874.

MERCT S., born May 19, 1820, in
New York, married in Sangamon county
to Jeremiah D. Low. (He was one of the
fifty-two colonists, and was a teacher.)
They had three children— CORNELIA
A. died in St. Louis, aged eleven years.
LAURA T., born July 16, 1848, and
CHARLES H., born Oct. n, 1851, re-
side with their parents, in Chicago.

ZERfVIAH H., born about 1831, is
unmarried, and resides with her brother,
Ezra C.

Ezra Lyman died, Oct. i, 1851, and
Mrs. Mercy Lyman died in 1864, both in
Sangamon county.

LYMAN, CORNELIUS, was
born August 10, 1792,511 Brookfield, Vt.
He was there married, about 1814, to
Betsy Cushman, and moved to Potsdam,
N. Y., where they had two children.
The family moved to Clinton county, and
from there to Sangamon county, 111., in
1833, as part of the colony of fifty-two
persons. After residing in Sangamon
county many years, they moved to Min-
nesota with the first emigration, and set-
tled at St. Croix Lake. Of their two
sons —

CORNELIUS S., born in 1816, in
New York, married at Chatham, Sanga-
mon county, to Emily Kincaid. They
have a large family, and reside near Still-
water, Minn.

DA VID />., born in New York, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Ann J. Han-
nah. They have a family, and reside
near Stillwater, or Marine Mills, Minn.

Cornelius Lyman died Jan. 31, 1864,
and his widow died, both near Stillwater,
Minn.

LYON, HENSON, was born
July 28, 1790, in Loudon county, Va.,
was taken by his parents about -1800 to
Clark county, Ky. Nancy McCann was
born Jan. 8, 1795, in Clark county, and
they were there married Aug. 10, 1814.
They moved to Shelbyville, where they
had nine children, and the family moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving Oct.,
1834, in what was then called Portland,
south of the Sangamon river, and seven
miles northeast of Springfield, where one
child was born. In March, 1835, they
moved to a farm, two and one-half miles
east of Springfield, Of their ten child-
ren—

HARRISON D., born May 7, 1815, in
Shelbyville, Ky., married in Sangamon
county April 6, 1^43, to Mary E. Hick-
man. They had four living children.
MARY E. lives with her parents.
WILLIAM H. married March 12, 1874,
to Sarah A. Day, a native of New York,
and resides three miles northeast of
Springfield. EUCLID F. and JAMES
F. reside with their parents, three and
one-half miles northeast of Springfield.

LUCINDA M., born Feb. 20, 1818,
in Shelbyville, Ky., married there to Clif-
ton L. Burge, and came to Sangamon coun-
ty in 1836. She died July 27, 1860, leaving
three children in Sangamon county.
GEORGE W. married in Springfield to
Martha Clarke, and lives in Ottawa, Kan-
sas. SOPHRONIA E. married jn Kan-
sas to Willis P. Broadwell, and lives in
Rockport, Boone county, Mo. C LIF-
TON L., Jun., lives in Ottawa, Kansas.

JAMES 0., born Oct. 15, 1821, in
Kentucky, died, unmarried, in Spring-
field, Feb. 5, 1860.

HESTER A.fi.,born Nov. 13, 1823,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-
ty to James S. Dawson. They have seven
children, and live near Paris, Mo.

ELIZABETH M., born June 21,
1825, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county to Morgan Mace, and live near
Ironton, Mo.

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

HAR VET M,, born Feb. 25, 1827, in
Ky., died Oct. 22, 1859, unmarried, in
Springfield.

BENJAMIN N., born Oct. 26, 1829,
in Kentucky, died, unmarried, in Spring-
field, Sept. 5, 1857.

EUCLID jF., born Sept. 27, 1830,111
Kentucky, died, unmarried, near Spring-
field, Feb. 22, 1848.

THOMAS Z., born Sept. 28, 1832, in
Kentucky, died, unmarried, at the house
of his brother, Harrison D., Aug. 16,
iS'66.

CLIFTON B., born Jan. 15, 1835, in
Sangamon county, died, unmarried, near
Springfield, Feb. 21, 1857.

Mrs. Nancy Lyon died Dec. 5, 1845,
and Henson Lyon died Sept. 29, 1867,
both near Springfield.

LYON, TALBOTT, was born in
1805, in Shelby county, Ky. He came to
the house of his uncle, Henson Lyon, in
Sangamon county, in 1834. He married
Elizabeth Fullin wider; had six children,
and she died; and he married Eliza Cor-
rell, had four children, and he died Sept.,
1845. His children are all dead, and his
widow married, and lives in Atchison,
Kansas.

LYON, ELIZABETH, sister to
Talbott, born Dec. 21, 1823, in Shelby
county, Ky., came to Sangamon county
in 1840, married George T. Hickman.
See his name.

LYNN, JAMES, was born Feb.
24, 1788, in Rowan county, N. C. In
1809 he went to Muhlenberg county, Ky.,
and when the war between the United
States and England commenced, in 1812,
he enlisted in a regiment at Russelville,
Ky., and served eighteen months. He
was severely wounded by a gunshot in
Canada. After leaving the army he re-
turned to Muhlenberg county, Ky.
Sarah DePoyster was born April 29, 1795,
in Iredell county, N. C. When she was
a child her parents moved to Butler
county, Ky. James Lynn and Sarah De-
Poyster were married Nov. 27, 1814, in
Butler county, and at once visited his pa-
rents in North Carolina, remaining one
year, and in the fall of 1815 moved to
Barren county, Ky., where they had four
children, and moved to Sangamon county,
Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1825, at the
north end of Buffalo Hart Grove. Mrs.
Lynn says that the country looked so

new and wild, it required three days to
look around and consult before they could
decide to unload their wagons. Her
husband would willingly have gone back,
but she would not consent to it. Indians
were very numerous, but never did
them any harm. They had four children
in Sangamon county. Of their eight
children —

AfARY ANN, born Nov. 7, 1816, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
Feb. 28, 1840,10 Garrett Laughlin. They
had eight children. JAMES H., born
Dec. 6, 1842, and JOHN W.,tborn Nov.
I, 1845, are unmarried, and reside with
their parents. SARAH J., born April 9,
1848, married April 9, 1870, to Alexander
McMurray, whs was born in 1843, in
county Donegal, Ireland. She died Sept.
29, 1873. IS ABEL, born March 14, 1850,
married Jan. 13, 1869, to Samuel Remines,
have two children, MINNIE and MARY.
WILSON D., GEORGE P., GAR-
RET F. and EMMA C.— the four latter
live with their parents, half a mile south-
west of Cornland, in Sangamon county.

R. PERRY, born July 20, 1819, in
Barren county, Ky., raised in Sangamon
county, married May, 1865, at Sedalia,
Mo., to Emily Dickson, a native of Ar-
kansas. They had three children ; two
died in infancy. CATHARINE lives
with her parents at the homestead settled
by his father in 1825, near Buffalo Hart
Station, Sangamon county, Illinois.

CALYOU JANE, born Feb. 2,
1822, in Kentucky, married March, 1868,
in Sangamon county, to William Beck.
They live in Vernon county, Mo., near
Appleton, Kansas.

JOHN W., born May 24, 1824, in
Barren county, Ky., raised in Sangamon
county, married Aug. 5, 1858, to Sarah
Matthews, at Decatur, although they both
lived at the time in Sangamon county.
She was born Sept. 14, 1835, in Cler-
mont . county, Ohio. They had eight
children; two died in infancy. LUE
BELLE died March 23, 1871, in her
twelfth year. The other five, ALICE A.,
SARAH F., CLARA D., MARY E.
and ADA MARIA live with their pa-
rents, two and a half miles east of Buffalo
Hart Station, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

MAR7^HA, born Dec. 29, 1826, in
Sangamon county, died Sept. 25, 1830.

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SUSAN, born Feb. 2, 1829, in San-
gamon county, married Feb., 1851, to
Lewis Dyer. They have five children,
and live in Vernon county, Mo., near
Appleton, Kansas.

SARAH P., born May 4, 1834, in
Sangamon county, married Sept., 1857,
to Monroe Lynn, have one child, LAURA,
and live at Niantic, Illinois.

MARIA K., born Sept. 22, 1836,
married Feb., 1867, to John G. Lynn, and
died June n, 1870, in Missouri.

James Lynn died March n, 1860. He
carried the musket ball received in 1814,
in Canada, in his flesh to the grave. His
widow resides — 1874 — with her son, R.
Perry Lynn, on the farm where herself
and husband settled in 1825. It is half a
mile northeast of Buffalo Hart Station.

MALLORY, VALENTINE
R., was born Dec. 16, 1798, near Paris,
Bourbon county, Ky. He was a soldier
in the war of 1812, and was at the battle
of the river Thames. Nancy Dawson
was born Sept. 20, 1802, in Fairfax coun-
ty, Va., and in 1804 was taken by her pa-
rents to Bracken county, KV. V. R.
Mallory and Nancy Dawson were there
married, June 28, 1821. Tney had three
children, and in March, 1827, united
with the Baptist church. They moved,
in company with her brother, John
Dawson (see his name) to Sangamon
county, IllinoiSj arriving Oct. 22, 1827, in
what is now Clear Lake township, where
they had six children. Of all their child-
ren —

WILLIAM A., was born Oct. 25,
1822, in Bracken county, Ky. At nine-
teen years of age he commenced teaching
school, and reading medicine, first under
Dr. John Todd, of Springfield, then at
Laporte, Ind. His first practice was at
Beloit, Wisconsin, one year. He spent
some time at Louisville Medical College,
in 1846, and Cincinnati Eclectic Medical
College, in 1847, and located at Fort Mad-
ison, Iowa, in 1848. He was married at
Denmark, five miles from Fort Madison,
Lee county, Iowa, June 6, 1848, to Susan
A.Johnson, who was born Feb. 21, 1824,
at Bedford, Penn., of Scotch parents.
Dr. Mallory and his wife had one child

in Iowa, and returned to Illinois. He
commenced practice, in Springfield, Dec.
21, 1849. In Aug., 1852, he commenced
publishing the Cnristian Sentinel* It
was sold to Eureka College, in February,
1856. March 20, 1856, he went into the
employ of the Illinois State Christian As-
sociation, preaching and teaching at Pitts-
field and Rushville, and then to the
churches in Sangamon and Menard^oun-
ties, until the beginning of the rebellion,
when he resumed the practice of medi-
cine in Clear Lake township. In June,
1862, he was commissioned, by Governor
Yates, as a recruiting officer, which cul-
minated in the organization of the ii4th
111, Inf. Dr. Mallory became Captain of
Co. C, at the organization of the regi-
ment. He served until Sept. n, 1863,
when he resigned on account of ill health.
On recovering, he resumed practice,
preaching and Sunday school work, at
Hewlett, now Riverton. Dr. Mallory
and his wife had two children in Sanga-
mon county. Of their three children —
ROLLIN V., born March 26, 1849, at
West Point, Lee county, Iowa, married
in Sangamon county, Sept., 1872, to Mi-
randa CantralK They have one child,
WILLIAM c., and live at Cantrall, Sanga-
mon county. ALEXANDER J., born
Apr, 28, 1857, and INA SUE, born March
1 6, 1863, reside with their parents, near
Riverton, and within half a mile of where
his parents settled, in 1827.

JOHN T., born April 27, 1825, in
Bracken county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, April, 1847, to Elizabeth
Myers. They had two children — CLA-
RENCE A. married Mary Strode, and
reside in Fancy Creek township. HERP
L. is unmarried, and resides in Abilene^
Kansas — 1874. Mrs. Elizabeth Mallory
died in Macon county. J. T. Mallory
married Mrs. Ellen Simpson, whose
maiden name was Holden. They have
seven children, and live near Ottawa,
Franklin county, Kansas.

ELIZABETH, born May 28, 1827,
in Bracken county, Ky., married in San-
gamon county, Jan. 8, 1857, to John C.
Anderson, who was born Dec. 2, 1833,
near Bloomington, Ind. They had three
children, ELIJAH H., CLARA M. and
JOHN C. Mr. Anderson died Dec. 6, 1860,
near Williamsville. His widow and child-
ren reside with her mother, near Riverton.

EARLT SETTLERS OF

REUBEN, born Sept. 7, 1829, in
Sangamon county, married, April, 1854,
to Mary J. Nesbitt. They have seven
children, and reside near Buffalo, Wilson
county, Kansas.

EGBERT 0., born Dec. 21, 1831, in
Sangamon county, married, August, 1858,
to Nancy A. Cantrall. They have five
children. E. O. Mallory enlisted July,
i862finCo. I, uphill. Inf., for three
years. He was elected Lieutenant at the
organization of the company, promoted
to Captain, in 1863,; served as such to1 the
end of the, rebellion, and was honorably
mustered out, at Springfield, in 1865. He
moved to Knox county, Mo., and was
elected Judge of the Comity Court of
that county, and now resides near Greens-
burg, Missouri.

ELIZA F., born Sept. 15, 1834, in
Sangamon county, married G. W. Brittin.
See his name. He died, and she married
Thomas Glascock. See his name.

NANCT D., born Sept. 17, 1836, in
Sa>ngamon county, married Henry Brittin.
See his namef

JAMES D., born May 9, 1839, in
Sangamon county, married April 25,

1861, to Frances P. Cantrall. They have
two children, HENRY E. and EDWIN
O. James D. Mallory enlisted July 25,

1862, for three years, in Co, I, 1 141!! III.
Inf., and was elected orderly Sergeant at
the organization of the company. He
was taken prisoner at the battle of Gun-
town, June 10, 1864, was in hospital one
month at Mobile, in Andersonville prison
from August I to Sept. 13; while there
he saw the inhuman rebel, Gen Winder,
fall dead, from either heart disease or ap-
oplexy. Mr. Mallory was sent to Charles-
ton and kept three weeks under the fire
of the Union artillery while the bombard-
ment was progressing. He saw a Union
soldier who tried to escape, hung by the
thumbs with a small cord and drawn up
until his feet barely touched the ground.
He was whirled around until circulation
ceased, and he was dead in fifteen minutes.
He was sent from Charleston to Florence
in Oct., 1864, remaining five months.
Rations was half a pint of corn meal,
corn and cob ground together, and half a
pint of peas. Had one small ration of
meat soon after entering, and no more
until March, 1865, when six cows heads
were sent in with the tongues and brains

taken out. He was hospital steward at
the time, and issued them himself. At
Florence a soldier had no blanket, and
when he asked for one he was tied up
and whipped one hundred lashes by a
New York rough named Stanton, under
direction of the prison authorities. The
soldier lived through it. Stanton received
some favor for it, but was watched and
killed at Annapolis, Md. When Sher-
man's army approached the prison in
March, 1865, Mr. Mallory was among
those who were too much emaciated 'to
march, and was released, paroled, and
fell into the hands of the Union soldiers.
J, D. Mallory resides in Clear Lake town-
ship, near Riverton, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

MARK C., born Jan. 16, 1844, in San-
gamon county, married Nov. 28, 1869, in
Menard county, to Emily Jordan. They
live near Olathe, Johnson county, Kansas.

Valentine R. Mallory died Nov. 21,
1864, and his widow resides on the tarm
where they settled in 1827. It is three
miles southeast of Riverton, formerly
Howlett, and previous to that Jamestovvui,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

M ALON E.— Three brothers of that
name were among the early settlers of
Sangamon county, namely:

JOHN W. was born about 1816 near
Richmond, Va. ; was taken by his parents
to McMinn county, Tenn., in 1824; went
to Brown county, 111., about 1832; was
married there to Caroline Phillips, and
moved to Springfield in 1834. They had
five children in Springfield, and moved
to St. Louis, where Mr. Malone died.
His widow resides near Mt. Sterling,
Brown county. Her son, Joseph Malone,
is a dentist, and practiced in Springfield.
He is now practicing at Mt. Sterling,
Brown county, Illinois.

JESSE y., born Jan. 21, 1818, near
Richmond, Va., moved to McMinn
county, Tenn., in 1824; came to Sanga-
mon county about 1836; went to Craw-
ford county, Mo., two years later; there
married May 3, 1842, to Harriet Patton;
returned to Sangamon county in 1846;
practiced medicine in Chatham; moved to
Waverly, 111., and died there of cholera,
July 15, 1851. His widow returned to
her friends in Missouri. Their daughter,
MARY F., married George W. Trumbo.
See his name. LAURA married Hugh

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473

M. Frazier, and lives near Monticello,
Mo. CHARLES F. is unmarried. Mrs.
Harriet Malone married in Missouri,
April 12, 1855, to Benjamin Ruggles.
Had two children, JOHN C. and WIL-
LIAM N., and Mr. Ruggles died in
1868. Mrs. Ruggles resides with her
daughter, Mrs. Trumbo, eight miles south
of Springfield, Illinois — 1874.

ALFRED C., born March 23, 1822,
near Richmond, Va., was taken by his
parents to McMinn county, Tenn., and
came to Springfield Sept. 2, 1840. He
was married Sept. 18, 1845, *° Amanda
M. Bridges. They had ten i ving child-
ren in Sangamon county, namely: WIL-
LIAM B., EMMA ]., LOUISA D.,
MARTHA E., MIRANDA E.,
AMANDA R., MARIA E., CHAR-
LES E., MARY J. C. and ALBERT
H. reside with their parents,' in the north-
east corner of Chatham township, one
and a half miles north of Chatham,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

MALTBY, JOSIAH, was born
in 1779, in Connecticut. Mary Me Arthur
was born in 1783 in New Hampshire.
They were married in Orange county,
Vt., moved to Oneida and Tioga coun-
ties, N. Y., and came to Sangamon
county, 111., in 1822, on Spring creek.
Their daughter —

SARAH, married Sylvan us Massie.-
See his name.

Mrs. Mary Maltby died in 1827, and
Josiah Maltby died Jan., 1841; she in San-
gamon, and he in Brown county, Illinois.
MANN, CHRISTOPHER
C., born Jan. 2, 1819, in Bracken county,
Ky., came to Sangamon county later than
his brother, Uriah. He was married in
Sangamon county Nov. 10, 1843, to Ann
R. King. They had six children, name-
ly—

HENRY F., born Nov. 10, 1844. He
went from Springfield and enlisted in
Chicago June 17, i86i,in Co. E, 24th 111.
Inf., for three years. He was captured by
John Morgan at Pulaski, Tenn., in 1862,
and escaped in about twenty-four hours.
He was slightly wounded at Rocky Face
Ridge, Ga., in May, 1862; served until
Aug. 6, 1864, when he was honorably
discharged at Chicago. He was married
Jan. 30, 1868, in Sangamon county, to
Jeanetta Snodgrass, who was born Dec.
32, 1848. They have three children,
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LUAMMA, MARETHA J. and
CHARLES E., and reside seven miles
east of Springfield, in Clear Lake town-
ship.

WILLIAM, born July 9, 1847, en-
listed Aug., 1862, in Co. I, H4th 111. Inf.,
for three years; served until the suppres-
sion of the rebellion, and was honorably
discharged at Springfield. He lives at
Carthage, Missouri.

MART, born Nov. 25, 1849, married
Oct. i, 1869, to John Huffman in Sanga-
mon county. They have two children,
and live at Carthage, Missouri.

ALICE J., born April 28, 1852,
married April 2, 1869, to John B. Allen;
have three children, and live at Carthage,
Missouri.

MARETHA, born Oct. 17, 1853,
married May n, 1872, to James Farley,
who was born May 14, 1845, *n countv
Dublin, Ireland, and raised in Louisville,
Ky. They have one child, GLENARA,
and reside at Riverton, Sangamon county,
Illinois — 1874.

EMIL T E., born Sept. 6, 1857, mar-
ried Dec. 24, 1873, to Franklin Steele,
and reside at Riverton, Illinois.

Christopher C. Mann died Jan. 31,
1859, and his widow resides at Riverton,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

MANN, URIAH, was born
Sept. 17, 1810, in Bracken county, Ky.
He came to Sangamon county with his
sister, Anna, and her husband, Thomas
A. King, arriving the first Sunday in
Oct., 1831. He was a soldier in the
Black Hawk war, in 1832, in the same
regiment with Capt. Abraham Lincoln,
with whom he had many a wrestling
match. Uriah Mann was married Jan.
6, 1832, in Sangamon county, to Eliza-
beth King. They had seven children
in Sangamon county, two of whom died
young.

PE TER, born July 23, 1833, married
Sept. 17, 1854, to Carrie J. Knox. They
had five living children. URIAH died
Feb., 1870, in his ninth year. CLAR-
ENCE A., LUELLA B.", ALLEN and
OLIVER live with their parents, adjoin-
ing Camp Butler National Cemetery on
the east.

SARAH A., born Jan. 27, 1836, mar-
ried George W. Bla.ck. See his name.

THOMAS H., born April 6, 1843, in
Sangamon county, enlisted Aug., 1862,

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for three years, in Co. I, H4th 111. Inf.
He was taken prisoner at the battle of
Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864; was ten
months in Andersonville prison pen, ex-
changed about the close of the rebellion,
and honorably discharged June 14, 1865,
at Springfield, and died at home Feb. 16,
1867, of disease contracted in the rebel
prison.

CHARLES V., born Dec. 26, 1846,
lives with his father.

MAR T F., born March 2, 1853, lives
with her father.

Mrs. Elizabeth Mann died Sept. 9, 1861,
and Uriah Mann was married Aug. 25,
1862, to Ellen Brimbarger, who was born
Sept. 8, 1859, *n Gallatin county, Ky.
They had eight children. URIAH
GRANT and ELIZABETH S., died
in their seventh and third years, respec-
tively. -FANNIE B., B E T T I E,
ETHEL M., SONORA, PERCES
ANN and RICHARD OGLES-BY live
with their parents, on the farm where
Mr. Mann settled in 183:5. It is five miles
east of Springfield, adjoining Camp But-
ler.

Uriah Mann hauled all the rails and
timber, for improving his farm1, on a
wagon constructed by himself, without
any iron, the wheels being hewn each
from a single piece of timber, from the
largest tree he could find. His house
was built by himself, of round logs. His
tables, cupboard and other furniture were
made from wild cherry lumber. In the
absence of saw-mills, he split the timber
into broad slabs, fastened them into a
snatch block, hewed them to a uniform
thickness, and after waiting a sufficient
time for them to season, worked them in-
to his household furniture. The first
meal he ate in his own house, the meat
was hog's jowl, and the bread made
from frostbitten corn. He hauled the first
wheat he raised for sale to St. Louis, and
sold it for thirty-five cents in trade. He
is now among the most successful farmers
of the countv.

MAN 1ST, ME LI NBA, born Aug.,
1807, in Bracken county, Ky., married
there to Thomas Threlkeld, had five chil-
dren, and Mr. T. died. She married
Win. Summers, had two children, and he
died. Mrs. Melinda Summers and her
seven children all came to Sangamon
county, arriving Oct. 20, 1847. Her

daughter, Rebecca, married Stephen L.
Cooper. See his name.

MANN, ANN, born Jan. i, 1813,
in Bracken county, Ky., married Thomas
A. King. See his name.

MANN, PETER, the father of
Melinda, Uriah, Ann and Christopher,
was a soldier from Bracken county, Ky.,
in the war of 1812, and came near dying
of disease in Canada. He returned to
Kentucky and died there.

MARSH, WILLIAM H.,
was born Dec. 15 1804, in Lancaster coun-
ty, Penn. He was married May 14, 1829,
in the city of Lancaster, to Lydia Brady,
who was born April 7, 1810, in Chester
county, Penn. They had two children,
and Mrs. Marsh died, July 24, 1833.
Wm. H. Marsh was married, April 9,
1835, to Mary Lytle, in Lancaster. She
was born in that county March 17, 1808.
The family moved to Sangamon countv,
111., arriving May 16, 1837, at Springfield,
where four children were born. Of his
six children —

LUCT A., born Sept. 2, 1830, in Lan-
caster county, Penn., married in Sanga-
mon county, Aug. 26, 1857, to Mitchell
Graham. See his name.

DEWITT C.y born Oct. 21, 1832, in
Lancaster county, Penn., married in San-
gamon county, Aug. 29, 1855, to Harriet
M. Bryant, and have four children,
EVANGELINE M., MARY A., VI VI
I. and JULIA A. Mrs. Marsh died,
Dec. 29^ 1869, and he married Rebecca
Snyder, who was born July 24, 1836, in
Bedford county, Penn. They have two
children, CHARLES W. and WIL-
LIAM D., and live one and one-half
miles north of Springfield.

By the second marriage.

LTDIA C, born May 15, 1838, in
Springfield, died March 10, 1854.

MARTHA A., born Aug. 13, 1840,
in Springfield, married, Oct. 10, 1866, to
Charles Reed. They have one child,
MARY, and live at 1061, North 5th street,
Springfield.

ISABEL, born April 17, 1842, in
Springfield, lives with her father.

DELIA, born Sept. 7, 1845, m Spring-
field, married, Dec. 18, 1872, to Albert
Jennings, and died, in Springfield, Aug.

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Mrs. Mary Marsh died, March 25,
1872, and Wm. H. Marsh resides two
miles north of Springfield.

When Wm. H. Marsh came to Spring-
field, he was employed by the State
House Commissioners as foreman in erect-
ing that edifice, under direction of the
architect. He was thus engaged, part of
1837, all of '38, and part of 1839. He
was next employed as foreman on the
abutments of the bridge at the Sangamon
river, for the Northern Cross railroad, now
the T. W. & W., road, at Riverton.
When gold was discovered on the Pacific
coast, he attempted to go to California,
but became disabled at the Rocky moun-
tains, and returned. He was keeper of
the Sangamon county poor house for ten
years, ending in the fall of 1859.

MARTIN, ABRAHAM, was

born about 1787, in Kentucky, of parents
from North Carolina. He was married
in Kentucky, about 1807, to Melinda
Lewis. They had three children in Ken-
tucky, and moved to the vicinity of Bed-
ford, Lawrence county, Ind., where nine
children were born, and the family moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the
fall of 1830, in what is now Cooper town-
ship, where one child was born. Of their
children —

LE WIS, born in Kentucky, married
in Indiana, moved with his father to San-
gamon county, and after two years return-
ed to Indiana, where his wife died ; and
he was married there to Mrs. Martha
Stotts. In 1848, he came back to Sanga-
mon county. He has five living children,
nearly all married, and lives near Sharps-
burg, Christian county. He had one son
who served in the Union army through
the rebellion.

. MARGARET, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Henry
Judy. They had five children, two of
whom died young, and Mr. Judy died.
The widow and two of her children live
in Atchinson county, Kansas. She had
two sons in the Union army, one of whom
was killed while bearing a flag in battle;
the other was since killed by an accident
on a railroad.

JOHN, born in Kentucky, married
Rachel Harvey. He died, and his widow
and five children live in Christian county,
Illinois.

SUSAN, born in Indiana, married in
Missouri to David Driscoll. He died,
Sept., 1845, leaving two children. Her
son, LEWIS S. DRISCOLL, was a
member of Co. D, 33d 111. Inf., and died,
at Ironton, Mo. His remains were buried
in Cooper township. The widow has
been twice married since; the last time to
Hugh Turner. See his name.

SAMUEL, born in Indiana, raised
and married in Sangamon county to
Mary Bragg. They moved to Buchanan
county, Mo., and from there went to the
mouth of the Platt river, Neb., and in
company with another man, laid out the
town of Plattsmouth, where he died, in
1853, leaving a widow and three children
by the first, and one by the second wife.
He had two sons in the Union army.

JEFFERSON, born in Indiana,
moved to Sangamon county, married in
Mills county, Iowa, to Fidelia Clark, and
died there, without children, June, 1864.

RA CHEL, born in Indiana, raised in
Sangamon county, married in Buchanan
county, Mo., to James W. Berry. He
died, leaving four children, and she mar-
ried George L. Atwood, had one child,
and died in Sangamon county. Two of
her sons were in the Union army during
the rebellion. One has since died, and
the other is in the regular army.

MOSES, born in Indiana, raised in
Sangamon county, married Mary J. Crull.
They have eight children, and live in
Bates county, Mo.

MESSENGER, born Feb. 22, 1833,
in Sangamon county, married, Dec. 23,
1858, to Eliza Craig, who was born May
12, 1837, 'n Scotland. They have four
living children, MARY M., SARAH
J., AMANDA and SUSAN BELL, and
reside on the farm where his parents set-
tled in 1830, in Cooper township, near
Breckenridge.

Abraham Martin moved, in 1839, to
Buchanan county, Mo., and returned in
1845. Mrs. Melinda Martin died, Feb.
19, 1860, and Abraham Martin died, Oct.
24, 1864, both in Cooper township, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

MARTIN, GEORGE, wasborn
in 1805, in Hampshire county, Va., and
was there married to Leah Fans. They
had two children, and moved to Licking
county, Ohio, where one child was born;
and then moved to Sangamon county,

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arriving in the spring of 1834,111 German
Prairie, and in 1836 moved to what is
now Cotton Hill township, where three
children were born. Of their six chiU
dren — •

MARGARET A., born in Virginia,
died Feb. 19, 1849, *n Sangamon county.

JOHN W., born Feb. 22, 1830, in
Virginia, married in Sangamon county to
Mary Wood. He died July 2, 1862.

JAMES M., born June 15, 1832, in
Licking county, Ohio, married in Sanga-
mon county Feb. i, 1855, to Mary Wil-
liams. They had six children, four of
whom died under six years. MARY F.
and JAMES H. reside with their parents,
in Cotton Hill township, near old Ri-
enzi, Sangamon county.

MARY C., born in Sangamon county,
married David H. Stewart, and died.

MELINDA J., born in Sangamon
county, died, aged ten or twelve years.

RACHEL L. died, aged three years.

George Martin died Oct. 25, 1841, and
Mrs. Leah Martin died Aug. 8, 1860;
both in Cotton Hill township.

MARTIN, WILLIAM, a
brother to George Martin and Mrs. Mil-
slagle, was born in Hampshire county,
Va. ; came to Sangamon county in 1834
or '35. He married Nancy, Torrence.
They had four children.

MARY J. married Edward George,
and died.

SARAH E. married D. F. Chap-
man.

JOHN W. died young.

RA CHEL married Melvin Bell. See
his name.

Wm. Martin died, and his widow mar-
ried John Adams.

MASpN, JOHN A., born June

14, 1814, in S wanton, Franklin county,
Vt. When quite young he went to Buf-
falo, N. Y., and there joined his bfother,
and came from there to Springfield, 111.,
arriving May 20, 1837. He learned the
business of a chair maker in Springfield,
and from that worked into the manufac-
ture of cabinet furniture. He retired
from business in 1869, with ample means
and impaired health. He is not yet mar-
ried, and resides at Buffalo, Sangamon
county, Illinois, but spends much of his
time among his old friends in Springfield.

MASON, NOAH, was born Jan.

15, 1782, at Mendon, Worcester county,

Mass. He was bound to a hard master}
ran away, and followed the life of a
sailor for about five years. Lucinda
Stetson was born June 14, 1782, in Han-
over, Plymouth county, Mass. They
were married July 15, 1804. Soon after
marriage Mr. Mason left on a voyage to
China and the East Indies, and was ab-
sent twenty-one months. On his return
they moved to the vicinity of Belfast,
Hancock county, Maine, where they had
three children. In 1812 he moved to
Madison county, N. Y., thence to Gene-
see county, in the same State, in 1814,
where two children were born. In the
spring of 1819 he moved to Olean Point,
on the Allegheny river, and in the autumn
of 1821 united with two other families in
building a boat, in which the three fami-
lies descended the Allegheny and Ohio
rivers, landing in Pope county, Illinois,
where another son was born, and they
called his name Seth. After remaining
two and a half years, the family left for
what is now Tazewell county, but on
reaching Sugar creek, in what is now
Auburn township, April 10, 1824, decided
to settle there. Of the six children —

NOAH, Jun., born Feb. 25, 1807,
fifteen miles from Belfast, Maine, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, Feb. 19, 1835,
to Martha Nuckolls. They had six chil-
dren, and Mrs. Martha Mason died, Mar.
24, 1852. Noah Mason, Jun., was mar-
ried Aug. 9, i$§3, to Elizabeth Talbott.
They had one child. Of all his children,
GEORGE T., born Feb. 11, 1836, mar-
ried June 9, 1 86 1, to Anna Brooks. They
have three children, and reside in Auburn
township. JANE, born July 22, 1837,
married William R. Hill, Oct. 8, 1858.
They have four children, and reside in
Auburn township. JOHN L., born
March 15, 1839, has represented Chat-
ham township for several years in the
County Board of Supervisors, He was
married May 4, 1876, in Springfield, 111.,
to Mildred Harker, and resides one mile
northwest of Auburn, Sangamon county,
Illinois. MARY ANN, born Jan. i,
1842, was married Jan. i, 1861, to James
M- Stout. See his name. AMANDA
died, aged seven years. ELMINA E.,
born Oct. 4, 1847, was married April 25,
1866, to Ira Ryan. They have three chil-
dren, and reside in Girard. MARTHA
C., born April n, 1849, was married May

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30, 1872, to James P. Brasfield, have one
child, NOAH w., and reside at Loami.
NOAH D., the only child by the second
wife, born Oct. 3, 1854, resides with his
parents. Noah Mason, Jun , has met
with some narrow escapes from death.
He still exhibits a spot on his head, whiter
than the rest, as the mark of a severe fall
in childhood. Once, in New York, he
accompanied his father to the woods,
where he was clearing timber from the
land, when the weather was extremely
cold. Noah became sleepy and sat down
under a tree. When his father's attention
was called to him he c~ould not be wakened.
He was carried to the house, and with
the utmost exertion of all the members of
the family, he was aroused and his life
saved. His first business transaction was
in Pope county, 111. He was paddling
about in the Ohio river in a boat of his
own building, when a stranger hailed him
with " What will you take for your boat? "
He replied, one dollar. The man handed
him a two dollar bill, and Noah, with
much running to and fro, returned the
change, only to find, after his boat was gone,
that the two dollar bill was a counterfeit.
From childhood Mr. Mason has been re-
markable for presence of mind. While
the Mason family were at Olean Point,
N. Y., on the Allegheny river, Noah was
one day engaged in his favorite amuse-
ment of paddling about on a slab in the
river, and had gone with the current some
distance down the stream, when suddenly
he heard a noise, and looking up he saw a
tree falling towards him. He was a good
swimmer, and quick as thought he jump-
ed off" his slab, diving to the bottom. He
heard the tree splash in the water above
him, and he came to the surface among
its branches, unhurt. Again, his father,
with another man, were felling trees, and
the limb of one tree had lodged against a
knot on another, balancing in mid-air.
Noah was trimming the branches from
those that had fallen, and unconsciously
came under this loose limb, and it fell.
He heard it coming, and threw himself
down beside a large log, which the limb
fell across, immediately over his head, and
he escaped with only a fright. Again, he'
was hauling stakes for a fence, when he
came to the deep ford on Sug«ir creek,
Sangamon county. On driving in, the
load slipped forward on the horses, and

Noah landed on the wagon tongue. The
The horses began kicking and running,
and he thought his time had come; but
he made one desperate jump, clearing
the horses' heels and front wagon wheel,
and landed head-first in the water. For-
tunately he took the lines with him,
which enabled him to stop the horses.
When the Masons arrived in Sangamon
county, horse-mills were the only kind in
use; but soon other kinds were built.
Nearly all the bread used was made from
Indian corn Mr. Mason, Sen., raised
cotton for many years after coming to
Sangamon county, and there were two
cotton-gins built near him. The nearest
carding machine was at Sangamo, and
owned by a Mr. Broadwell. After the
wool and cotton were carded, the differ-
ent families manufactured their own cloth,
and this constituted the wearing apparel
of both males and females. Peaches
were almost a sure crop, and Mr. Thomas
Black had a copper still attached to his
horse-mill; and Noah M., Jun., assisted
him in making pure whisky from corn,
and pure brandy from peaches. He also
cut hickory wood for Mr. Black at thirty-
seven and one-half cents per cord, and
made rails the summer he was twenty-one
years old, for thirty-seven and one-half
cents per hundred, and cut corn in the
fall, sixteen hills square, for five cents per
shock or fifty cents per day. In this way
he clothed himself, and had sixteen and
one-half dollars — all in silver half dollars
— when he started, with a number of
others, March 19, 1829, for the Galena
lead mines; was there six summers and
two winters including the winter of the
deep snow. Mr. Mason served in tour
different companies during the Black
Hawk war. In 1834 he had five eighty-
acre tracts of land, bought with money
earned by himself in the lead mines.
The prairie-flies were a great annoyance
in summer, and in order to avoid them
plowing among the corn was frequently
done at night. Whisky was thought to
be indispensable in early times in the har-
vest field, but Mr. Mason proved to the
contrary. He threshed his wheat with
horses, and cleaned it with a fanning mill.
With the help of a boy, one season he pre-
pared one load of wheat per week for
four weeks, and sold it in Alton for forty
cents per bushel. He has hauled wheat

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to St. Louis, selling it for thirty-eight
cents per bushel. The merchants had
their goods hauled on wagons from St.
Louis and Chicago. Mr. Mason and
nine others brought goods from the latter
city for Mr. Bela Webster, of Springfield,
at one dollar per hundred pounds, and
were three weeks going and coming.
Mr. Mason is one of the successful farm-
ers of Sangamon county. He has retired
from active business, and now — 1876 —
resides in Springfield, Illinois.

LUCINDA, born July 24, 1809, in
Maine, married in Sangamon county to
B. F. Hutton. They reside in Chatham
township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

THOMAS, born Aug. 2, 1812, in
Maine, married in Sangamon county to
Elizabeth Husband. They had four chil-
dren, namely — NOAH died, aged sixteen
years. EMILY married Jacob Brunk.
See his name. ELIZABETH mairied
William Epling, who was born in 1840,
in Giles county, Va. They have two
children, THEODORE ULYSSES and
CHARLES w. Mr.'Epling has recently
brought from Virginia his two sisters,
Adaline and Hesiltine, and his brother,
John H. He resides three and one-half
miles south of Chatham. WILLIAM
T. married Nancy Dodds. They have
one child, and live two miles northwest of
Auburn, Illinois. Mrs. Elizabeth Mason
died in 1851, and Thomas Mason died,
Sept. 5, 187 1, both in Sangamon county.

ELIZABETH, born Feb. 4, 1816, in
New York, married in Sangamon county
to Ezra Barnes. See his name.

CAROLINE, born Feb. 13, 1819,
married in Sangamon county to Madison
Curvey. They had four children, and
Mrs. Curvey died in the spring of 1854.
Her son, ORRIN, married Ann Roberts,
and lives in Chatham township.

SETH, born Jan. j, 1823, in Pope
county, 111., married, Aug. 21, 1851, to
Eleanor Kent, who was born May 28,
1831, in Harrison county, Ohio. They
have no family. Seth Mason resides on
the farm where his father settled in 1824,
in Auburn township. He has in his pos-
session a trunk made of camphor wood
which his father brought from China,
with a set of table ware made to order
there, with the initials of himself and wife
(X. L. M.) on each piece. The chest was
filled with silks and other rich goods.

Noah Mason, Sen., died, Nov. 18, 1834,
and his widow died, October, 1862, both
in Sangamon county, Illinois.

MASSIE, THOMAS, was born
Dec. 26, 1759, in Albemarle county, Va.
He was a Revolutionary soldier, for which
he drew a pension near the close of his
life. He went to Kentucky after the Rev-
olution, and there became personally ac-
quainted with Simon Kenton, one of the
associates of Daniel Boone in the early
settlement of Kentucky. Thomas Massie
was married to Fanny Hudson, either in
Kentucky or Virginia. They had four
children, none of whom ever came to
Sangamon county. Mrs. Fanny Massie
died in Kentucky, and Thomas Massie
married Rebecca Collyer, a native of Vir-
ginia, also. They had eight children, all
born in Montgomery county, Ky., and the
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in 1828, in what is now Curran
township. Of their eight children —

ABSALOM, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Tennessee, and died there.

JOHN C., born Aug. n, 1795, in
Kentucky, married Aug. 13, 1815, in
Tennessee, to Elizabeth Freeman. He
moved to Sangamon county soon after his
father, in 1828, and after a stay of five or
six years, moved to Pike county, 111.,
where Mrs. Massie died. Mr. Massie
married again, and died there. His son,
MELVIN MASSIE, was a Represen-
tative from Pike county, to the Legisla-
ture of 1873.

HUDSON, remained in Kentucky.

STL VAN US, born Sept. 12, 1799, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
Aug. n, 1829, to Sarah Maltby, and had
seven children. He died, June 28, 1856,
and his widow lives in Gardner town-
ship, Saoigamon county.

FRANCES J., born June 25, 1802,
married Wm. Ralston, Tun. See his name.

THOMAS, yz/«.,"born in Kentucky,
was educated as a physician, and died, un-
married, in Tennessee.

JESSE E.} born in Kentucky, in
1810, is unmarried, and lives in Gardner
township.

MARTHA, born Feb. i, 1813, in
Kentucky, married, July 14, 1829, to
Thomas Morgan. See his name.

Thomas Massie, Sen., died, Aug. 19,
1 835, and Mrs. Rebecca Massie died Sept.
7, 1835, both in Sangamon county.

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MATHENY, CHARLES R.,
born March 6, 1786, in Loudon county,
Va. When a young man he visited his
brother at Crab Orchard, Ky., and was
there licensed to preach, by the proper
authority, in the M. E. church. He went,
in 1805, as missionary, under the auspices
of that church, to that part of the North-
Western territory which afterwards be-
came St. Clair county, Jll. In addition to
preaching he studied and practiced law.
He was married in 1806, in St. Clair coun-
ty, 111. to Jemima Ogle, who was born in
that county, Oct. 26, 1787. Her father,
Captain Joseph Ogle, emigrated from
Pennsylvania very early, and was a prom-
inent actor in the Indian wars and other
events connected with the early history of
the country. Ogle countv,in the northern
part of Illinois, was named in honor of
his memory. C. R. Matheny was elected
in 1817, representative in the Territorial
Legislature, which met at Kaskaskia, 111.,
and was clerk of the House during the
winters of 1820 and '21. C. R. Matheny
and wife had seven children in St. Clair
county, 111., and when the law was en-
acted for the organization of Sangamon
county, he was induced by the tender of
the office of county clerk, county auditor,
circuit clerk, and some other prospective
advantages, to come to Springfield, arriv-
ing in the spring of 1821, where four
children were born. Of their eleven
children —

MART, born April 13, 1837, in St.
Clair county, was married in Springfield
to Robert Thompson. See his name.

MATILDA, born August 29, 1809, in
St. Clair county, was married in Spring-
field, Illinois, to Gershom Keyes. See his
name.

LUCT, born Mar. 13, 1811, in St. Clair
county, was married in Springfield to
P. Asbury Sanders, who was born in
Loudon county, Va., and came to Sanga-
mon county in 1828. Mrs. Lucy Sanders
died, Feb. 8, 1836, leaving one son,
CHARLES M., who went to California
in 1857, an^ was ^ast heard from by his
friends in Springfield in the Union army.
P. A. Sanders married Margaret Ogden.
They have two sons in Springfield.

LORENZO DOW, born March 25,
1813, in St. Clair county, 111., studied
medicine in Springfield, 111., under Dr.
J. M. Early, and served in the Black

Hawk war. He graduated in the spring
of 1836, in the medical department
of Transylvania University, Lexington,
Kentucky, the first native of Illinois to
obtain th»t distinction, and the second
citizen of Sangamon county to graduate
in any medical college, Dr. Geo. M. Har-
rison being the first. See his name. Dr.
L. D. Matheny had just engaged in the
practice of medicine under flattering cir-
cumstances, when hediedf-Feb. 7» ^37, in
Springfield, Illinois.

NOAH W., born July 31, 1815, in St.
Clair county, Illinois. He assisted his
father in the county clerk's office as soon
as he could write. At his father's
death Noah was appointed clerk pro tern.,
by the county court, and in Nov., 1839,
he was elected to fill the unexpired term
of his father. He was afterwards elected
for eight successive terms, of four years
each. He was married in Springfield,
August 22, 1843, to Elizabeth J. Stamper,
daughter of the Rev. Dr. Jonathan Stam-
per, of the M. E. church. She was born
April 18, 1825, in Bourbon county, Ky.
Noah W. Matheny and wife have four
children, all born in Springfield. WIL-
LIAM S., SAMUEL O., EDWARD C.
and FANNIE, who reside with their pa-
rents. Mr. Matheny served as county
clerk until 1873. He served ten or twelve
years as deputy for his father, and thirty-
four years by election. He is now — 1876
— President of the First National Bank,
Springfield, 111., and resides in the city.

JAMES H.f born Oct. 30, 1818, in
St. Clair county, was brought up in
Springfield. At fifteen years of age he
we employed as clerk in the Postoffice
and Recorder's office, transacting the bus-
iness of both offices. The two now have
grown to require the services o.f at least
twenty men. J. H. Matheny was appointed
deputy clerk of the State Supreme Court
for 1839 and '40. In 1841 he became
deputy in the circuit clerk's office. He
was married in Springfield, Feb. II, 1845,
to Maria L. Lee, who was born in 1827,
in Carrolton, 111. They have seven child-
ren, all born in Springfield. LEE is now
clerk in the Postoffice, Springfield, 111.
EDWARD DOW, born Dec. 4, 1847,
studied law with his father, and is a mem-
ber of the law firm of Matheny, Mc-
Guire & Matheny, Springfield, Illinois.
LUCY, NORA, JAMES H., Jun.,

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RALPH C. and ROBERT W; the
five latter live with their parents. J. H.
Matheny was a member of the constitu-
tional convention of 1848. He was elect-
ed circuit clerk in 1852 for four years,
after which he was commissioned Lieut-
enant Colonel of the i3Oth 111. Inf. After
the capture of Vicksburg he was on de-
tached duty, holding military courts u^til
1864, when his regiment was consolidated
with another, and he resigned. In Nov.,
1873, he was elected Judge of Sangamon
county for four years, and resides in
Springfield, 111.

In 1840 ten young men, who had been
brought up in the vicinity of Springfield,
and had not seen much of the world, or
heard a great man speak, learned that
Henry Clay was to make a speech at
Nashville, Tenn., at a certain time. They
fitted up an old prairie stage, put on a
cover, provided themselves with tents and
provisions, and in August, 1840, Benja-
min A. Watson, Henry Oswald, Daniel
'Wood worth, Edna Moore, Stanislaus
P. Lalumere, John H. Craighead, Oliver
P. Bowen, Benoni Bennett, Moreau Phil-
lips and James H. Matheny started in
their wagon, drawn by four horses, and
driven by Phillips. They camped out at
night, did their own cooking, and sung
the stirring campaign songs of that year
in passing through every town and vil-
lage. In some places they were applaud-
ed, at others jeered, and occasionally they
were pelted with stale eggs, but they
sang through it all, were on time to hear
Clay's speech, and were invited on the
platform. They sung some of their
spirited songs, creating quite a furore, saw
a crowd of forty thousand men, ten times
as many as they had ever seen before,
and returned home as they went, having
been out five weeks, and traveled about
one thousand miles. They felt well paid
for their time, labor and expense. James
H. Matheny delivered the oration at the
first meeting of early settlers in Sanga-
mon county, 111. He is the senior member
of the firm of Matheny, McGuire &
Matheny, of Springfield, 111., and is now
'(1876) Judge of the Sangamon county
court.

CHARLES W., born Sept. 27, 1820,
in St. Clair county, was married in
Springfield, Feb. 13, 1845, to Margaret
Condell. a native of Pennsylvania. They

had three children — HELEN, born Jan.,
1846, died Jan., 1864. CHARLES O.
and GEORGE H. reside with their pa-
rents. Charles W. Matheny was for
many years engaged in merchandizing in
Springfield, and now — 1876 — resides in
the city.

A. ELIZABETH, born Nov. 28,
1823, in Sangamon county, resides with
her sister, Mrs. Whjtehurst.

ELIJAH COOK, born June 13,
1826, in Springfield, crossed the Plains in .
1849, and remained on the Pacific coast
until 1854, when he returned, and was
married Feb. 3, 1857, *n Springfield, to
Alletta L. Vannordstran. They had two
children, JOHN R. and LOUISA I.
Mrs. Matheny died in June, 1864, and he
was married, in 1865, to Mrs. Naomi L.
Rittenhouse, a native of Pennsylvania,
whose maiden name was Schroyer. She
has two children by a former marriage,
CHARLES E. and LOUIS PERCY
Rittenhouse. Mr. and Mrs. Matheny have
three children, MIMA, PHILLIPS G.,
and ADA L., who reside with their parents.
E. C. Matheny was deputy United
States Marshal about nine years, for the
southern district of Illinois, and during
that time sold over $2,000,000 worth of
confiscated property, at Cairo. He resides
in Springfield, Illinois.

MARIA C., born Aug. 10, 1829, in
Springfield, was married, June 12, 1849,
to Stephen S. Whitehurst. They had
seven children — MIMI, born April 13,
1854, in Springfield, 111., was marrie there,
Jan. 13, 1876, to George H. Helmle, who
was born Feb. 5, 1853, in Springfield. G.
H. Helmle was elected town clerk, in the
spring of 1874, and again in 1875, and
was elected assessor in 1876. He is an
architect, and resides in Springfield.
MARY, MEREDITH HELM, LIZ-
ZIE M., CARRIE M., SUSIE
M. and REGINALD GWYNN, live
with their mother. Stephen S. White-
hurst died, May 19, 1875, and Mrs.
Whitehurst and family reside in Spring-
field, Illinois.

EMILT R., born March 16, 1832, in
Springfield, was married there, Sept. 25,
1860, to Benjamin C. McQuesten. They
have one child, BENJAMIN, and moved
in 1869 to Ottawa, Kansas, where Mr.
McQuesten is engaged in banking, and
where he and his family reside.

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481

Charles R. Matheny held the office of
county clerk until his death, which oc-
curred Oct. 10, 1839. Mrs. Jemima Ma-
theny died Feb. 23, 1858, both in Spring-
field, Illinois.

MATTHEWS, JOSEPH, was
born in Buckingham county, Va., and
when a young man went to Fayette
county, Ky., where he was married to
Tabitha Rutherford, a native of that
county. After spending a few years
each in Wayne and Cumberland coun-
ties, Ky., they moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving Oct. 20, 1830, in
what is now Cooper township. They
had eleven children, some of whom died,
and some married and remained in Ken-
tucky and Tennessee.

S ALL T married in Kentucky to
Charles Thomas. She died in Mechan-
icsburg in 1865, leaving one son, ROW-
LAND D. Thomas, who is married, and
lives in Cooper township.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky,
married there to Dr. Joel Hughes, came
to Springfield in 1834, and in 1837 went
to Ashley, Mo., where Dr. Hughes died.
His widow married in Springfield to Wil-
liom Brown, and died Oct. 19, 1859, in
Cotton Hill township.

WILLIAM S., born in Kentucky,
married in 1833, in Sangamon county, to
Mrs. Lucinda Ashley, whose maiden
name was Cooper. He died in 1834,
leaving one child, WILLIAM S., Jun. He
served three years in the i3Oth 111. Inf.,
part of the time in Andersonville prison.
W. S. Matthews, Jun., lives near Edinburg,
Illinois.

LO7^ P., born Oct. u, 1811, in Cum-
berland county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county June 28, 1838, to Eliza
Forrest, who was born in 1815. They
had four children in Sangamon coun-
ty. SARAH J., born April 30, 1839,
married Joseph Breckinridge. See his
name. He died, and she married Thomas
Pike. LA VINA A. died, aged twenty-
two years. JOHN HENRY, born June
8, 1848, is a minister in the Christian
church at Toledo, Ohio— 1874. JAMES
J., born March 4, 1854, lives at Illiopolis.
Mrs. Eliza Matthews died July 13, 1866.
Lot P. Matthews lived in Cooper town-
ship until the death of his wife. Since
that time he has been traveling as a col-
porteur in the Christian church.
— 6 1

JOSEPH H., born Nov. 2, 1813, in.
Cumberland county, Ky., married in
Sangamon county, Oct. 20, 1843, to Sarah
A. Hayley. They had' eight children in
Sangamon county. FRANCES A., born
July ii, 1844, married Dec. 4, 1859, to
Charles H. Bridges. See his name*
JAMES F., born Jan. i, 1846, died in
his nineteenth year. THOMAS P., born
Nov. 1 8, 1848, married Silence A. Pearce,
and live in Niantic, Macon county, 111.
MARY E. died in her third year.
AMELIA and CORLELIA, born July
2, 1854; WILLIAM A., born June 10,
1857, and ALICE, born Dec. 26, 1859.
The four latter live with their mother.
Joseph H. Matthews died Oct. 16, 1861,
in Pawnee, and his widow and children
reside in Illiopolis, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

JAMES J., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Ann
Dozier, and both died.

Mrs. Tabitha Matthews died August,
1835, and Joseph Matthews died Dec. 15,
1844, both in Cooper township, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

MATTHEWS, SCHUYLER
B., was born Aug. n, 1821, in Greene
county, Kentucky, and came to Sanga-
mon county, arriving Oct. 18, 1834, in
what is now Island Grove township, two
miles east of Berlin. S. B. Matthews
and Elizabeth Batty were married in
Sangamon county June i, 1854. She
was born Oct. 16, 1825, in Lancashire,
England. They have three children,
JOHN W., WILBER B. and SCHUY-
LER A.; all reside with their parents,
three miles south of New Berlin, 111.

MATHEW, SIMON, was born
Feb. 12, 1787, in Virginia, and was mar-
ried in Franklin county, Ohio, April 7,
1812, to Anna Deardorff, They had two
children in Ohio, and in 1816 or '17 moved
to Washington county, Indiana, where
they had six children, and moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving Nov., 1833,.
in what is now Ball township, where they
had o.ne child. Of their children —

JAMES D., born about 1813, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Dorcas Hamilton. They have ten child-
ren, and reside near Chandlerville, Cass
county, Illinois.

JOHN M., born in 1815, in Franklin
county, Ohio, married in Sangamon coun-

482

EARLT SETTLERS OF

ty to Mrs. Sarah Crowder, whose maiden
name was Woozley. They had five chil-
dren in Sangamon county. JAMES H.,
horn Oct. 13, 1838, married March 28,
1860, to Sally A. Handlin. They have
two children, EVERETT s. and JENNIE M.,
and live in Springfield. SIMON T.,
married Mary A. Clayton. They have
three childeen, ETTA E., LUTHER F. and
CHARLES CARROLL, and reside in Ball
township, Sangamon county, 111. SU-
SAN ANN, born August 29, 1844, mar-
ried Marcus D. Clayton, See his name.
WILLIAM O. married Mary E. Lamb,
have two children, IDA MAY and FANNIE
A., and live four miles north of Pawnee,
Illinois. LEONARD S., married Sept.
24, 1874, to Alice Galloway. Mrs. Sarah
Matthew died, and John M. Matthew
married Mary A. Scott. Thev have five
children, FANNIE, JOHN M., Tun.,
LAURA, LUCY and JOSEPHINE,
and reside in Ball township, three and a
half miles southeast of Chatham, Illinois,

SILAS D.. born in 18-18, in Washing-
ton county, Indiana, married in Sangamon
county to Ellen DeardorfF, who died, and
he married Mrs. Elizabeth Wood. They
had five children. Their son, JOHN F.,
served two enlistments in the army, and
died at home of disease contracted in the
service. Silas D. Matthew and family re-
side near Edinburg, Christian county, Illi-
nois.

CATHARINE A., born in 1820, in
Washington county, Indiana, married in
Sangamon county to John DeardorfF, who
died, leaving two children, and she mar-
ried Daniel Fetters. They have one
child, and reside near Macon, Macon
county, Illinois.

OSCAR P., born in 1822, in Wash-
ington county, Indiana, married in San-
gamon county to Margaret Britton. They
had nine children. ANNA E. died at
seventeen years of age. WINFIELD
SCOTT, born May 6, 1848, is now—
1875 — a student in the Senior class of the
Northwestern University, Chicago, with
the intention of entering the ministry in
connection with the M. E. church.
JOHN B. married in 1868 to Amanda E,
Lawley. They have two children,
CHARLES E. and GEORGE R., and live at
Mt. Auburn, Christian county, Illinois,
REBECCA J. married Daniel Poffen-
berger. See his name. THOMAS L.

lives with his parents. LOUISA L. died,
aged seventeen years. OSCAR M. died
young. LAFAYETTE LINCOLN,
and MATILDA M. live with their pa-
rents. Oscar F. Matthew and wife re-
side near Cotton Hill Postoffice, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

FRANCIS M., born in 1825, in
Washington county, Indiana, married in
Sangamon county to Nancy VanOsdol.
They have five children, and reside at
Los Nietos, Los Angeles county, Cali-
fornia.

SARAH E., born in 1827, in Indiana,
married in Sangamon county to John
Smith, who died, and she married Isaac
Grimes, and lives near Chatham, Illinois.
DA VID L., born in 1829, in Wash-
ington county, Indiana, married in San-
gamon county to Caroline Matthew, who
died, and he married Hannah Conyer, and
resides near Chandlerville, Cass county,
Illinois.

WILLIAM P., born July 25, 1834,
in Sangamon county, married July 14,
1853, to Mary Safley. They have four
living children, MARTHA V., STEPH-
EN L., U. S. GRANT and IDA A.,
and reside in Cotton Hill township, San-
gamon county, Illinois.

Mrs. Anna Matthew died Oct. 24,
1834, and Simon Matthew was married in
1835 to Mrs- Elizabeth DeardorfF. They
had three children in Sangamon county —

THOMAS G. married Ann Ferrigo,
and lives near Mapleton, Bourbon coun-
ty, Kansas.

MATILDA J. married Brigham
Pease,, have four children, and live in
Ball township.

ELIZA died, aged seventeen years.

Simon Matthew died June 18, 1848,
and Mrs. Elizabeth Matthew died Oct.,
1849, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.
MATTHEW, WILLIAM,
was born June 9, 1802, in Bracken county,
Ky. He was married Jan. 4, 1824, to
Sarah McDaniel, who was born August,
1808. They had six children in Kentucky,
and moved to Marion county, Ind., in
1834, and to Sangamon county, 111., arriv-
ing October, 1836, in what is now Mechan-
icsburg township, where two children
were born. Of their eight children-^-

JOHN W., born Oct. 4, 1824, in
Bracken county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, August, 1848, to Rachel

SANG AM ON COUNTT.

Lanham. They have eight children —
MARTHA E. married Blackstone Mc-
Daniel. See ins n<~me. WILLIAM H.
married Edna Vaughn, have one child,
ESTELLA, and lives with his father. ELI-
JAH T., SARAH F., IRENE, HAR-
RIET E. and MARY F., live with
their parents. JOSEPH died, aged
three years. John W. Matthew has no
education from books, but has been a
good business man in farming and stock
dealing. In 1872 he took an over dose of
quinine which totally destroyed his hear-
ing. Not being able to read or write,
and knowing nothing of sign language,
he is utterly unable to receive or commu-
nicate a thought. He lives near Dawson,
Illinois — 1874.

ROBERT W., born Jan. 27, 1826,
and died Sept., 1853.

NATHANIEL F., born Nov. 4,
1827, in Bracken county, Ky., married
Nov. 26, 1856, in Sangamon county, to
Mary McDaniel. They had seven child-
ren; the first and third, ALBERT and
DOUGLAS, died young. OLIVER F.,
BELLE M., ROBERT S., GEORGE
M. and WILLIAM J., live with their
parents, four and one-half miles southeast
of Buffalo Hart station, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

LUANNE, born Dec. 10, 1829, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
Jan., 1855, to A. J. Newhouse, have five
children, and live in Marion county,
Indiana.

JAMES H,, born March 20, 1832,
in Bracken county, Ky., brought to San-
gamon county, in 1835, married Nov. 14,
1854, in Hillsboro, to Sarah C. House,
who was born Sept. 2, 1835, in Cabarras
county, N. C. They have four children,
TOHN L., ALICE M., MARY A. and
ILLNOY C., and live one-half mile
northwest of Barclay, Illinois — 1874.

ELIZABETH M., born in Ken-
tucky, Aug. 15, 1834, married John H.
Lanham. See his name.

MART E., born Sept, 15, 1837, in
Sangamon county, married, Feb., 1857, to
William D. Turner. They have five
children, and live in Wayne county, Illi-
nois.

MARTHA 7., born Feb. i, 1840, in
Sangamon county, married, Sept., 1857,
to John Turner, had one child, and Mr.
Turner died. She married John Good-

man, has two children, and lives in
Wayne county, Illinois.

William Matthew died, April 12, 1841,
and his widow died Sept. 26, 1851, she, in
Sangamon, and he, in Logan county, Illi-
nois.

MAXWELL, ARCHIBALD,
was born July n, 1808, in Doune, Perth-
shire, Scotland. He crossed the Atlantic
ocean in 1830, first landing at Quebec,
Canada, went to Halifax, Nova Scotia,
thence to New York city, landing Nov.,
1831. He left there in June, 1832, while
the cholera was raging. After a short
stay in Trenton, N. J., he went to Phila-
delphia, and spent a whole day trying to
find a lodging place. He had plenty of
money, and could obtain all the food he
wanted, but fear of cholera prevented his
finding a resting place; and he was com-
pelled to leave the city for one night, but
returned the next day and obtained em-
ployment at his trade, stone cutting. In
the summer of 1833 he went to Raleigh,
N. C., and was employed on the State
House, being erected there. From Ral-
eigh he carrie to Springfield, Illinois, ar-
riving in April, 1838, and soon after went
to work on the State Capitol, then in
course of construction. It is now the
Court House of Sangamon county. Mar-
garet Wilson was born Oct. 10, 1818, in
Dumfriesshire, Scotland, and came to
America, with her brother William C.
Wilson, landing in New York, in 1836,
and came to Springfield, 111., in Novem-
ber, 1837. Archibald Maxwell and Mar-
garet Wilson were married, Nov. 26,
1840, in Springfield. They had nine
children in Sangamon county, two of
whom died young. Of the other seven
children —

JOHN, born Sept. n, 1842, in San
gamon county, resides with his parents.

ARCHIBALD and MARGARE7
C., twins, born July 16, 1844, 'n Sanga-
mon countv.

ARCHIBALD is a teacher, and re-
sides with his parents.

MARGARET C., was married July
31, 1866, to Calvin L. Finley, who was
born July 3, 1841, in Ohio. They have
five children, MARGARET E., ETTA
R., ARCHIE C., ROBERT J. and
MOLLIE G., and live one mile north of
Illiopolis.

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ROBERT W., born Dec. 13, 1845, in
Sangamon county, graduated March 25,
1874, in the law department of Michigan
University, at Ann Arbor. He is now
practicing law at Decatur, Illinois.

WILLIAM C., was born Oct. 21,
1850, in Sangatnon county. He gradu-
ated, Feb. 26, 1874, at Bellevue Hospital
Medical College, New York city, and
commenced practice in Chesnut, Logan
county, Illinois. Dr. Maxwell is now
practicing in Springfield — 1876.

ELIZABETH M., born June 18,
1852, died in her fifth year.

JAMES T., born July 15, 1859, re-
sides with his parents.

Archibald Maxwell and wife reside two
miles west of Illiopolis. Their marriage
and the marriage of their eldest daughter
were both solemnized by Rev. John G.
Bergen, D. D.

MAXWELL, ELIAS, wasborn
in Green county, Ohio. He was there
married to Mrs. Nancy Morgan, a native
of the same county. They moved to
Sangamon county, Illinois, about 1825,
and had six children in Island Grove —

SARAH A., born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married, had one child, and mother
and child both died.

JULIA A., born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married Thomas D. Smith. He died
Feb. 10, 1873, leaving a widow and seven
children at Humboldt, Kansas.

WILLIAM, born May 4, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married Oct. 27, 1852,
to Hannah H. Batty, a native of Eng-
land. They had eight children; three
died young, and WILLIAM H. died, aged
twelve years. RICHARD E., JOHN
E. and EMMA E. reside with their pa-
rents in New Berlin, Illinois.

ANTHONT P., born in Sangamon
county, went to the Pacific coast in 1859,
married in Oregon to a Miss Powell, has
a family, and lives near Salem, Oregon.

GEORGE M., born May i. 1837, in
Sangamon county, married March 27,
1860, to Adaline Meacham. They have
two children, LUELLA and GEORGE
H., and reside one mile north of New
Berlin, Illinois.

EDSO1V d\e(\, aged twelve years.

Mrs. Nancy Maxwell died Nov., 1837,
and Elias Maxwell married Minerva
Grant. They had one child —

L UDL O W W., born in Sangamon
county, married Ada Record. They
have one living child, and live at Shapier,
Wisconsin.

Mrs. Minerva Maxwell died, and Elias
Maxwell married Mary Ellis. Ther
had one child —

ABNER, born in Sangamon county,
enlisted April, 1861, for three years, in
Co. D, 26th 111. Inf., re-enlisted as a vet-
eran, was taken sick in the army, came
home, and died in 1864.

Elias Maxwell died April, 1848, in
Sangamon county. His widow married
Andrew Scott. See his name.

MAXCY, JOEL, was born about
1759, in Rockingham county Va. He
was a soldier in a Virginia regiment in
time of the Revolution, and was in the
battle of Guilford Court House. He re
mernbered having seen Generals Marion,
Morgan, DeKalb and Gates. He was
married after the war in Prince Edward
county, to Mrs. Susan Hill, whose maiden
name was Davis. She had five children
by her first marriage. Mr. and Mrs.
Maxcy had three children in Virginia;
and in 1798 moved to Warren county,
near Bowling Green, Ky., where one
child was born. Mrs. Susan Maxcy died
there Aug. 27, 1812. Of her four child-
ren, one only ever came to Sangamon
county.

JAMES, born Nov. 17, 1791, in
Prince Edward county, Va., and was ta-
ken by his parents in 1 798 to Warren
county, Ky. He enlisted at Bowling
Green, in 1812, in the United States
army. His regiment started the day of
his mother's death, Aug. 27, 1812, — and
returned in tour months. He enlisted
again Aug. 2^, 1813. His regiment
marched the next day. At Newport,
Ky., he was elected Second Lieutenant.
The march continued north, and he was
in the battle of the river Thames, Oct, 5,
1813, and was honorably discharged in
November following. He returned home,
and was married Dec. 29, 1813, near
Bowling Green, to Maria C. Cook. She
was born Feb. 20, 1794, near Danville,
Ky. They had four children in Ken-
tucky, and moved to Springfield, 111., ar-
riving May 3, 1834. Of their children —
JOHN C., born Nov. 22, 1814, in Bowl-
ing Green, Ky., married Sept. 22, 1835,
in Springfield to Farnetta C. Lloyd.

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They had six children. Of their five
living children, MARGARET D. married
Charles S. Zane. See his name. JAMES
R. was married in Chicago to Harriet
Dickson. MARY AGNES was married in
•Springfield, 111., to R. D. Lawrence.
They have one living child, Susie C., and
live in Springfield. MARIA c. married
George A. Davis. They have one child,
Georgia. ZACH AR Y T., born in 1851,
in Springfield. John C. Maxcy has filled
several local offices; among others, he
has been a member of the Board of Su-
pervisors of Sangamon county, and re-
sides in Springfield, 111. JAMES M.,
born Sept. 16, 1816, in Kentucky, lived in
Springfield from 1834 to 1849, when he
went to California. He was Quarter-
master in the United States army during
the rebellion, and died there in 1866.
MARGARET E., died in her fifth year.
MARY J., born July 27, 1822, in Ken-
tucky, married in Springfield to Wm. H.
Herndon. See his name. Mrs. Maria
C. Maxcy died in 1876, and James Maxcy
lives in Springfield. He was the first City
Marshal of Springfield, and for twenty-
six years in succession filled some one
of the city offices. He is now in his
.eighty-fifth year.

Joel Maxcy was married in Butler
county, Ky., to Mrs. Betsey A. Howard,
whose maiden name was Brown. She
was born Feb. 14, 1795, in Prince Ed-
ward county, Va. She had two children,
Mordecai and America Howard, both of
whom married and died in Shelby county,
111. Mr. and Mrs. Maxcy had two chil-
dren born in* Butler county, Ky., and
moved to Logan county — same State, —
where three children were born; and the
family moved to Sangamon county, 111;,
arriving Nov., 1827, at Springfield, and
soon after moved to Island Grove town-
ship, north of Little Spring creek. Of
their five children —

NELSON, born Dec. 26, 1814, in
Butler county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county April 27, 1829, to Mary Camp-
bell. They had one child, ERASTUS,
who now resides near Washington,
Texas. Nelson Maxcy married, as his
second wife, Melinda Maxcy, in Arkan-
sas. They had two children, CYRILDA
and IRENE, and Mr. Maxcy died Nov.,
1869, near Washington, Texas, leaving
his fafnily there.

BURRELL y., born Sept. 29, 1818.
in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, in
his twenty -first vear.

HARRISON B., born Sept. 26,
1820, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon
county, Dec. 7, 1845.

NAPOLEON B. died in Kentucky,
aged four years.

SAMUEL 0., born Aug. 19, 1825, in
Logan county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county Nov. 16, 1848, to Nancy Archer.
They had two children in Sangamon
county. JAMES H., born Sept. 18,
1849, married Feb. 19, 1873, to Alice S.
Jameison, who was born April 7, 1846, in
Licking county, Ohio. They reside four
miles east of Berlin. WILLIAM J.,
born Oct. 13, 1856, lives with his par-
ents. Samuel O. Maxcy and wife reside-
on the farm where his father settled in
1827. It is four miles east of Berlin.

Joel Maxcy died Dec. 27, 1827, in San-
gamon county. His widow lived with
her son, Samuel O., but went to visit her
children by the first marriage, and died in
Shelby county Feb. 11, 1856.

MAY, WILLIAM L., was an
early settler of Springfield, and was a
member of Congress from this district, as
early as 1836. I am unable to obtain the
information for a complete sketch.

McATEE, ANDREW, was
born in Kentucky, came to Sangamon
county with his brother, Smith, married
Mary A. Rape, had two children, and the
family moved to Polk county, Missouri.

McATEE. SMITH, was born in
1801 or '2, in Kentucky, came to Sanga-
mon county, about 1825, and entered
what is now part of Daniel G. Jones'
farm, in Cotton Hill township. He went
to Galena and worked in the lead mines
until he earned money to make improve-
ments on his land. He was married, in
1829, to Elizabeth Rape, in Sangamon
county. She had one child —

HENRY R., born in 1830, a-nd died,
unmarried, Nov. 14, 1856.

Mrs. Elizabeth McAtee died, and he
married her sister, Tennessee Rape, in
1831. They had seven living children in
Sangamon county.

ELIZABETH, born March 5, 1832,
married John W. Greenawalt. See his
name.

JOHN W., born Jan., 1852, died in
his nineteenth year.

EARLY SETTLERS OF

SUSANNAH, born April 2, 1836,
died in her fourteenth year.

BENJAMIN F., born March 3,

1838, married Feb. 26, 1863, to Almyra
Marshall. They have three children,
NORMAN A., LAURA BELL and
EUGENE CARROLL, and live three
miles north of Pawnee, in Ball township
-1874.

THOMAS J., born November 22,

1839, died, unmarried, Sept. 3, 1865.
SARAH, born Dec. 14, 1841, died at

twelve years of age.

MAR7HA,\>orn. Oct. 31, 1844, died,
unmarried, Aug. 19, 1865.

Mrs. Tennessee McAtee died March 9,
1847. Smith McAtee was married, Nov.,
1847, to ^rs- Margaret Wall, whose
maiden name was Jones. They had two
children —

JANE, born Dec. 17, 1849, is unmar-
ried, and lives with her mother.

MART, born July 6, 1850, in Sanga-
mon county, married, Jan. 23, 1869, to
Henry B. Rose, who was born March 12,
1844, 'n Floyd county, Ky. He was a
soldier in Co. C, and transferred to Co.
G, i4th Ky. Cav. ; enlisted for one year,
served fourteen months, and was honora-
bly discharged. Mr. and Mrs. Rose
have two children, EDGAR J. and
HENRY E., and reside near Independ-
ence, Montgomery county, Kan. — 1874.

Smith McAtee died May 19, 1851. His
widow married Felix Stovall. He died,
and she lives in Cotton Hill township,
Sangamon county.

Hezekiah McAtee, the father of Smith
and Andrew, came with them to Sanga-
mon county, and after tarrying a few days
moved on with the other members of his
familv, to Pike county, Illinois.

MeBRIDE, JAMES, was born
April n, 1782, in Bedford county, Va.
He was there married to Elizabeth Boyd,
who was born April, 1783, in the same
county. They had two children in Vir-
ginia, and moved to Madison county, Ky.,
in 1807, where eight children were born.
James McBride went to South Carolina
on business, and died there, Nov., 1826.
His family moved to Montgomery coun-
ty, Ky., where two of the children died,
and one married and settled there. Mrs.
McBride and seven of her children moved
to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in
Nov., 1837, in what is now Cooper town-

ship, north of Sangamon river. Of her
children —

JOHN, born Oct 23, 1803, in Virginia,
married in Montgomery county, Ky., to
Nancy Pebworth. She died March,
1865, in Missouri. Their only child,
JAMES, is married and lives in Indiana.
John McBride lives in Illiopolis township
with the Gragg family.

AMELIA, born March 20, 1806, in
Virginia, died in Kentucky, May, 1834.

NANCT, born Dec. n, 1808, in Ken-
tucky, died in Sangamon countv, Sept.,
1838.

JAMES, born March 26, 1811, in
Madison county, Ky., is unmarried, and
lives in Mechanicsburg.

SOPHIA, born March n, 1813, in
Madison county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, to William Gragg. Sec his
name.

THOMAS, born March n, 1816, in
Kentucky, died there, March, 1834.

CORRENA, born July 27, 1818, in
Kentucky, died in Sangamon county,
Sept., 1838.

WILLIAM, born Sept. 22, 1820, in
Kentucky, is unmarried, and resides in
Illiopolis township.

ELIZABETH, born June 17, 1824,
in Madison county, Ky., is unmarried,
and resides with her brother-in-law, Wil-
liam Gragg.

JEFFERSON, born June 8, 1826,
in Madison county, Ky., married in San-
gamon county, Jan. 5, 1847, ^° Ann M.
Hesser. They had ten children; the eld-
est died in infancy. ALBERT O., born
March 12, 1851, resides *at Buffalo.
MARIA L., born April 20, 1853, mar-
ried August 27, 1872, to Jasper Daley,
have one child, arid reside at Moravia,
Iowa. GEORGE W., born March 20,
1855, resides with his parents. ELIZA-
BETH E., born April 20, 1857, married
Jan. 15, 1873,10 Caleb Duvall, and resides
near Asherville, Kansas. FRANCES
C., SAMUEL J., NOAH E., JESSE T.
and FLORA ANNIE MAY; the five
latter reside with their parents at Mora-
via, Appanoose county, Iowa.

Mrs. Elizabeth McBride died March
27, 1856, in Sangamon county.

McCORMACK, ANDREW,
was born April 27, 1801, in Nashville,
Tenn. His father was born near Dublin,
Ireland, and his mother (whose maiden

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name was McFarren) came from the
north of Ireland. They were Protesants,
and left their native country during the
rebellion of 1798, and were married in
America, probahly in Tennessee. They
moved with their family from Nashville,
Tenn., to Fleming county, Ky., and Mr.
McCormack died there about 1815, leav-
ing the family, consisting of the mother,
four brothers and three sisters, to the care
of Andrew, whose name heads this
sketch. He managed to keep them to-
gether until they were able to take care ot
themselves. Being studiously inclined,
he worked in the day and studied at
night. He brought his mother and all
the children to Sangamon county about
1829, settling on Fancy creek. Shortly
after he went to work in the Galena lead
mines, and during some Indian troubles
there, he was Captain of a company of
volunteers. On his return he moved to
Springfield, and was married July 27,
1834, on Sugar creek, to Ann S. Short —
daughter of James Short, — who was born
Jan. 3, 1810, in Green county, Ky. They
had ten children, three of whom died in
infancy. The eldest died, aged eighteen
years. Of the other children —

MARGARET J., born Jan. 10, 1838,
in Springfield, was married Aug. 23,
1866, to David Caldwell, who was born
Oct. 16, 1839, in Dearborn county, Ind.
He enlisted Aug., 1861, in Co. B, 26th
Ind. Inf., and served three years. They
have two children living, JOHN A. and
GEORGE D., who reside with their
parents, in Springfield, Illinois.

LUCRE TIA B., born Jan. 6, 1841,
was married June 21, 1867, in Springfield,
to William C. Poffenbarger, who was
born in Sangamon county. They have
four children, ELIZABETH A., MARY
A., IRA D. and HENRIETTA A.,
who reside with their parents, on a farm
near Taylorville, Illinois.

MART E. resides with her mother.

JOHN A., born July 8, 1845, was
married Aug. 10, 1870, in Springfield, to
Matilda Morganroth, a native of McLean
county, 111. J. A. McCormack is a car-
penter, and is now employed at the T.,
W. & W. R. R. shops. He resides in
Springfield, Illinois.

ALEXANDER R., born Sept. 25,
1847, was married Oct. 12, 1875, in
Springfield, to Mrs. Fannie Rivers,

whose maiden name was Creamer. They
reside in Springfield.

ANN C., born Jan. 14, 1850, was
married May 3, 1874, in Springfield, to
Henry Schneider, a native of Switzer-
land. She resides with her mother.

Andrew McCormack was a stonecutter
and brickmason. He represented Sanga-
mon county three times in the State
Legislature, and was one of the "Long
Nine." He was Mayor of the city for
1843 and '44, and was a man of great
physical strength, standing six feet two
and a half inches in height, and weighing
two hundred and eighty pounds. Andrew
McCormack's mother died at his house in
Springfield, Jan. 21, 1842, and he died
January 24, 1857. His widow still
resides in Springfield, 111. — 1876.

McCORMACK, JOHN, bro-
ther of Andrew, married Miss Sherrill, on
Sugar creek, Sangamon county, Illinois,
in 1833. He resides at New Buda,
Iowa.

MeCORMACK, WILLIAM,
brother of Andrew and John, married
Miss White, on Fancy creek, Sangamon
county, Illinois, moved to Missouri, and
died there.

MeCORMACK, ALEXAN-
DER, brother of Andrew, John and
William, married in 1834, in Springfield,
111., to Miss Gillock. They reside in
Princeton, Missouri.

MeCORMACK, JAMES,
brother of Andrew, John, William and
Alexander, went to Lexington, Ky.,
when a young man, and resides there.
The sisters of Andrew McCormack are
dead.

MeCOY, DAVID, was born in
1790, in the State of Georgia. His par-
ents moved to Tennessee, and both died
there when he was quite young. He
went with a married sister to Ohio, and
from there to Montgomery county, 111.
Mary Kilpatrick was born March 29,
1800, in Fayette county, Ky. In 1817
her parents moved to Montgomery coun-
ty, 111. David McCoy and Mary Kilpat-
rick were there married in the fall of
1818, and moved to the south side of
Richland creek, in what became Gardner
township, Sangamon county, arriving in
the spring of 1819. They came in com-
pany with her brother, Wm. Kilpatrick,
and his wife, both couple having just

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been married. They lived there one year
before they had any knowledge of another
family coming into that region of country.
His improvements were on a piece of
school land, which was not for sale when
the other land came into market. In the
fall of 1823 Mr. McCoy moved five miles
south, to the north side of Spring creek,
in what is now Carrwright township.
They had three children on Richland
creek and eight on Spring creek ; two of
the latter died in infancy. Of their nine
children —

OWEN F., born Feb., 1820, went to
California in 1849, and died there in 1856.

HUGH, born March, 1821, died un-
married, March, 1848, in Sangamon
county.

POLL T A., born April 8, 1823, on
Richland creek, married in Sangamon
county, Oct. 29, 1844, to Elihu Scott,
who was born August 18, 1821, in Ten-
nessee. They had six children; one died
in infancy. MARY E., born July 30,
1845, married April 16, 1868, to C. How-
ard Sowle, who was born Jan. 8, 1839,
near Rochester, N. Y. They have two
children, JOSEPHINE and CHARLEY, and
reside one mile northeast of Richland
station, Sangamon county, 111. MAR-
THA J. lives with her mother. JOHN B.
resides at Kansas City, Mo, OWEN M.
and ELIHU, Jun., live with their mother.
Elihu Scott died May 21, 1869, in San-
gamon county, and his widow resides one
mile northeast of Richland Station, San-
gamon county, Illinois. — 1876.

NANCTJsom. Feb. i, 1825, on Spring
creek, married Feb. 9, 1843, to R.°Dert
Bone. They have a family of children,
and live in Menard county, five miles
north of Richland station.

THOMAS A'., born in 1827, in San-
gamon county, married in 1848, to Mar-
garet A. Kendall, have five living child-
ren, and live in Umatilla county, Oregon,
near Walla W7alla, Washington Terri-
tory.

WILLIAM A% born April, 1829, in
Sangamon county, is unmarried, and re-
sides at Bancroft, Daviess county, Mo.

JAMES P., born July 3, 1832, in
Sangamon county, married Jane L. See-
ley, had eight children, five of whom are
living with their parents in Topeka, Kan-
sas.— 1874.

RA CHEL, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married Rev. John C. VanPatten.
See his name.

JOSEPH G., born Dec., 1838, in
Sangamon county, married Sarah Epler,
had five children; two died in infancy.
The three living reside with tneir pa-
rents in Kansas City, Mo. — 1874.

Mrs. Mary McCoy died Jan 20, 1848,
and David McCoy died Jan 22, 1868, both
in Sangamon county.

David McCoy had some experience in
breaking prairie before he came to San-
gamon county. He was one of the few
early settlers who never cleared the
timber from his land, but made his farm
in the prairie. He brought a plow with
him suitable for breaking prairie. He
hung it under the axle of his wagon,
and thought he could drive the oxen and
hold the plow himself, but found that he
could not. His wife volunteered to drive
while he held the plow, but then another
difficulty arose. The baby could not be
left alone long at a time. In that dilemma
Mr. McCoy made a box similar to a cra-
dle, made it fast on the beam of the
plow, put the babe into it, and in
that way broke his land. He built a saw
mill on Spring creek, about 1825 or '26,
and added grinding machinery soon after
When that mill was put in operation,
there was great joy in the settlement, as
it was the only place where grinding
could be obtained. He adopted as a rule
that a grist belonging to a wridow should
never be tolled. He would loan money
without interest for the purpose of entering
land. Mr. McCoy went annually to St.
Louis, with strained honey and deer-skins,
and exchanged them for groceries and other
necessaries for the family. His daughter,
Mrs. Scott, remembers when the first
shoes were made for the children. The
eldest one was seven vears old.

McCOY, JAMES, was born July
25, 1791, in Nicholas county, Ky. He
was a soldier in the war of 1812, from
Kentucky, in the Dragoons under Col.
Dick Johnson, and was in the battle
where Tecumseh was killed. He returned
to Kentucky, and was married in Nicholas
county, Sept. 15, 1814, to Jane Murphy,
who was born in that county, March 29,
1494. They had two children in Ken-
tucky, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the fall of 1818, on Horse

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creek, in what is now Cotton Hill town-
ship. Mr. McCoy and Levi W. Goodan
owned a wagon together, and each had a
horse, a wife and two children, and hoth
families moved from Kentucky in that
wagon together. Their wives were two
of the six women who came to Sangamon
county that year. The wives of the two
Drennans, Joseph Dodds and Mr. Vancil
being the other four. Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
Coy had twins there, one of whom died
in infancy. In the spring of 1819 they
moved to what is now Rochester town-
ship, where seven children were born.
Of their ten children —

CAROLINE M., born July 16,
1815, in Nicholas county, Ky., was mar-
ried in Sangamon county, 111., August 17,
1834, to Lewis A. Grimsley. They had
two children — ELIZA J., born May 19,
1838, was married, June 23, 1857, to
Henry Jacoby. They had one child,
AMELIA, and Mr. Jacoby died Oct. 3,
1859. His widow and daughter reside in
Springfield. WILLIAM P., born May
9, 1840, in Rochester, is now chief clerk
in the county clerk's office, Springfield,
111. — May, 1^76. Lewis A. Grimsley
died Sept. 23, 1842, in Logan county.
Mrs. Caroline M. Grimsley died March
28, 1843, at ner father's house, near
Rochester.

SYLVESTER G., born April 28,
1817, in Nicholas county, Ky., was mar-
ried in Sangamon county, Nov., 1841, to
Mary Robinson. They had two child-
ren—JAMES B , born Oct. 5, 1842, in
Rochester, 111., served in the war to sup-
press the rebellion, and was honorably
discharged. He was married, Jan. 8,
1857 to Nellie Gillett. They had four
children, CHARLES A., TAYLOR i., SYL-
VESTER A. and MARY ARMINTA, who re-
side with their parents, near Abington,
Jefferson county, Iowa. CAROLINE,
born Oct. 2, 1844, married Hall McRey-
nolds, Jan., 1870. They have three chil-
dren, LEE, HILDA and IRA, who reside
with their parents, near Maryville, \Vap-
ella county, Iowa. Sylvester G. McCoy
died March 5, 1844, in Sangamon county,
111. His widow and children moved to
Iowa, in December of that year. She
was married, -in 1859,10 P. A. McRey-
nolds, and resides at Abington, Jefferson
county, Iowa.

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JOSEPH E., born March 12, 1819.
in what is now Cotton Hill township, and
is believed to have been the FIRST WHITE

CHILD BORN WITHIN THE PRESENT LIM-
ITS OF SANGAMON COUNTY. He had a
twin, who died in infancy. Joseph E.
McCoy was married, July 14, 1841, in
Sangamon county, to Eveline Jones. They
had two children — ELIZA A., born in
Sangamon county, is unmarried, and re-
sides in Jewell county, Kansas. JANE
E., born in Sangamon county, was mar-
ried there to James B. Ward. They have
two children, ALBERT and OTTO, and re-
side in Jewell county, Kansas. Mrs.
Eveline McCoy died, Jan. 6, 1849, in
Decatur, 111., and J. E. McCoy was mar-
ried, April 22, 1863, in the same place, to
Mary F. Hudnut, a native of Washing-
ton, Ky. They have two children, JO-
SEPH E., Jun., and JOHN E. J. E.
McCoy and family moved, in 1872, to
Jewell county, Kansas, near Cawker
city, Mitchell county, where they now
reside — 1876. When Joseph E. McCoy
and his twin sister were born, there were
twins in another family, and triplets in
still another, making seven children in
the three first births in Sangamon county.

ISAIAH T., born May 16, 1821, near
Rochester, married Lucilla Robinson.
They had four children. The eldest son,
LEWIS GRANVILLE, enlisted in the
second Iowa Infantry, and was Orderly
Sergeant on Gen. Grant's staff. He was
married in Logan county, 111., and resides
at Cincinnati, Arkansas — 1874. Mrs. Lu-
cilla McCoy died, April, 1855, *n Roches-
ter. Isaiah T. McCoy married Helen
Thompson, and she died in less than a
year. He then married Isabel Kinney.
They have five children, and reside near
Lincoln, Logan county, Illinois.

MILTON />., born Oct 16, 1823, near
Rochester, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., March 29, 1848, to Malcina
A. Cooper. They had seven children, all
born near Rochester. The fourth one,
VALMORE B., died Sept. 25, 1857, in
his third year. Of the other six — csYL-
VESTER J., born May 3, 1849, was
married, Jan. 8, 1874, to Pauline Abel,
and resides in Macon county, near War-
rensburg. JACOB C., born Oct. 19,
1850, resides near Cawker city, Mitchell
county, Kansas. LOUVILTA JANE,
JESSE K., MARY M. and LILLIE

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C. reside with their parents, at the family
homestead settled by Mr. McCoy's pa-
rents, in 1819, adjoining Rochester on the
east.

MART J., born Aug. 22, 1825, was
married near Rochester, November, 1847,
to Alexander T. Giger. See his name.

ANDERSON A., born Oct. 22, 1827,
was killed by a fall from a horse, August
i, 1846, near Rochester.

JAMES M., born March 6, 1830,
was married, in 1850, to Louisa, sister of
O. N. Stafford. They had three children.
MALCINA married John McBride, and
resides near Kansas City, Missouri.
CHARLES C. resides near Mt. Pulaski,
and JAMES M., Jun., lives near Roches-
ter. James M. McCoy died in September,
1855. His widow married James Huston,
and reside near Carroll on, Missouri.

JOHN W., born Feb. 19, 1832, en-
listed, in 1861, in the yth 111. Cav., for three
years; served more than his full time, and
was honorably discharged in 1864. He
married Deborah McBride, and mother
and child died. He was married, in 1869,
to Minerva Kearns; each marriage occured
near Broadwell, Logan county. They
have two children, and reside near Caw-
ker City, Kansas.

JULIA A., born March 31, 1834,
died Feb. 25, 1852.

James McCoy died March 25, 1844, and
Mrs. Jane McCoy died Jan. 22, 1852, both
on the farm where they settled in 1819,
adjoining Rochester on the east.

James McCoy bought the first full sack
of salt ever sold in Springfield. He paid
for it in coon skins. Salt was brought in
sacks of about four bushels. His brother,
Joseph E., says that he assisted in catch-
ing the coons, and it took all winter to
procure a sufficient number to buy that
sack of salt. This occurred in 1821 or
1822.

MeCOY, JOSEPH E., born
Oct. 5, 1797, in Nicholas county, Ky. ;
came to Sangamon county, arriving at the
house of his brother James in 1821. He
was a soldier from Sangamon county in
the Black Hawk war of 1831-2. He
never married, and resides with his
nephew, Isaiah T. McCoy, near Lincoln,
Logan county, Illinois.

McCOY, HAMILTON, was
born March 22, 1815, in Mason county,
West Virginia; came to Sangamon coun-

ty (Cotton Hill township) in 1836; was
married Jan. 3, 1838, to Mrs. Maria
Cooper, whose maiden name was Lewis.
They had ten children, — two died young.
Of frh'e other eight children —

JOHN married Elizabeth Abell, and
died, leaving two children, WILLARD
and JOHN.

S AM UJBL, "born, in Sangamon county,
enlisted in Feb., 1862, in the 33d 111. Inf.,
and was discharged on account of physi-
cal disability, Sept. 1862. Enlisted in
1863 in the i6th 111. Cav.; was captured
in Virginia, taken to Libby prison, ex-
changed, and died in Baltimore, Md.,
from the effects of his prison treatment.

POLLY died in Sangamon county
April 3, 1864, aged twenty-two years.

WILLIAM died, aged twenty-two
years, in Sangamon county. *

JAMES A. died, aged twenty -two
years.

ALFRED, born in Sangamon county,
served a term in the loth 111. Cav., and
was in Washington at the time of Presi-
dent Lincoln's assassination. He married
Jane Rhodes, and lives at Columbus,
Ohio — 1874.

DA VID, born in Sangamon county,
and went to California in 1873.

THOMAS PRESTON, born in
Sangamon county, married Margaret
Berry, and reside one and one-half miles
southwest of Brecken ridge.

Mrs. Maria McCoy died Sept. 14, 1872,
in Sangamon county, and Hamilton Mc-
Coy resides near the old Brecken ridge
mill, in Cotton Hill township, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

MeCONNELL, JAMES, was
born in 1789, near Belfast, Ireland. Sarah
Smith was born at the same place, in
1787. They were married in i8ii,and
soon after embarked for America, landing
in New York City. In a short time he
went to Belleville, New Jersey, where he
labored in a powder mill three years,
without losing a day. The war with
England, from 1812 to 1815, was then in
full force, and caused a great demand for
powder. Mr. McConnell having learned
all the processes of manufacturing the
same, and was an especial adept in the
most difficult part — that of refining salt-
petre. He went to Madison county, New
York, and established works on his own
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powder there, seven or eight years, when
he turned his attention to farming and
raising fine stock in the same countyk
After making several trips to Kentucky,
selling stock, he was advised to take some
to Illinois. Acting upon this advice^ he
embarked at Pittsburg with a lot of jacks
and jennets, landed them at Shawnee-
tovvn, and drove them from there to
Springfield, arriving in the fall of 1840,
He had no thought of making his home
here, but was so well pleased with the
country that he bought the land about
three miles south of Springfield, making
part of the farms on which two of his
sons now reside. He went back to New
York, settled up his business, and came
with his family the next year. His re-
moval was the cause of several other fam-
ilies coirting, also. Mr. McConnell
brought a flock of about two hundred
fine merino sheep, and at the same time
some thorough-bred Berkshire hogs. His
son, Edward F., brought a flock of merino
sheep, also. This was about the first effort to
introduce fine blooded sheep and hogs into
Sangamon county.

Mr. and Mrs. McConnell had one child
in New Jersey and seven in New York,
namely —

MART,\>Gv\\ in 18 [2, in New Jersey,
married in New York to John Buck, and
died there. Mr. Buck married again
and resides in Auburn, Illinois.

SARAH, born in 1814, in Madison
county, N. Y., was married there to
Franklin B. Hoppin. See his name.

EDWARD F., born April 30, 1816,
in Madison county, N. Y., married there
to Ann M. Hoppin. They had one son.
JAMES S., born Feb. 9, 1843, at the
home of his grandfather, near Spring-
field, 111., married June 21, 1866, in Gales-
burg, 111., to Laura Lavinia Pike, who
was born Feb. 18, 1845, at Middleburg,
Elkhart county, Indiana. They had two
children, EDWARD PIKE and MARY I.AVI-
NIA; the latter died Dec., 1875, in her
sixth year. James S McConnell, son
and wife reside near Chatham, 111. Mrs.
Ann M. McConnell died June 14, 1853,
near Chatham, aged thirty-two years. Ed-
ward F. McConnell was married March 13,
1855, at Eaton, N. Y., to Mary P. Hoppin.
They have no living children, and reside
two miles southwest of Chatham, Sanga-
mon county, 111. E. F. McConnell has,

from the time he came to the county,
been engaged in farthing, making wool
growing a specialty. Previous to 1866
the McConnell and Hoppin flocks of
sheep had been developed and brought up
to a standard of excellence not equaled in
any of the older eastern States for weight
of carcass^ length of staple^ density of
fibre, and average weight of fleece per
head, These essential merits were
brought forth by the highly nutritious
grasses and fattening properties of the
corn raised in Sangamon county. Mr.
McConnell was Major in the New York
State Militia previous to his removal west.
When he came it was by private con-
veyance, that being before the days of
railroads. He has since returned in as
many hours as it required days to travel
over the route the first time.

ANDRE WB., born Jan., 1819, in Madi-
son county, N. Y., was married there to
Augusta Rogers. They have eight chil-
dren born in Sangamon county, namely :
MERCY ADELIA married DeWitt
Smith. See his name. FRANK R.,
married Belle Merriman, has two child-
ren, and lives near Victoria, Victoria
county, Texas. EDWARD O. married
Luella Patteson, has one child, and lives
at Bates, Sangamon county, 111. SARAH
A. married S. Willis Merriman, has one
child, and lives near Victoria, Texas.
JOHN D., WILL A., AUGUSTA and
ANDREW ; the four latter reside with
their parents. A. B. McConnell was
elected President of the Illinois State
Agricultural Society four years in succes-
sion, i865-'66-'67 and '68. In 1870 he
was elected Sheriff of Sangamon county
for two years. He resides now — 1876 —
three miles south of Springfield, on part
of the land purchased by his father in
1840.

ELIZA, born • in Madison county,
New York, married there to Charles T.
Hoppin. See his name.

JOHN, born Dec. 5, 1824, in Madi-
son county, N. Y., married in 1848, at
Chatham, Illinois, to Elizabeth Parsons,
who was born March 10, 1831, in Con-
necticut. They have two sons born in
Sangamon county, SAMUEL P., born
July 5, 1849, married Feb., 1876, in Chic-
ago, to Sarah Rogers, daughter of Judge
J. G. Rogers. S. P. McConnell is a prac-
ticing lawyer in Chicago, and resides

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

there. JAMES H. is engaged in business
in Springfield. At the beginning of the
rebellion John McConnell raised a com-
pany, which was assigned us Co. A, 3d
111. Cav. He was promoted, Sept. u,
1861, to Major of the regiment, with
which he served until until March 18,
1863, when he resigned. While con-
nected with the Third Cavalry, Major
McConnell commanded the only cavalry
engaged in the battle of Pea Ridge, Mar.
6, 7 and 8, 1862. Col. G. M. Dodge, of
the Fourth Iowa Infantry, commanding
the brigade, in his report says: "Where
so many fought gallantly, it would be
hard to distinguish; but I noticed the
daring bravery of Major McConnell, of
the Third Illinois Cavalry, who supported
me on my right." Gen. E. A. Carr, who
commanded the Fourth Division, in a let-
ter dated April 14, 1862, after apologizing
for the delay on account of a wound in his
right hand, says:v "Otherwise, I should
have taken the liberty of writing to you
long before this, to congratulate you on
having such a noble man for a husband.
His conduct on the day of battle,
and all other days, was admired by every-
one. With about two hundred and seventy-
five men he kept back a line of the
enemy four or five deep and three-quarters
of a mile long, comprising several thou-
sand, and prevented them from getting
around so as to fall on our flank and rear.
Tell his father that he has great reason to
be proud of such a son." Major McCon-
nell was appointed, June 15, 1863, Colonel
of the 5th 111. Cav. He was physically
unable for duty until May 27, 1864, when
he was mustered in and took command,
the regiment then being in Mississippi.
Col. McConnell was appointed, March
13, 1865, to Brev. Brig.-General. His
commission was issued April 14, 1865,
having been signed on the morning of
that day by President Lincoln, being one
among the last acts of his official life, as
he was assassinated on the evening of
that day. Gen. McConnell's regiment
was assigned to the First Brigade, Second
Division, Major-Gen. Custer commanding.
They moved by way of Red river to
Hempstead, Texas, where they remained
from August to October 6, and then
moved to Springfield, 111., where Gen.
McConnell was mustered out with the
• Fifth Cavalry, Oct. 27, 1865. Gen. John

McConnell is a farmer, and resides on
part of the land bought by his father in
1840, three miles south of Springfield.

JANE, born April 15, 1829, in Madi-
son county, N. Y., married in Sangamon
county, in 1842, to Franklin Fassett, a
native of Ohio. They have two daugh-
ters, SARAH E. and JENNIE, and re-
side on south Sixth street, Springfield,
111. Mr. Fassett is a farmer, and is en-
gaged in business in Springfield.

Mrs. Sarah McConnell died Jan. 17,
1855, and James McConnell died Jan. 7,
1867, both in Woodside township, three
miles south of Springfield, 111.

In consequence of his efforts to intro-
duce improved stock, and his advanced
ideas generally on the subject of cultivat-
ing the soil, James McConnell was by
common consent assigned an honorable
position among the farmers of Illinois.
He was one of the earliest farmers who
were in favor of forming a State Agricul-
tural Society, and was president of the
convention assembled in 1852, in Spring-
field, that organized the Illinois State
Agricultural Society, now called the Illi-
nois State Board of Agriculture.

MeCLEES, THOMAS, was

born about 1775, in Pennsylvania, and
went to Fleming county, Ky., and from
there to Ohio, where he was married
Sept. 9, 1804, to Mary Jameison, who
was born in Fleming county, Ky. They
had two children in Ohio, and returned to
Kentucky, where six children were born.
The family moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the fall of 1830, and set-
tled five miles southeast of Springfield.
Of their eight children —

JANETTA, born Nov. 18, 1805, in
Ohio, married Benj. C. Law. See his name.

JOHN, born Jan. 25, 1807, in Ohio,
never came to Illinois. History not
known.

WILLIAM, born in Fleming county,
Ky., came with the family to Sangamon
county, and died at Mineral Point, Wis.,
in 1851.

DANIEL, born about 1812 or '13, in
Fleming county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Margaret Clark. They
had three children, and he went to Cali-
fornia in the early gold-digging times,
and his family went to him. His daugh-
ter MARY J., married John Spence.
He served three years in a Wisconsin

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493

regiment; was starved in Andersonville
prison, and died after coming home. His
widow lives in Springfield. CHRIS-
TIANA married Thomas Petty, and
lives near Sangamon station. Daniel
McClees lives in Washington Territory,
near Puget Sound.

LOUISA, born about 1815, in Flem-
ing county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county to John Lewis, who died, and she
married Peter Carril, and had one child,
JAMES T., who is married, and resides
near Quincy, Mo. Peter Carril died, and
his widow lives with her sister, Mrs.
Law.

G^C^born Feb. 22, 1817, in Flem-
ing county, Ky., married Levi W.Jones.
See his name.

THOMAS, born Nov. 18, 1818, in
Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, in
his twenty-fourth year.

JAMES, born Oct. 17, 1820, in Ken-
tucky, went from Sangamon county to
California soon after the discovery of
gold, and has not been heard of since
about 1850.

Mrs. Mary McClees died in Sept.,
1831, and Thomas McClees died in 1852,
both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

MCCLELLAND, ROBERT,

was born about 1789, in Ohio. His
mother died when he was quite young,
and his father died a few years later. He
went to White county, 111., when he was
a young man. Charlotte Council was
born about 1797, near Tarboro, N. C., and
was taken by her parents to White
county, 111. Robert McClelland and
Charlotte Council were there married,
had two. children in that county,
and moved to what became Fancy Creek
township, Sangmon county, Sangamon
county, arriving in Aug., 1819, where
ten children were born. Of their child-
ren—

ELIZABETH, born in White coun-
ty, 111., married in Sangamon county to
Conrad Crawley. They had four child-
ren, and moved to St. Joseph, Mo., and
from there to Liberty, Mo , where Mrs.
Crawley died. Mr. Crawley returned to
Sangamon county with their children.
Their son, JAMES M. Crawley, married
Miss Shoup, and resides half a mile east
of Crow's Mill. See Shoup family.
Thomas died early in 1872, at the
house of his brother, James M.

JAMES, born in 1818, in White
county, 111., married in Sangamon
county to Mary Brown. She was
born Dec. 25, 1818. They had nine
living children in Sangamon county.
ROBERT married Ann Groves. They
have one child, MINNIE, and reside two
and a half miles northeast of Williams-
ville. THOMAS L. enlisted Aug. 12,
1862, for three years, in Co. C, ii4th Jll.
Inf. He was taken prisoner at the battle
of Guntown, Miss. June n, 1864. Spent
four months in Andersonville prison, and
was I'educed from 160 to 100 pounds by-
starvation. He was taken to Millen, Ga.,
and remained two months. He was
paroled and exchanged Dec., 1864; served
his full term, and was honorably discharg-
ed Aug. 12, 1865. He was married to
Nancy J. Jones. They had three child-
ren, CHARLES B., NOAH F. and IRWIN S.,

and reside two miles north of Williams-
ville. MARTHA J. died, aged eleven
years. JOHN W., married Susan Grove^s.
They have one child, MABEL, and reside
three-quarters of a mile southeast of
Williamsville. CHARLES lives with
his mother. NANCY A. married Wal-
ter S. Redford, and lives in Illiopolis.
GEORGE, MARY and JAMES live
with their mother. James McClelland
died Sept. 25, 1865, and his widow resides
one and a half miles northeast of Wil-
liamsville.

WILLIAM born Jan. 19, 1820, in
Sangamon county, married Aug. 29,
1844, to Margaret Sales. She was born
Aug. 10, 1829, in Sangamon county.
They have nine children. MARY E.
married Homer N. Bryant. He served
three years in the I I4th 111. Inf., and was
honorably discharged. They reside at
Lone Tree. Neb. LUCINDA J. married
David F. Hurst. He was a soldier in a
Pennsylvania regiment. They live near
Elkhart, 111. GEORGE married Mary
E. Shively, and live near Lone Tree,
Neb. THOMAS lives with his mother.
MELISSA married March 12, 1872, to
Asa Canterberry, and live near Athens,
111. EMMA, EDGAR, WILLIAM,and
FLORENCE live with their mother.

William McClelland died April 17,
1876, and his widow resides three and one-
half miles northwest of Sherman, Illinois-

NANCT, born Aug. 17, 1821, in San-
gamon county, married in 1846, to Charles

494

EARLY SETTLERS OF

McCrea, who was born in 1818, in Penn.
They moved to Beardstown, and resided
there until two children were born.
JAMES E., born Jan. 4, 1847, unmarried,
and resides at Long Valle}, California.
MARY F., born Dec. 3, 1849, married
William F. King. See his name.
Charles McCrea went to California in
1849, was about starting for home when
last heard from in 1855, and it is believed
by his friends that he was murdered for
his money. Mrs. McCrea was married
in 1856 to John W- Beck. They had
three children, HARRY, ANNA and
EMMA. Mr. Beck died in 1868, and
his family reside in Petersburg.

, born in Sangarnon county,
married Stephen Brittin. They had six
children. CHARLOTTE married John
Lake. EVANS married Catharine Lake,
and reside in Iowa. Mr. and Mrs. Brittin
both died in Fancy Creek township.

JOHN, born Sept. i, 1824, in Sanga-
mon county, married Oct. 12, 1848, to
Elizabeth Mitts. They have seven child-
ren. JANE married S. Sanford Turley.
They have four children", NORA L , I.UEL-
LA, JOHN E. and OLLIE M., and reside one
and a half miles south of Williamsville.
Mr. Turley enlisted in Co. B, nth Mo.
Inf., in July, 1861; served full term, and
was honorably discharged Aug. 4, 1864.
ROBERT E. is a practicing physician.
MARTHA E\, CHARLOTTE F., AN-
NIE and ALICE, twins, and MARY
L., are unmarried, and reside with their
parents, at Williamsville — 1874.

ROBER7\\>Q\-n April 17, 1827, mar-
ried Nov. 23, 18^4, to Martha Mitts.
They have five children, MARIETTA,
GEORGE A., WILLIAM H., KATE
and LEWIS, and reside two and a half
miles northwest of Williamsville.

LUCINDA died in 1850, at twenty-
two years of age.

MART, born in Sangamon county,
married Mr. Harper, who died, and she
married James Washington. She resides
in St. Joseph, Missouri.

GEORGE W., born Feb. 27, 1832, in
Sangamon county, married Dec. 21, 1858,
to Mary C. Brown, who was born July
20, 1837. They have four children,
FREDERICK, FRANK, PAUL and
ARTHUR, and reside three miles north-
west of Sherman.

THOMAS, born March 26, 1835, in
Sangamon county, married Oct. 2, 1860,
to Sarah J. Brown, who was born Nov.
3, 1839, in Sangamon county. They had
three children. MINNIE K. died in
her fourth year. CHARLIE B. and
EDWIN live with their mother. Thos.
McClelland died April 24, 1876, on his
farm, six miles southeast of Springfield,
111., where his family reside.

JULIA A. is unmarried, and lives at
Petersburg, Illinois.

Robert McClelland died Oct., 1860,
and Mrs. Charlotte McClelland died May,
1868, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

MeCOLLY, JOHN, a native of
New York, was married in St. Lawrence
county to Sarah Bryant, a sister to Mrs.
Isaac Bates, and cousin to William Cul-
len Bryant. They came to Sangamon
county in 1837, with tne family of Isaac
Bates, settled in Fancy creek township,
raised a family, and in 1856 moved to
Lynn county, Iowa.

MeCOMAS, ELISHA, was
born March 25, 1803, in Cabell county,
West Virginia. He was there married,
March 30, 1825, to Sophia Shelton, who
was born there, Oct. 9, 1809. They moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving April
30, 1825, in what is now Curran township.
They had nine living children in Sanga-
mon county, namely —

DIKE, born April 18, 1827, married
May, 1848, in Sangamon county, to Nancy
Murphy. They moved to Wayne coun-
ty, Iowa, in April, 1853. He was killed
March 6, 1856, by the fall of a tree,
leaving a widow and three children,
two of whom have since djed. The
living child, GEORGE, married Lorena
McMurray, and lives in Wayne county,
Iowa. His mother is married, and lives
in the same county.

JINCT, born -May 15, 1829, married
Henry Davis. She died, Nov., 1864, leav-
ing her husband and five children in
Wayne county, Iowa.

CYNTHIA, born April 8, 1831, mar-
ried Sept. 7, 1854, to James M. Gibson.
See his name.

MARY E., born Sept. i, 1835, mar-
ried Dec., 1853, to Andrew J. Davis.
They have five children, and live in
Wayne county, Iowa.

SARAH J., born March 14, 1838,
married Sept. 7, 1865, to William H.

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Featherston. She had three children,
and died in Missouri. Mr. F. and two
children live in Curran township, Sanga-
mon county. The other child lives with
her aunt, Mary E. Davis, in Wayne coun-
ty, Iowa.

ELISHA T., born Sept. 14, 1840. en-
listed August 5, 1862, in Co. I, 73d 111.
Inf., for three years. He was wounded
at the battle of Stone's river, Dec. 31,
1862, and died in hospital, Jan. 6, 1863,
near Murfreesboro, Tenn.

SOPHIA A., born Dec. 24, 1842, mar-
ried March 7, 1864, to Thomas B. Gib-
son. See nis name.

FRANCES 7., born April 19, 1845,
married Nov. 13, 1867, to Ebenezer H.
VanDoren. See his name.

JESSIE M. is unmarried, and lives
with her mother.

Elisha McComas died Nov. 30, 1863,
and his widow resides two and a half
miles south of Curran, Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois. — 1876.

McCOMAS, DAVID, a brother
to Elisha, born about 1813, in. Cabell
county, West Virginia, came to Sanga-
mon county in 1827, was married in the
spring of 1831, to Nancy Shelton. They
had seven children. The father died in
LaSalle county, and the mother in Iowa.
Their daughter —

LOUISA married James M. Shelton.
See his name.

MeCUNE, GAVIN, was born
July 7, 1788, in Pennsylvania, and was
taken by his parents in 1796 to Nicholas
county, Ky. He was there married to
Hannah Ardry, a native of that county.
They had six children in Kentucky, and
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1832 in what is now Cooper
township. Of their six children —

MART, born Dec. 27, 1811, in Ky.,
married James Bashaw. See his name.

ISABEL, born Oct., 1813, in Ky.,
married William S. Bashaw. See his
name.

JANE, born about 1815 in Kentucky,
lives with Solomon Reed, near Roches-
ter, Illinois.

JAMES M., born Feb. 27, 1817, in
Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county Feb. 24, 1842, to Nancy
Whitford. She was born June 15, 1823,
in Wayne county, Illinois. They had
eight children in Sangamon county.

WILLIAM, born Dec. 29, 1842, enlisted
Aug., 1862, for three years, in Co. I,
i I4th 111. Inf. ' He was captured June
10, 1864, at the battle of Guntown, Miss.;
spent nine months in a rebel prison in
Alabama, exchanged at Vicksburg, and
honorably discharged at the end of the
rebellion. He was married Jan., 1870, to
Mary E. Frankeberger; have one child,
and live near Nashville, Barton county,
Mo. HENRY C., born Feb. 3, 1844,
married June 7, 1865, to Margaret
Thompson, who was born April 26, 1841,
in Fairfax county, Va. They have two
children, ALMA and IONA, and live five
miles east of Rochester. ELMIRA J.,
born June 3, 1847, married Sept. i, 1864,
to Charles Flagg; have two children, and
live near Nashville, Mo. CHARLES
A. lives at Decatur, 111. MARY A.,
AMANDA A. and ROBERT W. live
with their parents. JOHN W. died Sept.
23, 1875. James M. McCune and family
live three miles east of Rochester, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

JOHN M., born May 20, 1820, in
Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, Jan. 25, 1844, to Jane Baker.
They have five children. CAROLINE,
born Nov. 19, 1844, married Aug. 28,
1866, to Robert Martin, who was born
July 3, 1840, in county Do\tn, parish of
Killylaigh, Ireland; came to America and
to Sangamon county in 1856; enlisted
July 25, 1862, in Springfield, in Co. I,
H4th 111. Inf.; served three years, and
was honorably discharged July, 1865.
Mr. and Mrs. Martin have three children,
JOHN w., CHARLES E. and JAMES A., and
reside eight miles due east of Springfield.
MARY E., born Aug. 3, 1848, married
April 7, 1867, to William J. Nutt, who
was born July 10, 1841, in Orange county,
N. Y.; came to Sangamon county in 1857:
enlisted July 25,. 1862, for three years, in
Co. I, ii4th 111. Inf.; served to the end of
the rebellion, and was honorably dis-
charged Aug. 3, 1865, with the regiment.
Mr. and Mrs. Nutt have three children,
CHARLES E., OTHO L. and ROBERT E., and
reside eight miles east of Springfield.
ELIZA A., born March 3, 1851, married
Sept. n, 1873, to David H. Gobin, who
was born Oct. 8, 1844, in Shelby county.
111.; came to Sangamon county in 1856:
enlisted Oct. 8, 1862, as musician in Co. I.
ii4th 111. Inf.; served three years, and

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was honorably discharged Oct. 8, 1865.
Mr. Gobin is a preacher in the United
Brethren church, and resides at Taylor-
ville, Illinois. LUELLA A., born June
16, 1858, and IDA B., born Jan. 9, 1865,
reside with their parents, three miles east
of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ROBERT, born in Kentucky in 1822,
died in Sangamon county Sept. 1843.

Mrs. Hannah McCune died April 22,
1848, and Gavin McCune was married to
Ruth Hamm. He died Aug. 29, 1853, in
Sangamon county, Illinois.

McDANIEL, HENRY, was
born May 20, 1781, near Harrisburg, Pa.,
and about 1786 he was taken by his pa-
rents to Clark county, Ky. In 1809 he
entered the ministry in connection with
the M. E. church. From that time until
1822 he gave his entire time to preaching,
so far as his health would permit. He
was stationed at Georgetown, Lexington,
Louisville and Danville, respectively. His
wife died in Kentucky without children,
and he came to Sangamon county in 1834,
returned to Kentucky, and brought out
some of his brothers in 1836. He was
married in 1838, in Sangamon county, to
Amanda Carrico. They had five child-
ren—

CATHARINE, born Feb. 22, 1839,
married Thomas Hunter. They had two
children. FRANCES E. lives with her
mother, and CLARETTA lives with her
grandmother McDaniel. Thomas Hun-
ter died in 1866, and his widow married
Austin Phelps, and lives in Spi'ingfield.

AJSfGELINE, born July 9, 1841, in
Sangamon county, married John T. Mc-
Elfresh, have three children, and reside in
Decatur, 111.

CHARLES B., born Feb. 7, 1845, in
Sangamon county, enlisted in 1862, for
three years, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf., was
wounded at the battle of Stone's river,
Dec. 31, 1862, recovered, and was trans-
ferred to Bat. G, First Mo. Art., was with
Sherman in his march to the sea, and was
with the force that liberated the last of
the Union men from Andersonville
prison. He was honorably discharged, in
1865, was married, Jan. 22, 1866, in
Springfield, to Martha E. Matthews, have
three children, JOHN L., JENNIE F.
and HENRY H., and live in Mechanics-
burg, Illinois.

JOHN A., born March 19, 1848,
and

REUBEN T., born Aug. 24, 1852, re-
sides with their mother.

Rev. Henry McDaniel died, Aug. 10,
1863, in Mechanicsburg, and his widow
resides two and one-half miles southwest
of Dawson.

The mother of Henry, James, William,
Jonathan and Robert McDaniel, came
with her two youngest sons to Sangamon
county, and died, aged near one hundred
years.

McDANIEL, WILLIAM,
was born Oct. 20, 1786, in Clarke county,
Ky. He was married there to Margaret
McDonald. They had twelve living
children in Clark and Harrison counties.
The family moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in Nov., 1833, and setlled
near Mechanicsburg. Of their child-
ren—

LUANNA, born March 22, 1809, in
Clark county, Ky., married there May 15,
1828, to Thomas Sparks, and came with
her parents to Sangamon county, in 1833.
They had seven children — MARY E.,
born March 8, 1829, in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Solomon
Lanham. See his name. MARGA-
RET A. married James Lawyer, and
lives in Salisbury. CYNTHIA A. mar-
risd George Bowers. EMILY W. mar-
ried H. H. Clemons, and lives near Dover,
Shawnee county, Kansas. JOHN W.,
born June n, 1838, served three years as
a Union soldier, from Illinois, about one
year in rebel prisons. He was married to
Mrs. Sarah Myers, whose maiden name
was Curry. They have two children,
MARY c. and SARAH M., and live near
Dawson, 111. MARTHA died, in 1865,
aged twenty-two years. HARRIET B.
married D. W. Walters, had one child,
MATTIE E., and Mrs. Walters died, Feb.
2, 1872. Thomas Sparks died, Feb. 14,
1851, in Sangamon county, and Mrs.
Luanna Sparks died, June 22, 1873, in
Missouri, caused by an accident while rid-
ing in a spring wagon.

SALLT, born Aug. 28, 1811, in Clark
county, Ky., married there to Thomas
Correll. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born in 1811, in
Kentucky, married there to Frederick
Sutcliffe, and came with her parents to
Sangamon county, had three children,

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and Mr. S. died. The was twice married
after, and died, leaving two children, in
Iowa.

MART A., born Aug. 4, 1813, in
Clark county, Ky., married James Herrin.
See his name.

DA VrID S., horn in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Matilda A.
Shinkle. He died, and his widow married
Aaron Morgan. See his name.

CLARK, born in Kentucky, died in
Sangamon county, in his twentieth year.

ROBERl^ P., born Sept. 4, 1819, in
Harrison county, Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county, Jan. 18, 1844, to Eli-
zabeth R. Correll. He died, Aug. 5,
1851, leaving two children — RUFUS
died, aged eighteen years, and ROBERT
W., aged two years. His widow married
James H. McDaniel. See his name.

MARTHA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Aaron Mc-
Intire. They both died in Fulton county,
Mo., leaving several children.

MARGARET, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Jacob
Maxwell, and died, without children.

WILLIAM, born in Kentucky, died
in Sangamon county, aged nineteen
years.

JAMES H., born May 12, 1827, in
Harrison county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, Nov. 3, 1853, to Mrs. Eliza-
beth R. McDaniel, whose maiden name
was Correll. They had three children —
IRVIN died, aged four years. JENNIE
and LIZZIE live with their parents, two
miles south of Dawson, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

JOSEPH, born in Kentucky, raised
in Sangamon county, is unmarried, and
lives at Farmington. Iowa.

William McDaniel died, January, 1852,
and his widow died, Dec. 31, 1856, both
in Sangamon county.

McDANIEL, JpNATHAN,
was born April 8, 1796, in Clark county,
Ky. He was married March 23, 1820, in
Harrison county, Ky., to Elizabeth Cor-
rell. They had five living children in
the latter county, and the family moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the
fall of 1835, in what is now Mechanics-
burg township, where they had two chil-
dren. Of their children —

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LUANN, born Jan. 6, 1823, in Ken-
tucky, married Jonathan Huckleberry.
See his name. She died Jan. 2, 1855.

MARTHA, born August i, 1825, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to John Langley. She died in 1850, and
Mr. L. married Mrs. Elizabeth Smith,
whose maiden name was Huckleberry.

ROBERT, born 'Oct. 30, 1827, in
Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, Feb.
22, 1855.

ELIZABETH, born Sept. 23, 1834,
in Harrison county, Ky., married in San-
gamon county, April 9, 1861, to Jacob
Myers, who was born Oct. 22, 1831, in
Berks county, Pa. He has three children
by a former marriage, WILLIAM, ELI
and MARIA, and by the present wife,
EDWIN, OLIVER and LENA. Mr.
and Mrs. Myers reside three miles north
of Illiopolis, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JAMES, born Sept. 22, 1837, m San-
gamon county, died in his sixth year.

MARIA, born Nov. 26, 1838, in San-
gamon county, married John W. North.
See his name.

Jonathan McDaniel died Jan. 1868, in
Sangamon county, and Mrs. Elizabeth
McDaniel resides with her daughters,
Mrs. Myers and Mrs. North. — 1876.

MeDANIEL, JAMES, an elder
brother to Robert, was born Sept. 2, 1781,
in Pennsylvania. His father, Robert Mc-
Daniel, was a Revolutionary soldier,
served three years and six months, and
was present when Cornwallis surrendered
at Yorktown, Va. When James was a
child the family moved to Stroude's sta-
tion, Clark county, Ky. He was there
married to Mary Matthews. They had
one child there, and moved to Bracken
county, where they had three living child-
ren, and the family moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving, in 1838, at Buffalo
Hart Grove. Of their four children —
JEPTHA, born in 1806, in Clark
county, Ky., married in Bracken county,
and came to Sangamon county with his
father in 1838. They had one child in
Kentucky and seven in Sangamon county.
ELIZABETH married Levi McDaniel.
See his name. MARY married William
Matthews, have five children and live in
Buffalo Hart township. MARTHA
married Oliver McDaniel. See his name.
JOHN T., unmarried, is a teacher. Mrs.
Sarah McDaniel died in 1852, and Jeptha

EARLY SETTLERS OF

MARY, born Dec. 16, 1820, in Ken-
tucky, died in Sangamon county, in her
twenty-seventh year.

McDaniel died in 1856, both in Sangamon
county.

LUANN, born March, 1810, married
Glover Matthews, and had eleven child-
ren. He died August, 1855, and his wid-
ow resides in Buffalo Hart township.

MARY, married Thomas Elliott, and
both died.

WILLIAM married Nancy A. Smith,
had two children, and he died. She mar-
ried again, and is now a widow near Riv
erton.

Mrs. Mary McDaniel died in 1845, and
James McDaniel died in 1861, both in
Sangamon county.

MeDANIEL, ROBERT, was
born Feb. 14, 1799, in Clark county, Ky.
He was married in Bracken county,
March 25, 1825, to Jemima Correll. She
was born July 10, 1799, in Montgomery
county, Ky. They had five children in
Bracken county, and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1835, m
Mechanicsburg township, and the next
year to Buffalo Hart grove, where one
child was born. Of their six children —

GEORGE, born June 9, 1826, in
Bracken county, Ky., married Oct. 31,
1854, in Sangamon county, to Louisa J.
Constant. They had two children, ED-
WIN A. and ELMER W.,and live three
miles southeast of Buffalo Hart Station,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

LE VI, born Dec. 3, 1827, in Ken-
tucky, married Feb. 16, 1871,10 Elizabeth
McDaniel, and lives with his parents.

JOSEPH, born Dec. 12, 1830, in
Kentucky, married Feb. 16, 1864, in San-
gamon county, to Mary E. Furrow. She
was born August 7, 1836, near Piqua, O.
They live in Buffalo Hart township, San-
gamon county, Illinois.

MARY H., born Jan. 24, 1833, niar'
ried Nov. 26, 1856, to Nathaniel F. Mat-
thews. See his name.

HARRISON, born June 2, 1835, in
Bracken county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, Feb. 6, 1868, to Clarrissa M.
Priest, who was born Oct. 20, 1846, in
St. Lawrence county, N. Y. They had
three children, two of whom died in in-
fancy. ROBERT F. resides with his
parents, one mile east of Buffalo Hart
Station, Sangamon county, Illinois.

OLIVER, born Dec. 27, 1837, in
Sangamon county, married July 16, 1867,
to Martha McDaniel. They have three
living children, BERTHA MAY,
GRACE LOU and JOSEPH A., and
live in Buffalo Hart township, Sangamon
county.

Robert McDaniel and his wife now —
1876 — reside three miles east of Buffalo
Hart Station, on the farm where they set-
tled in 1836.

McDANNOLD, MRS. ELIZ-
ABETH C., whose maiden name was
lies, a sister of Elijah and Washington
lies, was born Dec. 16, 1802, in Bath
county, Ky., and married there Oct. 8,
1822, to John E. McDannold, who was
born Nov. 7, 1795, in Kentucky. Mr.
McDannold died Nov. 6, 1833, in Ken-
tucky, leaving five children. Mrs. Mc-
Dannold came with her family to Spring-
field, 111, in Oct., 1836. Her daughter—

PARTHENIA, born July 6, 1823, in
Mount Sterling, Montgomery county,
Ky., was married April 9, 1845, to Gen.
James W. Singleton. They have two
children, LOUISA E. and JAMES J.,
and live at Quincy, Illinois.

Mrs. E. C. McDannold married -
Strawbridge. See his name.

McELVAIN, SAMUEL, was
born Feb. 22, 1794, in Augusta county, Va,
Arriving at manhood, he went to Adair
county, Ky. He enlisted in the army
against Great Britain, and was in the bat-
tle of New Orleans, Jan. 8, 1815. Re-
turning to Adair .county, after the war,
he was married Jan. 4, 1816, to Penelope
Abell. They had five children, and the
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving Sept.. 1828, in what is now
Auburn township. Of their children —

HARRIET N., born Oct. 23, 1816,
in Kentucky, married May 4, 1844, 'n
Sangamon county, to Harvey Walker, of
Cass county, and died while on a visit to
the old homestead, in Sangamon county,
June 17, 1849, leaving three childien, viz:
SUSANNAH married a Mr. Wood, of
Iowa. They have six children, and live at
Indianola, Warren county, [owa. WIL-
LIAM studied law, and died in 1868.
HARRIET N. finished a collegiate
. course, and died Sept., 1874.

MARGARET J., born Sept. i, 1819,
in Kentucky, married Feb. i, 1844, in

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Sangamon county, to Mat hew Patton.
See his name.

WILLIAM A., born Dec. i, 1822,
in Kentucky, married Nov. i, 1853, in
Sangamon county, to Angeline A. Sowell.
They have six children, namely : HOW-
ARD A., SAMUEL S., JAMES W.,
XELLIE J., MARGARET A. and
LIZZIE G. W. A. McElvain resides
one and a half miles southwest of Auburn,
Sangamon county, 111., near where his
father settled in 1828.

JAMBS E., born Nov. 16, 1825, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Nancy Sowell, and moved to Missouri
in Oct., 1857, and from there to Butler
county, Neb., in March, 1871. They
have eight children, — seven sons and one
daughter. WILLIAM married Miss
Richardson, of Missouri, in 1871, and re-
sides near Hiawatha, Butler county, Neb.
The other seven live with their parents,
near Hiawatha, Butler county, Nebraska.

THERESA, M. H., born Nov. 7,
1827, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county Oct. 18, 1849, to B. M. White.
They had eight children, — five sons and
three daughters, and live at Fountain,
Miami county, Kansas.

Samuel McElvain died April i, 1848,
and his widow died Sept. 28, 1855, both
in Sangamon county. Mr. McElvain
and his wife united with the First Pres-
byterian church, Springfield, in 1829. It
was then in charge of Rev. John G.
Bergen. Dr. Bergen organized a Presby-
terian church at the residence of Mr. Mc-
Elvain, in 1830. It was composed of
twelve members. Mr. McElvain was
elected one of the Ruling Elders, and
continued to discharge the duties of his
office to the end of his life.

MCGINN is, DAVID, was bom

in 1798, in Mercer county, Ky. He was
married Dec. 24, 1820, in Boone county,
to Eliza Gibson, a native of that county.
They had three children in Boone county,
and Mr. McGinnis visited Sangamon
county, in the fall of 1826, selected a loca-
tion for a home, returned to Kentucky,
and brought his family, accompanied by
his brother, G. Dawson, arriving Nov.
18, 1827, in what is now Island Grove
township, where six children were born.
Of all his children —

MART J., born Oct. 9, 1821, in Ken-
tucky, narried in Sangamon county to

Bernard A. Vanderen. See his name.
She died, Aug. 5, 1842. Her only living
child, JOHN D., is married, and reside in
Labette county, Kansas.

WILLIAM, born July 7, 1823, in
Boone county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, June 19, 1845, to Lorinda Dar-
neille. They -had three living children —
ZACHARAY T. married, Nov., 1871, to
Fannie Wright, daughter of Dr. N.Wright,
have two children, JENNIE B. and a babe,
and live in Chatham, 111. EMMA was
married, Dec. 24, 1874, to Jacob Staley.
CHARLES lives with his parents, five
miles southwest of Chatham, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

MARTHA A., born Sept. i, 1827, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Thomas J. Darneille. See his name.
She died, Dec. 2, 1853.

ELIZABETH, born Oct. 25, 1829,
in Sangamon county, married James A.
Hall. See his name.

JOHN J., born Feb. 8, 1832, in
Sangamon county, married, July 16, 1855,
to Elizabeth Green, who was born Feb.
5, 1838, in Owen county, Ky. They had
two living children, DAVID R. and
WILLIAM, who reside with their
mother. John J. McGinnis died Feb. 15,
1866. His widow and child reside where
his father settled in 1827, in a brick
house he built in 1836. It is four miles
southwest of Curran, Sangamon county.

AMERICA died, at ten years of
age.

MARGARE7^ married R. R. Rob-
erts, had one child, and mother and child
died, at the family homestead.

DAVID S., born Dec. 15, 1838, died
in 1860.

ELIZABETH J., born March 29,
1840, married April 2, 1867, to John J.
Green, who was born Oct., 1842, in Owen
county, Ky. They had two children,
DAVID M. and JOHN M., and she
died, Feb. 3, 1873. Mr. Green and the
children live at the David McGinnis
homestead.

Mrs. Elizabeth McGinnis died, Nov.,
1844, and David McGinnis was married,
in 1^51, in Warsaw, Ky., to Mrs. Sally
M. King, whose maiden name was Spen-
cer. David McGinnis died, July 2, 1867,
from the effects of being thrown from a
buggy by a runaway horse. His widow

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

resides at her old homestead, three miles
southwest of Curran.

David McGinnis stall fed about sixty
bead of cattle, in 1838, which was the
first thing of the kind done in the county,
so far as my informant knows. He drove
them to St. Louis, and sold them for $18
per head. They averaged 1600 pounds
each, so that they brought a little
more than one dollar per hundred
pounds. The money was brought home
in silver, kept for months in an old
business secretary, without locks on that
or the house. The doors of the desk
were often open so the money could
be seen, and several hired men were
about, and there never was a dollar
stolen. The brick house built by David
McGinnis, in 1836, in what is now Island
Grove township, is in a good state of pre-
servation. It was about the first, if not
the first, brick house built in Sangamon
county outside of Springfield.

William McGinnis remembers that his
father, two hired men and himself, each
put a sack of corn on a horse and rode to
a water mill on Spring creek, eight miles
distant. This required the labor of four
men .and four horses a whole day to get
about ten bushels of grain ground. That
was the prevailing custom. It was
thought to be an almost unpardonable in-
novation when a Yankee came in and
would put more grain in his wagon, and
with two horses and one man accomplish
more easily what had required four men
and four horses.

David and William McGinnis were the
inventors of a device for guiding prairie
plows by wheels and a lever. They put
it in operation in the summer of 1829. It
was adopted throughout the prairie coun-
try, and might have made them a large
amount of money, but it was never pat-
ented.

McGINNIS, GREENBER-
RY DAWSON, brother to David
and William. He was born Feb. 16,
1800, in Mercer county, Ky. Sally Bark-
ley was born August 7, 1806, in Bracken
county, Ky. Her parents moved to
Boone county. G. Dawson McGinnis
and Sally Barkley were married in Boone
county, Ky., Sept. 13, 1827. A few weeks
later they moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving Nov. 18, 1827, in what is
now Island Grove township, and soon

after into Curran township. He prepared
his logs and hauled them together to
build a house. By that time all his money
was gone except one quarter of a dollar.
They did not like to part with their last
cent, not knowing where the next was to
come from, but it was the universal cus-
tom to have whisky at their house raisings.
The raising was delayed, hoping to find
some way to obtain the whisky and save
the money. The thought was entertained
for a time of inviting their neighbors to
assist without the accustomed stimulant.
It was doubtful if they would come, but the
husband and wife held a consultation,
and decided that even though they re-
sponded to the call and helped them, he
would always be regarded as the stingiest
man in the whole county, and that it
would be better to part with his money
than to have such a name. The whisky
was purchased and the house raised.
That house was less than one-fourth of a
mile north of the Lick creek timber. His
neighbors wondered at his going so far
from timber, and assured him that he
could never raise any except muley cattle,
because the weather would be so cold out
on the prairie that it would freeze the
horns off. They had nine living children
at that place, namely —

DA VID ER VIN, born August 24,
1828, married August i, 1850, to Matilda
Miller. They had four children, PER-
MELIA A., the third child, died in her
eighth year. The other three, WIL-
LIAM 'j., GREENBERRY D.' and
ROBERT E. live with their father.
Mrs, Matilda McGinnis died May 3,
1858, and he was married Jan. 20, 1859,
to Mrs. Ruth A. Forrest, whose maiden
name was Greenwood. Thev have six
children, SCOTT, THOMA*S H., JE-
ROME, CAROLINE, CLIFTON and
a boy babe. David E. McGinnis resides
in Loami township, three miles southeast
of Bates, Sangamon county, Illinois.

W. WASHINGTON, born March
15, 1830, married April 2, 1857, to Char-
lotte Jacobs. They have five living chil-
dren, TABITHA, TEDORSIS, ULYS-
SES GRANT, LUTHER and a babe.
W. W. McGinnis lives at the family
homestead, where he was born. — 1874.

ELIZABETH, born Sept. 2, 1831,
died in her eleventh year.

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PEYTON M., born August 9, 1833,
married Oct. 22, 1857, to Caroline Neal.
She was born April 18, 1840. They re-
side in the southwest corner of Curran
township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MARTHA A., born March 24, 1835,
married April 2, 1857, to James Brawner.
See his name.

GREENBERRT D., Jun., born
May 4, 1837, married Catharine Jacobs.
They have seven children and live in
Bates county, Mo.

SARAH, born August 5, 1839, mar-
ried John E. Gibson. See his name.

ROBERT SMITH, born July 23,
1841, enlisted August 13, 1862, at Spring-
field, for three years, in Co. B, i3Oth 111.
Inf., served full term, and was honorably
discharged at Springfield, August 30,
1865. He was married Nov. i, 1866, to
Mary E. Bacon, a native of Ohio, and re-
sides one and a half miles south of
Bates, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MART E., born August 12, 1849,
lives at the family homestead.

Greenberry Dawson McGinnis died Jun.
29, 1869, of heart disease, and his widow
resides with her son W. Washington Mc-
Ginnis, at the homestead settled by her-
self and husband in 1827. It is four miles
southwest of Curran, Sangamon county,
Illinois. — 1874.

McGINNIS, WILLIAM S.,
was born March 30, 1810, in Mercer
county, Ky.; came to Sangamon county,
111., -in 1827, with his brothers, David and
G. Dawson. He was married the latter
part of 1833 to Mary M. Kelly. They
had one child.

JOHN G.} born Dec. 4, 1834, in San-
gamon county ; raised in Jasper county,
Mo., and married there July 10, 1860, to
Sarah F. Vestal, who was born Feb. 24.
1843, in Hardin county, Tenn. They had
two children. LAURA E. died in in-
fancy. DELILAH MAY lives with her
parents in Chatham township, two miles
east of Loami.

Mrs. Mary M. McGinnis died August,
1835, and W. S. McGinnis married Alta
M. Kelly, a cousin to his first wife. They
had one child in Sangamon county, and
the family moved, in 1837, to what was
Barry, but is now Jasper county, Mo.,
where five children were born. William
S. McGinnis died Oct. 20, 1845, and his

widow and four children, reside in Jasper
countv, Missouri.

McGINNIS, SMITH, born and
married in Mercer county, Ky., came to
Sangamon county, stopping a short time
with his brothers, David, G. Dawson and
William S., and moved to Adams county,
111.; thence to Andrew county, Mo. His
daughter is the wife of Dr. E. Artzman,
of Springfield.

McGRAW, ABSALOM D.,
brother to Charles G., was born May 30,
1812, in Harrison county, Ky. At twenty-
four years of age, he left his native county,
and came to Springfield, 111., arriving
Nov. 28, 1836, just in time to encounter
the "sudden change" of Dec. 20, 1836. He
was married April 30, 1839, in Spring-
field, to Rebecca Hunter, who was born
July 17, 1815, in Hardin county, Ky.
They had seven living children —

OR VILLE //., born Oct. 15, 1841. in
Springfield, married March 4, 1868, to
Annie Gourley. They had one child,
MINNIE F.> and Mrs. McGraw died
Jan. 5, 1872. He was married July 3,
1873, to Abbie V. Mason, and lives in
Decatur. He is so severely crippled as to
lose the use of one arm, and nearlv lose
the use of one leg.

DALLAS y., born April 12, 1845, *n
Springfield. He was injured by a railroad
accident March 31, 1871, and died April
9, 1871, at Brownsburg, fourteen miles
west of Indianapolis, Indiana.

HELEN J., born Sept. 27, 1847, in
Springfield, married Oct. 14, 1868, to
William Trimble. See his name.

AMBRO D., born Jan. 6, 1850;
MART E., born April 12, 1852; MA-
RIA, born Jan. 19, 1855, and LIN-
NAEUS, born Aug. 15, 1857; — the four
latter live with their parents.

A. D. McGraw engaged in farming,
March, 1848, and now resides five miles
due south of Springfield.

McGRAW, CHARLES G.,
was born Feb. 13, 1801, in Mason county,
Ky., near Washington. His parents
moved to Harrison county in 1810 or 'n.
He spent a few years, when a young
man, in Nashville, Tenn., and St. Louis,
Mo.; came to Springfield in March, 1836,
and engaged in the mercantile trade, as a
member of the firm of Hill & McGraw.
C. G. McGraw was married April, 1839,
to Vienna Adams, daughter of James

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Adams. See his name. They had one
child—

JAMES A., born March 8, 1840, in
Spi'ingfield, 111., is unmarried, and is a
merchant in his native city.

Mrs. Vienna McGraw died Feb. 12,
1844. C. G. McGraw was married Dec.
15, 1848, to Almira Walker. They had
two children —

ALIDA, born Feb. 26, 1850, in Spring-
field, was married in Logan county, 111.,
Sept. 8, 1869, to Alexander Downey.
They had one child, RUSH V., who
lives with his mother. Mr. Downey died
in Pontiac, March 22, 1872, and his
widow was married Jan. 6, 1875, to R.
Fenwick, in Bloomington, 111., where they
now reside — 1876.

FANNIE M., born May 5, 1852, in
Springfield, is unmarried, and lives in
Bloomington, Illinois.

Charles G. McGraw died Aug. i, 1858,
near McLean, anJ his widow died July
22, 1872, in Bloomington, Illinois.

McHENRY, JOSEPH, moved
from Kentucky, and settled on Richland
creek, among the earliest settlers. He
brought seven children, and left one mar-
ried in Kentucky. His son —

HENR T, lives in Petersburg.

MARTIN, lives in Menard county.

ELIZABETH married Matthias
Yoakum, and lives in Menard county.

FRANCES married Uriel Greene,
had six children, and Mr. Greene died in
1835; and the widow married Alex. Mc-
Murphy, had two children, and he died ;
and she married Jesse Whitlow, and she
died March 2, 1870. Her daughter,
Catharine Greene, married Ebenezer
Preston, Jun. See his name.

MeKEE, JOHN, was born Jan.,
1802, in Harrison county, Ky., came to
Sangamon county with his sister and bro-
ther-in-law, Ivins Foster. He was mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Mary Brown-
ing, who was born in Boone county, Ky.
They had four children, namely —

WILLIAM D., born Sept. 14, 1836,
in Sangamon county, married April 23,
1863, to Sophronia Sweet. They have
two living children, ELIZABETH D.,
and MORRIS E., and live near Sweet
Home, Nodaway county, Mo. — 1874.

REBECCA, born March 25, 1838, in
Sangamon county, married August 5,
1862, to J. W. Woods, who was born

August 5, 1839, in Belmont county, Ohio.
They have one child, WILLIAM W.,
and reside at Loami, Sangamon county,
Illinois. — 1874.

JAMES, born in Sangamon county,
married to Nancy J. Barbre, have two
children, and live near Sweet Home,
Nodaway count v, Mo. — 1874.

J ' OHN, born Sept. 30, 1844, in San-
gamon county, married Sept. 29, 1863, to
Caroline Williams, have one child,
MARTHA, and live in Loami, Illinois.

Mrs. Mary McKee died in 1846. Mr.
M. is married again, and lives one and a
half miles east of Loami, Illinois. — 1874.

MeKEE, JAMES, brother to
Mrs. Ivins Foster, came to Sangamon
county in 1829, and settled on Lick creek,
and now lives in Cooper township, San-
gamon county, Illinois.

MeKINNIE, LEWIS, was
born Oct. n, 1767, in Virginia; it
is believed that it was in Cul-
pepper county. His father was born on
board a ship in the Atlantic ocean, while
his parents were on the way from Scot-
land to America. Nancy Saunders was
born Oct. 12, 1771, in London county,
Va. Lewis McKinnie and Nancy Saun-
ders were married in Fayette county, Ky.
They had nine living children there.
Some of their children married in Ken-
tucky and preceded him to Sangamon
county. He came to visit two of them in
1820, and moved his own family, arriving
Nov. 15, 1826, near Springfield. He
commenced at once to build a house, and
moved into it Feb., 1827. It was four miles
northwest of Springfield. Of their nine
children —

E LIZ ABE TH, born June 30, 1793, in
Fayette county, Ky., married there to John
Lanterman. See his name. They came
to Sangamon county in 1819.

ANDREW, born Feb. 2, 1795, in
Fayette county, Ky., married there to
Martha Tomlinson, and came to Sanga-
mon county with Captain Jonathan Saun-
ders in 1824, settling four miles northwest
of Springfield. They had one child in
Kentucky, and eight in Sangamon coun-
ty. Two died young. ELIZABETH
A., born in Kentucky, married in Sanga-
mon county to William B. Jones. See
his name. REBECCA married John
Morgan, and died. ANDREW is un-
married, and lives near Leroy, McLean

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county, 111. THOMAS married Nancy
Little, and died in 1873, leaving a widow
and two children, near Leroy. CHAR-
LES A. married Elizabeth Land, has
three children, and lives near Farmer
City. MARTHA died, aged eighteen
year;. SARAH M. married William
Morgan, has six children, and lives near
Farmer City, Illinois. Andrew Mc-
Kinnie died June, 1855, and his widow
resides near Farmer City, DeWitt county,
Illinois.

GUNNNELL S., born March 26,
1897, in Fayette county, Ky., married in
Sangamon county, April 25, 1824, to
Elizabeth Little. * They had five child-
ren. MARY, born Feb. 21, 1826, mar-
ried Dec. 5, 1848, to William J. Sinnard.
They had seven children, WILLIAM T.,

(U NNKLL M., E. E., ALLISON D., SARAH

E-, MARY F. and LEWIS H., and live near
Blue Mound, Christian county, Illinois.
NANCY, born April i, 1828, married
Dec. 10, 1848, to C. C. Hollier. They
had twelve children, six of whom died
under three years. The six living are:
LEWIS s.; MARY E. married Jacob
Bliler, have one child, Clarence S.\ —

EDMUND A., ALICE B., IDA J. and LUCY.

C. C. Hollier and family reside near Blue
Mound, Illinois. LEWIS H., born Sept.
10, 1832, married Feb. 18, 1862, to Marga-
ret J. Fletcher. They had three children,
CHARLES A. E. lives with his parents;
MARY E. and ALICE T. died young. L.
H. McKinnie resides near Blue Mound,
111. SAMUEL H., born Dec. 5, 1834,
died March, 1860. ALLISON S., born
July 26, 1837, was married Sept. 15, 1863,
to Clarissa Reed. They have one living
child, BENJAMIN F., and live two miles
north of Springfield. Mrs. Elizabeth
McKinnie died Aug. 15, 1869, and Gun-
nell McKinnie died Oct. 14, 1875, near
Blue Mound, Christian county, 111.

ELEANOR, born Feb. 22, 1799, in
Fayette county, Ky., married Uriah Cal-
lennan. See his name.

SARAH, born Jan. 16, 1801, in Flem-
ing county, Ky., married there to Jona-
than R. Saunders. See his na»ic.

NANCT, born June 15, 1803, in Flem-
ing county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county to Hiram Duncan. They moved
to soutrfwest Missouri, where three chil-
dren were born, then moved to the vicin-

ity of Stockton, California, and reside
there. — 1876.

MART, born Feb. 8, 1806, in Flem-
ing county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county to John Humphrey. See his
name. He died, and she married John
Branson. See his name.

THOMAS /,., born Feb. 4, 1808, in
Fleming county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, August 27, 1840, to Sarah
A. M. Jones. They had five children in
Sangamon county. MARY E., born
Nov. 27, 1841, married Waldermer F.
Helvety, and lives near Forsvthe, Macon
county, 111. WILLIAM L.', born Feb.
4, 1844, was married Jan. 8, 1874, to
Eleanor Hood, and has one child, MAUD E.
HENRY H., born March 7, 1846, died
March 7, 1860. COLUMBIA A., born
April 29, 18^0, married Henry B. Drake.
They have one child, MABEL L, and re-
side near Elkhart, 111. JULIA F., born
April 2, 1856, resides with her parents.
Thomas L. McKinnie, and his wife re-
side on the farm where his parents set-
tled in Feb., 1827, four miles northwest of
Springfield.

WILLIAM P., born May 20, 1810, in
Fleming county, Ky., married May 12,
1839, to Sarah J. Threlkeld, who was
born Oct. 16, 1817, in Shelby county, Ky.
Her home was in Sanga'mon county from
about 1832, but the marriage took place
while she was on a visit near Burlington,
Iowa. They had ten children, all born in
Sangamon county, 111. MARY A., born
May 11, 1840, married Nov. 9, 1865, to
William A. Montgomery. They had
two children. The second, CHARLES F.,
died young. EDWARD p. lives with his
parents, near Assumption, Christian coun-
ty, III. THOMAS L. S., born June 13,
1841, married Jan. i, 1868, to Harriet
Clark, in Springfield. They had two
children. GEORGE T. died young. ED-
WIN E. lives with his parents near Buffalo
Hart Station, Sangamon county, Illinois.
LUCY J., born Nov. 5, 1842, married
Nov. 9, 1865, to Charles H. Judd.
They *had one child, FRANCIS E., and
Mr. Judd died August 30, 1870. His
widow and son reside with her pa-
rents. SARAH E., born Sept. 4, 1844,
married Dec. 25, 1862, to Joseph E. Cpr-
bin, and have three children, OLIVER E..
WILLIAM and JENNIE B., and live near
Rockville, St. Clair county; Missouri.

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EA RL T SE TTLERS OF

WILLIAM A., born March n, 1846,
was married Sept. 16, 1874, to Emma
Marshall, and lives near his father.
VIRGIL U., born May 4, 1848, was
married Sept. 10, 1872, to Elizabeth
Hood. They have two children, and
reside near Forsythe, Macon county, 111.
NANCY E., born June 7, 1850, married
John W. Taylor. See his name. FRAN-
CES M., born March 4, 1852, was married
Sept. n, 1872, to Victor F. Hilvety.
They have two children, EARNEST and a
babe, and live near Forsythe, Macon
county, 111. HARRIET M., born Nov.
25, 1855, was married Feb. 12, 1874, to
Isaac Hazlett, and live near Farmer City.
CHARLES E., born Oct. 13, 1859, lives
with his parents. Wm. P. McKinnie and
wife reside four miles northwest of Spring-
field, on the farm where they settled in
1840, and adjoining where his father set-
tled in 1827.

Lewis McKinnie died Oct. 7, 1841, and
Mrs. Nancy McKinnie died Oct. 8, 1843,
both near Springfield, Illinois,

MeLOUD, JOHN K., was born
in 1809 or '10, in Washington county,
Tenn. He came to Sangamon county in
1837 or '8, and was married to Mrs. Mar-
garet McNabb, whose maiden name was
Dunlap. They had six children, namely —

LOUISA married Collin H. Cowardin,
have six children, and live in Sullivan
county, Mo.

LUZETTA, married Oct. 13, 1863,
to Cyrus Lilly, a native of Augusta coun-
ty, Va. They have four children,
LAURA B., NORA E., MARY M.
and GRACE M,, and reside three miles
west of Sherman, Illinois.

DRUCILLA married Augustus
Young. They have five children, and
live in Logan county, Illinois.

WILLIAM P., born April 9, 1844, in
Sangamon county, married March 9,
1871, to Mayne E. Myers, who was born
in Licking county, Ohio, Dec. 13, 1849.
They have one child, CLARENCE P.,
and reside at the family homestead, two
and a half miles west of Sherman, Illi-
nois.— 1874.

MART E., married Bernard Henley,
haye two children, and live in Sullivan
county, Mo.

MARGARET E., married Adolphus
Allen, and lives in Sullivan county, Mo.

Mrs. Margaret McLoud died April 7,
1860. John K. McLoud resides in Fancy
Creek township, two and a half miles
west of Sherman, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.— 1874.

MeMURPHY, DAVID, was
born Aug. 20, 1794, in Windsor county,
Vermont, married in St. Lawrence
county, New York, to Elizabeth WThite,
who was born in Harrisburg, Pennsyl-
vania. They had three living children in
New York. Mr. David McMurphy vis-
ited Sangamon county in 1837, and moved
his family, in 1839, to what is now Salis-
bury township. Of his children —

GEORGE, born Jan. 6, 1823, in St.
Lawrence county, N. Y., married at Salis-
bury, Sangamon county, March 29, 1845,
to Mary A. Miller, who was born Dec.
18, 1827. They had eight children in
Sangamon county, two of whom died
young. ALBERT, born March 29,
1846, at Salisbury, married near Carbon-
dale, 111., to Julia A. Prickett. They
have one child, DAISEY IRENE, and re-
side in Springfield. Mr. Albert McMur-
phy is engaged in the gi'ocery trade.
GEORGE W., born July 31, 1850;
WILLIAM H., born Oct. 17, 1853;
ISAAC H., born January 20, 1855;
SARAH A., born July u, 1860; the
four latter at Salisbury. MARY O.,
born March 3, 1864, in Springfield. The
five latter reside with their parents. Mr.
George McMurphy moved from Salis-
bury to Springfield, in 1863, and is in the
grocery business, corner of Madison and
sixth streets.

WILLIAM //., born Nov. 20, 1826,
in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., partly
raised near Salisbury, Sangamon county,
and married, in 1854, in Mason county, to
Lucinda M. Holland. They have three
children, JOHN, NELSON ana ) EM -
NIE, and reside near Burton View.
Logan county, Illinois.

LESTER, born Jan. 28, 1833, in St.
Lawrence county, N. Y., married ne:-r
Salisbury, Sangamon county, March 13,
1853, to Eliza J. Parvin, who was born
March 30, 1830, on the farm where she
was married. They had four children,
two of whom died young. DAVID V.,
born May 5, 1856, and CHARLES,
born June 22, 1862, reside with their
father. Mrs. Eliza J. McMurphy' died in
Springfield, March 3, 1865, and Lester

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Me Murphy was married March 26, 1867,
in Jacksonville, 111., to Mary E. Gass, a
native of that city. They have two
children, FRANK P. and HERBERT
L., who reside with their parents, in
Springfield. Lester McMurphy was act-
ing post master at Salisbury for five
years, and came to Springfield in 1860,
and from that time to the present has
been employed in the Post Office. He is
now chief clerk — 1876.

David McMurphy was a practical mill-
wright for many years before coming to
Illinois, and he built many mills in Sanga-
mon and adjoining counties.

Mrs. Elizabeth McMurphy died Oct.
18, 1868, in Springfield, and David Mc-
Murphy died Oct. 29, 1875, in Logan
county, Illinois.

McMURRY, MRS. ELIZ-
ABETH, whose maiden name was
Logue, was born Dec 6, 1775, in Virginia.
She was married in Botetourt county,
Virginia, to Robert McMurry, who was
born about 1772 in that county. They
had four children there, and in the autumn
of 1801 moved to Washington county,
Ky., where three children were born. In
the autumn of 1810 they moved to St.
Clair county, 111., where they spent one
winter in camp. In the spring of 1811
they moved to a place called Turkey Hill,
near the present city of Belleville. Rob-
ert McMurry died there, in Feb., 1812.
The Indians were manifesting signs of
hostility as the allies of Great Britain, in
the war of 1812, and Mrs. McMurry very
wisely decided to return to Kentucky with
her s'even children. After the war she
moved to St. Clair county again, and from
there to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the tall of 1821, settling north of Spring
creek, and eight milles west of Spring-
fiel.l. Mrs. Elizabeth McMurrry died in
18=57, in Cumin township. Of her seven
children —

WILLIAM, born Dec. 29, 1793, in
Botetourt county, Virginia, remained with
his mother until her return to Kentucky,
after the death of his father. He was
married Oct., 1817, in Washington coun-
ty, Ky., to Elizabeth Clampit, who was
born March 22, 1801, in Kentucky. They
came to St. Clair county, 111., in 1818,
where one child was born, and moved, in
the fall of 1820, to what became Sanga-
mon county, settling north of Spring
-64

creek, and eight miles west of Spring-
field, where they had nine living children.
In 1849 Mr. McMurry moved to DeWitt
county, 111. Of his children: JAMES
L., born Jan. 31, 1819, in St. Clair county,
married three times, without children
by either marriage. He was married the
fourth time in Iowa. They have two
children, WILLIAM and JOSEPH, and live
in Urbana, 111. ELIZABETH, born
Feb. 17, 1821, was married to Caswell
Hall. They had four children. EDITH M.
died in 1863. EMMA married Mr. Stout,
May 19, 1868, and lives at Leroy, 111.
PETER c. is married, and lives at Leroy,
111. WILLIAM lives at Leroy. Mrs.
Elizabeth Hall died Oct. 16, 1853, near
Clinton, 111. Caswell Hall was married
in 1855 to Miss Edwards, and lives at
Leroy, McLean county, 111. NANCY,
born March 5, 1823, died June 16, 1851.
WILLIAM C., born Oct. 2, 1826, in
Sangamon county, was married there,
April 24, 1850, to Elizabeth J. Cummings.
They had four children. ' ANN E. mar-
ried Joseph Jackson, Feb. 26, 1875. IDA
G., MARTHA A. and JAMES M. live with
their father. Mrs. McMurry died Oct. 7,
1860, and W. C. McMurry enlisted Sept.
4, 1 86 1, in Co. I, 39th 111. Inf., for three
years. He was taken prisoner, May 16,
1864, at Dairy's Bluff, Virginia, and im-
prisoned one week at Libby, three and a
half months at Andersonville, two weeks
at Charleston, five months at Florence,
South Carolina, was exchanged, and en-
tered the Union lines, Feb. 26, 1865, and
was honorably discharged, March 14,
same year, being six months and ten days
over his full time. He was married Apr.
20, 1865, to Mrs. Lucinda B. Cummings,
whose maiden name was McCord. They
have one child, TOT, and reside in Farmer
City, 111. LEWTIS R., born May 25,
1829, died Sept. 18, 1851. MOSES C.,
born April 15, 1831, in Sangamon coun-
ty, enlisted Juue, 1864, for one hundred
days, in Co. A, 135th 111. Inf., served full
time, and was honorably discharged, Oct.,
1864. He was married Nov. 17, 1868, to
Almeda Warner, who was born April 30,
1844, in Ohio. They have two children,
JAMES o. and OTTO F. M. C. McMurry
and family live near Saybrook, Cham-
paign county, 111. SAMUEL B., born
Sept. 6, 1833, in Sangamon county, en-
listed in 1861, in Co. E, 2oth 111. Inf., for

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EARL Y SB 7 7LERS OF

three years, and died at Mound City, 111.,
March 21, 1862, was taken home, and
buried at Clinton. JOSEPH D., born
April 7, 1838, lives at Farmer City.
ANN J. P., born Fe'b. 29, 1840, in San-
gamon county, was married at Clinton,
March 5, 1867, to T. H. Benton McEl-
haney, who was born Feb. 4, 1842, in
DeWitt county, 111. He enlisted August
n, 1862, in Co. D, K>7th 111. Inf., for
three years, served until the close of the
rebellion, and was honorably discharged,
July n, 1865. Mr. and Mrs. McElhaney
have three children, WILLIAM A., LOU c. A.
and BENTON M., and live at Clinton, 111.
PETER A., born July 14, 1843, in San-
gamon county, enlisted June, 1864, for
one hundred days, in Co. A, I35th 111. Inf.
served full time, and was honorably dis-
charged, Oct. 1865. He was married in
June, 1874, to Olie McMahon, and re-
sides at Clinton, 111. Mrs. Elizabeth Mc-
Murry died Sept. 17, 1850, and William
McMurry was married August 14, 1853,
in Sangamon county, to Mrs. Agnes
Bryant, whose maiden name was Sims.
William McMurry died Feb. 13, 1876, at
Clinton, 111., and his widow resides there.
SAMUEL, born Oct. 21, 1795, in
Botetourt county, Va., was married Nov.
20, 1821, in St. Clair county, to Mary
Rittcnhouse. She was born Oct. i, 1800,
in Madison county, Va. They moved to
Sangamon county in 1823, settling south
of Spring creek and eight miles west of
Springfield. Thev had nine children in
Sangamon county. JOHN D., born Aug.
6, 1824, was married Jan. 9, 1846, to Cath-
arine Bormann, who was born Feb. 14,
1825, in the Kingdom of Bavaria. They
had four living children. SAMUEL H.,
born March i, 1848, was married Sept. 2,
1874, to Matilda Roots, of Mannsville,
Taylor county, Ky. They live two
miles west of Outran, 111. LAURETTA A.,
born December 25, 1850, was married
February 22, 1872, to George F. Allen.
They had one child, Arthur F. Mrs.
L. A. Allen died, November 12, 1874.

BARTIIENA D. and CHARLES W., live with

their father. Mrs. Catharine B. McMur-
ry died May 31, 1872, and John D. Mc-
Murry was married Jan. 7, 1875, in
Springfield, 111., to Mrs. Rebecca Mc-
Kechnie, who was born in 1826 in York-
shire, England, and whose maiden name
was Snape. They reside three miles

northwest of Curran, Sangamon countv,
111. PETER C., born Jan. 29, 1826,
married Almeda Davis. They had two
children. He died Oct. 22, 1853. Of
their children, CHARLES s. and JOHN L.
live with their mother, who married W.
W. Kelly. See his name. ROBERT
T., born Jan. 6, 1828, married Margaret
Davis. They have four children. MARY
E. was married March 16, 1875, to Bos-
well Thatcher, of Wayne county, Iowa.
SAMUEL o., DAVID L. and JAMES live
with their parents, near Bethlehem, Iowa.
WILLIAM L., born Jan. -26, 1830, mar-
ried Barbara A. Bormann. They have
seven children. VERLINDA c. married
George McComas in 1872, and lives near
Bethlehem, Iowa. GEORGE p., LEXORE,

MELISSA M., MOSES S., ELMORE and JOHN

L. live with their father. Mrs. McMurry
died June u, 1875, and the family live
near Bethlehem, Iowa. ARTHUR B.,
born Jan. 30, 1832, died, aged ten years.
GEORGE L., born Feb. 19, 1834, mar-
ried Julia F. Head. They have two liv-
ing children. Mrs. Julia McMurry died
Sept. 1 6, 1875. Mr. McMurry and the
children live near Bethlehem, Iowa.
JAMES O., born March 19, 1837, mar'
ried Elizabeth Pearce. They had four
children, ROBERT, DEBORAH c., BARTIIE-
NA and JAMES. Mrs. Elizabeth Mc-
Murry died April, 1873. He married
Matilda Chrisman. They have one
child, EARNEST, and live near Bethlehem,
Iowa. ELIZABETH E., born Jan. 20,
1839, married Debold Paulen. See his
name. MARY J., born Sept. 23, 1842,
married George Mentzer. They have

three children, JOHN D., LAURA and ,

and reside near Cerro Gordo, 111. Mrs.
Mary McMurry died April 5, 1863, and
Samuel McMurry died April 19, 1863.

JAMES, born April 5, 1798, in Bote-
tourt county, Virginia, was married in
Sangamon county, 111., to Lavina Ear-
nest. They had six children in Sangamon
county, and moved to Keokuk, Iowa;
from there to Independence, Mo., thence
to California, about 1855. Of their child-
ren, SARAH married Rev. Mr. James.
She died in 1854, leaving one child.
MARTHA J. married Inglefield Greg-
ory. ROBERT S. married in 1849, and
his wife died Nov. 16, 1863, leaving six
children, LUELLA, ALTA, SARAH, MARY
L., WILLIAM H. and OLIVE M. THOS.

SANGAMON COUNTY.

FRANK, JAMES and ELIZA— the
three latter are married. James McMurry
died near lone City, California, and his
family reside there.

LE WIS, horn April 15, 1801, in Vir-
ginia, came to Sangamon county, 111., with
his mother in 1823. He married Leanna
DeMula, a French lady of St. Louis, and
died there, without children, in 1853.

ES7WER, born Oct. 28, 1803, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county to John Turner. See his name.

ARTHUR B., born Nov. 7, 1807, in
Washington county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county, 111., to Sarah Enyart.
They had six children. ROBERT died
in his twenty-first year. MARTHA J.
married Robert Elder, and live in Butler
county, Neb. ELIZABETH A. mar-
ried Wesley Huggins, and died June 12,
1862. MARY F. married John F.
Crowder. See his name. She died
in June, 1873. LEWIS S. married Me-
lissa Griffin. They have three children,
and reside in Butler county, Neb. SA-
RAH M. was married in 1866 to Dr.
Charles Kerr. They had four children,

CHARLES, MABEL, MAUD and NETTIE;

the latter died in infancy. Mrs. S.
Melissa Kerr died March 22, 1876, in
Pawnee, and was buried in Oak Ridge
Cemetery. • See Dr. Kerr's name with
E/isha Satiders. Arthur B. McMurry
died Feb. 28, 1855, and his widow was
married June 7, 1875, to William Parkes.
See his name.

LOGAN, born March 22, 1810, in
Washington county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county Dec. 22, 1831, to Melis-
sa Robison, who was born Nov. i i,
1813. They had ten children in Sanga-
mon county!! EDWARD S., bom Nov.
13, 1832, was married Jan. 10, 1858, to
Susan Reid ; have four children, j. j., ANNA,
MAKTHA E. and G. E. LEWIS, and live at
Leghorn, Kansas. E. S. McMurry is
Postmaster there. JOHN L., born Mar.
31, 1835, died in his third year. MARY
E., and MARTHA J., twins, born July 10,
1838. Mary E. was married July 26,
1868, to Hiram F. Robbins. born in
Warren county, Penn. They have three
children, SANDFORD L., FANNIE A. and
ANN IK M., and reside near Maple Grove,
Pottawatomie county, Kansas. Martha
J. was married July i, 1868, to James
Sidclens, who was born in Putnam

county, Indiana, February 9, 1836.
They have three children, IDA B.,
SADIE M. and MARY F., and reside near
Westmoreland, Pottawatomie county,
Kansas. ANGELINE, born May 23,
1841, died in her second year. ELIHU
J. L., born Aug. 9, 1844, enlhted in Capt.
Pratt's Co., 1 30th 111. Inf., Aug. n, 1862,
for three years. The company disbanded,
and he joined Co. B, loth 111. Cav., in
October of the same year. Served three
years and three months, and was honor-
ably discharged. GEORGE F., born
Aug. 21, 1847, resides near Westmore-
land, Pottawattomie county, Kansas.
SARAH A., born June 20, 1850, EMI-
LY F., born March 5, 1854, and ROS-
ELLA, born March 21, 1858, all reside
with their parents, half a mile south of
Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois.
MeNABB, WILLIAM, was
born about 1760, in Ireland, and emigrated
to America before the Revolution. The
family settled in that part of Amherst
which is now Nelson county, Vir-
ginia. He was there married to
Mary Crawford, a cousin of Win. H.
Crawford, of Georgia, who was one of the
four candidates for President, in 1824.
Mr. and Mrs. McNabb moved from Vir-
ginia to Green county, Ky., where they
had six children, and moved to Illinois, in
1819, first stopping in Logan countv, and
in 1820 moved to a point about three
miles west of Springfield, and settled the
farm now owned by .Washington Rickard.
Of -their six children — 4

SAMUEL, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried there, came to Sangamon county
about 1826, and in the spring of 1831
moved to the vicinity of Petersburg, 111.
and died there in 1872.

HESTER, born Dec. 10, 1789 in Green
county, Ky., married there to Robert
White, July 17, 1806, and came to St. Clair
county, 111., in 1814, and in 1818 came to
what was afterwards Sangamon, and still
later Menard county, and settled near what
is now Athens. Mr. White was born
Oct. 1 8, 1779. They had five children,
namely: MARY P., born in Green count v
Ky., married Mr. Miner, who lived hut \\
few months, and she married William
McDougal in 1827. Thev had thir-
teen children, all except one lived to
maturity: ten of whom are yet living,

EARLT SETTLERS OF

and have families. Mr. and Mrs. Mc-
Dougal reside near Athens, Illinois.
ELIZA, born in 1810, in Green county,
Kentucky, married near Athens, Illinois,
March 15, 1834, to Jacob C. West, a native
of Tennessee. They had eight children,
five of whom died young. Of the other
three — WILLIAM F., born June 19, 1835,
married Miranda England, and had three
children, all of whom died young. Wm.
F. West was a graduate of the Missouri
Medical College. He was appointed,
Sept.. 1861, Assistant Surgeon, and soon
after promoted Surgeon of the 28th 111.
Inf. He served until June, 1863, when
he resigned on account of impaired
health, and died March 27, 1864, near
Athens. JOHN M., born Dec. 22, 1836,
became first Assistant Contract Surgeon to
the 28th 111. Inf., in April, 1862, and in
December of the same year resigned, in
consequence of impaired health. He
completed his medical course, and gradu-»
ated in February, 1864, at Rush Med-
ical College, Chicago. He was mar-
ried, Feb., 1863, to Harriet L. Bishop, at
Williamsville, 111. She died, June 7,
1875, leaving one child, J. Hial. Dr.
West was married, Feb. i, 1876, in Pitts-
burg, Penn., to Susie Lockwood, a native
of Norwalk, Conn. Dr. J. M. West is a
practicing physician, in Springfield, 111.
JACOB B., born in 1848, lives with his pa-
rents. Jacob C. West and wife reside
near Athens, 111. JOHN R., born in
Green county, Ky.,. died near Athens,
aged twenty*two years. WILLIAM H.,
born in Kentucky, married near Petersburg
to Elizabeth Bone. They had seven child-
ren, four of whom are yet living. Mrs.
White died, and Wm. H. White married
Mrs. Elizabeth Sewell. They had three
children, and he died Nov., 1864, near
Athens, 111. ROBERT F., born near
Athens, 111., married in Morgan county to
Rachel Roach, daughter of Rev. N.
Roach. They had seven children, four of
whom died early in life. MARY E. and
JOHN R. live with their parents. ESTHER
married William Moore, and lives in De-
witt county. Rober F. White and wife
reside near Athens, 111. Robert White
died Nov. 27, 1847, ant^ Mrs. Hester White
died April 2, 1867, both near Athens,
Menard county, Illinois.

CA I^HARINE, born, and married in
Kentucky to Mr. Blakeman, spent a short

time in Illinois, and returned to Ken
tucky.

ISABELLA, born, and married in
Kentucky to Benjamin Wilcox, raised a
large family near Petersburg, Illinois.

MARTHA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried John Jeneson, near Springfield,
raised a family of six children, and both
died, near Petersburg, Illinois.

JAMES CRA WFORDMcNABB,
born Dec. 27, 1800, in Green county, Kv.,
married in Sangamon county, Nov. 8,
1825, to Ann R. Watson. They had
four children in Sangamon county— EVE-
LINE, born Sept. 15, 1826, married, Oct.
24, 1843, to John G. Elkin. See /it's
name. ADELAIDE C., born March 4,
1829, married, in 1847, to Henry Beers.
See his name. Mr. Beers died, August,
1851, and she married, Oct. 28, 1858 to
Adolphus Rogers. They have two chil-
dren, HENRY c. and ADELAIDE, and reside
in Cincinnati, Ohio. JAMES H., born
Sept. 17, 1831, in Sangmon county, went
to California in 1849, and was married
there, in 1859, to Mary Scudder, a native
of New Jersey. They have three living
children, ADELAIDE, JAMES and MARY L.
James H. McNabb was twelve years edit-
or of the l^etalouma Argus, was State
Senator, from 1862 to 1868. He is now —
1876 — and has been for the last five years,
deputy collector in the United States Cus-
tom House, at San Francisco, California,
and resides there. LUCILLA H. died,
aged nine years. James C. McNabb died,
January, 1835, in Sangamon county, and
his widow resides in Mechanicsburg, Illi-
nois.

William McNabb died, early in 1831,
near Springfield, and his widow died
about 1836, in Petersburg, Menard county,
Illinois.

MeNEILL.— The origin of this
family in America was with two brothers,
John and Archibald McNeill, who emi-
grated from Scotland in 1770. Archi-
bald was a physician, and settled in
Georgia. John was a General in the
British army. He took leave of absence,
and settled in Kent county, Maryland.
W'hen the war began, which ended in the
American Revolution, General McNeill
was ordered home to duty, but refused to
go, his sympathies being with the colonists.
He aided them all he could without en-
tering the army. At one time some

SANGAMON COUNTS.

American officers were at his house in
consultation. Gen. McNeill discovered a
man at the window eavesdropping. He
walked back and forth by the window,
and at a favorable moment plunged a
cane through the glass into the face of
the eavesdropper, who escaped with the
loss of an eye. Gen. John McNeill had
two sons, Archibald and John, the latter
of whom had two sons, who were among
the early settlers of Sangamon county,
and are the subjects of the following
sketches: —

McNEILL, FRANCIS A.,
born Jan. i, 1809, in Allegheny county,
Md. He was baptized in infancy by
Rev. Francis Asbury, the first Bishop of
the M. E. church in America. He was
converted in early life, and at twenty
years of age was in the ministry and sta-
tioned at Frederick City, Mel. His health
failing, he commenced the study of medi-
cine, and in 1834 graduated at the Univer-
sity ot Maryland, in Baltimore, and locat-
ed at Shepherdstown, Va. He was mar-
ried Feb. i, 1830,111 Frederick City, Md.,
to Mary E. Cronise, who was born there,
March 4, 1812. Dr. McNeill and wife
moved from Shepherdstown, Va., to
Springfield, 111., in the spring of 1835.
He practiced medicine in Springfield
twelve years, and at the same time re-
tained his ministerial connection. He
was ordained deacon in 1833, at Balti-
more, by Bishop Hedding, and ordained
Elder in 1837, at Jacksonville, 111., by
Bishop Soule. In 1847 ^r- McNeill
moved to Peoria, and became pastor of
the Methodist church at that place. From
there he was appointed to Racine, Wis-
consin, and from there to Mt. Morris,
Ogle county, 111., October, 1852. His
labors in the ministry had again impaired
his health, and at Mt Morris he resumed
the practice of Medicine. Dr. McNiell
had ten children, live of whom died
young, and

MARY F. died, aged eleven years.

Of the other four —

ANN NOR I ELLA, born June 26,
1835, in Shepherdstown, Va., partially
brought up in Springfield, was married at
Mt. Morris, 111., Feb. i, 1854,10 Henry
I. Little, who was born Nov. 25, 1826, in
Washington county, Md. They have
nine children, WILLIAM F., CHAR-
LEY F., ELDRIDGE H., MARY E.,

ARTHUR B., ELLEN L., WILLIAM
McN., NORVELLA L. and KITTIE
L. Mr. Little is a dry goods merchant,
and resides at Mt* Morris, Ogle county,
Illinois.

JAMES F., born Oct. 15, 1841, in
Springfield, 111., enlisted August 12, 1862,
for three years, in Co. G, ii4th 111. Inf.
He was promoted to Sergeant-Major,
served to the close of the rebellion, was
honorably discharged, August 15, 1865,
and was afterwards clerk in the Adjutant-
General's office until that office was abol-
ished. He was married Nov. 18, 1872, to
Julia E. Hibbs, a native of New York
City. They have two children, WAL-
TER F. and MABEL. James F. Mc-
Neal is corresponding clerk in the first
National Bank, of Springfield, 111., and
resides in the city. — 1876.

WILBUR A., born June 12, 1843, in
Springfield, 111., resides at Machachinock,
Mahaska county, Iowa.

HOB ART W., born June r8, 1847, in
Peoria, 111., was married May 15, 1869, at
Eldora, Iowa, to Lizzie Phillips. They
have one living child, ANNA M., and
reside at Oscaloosa, Iowa.

While Dr. F. A. McNeill was living in
Peoria, his wife, Mrs. Mary E. McNeill
visited friends in Springfield, and died
there Nov. 24, 1849. Dr. McNeill was
married Feb. 2, 1857, at Mt. Morris, 111.,
to Barbara E. Wagner, who was born
Oct. 6, 1834, in Washington county,
Maryland. They had four children, two
of whom only are living, namely —

KITTIE M. and

FRANK S.., who reside with their
mother.

Rev. Francis A. McNeill, M. D., died
Feb. 3, 1872, at Mt. Morris, Ogle countv,
111., and his widow resides there. Dr.
McNeill was a man of much more than
ordinary ability, and of untiring industry.
In addition to the labors of two profes-
sions, he found time to devote to political
matters. Having from childhood wit-
nessed the pernicious influence of slavery,
he very early in life became an opponent
of its extension. It was partly to avoid
its influence that he moved West. While
practicing medicine in Springfield, he
took an active part in the politics of the
day. As a public speaker, he advocated
the election of Harrison for President in
1840, and in 1844 was a delegate to the

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convention that nominated Clay for Pres-
ident. He was one of the delegates from
Ogle county to the convention that as-
sembled m Bloomington in 1856, which
gave birth to the Republican party.
Being a warm friend of Mr. Lincoln,
while living in Springfield, when the
latter became a candidate for President, he
had not a more ardent supporter than
Dr. McNeill.

Before the convention assembled that
nominated Mr. Lincoln, Dr. McNeill was
editing a paper at Mount Morris, and was
among the first to hoist the name of
Abraham Lincoln for President. In 1860
he was elected Representative from Ogle
county, for two years, in the State Legis-
lature; and was, consequently, in that
body when the rebellion broke out. He
was appointed Oct. 12, 1861, by Governor
Yates, army surgeon, and was with the
34th 111. Inf. about six months, when he
resigned on account of impaired health.
He was commissioned July 18, 1862, hos-
pital chaplain, and assigned to the post at
Paducah, Ky., where he remained until
1864, when he was transferred to Louis-
ville, as chaplain of the post there. He
resigned August, 1865, returned home,
and resumed the practice of medicine,
which he continued until stricken down
with paralysis, which, after a year's suffer-
ing, terminated in death — as previously
stated — thus closing a well-spent life.

MeNEILL, WILLIAM, born
Aug. 15, i8u,in Cumberland, Allegheny
county, Maryland. Rev. F. A. McNeill,
M. D., was his brother. William Mc-
Neill studied medicine in his native town,
and graduated at Jefferson Medical Col-
lege, Philadelphia, in Feb., 1835. He
was married Aug. i, 1837, in Cumber-
land, to Civilia McNamee, who was born
July 6, 1817, in Hagerstown, Maryland.
They had one child in Cumberland, and
in the spring of 1839 moved to Peters-
burg, Illinois. In the autumn of that
year he moved to Mechanicsburg, Sanga-
nion county. They had eight living
children in Illinois. Of their nine child-
ren—

7^/OAfAS //., born May 17, 1838, in
Maryland, is unmarried, and is farming
near Cornland, Logan county, Illinois.

RICHARD J., born Dec. 23, 1840,
in Mechanicsburg, 111., graduated Feb.,
1863, at the Eclectic Medical College, of

Cincinnati, Ohio. Dr. R. J. McNeill
was married Dec. 18, 1873, near Roches-
ter, 111., to Eliza Taft. They have one
child, WILLIAM T., and live in Roch-
ester.

LAURA, born December 12, 1842,31
Bolivia, Christian county, 111., was mar-
ried in Mechanicsburg to George W.
Hall. See his name. He died, and she
lives at Illiopolis.

ROBERT B., born April 28, 1846, in
Mechanicsburg, is a druggist, in Pana,
Illinois.

FRANCIS A., born Oct. 23, 1849,
near Rochester, graduated at the Eclectic
Medical College, Cincinnati, Feb., 1874,
and is practicing medicine at Pana, Illi-
nois.

MARY F., born Oct. 19, 1853, and

CHARLES, born Jan. 3, 1855, both
near Rochester.

NELLIE, born July 17, 1858, and

LUTIE, born Jan. 27, 1864, both in
Mechanicsburg. The four latter reside
with their parents in Taylorville, 111. Dr.
William McNeill is practicing his profes-
sion there. — Aug., 1876.

MATHER.— The origin of the
Mather family in America was with REV.
(i) RICHARD MATHER, who was born in
1596, at Lowton, Lancashire, England.
He came to America, landing in Boston,
Aug. 17, 1635, and the next year became
pastor of a church, at Dorchester, Mass.,
where he remained until his death, April
22, 1669. His son, (2) INCREASE MATH-
ER, born June 21, 1639, at Dorcester,
Mass., became pastor of North street
church, Boston, in 1664, and continued in
charge of that church until the day of his
death, Aug. 23, 1723. He was President
of Harvard College, from 1685 to 1701,
and received the degree of Doctor of Di-
vinity from its board of trustees in 1692,
the first title of the kind ever conferred in
America. His son, (3) COTTON MATHER,
born Feb. 12, 1663, in Boston, became the
colleague of his father in the pastorate in
1684. He was elected in 1713 a member
of the Royal Society of London, being
the first American ever thus honored.
Rev. Cotton Mather died Feb. 13, 1728,
and in 1729 his life was written by his
son, (4) SAMUEL MATHER. His son, Dr.
5) THOMAS MATHER, had a son, (6),

ILLIAM MATHER, who was a soldier

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from Connecticut in the Revolution.
His son —

MATHER, (7) THOMAS, was
born April 24, 1795,111 Simsbury, Hart-
ford county, Conn. Inheriting much of
the intellectual ability and integrity of
character of his ancestors, and impelled
by the New England spirit of enterprise,
on arriving at the age of manhood, he
left his native State and engaged in busi-
ness in New York city, where he re-
mained but a short time. In the.springof
1818, he went to Kaskaskia, the capital of
the Territory of Illinois. There he sub-
sequently became associated in business
with Edmund Roberts, James L. Lamb
and Stacy B. Opdycke. Some years
later they laid out the town of Chester,
Randolph county, 111,, and engaged in
business there also. Thomas Mather was
married Dec. 5, 1825, in Kaskaskia, to
Hannah G. Lamb, who was born March
23, 1798, in Connellsville, Fayette county,
Penn. She was a sister to George and
James L. Lamb. In addition to his
mercantile pursuits, Mr. Mather found
time to look after the interests of the
government. He served a number of
times in both branches of the Legislature,
was a member of the lower house during
the session of 1822-3, when the resolution
\v;ts adopted to submit to the people a
proposition for a convention, to be called
for the purpose of amending the constitu-
tion, with the view of admitting slavery
into the State. He opposed the resolution
submitting it, and when it was before the
people he bore a conspicuous part in the
public discussion against adopting the
measure. It was through the persist-
ent opposition of Mr. Mather and kindred
spirits, that Illinois was saved by the
small majority of 1,800 votes from be-
coming a slave State. In 1825 he was ap-
pointed by President, John Quincy Adams,
one of the commissioners to locate a mili-
tary road from Independence, Mo., to Santa
Fe, New Mexico, and to negotiate treaties
with the Indian tribes along the line. He
acquired the title of Colonel during the
administration of. Governor Coles — 1822-
26 — by being assigned an honorary posi-
tion on his staff, and wore the title ever
after. He once declined an appointment
to fill a vacancy in the United States
Senate. When Col. Mather moved to
Springfield in 1835, the mercantile firm

with which he was associated was reor-
ganized, and opened under the firm name
of Mather, Lamb & Co., and thus it con-
tinued tor many years. The State Bank
of Illinois was chartered by the Legisla-
ture, at Vandalia, during the session of
1834-5. The bank was organi/ed at
Springfield May 11, 1835, with Thomas
Mather President, and N. H. Ridgely
Cashier. They continued in office the
whole time the bank was in existence —
about seven years. The Northern Cross
Railroad, from Meredosia, through Jack-
sonville, to Springfield, having run down
so as to be practically useless, it was pur-
chased of the State by Thomas Mather,
N. H. Ridgely, James Duncan and
others. They put it in good running
order, and extended it to the Indiana
State line. It is now part of the Toledo,
Wabash & Western Railroad. He was
afterwards connected with the organiza-
tion of the Illinois Central and Galena
Union Railroad Companies, and induced
eastern capitalists to furnish the means for
building the former. Col. Mather was a
true friend of education, which he mani-
fested by serving a number of years as a
member of the Board of Trustees of the
Illinois College, at Jacksonville, and con-
tributing liberally toward the endowhient
of that and other institutions of learning.
His parents were Congregationalists, and
he never forgot his New England train-
ing; but on coming to Illinois, he identi-
fied himself with the Presbyterian church,
differing from that of his father's not in
doctrine, but in government only. His
religious principles were not the result of
education alone, but originated in a pro-
found conviction of the divine claims of
Christianity. His benefactions to the
church were large and judiciously be-
stowed. He retired from active business
in consequence of impaired health ; but con-
tinued to reside in Springfield, and died
March 28, 1853, in the city of Philadel-
phia. His remains lie buried in the
place of his nativity, surrounded by gen-
erations of his ancestors. His widow-
lived in Springfield until 1866, when she
moved to Chicago, where she now— 1876
— reside*, in the seventy -eigth year of her
age, and in the full possession of her men-
tal and physical powers, venerated and
loved not only by those to whom she has
so long been a mother, but by their child-

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ren also. Their house was truly the home
of the orphan. More than one bereaved
of natural protectors was fondly and lov-
ingly cherished beneath their roof. There
are those yet living in whose memories
Col. Mather is enshrined as a true friend
and a second father. Not having any
children of his own, he adopted the fol-
lowing:

R. PENNELL LAMB, son of Dr.
Thos. G. Lamb, of Favette county, Penn.,
was born in 1822. He studied medicine,
and graduated at the University of Penn-
sylvania, in 1849. In 1852 he was married
to Mary Johnson, of Springfield, and re-
moved the same year to Butler county,
Ohio, where he died in 1866, leaving no
children.

SUSAN R. LAMB, born in Kaskas-
kia, 111., was married in 1855 to Dr. C.
Perry Slater, of Springfield, who died in
1858. See his name. She was married
in 1870 to James H. Roberts. See nis
name.

THOMAS C. MA l^HER was born
in Illinois in 1839. He studied law and
graduated from Ann Arbor University,
Michigan. In 1871 he was married to
Mary Horine, of Missouri. They have
three children, THOMAS, Jun., LIN A
and MAY. Mr. Mather is practicing his
profession and resides in Springfield.

Gen. THOMAS S. MATHER, of
Springfield, was not adopted, but is a son
of William Mather, a younger brother of
Col. Thomas Mather.

MEADER, TIMOTHY E.,
was born Nov. 25, 1800, in Rochester, N.
II. When a young man he spent several
years in Maine, part of the time in teach-
ing, and part of the time in the tanning
and currying business. In 1834 he set
out for a visit to the west. He traveled
by stage and canal to Buffalo, and from
there to Chicago by sailing vessel, and
was seven weeks traveling from Maine to
Chicago. He went down DesPlaines
river in a canoe, and found a tribe of In-
dians camped at the mouth of the river.
He went from Hennepin to Beardstown
by steamboat, and walked from the latter
place to Springfield, arriving in June.
He next went to St. Louis, thr nee to New
Orleans, and embarked on a sailing vessel
for Boston, arriving in that city in Jan.,
1835. ^e returned to Springfield in 1836,
and remained until 1839, during which
time he bought and improved a piece of

land in what is now Pawnee township.
In the fall of 1839 he returned east, and
was married Nov. 9, 1839, at Dover,
N. H., to Miriam H. Trickey. She was
born Feb. 8, 1802, at Brookfield, N. H.
They went the same fall they were mar-
ried to Plattvjlle, Wis., and in the winter
of 1840 '41 started for Sangamon county
in a sleigh, and came the whole distance
that way, although they had to wait sev-
eral times for snow, but they arrived
safely at their home in Pawnee township.
They have only one child —

VIENNA, born April 21, 1843, '»
Sangamon county, married George P.
Weber. See his name.

Timothy Mcader and wife are both
living on Brush creek, between Pawnee
and Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.
— 1876.

MEADER, WILLIAM W.,
born April 22, 1820, in New Hampshire,
came to Springfield in 1839, resided two
years at Springfield and Pawnee, returned
east, and was married at Dover, N. H., in
1845, to Lavina Trickey. He brought
his family to Sangamon county in 1866,
engaged in farming and selling dry goods,
moved to Christian county in 1868, and
Mrs. M. died, Nov., 1872, at Clarksdale.
Their only child —

ED WARD P., is now of the firm of
Brock & Meader, Clarksdale, Christian
county, Illinois. W m. W. Meader lives
in Clarksdale also.

Mrs. Vienna Bodge, widow of James
Bodge, late a merchant of Pawnee, is a
sister to Timothy E. and Wm. W.
Meader.

L. M. Babb, who lives three miles north-
east of Pawnee, is a nephew of the
Meaders.

MEACHAM, ADIN E., was
born March 10, 1789, at Benson, Rutland
county, Vermont. His father started
with his family to move west, July 30,
1812, and halted at Chillicothe, Ohio.,
Sept. 24. They resumed their journey
May 20, 1813, passing through Cincin-
nati, Ohio, Lexington, Ky., thence to
Shawneetown, 111., from there to Kaskas-
kia, thence up the Mississippi river to the
American bottom, about ten miles above
St. Louis, arriving July 26, 1813, and on
the 12th day of September, the father
died. The family remained there until
the close of the war with Great Britain.
Adin E., with his mother, moved to the

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vicinity of the present town of Loami,
Sangamon county, 111., in 1819. He was
married there to Isabel Colburn, and
had si-x children —

FIDELIA, born Aug. i, 1820, mar-
ried James D. Weir. They had seven
living children — OLIVER B. was mai-
ried in Missouri to Martha Blackwell.
They had two children, JOHN and LAURA.
At the breaking out of the rebellion, he
left Missouri, brought his family to San-
gamon county, and enlisted in the 73^
111. Inf., for three years. He was wound-
ed at the battle of Chattanooga, Sept. 19,
1863, and died seven days later. His
children reside with their mother, who is
married to Charles Freddy. They have
four children, and live in Green county,
Missouri. MARY J. married John Hun-
ter. They have five children, and live at
Plattville, Taylor county, Iowa. MAR-
THA E. married John Frank. They
have two children, and live in Carthage,
Missouri. HENRY is unmarried, and
lives at Carthage. ISABEL married
Mr. McMaster. They have two children,
and live in Springfield, Missouri. MA-
RION and AGNES live with their pa-
rents at Carthage, Missouri.

EUNICE M., born Oct. 13, 1822,
married Isaac R. Mengel. See his name.

JANE L., born Oct. 12, 1824, mar-
ried Levi B. Mengel. See his name.

Mrs. Jane L. Mengel has a commission
held by her father, Adin E. Meacham, as
Lieutenant in the yth Reg. 111. Militia,
dated at Kaskaskia, Aug. 17, 1817, and
signed by Ninian Edwards, Governor.
On the back of the same is the endorse-
ment that Adin E. Meacham has taken
the oath of fidelity and of office, as pre-
scribed by "An act to suppress dueling,"
dated Sept. i, 1817, attested by John H.
Randle, District Clerk. A. E. Meacham
served sixty days in a company of Indian
Rangers, and received for that service

$4° 37^-

JTLIA A., born Dec. 16, 1827, mar-
ried May 23, 1844, to Charles H. Dawson,
who was born Feb. 26, 1820, in Vermont.
They had eight children, two of \vhom
died in infancy. RICHARD H., born
March 14, 1845, married Lizzie C.
Ruckle. They have two children, KATIE
and ALICE, and live in Springfield, Illi-
nois. GEORGE E., born June 23,
1847, graduated at Ann Arbor, Michigan

University, was Professor of Languages,
in the High School, at Buffalo, N. Y., for
some time, and is now — 1875 — leaving for
a two years' tour of Europe, studying and
perfecting himself in the law. LYDIA
I., was born May 12, 1847, an(^ married
Joseph E. Coleman. See his name.
OLIVE A., born Sept. 2, 1853, married,
Oct. 7, 1873, to Robert E. Short. See
his name. They have one child, OLIVE
IRENE, and live near Loami. ANDREW
L. and WALTER L. live with their
mother. Charles H. Dawson died July
22, 1820, and his widow lives near Lo-
ami, Sangamon countv, Illinois.

ADIN E. A., born July 16, 1831,, in
Sangamon county, was married Jan. I,
1852, in Stoughton, Wisconsin, to Martha
Renshaw, who was born April 22, 1836,
in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. They
have six living children, CHARLES W.,
AUSTIN S., ADA BELLED MAGGIE
E., MARIETTA and ORRIN R., and
live at Loami, Sangamon county, 111.
Adin E. A. Meacham has in his, posses-
sion a powder horn that has been in
the family three generations before it
came into his hands. It bears the follow-
ing inscription, elaborately carved : " ^fohn
Herolf s Horn, 1756" The only other
letters on it are tlA Muscovy Cat" over
a figure supposed to represent an animal
known by that appellation. It also con-
tains figures of other animals, ships, and
various hieroglyphics, and must have oc-
cupied many leisure hours of some sol-
dier engaged in the French and English
wars on this continent before our nation
was born. A. E. A. Meacham has also a
gourd raised by his father in 1826, near
where he now resides; it holds an even
half bushel. How a Yankee came to grow
a gourd, such as our early education led
us to believe could only be done by some
person with southern blood in their veins,
is a mvstery.

HARRIE7 /., born Oct. 3, 1834, was
married Oct. 7, 1857, to Andrew ]. Par-
ker. They have two children, DORA
I. and IRA M., and live in Loami.

Mrs. Isabel Meacham died Nov. 25,
1864, and her husband, A. E. Meacham,
died March 9, 1866, both near Loami,
Sangamon countv, Illinois.

MEACHAM, EDOM, was born
in Kentucky, and married there to Nancy
Cavenah. They had three children, and

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moved to Sangamoii county, 111., arriving
Dec., 1830, just in time for the "deep
snow," on Lick Creek, in what is now
Loami township, where they had three
children. Of their six childien —

MARTHA E., born Jan. 27, 1827, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
Jan. 23, 1846, to Jonathan Morris. See
his name.

WILLIS, born in Kentucky, and
married in Sangamon county to Rachel
C. S. Hudson. They have two children,
ADALINE and MARGARET, and re-
side in Waverly, 111.

. M.MARGARET, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Peter L.
Jarrett. See his name.

FRANKLIN, born in Sangamon
county, married Mary Hutchinson, has
one child, and lives in Waverly, Illinois.

LUCINDA, born July 29, 1838, in
Sangamon county, married Aug. 12, 1853,
to Wellington B. Huffaker, who was
born Oct. 22, 1829, in Morgan county,
and came to Sangamon county in 1851.
They had seven children. JESSIE B.,
the second child, died when she was
seven years old. WELLINGTON L.,
the fourth child, died in his third year.
GEORGE G. was married June 2, 1875,
in New Berlin, to Clara J. Manson, and
lives near New Berlin, 111. LIZZIE
M., JENNIE, FRANCIS M. and
LOULU A. live with their mother.
Wellington 15. HufTaker died March 3,
1873. His widow and children reside
four miles south of New Berlin, Sanga-
mon county, 111. Mr. Huffaker was a
successful farmer and stock raiser, and
had just completed the finest private resi-
dence in Sangamon county, outside of
Springfield.

ADALINE, born Oct. 4, 1844, in
Sangamon county, married March 27,
1860, to George Madison Maxwell. See
his name.

Mrs. Nancy Meacham died Sept. 11,
1853, and Edom Meacham was married
in 1855 to Margaret McCormick. They
have nine children, and reside in Waver-
ly, Morgan county, Illinois.

Willis L. Meacham, the father of Edom,
was a native of North Carolina. He
moved from Kentucky to Sangamon
county with his son, Edom, both families
arriving just as 'the deep snow commenced
falling in Dec., 1830. He brought several

other children with him. His daughter
Annis, married Dr. West, who died,
leaving three children; and she married
William Sims, and lives in Jacksonville,
111. His son, Tandy, married Julia Lit-
trall, and lives in Waverly, 111. Willis
L. Meacham and wife both died in San-
gamon county.

MEACHAM, JOSEPH K.,
was born in Kentucky, came to Sanga-
mon county among the earliest settlers,
and married Ann Hodgerson. Thev had
four children in Sangamon county, naine-

!y—

WILLIAM CM born Jan. S, 1833,
married Narcissa Parsley. They have
five children, and reside near Maroa,
Macon county, Illinois.

JOHN H., born Feb. 12, 1834, mar-
ried Jan. 4, 1861, to Leah Jarrett. Thev
had six children; two died in infancy.
JOSEPH K. died in his eighth year.
JAMES W., LUANNA J. and ADA
E. live with their parents, three miles
south of New Berlin, Illinois.

WILLIS died at ten years of age.

REBECCA E., born April 8, 1838,
married Rowan Morris, Jun., and live in
Ray county, Missouri.

Joseph K. Meacham died July 28, 1838,
and his widow died April 12, 1867, both
in Sangamon county, Illinois.

MEACHAM, JOSEPH, was
born in 1794 in Christian count}-, Ky.
Thankful Finley was born in 179^ in the
same county. They were married, and
had seven children there. The familv
moved to Sangamon county, arriving Oct.,
1840, at Springfield, and the next spring
moved to what is now Loami township.
Of their children —

ELCET F., -born Oct. 2, 1820, in
Christian county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county Nov. 7, 1844, to Jackson
Archer. See his name. He died, and
she married William DufF. See his name.

JOHN W., born Aug., 1822, in Chris-
tian county, Ky., came to Sangamon
county in 1838, preceding his parents.
He was married in Springfield to Ann
Young. They had seven children ; one
only is living, ROBERT P. He mar-
ried Sarah Jumper in Jacksonville. The
family reside in Waverly, Illinois.

MARY H., born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to A. S. Har«-

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mon. She died, and Mr. Harmon married
again. He lives in Waverly.

ELIZABETH E. was twice mar-
ried. . She and both husbands died in
Waverly.

MINERVA L., born in Christian
county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county to Young Hudson. See his
name.

ABNER W., died in Kentucky, and

AMERICA J., died in Sangamon
county, each at ten years of age.

Mrs. Thankful Meacham died Oct. 7,

1844, and Joseph Meacham died Oct. 19,

1845, DOt;h near Loami, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

MEGREDY, ENOCH, born
in 1794, in Cecil county, Maryland, was
married there, Aug. 20, 1816, to Mary S.
Jones, who was born in Cecil county,
April 7, 1798. Mr. Megredy was en-
gaged in merchandizing, and they had
four children there. About 1823 they
moved into the adjoining county, in Penn-
sylvania^ where Mr. Megredy continued
in the mercantile business. Four children
were born in Pennsylvania, and about
1831 they returned to Maryland, where
they had three cnildren. Mr. M. moved
his family to Springfield, 111., arriving
June 1 6, 1837, and in December following
moved to what is now Ball township, six
miles south of Springfield, where two
children wei'e born. Of all their child-
ren; the eldest —

ELIZABETH died Dec. 14, 1821,
in Maryland, aged four years.

JAMES J., born Feb. i, 1819, in
Cecil county, Md., was married in San-
gamon county, 111., Dec. 30, 1841, to Ann
R. Hall. They had ten children, three
died under four years, and JOHN B. in
his fourth year. Of the other six —
CHARLES L. married Virginia Weber,
and lives at Belleville, Kansas. ANNA,
WILLIAM P., SAMUEL E., MIL-
LARD F. and FANNIE, live with their
parents, three and three-fourths miles
northwest of Pawnee. James J. Megre-
dy represented Sangamon county in the
State Legislature, for the session of 1857
and '8.

MART A., born Nov. 3, 1820, in
Cecil county, Maryland, was married
Nov. 25, 1847, i° Sangamon [county, 111.,
to Dr. Cieorge M. Harrison. See his
name.

DANIEL, born Aug. 30, 1822, in
Maryland, was married in Sangamon
county, Feb. 22, 1849, to Sarah N. Harri-
son, who died, and he married Catharine
Kennedy. Daniel Megredy died in Ball
township, leaving three children, WIL-
LIAM ARTHUR, MARY and SA-
RAH.

ELIZABETH, born Sept. n, 1824,
in Lancaster county, Penn., is unmarried,
and lives at the family homestead, in San-
gamon county.

ENOCH, born June 16, 1826, at Con-
estoga, Lancaster county, Penn., raised in
Sangamon county, married, Oct. 16, 1850,
to Lucinda P. Harrison, who was born
Sept. 10, 1828, in that part of Sangamon
which is now Menard county. They had
four children — MARY A., the second
child, died in her fifth year. ENOCH
E., ADA and LESLIE E. live with their
parents, in Menard county, three and one-
half miles northwest of Salisbury.

JOHN, born July 11, 1828, in Cones-
toga Center, Pennsylvania, married Pris-
cilla L. Miller. They had four children,
and Mr. Megredy died, near Springfield.
His widow and children live in Kansas
City, Missouri.

SARAH died, aged twenty years.

ABIGAIL, born July 18, 1832, in
Cecil county, Maryland, was married in
Sangamon county, April 14, 1858, to
Morgan B. Pettus. They have three
children, and live in Lincoln, Illinois.

WILLIAM R., born Dec. 31, 1833,
in Wakefield, Cecil county, Maryland,
was married in Iroquois county, 111., Oct.
8, 1872, to Joanna Harlan, who was born
Oct. 21, 1850, in Morgan county, 111.
They have one child, WILLIAM, and
live in Chatham, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

AD ALINE B., born Nov. 21, 1835,
in Cecil county, Maryland, was married
Nov. 21, 1855, in Sangamon county, Illi-
nois to Robert S. Graham. See his
name.

ARCHIBALD JOB, born January
30, 1838, in Sangamon county, lives at the
homestead.

MARGARE7' R., born April 20,
1840, in Sangamon county, is unmarried,
and lives at the homestead.

Enoch Megredy, Sen., died December
28, 1851, and his widow died Aug. 1 1,

EARLY SETTLERS OF

1866, both on the farm where they settled
in 1837, s*x miles south of Springfield.

Archibald Job, a cousin of Mr. Megre-
dy, had a contract for furnishing stone to
build the State House, in Springfield,
which was commenced the year Mr. Me-
gredy came to the county. The stone
was obtained in Ball township, near
Crow's mill, and Mr. Megredy was em-
ployed to superintend the quarries. He
was experienced in the business before he
came west. Mr. Megredy was a local
Methodist preacher, and a consistant tem-
perance man. He lectured on temperance
on all suitable occasions.

MENGEL, ISAAC R., was
born about 1820, in Lancaster county,
Penn. He left home with his brother,
Levi B., April 17, 1838, and arrived at
Springfield, 111., early in May, and a few
days later went to Lebanon, now Loami,
in the employ of J. P. Langford, who
had a contract for furnishing timber for
the State House, then being built in
Springfield. He was married near Loami
to Eunice M. Meacham. They had twelve
children, among them two pairs of twins,
and once three at a birth, two boys and a
girl; the latter and one of the boys died
young. The other boy —

ELLIS, lives with his parents in Ne-
braska.

LE VI enlisted in Co. K, I24th 111.
Inf., and died in the army.

ETHAN M., enlisted in Co. K, 124111
111. Inf. He lost an eye by an accidental
shot from a weapon in the hands of his
Captain, near the close of his term of
service. He married Amanda M. Weber,
in Sangamon county, and lives in Ne-
braska.

A R MIND A J., married a Mr. Grif-
fin, in 1865. They have three children,
and live near Lincoln, Neb.

HA TT1E lives with her parents in
Wahoo, Neb.

Isaac R. Mengel resides at Wahoo,
Saunders county, Nebraska. He is Pro-
bate Judge of that county — 1875.

MENGEL, LEVI B., born in
1822 in Lancaster county, Penn., and
came with his brother, Isaac R., to
Springfield, thence to Loami, in 1838.
He was married Nov. 13, 1842, to Jane
L. Meacham. They had ten living child-
ren in Sangamon county.

ELIZABETH, born June 12,1843,
married June, 1869, to James Colemaa.
They have twins, NINA MAY and
LINA JANE, and live in Christian
county, Illinois.

T1RZAH married David P. Colburn.
See his name.

ANTHONY W. died Aug. 27, 1871,
in his seventeenth year.

EUNICE married Oct. 29, 1874, to
Ezra D. Fuller. They have one child,
LULU, and live near Loami, Illinois.
FRANCIS, ALICE C., JOSEPH
W., KATE M., ANNA L. and HAR-
RY S. live with their mother.

Levi B. Mengel died Sept. 10, 1874,
near Loami, Sangamon county, 111., and
his widow and children reside there.

MEREDITH, ABSALOM,
born about 1785, in Virginia, was mar-
ried there about 1807, to Mary Royal, a
native of the same State. They moved
to Butler county, Ohio, where they had
four children, and then moved to Miami
county, where two children were born.
The family moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving Oct. 27, 1829, in what is now
Ball township. The company in which
they came numbered sixty-three persons.
Of their six children —

THOMAS, born in Butler county,
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county
to Priscilla Fields, who died, and he mar-
ried Jane Basil. They had two children.
DAVIS was a soldier in an 111. Reg.,
and was killed at the battle of Resaca,
Georgia, May 15, 1864. NANCY E.
married a Mr. Buck. He was a Union
soldier, and died in the army. His widow
resides with her mother. Thomas Mere-
dith was drowned in Sacramento river,
Cal. His widow and widowed daughter
reside near Elizabeth, JoDaviess county,
Illinois.

AMY, born in Butler county, Ohio,
was married in Sangamon county to
William B. Lawley. See his name.

DA VIS, born June 14, 1812, in But-
ler county, Ohio, was married June 29,
1836, in Sangamon county, to Mary New-
comer. They had eight children; one
died in infancy. Of the other seven —
SUSANNAH, born May 4, 1837, mar
ried Drury Jones. See his name.
CHARLES N., born July 23, 1839, en-
listed in Co. E, ii4th 111. Inf., August 11,
1862. He was taken sick at Camp Butler,

SANGAMON COUN'Jt.

and was out of the service six months.
He was married March 8, 1863, to Laura
Wagoner, who was born Sept. 3, 1841, in
Menard county, 111. He rejoined his reg-
iment, March 20, of same year, and after
the siege of Vicksburg, was sent to
Memphis, where he was detailed as Or-
derly at headquarters of the Sixteenth
Army Corps. Charles N. Meredith was
honorably discharged, Oct., 1864, at
Memphis, Tenn. Mr. and Mrs. Mere-
dith have two living children, MARY F.
and IDA j., who live with their parents.
C. N. Meredith is engaged in the cloth-
ing business at Taylorville, 111., and re-
sides there. MARY J., born Dec. 3,
1842, was married Jan. i, 1863, to John
R. Kincaid, who was born Nov. 14, 1833,
in Virginia, and brought up in Gallia
county, Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Kincaid have
four living children, LUTHER E., JAMES

W., CATALINA MAY and FRED CARROLL,

and live five miles north of Pawnee, San-
gamon county, 111. SARAH A., born
Nov. 2, 1844, was married Oct. 19, 1865,
to Lewis R. Hedrick. They have three
living children, namely, MARY s., FRANCIS
R. and ALICE j., and live in Taylorville,
Christian county, 111. CHRISTOPHER
C., born June 3, 1848, resides with his pa-
rents. LUTHER OSBORN, born July
7, 1851, was married Sept. 4, 1873, to
Eli /a A. Poffenberger. They have one
child, CHARLES NOAH, and live in Cotton
Hill township, Sangarnon county, Illi-
nois. FANNIE L., born Jan. 27, 1857,
lives with her parents. Davis Meredith
lives in Ball township, ten miles south-
east of Springfield, 111. He remembers
that, after the deep snow, when it had en-
tirely disappeared except on the roads,
where the snow had been packed down,
they looked like ribbons stretched over
the prairie, and the sight was beautiful.
These strips were from one to three feet
wide, and it was weeks after the other
snow was gone before they disappeared.

WILLIAM, born in Butler county,
Ohio, brought up in Sangarnon county, is
a minister in the United Brethren church,
and lives at Fort Scott, Kansas.

SARAH A., born in Miami county,
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county,
111., to James Dillon. They have two
children, OLIVER and DAVIS, who
live with their father. Mrs. S. A. Dillon

died at Hittle's Grove, McLean county,
Illinois.

JOSEPH, born in Miami county,
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county,
111., to Susan Dillon, who died, leaving
five children, SARAH A., LESLIE C.,
THOMAS J., CHARLOTTE J. and
MARY C. live with their father. He
married Mary Adams. They have one
child, MELISSA. Joseph Meredith and
family live near Taylorville, 111.

Absolom Meredith died in Rochester
township, Sangamon county, 111., in 4842,
and his widow died in 1844, m Ball
township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MERRIMAN, ELIAS H.,
was born Jan. 20, 1802, in Baltimore,
Maryland. He graduated at William and
Mary College about 1820, and at the
Baltimore Medical University soon after.
He was married in Baltimore Aug. 16,
1822, to Susan H. Lavely, a sister to
William Lavely. See his name. She
was born Dec. 9, 1804, in that city. They
had one child there, also. After prac-
ticing for a time in the vicinity of Balti-
more, Dr. Merriman moved to St. Louis,
Mo., and from there to Springfield, 111.,
arriving in March, 1830. They had one
child in St. Louis, and two in Springfield.
Of their children —

JAMES H., born Jan. 27, 1^27, in
Baltimore, Md., was raised in Springfield,
111. He enlisted in Co. A, 4th 111. Inf., in
1846, and was appointed by Col. E. D.
Baker Sergeant- Major of the regiment,
and served as such during the war with
Mexico. He was appointed under Presi-
dent Taylor to a clerkship in the United
States General Land Office, and was
later appointed Lieutenant in the United
States Revenue Service, in which he
served about twenty-four years, the last
twelve as Captain. He is now Inspector
of the Life Saving Service, having
charge of all the stations on the Atlantic
coast, with headquarters in New York
city — 1876.

WILLIAM J. N,, born Feb. 10,
1830, in St. Louis, Mo., and raised in
Springfield. In 1852, he went to Cali-
fornia, and in 1855 went from there with
Gen. Walker on his expedition to Central
America, after which he returned to the
United States. He now resides in Spring-
field, 111.

EARLY SETTLERS OP

ELLEN M., born May i 1832, in
Springfield, married in 1854 to Thomas
H. Murphy, a native of Quebec, Canada.
They moved in 1859 to New Orleans,
and returned to Springfield in 1873. She
resides with her mother, in Spring-
field.

Dr. E. H. Merriman was engaged in
one of the campaigns of the Black Hawk
war, and was bearer of dispatches from
General Henry to General Atkinson.
See page 85. He w: s in success-
ful practice in Springfield for twen-
ty years. In 1851 he went to San
Francisco; spent four years there,
and in 1855 went to Costa Rica, in search
of coal. He had commenced mining, but
the yellow fever breaking out among the
men, he treated them successfully, but
afterwards fell a victim to the disease
himself, and died there on the Island of
Cano, May 8, 1855. His widow resides
in Springfield, Illinois.

MERRIMAN, REUBEN,
was born Sept. 6, 1790, in Connecticut.
When a young man, he went to Ken-
tucky, and after a stay of one year, re-
turned t o Connecticut, and was married,
May 4, 1812, about twenty miles from
Bridgeport, to Betsy Bennett. They
went at once to Scott county, Ky , settled
on Big Eagle creek, and engaged in mil-
ling and coopering with his younger bro-
ther, Lyman, and their father, who all
moved at the same time. They had five
living children. The father died there,
and the two brothers, with their families
and their sister, and widowed mother,
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1829, in what is now Wil-
liams township, where twins were born.
Of all their children —

LUCINDA, born Feb. 21, 1813, in
Scott county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county to Isaac Constant. See his name.
Thev had four children, and moved to
Jackson county, Oregon, Rogue River
Valley, in 1852.

LAVINA y., born April 2, 1817, in
Kentucky, married to William T.Jones.
See his name.

GEORGE B., born Sept. 8, 1818, in
Scott county, Ky., came to Sangamon
county, in 1829, married, Jan. i, 1844, to
Maria L. Dawson. They had six living
children in Sangamon county — JOHN
W. married Maria J. Brittin, have two

children, DORA B. and HARRY w., and re-
side in Marion county, Iowa. REUBEN
A. resides in Williams township. BEL-
BERT, LUCY T., BERTHA E. and
GEORGE A. reside with their parents,
four miles southeast of Williamsvile, San-
gamon county, Illinois.

JOHN S., born Nov. 29, 1821, in
Scott county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, Nov. 7, 1848, to Mary J. Dawson.
They had ten children; one died in in-
fancy, and NOAH W., the youngest
child, died March 4, 1873, aged six years.
MARY FLORENCE died, Aug. 12,
1874, and ANN ELIZA died, June 13,
1876, at their father's house, near Wil-
liamsville, Illinois. Of the other six —
MARTHA V., CHARLES B., LELIA
L., CLAY S., CORA E. and ABRA-
HAM L. live with their parents, three
miles west of Williamsville, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

WILLIAM H., born March 4, 1825,
in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county to Mary A. Lewis. They had
two children, and in 1852 started overland
for Oregon. Mrs. Merriman and one of
the children died on the way. Mr. Mer-
riman and the other children went on to
their destination. Wm. Merriman was
there married to Mrs. Artamesia Chap-
man, whose maiden name was Riddle.
They have several children, and reside
near Jacksonville, Jackson county, Ore-
gon.

ROBERT F., and FRANCIS A.,
twins, born Sept. 5, 1830, in Sangamon
county, Illinois.

ROBERT F., married Sept. 17, 1862,
in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth
Thompson, who was born Jan. 28, 1840,
in Wayne county, Ohio. They have one
child, WILLIE, and reside five miles
southeast of Williamsville.

FRANCIS A. married, Oct. 7, 1858,
to Emma Bishop, who was born Dec. 12,
1838, in Clark county, Ohio. They had
five children, EDDY F., MARY L.,
MYRTILLA,and BYRON and ROSE,
twins; the two latter died in infancy.
Mrs. Emma Merrimnn died May 9,
1866. F. A. Merriman was married,
Nov. 25, 1868, to Chloe Sparklin, a na-
tive of Elkhart county, Indiana. They
reside five miles southeast of Williams-
ville, and two and one-half miles north of
Barclay, Illinois.

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Mrs. Betsy Merriinan died Feb. 27,
1842, and Reuben Merriman died Feb.
28, 1842, both in Sangamon county.

MERRIMAN, LYMAN, was
born in 1792, in Connecticut. He went
with his brother Reuben to Scott county,
Ky., in 1812, and was there married to
Sarah R. Howard, v/ho was born there
in 1794. They had four living children,
and moved to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving in the fall of 1829, in what is now
Williams township, where one child was
born. Of their five children —

MADISON M., born March n, 1817,
in Scott county, Ky., married Elizabeth
Fletcher. They have seven living child-
Their daughter, ELIZABETH A.,

married Irvin J. Houtz, and reside in
Williams township, two and a quarter
miles north of Sherman. The other
six reside with their parents, in Logan
county, Illinois.

SARAH J., born Aug. 22, 1819, in
Scott county, Ky., married William Yo-
com. See his name.

EL VIRA married Francis M. Young,
had one child, and died in 1851.

CORDELIA L., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county March 10,
1862, to B. F. Fletcher. See his name.

MART A., born in Sangamon county,
married Hiram J. Young. She died
Aug., 1867, leaving four children, LAU-
RA A. and MARY A. reside with their
aunt, Mrs. Win. Yocom. The two sons
live with their father, in Montgomery
county, Illinois.

Lyman Merriman died in March, 1865,
and his widow died Sept. 20, 1869.

LAURA, the sister of Reuben and
Lyman Merriman, who came with them
from Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county in 1829 to Francis Arenz, went to
Beardstown, and died within a year after
she was married. The mother of the
Merriman brothers and sister died in
Beardstown, also.

MESLER, CORNELIUS,
was born Oct. 7, 1798, in Morris county,

ew Jersey. Phoebe Shepard was born
July 15, 1804, at Green village, Morris
county, New Jersey. They were mar-
ried Dec. 25, 1822, in Newark, New Jer-
sey. They came to Springfield, 111., in
June, 1830, and settled one and one-half
miles east of the city. In 1834 they
moved to what is now Cooper township,

south of Sangamon river. Cornelius
Mesler died July 7, 1854, and his widow
resides on the farm where they settled in
1834. It is in Cooper township, three miles
northeast of Clarksville, Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois.

MERRIWEATHER, JOHN
H., was born July 2, 1808, in Baltimore
county, Md. He .migrated to the vicin-
ity of Springfield, Clark county, Ohio,
and was there married in 1834 to Eliza-
beth Hummell. They had two children
there, and came to Springfield, 111., arriv-
ing in May, 1839, where six children
were born, one of whom died. Of their
seven children —

ELIZABETH H., born in 1836
near Springfield, Ohio, was married May
2, 1864, in Springfield, 111., to Edward L.
M. Johnson, a native of Virginia. He
was a contractor, and superintended the
carpenter work on the Springfield and
Illinois Southeastern — now O. and M. —
railroad. He died November, 1874. His
widow resides n Pana, Illinois.

WILLIAM H., born April 28, 1838,
in Clark county, Ohio, was married Sept.
20, 1860, in Springfield, 111., to Sarah J.
Bateman, who was born there Sept. 13,
1842. He served seventeen months in
Co. B, H4th 111. Inf. Mr. and Mrs.
Merriweather have five children, and live
near Gerard, Crawford county, Kansas.

ELIZA W., born May 5, 1840, was
married in Springfield, 111., April 19,
i S6o, to John T. Rhodes, who was born
Jan. 14, 1831, in Frederick county, Md.
They have two children, WILLIAM
R. and ELLA M. J. T. Rhodes is
a contractor and builder. He was a mem-
ber of the Board of Supervisors of San-
gamon county for three years, and was
elected in the spring of 1874 a member of
the City Council for three years, and re-
sides in Springfield, Illinois.

JAMES, born Sept. 30, 1844, in
Springfield, was married Oct. 20, 1870, in
Sangamon county, to Minerva Enyart.
They have one child, ANN E , and live
near Pawnee, Illinois.

JOHN H.} Jun.,\*o\-n Sept. 7, 1846,
in Springfield, and resides in Pawnee,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

ELLA L., born April 18, 1851, in
Springfield, was married there Nov. 4,
1874,10 Charles W. Post, who was horn
Oct. 26, 1854, in Springfield, 111. C. W.

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EARLT SETTLERS OF

Post is with his father, C. R. Post, in the
agricultural implement business, in Spring--
field, Illinois.

GEORGE W., born April 29, 1855,
in Springfield, lives with his sister, Mrs.
Johnson, in Pana, Illinois.

John H. Merriweather, Sen., was a
merchant in Springfield for many years,
but the latter part of his life was spent on
his farm, near Pawnee, 111., where he
died Oct. 15, 1863. His widow died Aug.
18, 1868.

MESSICK, JOSEPH W.,
was born in Christian county, Ky., and
came to Sangamon county in 1829, with
his sisters, Matilda and Melinda. He re-
turned to Kentucky in 1840, married
there, and brought his wife and youngest
sister, Julia A., to Sangamon county. He
makes his home in Macoupin county,
near Nilwood. His sister —

ELIZABETH, came before, and
married Silas Harlan. See his name. He
died, and she married George Roberts,
and resides in Chatham township.

MATILDA is unmarried, and re-
sides with her niece, Mrs. J. F. Irwin.

MELINDA married M. F. Can-
non, and both died in 1850 in Chatham
township.

JULIA A., married William D.
Crow. See his name.

MILLER, CHRISTIAN, was
born Jan. 12, 1771, in Loudon county, Va.
Sarah Neer was born June 28, 1786, in
the same county, and they were there
married in 1807. They had eight child-
ren in that county. The whole family
left Loudon county Sept. 4, 1833, travel-
ing in wagons; they reached Champaign
county, Ohio, and stopped with a brother.
Mr. Miller and his eldest son, David, set
out on horseback for Illinois, via Indian-
apolis, Crawfordsville, Vermilion Salt
Works, thence through Illinois to Pekin,
Lewiston and Canton, and returning,
crossed the Illinois river at Fort Ross —
now Havana — thence to Springfield,
Paris, Terre Haute, Ind., and back to
Ohio. He purchased a farm in Miami
county, Ohio, and commenced moving to
it on the morning after the great meteoric
shower, Nov. 13, 1833. One year later
he sold out in Ohio, and started, Nov. 17,
1834, with his family; passing through
Springfield they reached Alton in Decem-
ber. From there thev moved back to

Sangamon county, arriving in Spring-
field, Jan. 20, 1835. Mr. Miller entered
two thousand one hundred acres of land
in the vicinity of the mouth of Buckhart
creek, in what is now Cooper and Roch-
ester townships. On the i9th of March,
1835, the family moved to what is now
Cooper township. All the Miller family
except David and John C., moved, in
Nov., 1838, to Coles county, six miles
from Jefferson City, Mo., and all returned
to Sangamon county in Dec., 1841. Of
the eight children of Christian Miller—

DA VI. D, born April 18, 1809, in
Loudon county, Va., came to Sangamon
county in 183^, married April 26, 1838, to
Eliza D.Jackson, who was born July 10,
1808, in Shelby county, Ky. She died
without children, in Sangamon county,
Oct. 10, 1871. David Miller was married
Feb. i, 1872, in Sangamon county, to
Fannie Jackson, who was born Oct. 28,
1841, in Nelson county, Ky., and raised in
Missouri. They had two children.
FANNIE E. died in infancy. David
Miller died Jan. 23, 1875. His son,
DAVID EDWIN, born August 31, 1875,
seven months and eight days after the
death of his father. The widow and in-
fant son of David Miller reside at Sanga-
mon Station, five miles east of Spring-
field, 111.

ANN, born Nov. II, 1810, in Virginia,
resides with her brother, Jacob C. She
never married, has been an invalid for
fifteen years, and has been blind since
Nov. 30, 1 868.

JOHN C., born Oct. 19, 1812, in
Loudon county, Va., came to Sangamon
county in 1835, married at Rochester,
Feb. 5, 1837, to Melvina Sattley. They
had six children in Sangamon county,
namely: GEORGE H., born March
19, 1838, married March 13, 1863, to
Louisana Archer. They had one child,
JOHX E., and Mrs. Miller died Jan.
i, 1874. Mr. Miller and his son reside at
the family homestead, three miles east of
Rochester. HARRIET V., born Oct.
13, 1840, married Feb. 9, 1862, to Daniel
Waters, who was born Sept. 14, 1830, in
Loudon county, Va., and came to Sanga-
mon county in 1852. They had five chil-
dren, two of whom died, GEORGE E. in
his third year, and I.UI.A in infancy. The
other three, ANNIE A., CHARLES M. and
LII.LA M., a twin to Lula, reside with

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their parents, five miles east of Rochester.
EDMOND, born Feb. i, 1843, married
Oct. 13, 1870, to Louisana Whitesides.
She died Nov. 23, 1871, and he resides
three miles east of Rochester, where his
parents settled in 1837, and where he was
horn. SARAH ANN, born Sept. 20,
1845, married August, 1866, to George
Lucas, have two children, JOHN H. and
MARY E., and live five miles west of
Mechanicsburg. ELIZA E., born Feb.
23, 1848, married Dec. 27, 1870, to John
Archer, have one child, LOUETTA, and
live three miles north of Edinburg, 111.
MARY ALICE, born March 2, 1851,
lives with her mother. John C. Miller
died Jan. 13, 1853, and his widow resides
three miles east of Rochester, 111., where
she and her husband settled in 1837.

SAMUEL, born Aug. 27, 1815, in
Loudon county, Va., married in Sanga-
mon county, June 30,1841,10 Eliza Jones.
They had four children. ANDREW
died August 20, 1845, 'n ^'s f°urth year.
EVELINE, born May 28, 1846, married
Sept. 26, 1866, to George H. Waters.
Mrs. Waters died, Dec. 18, 1870, leaving
a son, ORVAL E., who lives with his
father, near Sangamon Station. SARAH
•ELEANOR, born Nov. 6, 1850, married
Jan. 10, 1871, to William H. Crowl. See
his name. They have two children,
LAURETTA and SAMUEL, and reside near
Taylorville, 111. MARY, born Sept. 19,
1855, lives with her parents, one and a
quarter miles west of Rochester, Illinois.

NATHAN, born Majch 24, 1822, in
Virginia, died in Sangamon county, June
9, 1848.

JACOB C.} born April 9, 1824, in
Loudon county, Va., married in Sanga-
mon county, June io,-i869, to Charlotte
Prather. She was born Jan. 4, 1843, in
Washington county, Md. They have
two children, SAMUEL J. and DON
WILLIAM, and live in Sand Prairie, five
miles east of Rochester, Illinois.

JOSEPH, born August 18, 1826, in
Loudon county, Va., married in Sanga-
mon county, Oct. 4, 1849, to Louisiana
Branch. They have ten children, SAM-
UEL J., DAVID F., WILLIAM E«>
GEORGE W., ALBERT J., IDA E.,
DELLA ANN, REBECCA, JOSEPH,
Jun., and MIRTIE, and reside in Cooper
township, four miles east of Rochester,
Sangamon county, Illinois.
—66

ELIZABETH, born Nov. 3, 1829,
in Virginia, married in Sangamon county
to Samuel Neer. She died April 2, 1854,
leaving one son, NATHAN JESSE
NEER, born March 7, 1854, in Sanga-
mon county, raised and educated by his
aunt, Ann Miller. He is telegraph op-
erator and station agent at Rochester,
Illinois.

Christian Miller died Sept. 14, 1842,
and Mrs. Sarah Miller died August 20,
1864, both in Sangamon county.

MILLER, ADAM, Sen., young-
er brother to Christian, Sen., was born,
raised a family, and died in Loudon coun-
ty, Virginia, Aug. 6, 1828. His three
sons and five daughters all came to San-
gamon county, as follows —

ELIZABETH married John Jacobs
in Virginia. She is a widow in Cooper
township, where she came in 1839.

CATHARINE married in Virginia
to Israel Dulaney. She died in 1844 in
Rochester towr.ship, Sangamon county.

CHRISTIAN, Jun., born Dec. 25,
1805, in Loudon county, Va., came to
Sangamon county in 1835. He never
married, and died at the house of his
brother, John A., Sept. 23, 1874.

BARBARA, born Feb. 20, 1808, in
Loudon county, Va., came to Sangamon
county in 1835, anc^ mar-ried Samuel A.
Jones, and both died near Rochester, Illi-
nois.

JOHN A., born Nov. n, 1810, in
Loudon county, Va., came to Sangamon
county in 1835 with his uncle, Christian
Miller, Sen. He was married July 14,
1842, in Sangamon county, to Mary Ann
Norwood. She was born June 7, 1811,
in Loudon county, Va., and came in 1838
to Sangamon county with her brother,
William, who writes his name Norred.
John A. Miller and wife had four child-
ren in Sangamon county, MARY V.,
born April 9, 1846, married Aug. 10,
1864 to Andrew B. Surber who was born
June 8, 1836, in Pulaski county, Ky.
They have three children, WILLIAM F.,
MARY E. and JOHN, and live three miles
east of Rochester, Illinois. JOHN F.,
born Oct. 5, 1848, married Dec. 22, 1873,
in Galesburg, 111., to Laura J. Highmore,
daughter of John S. Highmore. They
live in Edinburg, 111. 6*tRISTIAN
E., born March 12, 1850, and SUSAN
E., born April 18, 1852, reside with their

EARLY SETTLERS OF

parents, two and a half miles east of
Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois —
1874.

MAR 7, born in 1812 in Loudon
county, Va., married George M. Greene.
See his name.

SARAH, born in Loudon county, Va.,
married there to Abraham E. Nickolls.
They came to Sangamon County in 1842,
and she died in 1844, leaving two children.
Her son, GEORGE Nicholls, lives near
Rochester, Illinois.

AD A M, born July 13, 1819, in Lou-
don county, Va., came to Sangamon
county in the fall of 1835. He. was mar-
ried in Rochester Dec. 31, 1856, to Cyn-
thia Elgin. She was born Nov. 19, 1839,
in Greene county, Ind. They had six
children, five of whom, GILES E.,
FRANCISCO, DON L., WILLIE,
EDNA and a babe, all died under ten
years. JESSE E., born March 15, 1864,
lives with his parents, in Pana, Christian
county, Illinois. .

MILLER, GEORGE, a brother
to Christian and Adam, Sen., was cap-
tain of a company in the war of 1812.
He had a son —

JOHN G., born Aug. 27, 1810, in
Loudon county, Va., and married there,
Nov. 1833, to Amanda A. Russell. They
had five children, and came to Sangamon
county in 1854. Their daughter, MIN-
ERVA, married Benj. H. North. See
his name. John G. Miller moved, in
1873, to the vicinity of New Scandinavia,
Kansas. His brother —

JACOB, lives south of Springfield.

"MILLER, VALENTINE,
brother to Christian, Sen., never came to
Sangamon county, but has a son —

NA THAN, who resides near Dawson.
He was not in time to be included as an
early settler.

MILLER, JACOB, was born
in 1789, in Kentucky. He was a soldier
in the war of 1812, mustered in at Win-
chester, Ky.. and was in the battle of
Tippecanoe. Lucina Poats was born
Dec. 1 8, 1793, in Stafford county, Va.,
and was taken to Clark county, Ky.,
when she was quite young. Jacob Mil-
ler and Lucina Poats were there married
in 1812. They had five children in Ken-
tucky, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving Dec., 1824, in what is now
the northwest corner of Chatham town-

ship, where they had five children. Of
their children —

ELIZA, born June i, 1815, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county, Oct.
20, 1832, to John Greenwood. See his
name. •

EUNICE, born May 29, 1819, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
Feb. 22, 1839, to John D. Foster. See
nis name.

JOHN H., born Dec. 6, 1821, in
Clark county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, Feb. 14, 1849, to Elizabeth Green-
ing. They have three children — CARO-
LINE married William H. Shumate,
have one child, ROBERT R., and live in
Marshall county, Kansas. ELIZA mar-
ried George W. Stubbs. See his name.
JOHN T. J. lives with his parents, in
Chatham, Illinois.

EMILY T., born Jan. 13, 1824, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
March 7, 1843, to John Greenwood. See
his name. She died, April 21, 1866.

SALLT, born March 20, 1826, in
Sangamon county, lives with her mother.

MATILDA, born Sept. 25, 1828, in
Sangamon county, married Aug. i, 1850,
to David Erving McGinnis. See his
name.

JAMES F., born Aug. 7, 1831, in
Sangamon county, married July 6, 1854,
to Melinda E. Shutt. They have four
children living, THOMAS J., WIL-
LIAM A., CHARLES H. and OLLIE
MAY, and live in Loami township, San-
gamon county, Illinois.

EDMUND T., born Feb. 15, 1834,
in Sangamon county, married Oct. 20,
1859, to Elizabeth Trimble. She had
one child, and mother and child died.
Mr. Miller was married Jan. 27, 1870, to
Elizabeth A. Stubbs. They have one
child, MINNIE F., and live on the farm
where his parents settled in 1824. It is
five miles west of Chatham, Illinois.

FRANCIS M., born Feb. u, 1836,
in Sangamon county, married Oct. i,
1858, to Eliza J. Trimble. They have
seven daughters, FLORA A., SARAH
E., MARY F., LILLIE, LUELLA,
^YDIA B., and a babe, and live in Chat-
ham township, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

WILLIAM G., born in Sangamon
county, married Jan. 14, 1858, to Nancy
Baker, She died, leaving two children,

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523

HENRY E. and MARY A. William
G. Miller married Sarah Hall. They had
two children, WILLIAM M. and MIN-
NIE M., both of whom died young. W.
G. Miller enlisted, Aug. 9, 1862, in Co. I,
73d 111. Inf.,1 for three years. He was
wounded at Mission Ridge, Nov. 24, 1863,
served to the end of the rebellion, and
was honorably discharged, June 24, 1865,
and resides three miles south of Loami,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

Jacob Miller died, July 27, 1862, and
his widow, Mrs. Lucina Miller, resides
at the homestead where they settled in
1824, in Sangamon county, Illinois.

MILLER, SOLOMON, was
born about 1796, in Adair county, Ky.
He was married there to Nancy A. Antle.
They had four children in Kentucky, and
moved to St. Clair county, 111., and from
there to Sangamon county, arriving in the
spring of 1820, :it what is now Salisbury,
where five children were born. Of their
children —

BARBARA, born March 15, 1812, in
Cumberland county, Ky., married Reuben
Buchanan. See his name.

E VE, born Dec. n, 1813, in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Wm. T.
H. Duncan. See his name.

MELINDA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to William C.
Hoag. See his name.

SARAH, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Morris Lindsay.
See his name.

JASON, born Nov. 6, 1819, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon oounty, Feb.
10, 1853, to Sarah E. Willis. They have
five children, FRANCIS M., MARY E.,
HARRIET A., THOMAS W. and
SARAH IDA, and reside at Salisbury,
Illinois.

JOHN A., born April 8, 1822, in
Sangamon county, married in 1847 to
Hannah J. Jackson, a native of Massachu-
setts. They had three children in San-
gamon county. ALLEN A., born May
8, 1850, married Nov. 9, 1871, to Marga-
ret A. Crawford, who was born May 3,
1850, in Laurel county, Ky. They have
one child, EDWARD, and reside two miles
northwest of Bradford station. MOR-
RIS R. and HARVEY reside with their
parents, two miles north of Salisbury, Ill-
inois.

DOCIA, born in Sangamon county,
married Rev. Tilford Clarke, have nine
children, and live in Gardner township,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

ALLEN, born in Sangamon county,
married Clarissa Keys. They have seven
children, and live in Springfield.

NANCT A., born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married George McMurphy. See his
name.

GEORGE W., born May 18, 1833, in
Sangamon county, married June 8, 1854,
to Abigail Baker. They had three child-
ren, JOHN B.JENNETTE and MAY.
Mrs. Abigail Miller died May n, 1867,
and George W. Miller lives in Salisbury,
Illinois.

Mrs. Nancy A. Miller died April, 1854,
and Solomon Miller married Lucinda
Gard. He died in 1858, near where he
settled in 1820, at Salisbury, Illinois.

MILLER, MICHAEL, was born
March 16, 1800, in Rowan county, North
Carolinia. Eleanor Turner was born
about 1801 in the same county. They
were married, and had two children
there. In 1823 the family moved to
Monroe county, Ky., where two children
were born; and in 1827 moved to Morgan,
and in 1837 to Sangamon county, in what
is now Curran township, where they had
six living children. Of their children —

RICHMOND married Charity Hart,
and lives in Iowa.

ELIZABE7W married Pleasant
Prather, moved to Adams county, Iowa.
He was a Union soldier, re-enlisted as a
veteran, and while at home on a furlough,
was killed on his own farm by a rebel
bushwhacker, in 1864. The murderer
was his nearest neighbor, and was caught
by other neighbors and hung near where
the murder was committed. He had two
sons, Union soldiers, one of whom was
killed in battle after his father's death.
The widow and children reside on the
same farm, in Adams county, Iowa.
BURRELL died, at sixteen years.

JOHN A., born April 4, 1821, in
Rowan county, North Carolina, came
with his father to Morgan county, 111., in
1827, and to Sangamon county in 1837.
He was married Nov. 24, 1842, to Louis-
iana Clements. They had nine children,
three of whom died young. FRANCIS
M., born Oct. u,*i844, was teaching
school near Mechanicsburg, abandoned

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EARLY SETTLERS OP

it, and enlisted in June, 1862, in
Co. H, 6pth 111. Inf., for one hundred
days, and died at home on sick furlough
July 17, 1862. JOHN A., Jun., born
Aug. 26, 1852, in Sangamon county, mar-
ried June 25, 1874, in Adams county, Iowa,
to Margaret E. Prather, who was born in
that county Feb. 26, 1852. They live
near Chatham, 111. THOMAS P., born
Jan. 26, 1855, married Aug. 30, 1874, to
Martha V. Graham, at Franklin, Mor-
gan county, 111., where she was born
Sept. 8, 1859. They live near Chatham,
111. CHARLES O., OSCAR C. and
ANN E. live with their father. Mrs.
Louisiana Miller died Aug. 5, 1874, and
John A. Miller resides near Chatham, 111.
—1874.

CHARLOTTE married Joseph Lit-
tle. She lives with some of her children,
in Mechanicsburg.

HENRT A. married Jane Mason.
She died, and he married Elizabeth Mar-
tin, and lives in Mechanicsburg, Illi-
nois.

SARAH married William Robbins.
See his name.

MEL VINA married Joseph White,
and she died.

CORNELIA J. married Lewis
Hauser, and lives in Adams county,
Iowa.

GEORGE W. lives in Iowa.

Michael Miller died Jan. 5, 1863, and
his widow lives in Adams county, Iowa.

MILLS, JAMES, was born Oct.
20, 1794, in Augusta county, Va. When
he was nineteen years old he, with two
brothers, went to Pickaway county, Ohio.
Elizabeth Mitts was born Oct. 17, 1793,
in Virginia, went to Kentucky with her
parents, and from there to Pickaway
county, Ohio. James Mills and Elizabeth
Mitts were there married and had seven
children, and moved to Tippecanoe coun-
ty, Ind., in 1834, where one child was
born, and from there to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., arriving in the fall of 1840, in
what is now Fancy creek township. Of
their children —

JOHN, born April 24, 1823, in Ohio,
married there to Jane Wiley, had five or
six children, and the parents died in Pick-
away county.

ELIZABETH, born Oct. 12, 1824,
in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
John W. Morrison, who was born March

17, 1823, in Edinburg, Scotland. They
had four children, ORVILLA W., ES-
TELLA died young; JOHN W. and
JAMES W. The three living reside
with their mother. Mr. Morrison started
July 9, 1862, for Idaho, and his fate is not
certainly known, but it is believed he died
there. His family reside in Williamsville,
Illinois.

ADAM, born June 30, 1826, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county, March 23,
i g53, to Louisa A. Kerns, who was born
August 8, 1830, in Ross county, Ohio.
They have five living children, JOHN,
HATTIE, EDWARD, ADAM and
ELLEN, and live two and a half miles
north of Cantrall. — 1874.

WILLIAM, born August i, 1828, in
Ohio, died in 1850.

MARCUS A UR ELI US, born Sept.
19, 1830, in Ohio', enlisted at Springfield,
in 1861, in Co. G, loth 111. Cav., for three
years, re-enlisted as a veteran, served until
July 5, 1865, when he was honorably dis-
charged. He is unmarried, and resides
with his sister, Mrs. .Morrison, at Wil-
liamsville, Illinois.

SARAH, born Nov. 23, 1832, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county to William
Newell. They had three children, and
he and two of the children died. She
married Clay Gaines. They have one
child, and live near Odell, 111.

DEBORAH, born Sept. 30, 1834, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
David C. Duncan. See his name.

DORCAS A., born Sept. 3, 1837, in
Indiana, married John J. Alexander. See
his name.

James Mills died Jan. 17, 1867, and his
widow died June 27, 1870, both in Wil-
liamsville, Sangamon county, 111.

MILLJNGTON, PETER, born
July 6, 1737, in Vermont, was married in
Boston, Mass., in 1759, to Henrietta
Boulden, of that place. She died within
two years, aud Mr. Millington was mar-
ried in 1769 to Mehetible Glass, a native
of Massachusetts. Mr. Millington was
Captain in the Revolutionary army, and
accompanied Ethan Allen and Benedict
Arnold on their expedition into Canada.
He was taken prisoner at Quebec, and
remained in captivity until the close of
the war. Two years later he moved to
Millington Spring, New York, where a

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525

^ was born, March 14, 1801,
he being the youngest of five children
and the only one who came West. He
accompanied his father to Ohio, and was
married June 3, 1827, at Worthington, to
Jane Justice, a native of that State. They
had two children there, and came with
his father to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving Oct., 1839, and stopping for a short
time at Mazeppa, in Cotton Hill town-
ship, where one child was born. He soon
after moved into Springfield. Of the
three children, AUGUSTUS O., born
June 7, 1828, in Worthington, Ohio, en-
listed in. 1846 as a private in Co. A*, 4th
111. Inf., and was promoted by General
Scott, at the battle of Cerro Gordo, to
Second Sergeant, for meritorious conduct
on the battle field. He served in that ca-
pacity until the close of the war. He was
married in Springfield, 111., to Almira
Marshall, who was born in 1830, in Ohio.
They had five children, four of whom died
young. Mrs. Almira Millington died
Nov. 5, 1856. Augustus O. Millington
was married May 10, 1857,10 Mrs. Harriet
E. Doud, whose maiden name was Hal-
liday, a native of Ohio. He raised a
company Aug. 10, 1861, for the Union
army, in one day, which was mustered in
as Co. I, apth 111. Inf., of which he was
commissioned Captain. After the battle
of Shiloh, he was promoted by Governor
Yates, for meritorious conduct, to the
rank of Major. He received his commis-
sion as Colonel, Aug. 19, 1863, and was in
command of a provisional brigade about
eighteen months. When Gen. Sherman
started on his "march to the sea," he left
thirty-five detachments of invalid troops
with Colonel Millington at Bridgeport,
Ala. He remained there eight months,
when he was ordered to Chattanooga,
where he was mustered out May 22,
1866. According to the statement of
Gen. McClernand, Col. Millington was
distinguished for good conduct in battle,
and especially as a drill officer, his regi-
ment being the best drilled in the brigade.
Since the war Col. Millington has been
engaged as a contractor and builder, part
of the time in Chicago. He resides in
Springfield. His only living child, OXKO
i., born March 14, 1852, is a conductor on
passenger train to and from Little Rock
Arkansas. CAROLINE, born May :8,
1830, in Ohio, married John Beard, a na-

tive of Ohio. They have two children,
and reside in St. Louis, Missouri. ELI-
ZA is married, and resides in Manchester,
Mo. Marcus Millington died Aug., 1863.
His widow died in 1865, both in Spring-
field, Illinois.

Peter Millington died in 1839; his
widow died the same year, both in Sanga-
mon county.

MILSL^VGLE, ANDREW.,
was born March 25, 1801, in Hampshire
county, Va. He was there married, July
4, 1832, to Mary Martin, a native of the
same county. They had one child, and
came to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriv-
ing early in 1834, near Springfield, where
they had one living child. Of their two
children —

ELIZABETH A., born May 8,
1833, in Virginia, married in Sangamon
county to Thomas Moppin. She died,
July 7, 1867, leaving two children, who
reside with their father in Kansas.

JACOB M., born Oct. 22, 1838, in
Sangamon county. He enlisted, Aug. n,
1862, in Co. E, U4th 111. Inf., served until
June 5, 1865, when he was honorably
discharged. He was married October 5,
1865, in Christian county, to Elizabeth
A. Peek. They have two children,
MINNIE MAY and GRACIE, and
live in Cotton Hill township, near old
Rienzi, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Mrs. Mary Milslagle died Oct. 29, 1838.
Andrew Milslagle married Mrs. Jane
Beatty, whose maiden name was Waddell.
They had two living children.

WILLIAM, born Sept. 18, 1839, in
Sangamon county, enlisted, Aug. 11,
1862, in Co. E, M4th 111. Inf., for three
years. He was discharged on account of
physical disability, in April, and died at
home, July 9, 1863.

MAR Y, born Dec. 7, 1842, in Sanga-
mon countv, married Nelson Price. They
have three children, NELLIE, AMY
W. and ALICE, and live in Cotton Hill
township, near old Rienzi, Sangamon
county.

Mrs. Jane Milslagle died, Oct. 23, 1846,
and Andrew Milslagle resides in Cotton
Hill township, where he settled in 1836.
It is near old Rienzi, Sangamon countv,
Illinois.

MISCHLER, PHILIP, was
born Feb. 16, 1820, in Heppenheim, Hesse
Darmstadt, Germany. His father's fain-

EARL T SB 7 TLERS OF

ily came to America, landing in New
York city, Sept. 17, 1839, and moved at
once to Randolph, Portage county, Ohio.
Philip started with Adam Kessler, in the
spring of 1840, to Wellsville, thence by
the Ohio river, to Cincinnati, and from
there to Louisville, Ky., where his money
was stolen. They managed to reach St.
Louis, where they spent the summer at
work. They went up the Mississippi and
Illinois rivers to Beardstown, and walked
from there to Springfield, without any-
thing to eat on the road, arriving Sept. 7,
1840. His father, Martin Mischler, with
his wife and three daughters, came the
next spring. The daughters — Mary mar-
ried George Spath. See his name.
Margaret married Andrew Lump. Catha-
rine married Henry Ramstetter.

Philip Mischler married in Springfield,
Aug. 20, 1847, to Elizabeth Hrechster,
who was born Feb. 14, 1822, at Herns-
bach, Baden, Germany, and came, in 1845,
to Springfield. They had two children
in Springfield.

PHILIP, Jun., born Jan. 9, 1848, is
a clerk in Bressmer's store.

HENRT, born June n, 1860, lives
with his parents.

Philip Mischler and his wife live at the
corner of Eighth and Edwards streets,
Springfield, Illinois.

He learned the business of coopering,
in Springfield, and carried it on quite ex-
tensively from 1844 to 1868.

MITCHELL, EDWARD, was
born Dec. 13, 1794, in Botetourt county,
Virginia, and came west when he was
quite young. Early in 1824 he came to
Springfield, Illinois, where he was mar-
ried on the 6th of June, the same year, to
Mary Bartlett, a native of Connecticut.
They had thi'ee children, and Mrs. Mary
Mitchell died in Springfield in 1830. Ed-
ward Mitchell was married Nov. 10,
1831, in St. Louis, Mo., to Eleanor Essex,
a native of England. They had one
child. While living in Springfield Mr.
Mitchell took part in the Winnebago
Indian war of 1827. In 1825 or '6 he
was appointed by President John Quincy
Adams, Postmaster of Springfield, and was
retained in office by President Jackson,
although he was outspok'en in his opposi-
tion to Jackson politically, being a Whig.
From April 5, 1827, to August 9, 1835,
Mr. Mitchell was Recorder of Sangamon

county. He died in Springfield, Sept. 12,
1836. Soon after his death, Mrs. Mitchell,
with all his ehildren, moved to St. Louis.
Mo. Of his children —

MART ANN, born April-28, 1825, in
St. Clair county, 111., brought up in
Springfield and St. Louis, was married in
the latter city, Nov. 28, 1853, to William
M. McPherson. They had six children,
WILLIAM M., Jun., LAURA, ED-
WARD, MARY, PAGE and SOPHIA.
The two eldest are married. Mr. Mc-
Pherson was a lawyer and a prominent
business man for many years. He died in
St. Louis since the close of the rebellion.
His widow and children reside in that
city.

LAURA R., born July 4, 1828, in
Springfield, 111., was married March 28,
1848, in St. Louis, to J. H. Page Black-
wood. They had three children, MARY,
SALLIE GLASGOW and LAURA.
J. H. P. Blackwood died August 15, 1858,
and his widow and children reside at St.
Louis, Mo.

ED WARD J., born August 3, 1830,
in Springfield, 111., married March 5, 1856,
in St. Louis, 10 Theresa Cromwell. They
had one child, MARY, and Edward J.
Mitchell, died Jan. 29, 1871. His widow
and daughter reside in St. Louis, Mo.

Mrs. Eleanor Mitchell, after the death
of her husband in Springfield, lived in
St. Louis ten or twelve years, and then
moved to Louisiana, Mo., with her daugh-
ter—

VIRGINIA, born Oct. 23, 1835, in
Springfield, 111., married Dec. 4, 1851, in
Louisana, Mo., to Dr. J. D. Harper, who
was born Aug. 7, 1824, in Fayette coun-
ty, Ohio. He had previously been mar-
ried at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, to a Miss
Saunders, who died in 1850. Soon after
their marriage Dr*. Harper and wife, with
her mother, moved to Springfield. Dr.
and Mrs. Harper have three living child-
ren, JOHN E., ANNIE E. and HAR-
VEY M., and reside in Springfield.

Mrs. Eleanor Mitchell died July 21,
1 86 1, in Springfield, Illinois.

MITTS, CYRUS, born May 19,
1798, near Chillicothe, Ohio. Martha
Burbridge was born Aug. 16, 1798, in
Bath countv, Kentucky. They were
there married Sept. 22, 1818, and had two
children, when they moved to Pickaway
county, Ohio, where three children were

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born ; and then moved to | Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving in Jwne, 1828, in
what is now Fancy Creek \ township,
where they had six children- Of their
eleven children —

JAA1ES M., horn July 23, 1819, in
Bath county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county to Eveline B. England. They
had six children in Sangamon county.
THOMAS J. married Minerva Stratton.
They have two children, and live in her
native city, Chillicothe, Ohio. MAG-
GIE E. married James Symms, have
three children, and live in Clarke county,
Iowa. -DAVID H. married Mary Jose-
phine Nelson, and lives with his mother.
LEWIS P., JAMES E. and BELLE
M. live with their mother. James M.
Mitts died Feb. 10, 1858, and his widow
resides four and a half miles northwest of
Williamsville, Illinois.

JESSE £., born Dec. 17, 1820, in
Bath county, Ky., raised in Sangamon
county, married in Iowa to Julia Russell.
They had four children. Mr. Mitts was
a member of 37th Iowa Inf., (Grey
Beards), and died Dec., 1864, in the
army. His widow and children live in
Keokuk county, Iowa.

JANE, born Oct. 20, 1822, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county to George
XV. Council. See his name.

ROLAND, born in Ohio, died Dec. 6,

1862, aged thirty-eight years.
ELIZABETH A., born March 19,

1828, in Ohio, married in Sangamon
county to John McClelland. See his
name.

CARLISLE, born March 12, 1830,
in Sangamon county, married June 4,

1863, to Margaret Hall, who was born
Nov. 23, 1838, in Menard county, 111.
They reside in Fancy Creek township,
four miles northwest of Williamsville,
Illinois.

CYRUS, Jun., born Jan. 28, 1832, in
Sangamon county, married Sarah Layton.
They have nine children, and live in
Keokuk county, Iowa.

ROBERT, born July 24, 1835, in
Sangamon county, is unmarried, and lives
in Clarke county, Iowa.

MARJ^HA, born March 31, 1837, in
Sangamon county, married Robert Mc-
Clelland. See his name.

MARY A., born June 25. 1839, in
Sangamon county, married Jefferso-i

Perce. They had two children, and Mr.
Perce died in Sangamon county. His
widow and children live in Clarke county.
Iowa.

JOHN, born Sept. 10, 1841, in Sanga-
mon county, was a soldier three years in
Co. C, i I4th 111. Inf., married Susie D.
Hay, has three children, and lives in
Clarke county, Iowa.

Cyrus Mitts died Aug., 1852, and his
widow died Dec. 19, 1862, both in San-
gamon county, Illinois.

The Union General, Burbridge, of
Kentucky, was a nephew of Mrs. Mitts.
Her father was a Revolutionary soldier
from Virginia, and four of her brothers
were soldiers in the war of 1812 from
Kentucky.

MOFFITT, GEORGE, was
born about 1780, in Augusta county, Va.,
was married to Rebecca Gilkison, had
two children there, and then moved to
Fayette county, Ky., where six children
were born. The family moved to Chris-
tian county, Ky., and from there to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving in what is
now Ball township in 1829. Of their
children —

JOHN, born in Viaginia, died in San-
gamon county, unmarried, aged about
forty-five years.

MYRA, born in Virginia, married in
Sangamon county to Moses Archer. See
his name.

SALL Y, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to David Black.
They had six children, and Mr. Black
died in 1857. His widow lives with her
son GEORGE, who married in St. Clair
county to Lavina Broom. They have six
children, and live near Blue Mound,
Macon county, Illinois.

E VELINE, born in Kentuckv, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Thomas
Drennan. See his name.

MARGARET, born May 18, 1808, in
Fayette county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Thompson Pyle. Sec
his name.

GEORGE, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Mahala
Peters, moved to Jefferson county, Iowa,
and died, leaving a widow and three chil-
dren there.

MARTHA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, to Calvin Stev-
enson, had one son, and Mr. S. died. His

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widow married James Mitts; • They had
seven children, and she died near Mt.
Pleasant, Iowa.

REBECCA, 'born in 1814,111 Ken-
tucky, married in 1826, in Sangamon
county to Smith Ball. See his name.

Mrs. Rebecca Moffitt died in 1829, in
Sangamon county, and Mr. Moffit mar-
ried Mrs. Betsy Dawdy. They had two
children —

JAMES and EM1LT, and George
Moffitt died in 1860, in Jefferson county,
Iowa. His widow lives with her son
James, in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. — 1874.

MOFFITT, THOMAS, was
born April 13, 1797, in that part of Mont-
gomery, which is now Bath county, Ky.,
and came to Springfield, 111., Nov. 14,
1826. He was married Jan. 22, 1829, in
Morgan county, 111., to Eliza A. Gatton,
who was born July 26, 1810, in Ken-
tucky, also. They had eight children in
Springfield, four of whom died young.
Of the other four —

JAMES W., born June 4, 1830, was
admitted to the bar, and practiced law
with his father for a short time, and died
Sept. 18, 1864.

JANE ELIZA, born Dec. 4, 1834,
and died March 14, 1858.

SARAH /?., born Jan, 7, 1837, died
Feb. 1 6, 1864.

THOMAS G., born Nov. 3, 1839, in
Springfield, and was clerk in the office of
the Auditor of State four and a half
years. He enlisted in 1861, in Co. A, 7th
111. Inf., was commissioned Lieutenant,
promoted to Adjutant of the regiment,
and died March 29, 1862, in Springfield.

Mrs. Eliza A. Moffitt died, Nov. 11,
1867, and Mr. Moffitt resides in Spring-
field. He is in his eightieth year, and
bereft of all his children, and finally of his
wife.

Thomas Moffitt taught school when he
came to Springfield, devoting all the time
at his command to the study of law, and
was licensed to practice in 1828 or '9. He
was Orderly Sergeant in a company from
Sangamon county in the Winnebago war
of 1827, and in 1832 was captain of a
company in the Black Hawk war. He
served two years as county commissioner,
and from 1843 served as Judge of the Pro-
bate Court. Under the constitution of
1848, he was elected County Judge for
four years. He has for many years been

a Ruling Elder in the Second Presbyte-
rian church of Springfield, Illinois.

MOORE, CHARLES, came
from one of the Southern States, built a
cotton gin at the east side of Buffalo Hart
Grove, in 1823 or '4, ran it for several
years, and then moved farther north. He
had been a Revolutionary soldier, and
while going to draw a pension, the stage
upset, and' caused his death.

MOORE, ENOCH, was born
March 26, 1802, near Waterloo, in what
is now Monroe county, but then St.
Clair county, 111. His parents settled
there about 1781. His father, John
Moore, was a brother of General James
B. Moorie — they were natives of Virginia
— and hils mother a sister of General J. B.
Whitesides; — she was a native of South
Carolina; each of whom were influential
men in the early history of Illinois,
Enoch Moore was married near Waterloo.
Illinois,, Sept. 10, 1833, to Charlotte Sher-
man, w"ho was born August 10, 1804, in
one of 'the eastern States, and came to
Illinois when quite young. They ha i
three children, two of whom died in in-
fancy. Of the third —

HESTER A., born Nov. i, 1834, was
married in Springfield, Nov. 20, 1854, to
J. N. Underwood, a native of Illinois.
Mrs. Underwood died Nov. 4, 1855, at
Bloomington, 111. Mr. Underwood was
editorially connected with one of the
Bloomington papers. He has since mar-
ried, but his residence is not known.
• Mrs. Charlotte Moore died April 2
1839, at Vandalia, 111. Enoch Moore was
married near Richmond, Kv., March 31,
1845, t° Matilda Wakefield, who was a
native of Massachusetts.

Enoch Moore lived in Alton a short
time after his first marriage, then moved
to Vandalia, where he was employed as
clerk in the office of the State Treasurer.
When the records were removed to
Springfield, in 1839, he came with them
and was engaged principally in the Fund
Commissioner's office, through all the
changes of administration. His strict in-
tegrity, unfeigned conscientiousness, hu-
mility and consistent Christian deportment,
was so apparent that no political partisan
ever felt justified in displacing him, and
he continued to the end of his life in con-
nection with some one of the State
offices. His careful and methodical busi-

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ness habits led to the detection of the
spurious indebtedness issued in the name
of the Fund Commissioners, to the amount
of hundreds and thousands of dollars,
many years after it took place. He also
discovered the fraudulent re-issue of
canal bonds by Governor Matteson.

Mrs. Matilda Moore died March 23,
1863, in Springfield. Enoch Moore died
March 28, 1876, in Chicago, while under-
going an operation for cataract of the eye.
His remains were brought to Springfield,
and buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery.
The only surviving member of the family
is their daughter —

CHARLOTTE M., who was born
in Springfield, and now — 1876 — resides in
her native city. She has been an ener-
getic and efficient laborer in city mis-
sionary work, temperance and prison
reform.

Enoch Moore will be remembered by
all who visited the State House during
the thirty-six years he spent there, by his
stature. He was but four feet two inches
high, yet his body was so fully developed
that in a sitting posture he looked quite as
large as the average of mankind. His
weight was about one hundred and seven-
ty pounds when in ordinary health. The
deficiency was in the length of his lower
limbs. He leaves a sister, Mrs. Hester
A. Allyn, residing at the corner of Third
and Monroe streets, Springfield. Her
husband, Rev. Norman Allyn, was a
traveling preacher in the Southern Illi-
nois Conference M. E. church, at the time
of his death, at Bunker Hill, 111., in March,
1864.

MOORE, JOHN, was born Apr.
20, 1796, in Shoreham, Vermont. He
came to Springfield, 111., and was mar-
ried Aug. 9, 1823, to Mrs. Elizabeth
Hawley, whose maiden name was Mc-
Murdy- They had four children in
Springfield, and moved to Schuyler
county about 1835, where one child was
born. Of their children —

JOHN L., born July 5, 1824, is un-
derstood to have been the first male child
born in Springfield. He was married in
Schuyler county Jan. 3, 1855, to Jemima
J. Doyle. He died in the latter county
March 14, 1864, leaving a widow and five
children, who now live in Rushville, Illi-
nois.

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SARAH E., born March 17, 1826, in
Springfield, was married in Schuyler
county, 111., to Rev. George F. Davis, of
the Presbyterian church. They reside at
Casey, Clarke county, Illinois.

MART E., born Oct. 22, 1830, in
Springfield, has been a teacher for many
years, and resides with her relatives,
partly, in Springfield, Illinois.

HENRY P., born Jan. 7, 1833, in
Springfield, was brought up in Schuyler
county, and married in Logan county,
111., to Jennie Bock. They have two
children, and live near Elkhart, Illi-
nois.

CARRIE P., born Nov. 25, 1835, in
Schuyler county. She and her sister,
Mary E., were educated at Normal for
the profession of teaching. She resides
in Springfield.

Mrs. Elizabeth Moore died Jan. 24,
1858, and John Moore died June 14, 1873,
both in Schuyler county, Illinois.

MOORE, BUSHNELL B.,
was born Jan. 6, 1801, in Shoreham, Vt.
Melissa Northrope was born Jan. 30, 1803,
in the same town. They were there mar-
ried Jan. 7, 1824. Mr. Moore had pre-
viously established himself in business at
Hopkinton, St. Lawrence county, N. Y.
They had two living children there, and
the family moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving July, 1836, in what is now
Gardner township. Of their children —

MARC I A A., born Oct. 7, 1826, is
unmarried, and resides with her mother,
at Farmingdale, Illinois.

MARIA L., born June 29, 1828, at
Hopkinton, New York, married in San-
gamon county May 15, 1849, to Eben
Dutch. He was born Oct. 18, 1819, in
Augusta, Maine. They had four child-
ren in Sangamon county. FLORENCE
MAY is a teacher in the public schools,
and resides at Farmingdale. FRED-
ERICK and WINTHRbP live with
their uncle, Henry S. Dutch, in Oxford,
Johnson county, Iowa. RALPH E. lives
at Farmingdale, 111. Eben Dutch died
Aug. 29, 1864, in Sangamon county, and
his widow died in 1876, near Farm-
ingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Bushnell B. Moore died :une 18,
1838, in Sangamon county, and his widow
married Rev. Billious Pond. See his
name.

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MOORE, JOHN B., was born
July ii, 1803, in Warren county, N. J.
Rachel L. McCarty was born Feb. 7,
1812, in Morris county, N. J. They were
married in the latter county, Dec. 8, 1831,
and had four children there. They moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving July
28, 1838, in what is now Gardner town-
ship, where one child was born. Of the
five children —

ELIJAH V., born Sept. 19, 1832, in
New Jersey, married in Sangamon county
to Margaret Jones. They had two child-
ren, JOHIJ B. and ANN E. Elijah V.
Moore enlisted August 5, 1861, in Co. C,
2d 111. Art., was appointed Sergeant
Major, and promoted to ist Lieutenant,
April 20, 1862. He was killed at the sec-
ond battle of Fort Donelson, Feb. 5,
1863. His widow and children live one
mile east of Bradfordton, Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois.

MOSES H., born Feb. 28, 1834, in
New Jersey, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, Feb. 24, 1870, to Lenora Crowder,
who was born March 14, 1852, in Mis.
souri. They have one child, ANN E.
and live one mile east of Bradfordton
Sangamon county, Illinois.

DELIA F.,born Feb. 5, 1836, in New
Jersey, married Dec. i, 1870, to Isaac
Gregory. See his name. They have
one child, FANNIE, and live near Blue
Mound, Macon county, Illinois.

JOHN B., Jun., born Dec. 14, 1837,
in New Jersey, and raised in Sangamon
county. He engaged in freighting over
the plains from Nebraska City to Denver,
and died March 21, 1864, on Platte river,
one hundred and eighty miles east of
Denver, and twenty miles from Jules-
burg.

JULIA A., born Dec. 23, 1839, in
Sangamon county, married Nov. n, 1858,
to William H. Miller, General Superin-
tendent of C. and A. telegraph line. She
had one chilcl, MARY R., and Mrs.
Miller died Nov. 16, 1871, at Bellefoun-
taine, Ohio.

John B. Moore, Sen., died Aug. 18,
1839, in Sangamon county, and his widow
married Oct. 25, 1842, to Josiah Broad-
well, Sen. Sec his name.

MOORE, JOSEPH, was born
Aug. 12, 1780, in Shenandoah county,
Virginia. He was there married, Sept.
15, 1803, to Julia Ann Duck, They had

six children in Virginia, and then moved,
in 1815, to Bath county, Ky., where two
children were born. After a residence of
twenty -one years in Kentucky, Mr. Moore
moved his family to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in what is now Auburn
township, in the fall of 1836, and four
years .later moved to Ball township. Of
their children —

REUBEN, born in Virginia, married
Charlotte Coaley, moved to Texas, about
1847, an<^ died there, in 1862, leaving a
wife and five children.

MART, born in Virginia, married to
Daniel Hannah, who died, leaving a
widow and one child in Mt. Sterling,
Kentucky.

SARAH, born April 27, 1807, in
Shenandoah county, Virginia, married in
Kentucky to Wm. A. Lockridge. See
his name.

JOHN H., born in Virginia, married
in Kentucky to Louisa Boyd, and remain-
ed there.

ABRAHAM, born in Virginia, died
in Mississippi, aged twenty-six years.

ELIZABETH, born in Shenandoah
county, Vi-f., married Wm. M. Patton.
See his name.

MORRISON M., born in Bath
county, Ky., married in Sangamon county
to Elizabeth Crow. They have eight
children — JOSEPH M. lives in Minne-
sota. JOHN H. and CHARLES live
with their parents. MARGARET A.
married William D. Nuckolls. See his
name. GEORGE L., WILLIAM D.,
ASA B. and SARAH E., live with their
parents, on the farm where his father set-
tled in 1840. It is two miles south of
Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JAMES IV., born in Virginia, mar-
ried Mary A. Walker, who died, and he
married Virginia Lane, and is a practicing
attorney in Washington City, D. C.

RILE Y, died, at ten years of age.

Mrs. Julia A. Moore died, July 23,1853,
and Joseph Moore died Sept. 7, 1856,
both in Sangamon county.

MORGAN, CHARLES, was
born Sept. 5, 1781, in Hampshire county,
Va. His parents moved to Fleming
county, Ky., in 1793. Charles Morgan
and Elizabeth Constant were there mar-
ried in 1807, and had four children in
Kentucky. The family moved in March,
1814, to Clermont county, Ohio, where

SAN GAM ON COUNTY.

they had four living children, and then
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in Oct., 1826, in what is now Mechanics-
burg township, where two children were
born. Of their ten children —

JA COB, born May 20, 1808, in Flem-
ing county, Kj., married in Sangamon
county May 17, 1832, to Susan Correll.
They had three living children. JOSE-
PHUS, born March 30, 1833, is unmar-
ried, and resides five and a half miles
northwest of Illiopolis, 111. MINERVA,
born Nov. 8, 1834, died April 3, 1854.
CAROLINE, born July 21, 1837, mar'
ried George W. Hesser. See his name.
Mrs. Susan Morgan died Oct. 15, 1848,
and Jacob Morgan was married Nov. 22,
1855, to Mrs. Mary A. Wilson, whose
maiden name was Stickel. She was born
April 16, 1825, in York county, Penn.
They have four children, LUELLA,
SELINA B., ANNA M. and CHAR-
LES W. Mrs. Morgan has one son
by her first ma riage, ANDREA S.
WILSON, born Mar. 23, 1847, in Macon
county, 111., married in Bloomington, 111.,
to Mary Hamilton; had one child, and
resides in Washington, Kansas. He has
represented Washington county in the
Kansas Legislature two terms, and is now
— 1874 — Judge of the Twelfth judicial
district in that State. Jacob Morgan re-
sides two and a half miles west of Mc-
chanicsburg, Illinois.

WILLIAM, born in 1810 in Fleming
county, Ky., died in Sangamon county in
1828.

JOHN C., born May 19, 1812, in
Fleming county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county Jan. 28, 1836, to Elizabeth
Bridges. They had eight children in
Sangamon county. MARTHA E., born
June 23, 1837, died Oct. 6, 1857. LA-
VINA J., born Feb. 19, 1839, married
Oct., 1857, to Zenas Crawford. They
have five children, MARTHA E., CHARLES

II., ANNIE F., WM. GRANT and JOHN T.,

and live near Princeton, Franklin county,
Kansas. CHARLES W., born Nov. n,
1841. enlisted July, 1861, for three years,
in Co. I, 41 st 111. Inf. He was killed at
Fort Donelson Feb. 15, 1862. His re-
mains were brought home and interred
near Mechanicsburg. SARAH A., born
Feb. 21, 1844, married July 22, 1865, to
Victor Bechtel. He served three years,
from July, 1861, in Co. I, 4ist 111. Inf.

They have five children, IDA MAY, LIL-

LIE A., HARVEY T., ALVA E. and ALTA I.,

and live near Ottawa, Kansas. NOR-
MAN C., born Sept. 23, 1846, married
Aug. 31, 1871, to Emily Peak, have one
child, JOHN T., and live near Richmond,
Kansas. AARON T., born July 22,
1849, died Jan. 12, 1865. FIDELIA
ADALINE, born July 5, 1852, and
RUTH EMELINE,born July 10, 1854,
reside with their parents, three miles
southwest of Illiopolis, Illinois — 1874.

DANIEL, born Feb. 28, 1813, in
Fleming county, Ky, married in Sanga-
mon county Jan. 9, 1834, to Melinda Mor-
gan. They had seven children; one died
in infancy. ELIZA, J., born Dec. 31, 1834,
married Aug. 26, 1858, to Jeremiah Kel-
ly, have two children, and live in Madi-
son, Greenwood county, Kansas. MARY,
born Nov. 22, 1836, married Dec. 6, 1860,
to James Lockhart, and died July 14,
1861. FRANKLIN B , born March 14,
1839, married Oct. 13, 1870, to Margaret
A. Ficklin, had one child, FRANKLIN, and
live two and a half miles west of Me-
chanicsburg. WILLIAM W., born
Nov. 24, 1841, married Jan. 12, 1868, to
Emily A. Patterson, have one living
child, EDGAR, and live three and a half
miles west of Mechanicsburg. ER-
SKINE, born June 3, 1849, and EMMA
A., born May 12, 1854, reside with their
parents, two and a half miles each from
Mechanicsburg, Dawson and Buffalo—
1874.

AARON, born March 3, 1816, in
Clermont county, Ohio, married in San-
gamon county Jan. 12, 1837, to Matilda
A. McDaniel, whose maiden name was
Shinkle. They had eleven children, four
of whom died under seven years. Of the
other seven — MARIA L-, born April
26, 1840, married George H. Grabendich,
had one child, WILLIAM R., and Mr. G.
enlisted in 1862, for three years, in Co. C,
married Robert Alls, and died, leaving
I24th Illinois Infantry. He was wound-
ed at Vicksburg, June 26, and died
June 27, 1863. Mrs. Grabendich

one child, CHARLKS A. MINERVA
E., born Nov. 30, 1844, married James
Moore, have two children, and live two
and a half miles west of Mechanicsburg.
CHARLES W., born June 30, 1849,
married Matilda Moon, have one child,
and lives three miles northwest of Me-

EARLY SETTLERS OF

jftnicsburg. MARY F., JAMES A.,
JAN ETTA and MARTHA J. reside
with their parents, two and one half
miles southeast of Dawson.

WASHINGTON, born Feb., 1818,
in Ohio, died in Sangamon county Sept.
26, 1838.

LA VINA, born in Ohio, married in
Sangamon county to G. W. Carrico,
and live in Missouri.

CHARLES W., born May 23, 1829,
in Sangamon county, married Oct. 15,
1850, to Elizabeth E. Deny, who was
born Oct. 26, 1830, in Loudon county, Va.
They had eleven children, five of whom,
GEORGE E., JOHN R., WILLIAM
A., CORDELIA S. and EMMA F.,
died under six years of age. MINER-
VA J., born Dec. 28, 1851, married
March 9, 1871, to Benjamin Cox, have
two children, EVELINE and ALVA, and
live three miles north of Illiopolis.
JAMES R., ELIJAH A., LAURA A.,
LUELLA L. and CHARLES A. reside
with their parents, in Macon county,
three and a half miles northeast of Illiop-
olis, Illinois.

JAMES A., born March 13, 1834, in
Sangamon county, married Nov. 14, 1856,
to Sarah A. Lee, who was born iviarch
15, 1841, in Gallatin county, Ohio. They
had seven children. The first, second and
fifth, HENRIETTA, IDA E. and
HENRY L., died under four years.
CHARLES F., VIOLA E., EDWIN
O. and MELVIN A. reside with their
parents, in Macon county, four miles
northeast of Illiopolis, Illinois.

Charles Morgan died Jan. 25, 1866, and
Mrs. Elizabeth Morgan died Oct. 9, 1868,
both in Sangamon county, near where
they settled in 1826.

MORGAN, DANIEL, brother
to Charles, was born March 10, 1785,
near Warm Springs, Hampshire county,
Va., and was taken by his parents, in
1793,10 Fleming county, Ky. Marv S.
Woods was born June 17, 1786, in Burke
county, N. C., and was taken by her pa-
rents to Wilkes county, in the same
State. In the fall of 1794 they moved to
Clark county, Ky., and in 179910 Chilli-
cothe, Ohio, and in 1801 to Fleming coun-
ty, Ky. Her* father, Andrew Woods,
was born in Pennsylvania, taken by his
parents to South Carolina, and was Cap-
tain ol a company from that State, and

served nine months in the war for Inde-
pendence. He died March 26, 1803, in
Fleming county, Ky. Daniel Morgan
and Mary S. Woods were married Oct.
24, 1810, in Kentucky, and had three chil
dren there. They moved to Monroe
county, Indiana, in 1822, where one child
was born, and then moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving Nov. 21, 1828, in
what is now Mechanicsburg township.
Of their five children —

MELINDA, born May 18, 1811, in
Fleming county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, 111., to Daniel Morgan. See
his name,

MART,\>orn Nov. 5, 1815, in Flem-
ing county, Ky., died Aug. 24, 1835, in San-
gamon county, Illinois.

ELIZA M., born August 24, 1822,
in Fleming county, Ky., married Jan. 29,
1843, in Sangamon county, to Samuel N.
Little. See his name,

MAHALA C., born July 19, 1824, in
Fleming county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, June 29, 1854, to Rev. James
B. Houts, who was born May 31, 1817, in
Salem, Livingston county, Ky. They
had two children, MARY F. and MI-
NERVA L. Rev. J. B. Houts died
Nov. 10, 1872, at Myersville, Vermilion
county, 111. At the time of his death he
was filling his 33d appointment as circuit
preacher in the M. E. church. His wid-
ow and daughters reside in Springfield,
Illinois.

WILLIAM H., born June 26, 1826, in
Monroe county, Indiana, is unmarried,
and resides one mile west of Mechanics-
burg, adjoining the farm on which his pa-
rents settled in 1828. He remembers go-
ing with his father to a water mill on the
Sangamon river, and that th .- mill was
roofed by first covering it with logs and
slabs, and earth was thrown on that.
Weeds were growing on top of the mill,
which he thought was very strange.

Daniel Morgan was a sold er from
Fleming county, Ky., in the war with
England, from Aug., 1812, to March, 1813.
He died in Sangamon county, Sept. 6,
1866, and his widow resides with her son,
William H. She draws a pension for the
services of her husband in the war of
1812.

MORGAN, THOMAS, was
born about 1783, in Kentucky. He was
married near Cincinnati, Ohio, to Mrs.

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Elizabeth Butler, whose maiden name
was Bell. She was born in 1773, in Ma-
ryland. They had seven children in
Hamilton county, Ohio, and moved to
Sangamon county, 111., about 1822, and
settled south of Spring creek, in what is
now Gardner township. Of their child-
ren—

E VAN, born in Ohio, married in
Sangamon county to Elizabeth Ditson,
had five children, and he died August 15,
1834. His widow married M. S. Skid-
more, and lives near Hamburg, Fremont
county, Iowa.

ELIZABETH, married in Ohio to
John Bartlow, came with her parents to
Sangamon county, and moved to Schuy-
ler county, 111., about 1830, where they
both died, leaving seven children.

MARTHA, married in Ohio to John
Moffatt, came to Sangamon county, and
died, leaving two children, who are mar-
ried, and reside near Decatur,. Illinois.

JOHN, born Jan. 19, 1806, near Cin-
cinnati, Ohio, came to Sangamon ^county,
in 1822, and married, Feb. 24, 1*825, *°
Gamely Duff. They had twelve children,
in Sangamon county. WILLIAM H.,
born Jan. 9, 1826, married Emily Rob-
inson, had one child, Edward W., born
Sept. 17, 1851, resides in Gardner town-
ship. Mrs. Emily Morgan died, March
28, 1852, and Mr. M. married Mrs. El-
mira King, whose maiden name was
Bradley. They started to Kansas, and he
died Nov. 10,1867, at Rockport, Missouri.
His widow lives in Wilson county, Kan-
sas. FINIS E., born Oct. 21, 1827, mar-
ried Elizabeth Day. They have five liv-
ing children, and live at Clinton, Illinois.
JOS1AH B., born Nov. 26, 1829, married
Mary A. Reed, have four children, and
live near Neodesha, Wilson county, Kan-
sas. MARY A., born Oct. 17, 1831,
married Edward C. Sackett, and died at
her mother's. Mr. S. was a Union soldier,
and lives near Carrollton, 111. AMAN-
DA J., born Sept. 30, 1833, married
Alfred Moulton, and died, in 1864, leav-
ing two children. ELIZA A., born May
31, 1835, married, Oct. 28, 1850, to John
Hardin, and has five children, JUI.IET,

CAMEI.Y F., MARGARET K., IDA and ED-
WARD i.. Mr. Hardin has not been heard
of for eight or nine years — supposed to be
dead. JOHN F., born May 13, 1837,
lives with his mother. CAM ELY F.

died in her eighteen year. GREEN B.
died in his seventeenth year. URIAH,
LYMAN T. and RUFUS M. live with
their mother. John Morgan died Dec.
25, 1856, and his widow resides — 1874 —
one and one-half miles south of Farming-
dale, Sangamon county, Illinois.

RUTH, born near Cincinnati, Ohio,
married in Sangamon county to DeLos
Brown. They had three children, and he
died, near Sidney, Fremont county, Iowa.
His widow and child live there.

THOMAS, J-un., married Martha
Massey, and both died in Hancock
county.

MARGARET, married Richard
Quinton, and moved to California.

Thomas Morgan, Sen., moved to
Schuyler county, and he and his wife died
there in 1858.

MORRIS, ACHILLES, a
cousin to Bishop Morris, of the M. E.
church, was born in Kanawha county,
West Virginia, married there, and came
with his family to Sangamon county,
Illinois, arriving in the tall of 1826, in
what is now Loami township. He was
a soldier in the Black Hawk war, and
was afterwards elected as one of the rep-
resentatives of Sangamon county in the
State legislature. He raised a company
in the vicinity of Loami, of which he be-
came Captian, in the 4th 111. Inf., under
Col. E. D. Baker, and died of disease at
Camargo, Mexico, in 1847. He left a
widow and eleven children in Sangamon
county. His eldest son —

JONATHAN, was born July 21,
1825, in Kanawha county, Va., married in
Sangamon county, Jan. 23, 1846, to Mar-
tha E. Meacham. He enlisted in the
company of which his father was Captain,
int he 4th 111. Inf. He was promoted to
Major of the regiment in Mexico, and
was one of the party that captured Santa
Anna's cork leg. Served to the close of
the Mexican war. Mr. and Mrs. Morris
had nine children; four died under three
years. Of the other five: NANCY
married John Goldsmith, who is editor of
the Waverly Times, and resides there. —
1874. EDOM D., DOUGLAS, RICH-
ARD N. and WILLIS GRANT live
with their mother in Waverly. Jonathan
Morris raised a company in Waverlv, in
1 86 1, and was commissioned Captain of
Co. — , I4th 111. Inf. He was promoted

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to Major of the regiment. After eighteen
months service a horse fell with him and
crushed an ancle, in consequence of which
he resigned Sept., 1862, and died sudden-
ly at Waverly, Nov. 12, 1871.

I have no history of the other mem-
bers of the family of Achilles Morris.

MORRIS, WILLIAM D., bro-
ther to Bishop Thomas A. Morris, was
born in Cabell county, West Va. He
was married there, and brought his fami-
ly to Sangamon county in the fall of 1825,
and settled on Lick creek, in what is1 now
Loami township. His daughter Melissa
married William Heredith. See his
name.

MORRIS, JOHN, was born and
married in Cabell county, West Va., and
moved, in company with his brother,
William D., to Sangamon county in the
fall of 1825, settled on Lick creek,
and raised a family there. He was a
preacher in the anti-mission or predesti-
narian Baptist church. His brother, Win.
D., was a member of the same church.
They were brothers to Bishop Morris, of
the M. E. church. John Morris is dead,
and has no representative in the county.

MORSE, JAMES M., was
born Feb. 4, 1807, in Newburyport, Mass.
He was married April 7, 1831, in West
Newbury, to Sarah C. Sawyer, who was
born there, Nov. 25, 1807. He moved, in
1831, to Vandalia, 111., where they had
three children. Mr. Morse was employed
in the office of the Secretary of State,
and when the State government was re-
moved to Springfield, in July, 1839, he
came with it. They had three children in
Springfield; one died in infancy. Of
their five children —

LTMAN C. B., born Feb. 15, 1834,
in Vandalia, died Feb. 27, 1855, in Spring-
field.

SARAH E., born Feb. 13, 1836, in
Vandalia, 111., married June 4, 1857, in
Springfield, to Joseph E. Woods. They
had two children — ANNIE died in in-
fancy. SARAH C. lives with her father.
Mrs. Woods died July 9, 1860. Mr.
Woods married again, and is living in
Springfield, Illinois.

HARRIET M., born March 9, 1839,
in Vandalia, married, Sept. 24, 1857, to
William T. Church. They had three
children, ALLIE and ANNIE died
young. JULIA G. lives with her grand-

father Morse. Mrs. Church died, Dec.
9, 1873, at Elkhart, 111., and was buried at
Oak Ridge.

ELLEN F., born Aug. 2, 1841, in
Springfield, married Feb. 20, 1862, to
Daniel Winters, who was born in Cham-
bersburg, Penn., Jan. 30, 1832, and came
to Springfield in 1851. They had four
children— CHARLES E. and JAMES
B. live with their parents. MARY C.
and LILIAN M. died young. NEL-
LIE is the babe. Mr. Winters is in busi-
ness, and lives in Springfield.

CHARLES E., born Nov. i, 1844,
in Springfield, married, March 10, 1868,
in Logan county, to Ellen E. Long.
They have five children, JAMES H.,
ANNA B., CHARLES E., JOHN B.
and a boy babe. Mr. Morse is engaged
in farming, near Elkhart, Logan county,
Illinois.

JULIETT E., born July 17, 1848,
in Springfield, died in infancy.

Mrs. Sarah C. Morse died July 28, 1848,
in Springfield, and James M. Morse was
married in Springfield, Oct. 30, 1850, to
Emma M. Holton, who was born in 1814,
at Danbury, Conn. They had four child-
ren—

JAMES Wm. died, aged two years.

JAMES Wm., born Sept. 3, 1853, in
Springfield, married Sept. 17, 1872, to
Alice B. Schmutz, a native of Bloomington,
111. They have two children, FLOR-
ENCE B. and ETHEL G., and reside in
Springfield, Illinois.

EMMA G., born Jan. 16, 1856, in
Springfield, resides with her parents.

ANNA C, born Sept. 9, 1859, in
Springfield, died March 23, 1866.

James M. Morse was in the office of
the Secretary of State when the office
was held by A. P. Fields, Stephen A.
Douglas, Lyman Trumbull and Thomp-
son Campbell. From 1846 to 1852 Mr.
Morse was Assessor and Treasurer of
Jiangamon county, and for fifteen years
was Public Administrator of the county.
He is now retired from business, and
resides in Springfield, Illinois.

When the seat of government was
moved from Vandalia to Springfield,
James M. Morse came with A. P. Fields,
Secretary of State, in whose department
he was employed. They were accompa-
nied by Levi Davis, Auditor of Public
Accounts, with his clerk, Wm. S. Pren-

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tiss, now Presiding Elder in the M. E.
church; John D. Whitesides, State
Treasurer, and Enoch Moore, his clerk;
William Walters, Public Printer, and
Charles H. Lanphier, his assistant.
From 1842 to 1844 Mr. Morse was en-
gaged in rewriting the Territorial records;
and during that time roomed with
Enoch Moore at the State house. ' A
friendship was thus cemented that could
only end with their lives.

MOSTELLER, CHRISTO-
PHER, was born in Buncombe coun-
ty, North Carolina, went to Butler county,
Ohio, when a young man; and was there
married to Phoebe Sackett. They had
two children in that county, and moved
to Union county, Ind., where they had
two children; returned to Butler county,
Ohio, and from there came to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in the spring of 1830,
in what i« now Salisbury township. Of
their children —

THOMAS, born Oct. 8, 1807, in But-
ler county, Ohio, was married in Frank-
lin county, Ind., July 21, 1827, to Char-
lotte Morris. They moved with his par-
ents to Ohio, where they had two child-
ren, and came in the spring of 1830 to
Sangamon county, where six children
were born. Of their eight children —

. PHCEBE A. died, aged fifteen years.
ALICE J., born Nov. 29, 1829, in Butler
county, Ohio, was married Dec. 4, 1845,
to Job Davenport. See his name. DOR-
CAS, born Feb. 14, 1832, in Sangamon
county, married Dr. Francis T. Antle.
They had four children: HARRIET died
in 1874; THOMAS p., IONA o. and MARY
ELLA live with their parents, in Peters-
burg, 111. JAMES, born Dec. 5, 1833,
in Sangamon county, enlisted in 1862, in
Co. F, H4th 111. Inf., for three years, and
died of disease, near V icksburg, Miss., Sept.
1 8, 1863. His remains were buried at
the Baptist cemetery in Cart'.vnght town-
ship. EDWARD C., born June 22, 1841,
in Sangamon county, enlisted in 1861 in
Co. A, loth 111. Cav., for three years,

1 and was discharged on account of physi-
cal disability. He was married in Kan-
sas to Love B. Holladay. She died, and
E. C. Mosteller was married again in
Iowa, and has one child. He studied
medicine, and attended one course of
lectures at Rush Medical College, Chi-
cago, 111., graduated at the Eclectic

Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, and
is practicing his profession at Adelphia,
Polk county, Iowa. MARTIN S., born
April 21, 1843, in Sangamon county, was
married Oct. 4, 1864, to Sarah M. Antle,
in Petersburg. They had four children:
FRANKIE H. died April 7, 1869, in Macon
county, 111.; FREDDIE F., ALBERT A. and
MAUD M. live with their parents. M. S.
Mosteller is a graduate of the Eclectic
Medical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio, and
is a practicing physician at Pleasant
Plains, 111. JOHN H. A., born April
21, 1847, 'n Sangamon county, enlisted in
1862, for three years, in Co. F, n.j.th 111.
Inf., and was discharged on account of
physical disability in Aug., 1863. He
re-enlisted in 1864 in Co. D, 33d 111. Inf.;
served to the close of the rebellion, and
was honorably discharged in 1865. He
lives at Tallula, Menard county, 111.
ELIZA W., born June 19, 1852, was
married in Petersburg, to Thomas Davis.
He is a telegraph operator, and lives at
Vandalia, Audrain county, Mo. Mrs.
Charlotte Mosteller died March 2, 1865,
and Thomas Mosteller lives now — 1876 —
at Pleasant Plains. He remembers being
present on Richland creek when Abra-
ham Lincoln was waiting to make a
speech. Josiah Grady said: "Lincoln,
they have the story in circulation that you
are a Deist." Mr. Lincoln immediately
answered: "That is not so: my father
was an old Baptist, and taught me to be-
lieve in the Christian religion, and I do
believe in it as much as anybody; but I
confess I have no religion."

DORCAS, born June 15, 1810, in
Butler county, Ohio, was married Sept.
18, 1835, i'1 Illinois, to Benjamin Mc-
Elwain. They are without family, and
live in Petersburg, Menard county, Illi-
nois.

SAMUEL died in 1844.

AARON A, born May, 1820, in Union
county, Indiana, was married in 184^ in
Sangamon county, 111., to Emily Camp-
bell. They had six children. JANE,
born in 1846, was married to Thomas
Gorrell. They are without family, and
live in Crawford county, Kansas.
GEORGE W., born in 1848, married
Mary Lindsay. They have two living
children, and live in Crawford county,
Kansas. LOUIS, born in 1850, is un-
married, and lives in Kansas. ANN,

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born in 1853, died, aged ten years.
JOHN C., born in 1856, is unmarried,
and lives in Kansas. LAURA, born in
1861, died, aged two years. A. P. Mos-
teller moved to Kansas in 1861, where
Mrs. Emily Mosteller died Dec. 8, 1872.
A. P. Mosteller was married Feb. 8, 1874,
to Mrs. Mary Hooper, and lives at Osage
mission, Neosho county, Kansas.

GEORGE S., born Nov. 9, 1822, in
Fianklin county, Ind., was married in
Mason county, 111., Nov., 1856, to Martha
Simmons, who died without family in
March, 1858. G. S. Mosteller was mar-
ried Nov., 1860, to Roxana Reese. They
have three living children, FRANK,
MARY and IDA, and live at Forest
City, Mason county, Illinois.

REBECCA, born Oct. 16, 1827, in
Butler county, Ohio, was married Aug.
2, 1849, in Illinois, to Thomas A. Gibson.
They had two children. GEORGE L ,
born Oct., 1850, lives with his parents.
JOHN died in his ninth year. T. A.
Gibson and family live in Forest City,
Illinois.

Christopher Mosteller died in 1844, and
his widow married Rev. John Aiitle.
She died August, 1863; both in Salisbury,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

MOTT, JAMES, was born Nov.
27, 1803, in Kent county, England, and
came to America in 1821, landing in New
York. He went to Sacketts Harbor,
learned cabinet making, and was married
there, Jan. 9, 1830, to Amanda M. Brown,
who was born March 18, 1813, at Wood-
stock, Vermont. They had three child-
ren; two died there, and they moved, in
1834, to Cleveland, Ohio. They went
from there to St. Louis by water, thence
to Jacksonville, 111., in a wagon, and after
visiting some relatives in Cass county,
came to Springfield, arriving Jan. i, 1836,
where one child was born, and in 1838
moved to Menard county, near Peters-
burg, thence to Athens, Feb. 20, 1843,
where twelve children were born, nine of
whom died under five years of age. Of
the other five —

JAMES W., born July 19, 1833, at
Sacketts Harbor, N. Y., partly brought
up in Springfield, was married near
Athens, April 18, 1856, to Millie J. Hurt,
who died June 24, 1857. J. W. Mott
was married May 15, 1859, to Mrs. Mary
A. Holland, whose maiden name was

England. Thev had eight children,
ALLEN, EDGAR, AGNES, MAR-
GARET, JAMES, CHARLES, MIL-
AM and EUGENE. Mrs. Mott died
Nov. 19, 1872, and J. W. Mott resides in
Athens, ^angamon county, 111. — 1874.

GEORG^E E., born July 25, 1836, in
Springfield, was married there April 19,
1865, to Eliza P. Smith, a native of the
same place. They have three children,
WILLIAM R., HARRY W. and
LAURA E., and live at 635, north 5th
street, Springfield.

HARRIE 7" EMMA, born July 12,
1843, *n Athens, married David A. Eng-
land. See his name.

MART A., born in Athens, married
James M. England. See his nanic.

HENRT W., born August, 1847, in
Athens, is now — July, 1876 — clerk of the
Matteson House, Chicago, Illinois.

James Mott died Sept. 24, 1873. His
widow lives at Athens, Meuard county,
Illinois. Mr. Mott was associate Judge
of Menard county one term of four years.

MOURER, WILLIAM, was
born about 1807, in Berkley county, Va.
His parents emigrated to Muskingum
county, Ohio, where his father died. In
In 1823 or '4 he went to Washington
county, Maryland, where he was married
Dec. 12, 1833, to Jane I. Ensminger, who
was born May 8, 1815, in that county.
Thev had one child in Maryland, and
moved to Springfield, 111., arriving in the
fall of 1836, where they had four children.
Of their five children —

GEORGE W., born Oct. 29, 1834, in
Washington county, Maryland, and
brought up in Sangamon county, Illinois.
He enlisted in Springfield, Aug. 27, 1862,
for three years, in Co. E, H4thlll. Inf.
At the organization of the regiment, he
was promoted to Quarter-Master, and was
with the regiment until after the battle of
Nashville, in Dec., 1864, when he was
honorably mustered out on account of
physical disability. He is now a farmer,
and resides with his mother, five and one-
half miles southeast of Springfield, 111. 4

ALICE J. and MARGARET E.,
twins.

ALICE J. married, Nov. 18, 1857, to
Samuel N. Shoup. See his name.

MARGARET E., MARYLAND
and VIRGINIA reside with ' their
mother.

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EUGENIE G. married John N. Gat-
ton. Sec his name.

Mr. William Mourer formed a partner-
ship with Benjamin Ferguson, as carpen-
ters and builders, soon after coming to
Springfield. Their first work was the
building of the American Hotel, at the
southeast corner of Adams and Sixth
streets; when finished, the finest hotel in
the State of Illinois. They were con-
tractors for part of the work on the State
House, then in course of construction,
now the Sangamon county Court House.
After the death of Mr. Ferguson, Mr.
Mourer continued in the business for
about seventeen years. In 1850 he took
the contract, and built the north and south
porticos to the State House. He bought
a farm, and moved in the spring of 1853
to Woodside township. While discharg-
ing the duties of grand juror, he was
taken violently ill, of pneumonia, and died
in Springfield, June 10, 1867. His widow
resides five and one-half miles south of
Springfield, on the farm where they set-
tled in 1853.

MOWRY, JOHN H., born Feb.
26, ^829, in Charleston, S. C. Accom-
panied his father to Chicago in 1836, came
to Springfield, 111., in 1839, and learned
the carpenter's trade. In 1856 he was
elected Sheriff of Mason county, but re-
signed, after serving fifteen months, to
avoid hanging a man convicted of mur-
der. He was married, Jan. 2, 1858, in
Dixon, Lee county, 111., to Martha Grimm,
who was born March 6, 1832, at
Harpers Ferry, Va. They have six chil-
dren living, ANN E., IDA E., ELEA-
NOR A, MART, HARRIET and
GRACE. During the rebellion 'j. H.
Mowry was employed in the mechanical
department of the government at Camps
Yates and Butler,' near Springfield, and
being ordered to Camp Douglas, at Chic-
ago, mdved his family to that city. He
was also engaged at Camp Fry, and at
the arsenal at Rock Island, and on the
public works at Wilmington, Delaware,
in 1863 and '64. In 1866 he made a two-
years tour through England and the con-
tinents of Europe, Asia and Africa. He
lost all his property in the great Chicago
fire, Oct. 9, 1871. In July, 1874, he took
charge as first foreman of the addition to
the State prison of Michigan, then in
course of construction. He remained
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there until 1875, when he returned to
Springfield, where he is now engaged in
the business of a contractor and builder.

MULKEY, JESSE H., was
born in Dec., 1818, in Kentucky or Ten-
nessee, married Nancy Simpson, a sis-
ter to Wm. Simpson, and came to Rich-
land creek, Sangamon county, in 1829,
and one year later moved to DeWitt
county. He died Oct., 1858, and she died
April 5, 1872 — both in DeWitt county,
leaving a large family. Their son —

SAMUEL W., born March i, 1828 in
Tennessee, married July 2, 1865, to Al-
marinda Harrold, and was married the
second time, Dec. i, 1869, to Mrs. Eliza-
beth B. Combs, whose maiden name was
Foster, a half-sister to Mrs. Hannah F.
Stubbs. S. W. Mulkey enlisted July,
1861, in Co. F. 4151 111. Inf., for three
years, served full term, and was honor-
ably discharged, August i, 1864, at
Springfield. He lives four miles east of
Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois.

M Y E RS, HEN R Y C., was born
Dec. 6, 1817, in Chambersburg, Pa., and
came to Springfield, 111., in 1838. In 1841
he went to Boone county, Mo., and was
there married in 1843 to Eleanor D.
Robards, a native of Lexington, Ky.
Mr. Myers moved back to Springfield,
111., where they had three children, one
of whom died young —

FRANKLIN, born August 5, 1847,
in Howard county, Missouri, was trained
to the mercantile business by his father,
and became his successor. ' He is now en-
gaged in miscellaneous merchandising in
Springfield, Illinois.

ELLA D., born in Springfield, resides
with her mother.

Henry C. Myers was first in the grocery
trade, changed to confectionery, and
from 1861 to 1865 was sutler at Camp
Butler. After the close of the rebellion
he engaged in general merchandising,
and died Jan. 24, 1871. Mrs. Eleanor D.
Myers and her two children reside in
Springfield, Illinois.

1ST

N A VE, HEN R Y, was born Sept.
22, 1812, in Carter county, Tenn. Mar-
garet C. Bowers was born Sept. 12, 1812,
in the same county. They were there
married, April 9; 1831, had one child,

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

and then moved to Washington county,
Ind., where one child was born. Both
children died there, MARTHA in her
fourth year, and ELIZABETH in in-
fancy. Mr. Nave and his wife moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving Sept. 22,
1839, in what is now Fancy Creek town-
ship. They reside one and three-quarter
miles north of Cantrall, Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois. — 1874.

NEAL, DANIEL, was born
about 1770, in Bedford county, Va. He
was married there to Polly Booth, a
native of the same county. They had
ten children in Virginia, and moved to
Franklin county, Tenn., in the fall of
1808, where one child was born. The
family then moved to Bourbon county,
Ky., where they had five children, and
they moved to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving Nov. 10, 1828, in what is now
Chatham township. Of their sixteen
children —

ACHILLES, born about 1793, in
Virginia, died in 1809 in Tennessee.

FANNY, born in Virginia, married in
Kentucky to Barton Darneille, and moved
to Sangamon county before her parents.
He died in Macon county. His widow
died, in 1852, in Chatham township, San-
gamon county.

WINS7^ON, born in Virginia, mar-
ried in Kentucky to Melinda Miller,
came to Sangamon county in 1829, moved
back about 1839, and died, leaving a large
family.

MARY, born in Bedford county, Va.,
March 18, 1799, married to Andrew Starr.
See his name.

NANCY, born in Virginia, married in
Kentucky to Joseph Jackson, and came to
Sangamon county with her father, Mr.
Jackson died at Galena, and she married
John Hodge, who died, and she married
Andrew Steele, who was born Feb. 6,
1795, in Davidson county, Tenn. She
never had children. They live in Loami
township.

WILLIAM, born in Virginia, married
Rachel Daisey, in Nicholas county, Ky.,
and lives with his third wife.

JUDIJ^H, born in Virginia, about
1804, married in Sangamon county to
Stephen Shelton. See his name.

PRUDENCE, born April 9, 1806, in
Bedford county, Va., married in Sanga-
mon county to Wm. Shelton. See his name.

CA THARINE lives with her sister,
Mrs. Steele.

STEPHEN B., born Dec. 25, 1808,
in Virginia, married in Sangamon county
to Julia A. Wyckoff. They had four
children— FIELDING M., born Oct. 29,
1832, married Leah M. Greenwood. They
had seven children, JULIA A. died at two
years. WILLIAM A., JOHN s., ELIZA A.,

RUTH J., HENRY E. and CORA L. live With

their parents, four and one-half miles west
of Chatham, Illinois. SAMUEL M.
enlisted in 1862, in Co. B, nth Mo. Inf.,
for three years. Served to the end of the
rebellion, and was honorably discharged.
He was married, in 1869, in Sangamon
county, to Clarissa Underwood, have
three children, and live in Green county,
Mo. MAHALA A. married John W.
Greening. See his name. WILLIAM

A. enlisted in 1861, in Co. I, i4th 111. Inf.,
for three years, re-enlisted as a veteran,
Jan., 1864; served to the end of the rebel-
lion, was honorably discharged, and lives
near Chatham, Illinois. Mrs. Julia A.
Neal died, and S. B. Neal married Eliza-
beth Proctor. They had six children,
four of whom, STEPHEN B., Jun., SI-
MON N., GEORGE W. and MARY
JANE, died under fifteen years. HEN-
RY C. enlisted, Aug. 9, 1861, in Co. B,
3Oth 111. Inf., for three years. He was
captured at the battle of Atlanta, Georgia,
July 22, 1864, and died in Andersonville
prison pen about one month later. Mrs.
Elizabeth Neal died, and S. B. Neal was
married, April 28, 1862, to Mrs. Lucinda
W hited, whose maiden name was Bridges.
They had one child, EMMA. Stephen

B. Neal died, and his widow lives in Lo-
ami township, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

JOHN A., born July 31, 1809, in
Franklin county, Tenn. married in San-
gamon county, Aug., 1837, to Eliza A.
Greening. They had two children.
MARY E. married James Jacobs. See
his name. CAROLINE married Pey-
ton M. McGinnis. See his name. Mrs.
Eliza A. Neal died in 1846, and John A.
Neal was married, Jan. 13, 1859, to Mrs.
America Darneille, who had previously
been Mrs. Gibson, and whose maiden
name was Forrest. Mr. Neal was a
member of the Sangamon county Board
of Supervisors, from 1862 to 1865, and is
now a justice of the peace for Chatham

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539

township, and resides in Chatham — 1874.
John A. Neal is authority for the state-
ment that about three and one-half miles
north of the present town of Rochester,
five hogs were confined in a snow drift,
ahout the fifth of Jan., 1831, and escaped
from it the latter part of February, when
the snow was going off. They had been
nearly two months where it was impossi-
ble for them to obtain food. They were
skeletons, but afterwards became good
hogs.

GEORGE W., born in 1811, in
Bourbon county, Ky., came to Sangamon
county in 1828. He went to LaFayette
county, Mo., was engaged to be married,
bought a farm of a man named James
Bowman, made one payment on it, and
had some money left. He was murdered
for the money by Bowman, May 6, 1846.
The murderer escaped, was captured two
years later, and when within six miles of
the county seat, one of the guards care-
lessly left a pistol in a pocket of his over-
coat, which he hung up while partaking
of his breakfast. The prisoner watched
his opportunity, took the pistol and shot
himself dead.

LUCT, born in Kentucky, married
Daniel Richardson, had five children, and
lives in Monroe county, Iowa.

BERTHENA, born in Kentucky,
has been twice married, and lives in Ne-
braska.

ELIJAH B., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Mary
Heredith. They had seven children, four
of whom died. GEORGE W. married
Carrie Greening, and lives in Chatham
township. JOHN and ELIJAH also
live in Chatham township. The parents
both died in 1853.

BARBARA A., born Jan. 31, 1819,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Sidney S. Campbell. See his name.

Daniel Neal died, Aug. 26, 1838, and
his widow, Mrs. Polly Neal, died in 1854,
both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

. NEAL, JAMES W., was born
Sept. 26, 1806, in Bourbon county, Ky.,
and was married in Nicholas county, Jan.
4, 1827, to Mary Cassity. They had two
children in Bourbon county, and moved,
in company with her father, to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving m the fall of 1830, in
what is now Rochester township, where

three children were born. Of their five
children —

ALMIRA y., born Nov. 3, 1827, in Ken-
tucky, married Feb. 13, 1851, in Sanga-
mon county, to Isaac Keys. See his
name.

ELIZA E., born Sept. to, 1829, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to
H. Cicero St. Clair. See his name.

NANCY E., born March 14, 1833, in
Sangamon county, married Feb. 10, 1853,
to Oscar L. St. Clair. See his name.

WILLIAM H., born April 12, 1835,
in Sangamon county, lives at the family
homestead, one mile west of Rochester,
Illinois.

JAMES H., born Sept. 5, 1838, in
Sangamon county, married in Taylor-
ville, Nov. 13, 1866, to Lizzie H. Moore.
They had two children, NELLIE and
MARY R. The latter died May 8,
1875, aged two years. James W. Neal
resides at Lamar, Barton county, Mo.
He was elected Treasurer of that county
in the fall of 1872, for two years, and is a
banker in Lamar.

James W. Neal died June 20, 1870,
and his widow resides on the farm where
the family settled in 1825, one mile west
of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois— 1876.

NEAL, NATHANIEL B.,
was born in Bourbon county, Ky., and
came to Sangamon county in 1835 or '6.
He was married in 1839 to Sarah A. King.
Theyhad one child —

HENRT H., born Sept. 25, 1840, five
miles northeast of Springfield. He en-
listed April 1 6, 1861, on the first call for
75,000 men, for three months, in Co. F,
9th 111. Inf.; re-enlisted July 28, 1861,
same company and regiment, for three
years; -served full term, and was honora-
bly discharged, Aug. 25, 1864, at Camp
Butler. He was married Oct. 4, 1864, in
Spi'ingfield, to Lorena Hill, a grand-
daughter of Philip Smith. They have
four children, IDA B., ALVA, EVA,
and a boy babe, and live four miles north-
west of Chatham, on the old Starr farm.
-1874.

Nathaniel B. Neal died, and his widow
married Hudson Lanham. See King
family name.

NEALE, TOM M., was born in
1796 in Fauquier county, Va. His parents
moved when he was a boy to Bowling

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EARLY SETTLERS

Green, Ky. He enlisted there and served
the latter part of the war with Great
Britain which began in 1812. He studied
law in Bowling Green, and early de-
clai'ed himself opposed to slavery. He
was married there in 1821 to Harriet
Blakemore. They had two children in
Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving at Springfield Nov.
26, 1824, where eight children were born.
Of their children —

SINAI A., born Nov. 26, 1822, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Thomas Beerup. See his name.

MART E., born March, 1824, in
Kentucky, is unmarried, and resides in
Carlinville, Illinois.

RICHARD D., born Feb. 22, 1826,
in Springfield, married Mrs. Lucy Wil-
liams, whose maiden name was Patten.
He died, leaving a widow and one child,
JULIA C., who reside near Shelbyville,
Illinois.

7^HOMAS 0., born June 4, 1828, in
Springfield, died in California, aged
twenty-four years.

HARRIET B., born Nov. 29, 1830,
in Springfield, married Hickison Grubbs,
They have five children, FLORA K.,
NEVILLE C., FRANK P., ED~
WARD and HARRY, and reside in
Springfield, Missouri.

SARAH M. and MARTHA K.,
twins, born Sept. 15, 1834, in Springfield,
Illinois.

SARAH M. married John Dugger.
They have four children, JEFFERSON
L., RICHARD N., PATTIE M. and
WILLIAM, and reside in Carlinville,
Illinois.

MARTHA K. married Milton Mc-
Clure. They have two children, JAMES
A. and HATTIE B., and reside in Car-
linville, Illinois.

CATHARINE,\x>™]9.n. 15, 1836,
in Springfield, 111., married George Gil-
bert. They are without family, and re-
side at Springfield, Missouri.

MIRIAM C., born May 28, 1838, in
Springfield, 111., married Joseph Edwards.
They are without family, and reside in
Columbus, Kentucky.

MARGARET, born April 15, 1840,
in Springfield, married John Krugg.
They have one child, BERTIE, and re-
ride in Wichita, Kansas.

Gen. Tom M. Neale died Aug. 7, 1840,
and his widow died Aug. 27, 1859 both
in Springfield, 111. Gen. Neale was a lawyer
by profession. He was the highest mili-
tary officer from Sangamon county in
the campaign against the Winnebago
Indians in 1827, being the Colonel com-
manding the four infantry companies.
He acted as Justice of the Peace for
several years, and united many couples in
marriage about the time of the "deep
snow." Sometimes the only fee tendered
him was a saddle of venison. Col. Neale
surveyed and laid out into lots the land
that was donated to secure the county
seat at Springfield. See page j6. He
was three times elected Count)' Surveyor,
and held that office at the time of his
death. Gen. Neale appointed Abra-
ham .Lincoln his deputy when he was first
elected County Surveyor.

NELSON, WILLIAM, came .
from St. Clair county with Henry Fun-
derburk, and settled on Horse creek in the
spring of 1817, raised a family of seven
children, and moved to Texas. His
daughter, Nancy, married James Funcler-
burk. See his name. They live near
Taylorville, Illinois.

NESBITT, SAMUEL G.,
was born August 18, 1808, in what is now
Juniata county, Penn. Mary B. Turner
was born Sept. 28, 1814, in the same
county, and her parents moved into the
adjoining county of Mifflin. Samuel G.
Nesbitt and Mary B. Turner were there
married, June 6, 1833. They had two
children in Juniata county, and moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving June 26,
1837, a*- Springfield, and in a few weeks
moved to Mechanicsburg, where one child
was born. The family then moved to
Decatur, where they had four children,
and then moved back to Sangamon coun-
ty, Clear Lake township, where four chil-
dren were born. Of all their children —

MART y., born April n, 1834, in
Pennsylvania, was married in Sangamon
county, April, 1854, to Reuben Mallory.
See his name.

MARTHA T., born Dec. 9, 1835, in
Pennsylvania, was married March 20,
1 86 1, in Sangamon county, to Isaac O.
Eyman, who was born May 20, 1837, in
St. Clair county, 111. They have five
living children, namely: LAURA E.,
CLARA E., LEWIS E., IDA A. and

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54*

CHARLEY M., and live at Harristown,
Macon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM CAMERON,\>orn May
8, 1838, at Mechanicsburg, Sangamon
county, enlisted in Co. E, I45th 111. Inf.,
and was mustered in, June 9, 1864, as ist
Lieutenant, for one hundred days; served
full term, and was honorably discharged,
Sept. 23, 1864. He was married Feb. 23,
1865. to Sarah C. Bailey, who was born
Oct. 14, 1845, in Hawkins county, Tenn.
They have three children, CHARLES
E., SAMUEL G. and MARY J., and
live four miles north of Rochester, San-
gamon county, Illinois.

MARGARET R., born Feb. 28,
1840, in Decatur, was married in Sanga-
mon county, Jan. 3, 1867, to James W.
Richardson, who was born April 22, 1841,
in New Haven, Conn. They have four
children, JENNIE B., MARY B.,
THOMAS and SAMUEL, and live in
Clear Lake township, west of Sangamon
river and north of Sugar creek. Mr.
Richardson enlisted July 18, 1862, in Co.
I, 114111 111. Inf., for three years, and
served one year in the ranks. He was
transferred, March 28, 1864, to the signal
corps, and served as such to the end of
the rebellion. He was honorably dis-
charged at New Orleans, July 4, 1865.

SARAH G., born May i, 1842, in
Decatur, was married Dec. 24, 1868, to
Jacob F. Cromley. She died March 5,
1870, in Sangamon county.

HELEN M.} born May 8, 1844, in
Decatur, raised in Sangamon county, was
married in Decatur, Oct. 31, 1865, to John
S. Windsor. They have three children,
LILLIE B., MARY L. and HELEN
M., and live at Mulberry, Clermont coun-
ty, Ohio. J. S. Windsor was born Sept.
10, 1836, near Cincinnati, Ohio. He en-
listed in Co. K, i i6th 111. Inf., and was
mustered in, Dec. 30, 1862, as ist Lieut-
enant, promoted to Captain of Co. E,
Jan. 31, 1863; promoted to Major, Sept.
26, 1864, and Lieutenant-Colonel, May 27,
1865. He was mustered out with the
regiment, June 7, 1865.

ALICE E.t born in Decatur, and lives
with her parents.

EMMA K., born Feb. 25, 1849, in
Sangamon county, died Sept. 29, 1856.

EVELINE H., born July 30, 1851,
in Sangamon county, was married Feb.

20, 1872, to Frank K. Springer. See his
name.

SAMUEL T., born July 12, 1854,
and

LAURA B., born Jan. 31, 1859, live
with their parents.

Samuel G. Nesbitt learned the art of
printing under Simon Cameron, in
Pennsylvania. He was for many years
connected with the Illinois State Jour-
nal office, but is now giving his atten-
tion entirely to farming. While living
at Decatur he was elected to repre-
sent Macon county in the legislature of
1842. He acted with the Democratic
party until 1861, when the rebellion broke
out. From that time he acted with the
Republican party. He served five years,
from 1865 to 1870, as the representative
of Clear Lake township in the Sangamon
county Board of Supervisors, and now
resides two and a half miles southeast of
Riverton, Illinois.

NEWCOMER, CHRISTO-
P H E R, was born in Huntmgton
county, Penn., Oct. 9, 1791. Susan Sells
was born March 17, 1794, in the same
county. They were married July i, 1813,
in Franklin county, Ohio, and had five
children there. The family moved to
Sangamon county. 111., arriving Dec. 9,
1824, in what is now Woodside township,
where they had five living children. Of
their children —

MARY, born June 7, 1814, in Ohio,
married Davis Meredith. See his name.

CHARLES S., born in 1816, in
Ohio, raised in Sangamon county, and
died June 14, 1839, at the Galena lead
mines, where he was engaged in smelting
lead.

SAMUEL, ELIZA and SUSAN-
NAH all died young in Ohio.

ARMENIA, born in 1825 in Sanga-
mon county, died Sept. 4, 1845.

JANE M., born in 1826, in Sanga-
mon county, died September 10, 1845.

The two latter were engaged to be
married, which was to have taken place
just about the time of their deaths, if
they had lived.

AMANDA E. died April 23, 1839, in
her tenth year.

DOW, born May 26,1832, in Sanga-
mon county, married Nancy M. Fry, who
died Feb. 23, 1852, and he married July
4, 1854, to Catharine M. Brunk. They

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

have two living children, CHARLES
W. and MARY JOSEPHINE, and live
on the farm settled hy Mr. Newcomer's
father in 1824, in the southeast corner of
Woodside township, seven miles southeast
of Springfield, Illinois.

Christopher Newcomer died Feb. 12,
1852, and his widow died Jan. 12, 1872,
both on the farm where they settled in
1824.

NEWMAN, HENRY, was
born Aug. 18, 1787, in Baltimore, Md.
In 1795 he was taken by his parents to
Knox county, Tenn. During the war of
1812-13-14 with England, he served in
three different companies; once for him-
self and twice in the place of relatives,
who had been drafted. He was under
Gen. Jackson at the battle of New Or-
leans. Henry Newman was married in
Knox county, Tenn., Dec. 15, 1815, to
Priscilla Plumlee, who was born May 13,
1791, in Burke county, North Carolina.
They had seven children in Tennessee,
and moved to Springfield, 111., arriving in
Dec., 1828, where they had two living
children. Of their nine children —

ELIZABETH E., born Jan. 9, 1817,
in Knox county, Tenn., married July 13,
1858, in Springfield, to John Haines.
They have one child, CHARLES
HENRY, and reside in Cotton Hill
township, near New City, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

MINER VA W,, born April 29, 1820,
in Knox county, Tenn., married April 26,
1839, in Springfield, Illinois, to Henry
Teed, who was born in 1818 in Spring-
field, Mass. They had four children, one
of whom was drowned at about fifteen
years of age. The otherthree, ALBERT,
MINERVA A. and CHARLES, live
with their mother in San Francisco, Cal.,
whither the family went in 1852.

MARTALMIRA, born Feb. 3, 1822,
in Knoville, Tenn., married Dec.,
1842, in Springfield, 111., to Josiah Moore,
a native of Hagarstown, Md. Mr.
Moore died in 1857, and she died July,
1858. Their only living child, AN-
DREW J. Moore, lives in San Antonio,
Texas.

JACOB S., born Jan. 6, 1825, in
Knoxville, Tenn., raised in Sangamon
county, and was assassinated by an un-
known hand April 23, 1873, at Spring-
field, Missouri.

JOHN W., born Jan. u, 1826, in
Knoxville, Tenn., raised in Springfield,
married in St. Louis, Mo., May 13, 1852,
to Caroline M. Field, who was born
April 13, 1834, in Auburn, New York.
They have three living children, HER-
BERT S., JOHN B. and ANNA G.,
and reside in Springfield. Mr. Newman
is a member of the firm of Thompson &
Newman, planing mill and door, sash and
blind factory, Springfield, Illinois.

JOSEPH, PLUMLEE, born Nov.
18, 1827, in Springfield, enlisted in the
4th 111. Inf., under Col. E. D. Baker, and
was killed at the battle of Cerro Gordo,
Mexico, in 1847.

JAMES T., born July 29, 1829, in
Springfield, and died Sept. 20, 1861, in his
native city.

MART A., born April 15, 1831, in
Springfield, married Nov., 1852, to Wil-
liam Fooshe. They had one living child,
JOSEPH P., a machinist, and reside with
his mother in Springfield.

WILLIAM H., born Jan. i, 1835, in
Springfield, and died March 8, 1873.

Henry Newman died March 20, 1861,
and his widow died Aug. 10, 1873, both
in Springfield, Illinois.

NEWSOM, DAVID, was born
Dec. 28, 1805, in Greenbrier county, Va.
He was the youngest of twelve children,
of William and Margaret Newsom,
whose maiden name was Spicer. The
father was of English and the mother of
German parentage, but both born in Vir-
ginia. William Newsom died when his
son David was seven years old. In his
fourteenth year David was thrown upon
his own resources, with four dollars in
money, some clothes and a limited amount
of education. He learned the tanner's
trade in Gallipolis, Ohio, but never liked
the business. He taught school two years in
Meigs county, Ohio, and applied the pro-
ceeds in improving his own mind. He
returned to Virginia, and was married
July 12, 1827, in Monroe county, to Polly
Houston. They had one child in Vir-
ginia, and in company with his father-in-
law moved to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving Nov. 14, 1828. Mr. Newsom at
one time owned and lived on what is now
part of Oak Ridge Cemetery, but sold it
at a large profit. He then entered land
and made a farm near Springfield. Mr.
and Mrs. Newsom had nine children in

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543

Sangamon county, 111., and in April, 1851,
started overland for Oregon. One son
was born on the road, and after a journey
of six months arrived, Oct., 1851, at the
Old Methodist Mission, founded in 1834,
about ten miles northwest of the present
city of Salem, Oregon. There he receiv-
ed a donation of 325 acres of land, upon
which they made a farm, and where one
child was born. Three of their children
died young. Of the others —

JOHN W., born April 30, 1828, in
Monroe county, Va., brought up in San-
gamon county, 111., was married Dec. 21,
1865, in Oregon, to Olive Greenwood.
They have two living children, MIN-
NIE M. and ROY, and live near Salem,
Oregon.

ROBERT L., born Jan. 22, 1832, in
Sangamon county, Illinois, was married
in 1856, in Hardinsburg, Ky., to Annie
Lightfoot. They have five living child-
ren, WILLIAM WAVERLY, AL-
FRED LANDER, PERCY LEE,
LUELLA and IRENE. R. L. New-
som is a druggist, and lives in Cloverport,
Kentucky.

SAMUEL J., born March 13, 1834,
in Sangamon county, is a stock raiser.
He is unmarried, an i lives near Prineville,
Wasco county, Oregon.

VIRGIL £/., born Aug. 29, 1836, in
Sangamon county, Illinois, is a stock
raiser. He is unmarried, and lives near
Salem, Oregon.

MARGARET 7., born in Sanga-
mon county, 111., was married in Oregon,
May 7, 1854, to Elisha Veazey, and died
March 24, 1861, leaving four children, all
died young but JAMES M., who lives
with his father, near Gervais, Marion
county, Oregon.

MART E., born April 2, 1841, in
Sangamon county, 111., was married Dec.
23, 1857, in Oregon, to John W. Green-
wood. They have four children, ALICE
A., FANNIE, JOHN L. and WINNIE,
and live near Salem, Marion county,
Oregon.

ANN M., born Sept. 25, 1844, in San-
gamon county, was married, Dec. 31,
1863, to J. P. Munkers, near Salem, Ore-
gon. They have three living children,
FRANK, LENA and IVY, and live
near Heppner, Umatilla county, Oregon.

GEORGE H., born July 9, 1851, at
Independence Rock, on the Sweetwater

river, on the wagon road to Oregon. He
was married Sept. 5, 1875, in Oregon, to
Lauretta Williams. They are without
family, and live at the homestead, ten
miles northeast of Salem, Oregon.

HAR VET M., born April 18, 1854, in
Marion county, Oregon, died there May
24, 1875.

David Newsom and wife are living in
Marion county, Oregon, on the farm
where they settled, Oct. 29, 1851. Mr.
Newsom was always fond of literature,
and is extensively known in western Ore-
gon as an able writer on general topics.
He was appointed by President Lincoln,
Statistician for the Williamette valley,
and served with honor until 1870, when
he resigned in consequence of advancing
years. He is engaged in farming and
fruit growing. His address is Salem,
Marion county, Ohio.

NIPPER, WILLIAMSON,
was born Sept. 19, 1796, in Virginia. His
father moved to Alabama when he was
twelve or fifteen years of age, and from
there to the vicinity of Nashville, Tenn.
He was there married to Nancy Moore
She had twins, and the mother and child-
ren died. He was then married to Hep-
sey Gibson, who was born Feb. 14, 1803,
in Franklin county, Tenn. They had
three children, and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in the fall of 1829,
about one mile east of the present town of
Loami, where six children were born.
Of all the children —

ELIZA C., born Oct. 26, 1823, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county,
March 19, 1844, to George W. Legrand.
He was born March 12, 1823, in Brecken-
ridge county, Ky., and came to Sanga-
mon county in 1843. They had eleven
children, six of whom died young. Of
the other five: SARAH married Oct.
19, 1867, to R. Wickliffe Price, who was
born Feb. 11, 1825, at Georgetown, Ky.,
have three children, ROBERT w., PHILE-
MON BIRD and CHARLES w., and live near
Loami. Mr. Price is a lawyer. WIL-
LIAMSON A., ROBERT M., 12LSIE
M. and LUCY A. live with their parents,
five miles west of Loami, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

NANCT F., born March 16, 1825, in
Tennessee, married Miles Meaciham, in
Sangamon county, had four children, and
died in Warren county, Illinois.

544

EARLY SETTLERS OF

HARRIET M., born Jan. 17, 1829,
in Tennessee, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, to William E. Hudson. See his name.

ELMIRA J., born May 31, 1831, in
Sangamon county, married John Evans,
and both are dead.

AMERICA A.^ born August 2, 1833,
in Sangamon county, married Abner
Clark, have seven children, and live in
Worth county, Mo.

WILLIAMSON M., born Sept. 22,

1835. in Sangamon county, married Mary
Staley. They had one child, NANCY
M. F., and Mrs. Mary Nipper died.
W. M. Nipper married Louisa Cline,
who was born Oct. 22, 1840, in Scott
county, 111. They have three children, EL-
MIRA S., PHILIP and JOSEPH W.,
and live four miles west of Loami, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

HEPSET A., born Dec. 13, 1837,
married Abner W. Knight. See his
name.

THOMAS H., born Oct. i, 1840, died
aged twenty-three years.

MART M., born March 26, 1843, in
Sangamon county, married Oct. 19, 1863,
to Wilson Cline, who was born March 3,

1836, in Scott county. They have three
children, BENJAMIN F., JOHN H.
and HARRIET M., and live near
Loami, Illinois.

Williamson Nipper died August 24,
1843, and his widow married Daniel
Staley, (see his name] and she died Mai'.
8, 1873, both near Loami, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

NORRED, RICHARD C.,

was born about 1795 in London county,
Va., married in Frederick county, Md.,
to Elizabeth Jenkins; moved to Ohio,
and from there to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in 1836. They had children in
Maryland, Ohio and Sangamon county.
The parents and most of the children died
in Sangamon county. One son, only,
lives in the county.

FARIS is married and lives three
miles south of Illiopolis, Illinois.

JAMES 7\, last heard from at Marys-
ville, Yuba county, Cal., in 1869.

NORRED, MARY A., sister to
William and Richard C. Norred, was
born ir,i London county, Va., came to
Sangamon county, 111., and married John
A. Miller. Sec his name.

NORRED, WILLIAM, was
born March 9, 1809, in London county,
Va. He was married in 1834 in that
county to Elizabeth E. Dowdall, who
was born there March 9, 1814. They
lived in Frederick county, Md., until
they had two children, and moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving Nov.
6, 1838, and settled three miles northeast
of Rochester, at the mills of Darling &
Baker, where a child was born. Of their
three children —

CHARLES W., born April n, 1836,
in Maryland, died in Sangamon county in
his third year.

SAMUEL T. born July 6, 1838, in
Maryland, died in Sangamon county in
his fourteenth year.

CHARLES H., born Jan. 19, 1842,
in Sangamon county. He was a medical
student, but laid aside his books in Aug.,
1862, and enlisted in Co. — . ii4th 111.
Inf. He was placed in charge of a medi-
cal dispensary for the regiment, and
later, of a hospital, served until the
close of the war, when he was honor-
ably discharged, attended McDowell
College at St. Louis, and graduated there.
He was married in Logan county to Eliza-
beth Dalbey. They have two children,
CHARLES ELMER and WILLIAM
ASBURY. Dr. Norred commenced
practice at Dawson, but removed to Mid-
dletown, Logan county, where he now
resides.

Mrs. Elizabeth E. Norred died Sept. i,
1843, in Sangamon county, and William
Norred was married in 1845, m London
county, Va., to Mary Ann Daneil, who
was born in that county, April 22, 1820.
She died Oct. 21, 1851, leaving one
child—

JOHN W., born June 17, 1847, ul
Sangamon county. He married Mary
Richardson, and lives in Middletown,
Logan county, Illinois.

William Norred was married Dec. 18,
1853, in Sangamon county, to Mrs. Mar-
tha Dowdall, whose maiden name was
Enlow, a native of Washington county,
Pa. She has one child by her first mar-
riage, Silas R. Dowdall. Mr. and Mrs.
Norred have four children —

FENTON M., LAURETTA,
MART E. and ELIZABEl^H C,
and reside half a mile northwest of Daw-
son, Sangamon county, Illinois.

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NORRIS, AQUILLA, was
born Jan. i, 1776, near Baltimore, Md.
He was there married to Eleanor Norris.
They had eight children in Maryland,
three of whom died young, and Edward,
the eldest, died there Aug. 30, 1830, aged
nineteen years. The parents, with four
children, came to Sangamon county, ar-
riving in Round Prairie, six miles east of
Springfield, in April, 1835. Of their four
children —

JAMES L., born July 18, 1813, in
Maryland, married in Sangamon county,
Oct/i7, 1841,10 Sarah E. Cole. They
had one living child, PRISCILLA, who
married Jesse Estes, has five children, and
lives in Winchester, Scott county, Illi-
nois. James L. Norris and wife live near
Cotton Hill Postoffice, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

JOHN, born Oct. 17, 1814, in Mary-
land, married in Sangamon county, Oct.
17, 1841, to Mary W. Cole. The two
brothers and sisters were married by the
same ceremony. John Norris was a sol-
dier in the Springfield Cadets, was on
duty at Nauvoo, in the Mormon war, and
was shot dead accidentally, Sept. 28, 1844.
His widow married John Fagan. See his
name.

PRISCILLA, born Aug. 19, 1820, in
Baltimore, Md., was married in Sanga-
mon county to Gershom Keyes. See his
name.

MART A., born Feb. 3, 1822, in Mary-
land , married to Bedford W. Higgins.
Sec his name.

Mrs. Eleanor Norris died Oct. 28, 1852,
and Aquilla Norris died March 4, 1856,
both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

NORRIS, ELIZABETH,
was born March 22, 1776, near Baltimore,
Maryland. She was sister to Mrs. El-
eanor Norris. She died Dec. 20, 1872, in
Springfield, at the house of A. R. Robin-
son. She was nearly ninety-six years of
age, and never married.

NORTH, JOHN, born Nov. 22,
1806, near the village of Bent creek, on
James river, Buckingham county, Va.
His grandfather, Richard North, was
born in England, and trained to the busi-
ness of a cutler. He came to America,
and worked at his business at Bent creek.
His wife's maiden name was Thornton,
but whether they were married in Eng-
land or America is unknown to their de-
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scendants. Their third son, Peter, born
in Virginia, was married there to Eliza-
beth Franklin, a daughter of Robert
Franklin, of Campbell county, Va.
Peter North was a soldier from Virginia
in the war with England in 1812. In
1819 or '20 he moved to Jefferson county,
near Dandridge, Tenn., taking with him
six children. The second son, John,
whose name heads this sketch, was there
married, Sept. 22, 1828, to Anna Giger,
who was born Nov. 4, 1807, in that coun-
ty. They came to Sangamon county, III.,
arriving April 12, 1829, in what is now
Cooper township, north of Sangamon
river, where they had four living child-
ren. Of their children —

BENJ. HOUSTON, born Nov. 19,
1832, in Sangamon county, married Nov.
15, 1855, to Minerva A. F. Miller, who
was born May 18, 1836, in Loudon coun-
ty, Va. They have three children,
JOHN H., MARY A. and ALMEDA
S., and live in Cooper township, San-
gamon county, Illinois.

HARVET N., born Jan. 26, 1835,
married Nov. 13, 1856, to Sarah E. Pra-
ther. They have four children, TONY,
EMERY, CLYDE and PETER, and
live in Christian county, four miles north-
east of Breckenridge, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

JOHN W., born Nov. 9, 1837, in
Sangamon county. He enlisted August
7, 1862, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf., for three
yeai's, was captured Sept. 20, 1863, at the
battle of Chickamauga, taken to Rich-
mond, Va., was one month in Libby
prison, thence to Danville, Va., thence to
Andersonville, Ga., arriving at that prison
pen March 20, 1864, where he remained
to Dec., 1864. He was then taken to
Charleston, S. C., where he spent six
weeks in prison, thence to Florence, S.
C., where he was released on parole, and
started from Wilmington, N. C., March
4, 1865, for home, via Annapolis, Md., and
reached home March 17, 1865, and was
honorably discharged. John L. Hesser,
relating his prison experience, speaks of
John W. North as " a man of peculiar
form or stature, six feet four inches in
height, two hundred and ten pounds in
weight, and a heart in proportion. In
Andersonville he generally went by the
name of The Infant. He was very kind
and obliging to all the sick and weakly

EARLY SETTLERS OF

souls; never allowed any imposition on
those poor, feeble forms who were not
able to defend themselves. We lived as
two brothers, commingled our sorrows
together for eighteen dreary months, never
were separated but one night during our
imprisonment. * * * Lived through
•all the trying and heart-rending scenes of
the many kinds of disease and death,
where so many more died than lived,
astonished that even one could live."
John W. North was married March
8, 1866, to Maria McDauiel. They
had three children, LOU IDA, ANN
ELIZABETH and GERTIE LEE, and
live two and a half miles south of Me-
chanicsburg, Illinois.

ANDRE W J., born March 18, 1841,
died April 26, 1857.

Mrs. Anna North died Feb. 24, 1844,
and John North was married Sept. 19,
1844, to Susannah Eckel. They had six
children; all died under five years. Mrs.
Susannah North died July 1,1855, and
John North was married Feb. 19, 1856,
to Mrs. Amelia Woodruff, who had pre-
viously been. Mrs. West, and whose
maiden name was Taylor. They had
four children, PETER F. died in his
second year. ROBERT F., born Mar.
31, 1859, EDWARD E., born Jan. 14,
1861, and PERMELIA A., born Jan. 24,
1864. John North resides on the farm
where he settled in 1829, three miles
south of Mechanicsburg, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

NORTH, ROBERT, was born
in Oct., 1814, in Buckingham county,
Va., and taken by his parents to Jefferson
county, Tenn., when he was a boy. He
came to Sangamon county with his
brother, John North, who had been back
to Tennessee. They arrived in Sept.,
1832, in what is now Cooper township.
Robert North was married in Sangamon
county March 29, 1838, to America
Schmick. She was born Feb. 10, 1816,
in Lincoln county, Ky., and came to San-
gamon county in company with her
mother, brother-in-law — John demons,
one brother, two sisters and two nephews,
arriving in the fall of 1829, and settled
three miles south of Springfield. Robert
North and wife had six living children in
Sangamon county. Of their children —

JOHN W., born May 4, 1840, mar-
ried Feb. 23, 1865, to Mary E. Troxell,

They have two children, WILLIAM R.
and SUSAN E., and reside two miles
southwest of Clarksville, or Berry station,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

MART A., born Dec. 31, 1842, mar-
ried Sept. 10, 1863, to William F. Herrin.
See his name. They had five children,
BELLE N., JAMES E., CHARLES
F., BURT A., and CARRIE F. BURT
A. died May 7, 1876.

SARAH J., born Nov. 17, i8||,
married May 22, 1862, to David C. Her-
rin. See his name. They had five
children, ROBERT E., JAMES W.,
GEORGE E., DAVID A. and JESSIE
LEE; the youngest died Jan. 23, 1875.

CHRISTIANA, born July 17, 1849,
lives with her parents.

ALBERT, born. April 7, 18=54, mar'
ried Dec. 31, 1873,10 Mary A. Lord, who
was born fan. 10, 1852, in Sangamon
county. They live three-fourths of a mile
east of Clarksville, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

LAURA F., born Nov. 7, 1859,
lives with her parents.

Robert North and wife reside two
miles northeast of Berry station or Clarks-
ville, Sangamon county, Illinois. He is
one of the most extensive farmers in
Sangamon county.

NOTTINGHAM, JONA-
THAN, was born Sept. 25, 1808, in
Cape May county, New Jersey. Clark
Nottingham emigrated from England,
and settled in Delaware, about 1760. He
moved to New Jersey soon after the Revo-
lution, and raised a family. His son Jona-
than was Colonel of a New Jersey regi-
ment in the war of 1812. He was there
married, and was the father of the subject of
this sketch. Jonathan Nottingham num-
ber two was married, Jan. 30, 1 83 1 , to Han-
nah Smith, who was born July 10, 1807, in
the same county. Th .-y had four
children in New Jersey, and moved to
Sangamon countv, Illinois, arriving in
Oct., 1837, and stopped south of Richland
creek, where they lived two years, and in
the spring of 1840 moved to a farm he
had purchased, two and one-half miles
northwest of Pleasant Plains. Seven
children were born in Sangamon county.
Of their children —

REUBEN Z., born Dec. 14, 1832, in
New Jersey, married Lutheria Hubbard.
He enlisted, Aug. 8, 1863, for three.

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years, in Co. — , xoist 111. Inf., and died of
disease, at Cairo, 111., Dec., 1863.

JOHN, born in New Jersey, married
Mary A. Corson, have three children, and
live in Menard county.

ABIJAH S., bo'rn in New Jersey,
married Mary Eaton, and lives near
Pleasant Plains.

FRANCIS A., born June 22, 1837,
in New Jersey, raised in Sangamon coun-
ty, went to Pike's Peak, in 1858, and
now lives in Mendocino county, Cali-
fornia.

RA CHEL, born in Sangamon county,
married Reuben Corson, have four child-
ren, and live in Menard county, Illinois.

ALMARIN, born March 31, 1840, in
Sangamon county. Served three years in
the ist Oregon Cavalry, and was honor-
ably discharged. He is a stock dealer at
Oskaloosa, Kansas.

CLARKE, born Feb. 26, 1842, in
Sangamon county, married in Dayton,
Ohio, in May, 1873, to Annie Christian,
and lives two and one-half miles north-
west of Pleasant Plains, Illinois.

JANE, born Oct. 29, 1843, in Sanga-
mon county, married Henry K. Hoff, has
three children, and lives in Golden City,
Colorado. *

JAMES S., born Jan. 17, 1845.
Served three months in Co. I, 7ist 111.
Inf., and is now — 1873 — an attorney at
Silver City, New Mexico.

ELIZABETH, born Jan. 22, 1847,
married Alexander Higgins. See his
name.

CHARLES W., born June 29, 1848,
in Sangamon county, married March 26,
1873, to Georgia Pellet, and lives near
Pleasant Plains, Illinois.

Mrs. Hannah Nottingham died July 9,
1850, and Jonathan Nottingham was mar-
ried, Aug., 1852, in Cape May county,
N. J., to Mrs. Mary A. Townsend, whose
maiden name was Sutton. Jonathan Not-
tingham resides on the farm where he
settled in 1840, two miles northwest of
Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

NUCKOLLS, JAMES, was
born Jan. 5, 1777, in Botetourt county,
Va., and the family moving to Grayson
county, same State, he was there married
Jan. 5, 1804, to Janey Swift, who was
born March 2, 1781, in that county.
They had six children in Virginia, and in

1818 moved to Madison county, Illinois,
where they had one child, and moved to
what became Sangamon county, arriving
in 1820, in what is now Auburn town-
ship, where they had one child. Of their
children —

CHARLES D., born March 2, 1805,
in Grayson county, Va., was married
March 10, 1832, in Sangamon county, to
Mary Wilson, who was born Jan. 3,
1812, in Buncombe county, N. C. They
had eight children in Sangamon county.
MARGARET J., born March 19, f833,
married Richard Ricks, and both died,
leaving one child, MANFORD j. THOM-
AS J., born Dec. 6,1834, was married
Jan. 19, 1871, to Martha A. Brunk. They
have three children, LILLY JANE, LUCY
M. and GEORGE T; the latter died Feb. 10,
1876. T. J. Nuckolls lives in Auburn
township, near where his grandfather
settled in 1820. JAMES M., born Dec.
28, 1836, married iNancy Drennan, and
died August 24, 1866, leaving one child,
LAURA MAY, who lives with her mother.
Mrs. Nancy Nuckolls married James M.
Bennington. See his name.. JOHN W.,
born March 30, 1838, married Louisa Pyle.
They have three children, MARY M.,
CHARLES F. and MILLY ANN, and live four
miles west of Pawnee, 111. GEORGE W.,
born April 23, 1843, lives with his mother.
MARY E., born Sept. 28, 1845, married
William R. Lockridge. See his name.
CHARLES Wm., born May 27, 1848,
married Margaret J. Moore. They have
one child, MINNIE, and live six miles east
of Auburn, Illinois. Charles D. Nuckolls
was a farmer and builder in early life.
In the early settlement of Springfield he
was engaged in the leather business. He
purchased a lot at the southeast corner of
Sixth and Washington streets for twelve
dollars, and several years later sold it to
Sangamon county for twelve hundred
dollars. A court house was built on it,
which was occupied as such from -1845 to
1876. Late in life Mr. C. D. NuckolLs
studied medicine, and graduated in 1856,
at McDowell College, St. Louis, Mo.
He practiced several years, and died Nov.
19, 1865. His widow lives four miles
east of Aubui'n.

THOMAS J., born Oct. 12, 1806, in
Virginia, died in Madison county, 111.,
aged fourteen years.

EARLT SETTLERS OF

MARY, born Jan. 6, 1809, in Grayson
county, Va., was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to Alfred Curry, who died,
and she married Jesse Elgin. They live
in Pana, Illinois.

MARGARET, born April 2, 1811,
in Virginia, was married in Sangamon
county, to James Wilson, and died. See
his name,

MARTHA, born Feb. 20, 1813, in
Grayson county, Va., was married in
Sangamon county to Noah Mason. See
his name.

JAMES M., born March 11, 1815,
died in his sixth year.

JOHN,\>orn March 24, 1817, in Gray-
son county, Va., was married in Sanga-
mon county, 111., to Elizabeth Ricks.
They had one child, MYRA J., who
died, aged seventeen years. Mrs. Eliza-
beth Nuckolls died, and John Nuckolls
married Adaline Rice, and lives at the
family homestead settled by his father in
1820, four miles east of Auburn.

JANE, born Oct. n, 1819, in Madi-
son county, 111., was married in Sanga-
mon county to John Milton Lockridge.
See his name.

ANN, born August 23, 1822, in San-
gamon county, was married there, in
1843, to William Graham. He was
drowned in July, 1844, while attempting
to cross a stream of water in Christian
county. His widow was married July 30,
1849, to Thomas P. Bond, who was born
July 11, 1812, in Burton county, N. C.,
raised in Kentucky, came to Montgomery
county, Illinois, in 1835. In 1839, he, in
company with G. R. Jernigan and Wm.
S. Ricks, circulated a petition, obtained
the requisite number of signatures, and
Mr. Bond took it to Vandalia, presented
it to the legislature, and secured the pas-
sage of the law creating Dane county,
which was afterwards changed to Chris-
tian coiuity. In 1848 he was elected to
fill an unexpired term as county clerk,
and then to a full term ; was elected in
1868 to an unexpired term as county
treasurer, and then to a full term.
Thomas P. Bond acquired the title of
Col jnel by being elected to that position
in the State Militia in 1840. Mr. Bond
has two daughters by a former marriage,
both married. One resides in Nebraska,
the other at Fairplay, Park county, Col.

Thomas P. Bond and wife reside in Tay-
lorville, Christian county, Illinois.

Mrs. Janey Nuckolls died June 15,
1836, and James Nuckolls died Sept. 15,
1859, both on the farm where they settled
in 1820. It is five miles east of Auburn.

NUCKOLLS, JOHN, born
March, 1781, in Hanover county, Va.,
was married March 10, 1809, in Grayson
county, Va., to Ann Collins, who was
born Dec. II, 1786, in North Carolina.
They had ten children, three of whom
died young. They moved with five chil-
dren to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in
1826, in what is now Auburn township,
where his, brother James had settled six
years befqre. They had two children in
Sangamon county. Of their seven child-
ren—

CLARK, born Feb. 22, 1811, in Gray-
son county, Va., was married in Sanga-
mon county April 30, 1835, to Orlena
Shellhouse. Clark Nuckolls died Oct. 5,
1854, in Christian county.

MATILDA, born Nov. 16, 1813, in
Grayson county, Va., was married Dec.
1 8, 1834, *n Sangamon county, to Irvin
S. Pulliam. See his name.

MARTHA, born July 3, 1819, in
Grayson county, V a., was married March,
1844, in Sangamon county, to Willis
Shellhouse. See his name.

CHARLES, born Dec. n, 1822, in
Grayson county, Va., was married in
Sangamon county Aug. 29, 1849, to Cas-
sandra Clayton, who was born Feb. 8,
1832. They had three children, AMAN-
DA E., "M." and EMILY % Mrs.
Cassaranda Nuckolls was killed by light-
ning May 25, 1858. Charles Nuckolls
was married Oct. 19, 1858, to Susan
Baker, who was born Jan., 1832, in Bertie
county, North Carolina, and moved to
Sangamon county, 111., in 1850. They
have seven children, CHARLES S.,
JOHN H., SARAH N., JAMES A.,
LYDIA M., ROBERT J. and WIL-
LIAM W. Charles Nuckolls and family
reside near Auburn, Illinois.

JAMES D., born Dec. 22, 1824, in
Grayson county, Va., was married in
Sangamon county March 22, 1849, to
Lydia Easley. They had six children,
JOHN W., JAMES M., THOMAS J.,
EMMA A., WARHAM E. and
CHARLES D. Mrs. Lydia Nuckolls
died in Missouri, and J. D. Nuckolls was

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married June 16, 1870, to Louisa J. Vo-
shell. They have one child, LYDIA A.,
and reside near Auburn, Illinois.

JANE, born Jan. 2, 1828, in Sanga-
mon county, was married there March 26,
1846, to James Blount, who was born
Aug. 8, 1822, in Tennessee. They had
three children: JOHN, born Dec. 25,
1849, in Sangamon county, and JAMES
H., born Jan. 22, 1851, in Sangamon
county, both live in Edinburg; IDA M.,
born March 28, 1857, was niarr"ied April
7, 1874, to Thomas Bell, who was born
April 5, 1841, in Champaign county,
Ohio. They live in Edinburg, 111. Mr.
and Mrs. Blount reside in Edinburg,
Christian county, Illinois.

AMANDA, born Oct. 16, 1831, in
Sangamon county, married Samuel
Davidson. See his name.

John Nuckolls died Aug. 2, 1844, in
Sangamon county, and his widow, Mrs.
Ann Nuckolls, resides with her children
in Ball and Pawnee township. She is in
her ninetieth year, and enjoys excellent
health — March, 1876.

OG DEN. —Two brothers, John and
Joseph Ogden, were born and married in
Maryland. John moved to Logan coun-
ty, Ky., and raised a family there. Sev-
eral years later, Joseph died in Maryland.
John moved the family of his brother
Joseph to Grayson county, Ky. John's
daughter —

SARAH, married Nathaniel Rames.
See his name.

Joseph's son —

OGDEN, ZACHARIAH, was
born Nov. n, 1794, near Frederick City,
St. Mary's county, Maryland. His father
died there when he was quite young, and
his mother moved to Washington county,
Kentucky. Zachariah was married, in
1815, in Grayson county, to Elizabeth
Peerce. They had six children in Ken-
tucky, and the family moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving Oct 13, 1827, in
what is now Ball township, where they
had five children. Of their children —

MELINDA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Stephen
Gatton. They had two children, and the
whole family died.

WINNIE, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to James Clark.
They have eleven children, and live in
Decatur county, Iowa.

JAMES, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Jane Ogden.
They had six children in Sangamon
county, four of whom died, namely:
ELIZABETH, at seventeen; MARY
A., at two; SARAH M., in infancy, and
ZACHARIAH P., in his thirteenth
year. JAMES WM. and JOSEPH
RAMES live with their father. Mrs.
Jane Ogden died May 28, 1869, and
James Ogden lives one and one-quarter
miles southwest of Pawnee, Illinois.

' WILLIAM L., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Eliza J.
Davis, who died, Jan., 1842, leaving one
child. He married Lucy Durbin. They
had six children. Mr. Ogden died, May
i, 1858, and Mrs. Ogden died, June 9,
1869, and all the children are dead except
three. MIRANDA I. lives with her
uncle, J. B. Ogden. ELIZABETH A.
lives with J. T. Burtle, Sen., and MAR-
GARET M. with her uncle, James Og-
den.

JOSEPH B., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Mary E.
Brawner. They had five living children.
MARY M. married James Shively, has
one child, DORA, and lives in Pawnee
township. BETTANEY E., JAMES
W., ANN E. and SARAH M. live with
their parents, one mile southwest of Paw-
nee, Illinois.

JOHN C., born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Minerva J. Clay-
ton. He died, July, 1850, leaving a widow
and one child, JAMES HARDIN,. The
widow married, and lives in Missouri.

SARAH, born in Sangamon county,
in 1828, died Aug., 1835.

FRANCIS M., born in 1830, in San-
gamon county, married Elizabeth Durbin.
They had two children, ZACHARIAH
and JAMES M. Mrs. Ogden died, and
he married Maria Riney, has four child-
ren, SUSAN E., EDNA F., GER-
TRUDE I. and FANNIE B., and live-
four miles southeast of Pawnee, Illinois.

ELIZABETH E., born in Sanga-
mon county, married James Durbin, who
died, leaving a widow and one child,
MARGARET J., who married James

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EA RL Y SB TTLBRS OF

Riney, and lives four miles south of Paw-
nee, Illinois.

MART J. died, aged sixteen, and

SARAH M. died, aged five years.

Mrs. Elizabeth Ogden died, October 4,
1858, and Zachariah Ogden died Aug. 4,
1869, and were both buried at St. Bernard
Catholic church, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

O'NEAL, SAMUEL, was born
Oct. n, i8n,in Kentucky, and came to
Sangamon county, 111., when he was a
young man. He married three times,
and his wives all died. His son —

JAMES HENRY, disappeared very
mysteriously. He left a wife, but no
children. After the death of his father,
advertisements were kept in the papers
for two years, in order to ascertain where
he was, that he might obtain his propor-
tion of his father's estate. At the end of
that time, his debts were paid from it, and
the remainder divided among the other
heirs. Samuel O'Neal's daughter —

SARAH, married Jan. 6, 1862, to
Charles H. Willison. She died May 8,
1864, leaving one child, MARY E.,
who lives with her father. He married
Sarah J. Henkle. See Jacob Henkle.

Samuel O'Neal was married June 5,
1847, *° Lucy Scott. They had six child-
ren, four of whom died under eleven
years. Of the other two —

MINER VA E., born Aug. 25, 1854,
and

WILLIAM F., born June 15, 1862,
live with their mother.

Samuel O'Neal died in 1863, and his
widow and children reside in Ball town-
ship, four miles southeast of Chatham,
Illinois.

OROAN, MICAJAH, was born
Sept. 14, 1793, near Nicholasville, Jes-
samine county, Kentucky. He was mar-
ried Dec. 1 8, 1817, to Susannah Don-
ner, a sister of George and Jacob Donner.
They had five children in Kentucky, one
of whom, WILLIAM R., died, at eight
years of age. The family moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving in the autumn
of 1828, on German Prairie, five miles
northeast of Springfield, and in 1829
moved to what is now Auburn township,
where they had six living children. Of
their children —

GEORGE L., born Dec. 29, 1820, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county

to Mary Foster. They had five children,
MINERVA J., SARAH F., WIL-
LIAM, IDA and LESLIE. Mrs. Mary
Organ died, and he married Mrs. Wyatt,
whose maiden name was Jacobs. They
have one child, EFFIE M., and live in
Virden, Illinois.

ATHA, born April 7, 1823, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to
Elijah A. West. See his name.

HEZEKIAH B., born April i, 1825,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-
ty to Catharine A. Gates. They have
three children, DAVID, ANDREW and
GEORGE A., and live five miles south-
west of Auburn, Illinois.

SUSAN, born Jan. 25, 1827, in Ken-
tucky, married to David H. Patton. See
his name.

DANIEL F., born April 16, 1829, in
Sangamon county, Illinois, married Eliza-
beth Kossner, have five children,
CHARLES, WILLIAM, MICAJAH,
ATHA M. and FRANK, and live near
Longton, Elk county, Kansas.

JORDANS.,\>orn August 16, 1832,
in Sangamon county, married Mai'garet
ret C. Wineman, daughter of Philip
Wineman. They have two children,
IVY JANE and LELIA GRACE.
Jordan S. Organ has for several years
represented Auburn township in the
Board of Supervisors of Sangamon coun-
ty. He resides two miles south of
Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

THOMAS H., born Dec. 11, 1834, in
Sangamon county, married Hannah J.
Brown. They have six children, WAL-
TER, CHARLES S., SUE A., JEN-
NIE M., MILLIE and DAISEY, and
reside in Pontiac, Livingston county, Illi-
nois.

ELIZABETH T., born Oct. 15,
1837, in Sangamon county, died unmar-
ried.

SARILDA and S ARENA, twins,
born Dec. 29, 1839, in Sangamon county.

SARILDA married Edgar Cincebox,
have two children, EDGAR S. and
HETTIE D., and reside in Virden, Illi-
nois.

S ARENA married George C. Houch-
ens, have one child, SARENA L., and
reside in Springfield, Illinois.

Mrs, Susannah Organ died March 3,

1866, and Micajah Organ died March 27,

1867, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

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OPDYCKE, STACY B., born
Jan. i, 1795, at New Castle, New Jersey,
learned the trade of a carpenter there, and
went to K; skaskia, 111., in 1816, walking
nearly the whole distance. He was mar-
ried in Kaskaskia, April 25, 1833, to
Hannah G. Griffith, who was born Feb.
u, 1804, in Pennsylvania. She was a
daughter of Dr. Thomas Griffith, of
Tazewell county, 111., and sister of Mrs.
Charlotte Pricket, of Springfield, 111.
Mr. and Mrs. Opdycke moved from
Kaskaskia, Randolph county, to Chester,
in the same county, where they had one
child, and from there to Springfield, 111.,
in 1835, where three children were born,
two of whom died young. Of their two
children —

CHARLOTTE, born March 19,
1835, was married in Springfield, 111., to
John D. Keedy. -See his name.

THOMAS G., born April 9, 1847,
died in Nov., 1864, in Springfield.

Stacy B. Opdycke was engaged in
porkpacking with James L. Lamb for
several years, and was afterwards mer-
chandizing with Tinsley & Fonday.

Mrs. Hannah G. Opdycke died Oct. 9,
1847, and Stacy B. Opdycke died June
1 8, 1858, both in Springfield, Illinois.

OVERSTREET, JOHN, was
born in 1784 or '5, in Bedford county, Va.
His father, John Overstreet, was born in
1758, in the same county, and was a sol-
dier in the Revolutionary army during
the whole seven years war for Indepen-
dence. In 1783 he was married to Nancy
Dabney. They had four children in Bed-
ford county, and moved to Cabell county,
West Virginia, and died there. His son,
whose name heads this sketch, was mar-
ried in Cabell county to Susan Roberts.
He became a soldier in the war with Eng-
land, in 1812. While m the army, he
heard that his wife had been killed by
Indians, and soon after was himself cap-
tured by Indians. Not long after his cap-
ture the Indians were preparing to burn
him alive, and while doing so one of their
number offered him such a gross insult
that he knocked the savage down and he
fell in the fire prepared to burn his victim.
This act of brave daring in the face of
death, inspired the other Indians with re-
spect, and a feeling that he was too noble
to be thus treated, and they saved his life.
He was next sold and taken to Canada,

where he fell into the hands of white men,
with whom he was retained for a few years
in rather easy restraint, and by the time he
had gained his liberty, he had formed at-
tachments, and married there. One £hild
was born, and the wife and child died.
Finding himself once more alone in the
world, a yearning desire for the scenes of
his younger days sprang up, and he re-
turned to Cabell county, Virginia. He
paid his first visit to the old cabin where
he had spent the years of his early mar-
ried life. Seeing the smoke curling up
from the chimney, he sauntered, half
dreamily, to the door, and without having
framed any excuse for his visit he knocked
at the door, and after a short pause it turn-
ed on its rude wooden hinges, and the wife
of his youth stood before him! Having
long before given him up for dead, his
sudden appearance in bodily form was
more than she could bear, and she sunk
in a swoon. Mr. Overstreet soon discov-
ered that she had another husband, and
when she revived, the three held a coun-
cil. The two husbands agreed to leave it
for her to say which should be her hus-
band, each giving his word that if he was
rejected, he would go away and offer no
annoyance to the favored one. She de-
cided to retain her first love. The reject-
ed husband, true to his word, bade them
adieu, disappeared, and they never heard
of him again. Mr. and Mrs. Overstreet
came to Sangamon county, in 1819, and
settled not far from where Athens now
stands. A few years later, being a mill-
wright, he built a horse mill at Athens,
manufactured flour, loaded a small flat
boat, in the Sangamon river, and with two
brothers, Jesse G. and David Hurt, floated
down the Sangamon into the Illinois,
thence to the Mississippi river, and down
that stream to New Orleans. The trip
was a successful one, but Mr. Overstreet
died in New Orleans, in 1835. The two
brothers started home, and David died at
the mouth of the Ohio river. Jesse G.
Hurt, the only survivor, is yet living, and
resides in Menard county. He married a
niece of Mr. Overstreet. See name of
Dabnay Overstreet. Mr. Overstreet was
for several years a local preacher in the
M. E. church. His widow died in Athens
in 1869, in her seventy- fourth year.

OVERSTREET, DABNEY,
brother to John, was born about 1786 in

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EARLY SETTLERS

Bedford county, Va., and married in
Greenhrier county to Jennie Rogers.
They had seven children in Virginia, and
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in 1830, where seven children were born.
Of their children, I can give the sketches
of two, only —

NELLIE, born in Virginia, married
in Illinois to Jesse G. Hurt. They had
eleven children, and she died. Mr. Hurt
and the children live near Athens, Me-
nard county, Illinois.

JOHN, born Oct. 10, 1819, in Cabell
county, West Virginia, married May n,
1839, in Sangamon county, to Rachel
Cantrall. They had four living children.
LOUISA J., born May n, 1841, in San-
gamon county, married Henry F. Shep-
herd. See his name. JAMES W.,
born Feb. 5, 1844, married Mrs. Martha
E. Dunlap. She had one child by her
first marriage, JANE DUNLAP. They had
three children, JENNIE, MARY and NELLIE
—and live near Cantrall. ELIZABETH
A., born June 13, 1848, married Dec. 5,
1866, to Sebastian B. Shepherd. See his
name. JOHN T., born Nov. 15, 1851,
married Dec. 2f, 1872, to Maggie Brenan,
and live in Ford county, Illinois. John
Overstreet and wife reside two miles
north of Cantrall, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois— 1874.

OWEN, THOMAS J. V., was
born July 23, 1824, in Kaskaskia, Illinois.
His grandfather, Major Ezra Owen, was
born March 17, 1770, in Halifax county,
Virginia, we t to Kentucky when a
young man, and fought the Indians with
Daniel Boons. In 1809, the year the
Territorial government was organized, he
moved with his family from Kentucky to
Kaskaskia, Illinois. His eldest son,
Thomas J. V. Owen, born in Kentucky,
was married in Kaskaskia, July 15, 1823,
to Emeline Hotchkiss. Their eldest son
is the one whose name heads this sketch.
His brother William, enlisted in Spring-
field, in 1862, in Co. M, 2d 111. Art., was
wounded at Rogerville, Tenn., captured
and taken to Libby prison, where he
starved to death. His brother, George S ,
was assassinated in Randolph county in
1864, during the rebellion. His brother,
Elias K., entered the U. S. Navy in 1848,
was taken from Springfield by Abraham
Lincoln, at that time member of congress
fiom this district. He is yet in the navy.

He married, in Kaskaskia, to Sarah Jane
Riley, and resides in Baltimore, Maryland.
— 1875. Thomas J. V. Owen, Sen., was
a member of the legislature in 1831, and
during that year was appointed Indian
agent in Chicago, where he died Oct. 15,
1835. Thomas J. V. Owen, the subject of
our sketch, was educated at St. Mary's col-
lege, Perry ville, Mo., and came to Spring-
field, June 4, 1840, where he commenced
the study of medicine. He went with
Gen. Ford's army to Nauvoo, at the time
the Mormon prophet, Smith, was killed,
'in 1844. In 1846 he went to Bloom-
ington, Illinois, and aided in organiz-
ing Co. B, 4th Illinois Infantry, was
enrolled hospital Steward, and after-
wards appointed assistant Surgeon to
the regiment. He served the full term of
the regiment in Mexico, returned to
Springfield, and engaged in the drug
business. He was married Aug 15, 1848,
in Jacksonville, Illinois, to Mary Eliza
Hurst, eldest daughter of William t.
Hurst, of that city. They had two chil-
dren—

MART EVELINE, born Sept. 23,
1849, and died May 12, 1855.

WILLIAM H., born Feb. 6, 1852, in
Springfield, was married Dec. 17, 1874, in
Taylorville, 111., to Jeanette Denton, who
was born there, Nov. 10, 1852. They
have one child, WILLIAM H., and re-
side in Taylorville, Illinois.

Thomas J. V. Owen died March 19,
1876, at Decatur, 111. His remains were
brought to Springfield, and buried in Oak
Ridge Cemetery. Soon after his death
his widow moved to Springfield, Illinois,
where she now resides. Mrs. Emeline
Owen, the mother of T. J. V. Owen,
Jun., lives with his widow, in Spring-
field.

ORENDORF F.— For family
sketch, see Ommissions or Appendix.

PARKS, BEAUMONT, was
born Jan., 1775, in Norwich, Conn. He
was an orphan at twelve years of age,
and resolved to educate himself. In order
to obtain the means to do so, he began
trading with the French Canadians and
Indians. He worked his way out, in
company with his brother-in-law, Rev.

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Mr. Bacon, father of Rev. Leonard Bacon,
D. D., of New Haven, Conn., through the
rivers and lakes, from Vermont to the
region of Georgian Bay and Lake Huron.
As winter approached, he commenced
building a house with the intention of re-
maining in it until spring. He was dis-
covered by Col. Dunham, commander of
the U. S. Fort, at Michilimacinac. Col.
Dunham was astonished at seeing a boy of
fourteen or fifteen years preparing to win-
ter alone in that inhospitable region, and
enquired what he was aiming to do. On
being told by young Parks that he was
trying to raise money to defray the ex-
pense of an education, Col. Dunham of-
fered him a home in his own family, with
the promise of assisting him in his
purpose. He accepted the kind pro-
position, went to the Fort and remained
there between three and four years. Dur-
ing that time his savings amounted to
about $80. Expressing his determination
to set out for College, Col. Dunham sent
some friendly Indians to accompany him
a portion of the distance. He traveled in
a birch canoe through the upper lakes and
portions of Canada, and thence east.
When he had gone about two-thirds of
the distance, he was taken sick with small
pox, and was compelled to travel alone
until he could find shelter, although he
was then in a part of the country more or
less settled by white men. At Montreal,
a French Canadian took him in and
nursed him for nearly a month, until he
was able to pursue his journey. His sav-
ings were now reduced to about thirty
dollars, but his hospitable friend would
not receive anything for his trouble. His
exhausted condition required the expendi-
ture of more money, and when he arrived
at his destination his money had all van-
ished. Notwithstanding so much time
was lost, after a journey of one thousand
six hundred miles, he found himself at
Dartmouth College, a stranger, and des-
titute. Yet he boldly knocked at the
doors of that institution of learning for
admittance. That was about the year
1798. By diligent study while in the
family of Col. Dunham, he was enabled
to teach the lower branches. He then
made arrangements to continue teaching
in summer and attend college in the win-
ter, and prosecuted his studies while
teaching, so as not to fall behind in his
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class. He was thus enabled to defray his
expenses, with some aid furnished by Col.
Dunham., and in that way went through
college on equal terms with Daniel Web-
ster, Levi Woodbury — the latter of whom
was his class-mate — and other world-wide
celebrities. After passing through col-
lege he entered the law office of Judge
Slade, of Middlebury, Vt., and in due
time was admitted to the bar. He was
married in 1811, at Windsor, Vt., to
Nancy Conant. He ^ soon acquired a
large and lucrative practice, which he
held for about ten years, when — however
others might think — he became convinced
that it was impossible to be a successful
lawyer and a thoroughly honest man.
That, with other causes, induced him to
abandon his practice and move west. He
left Vermont, and in August, 1821, landed
at Madison, Ind., where he opened an
academy for the education of young men,
which was one of the earliest institutions
of the kind established west of the Alle-
gheny mountains, and probably the first
school in the State of Indiana where the
Greek and Latin languages were tanght.
It was attended by many who have be-
come distinguished at the bar, on the
bench, and in the councils of the nation,
such as the Hendricks, Sullivans, Brights,
Sheets, Cravens, and many others. After
ten years success in Madison, he was ap-
pointed Professor of languages in the In-
diana State University, at Bloomington,
and was in that position about seven years.
He came to Springfield, 111., in the autumn
of 1840, and at once opened a private
school or academy, which was generally
supported by all the leading citizens, and
many of the students have become dis-
tinguished in the learned professions, in
politics and business. When the city
schools of Springfield were organized on
the pi'esent plan, he was the first Superin-
tendent, and continued teaching in Spring-
field for nearly twenty years, when old
age caused him to relinquish his chosen
field. Mr. and Mrs. Parks had four chil-
dren in Vermont, one of whom died there,
and five in Indiana, one of whom died
there. Of the other seven children —

SUSAN, born Dec., 1812, in Vermont,
was married Dec. 29, 1832, in Indiana, to
John Bennett. They moved to Liberty,
Mo., and she died there in March, 1852.
Of their children, WARWICK S. went

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

to California about the close of the rebel-
lion, and has not been heard from since.
RICHARD married, and died from a
wound received in the Kansas troubles.
FRORENCE J. was married in 1856 to
George Challis. They have several chil-
dren, and reside in Atchison, Kansas.
BEAUMONT J. married in Atchison,
Kansas. Himself, his wife and his father
moved to Colorado, and reside on a dairy
farm. FRANK W. was married near
Auburn, Illinois, to Sarah J. Davidson.
They have one child, EDITH, and reside
near Mt. Liberty, Reno county, Kansas.
LILLIE is the youngest of the family.

NANCY C., born Feb. 5, 1818, in
Vermont, was married in Springfield,
Jan. 28, 1852, to Rev. Joseph E. McMur-
ray, of the Presbyterian church. They
had four children, ALICE B., ED-
WARD P., THOMAS B. and WAL-
TER S. The latter died young. Rev.
Mr. McMurray died Jan. 27, 1868, at
Cerro Gordo, Piatt county, 111. His wid-
ow and children reside in Auburn, Illi-
nois.

SAMUEL C., born March 25, 1820,
in Windsor, Vermont, came to Spring-
field, 111., in 1840, six months before his pa-
rents. He was married Nov. 13, 1853, in
Logan county, 111., to Elizabeth A. Tur-
ley. They have four children, LULA H.,
HENRY C., SAMUEL C., Jim., and
MARY L. and reside in Lincoln, 111.
Samuel C. Parks was appointed, March,
1863, by President Lincoln, Associate
Judge of the U. S. Court for the Territory
of Idaho. He discharged the duties of
the office until May, 1865, when he re-
signed and returned to Lincoln. He was
elected one of the delegates representing
the district composed of Logan and San-
gamon counties, in the Illinois Constitu-
tional Convention of 1870. Judge Parks
is now a practicing lawyer at Lincoln,
Illinois.

7^HOMAS S., born May 22, 1822, at
Madison, Ind., married in Sangamon
county, Oct. 23, 1851, to Nancy C. Poley.
They have four children. L^TITIA is
now (1876) in the second year of her course
at Illinois Female College, at Jacksonville.
SAMUEL is a clerk in his uncle Isaac
Poley's bank, at Auburn. MINNIE and
MARY ; all four live with their parents.
Thomas S. Parks taught school in Sanga-
moiMxnmty eleven years. He is a farmer,

stock dealer and Police Magistrate. He
and his family reside in Auburn, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

ELIZA A., born Dec. 15, 1825, at
Madison, Indiana, was married in Spring-
field to Stephen Conkling. She died at
Leroy, McLean county, 111., in 1859.

WILLIAM y., born Dec., 1832,.^
Indiana, jdied in Springfield in his tenth
year.

L^TITIA, born Dec. 25, 1835, in
Blootnington, Ind., married in Spring-
field, 111., in 1857, to Dr. Albert H. Lan-
phear, a native of New York. They
have two children, ALBERT MOTT
and SAMUEL P., and reside in Atchi-
son, Kansas. Dr. Lanphear is practicing
his profession there.

After Professor Beaumont Parks retired
from teaching he resided a few years in
Springfield, and then determined to spend
the remainder of his days in the families
of his children. Mrs. Parks died at
Cerro Gordo, 111., Sept. u, 1865. Prof.
Parks continued active and energetic to
the last day of his life, and died April 8,
1870, without an hour of sickness, at the
residence of his son, Judge S. C. Parks,
in Lincoln, 111., and was buried at that
place.

PARK, JOHN, born about 1762,
in county Antrim, Ireland. Sarah May-
ben was born in Ireland also. They were
both brought to America when quite
young, without any knowledge of each
other. They were married in South
Carolina, and had nine children there, one
of whom died young. The family moved
to that part of Logman county which af-
terwards became Todd county, Ky., and
from there to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving Nov. 28, 1828, at Island Grove.
Four of their children were married in
Kentucky, but all came with them to
Sangamon county. Of their children —

THOMAS, born in South Carolina,
was married, Jan. 19, 1813, in Kentucky,
to Jane Mayben. They had seven child-
ren there, and moved, in 1828, to Sanga-
mon county, 111., where one child was
born. They moved to Morgan county,
III, in 1831. Of all their children— One
died young. JOHN J., born Nov. 18,
1814, was married April 4, 1839, in Mor-
gan county, 111., to Jane E. Caldwell, who
was born in Nicholas county, Ky. They
had seven children in Morgan county, and

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moved to Sangamon county, 111., March

22, 1855, where three children were born.
Of their children — NANCY j., born Jan.

23, 1840, was married, July u, 1861, in
Sangamon county, to Charles H. Knapp.

• They have two children, Fannie L. and
Carrie. C. H. Knapp died in Macon
county, in 1867, and his widow was mar-
ried, Dec. 14, 1869, to John Carder, of
Ohio. Thej have one child, Josie E.
SARAH A., born Aug. 29, 1844, was mar-
ried, July i, 1875, to L. R. Tracy. DAVID

T., JOHN It., MARYC., JAMES M., ELIZA M.,

SAMUEL c. and WILLIAM M. John J. Park
moved to Macon county, near Decattir,
April 6, 1864, and his unmarried children
reside there with him. HENRY M.,
born Nov. 29, 1816, in Kentucky, married
Nancy Miller, of same State. JAMES
A., born Oct. 8, 1818, in Kentucky, is
unmarried. ELIJAH M., born Dec. 10,
1820, in Kentucky, married Nancy A.
Armstrong, of same State. WILLIAM
R., born Aug. 23, 1824, in Kentucky,
was married, Nov. 22, 1850, to Nancy E.
Graham, who was born June 9, 1828.
They have four children, JOHN T., ELMIRA
A., WILLIAM R. and JAMES H., and reside
near Harristown, Macon county, Illinois.
ROBERT Y., born Sept. 20, 1828, in Ken-
tucky, was married to Angeline Scott.
SARAH J., born Oct. 8, 1830, in Sanga-
mon county, married William M. Gaddis,
of New York. Thomas Park died,
March 30, 1852, and Jane Park died Dec.
6, 1873, both in Morgan county, Illinois.

MARY, born in South Carolina, mar-
ried in Kentucky, April 4, 1816. They
had one child, and both died in Sangamon
county. Their daughter, SARAH, mar-
ried A. P. Wyckoff. See his name.

HUGH, born in South Carolina, mar-
ried in Kentucky, March 25, 1816, to Jane
Gibson, moved to Sangamon county, in
1828, and from Sangamon to Macon
county, where Hugh Park died, Sept.
28, 1845, leaving four children.

GRJZETTE, born Aug. 26, 1797, in
South Carolina, married Joseph McNew,
and for a second husband, married in
Sangamon county, to John Hudson. See
his name.

JAMES, born Dec. 25, 1799, in South
Carolina, married April 25, 1820, in Ken-
tucky, to Mary Modrell, who was born
June 19, 1800. They had six children in
Kentucky, and emigrated with his parents

to Sangamon county, in 1828, where
eight children were born. Of their four-
teen children — SARAH J., born July 21,

1821, married in Sangamon county to De-
marcus Gibson. They had eight children,
four of whom died young. The other
four reside with their parents, in Knox-
ville, Illinois. JOHN G., born July 7,

1822, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county, March i, 1855, to Elizabeth Rigg.
They had five children, JAMES E.,
CHARLES F. and SAMUEL H. died young.
HENRY A. and JOHN w. reside with their
parents, four miles west of Loami, San-
gamon county, Illinois. HARRIET A.,
born Sept. 12, 1823, in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Allen Short.
They have nine children, and live in Ma-
rion county, Iowa. ROBERT M., born
Dec. 13, 1824, in Kentucky, married
Mary Reynolds. They had seven child-
ren, and Mrs. Park and six of the children
died. He married Elizabeth Bower.
They have six children, and live in Macon
county, Illinois. MARY L., born Dec.
25, 1825, in Kentucky, married Francis
George. They have three children, MARY
A., HEPSIBA E. and RACHEL A., and live
near Edinburg, Illinois. ELIZABETH
H., born Feb. 10, 1827, in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county, Aug. 6,
1844, to John A. Burton. See his name.
Mr. Burton died, and his widow married
March 8, 1860, to Wm. S. Morris, who
was born June 17, 1829, in Meade county,
Ky. They have two children, EMMA L.
and DORA L., and live two and one-half
miles northwest of Loami, Illinois. JU-
LIA A., born April 17, 1829, in Sanga-
mon county, married James R. Rigg. See
his name. THOMAS N., born Feb.
16, 1831, married Mary Fowler. They
had two children, and mother and children
died. Mr. Park married Sarah E. Hud-
son. They had two children; one died in
infancy. LURENA MAY lives with her
father. Mrs. Sarah E. Park died, and
Mr. Park married Elizabeth Franklin.
They have one child, and reside three
miles west of Loami, 111. RACHEL G.,
born March 9, 1833, married Benjamin
W. Burton. See his name. HUGH
A., born February 2, 1835, married
Elizabeth Turpin. They have four
children, WILLIS c., EDWARD M., cir AR-
LES L. and LINDA P., and reside two
miles southwest of Loami, Illinois.

EARL r SJS TTLBRS

NANCY H., born Jan. 18, 1837, married
George W. Hudson. He died, and she
married James L. Short. They have one
child, HUGH F., and reside in Loami town-
ship. JAMES W., born Jan. 24, 1839,
married Ma'rtha Hodgerson, and he died
in two weeks after marriage. MAR-
THA E., born July i, 1841, married
Young Hodgerson. She died, without
children. WILLIAM L., born Oct. 13,
1843, married, Sept. 6, 1866, to Mary
Rigg. They have two children, JAMES
R. and MARY j., and reside on the farm
where his parents settled in 1835, and
where he was born, three miles west of
Loami, Illinois. James Park died, Oct.
25, 1865, and his widow died, Feb. 7,
1869, both in Loami township, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

JANE, born in South Carolina, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to William
Earnest, moved to Louisa county, Iowa.
He died there, leaving a widow and four
children.

JOHN S., born in South Carolina,
married in Sangamon county to Mary A.
Morrison, moved to Morgan county,
brought up seven children, and Mr. Park
died, in May, 1847. ^ ^s children —
ELVIRA married J. A. Haney, and
lives in New Berlin, Illinois.

SARAH, born in South Carolina,
married in Sangamon county to Zaza
Bowen. See his name.

Mrs. Sarah Park died, Sept. 9, 1853,
and John Park died, Sept. 23, 1853, both
at the house of their son James, in Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

PARKES, WILLIAM was
born Jan. 29, 1807, at Jonesboro, Wash-
ington county, Tenn. He was married
April 14, 1830, in Jefferson county, to
Polly North, a sister to John and Robert
North. She was born about 1810 or '11
in Buckingham county, Va. They had
two children in Tennessee, and moved to
Posey county, Ind., where one child was
born; and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the spring of 1836, in
what is now Cooper township. Two
years later he went to Mechanicsburg,
and in Feb., 1848, moved to Cooper
township, south of Sangamon river.
They had nine children in Sangamon
county; and five of their children died
under six years. Of the other seven, all
born in Sangamon county —

CAROLINE, born Jan. 12, 1839, in
Sangamon county, married Sept. 24, 1857,
to Charles Bochme; have five children,
and live near Linwood, Butler county,
Nebraska.

E VELINE, born Jan. 4, 1841, mar-
ried Jan. 8, 1863, to J. South; have two
children, MATTIE B. and MARY E.
She and^he children live with her father.

HENRT, born Jan. 15, 1843, in Me-
chanicsburg, 111., enlisted Aug., 1862, for
three years, in Co. C, H4th 111. Inf.;
served until June 29, 1863, when he died
at Chickasaw Landing, Tennessee.

MINERVA, born April 6, 1845,
married Aug. 14, 1867,10 Charles Roberts;
have one child, and live near Princeton,
Franklin county, Kansas.

ELIZABETH, born Jan. 3, 1847,
married Jan. 14,1869, to Edgar Eckel.
See his name.

JAMES, born April 2, 1851, and

HIRAM, born April 8, 1864, live with
their father.

Mrs. Polly Parkes died Sept. 12, 1873,
and William Parkes was married June 7,
1875, to Mrs. Sarah McMurry, whose
maiden name was Enyart. They reside
near Berry PostofHce, or Clarksville,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

PARKINSON, JAMES, was
born Dec. 22, 1805, in Belmont county,
Ohio, twelve miles below Wheeling,
West Virginia. His parents were from
Washit'.gton county, Penn.; and when
James was an infant they moved back,
across the Virginia Pan Handle, to their
home in Pennsylvania, and a few years
later, moved to what is now Marshall
county, West Virginia, in the Pan Han-
dle. James Parkinson came to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving at Springfield
in Nov., 1830; just in time for the "deep
snow." He returned to Virginia in the
spring, and came again to Sangamon
county in the fall of 1831. He made his
home at the house of David McCoy, on
Spring creek, until Nov. 7, 1833, when he
was married to Mahala Earnest. They
had five living children in Sangamon
county, namely —

MART J., born Nov. i, 1834, married
William Baldwin. See his name.

GRIZZELLA A., born March 22,
1836, married William T. Bradford. See
his name.

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557

CLARINDA A., born Jan. 22, 1838,
married June 23, 1859, to Thomas B.
Petefish, who was born Aug. 7, 1833, in
Shenandoah Valley, Virginia. They
have five children, MARION P., LOT-
TIE LOU, ELIZABETH M.,MELIN-
• DA E. and PEARLIE M., and reside
near Belvoir, Douglas county, Kansas.

JOHN J., born Jan. 23, 1840, enlist-
ed in the fall of 1861, for three years, in
Co. B, roth 111. Cav. ; served full term,
and was honorably discharged in 1864.
He was married Nov. 9, 1865, to Augusta
Patteson, daughter of Dr. Alex. A.
Patteson. They had three children —
JOHN L. died, aged four years; and
ALEXANDER died in his second year.
EARNEST resides with his parents in
Gardner township, south of Spring
creek, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM H. born Oct. 31, 1842,
married Feb. 12, 1808, to Sarah J. Brad-
ford. They have two children, JAMES
B. and WlLLIAM W., and reside south
of Spring creek, nine miles west of
Springfield, Illinois.

James Parkinson and wife reside in Cur-
ran township, eight miles west of Spring-
field, 111. — south of Spring creek, and
within one mile of where they were
married. This sketch was written at
their residence on the evening of Nov. 7,
1873, the fortieth anniversary of their
marriage. They had at their table that
day all their five children, fourteen of their
seventeen living grandchildren — three be-
ing in Kansas, — and all their sons and
daughters-in-law except Mr. Petefish, of
Kansas.

The courtships of George Bryan — see
his name — and that of James Parkinson
and Mahala Earnest are, so far as I am
informed, the two shortest on record.
For two years previous to their marriage,
Mr. Parkinson "waited on" Miss Ear-
nest. Adopting a custom then quite prev-
alent, he would start on horseback, call
for her, and propose that they go to
church, to a wedding, to a social gathering
or a dancing party. If she assented, he
would take her behind himself on the
horse, and set out. If she declined, he
would usually spend the day or evening,
as the case might be, with her. This was
the practice with them for about two
years, and I have it from their own lips
that the subject of their marriage was

never mentioned between them. Finally
Mr. P. made up his mind to change the
programme. He first, without consulting
the lady or any friend of hers, went to
Springfield and obtained a license for the
marriage of lames Parkinson and Mahala
Earnest. He called at her father's house
on the morning of Nov. 7, 1833, and told
her that he would be there that evening,
and wished her to be at home. That
was the first time he ever notified her
beforehand to expect him. He then de-
parted hurriedly, without giving the
slightest intimation of the object of his
proposed visit. The next movement was
to call on a Justice of the Peace by the
name of Robison, and request that offi-
cer to meet him the same evening at the
house of David McCoy, where Mr. P.
boarded. The Esquire wanted to know
if it was necessary for him to take any
papers or legal forms. Mr. P. replied, as
he departed hurriedly, that he had all the
papers necessary. The Justice met him
at the appointed time and place, when^he
was informed that he was expected to sol-
emnize a marriage. 'Squire Robison,
Mr. McCoy and Mr. Parkinson set out on
horseback, crossing Spring creek from
north to south, and arrived about sundown
at the residence of Miss Earnest's father,
to find the young lady out on the open
pi-airie milking the cows. Mr. P. had
not intimated to the other gentlemen that
he had his courting yet to do. They
separated to find hitching places for their
horses; and as they did so, Mr. P. went
to Miss Earnest and told her that he had
come to marry her, and asked if she
would have him. She stood, milk pail in
hand, and, after a few moment's medita-
tion, said, "Go in the house, and I will be
there directly." These were the only
words that ever passed between them by
way of courtship. She then resumed her
milking, and finished it as though nothing
unusual had occurred. The father of Miss
Earnest was attending to some outdoor
work, and Mr. P. approached and told the
old gentleman that he had come to marry
his daughter, and asked his consent to
the union. Mr. Earnest replied that he
had no objection to the marriage, but re-
gretted that he had not been notified in
time to make suitable preparations for so
important an event. Mr. Parkinson said,
"I have made all the preparations neces-

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sary, as I have the license in my pocket,
and the 'Squire is here, ready to perform
his part." They were married that very
evening, and the notes from which this
sketch was written were taken in their
presence, on the evening of the fortieth
anniversary of their wedding.

His reasons for taking such a course
were secreted in his own breast for forty
years, and were revealed, for the first
time, to the writer on the evening of the
anniversary above named. I can assure
the reader that there was nothing in it
calculated to cast the slightest shadow of
reproach on the character of either of
the parties. It was a method of his own
for solving a problem, entirely right in
itself, but not such a mode as I should
have adopted, for the reason that the
courting was too soon over. I would
much prefer to prolong so pleasant a
pastime. I may divulge his secret if he
fails to invite me to his golden wedding
Nov. 7, 1883; but if he invites me to help
celebrate that day, and treats me as well
as he did on the fortieth anniversary, he
may retain it forty years longer, if he
wishes to.

Mr. Parkinson served as Justice of the
Peace twelve years, by successive re-
election from 1848. When the township
organization was adopted, he was elected
the first representative of Curran town-
ship in the county Board of Supervisors,
and was twice re-elected. Edward Robi-
son was the 'Squire who solemnized the
marriage. See his name.

PAINE, ENOCH, was born
March 14, 1821, in Kaskaskia, 111. The
family moved from there to Macoupin
Point, and to Springfield in 1835. ^-ls
mother was a daughter of John Grosve-
nor, a prominent early settler of Kaskas-
kia. Enoch Paine learned the bookbind-
ing business with Birchall & Johnson.
He there helped to bind the work of the
last session of the legislature at Vandalia.
He continued in the employ of that house
until 1859, which in that time changed to
Johnson & Bradford. In 1860 Mr.
Paine established a bindery for himself,
and did the State binding for about ten
years, working, at some times, forty hands.
Enoch Paine was married in Springfield,
March 14, 1843, to Emily Sholta, who
was born March 14, 1820, in Edwards-

ville, 111. They had seven living child-
ren, namely —

MART A., born Oct. 19, 1845, resides
with her parents.

LUCY A., born Jan. 4, 1847, married
Oct. 17, 1871, in Springfield, to A. Judson
Gunnell. They have one child, PEARL .
J., and reside at Moberly, Mo. He is
locomotive engineer on the Northern
Missouri Railroad.

ALICE F.} born July 28, 1849, mar-
ried Oct. 5, 1872, in Springfield, to Wil-
liam Mosely. They have two children,
GUY DeFOREST and VIDA P., and
reside at Stonington, 111. He is a mer-
chant there.

RUFUS E., born Jan. 11, 1852, mar-
ried in Springfield, May, 1873, to Emma
Pride. They have one child, GRACE,
and reside five miles northeast of Spring-
field, on the farm.

LILLIE £., born Nov. 25, 1854, mar-
ried June 16, 1873, in Springfield, to John
L. Phillips, who was born Aug. i, 1851, in
Belleville, 111. Mr. Phillips is foreman in
the Journal Job printing department, and
resides in Springfield, Illinois.

JULIA E., born Jan. 23, 1857, grad-
uated at the Springfield High School in
1874, and resides with her parents.

CLARA resides with her parents.

Enoch Paine and wife reside in Spring-
field, Illinois.

During the rebellion Mr. Paine had
charge of the manufacture of cartridges,
working from two hundred and fifty to
three hundred operatives. Cartridges
made there cost only one-seventh of what
they did at other places.

PARRISH, SAMUEL, was
born June 22, 1809, in Franklin county,
Ohio. He married Sarah Manning.
They had three living children in Ohio.
The family moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the fall of 1839, in what
is now Gardner township, where six chil-
dren were born. Of their children —

SYNDISA, born Dec. 23, 1831, in
Franklin county, Ohio, was married Feb.
26, 1852, in Sangamon county, to William
Wilson. They had three children,
MARGARET A., MOLLIE, died in
her tenth year, and CHARLES. Mr.
Wilson died Dec. 18, 1864. His widow
married May 31, 1866, to James L. Car-
man. They have one child, CORA, and
reside at Kenny, DeWitt county, 111.--

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559

Dec., 1875. James L. Carman went from
Salisbury, and enlisted in 1861, in Co. E,
1 4th 111. Inf., for three years; re-enlisted
as a veteran, Jan. 4, 1864, served to the
end of the rebellion, and was honorably
discharged, May 21, 1865.

CORNELIUS, born Jan,, 1836, in
Ohio, died in Sangamon county, aged
twenty-two years.

REBECCA, born Feb., 1838, in
Ohio, was married in Texas to John
Byford, and resides at Springfield, Arkan-
sas.

JAMES, born Dec., 1841, in Sanga-
mon county, enlisted in Co. — . i I4th 111.
Inf., in 1862, for three years. He was
taken prisoner at the battle of Guntown,
Miss., June, 1864, taken to Andersonville
prison-pen, where he remained nine or
ten months, was released, and died May
15, 1865, at Jacksonville, Florida.

SAMUEL, born May, 1843, in San'
gamon county, enlisted in an 111. Art.
Co. for three years, re-enlisted as a vet-
eran, and served to the end of the war.
He was married in Tennessee to Jane
Richardson. Thev have three children,
JOSEPH, CHARLES and FLOR-
ENCE. Samuel Parrish is Superinten-
dent at the National Cemetery, at Fort
Donnelson, Tenn. — 1874.

AMANDA, born Feb., 1845, in San-
gamon county, married S. Neff. They
had seven children, FRANKLIN E.,
JOHN S., FRANCES M., LUELLA,
ROSCOE C., ANNA M. and another.
They reside near Chinkapin Hill, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

JOSEPH, born June, 1848, in
Sangamon county, married Eliza Rich-
ardson. They have one child, and reside
at Dover, Tenn.

CHARLES, born July, 1853, in San-
gamon county, is unmarried, and lives
in Arkansas.

Mrs. Sarah Parish died Dec., 1861, and
Samuel Parish married Mrs. Mahala
Legget. He died May 28, 1873, in
Springfield. Mr. P. is believed to have
chopped more timber than any other man
in Sangamon countv.

PASFIELD:; GEORGE, was
born October, 1792, in London, England.
His parents came to America when he
was a child and settled in Philadelphia,
where they both soon died of yellow
fever, leaving their son George without a

relative in] America. By his own exer-
tions, he obtained a good practical educa-
tion, and learned a trade which he did not
long pursue, and afterwards went to Ma-
tanzas, Cuba, as agent for a shipping
house. He remained there some time,
but the climate not agreeing with him,
returned to Philadelphia, where he invest-
ed in real estate, and bought an interest in
a nail mill. The results were unfortunate.
He came to Cincinnati, about 1817, and
engaged in shippirig pork and flour from
that point and Louisville, on flat boats, for
New Orleans. Later he established him-
self in the grocery business, at Paris,
Bourbon county, Ky., and continued
packing pork and shipping. He was
married in Paris, Jan. 5, 1821, to Mary
Forden, sister of John Forde'n. See his
name. She was born Oct. 22, 1805, in
Hagerstown, Md. Mr. and Mrs. Pas-
field moved to Springfield, 111., in the
spring of 1821, where one child —

GEORGE, was born Nov. 30, 1831.
He studied medecine, and graduated at
St. Louis Medical College, in the class of
i855-'6. Dr. George Pasfield was mar-
ried Sept. 19, 1866, at Mechanicsburg,
111., to Hathaway Pickrell. They have
two children, EMMA and GEORGE
L., and live in Springfield, 111. Dr. Pas-
field is not practicing his profession.

George Pasfield was an enterprising
and successful merchant, and was a mem-
ber of the town board of Springfield be-
fore the city organization. He was
one of the signers of the fifty thousand
dollar note to secure the location of
the capital at Springfield, and was one of
the first to commence business on the
State House square, doing much in the
way of building to improve the city. He
died, Nov. 9, 1869, and his widow lives
with her son, Dr. George Pasfield, in
Springfield, Illinois.

PATTON, JAMES, born Mch.
17, 1791, in the city of Baltimore, Md.
When a child, his parents moved to Stan-
ton, Va., and from there to Clark county,
Ky., in 1798. There James was appren-
ticed to the tanning business, and in 1808
the family moved to Christian county,
where he joined them in 1810, having fin-
ished his apprenticeship. James* Patton
and Polly Husband were there married,
April, 1815. They had three children in
Kentucky, and moved to what became

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Sangamon county, 111., arriving October,
1820, in what is now Auburn township,
where two children were born. Of their
five children —

WILLIAM M., born March 10, 1816,
in Christian county, Ky., married in San-
gamon county to Elizabeth A. Moore.
They had three children. JAMES W.,
born Feb. 15, 1840, in Sangamon county,
was married there, Dec. 8, 1869, to Fran-
cine E. Lanphier. They had three chil-
dren— LANPHIER M. ftied Sept. 9. 1874.
WILLIAM L. and JAMES M. live with their
parents. James W. Patton studied law
with Hay & Cullom, and was admitted to
practice in 1861. He was elected in 1864
to represent Sangamon and Logan coun-
ties in the Illinois State Legislature. He
has associated with him his brother-in-law,
John C. Lanphier, in the practice of law,
in Springfield, 111., and resides there.
MATHEW, Jun., born Aug. 22, 1841, in
Sangamon county, was married June 7,
1876, near Virden, to Barbara A. Ranch.
See Ranch family. Mr. and Mrs.
Mathew Patton live in Chicago, Illinois.
JULIA A., born April 25, 1843, m San-
gamon county, was married there, Jan-
uary 5, 1870, to Basil Hill, who was
born October 21, 1838, in Vanburens-
burg, Fayette county, Illinois. Mr. and
Mrs. Hill moved to Missouri, Feb., 1870,
and have one child, MATHEW M., born
Dec. 28, 1870, and resides in Newtonia,
Newton county, Mo. William M. Pat-
ton died, Jan. 7, 1848. His widow resides
in Auburn township, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

REBECCA ANN, born Oct. 5,
1817, in Kentucky, married Elihu Stout.
See his name. She died Sept. 21, 1852.

MA7^HEW, born March 14,1819, in
Kentucky, married Feb. i, 1844, in San-
gamon county, to Margaret J. McElvain.
They had six children, namely : WIL-
LIAM D., born Jan. 23, 1845, 'n Sanga-
mon county, married Adaline M. Black.
They had one child, MINNIE F. Mrs. Pat-
ton died Jan. 26, 1875, and W. D. Patton
was married Feb. 16, 1876, to Caddie A.
Jones. He is a druggist, and resides in
Auburn, Illinois. MARY E. died, aged
three years. ELIZABETH, born in
Sangamon county, married James Fletch-
er. They are without children, and re-
side three miles southwest of Auburn,
111. JAMES SAMUEL, CHARLES

M., ROBERT H. and MARGARET

S. reside with their father. Mrs. Marga-
J. Patton died May 2, 1865, and Matthew
Patton was married Jan. 23, 1867, to
Sarah J. Mackey. They reside in Au-
burn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ELIZABTH, born April 15, 1821, in
Sangamon county, married March 5, 1845,
to William Orr, and died July 29, 1847.

DAVID H., born April 19, 1824,111
Sangamon county, was married March 4,
1846, to Susan Organ. They have six
children — SUSAN A. married William
Moomaw. They have one child, ADA,
and live in Auburn township. WIL-
LIAM, born April 21, 1850, in Sanga-
mon county, was married Feb. 4, 1873, to
Sarah Jane Savage. They have one
child, WILLIE, and live in Auburn, 111.
MATTHEW DANIEL, BENJAMIN
F., BETTIE O. and MARGARET F.
live with their parents. David H. Patton
resides on the farm where his father set-
tled in 1820, three miles southeast of Au-
burn, Illinois.

Mrs. Polly Patton died Feb. 15, 1844,
and James Patton was married in 1846 to
Mrs. Lettie Nifong, who died Feb. 6,
1856, and he was married Aug. i, 1865,
to Mrs. Elizabeth Gregory. She died
June 23, 1875, and James Patton resides
where he settled in 1820, four miles
southeast of Auburn. He has always
been known as Col. Patton, a title he
acquired in connection with early military
training in the county. He established a
tannery soon after he settled in the coun-
ty, and supplied the early settlers with
leather for many miles around. The
nearest mill to him at the time he settled
there was at Edwardsville, sixty miles
south. He was in better circumstances
than most of the early settlers, and when
he saw a family laboring under disadvan-
tages, he interested himself in their wel-
fare, and assisted them in many ways.
Noah Mason, of Springfield, speaking of
their early experience in the new country,
says, "My father found a true friend in
the now venerable Col. James Patton,
which lasted to the end of his life, and
is gratefully remembered by his de-
scendants."

PATRICK, JOHN H., was born
Nov. i, 1789, in Clarke county, Ky., mar-
ried Jane Foster. They had three child-
ren, and Mr. Patrick died while on busi

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ness in the State of Mississippi. His
widow married John Armstrong, and
they moved, with her three children, in
company with her brother, George Fos-
ter, to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in
the fall of 1827, in what is now Loami
township. Of the three Patrick child-
ren—

SOPHIA, born in Kentucky, in. 1813,
married in 1828, in Sangamon county, to
William Easley.

MARGARET K, born Jan. 5, 1815,
in Kentucky, married Albartes Barger.
See his name.

LA VIC A, born in 1817, in Kentucky,
married there to Joseph Burch, and lives
in Lafayette county, Mo.

Mrs. Jane "Armstrong died Aug. 27,
1870, in Macon county, Mo. Both her
husbands were soldiers in 1812. She
drew a pension to the end of her life as
the widow of John Armstrong.

PAULEN, DEBOLD, was
born March 25, 1800, in the village of
Eingenheim, twelve miles nearly north of
Strasburg, France, now Germany. He
was there married to Margaret Walter,
who was born Nov. 11, 1806, in the same
province. They had one child in France,
and emigrated to America, landing at
New Orleans, Feb. 18, 1837. In the fal1
of that year the yellow fever raged as an
epidemic in New Orleans. Of the one
hundred and sixty-three passengers who
came over in the ship with Mr. Paulen,
all except thirty died. Mr. Paulen, his
wife and child all had the disease, but es-
caped death. Their money was gone,
but they came up the Mississippi and Illi-
nois rivers to Beardstown, Illinois, and
from there by wagon to Sangamon boun-
ty, arriving April 20, 1838, in what is
now the southeast corner of Island Grove,
township. They had two children in
Sangamon county. Of their three child-
ren—

DEBOLD, Jim., born Sept. 11, 1828,
in Alsace, France, now Germany, came to
Sangamon county in 1838 with his parents,
married Jan. 26, 1854, to Alpha C. Rigg,
who died without children, Jan. 18, 1856.
Mr. Paulen was married Mar. 10, 1857, to
Elizabeth McMurry. They have four
children, namely: GEORGE R., MAR-
GARET A., JACOB W. and JOHN
LEW, and reside two and three-quarter
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miles northwest of Curran, Sangamon
countv, Illinois.

JACOB W., born Sept. 8, 1839, in
what is now Curran township, Sangamon
county, enlisted in 1862, in Co. B,
i3Oth Reg. 111. Inf., was elected 2d Lieut,
upon the organization of the company,
served in the Vicksburg campaign in the
4th division of i5th Army Corps, was
promoted to 1st Lieut, at DeCrow's Point,
Texas, Feb. 21, 1864. He was taken
prisoner in Gen. Bank's expedition, at the
battle of Mansfield, La., April 8, 1864;
was fourteen months a prisoner at Tyler,
Texas, and released soon after the close
of the rebellion. He was commissioned
Capt. of Co. E, i3Oth 111. Inf., after the war,
for meritorious conduct, and was honor-
ably discharged the latter part of June,
1865. He was married June 18, 1866, to
Lucy B. Johnson, who was born near
Frankfort, Ky., March 5, 1848. They
had three children, namely: BENJ. R.
S., born in DeWitt county, 111., July 14,
1869; LAURA E., born June 25, 1871;
MINNIE M., born June 2§, 1873. The
two iatter near Fredonia, Wilson county,
Kan., where Mr. Paulen and family re-
side.

MART F., born March 26, 1844, in
Sangamon county, married in the same
county to Ebenezer F. Hatfield, who was
born Dec. 8, 1841, in Warren county, O.,
enlisted Sept. 10, 1861, in Co. A, 4th
Ohio Cav., for three years. He was
wounded at the battle of Chickamauga,
Sept. 20, 1863, captured, and released ten
days later; served his full time, and was
honorably discharged. He now draws a.
pension. Mr. and Mrs. Hatfield have
three children, EDWARD E.,
CHARLES C. and SILAS G., and re-
side two miles west of Curran, Illinois.

Mrs. Margaret Paulen died April 7,
1863, in Sangamon county, and her hus-
band resides with, their son, Debold, Jun.
Debold Paulen was not out of Sanga-
mon county from the time - he came, in
1838, for thirty-two years. In 1870 he
went to visit a brother and sister in Can-
ada, whom he had not seen for forty years.
He is now — 1876 — in his seventy-seventh
year, teeth all sound, good health, and
says he does not know of an ancestor dy-
ing under eighty years.

PEACOCK, CALEB, was born
Nov. 3, 1813, in Hardy county, Virginia.

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He came to Springfield, 111., in the fall of
1836, and was married, Feb. 27, 1840, to
Susannah Stacy. She died July 8, 1842.
Mr. Peacock was married, Dec. 3, 1844,
to Phoebe Dill. They moved to Ply-
mouth, Hancock county, in 1855, and re-
turned in 1863. They have four living
children, namely —

BENJAMIN F. married Rebecca J.
Eades, and live in Auburn, Illinois.

MILLARD F., AL VA B. and
SAMUEL E. live with their parents.

Caleb Peacock and family reside in
Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

PEASE, ABRAM, born July
22, 1791, in Martha's Vineyard, Dukes
county, Mass. The ancestors of this fam-
ily were from Wales, and came to America
more than two hundred years ago, settling
in Massachusetts. Abram Pease, whose
name heads this sketch, went to the State
of New York, when a young man, and
was married there. Aug. 18, i Sir, to Or-
pha Soufhwick. He was a soldier in the
war of 1812, from Cayuga county, N. Y.
Abram Pease and wife came to Sanga-
mon county with the family of Jesse
Southwick, arriving in 1818 in what is
now Ball township. They had four chil-
dren—

DEXJ^ER, born July 14, 1817, in New
York, THEODORE, BRIGHAM™&
NANCT ; the latter died August n,
1820.

Mrs. Orpha Pease died Feb. 22, 1820,
in Sangamon county, and Abram Pease
was married, June 21, 1827, in Sangamon
county, to Dorotha Lathrop, who was
born April 12, 1805, in New York. They
had one living child —

SHA W, born April 23, 1828, in San-
gamon county, was married July 6, 1851,
in same county, to Amanda H. Pettus,
who was born June 24, 1832, in Nicholas
county, Ky., and came to Sangamon
county with her father, .Thomas P. Pet-
tus, and her grandfather, George Bryan,
of Bryan's station, Ky. Shaw Pease and
wife have eight living children. LES-
LIE T., born Aug. 5, 1852, in Sangamon
. county, studied medicine, and was mar-
ried, May 9, 1875, to Mary L. Halsted,
who was born Feb. 7, 1854, in Castile,
Wyoming county, N. Y. Dr. Leslie T.
Pease is practicing medicine at Blue
Mound, Macon county 111., and resides
there. Of the other seven children — A.

JUDSON, FRANCIS W., IDA, LUEL-
LA and LINCOLN, were born in Sanga-
mon county, and GEOROE and CHAR-
LES P. were born in Macon county, 111.
Hon. Shaw Pease was a farmer in Wood-
side township, Sangamon county, until
1867, when he removed to the vicinity of
Niantic, Macon county, where he now re-
sides. He served one term as member of
the Board of Supervisors of Macon
county. In Nov., 1874, he was elected to
the twenty-ninth district in the State
Legislature for two years. Mr. Pease
nor either of his sons chew tobacco, drink
whisky or use profane language.

Mrs. Dorotha Pease died, Aug. 13,
1832, and Abram Pease died September
i, 1843, both in Sangamon^ county, Illi-
nois.

PENNY, HIRAM, was born
Oct. 5, 1790, in North Carolina, and was
taken, when quite young, by his parents
to Pope county, Illinois. He was mar-
ried in Kentucky, opposite where they
lived in Illinois, to Catharine McHenry.
They had five children in Pope county,
and moved to Sangamon county, arriving
in the fall of 1822, in what is now Cart-
wright township, where they had four
children. Of their children —

ALEXANDER, born March i, 1815,
in Pope county, Illinois, married in San-
gamon county to Mary Archer. They
had one child, WILLIAM H., who en-
listed Sept. 18, 1862, for three years, in
Co. F, 1 1 4th 111. Inf., was captured at
Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864, and was
starved to death in Andersonville prison.
Alexander Penny married for a second
wife, Elizabeth Hennings, and died, in
Wilson county, Kansas, in 1870, leaving a
widow and one child.

HENRY J., born May 22, 1817,
married Louisa Hannahs, have two child-
ren, and live in Carroll county, Mis-
souri.

ELIZABETH J., born March,
1819, died at eighteen years of age.

WILLIAM G., born Jan. 5, 1821,
married Eleanor Duff, had six children,
and he enlisted in an Illinois regiment,
and died at Little Rock, Arkansas. His
widow died, and his sons live in Webster
county, Nebraska.

JEMIMA, born Sept. n, 1822, mar-
ried James Ross. They had two child-
ren, and Mrs, Ross died. Mr. Ross was

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a soldier, and died in the Union army.
Their son lives in Logan county, and
their daughter in Iowa.

SOLOMON A., born Sept. 15, 1824,
in Sangamon county, married Polly Dun-
can, had one child, and Mrs. Penny died.
He moved to Kansas, married again, and
died there.

CAROLINE, born Nov. 21, 1828,
married Samuel Campbell. They have
two children and live in Kansas.

HIRAM D., born Oct. 16, 1830, mar-
ried Jane Irwin, who died, and he mar-
ried Laura Graves, and lives in Wilson
county, Kansas.

Hiram Penny died Dec. 10, 1852, in
Sangamon county. His widow died
April 30, 1873, in Wilson county, Kansas.

William Penny, the father of Hiram,
was born in 1751, and was captain of a
company from North Carolina in the
Revolutionary army. He moved to Pope
county, 111., and from there to Sangamon
county, and died, March 15, 1821, on
Richland creek, in what is now Cart-
wright township. He had two brothers,
Solomon and Robert. Solomon married
Jane Renshaw, raised a family, and died
after leaving the county. Robert raised a
family and died. His widow, more than
ninety years old, lives with her daughter,
Mrs. Abraham Freeman, in Springfield.

PELHAM, JOHN, was born
July 14, 1804, in Hamilton county, near
Cincinnati, Ohio. Anna M. Judd was
born Oct. 20, 1806, in Chenango county,
near Oxford, N. Y. In 1818 her parents
moved to Westport, Oldham county, Ky.,
and in 1821 moved to the vicinity of
Shawneetown, 111. In 1823 they moved
up the Ohio river to Evansville, Ind.
John Pelham and Anna M. Judd were
there married, Jan. 23, 1827. They soon
after went to St. Clair county, 111., thence
to Quincy, and from there to Sangamon
county, arriving Sept. n, 1827, at Sanga-
mo town. They had seven living child-
ren, namely —

JAMES M., born May 5, 1829, mar-
ried Mrs. Demaris Stone, whose maiden
name was Gard. They had three child-
ren, ALAMANDA, FRANKLIN and
JAMES M. In 1859 James M. Pelham
went to Pikes Peak, and from there to
California. In 1862 he united with a body
of men, styling themselves the "One
Hundred Californians." They went in a

body from San Francisco to Boston,
Mass., and became a Co. of the 2d Mass.
Cav. He served full three years, and
was honorably discharged, June, 1865.
He received a gun shot wound in the
Shenandoah Valley. That and exposure
so impaired his health that he died, Jan.
14, 1866, near Salisbury, within three
miles of where he was born. His widow
and children live in Gardner township,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM B., born April 18, 1834.
He enlisted April, 1861, on the first call
for 75,000 men, in the 7th 111. Inf.; served
three months, and was honorably dis-
charged August. 1 6, 1 86 1. He enlisted
in Co. D, 33d 111. Inf., for three years,
was wounded at the battle of Black river
bridge, May 17, 1863. , Dec. 31, 1863, he
re-enlisted as a veteran, was trans-
ferred to the Invalid Corps, and was dis-
charged on account of physical disabilty,
in Nov., 1864. He was married June i,
1865, to Elizabeth White. They have
four children, and live in Tazewell coun-
ty, Illinois.

DANIEL C., born Jan. 11,1837, en-
listed Aug. 16, 1861, in Co. D, 33d 111.
Inf., for three years, re-enlisted as a vet-
eran, Dec. 31, 1863, at Indianola, Texas,
served until the end of the rebellion, and
was honorably discharged. He was mar-
ried Dec. 27, 1866, to Mildred P. Batterton.
They have four children, ARTHUR,
ADA L., ALBERT and HARRY; the
latter died Aug. 10, 1873. D. C. Pelham
resides at Salisbury, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

MARY E., is unmarried, and lives
with her mother.

ELIZA A., born Feb. 6, 1843, mar-
Oct. 4, 1866. to Josiah Mitchell. He en-
listed for three years, in 1861, in Co. E,
i4th 111. Inf., was wouncbed at the battle
of Pittsburg Landing, April 6, 1862, and
was honorably discharged. He re-en-
listed as a veteran Dec., 1863, and \vas4ion-
orably discharged Nov., 1865. Mr. and
Mrs. Mitchell have two children, AR-
THUR C. and CHARLES O., and live
at Tallula, Illinois.

JOHN H., born August 22, 1846, en-
listed Feb., 1864, in Co. A., loth 111. Cav.,
served until Nov., 1865, when he was
honorably discharged, at San Antonio,
Texas, and resides with his mother at Salis-
bury, Illinois.

BARLT SETTLERS OF

ROBERT E., born Oct. 22, 1848, en-
listed August 19, 1871, in Co. G, 6th U. S.
Inf. for five years, now — May, 1873 — at
Buford, Dacotah Territory.

John Pelham died in St. Clair county,
July 21, 1850. His widow married Oct.
3, 1867, to Wm. B. Gaines. He died Oct.
21, 1871. She resides at Salisbury, San-
gamon county, 111., and is known as Mrs.
Pelham. — 1874.

PETER, ZACHARIAH, was
born in Amherst county, Virginia. His
parents moved, when he was two years
old, to Washington county, Ky. He was
married near Danville, Ky., to Nancy
Spaulding. They had five children in
Kentucky, and moved to what afterwards
became Sangamon county. 111., arriving
Sept., 1818; and finding an empty cabin in
what is now Ball township, Mr. Peter
moved his family into it. That was the
cabin built by Robert Pulliam. in the fall
of 1817, the first ever erected in Sanga-
mon connty. Mr. Peter lived there until
the spring of 1819, when Mr. Pulliam
came with his own family. Mr. Peter
then vacated it and built a cabin about
three miles further north, on what is now
— 1876 — known as the Megredy home-
stead. They had one child in Sangamon
county. Of their six children —

MART T., born Sept. 13, 1806, in
Danville, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, Sept. 10, 1826, to Robert With-
row. See his name.

SAMUEL, born in 1808 in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Margaret
Pulliam. They had five children, and
she died, in Iowa, leaving 'her children
there.

JOHN N., born in 1810 in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Emily
Waldrup. They had seven children.
The living members of the family reside
near Butler, Montgomery county, Illi-
nois.

MvlHALA D., born in 1813 in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to
George MofFatt. They had five children,
and Mr. MofFatt died. She, with some of
her children, live in Glasgow, Iowa.

THERZA or (THERESA), born
in 1815 in Kentucky, married in Sanga-
mon county to Brinsley Ball. They had
eight children, and Mr. Ball went to
California and died there. Mrs. Ball

and some of their children live near
Galena, JoDaviess county, Illinois.

JAMES M., born in 1819 in Sanga-
mon county, and married Milly A. Peter.
They have four children, and live near
Mattoon, Moultrie county, Illinois.

Mrs. Nancy Peter died, and Zachariah
Peter married Mrs. Margaret Kelly,
widow of John Kelly. See his name.
They had one child —

PETER CARTWRIGHT, born
in Sangamon county. He was a soldier
from Sangamon county in the war with
Mexico, in 1846 and '7. He went to
Washington Territory, where he was
married ; went from there to California,
and was killed by Indians, leaving a wid-
ow and ont; child in California.

Mrs. Margaret Peter died, and Zacha-
riah Peter married Mrs. Elizabeth
Thomas, whose maiden name was Keyes.
She died, and he married Eliza Gordan.

Zachariah Peter died Aug. 5, 1864, in
Springfield, and was buried in Hutchin-
son cemetery. His widow went to Cali-
fornia.

Mr. Peter was one of the three com-
missioners appointed to organize Sanga-
mon county, and locate the tempory
county seat. It was he and William
Drennan who wrote their initials on the
stake driven in the ground, and marked it
Z., P. & D. That was the way the
county seat was located, Api'il 10, 1821,
and called Springfield. See page 32.

PETTUS, THOMAS P., was
born March 31, 1790, in Nicholas county,
Ky. He was married there, in 1830, to
Mrs. Matilda W. Todd, whose maiden
name was Bryan, a daughter of George
Bryan. See his name. Mr. and Mrs.
Pettus had two children, came to Sanga-
mon county, in 1834, and settled in what
is now Woodside township. Of their
children —

AMANDA H., born June 24, 1832, in
Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Shaw Pease. See his
name.

MORGAN B., born Oct. 2, 1834, in
Frankfort, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, April 14, 1858, to Abigail Me-
gredy. They have three living children,
namely— FRANCES O., M. MALIN-
DA and CHARLES ARCHIBALD.
LAURA, the third child, died May n,
1871, aged four years. Mr. Pettus, in

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1866, moved from Sangamon county to
Lincoln, Logan county, Illinois, where he
i:ow resides, and is engaged as contractor
and builder.

Thomas P. Pettus died April 2, 1852,
near Woodside, Sangamon county, and
Mrs. Melinda W. Pettus died, Nov. 22,
1872, at the residence of her son, Morgan
B. Pettus, in Lincoln, Logan county, Illi-
nois.

PHELPS, ADNA, Sen., was
born April 30, 1792, at Hebron, Grafton
county, N. H. He was there married to
Mary Colburn. They had eight children,
all born in New Hampshire, three of
whom died in infancy. Some of their
children came to Sangamon county be-
fore 1840. The parents did not come un-
til July 23, 1844, when they arrived at
Loami. Of theif five children —

JONATHAN, born June, 1814, mar-
ried in Massachusetts to Mrs. Nancy
Pease, whose maiden name was Turrell.
He was a Universalist preacher. He died
Oct. 8, 1862, at Loami. His widow re-
sides with her daughter by her first hus-
band, Mrs. D. S. Lombard, in Spring-
field.

DA VI D, born Dec., 1815, at Hebron,
N. H., came to Loami in 1836 or '7, mar-
ried Dec. 16, 1838, to Mehetabel Colburn,
who died March 7, 1842, and Mr. Phelps
was married Jan. 28, 1843, to Fanny Col-
burn. They had two children; one died
in infancy. He went to California in
1849. Their daughter, ELMINA, mar-
ried A. J. McDonald, and lives at Grass
Valley, Nevada county, California. David
Phelps was crushed while going through
a mine, of which he was part owner,
July 6, and died July 8, 1866. His widow
married George Hutchinson, and lives in
California.

LAURA, married in Massachusetts to
James Herrin, had one child, and died in
New Hampshire.

ADNA, Jun., born Dec. 28, 1832. at
Hebron, N. H., married Nov. 16, 1856, at
Loami, to Martha Meigs, who was born
Nov. 14, 1840, at an Indian trading post in
Iowa. They had eight children, CLAR-
ENCE E. and SHERMAN, third and
seventh, died in infancy. The other six,
LILLIAN A., DAVID B., MATILDA
M., LAURA E., VIOLA and DAISY
M. live with their parents, three miles'
west of Springfield, 111. Adna Phelps

enlisted Aug. 5, 1862, for three years, in
Co. I, 73d 111. Inf., was appointed Order-
ly Sergt., promoted, May 15, 1863, to 2d
Lieut., promoted Nov. 22, 1863, to ist
Lieut., served until June 12, 1865, when
he was honorably discharged.

MANDANA, born August 12, 1835,
at East Lebanon, N. H., married at
Loami to Isaac Colburn. See his name.

Adna Phelps, Sen., died March 5, 1852,
and his widow died Feb. 13, 1859 — he in
Springfield and she in Loami.

PHILLIPS, MRS. CHAR-
LOTTE, whose maiden name was
Smith, a sister to Jonas Smith and Mrs.
Ebenezer Colburn. She was born Dec.
18, 1799, in Suffolk county, L. I., New
York, married in 1816, at Marietta, Ohio,
to Burfit Goldsmith, a native of Mary-
land. . They had four children, and Mr.
G. died in 1837 at Cincinnati. The wid-
ow was married in 1838 to Joel D. Phil-
lips. They had one child, and father and
child died in 1854, in Tipton county, Ind.
All her children are dead except her son,
W. H. O. Goldsmith. He was a member
of the ist U. S. Dragoons for five years,
and served through the war to suppress
the rebellion. He is married, and lives
in Rush county, Ind. Mrs. Phillips re-
sides with her brother, Jonas Smith, at
Loami, Illinois.

PHILLIPS, FRANCIS, was
born in 1785, in Maryland. He went to
Green county, Ky., and was there mar-
ried, in 1810, to Mary Duggin, a native of
Virginia. They had five children in
Kentucky, one of whom died young.
The family moved to Sangamon county,
arriving in 1829, near Springfield. Of
their children —

MOREAU, born May 26, 1811, in
Green county, Ky., came with his parents
to Sangamon county in 1829, and was in
the Black Hawk war in a Sangamon
county company in 183 1. He returned to
Kentucky, and was married in Green
county, in 1836, to Melissa Lee, a native
of that county, also. They had nine chil-
dren in Sangamon county, two of whom
died young. F. MORTIMER, born
Nov. 7? ^37, married in 1861 to Mattie
A. Troxell, a native of Maryland. They
have two children, ALICE BELL and WIL-
LIE, and reside in Springfield. THOM-
AS J., born Dec. 3, 1839, died April,
1871. MOREAU J., born Feb. 16, 1843,

EARLY SETTLERS OF

and WILLIAM O., born in 1846, re-
side in Springfield with their parents.
CHARLES J., born in 1848, married,
Oct. 1873, to Etta Snow, a native of
Maine. They have two children, BER-
THA and KTTA, and reside in Springfield.
MARY, born Sept., 1853, died March,
1873. URIAH EDWIN, born June,
1851, and ROBERT EMMET, born
Feb. 8, 1858, reside with their parents, in
Springfield. Moreau Phillips was one of
the ten young men who went to Nash-
ville, Tenn., to hear Henry Clay make a
political speach in 1840. See sketch ivith
name of J. H. Mat hen ey.

JEFFERSON, born in 1813, in
Green county, Ky., married in Spring-
field, in 1836, to Elizabeth Dillman, a
native of Ohio. They had four children,
two of whom died young. WILLIAM
A. and FRANCIS reside at Winona,
Illinois. Jefferson Phillips died about
1845.

MART, born in 1815, in Green coun-
ty, Ky., married in Springfield, in 1836,
to Stephen G. Ubanks. They had two
children— SUSANNAH, born in Peters-
burg, married there to Theodore S. Rog-
ers. They reside near Zanesville, Mont-
gomery county, 111. MARGARET G.,
born Oct. 2, 1839, married, Jan. 30, 1860,
to Wm. H. Wickersham. They have
five children, LILLIE B., NETTIE, MAUDE,
OLIVER and CHARLES s. Mr. Wicker-
sham was born March 7, 1836, in Ver-
sailles, Ky., learned the business of print-
ing in the State Journal office, went to
California, in 1853, returned to Spring-
field in 1859, enlisted, Aug., 1862, for
three years, in Co. C, i24th 111. Inf.,
served until the end of the rebellion, and
was honorably discharged. He is now
engaged in the Journal office. Mrs.
Ubanks died in 1845.

WILLIAM, born in 1826, in Green
county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county,
married about 1846, in Petersburg, 111., to
Margaret White. They had two children,
FRANK and JEFFERSON, both liv-
ing in Petersburg. William Phillips
died in 1852, in Petersburg.

Mrs. Mary or Margaret? Phillips died
in 1834, in Springfield. Francis Phillips
went back to Kentucky, married a Mrs.
Lambkin, came to Springfield on business,
and was returning to Kentucky when he
died on the road.

Francis Phillips was something of a
genius. Farming and chair making was
his main business, but he would do any
kind of a job of painting, plain or orna-
mental. A hotel sign painted by him for
Archer G. Herndon, is remembered by
some of the old men, who in their boy-
hood days regarded it with an awe inspir-
ing reverence that seems not to have left
them to the present time. The name of
the hotel was the "Indian Queen," and
the sign was the painter's idea of that im-
aginary personage.

PICKRELL, ABEL, was born
March 14, 1782, in Loudoii county, Va.
His father died when he was quite young,
and he was taken by his mother to Flem-
ing county, Ky., about 1793. He went
to Montgomery county, in the same
State, when a young man, and was there
married, in 1804, to Sarah Taylor, who
was born Oct. 31, 1784, at a place called
Red Stone Fort, Penn. Mr. Pickrell
was a soldier in the war of 1812, and
went from Montgomery county, Ky.
They had six children in that county,
and in the fall of iSiS, moved to Shelby
county, in the same State, and from there
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1831, in what is now Wil-
liams township. Of their children —

JESSE A., born June 13, 1805, in
Montgomery county, Ky., came to San-
gamon county, Illinois, arriving in the
spring of 1828, being the first of the fam-
ily to come to the county, stopping in
what is now Mechanicsburg township.
He was married Dec. 18, 1828, in Sanga-
mon county, to Elizabeth Churchill.
They had ten living children in Sanga-
mon county. WILLIAM O., born Feb.
27, 1830, in Sangamon county, married
near Keokuk, Iowa, to Hannah Reed.
They have seven children, IDA M., FAN-
NIE H., JESSE, ELIZABETH, OLLIE and

WALTER F., and reside near Ottawa,
Kansas. ABEL GEORGE, born Feb.
19, 1832, in Sangamon county, enlisted
July 20, 1861, in Co. C, nth Mo. Inf.,
for three years, was commissioned Quar-
termaster of the regular army, July 24,
1862, and mustered out August 15, 1864.
He was married Dec. 27, 1864, in Jack-
sonville, 111., to Emma H. Winn. See
Branson family. They have three child-
*ren, GORILLA, ALICE and GERTRUDE, and
reside one and a half miles south of Lanes-

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ville, or Wheatfield Postoffice, Sangamon
county, 111. MILLER H., bom March
31, 1835, married in Sangamon county to
Sophronia Fry. ANN M., born Sept.
14, 1840, married Sept. 25, 1866, to Henry
H. Lee, who was born August 10, 1834,
in Gallia county, Ohio, and died Aug. 10,
iS6y, in Sangamon county. She lives
with her parents. MARY V., born Dec.
n, 1842, married Sept. 6, 1865, to Samuel
T. Rogers. They have one child, ROBERT,
and live at El Paso, 111. AMANDA P.,
born August 31, 1844, married Walter F.
Swift, Oct. 13, 1870. She died June 19,
1872, in Ottawa, Kansas. Mr. Swift
married March 6, 1874, to Bertha Burk-
hardt. See her name. JOHN C., born
Oct. 27, 1846, enlisted July 26, 1864, for
three years, in Co. B, 25th U. S. Inf.;
served full time, a portion of it as Orderly
on Gen. George H. Thomas' staff. He
was honorably discharged July 26, 1867,
and died at home, March 25, 1873. BEN-
JAMIN F., born Dec. 10, 1848. M.
GERTRUDE, born Dec. 29, 1850, and
SALLIE E., born March 6, 1855. The
two latter live with their parents. Jesse
A. Pickrell and family reside near Lanes-
ville, or Wheatfield Postoffice, Sangamon
county, 111. He was among the earliest
to introduce improved breeds of cattle,
hogs and other stock into Sangamon
county, and is one of the most extensive
farmers and stock raisers in the county.

WILLIAM S., born March 28, 1807,
in Montgomery county, Ky., came to
Sangamon county in the fall of 1828, in
company with his brother Jesse A., who
had returned to Kentucky on a visit.
W. S. Pickrell volunteered and served
three terms in the Black Hawk war; one
term in 1831 and two in 1832. He was
Lieutenant, afterwards Major, and Lieu-
tenant-Colonel of militia. He was mar-
ried near Springfield, June 4, 1833, to
Amanda P. Watson. See Watson fami-
ly. They had ten living children.
JAMES H., born March 20, 1834, in
Sangamon county, was married Sept. 20,
1860, near Paris, Ky., to Margaret T.
Bedford, who was born there, March 4,
18^0. They had seven children; one died
in infancy. AMANDA w., ANNA L.,

ELLEN II., HARVEY E., WILLIAM B. and

JESSE G; the latter died August 5, 1876.
The other five live their parents at Har-
ristown, Macon county, 111. ANNELI-

ZA, born August 20, 1839, was married
Dec. 15, 1858, to Harvey N. Edwards,
who was born Nov. 9, 1824, in Madison
county, N. Y. They reside in Spring-
field, 111. HATHAWAY, born Nov.
13, 1841, married Dr. George Pasfield.
See his name. H. CLAY, born Jan. 27,
1844. LAURA, born Oct. 3, 1846.
EMMA, born Jan. n, 1849. WIL-
LIAM, born Feb. 9, 1851. WATSON,
born Oct. 4, 1853. ARTHUR, born
Dec. 29, 1856. SCOTT, born Sept. 19,
1860. The last seven children reside at
the homestead adjoining Mechanicsburg.
William S. Pickrell died Feb. 4, 1870,
and Mrs. Amanda P. Pickrell died Mar.
i, 1876, both on the farm where he set-
tled in 1829. Wm. S. Pickrell entered
the land on which Mechanicsburg now
stands, laid out the original town, and
made two additions afterwards. The
first sale of lots took place Nov. 16, 1832.
He was one of the most successful farm-
ers and stock raisers of Sangamon county.
His sons are all well trained to the same
business.

OLIVER B., born Jan. 31, 1809, in
Kentucky, died there Dec. 8, 1829.

BENJAMIN F., born March 10,
1811, in Montgomery county, Ky., came
with his father to Sangamon county, and
was married Oct. 5, 1834, to Mary A.
ELKIN. They had three children.
WILLIAM T., born March 6, 1836, was
married in Ottawa, Kansas, to Virginia
Whetstone. They have one child OTTOE
K., and reside in Ottawa, Kansas. FRAN-
CIS M., born Oct. n, 1837, married near
Williamsville, 111., to Mary C. Poorman.
They have two children, JOHN and PER-
CY. ELIZA F., born Jan. 30, 1839, was
married May, 1874, in Decatur, 111., to
John L. Routt, the present Governor of
Colorado. — -January, 1876. They reside
in Denver, Colorado. B. F. Pickrell died
August 28, 1838, in Sangamon county.
His widow married Abner Riddle. Sec
his name.

EVELINE, born April i, '1813, in
Montgomery county, Ky., married B.
Logan Hall. See his name.

MART A., born Oct. 11, 1815, in
Montgomery county, Ky., married John
Bice. See his name.

Mrs. Sarah Pickrell died April 9, 1861,
and Abel Pickrell died Jan. 3, 1862, both

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EARL Y SB TTLERS

in Sangamon county, near Mechanics-
burg, Illinois.

PIERSON, MOSES, born June
7, 1802, in Warren county, near Lebanon,
Ohio. Clarissa Morris was born June 18,
1808, in the same county. They were
married, Nov. 3, 1824, and had two living
children there. They moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving in the fall of
1833, a*- Springfield, and a year or two
later settled two and one-half miles north-
east of Springfield. They came to the
west hoping that Mrs. Pearson's health
would be improved, but finding that it
was not. They were returning to Ohio,
and stopped at Paris, 111., to visit some
friends, when Mrs. Pierson suddenly died
there, June 9, 1836. Mr. Pierson took
his two children to their relatives in Ohio,
an.d returned to Sangamon county, where
he was married, Oct. 18, 1837, to Harriet
Kilbourn, who was born Oct. 18, 1818,
near Chillicothe, Ohio. They had nine
children in Sangamon county. Of all
his children —

DA VID M., born Nov. 12, 1827, near
Lebanon, Ohio, was married Dec. 27,
1865, in Sangamon county, to Celestia E.
Wilson, who was born Sept. 5, 1839, in
St. Lawrence county, N. Y. They had two
children. LAWRENCE L., the young-
est, died in his second year. OILMAN
M., born Oct. 9. 1866, resides with his
parents, at his grandfather Wilson's, two
miles northeast of Springfield.

SARAH LA VINIA, born April 4,
1831, near Lebanon, Ohio, was married in
Sangamon county, June 27, 1867, to Rich-
ard H. Beach. See his name.

Children of Moses Pierson by the sec-
ond marriage —

CLARISSA, born Aug. 27, 1838, in
Sangamon county, married Lucius C.
Francis. See his name.

JOHN G., born Sept. 3, 1840, in
Sangarnon county, is unmarried, and re-
sides at the family homestead, two and
one-half miles northeast of Springfield.

JANE MART, born Sept. 30, 1842,
resides at the famiiy homestead.

THEODORE F., born June 7, 1844,
enlisted Aug. 5, 1862, for three years, in
Co. G, ii4th 111. Inf. He was taken pris-
oner June, 1864, at the battle of Gun-
town, Miss., spent four months in Ander-
sonville prison, and taken from there to
Savannah Ga., and parolled. On being

exchanged he returned to duty, at Benton
Barracks, St. .Louis, where he was honor-
ably discharged, July 27, 1865. He was
married at iacksonville, 111., Sept. 15,
1874, to Josephine E. Morrison, who
was born Nov., 1847, near Naples, Scott
county, 111. They reside four miles north
of Illiopolis, Sangamon county, Illinois.

FRANK, born Sept. 25, 1846, resides
four miles north of Illiopolis, Illinois.
JOSEPH, born March 22, 1848;
EDWARD, born May 13, 1849;
JESSIE A., born Jan. 6, 1854, and
HARRIET, born Feb. 27, 1857, re~
side at the family homestead, near Spring-
field, Illinois. *

Mrs. Harriet Pierson died Feb. 18,
1858, and Moses Pierson died Dec. 20,
1860, both on the farm where he settled
in 1834 or '5, two and a half miles north-
east of Springfield, Illinois.

PIKE, JOHN, was born in Vir-
ginia, and when a young man went to
Bourbon county, Ky., where he was mar-
ried to Mary Moon. They had three
children in Bourbon county. In the
spring of 1828 Mr. Pike started, with his
household goods loaded on a wagon made
entirely of wood, each wheel being hewn
from a solid piece of timber. it was
drawn by a yoke of oxen, with one horse
in the lead. The wagon was many times
taken to pieces and formed into a raft to
float the wife, children, and household
goods across the unbridged streams. They
traveled in that way until they reached
Jacksonville. 111. He was not satisfied
with the country, and started back to
Kentucky. On reaching White river,
Ind., they halted, and again started for
Illinois. Late in the fall of 1829 they
stopped near the South Fork timber,
about three miles south of the present
town of Rochester. The weather being
too cold to travel, and it was too late in
the season to build, the family spent that
winter in the tent they had used all sum-
mer. In the spring of 1830 Mr. Pike
had twenty acres under cultivation. He
also built a log cabin in the edge of the
prairie, and lined it with clap boards.
The next winter being the time of the
"deep snow," when it fell the wind drift-
ed it around the house until it was almost
covered, thus making it very warm. Mr.
Pike made rails at twenty-five cents per
hundred, until he earned one hundred

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dollars, with which he entered his first
eighty acres of land. That required the
making of forty thousand rails. Mr. and
Mrs. Pike had three children in Sanga-
mon county. Of their six children —

MIL rrON, born in Bourbon county,
Ky., married in Sangamon county, June
12, 1845, to Martha J. Porterfield. They
had three children, and Mrs. Pike died
March 25, 1855. He was married July
29, 1857, to Elizabeth M. Brownell.
They have eight children, and reside in
Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

GEORGE H., born in Kentucky,
lived with the family in Sangamon coun-
ty until he was twenty-one years old. He
was married in Bureau county, but if liv-
ing, his residence is not known.

THOMAS, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Elizabeth
Baker, and had two children. He mar-
ried Mrs. Sarah J. Breckenridge, whose
maiden name was Mathews, and lives
near Edinburg, Illinois.

ELMIRA J., born in Sangamon
county, married Isaac Baker, who died,
leaving one child, and she married Samuel
Woodrow, has two children, and lives at
the place where her parents settled in
1829, three miles south of Rochester, Illi-
nois.

LUCINDA, born Nov. 29, 1833, in
Sangamon county, married John F. Jones.
They had one child, CHARLES T.,
who married Missouri Reavis, and lives
at Campbellsburg, 111. J. F. Jones died,
and his widow married Edward George.
See his name.

WILLIAM, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married Alvira White, and lives in
Kansas.

John Pike died in 1833 or '4, in Sanga-
mon county. His widow married in
1836 to James Martin. They had one
child—

NANCY, who married Jefferson
Smith, and lives two and a half miles
south of Dawson, Sangamon county, -Illi-
nois.

Mrs. Mary Martin died in 1858.

PIPPIN, JOSEPH, was born
April 2, 1782, in Cecil county, Md., and
taken by his parents to Russell county,
Va. He was there married, Dec. 12,
1812, to Sarah Haines, sister to Christo-
pher Haines. See his name. She was
born in Russell county, June 5, 1785. In

August, 1813, they moved to Allen coun-
ty, Ky., where they had ten children, and
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
Nov. 10, 1830, in what is now Cotton
Hill township, where one child was born.
Of their children —

MARGARET, married to John Ash-
ford, and died, leaving a family in Ken-
tucky.

TELITHA, born Sept. 29, 1815, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to James A. Snodgrass. See his name.

MARY,\)m\\ in Kentucky, and died
in Sangamon county, aged twenty years.

CHRISTOPHER, born Oct. 12,
1819, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon
county, Feb. 14, 1848.

MARTHA A., born April 11, 1821,
and

JOHN L., born March 10, 1823, in
Kentucky, both live with their mother.

WILLIAM died under five years.

JESSE, born Feb. 11, 1827, in Allen
county, Ky., married in Sangamon coun-
ty, June 25, 1862, to Isabel Craig. She
was born August 28, 1840, in Glasgow,
Scotland. They had five children; two
died under six years. MARY E., JOHN
A. and Burgess R. live with their parents,
near New City, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

CATHARINE, born Feb. 14, 1829,
married Jackson Ryan. She died Jan. 7,
1849.

NANCT A., , born Feb. 11, 1830, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to John Benjamin.

ME LINDA J., born March 5, 1833,
in Sungamon county, married John Allen,
and she died Sept. 2, 1865.

Joseph Pippin died August 10, 1873, in
his ninety-second year. His widow lives
in Cotton Hill township, near where they
settled in 1830. Their married life ex-
tended over more than sixty years.

PIRKINS, EDWARD, was
born March 15, 1791, on the river Yad-
kin, Wilkes county, North Carolina.
His parents moved, when he was quite
young, to Adair county, Ky. He was
married Aug. 20, 1812, in Campbell
county, Tenn., to Anna Pierce, who was
born March 28, 1796, in Blount county,
Tenn. They made their home in Camp-
bell county, Tenn., until they had four
children, and they moved in company
with the family of his father-in-law, Rob-

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BARLT SETTLERS OF

ert Pierce, to Madison county, 111., arriv-
ing in the fall of 1819. The next spring
the two families moved to Sangamon
county, arriving in Api'il, 1820, on Rich-
land creek, in what is now Cartwright
township, where seven children were
born. Of their eleven children —

POLLY, born June 25, 1813, in
Campbell county, Tenn., married Tave-
ner B. Anderson. See his name.

LEAH, born March 29, 1815, in
Campbell county, Tenn., married in San-
gamon county, Dec. 16, 1841, to James
W. Beekman, who was born Dec. 9,
1816, in Somerset county, N. J. They
had five children, all born in Sangamon
county. MARY E., born Dec. 7, 1842,
died Feb. 4, 1847. CORNELIUS T.,
born Oct. 16, 1846, died Nov. n, 1867.
JANE E. and SARAH L., twins, born
Mar. 26, 1850. JANE E. married, Sept.
18, 1872, to, Thomas C. Richardson, had
one child, MARY L., who died in infancy.
They reside with Mrs. Richardson's
father. SARAH . L. married, Oct. 12,
1871, to Winfield S. Caldwell, and reside
in Menard county, five miles north of
Pleasant Plains. " WILLIAM E., mar-
ried Jan. i, 1874, to Julia S. Harrison.
She died, leaving one child, EDWARD j.
Mr. Beekman resides with his father.
Mrs. Leah Beekman died, Feb. 21,
1873. James W. Beekman resides
three and one-half miles northeast of
Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

ELIZA, born Dec. 25, 1816, in Camp-
bell county, Tenn., married in Sangamon
county to Edmund Crafton. They had
nine children, and Mrs. Crafton died,
in 1869, in Springfield.

ROBERT L., born April 29, 1819, in
Campbell county, Tenn., married March
n, 1841, in Menard county, to Harriet E.
Bone, who was born Sept. 10, 1819, near
Petersburg. They had five children, two
of whom died in infancy. Of the other
three— CHARLES R. lives in Curran
township, near his father. FRANCES
JENNIE, born March 7, 1844, man"ied,
Feb. 8, 1866, to John F. Purvines. See
his name. THOMAS M. lives in Cur-
ran township, near his father. Mrs. Har-
riet E. Pirkins died Sept. 22, 1851, and
R. L. Pirkins was married, Nov. 3, 1853,
to Emma M. Dorand, who was born July
15, 1825, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y.

They had one child, HARRIET E., who
died, Nov. 16, 1860, in her seventh year.
R. L. Pirkins and wife reside in Curran
township, seven miles southwest of
Springfield, Sangamon county, Illinois.

EDWARD RILET, born Sept. 25,
1821, in Sangamon county, married June
16, 1846, to Rachel R. Butler. They had
six children in Sangamon county. WIL-
LIAM EDWARD, born March 21,
1849, married, Dec. 16, 1869, to Rose H.
Cooper, who was born April 19, 1849.
They have two children, ROSE BELLE and
NELLIE, and reside five miles southeast of
Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois. CORDELIA E., born May 23,
1851, married, Oct. 31, 1871, to Wm. H.
Little. See his name. He died at Chi-
cago, Aug. 17, 1873, from an accident on
the Chicago & Alton railroad, the night
before. EMMA L., FANNIE M. and
SALLIE B. reside with their parents.
JULIA died in her fourth year. E. R.
Pirkins lived in Cartwright township,
three and one-half miles southwest of
Richland station, until he was elected
treasurer of Sangamon county, Oct., 1873,
for two years, and now — 1876 — resides in
Springfield, Illinois.

JOSEPH B.. born May 15, 1824, in
Sangamon county, married Aug. 29,
1849, to Melinda A. lies. They had four
children, one died in infancy. The other
three — ANNIE C. P. married, October
20, 1869, to William E. Morrison. They
had one child, JAMES DON, and Mrs. Mor-
rison died, in 1874, at Morrison ville,
Christian county, Illinois. JULIA R.
and LOUISA M. reside with their father.
Mrs. M. A. Pirkins died, Jan. 12, 1857,
and J. B. Pirkins was married June 8,
1864, at Nicholasville, Ky., to Ann Mary
Price, who was born Jan. 17, 1842, in
Woodford county, Ky. They had three
children, one of whom died in infancy.
JOSEPH B., Jun., and ROBERT L.
live with their parents. J. B. Pirkins re-
sides near Woodside, Sangamon county,
Illinois. He was a member of Co. A,
4th 111. Inf., and served one year in the
war with Mexico, under Col. E. D.
Baker. He was elected, in Nov., 1858,
sheriff of Sangamon county, for two
years, and was President of the Sanga-
mon county Agricultural Society, in
1872. He was the first President of the
Society as now organized.

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WILLIAM F., born Feb. 18, 1827,
in Sangamon county, married, April 5,
1860, to Mary Say re. They had three
children, viz: CLARENCE F., the
second one, died in his second year. AN-
NIE L. and JENNIE E. reside with
their parents, four miles northeast of
Richland station, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

RACHEL L., born Jan. 7, 1830, in
Sangamon county, died March 9, 1853.

FRANCIS M., born Nov. 19, 1832,
in Sangamon county, went, in the sum-
mer of 1862, to California and Ore-
gon, and from there to Idaho. He left
Fort Berthold, on the Missouri river, for
home, with about twenty others in a boat,
and all of them were massacred by Sioux
Indians, below that Fort, August 3,
1863.

JAMES M., born Sept. 5, 1835, in
Sangamon county, died unmarried, Sept.
27, 1869, at the family homestead.

REBECCA E., born Jan. 24, 1840,
in Sangamon county, married Dec. 15,
1857, to William H. Wilton, who was
born March 31, 1827, at Carlisle, Clinton
county, Illinois. They had nine children.
ANNA and EMMA, twins, FRANK,
NED and HARRY, twins, WILLIE,
LIZZIE and ELLA. They reside two
and one-half miles north of Richland sta-
tion, Sangamon county, Illinois, on the
farm where her father settled in 1820.

Mrs. Anna Pirkins died Nov. i, 1854,
and Mr. Edward Pirkins, now in his 84th
year, resides with his children, principally
at the farm where he settled in 1820.

ROBERT PIERCE, the father-in-law
of Edward Pirkins, was an early settler
of Sangamon county.

Edward Pirkins remembers that when
himself and his father-in-law, Mr. Pierce,
were looking at the country they were at
Island Grove, and Mr. Pierce thought it
ought to be called lost grove because there
was not more than enough timber for one
family, and as one family could not live
alone, it would be lost. They went to
Richland creek because there was more
timber there. Claims were laid to it all
before it came into market, and when it
was ready for entry the timber land was
all taken very soon. It had been a source
of great anxiety because there were no
pre-emption laws to protect, the settlers,
and they felt very much relieved when

they had generally secured their homes.
This happiness did not last long, for they
soon began to worry about how long the
timber would last. Mr. Pirkins remem-
bers meeting four or five t)f his neighbors
when the timber question came up. He
gave it as his opinion, that he would cut
the last stick of his timber in twenty
years, and he would have to leave the
country. One man who had read some-
thing about "Peat" or turf, tried to con-
sole those present with the thought that
before the timber was exhausted a plan
would be invented to break the prairie,
and they could dry the sod, call it peat
and burn it. There is more wood
on his land now than when he en-
tered it.

Edward Pirkins took the premium of a
gold headed cane, at the Sangamon coun-
ty Fair, Sept., 1875, for the best eques-
trianism by aged gentlemen. There
were eleven entries, all over sixty years of
age. Rev. A. Gross, on behalf of the
society, said: "Mr. Pirkins, the commit-
tee chosen by the Sangamon county
Fair, consider you the most graceful rider,
and on behalf of the Society, I present
you with this beautiful cane, to which we
feel you are justly entitled."

PLAIN, DAVID S., born Feb.
27, 1824, near Greenville, Mechlenburg
county, Ky. His mother died when
he was two weeks old, and in 1835 ^e
was brought to what is now Auburn
township, by Samuel Short, who brought
him up. David S. Plain was married
Sept. 4, 1845, to Eliza Roach, who was
born April 14, 1823, in Christian county,
Ky. They have ten children —

EMILY J., born Feb. 9, 1847, was
married Feb. 26, 1873, to W. A. Lowder-
milk, of Auburn township. They have
one child, CHARLES O., and re'side in
Cass county, Missouri.

MIRANDA, born June 12, 1848, in
Sangamon county, 111., was married May
n, 1870, to Thomas R. Stroud. They
moved to the vicinity of south Carrolton,
Ky., but returned August 16, 1875. Thev
have two children, ELIZA M. and ED-
GAR L., and reside in Auburn township,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

JESSE S., born Feb. 20, 1850, in
Sangamon county, was married Sept. 16,
1873, to Fannie Briant, who was born in

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EARLY SETTLERS OP

McLean county, Ky. They live in
Mechlenburg county, Kv.

SAMUEL S., born Dec. 17, 1851,
was married Sept. 3, 1872, to Mattie Jer-
ingan. They live in Radford, Christian
county, Illinois.

AMERICA R., born Feb. 24, 1854,
was married Dec. 24, 1873, to W. C. Mc-
Glothlin, who was born in Green county,
111. They reside in Auburn township,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

DA VI D E., born Nov. 20, 1855, lives
with his parents.

CHARLES, born Oct. i, 1857, died
Oct. 7, 1875.

ELIZA J., born Nov. 5, 1859,

MART C., born Dec. 26, i86i,and

MARGARET M.,born May 4, 1864,
all in Sangamon county, and the unmar-
ried children reside with their parents,
five miles southeast of Auburn, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

PLANCK, JACOB C.. born
Jan. 27, 1804, in Maryland, went, when a
boy, to Kentucky, and was married in
Flemingsburg, Fleming county, Ky.,
about 1826, to Mary M. Rogers, who
was born there, April 4, 1806. They
moved to Springfield, 111., in the autumn
of 1826, where they had nine children,
one of whom died in infancy, and one
aged seven years, Of the other seven —

EMILT R., born Jan., 1828, in
Springfield, 111., was married there, Feb.,
1845, t° Benjamin A. Watson. See his
name.

E ME LINE, born Dec. 4, 1829, in
Springfield, was married Dec., 1848, to
Walter Davis, a native of Richmond,
Virginia. They had four children, three
of whom died young. Mr. Davis died
Jan. 6. 1861, and Mrs. Davis died Oct. 4,
1863, both in Springfield, Illinois, leaving
one child, CLARA, born May 21, 1854.
She was married March 25, 1875, to
James Hoyt, a native of Williamsburg,
New York. They live in Springfield,
Illinois.

yULIA y., born July 24, 1832, in
Springfield, was married there, Oct. 6,
1852, to Joseph B.! Fosselman, who was
born March 4, 1830, in Perry county,
Penn. They have two living children,
ANNA M. was married Feb. 23, 1876, to
Emery Wolgamot. See his name.
EDWARD lives with his parents. J. B.
Fosselman came to Springfield in 1850,

and being an experienced druggist, he en-
gaged in that business, and prosecuted it
for ten years, when he changed to the
wholesale grocery trade, which he con-
tinued thirteen years. He is now in the
drug business in Springfield, 111.

WILLIAM H., born Oct. 16, 1835, in
Springfield, was married there in 1863, to
Mrs. Elizabeth Robinson, whose maiden
name was Abrams. They have one
child, KATIE, and live in St. Louis,
Missouri.

AMELIA R, born May 25, 1839, in
Springfield, was married Dec. 24, 1860,
to Alexander R. Dodds. See his name.
They had one child, EVA MAY, and
Mr. Dodds died Jan., 1864. Mrs. Amelia
R. Dodds and her daughter live in Spring-
field, Illinois.

CHARLES, born Dec. 10, 1842, in
Springfield, was married Dec. i, 1868, to
Mrs. Hattie Bailey, whose maiden name
was Stevens, a native of Rochester, New
York. They live in Holland, Ottawa
county, Michigan.

MART E., born Sept. 13, 1849, in
Springfield, was married there, Feb. 18,
1865, to James Smith, who was born
May 20, 1841, in Vermont. They had
one child, LILLIE MAY, and Mr.
Smith died No v., 1874, in Sandusky, O.
Mrs. Smith and her daughter live in Hol-
land, Ottawa county, Michigan.

Mrs. Mary Planck died Jan. 14, 1867,
and Jacob C. Planck died August 3,
1867, both in Springfield, Illinois.

PLUNKETT, JOHN H., was
born Oct. 3, 1782, in Cabarras county,
N. C. Elizabeth Purviance was born
March 17, 1785, in the same county. They
were married Feb. 19, 1804, and had
seven children there. The family then
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in May, 1823, at the north side of Rich-
land creek, in what is now Cartwright
township, where, two children were born.
Of their nine children —

NANCT, born June 15, 1806, in
North Carolina, married Maxwell Camp-
bell. See his name.

ROBERT S., born June 15, 1808, in
North Carolina, married in Sangamon
county, Nov. 5, 1829, to Ruth Combs,
who was born in Green county, Ky.
They had six living children. MAR-
THA A., born July 4, 1832, married
Wm. Bumgardner, and both died in Ef-

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fingham county, leaving five children.
ASA W., born April 3, 1834, married
Jan. 12, 1853, to Nancy J. Willis, who
was born July 21, 1831, in Kentucky.
They had seven children; two died in in-
fancy, and MARY ETHEL died in her
ninth year. ROBERT s., EMMA j., JOHN
w. and LILLIE MAY live with their par-
ents, near Pleasant Plains, 111. JASON
D., born Jan. i, 1836, was married Mar.
5, 1857,10 Catharine Dunkel. They have
four living children, HARLEM o., WIL-
LIAM H., HATTIE c. and RUTH c., and
live four miles east of Pleasant Plains,
Sangamon county, 111. RICHARD M.,
born Dec. 13, 1838, died April 28, 1852.
JOHN N., born Sept. 30, 1840, enlisted
on the first call for seventy-five thousand
men, April, 1861, for three months, in Co.
E, 7th 111. Inf., and served full term. He
enlisted August 11, 1862, in Co. F, H4th
111. Inf., for three years, served until Oct.
18, 1864, when he was discharged on ac-
count of physical disability, by the special
order of Abraham Lincoln, on the per-
sonal application of his father, who was a
soldier in Capt. Lincoln's company, in the
Black Hawk war. John N. Plunkett
was married August 24, 1865, to Mary
C. Sutton, who was born Oct. 22, 1843,
They have four children, ITHA E., MIN-
NIE E., MELINDA j and JOHN c., and live
one mile west of Salisburv, Sangamon
county, 111. REBECCA J., born Oct.
15, 1841, married March 13, 1862, to
Amos D. Irwin. See his name. Mrs.
Ruth Plunkett died Feb. 23, 1844, and
Robert S. Plunkett married Anna Alex-
ander, who died without children, and Mr.
Plunkett was married Nov. n, 1850, to
Mrs. Marilda Gateley, whose maiden
name was Hind. They have two children,
LAURA N. and RUTH D., and reside
three and a half miles east of Pleasant
Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ELLEN married Zachariah Wilbourn.
They had six children, and moved to
the vicinity of Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, where
Mrs. Wilbourn died. Her children are
all married, and live in Iowa. Mr. Wil-
bourn resides near Mt. Pleasant, Henry
county, Iowa.

ELIZABETH MATILDA, born
in Cabarras county, North Carolina, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to William C.
Irwin. See his name.

JOHN B., born in 1818, in North
Carolina, married in Sangamon county,
111., to Mary Conner. They have six
children. Their son, WILLIAM, is
married and lives two and a half miles
south of Pleasant Plains, 111. John B.
Plunkett and family moved to the vicinity
of Edina, Sullivan county, Missouri,
where they now reside.

J OSEPH M.. born Sept. 6,1820, in
North Carolina, married in Sangamon
county to Lucy Cone. He died May,
1873, in Petersburg, 111., leaving a widow
and three children.

JAMES Z., born Sept. 16, 1822, in
North Carolina, married June 15, 1848, in
Sangamon county, to Martha A. King.
They had five children. MARTHA A.,
the third child, died in infancy. LUCET-
TA married William R. Strode. See
his name. They live near Bluff City,
Nodaway county, Mo. JULIA A., born
March 5, 1852, married James R, Light-
foot. See his name. They moved to
the vicinity of Marysville, Nodaway
county, Mo., and returned to Sangamon
county in 1876. LUCY E. and CHAR-
LES live with their parents, near Chink-
apin Hill, four miles northwest of Spring-
field, 111. James L. Plunkett accompanied
his father to North Carolina in 1839 or
40, when they brought with them his
grandfather, James Plunkett.

BENJAMIN H., born June 15,
1825, in Sangamon county, married Eliza
Cone, had eight children, and he died, in
Petersburg, in 1868. His widow married
Thomas Hobbs. He died, and she lives
near Petersburg, Illinois.

SILAS PINK NET, born June 15,
1828, in Sangamon county, married, Feb.
26, 1851, in Menard county, to Salina
Keltner, who was born May 14, 1833, in
Cass county, 111. They have four living
children, CORNELIUS A., JAMES
H., EMMA E. and NANCY E., and
live three miles east of Pleasant Plains,
111. It is on the farm where he was
born.

John H. Plunkett died Feb. 13, 1849,
and his widow died May 8, 1858, and
both are buried in Cartwright township.
He was the eldest son of James Plunkett,
who was born Feb. 4, 1767, and his wife,
Agnes Huston, born Sept. 19, 1765. She
died in North Carolina, Feb. 26. 1838,
and her husband came to Sangamon

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EARL T SE TTLERS

county, in company with their son, John
H., whose name heads this sketch, on his
return from a visit to North Carolina.
James Plunkett died in Sangamon coun-
ty, in 1841, aged seventy-three years.

POFFENBERGER, CHRIS-
TIAN, was born in Washington coun-
ty, Md., and was there married to Mary
Brantner. They had seven children in
Maryland, and moved, in 1826, to Frank-
lin county, near Columbus, O., where
four children were born. The family
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
Oct., 1839, in Round Prairie, five miles
east of Springfield. Of their children —

LA VINA, born in Maryland, died in
Ohio, aged fourteen years.

BARBARA, and a twin that died in
infancy, were born in Maryland. She
married in Sangamon county to Daniel
Price. They have two children, and live
in Abingdon, Iowa.

GEORGE W., born Oct. 16, 1817,
in Washington county, Md., married in
Sangamon county, Feb. 9, 1841,10 Rachel
Jones. They have six children born in
Sangamon county. JOHN A., born
March 4, 1843, married Feb. 4, 1869, to
Mary E. Keys. She died March 7, 1871,
and he lives with his parents. DANIEL,
born July 19, 1846, married Jan. 4, 1870,
to Rebecca J. Matthews. They have two
children, and live in Cotton Hill town-
ship. MARY E., born July 30, 1848,
lives with her parents. GEORGE W.,
Jun., born Feb. 15, 1852, married in 1874
to Belle Fairchild, daughter of Charles
Fairchild. See his name. They have
one child, and live at the old George
Brunk homestead, in the northwest cor-
ner of Cotton Hill township. ELIZA
A., born April i, 1854, married Sept. 4,
1873, to Luther Osborn Meredith. See
his name. EDWIN, born May 22, 1857,
lives with his parents. George W. Pof-
fenberger and wife reside two and a half
miles west of Rochester, Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois.

SAMUEL, born in 1819, in Mary-
land, married in Sangamon county to
Louisa Dockum, moved to Iowa in 1846,
had one child, and Mrs. P. died. He
married Hannah Smith, had two children,
and she died. Mr. Poifenberger is mar-
ried again, and resides near Winterset,
Iowa.

SARAH A., born August 20, 1821, in
Maryland, married in Sangamon county,
Dec. 24, 1840, to Adam Unclebee. They
had two children. CHARLES served
three years in the 3d 111. Cav. ; married
Agnes C. Lake, and she died March 16,
1871. See Lake family. Charles Un-
clebee is married again, and lives in Cot-
ton Hill township. Adam Unclebee died
March 20, 1842, and his widow married
John S. Hillman. See his name.

EMANUEL, born and died in Mary-
land, aged eleven years.

MART A., born in Maryland, married
in Sangamon county to Joseph Price,
have a large family, and live in Missouri.

JOHN, born in Ohio, raised in Sanga-
mon county, has a family, and lives in
Keokuk county, Iowa.

JANE, born in Ohio, brought up in
Sangamon county, was married in Jeffer-
son county, Iowa, to John Carson, and
lives near Winterset, Iowa.

WILLIAM C., born March 22, 1834,
in Columbus, Ohio, was married Oct. 29,
1858, in Sangamon county, 111., to Lucin-
da Safley. They have five children,
GEORGE W., MARY ANN, JOHN
McC., MAY and WILLIAM D., who
live with their parents in Springfield, Illi-
nois.

ANDRE W, born in Ohio, died, aged
ten years, in Iowa.

Christian PofFenberger moved his fam-
ily to Jefferson county, near Fairfield,
Iowa, in 1846. His wife died Febru-
ary, 1853, and he died October, 1857,
aged seventy-one years. They both died
in Iowa.

POFFENBERGER, WIL-
LIAM, a brother to Christian, was
born in Washington county, Md., mar-
ried there to Elizabeth Harris, moved to
Ohio, and to Sangamon county, with his
brother in 1839. Their daughter —

MA TlLDA,vm& married in Sangamon
county, to Archibald Turner. See his
name. They live in Springfield.

ANDRE W J., born in Sangamon
county, enlisted in 1864, in Co. A, i45th
111. Inf., for one hundred days, served one
hundred and sixty days, and was honor-
ably discharged. He was married Oct.
2i/ 1868, to Phebe Robb. They have
two children, WILLIAM and PAR-
SETTA, and live one mile west of

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575

Breckenridge, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.— 1874.

POLEY, JOSEPH, was born
Feb. i, 1802, in Logan county, Ky. His
father, Charles Poley, or Pouley, was a
native of Paris, France, and was educated
there with the view of his becoming a
preacher in the Lutheran church. When
he came to America he abandoned the
ministry, married, moved to Logan coun-
ty, Ky., and brought up a family there.
He then moved to Muhlenburgh county, in
the same State, where his daughter, Pau-
line, married John Jacob Rauch. See his
name. Joseph Poley, whose name heads
this sketch, was married there, Nov. 20,
1825, to Hannah Gossett, and moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the fall
of 1829 in what is now Auburn township.
They had four children —

ELISHA, born Sept. 20, 1826, in
Muhlenburgh county, Ky., and married in
Sangamon county to Sally Shaver, who
died, and he married Mary E. Thrasher.
They moved overland, in company with
his brother-in-law, Abram Gamble, arriv-
ing with their families in Solano county,
California, in Sept., 1860. In November,
Mr. Poley and Mr. Gamble rode five
miles on horseback, without saddles, to
vote for Abraham Lincoln. A few years
later, Mr. Poley moved back to Auburn,
Sangamon county. They have three
children— JOSEPH G. and ELBERT,
born in California, and HARRY, born in
Sangamon county. Elisha Poley is a
member of the firm of Poley & Butler,
commission merchants, Chicago, Illinois,
and now — August, 1876 — expects to 'move
his family there, from Auburn, soon.

NANCT C., born March 24, 1828, in
Muhlenburgh county, Ky., was married at
the homestead in Sangamon county, Oct.
23, 1851, to Thomas S. Parks. See his
name.

LIZZIE and WILLIE both died
young.

Mrs. Hannah Poley died in 1832, in
Sangamon county, and Joseph Poley was
married, Nov. 6, 1834, in the same county,
to Frances Gates. See Gates family.
They had ten children in Sangamon
county.

ALONZO G., the youngest, died in
infancy.

Of the other nine —

BENJAMIN F., born Aug. 8, 1835,
in Sangamon county, married, Dec. 30,

1863, to Nancy E. Groves, who was born
April i, 1843, in Macoupin county, 111.
They have three living children, FLORA,
ANSON and ORVILLE, and reside
four and one-half miles southeast of Au-
burn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

PETER J.} born in 1836, and died
Nov. 15, 1859.

MART C., born May 5, 1838 in San-
gamon county, was married, June 4, 1857,
to Abram Gamble, who was born Dec.
25, 1825, in Carroll county, Ohio. They
have three living children, CHARLES
E., FANNIE L. and GEORGE A. In
1859 Mr. and Mrs. Gamble moved to
Kansas, and in the spring of 1860 they
were joined by Elisha Poley with his
family and Benjamin F. Poley, and mov-
ed overland to California. Mr. and Mrs.
Gamble returned to Auburn in 1866. Not
enjoying good health here, they started,
in the spring of 1867, and crossed the
plains to California. They now — 1876 —
reside in Napa City, Napa county, Cali-
fornia.

CAROLINE, born Dec. 16, 1839, in
Sangamon county, married, March 9,

1864, to B. O. Foster. They have three
children, FLORENCE P., CARRIE
A. and FRANK L. Mr. and Mrs. Fos-
ter lived several years, in California, but
now — 1876 — they reside in Auburn, San-
gamon county, Illinois.

ISAAC J., born April 14, 1842, in
Sangamon county, was married Oct. 31,

1865, in Adams county, Illinois, to Mary
C. Wolf, a native of that county. They
had four children — LOR.ENA died in
infancy. LENA A., GENEVRA and
LEWIS ELMORE live with their pa-
rents. Isaac J. Poley is a banker in
Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois, and
resides there.

MATILDA F., born Jan. 10, 1844, in
Sangamon county, was married, Nov. 20,
1862, to G. W. Barnett. They have
three living children, ADAH F., FRED-
DIE C. and ARTHUR, and reside near
Carlinville, Illinois.

JOSEPH, Jnn., born May 13,
1846, in Sangamon county, was married
April 15, 1873, at Liberty, Adams county,
Illinois, to Josephine Collins, who was
born June 28, 1852, in that county. They
have one child, WILMER M., and reside

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

on his farm, near Auburn, Illinois.

LOUISA E., born July 4, 1848, in
Sangamon county, married, April i, 1868,
to J. K. Reeder, and reside near Auburn,
Illinois.

CHARLES M., born Nov. 30, 1850,
in Sangamon county, is not yet married —
August, 1876 — and resides with his
mother.

Joseph Poley died Aug. 17, 1866, and
his widow, Mrs. Frances Poley, resides at
the family homestead, two and a half
miles southeast of Auburn, Sangamon
county, Illinois. Joseph Poley acted as
justice of the peace for many years; he
was a man whose counsels were often
sought by his neighbors. His advice,
when followed, always led to the settle-
ment of difficulties without litigation, and
in a peaceful and friendly manner. His
five sons and five sons-in-law are all, with
perhaps one exception, free from the use
of tobacco, and all avoid intoxicating
drinks. Neither of them was ever
charged with an act in violation of law ;
and it is averred by one of the sons-in-
law, that, as a logical sequence, they all
invariably vote the Republican ticket.

Mr. Poley brought some money with
him to the county, but his greatest suc-
cess was after coming here. He left his
heirs the title to three thousand acres
of land, two thousand five hundred of it
was in one body.

POLLOCK, THOMAS, born
April 15, 1812, near Brownsville, Penn.
He came to Sangamon county about
1837, an(l was one °f the engineering
corps that surveyed and located the
Northern Cross railroad, now the Toledo,
Wabash and Western railroad. He was
married Dec. 5, 1839, to Elizabeth A.
Foutch. They had ten children in San-
gamon county, three of whom died under
seven years —

THOMAS, Jun., born Sept. 22,
1840, in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug.
12, 1862, for three years, in Co. A, io6th
111. Inf. He was appointed Corporal,
promoted to Orderly Sergeant, 2d Lieuten-
ant, and was commissioned ist Lieuten-
ant on his birth day, in 1864. He served
to the end of the rebellion, and was hon-
orably discharged, August, 1865. He re-
sides with his mother, (1876), near Ber-
lin, Illinois.

SARAH J., born Sept. 17, 1847, in
Sangamon county, married Oct. i, 1865, to
James H. Malyon, who was born in 1840 in
London, England. He was a bugler in
the British army, at the siege of Sevas-
topal, Russia, in 1854, came to Amer-
ica soon after, and to Sangamon
county in the fall of 1857. He enlisted
August 12, 1861, at Springfield, in Co.
D, 26th 111. Inf., for three years. Re-en-
listed as a veteran, Jan., 1864, served to
the end of the rebellion, and was honor-
ably discharged at Springfield, July,
1865. They have four children, LIZ-
LIE J., KITTIE F., HARRY D. and
an infant, and live in St. Louis, Missouri.
-1873.

HUGH, JOHN W. and HENRT T.
live with their mother.

Thomas Pollock died Oct. 15, 1867, in
Sangamon county, and his widow resides
three miles west of Berlin, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

POND, BILLIOUS, was born
June 26, 1781, in Northbury, now Ply-
mouth, Litchfield county, Conn. Rhoda
Orton was born in the same county,
April 17, 1786. They were married Oct.
1,1, 1801, in Niagara county, N. Y., and
had nine children there. A colony left
Potsdam, St. Lawrence county, N. Y.,
and by previous arrangement, through
the agency of Mr. Timothy Turner, Mr.
Pond joined the colony at Oswego, and
acted as its pastor or minister. They ar-
rived Nov. 26, 1832, at old Sangamo
town, in Sangamon county, Illinois, and
the next spring all moved to the vicinity
of the present Farmingdale station. Mr.
Pond preached during the winter of 1833
and '4, near Carrolton, Greene county,
and in the spring of 1834 returned to his
family at Camden, N. Y. He moved his
family, bringing all his living children,
and arrived July 27, 1837, a^ w^at is now
Farmingdale, Sangamon county. Of
their children —

AMANDA, born, married and died in
New York.

MAR VI N B., born Nov. 3, 1807, in
New York, married there twice, came to
Sangamon county in 1837, and in 1839
moved to Menard, and from there to
Mason county, where he died in Ju.y,
1871, leaving a family. His widow's
maiden name was Jane Beerup. She
lives in Havana, 111.

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577

RHODA, born August 17, 1810, and
married April 12, 1829, in Camden, N. Y.,
to Truman M. Catlin, and reside one
mile north of Farmingdale.

ADALINE, born August, 1813, in
New York, died in Sangamon county in
1838.

SAMUEL S., born August 9, 1816,
in New York, married Emily Dufer, and
she died, leaving three children. He mar-
ried Mrs. Hester Durrell, whose maiden
name was Moore. They have three liv-
ing children, and reside near Greenview,
Menard county.

FRANCIS X., born March 17, 1819,
in New York, came to Sangamon county
with his parents, married in Galesburg,
111. They have no living children, and
reside near Greenview, Menard county.

DA VID B., born July 5, 1822, in
New York, married in Sangamon county,
March 25, 1845, to Susan Moore. They
had five children.— FRANCIS A. fell
from a fence and broke his neck, in his
third year. Two died in infancy. TRY-
PHENA S. lives with her father.
JOHN E., born August 4, 1851, in San-
gamon county, married Nov. 5, 1874, to
Alice Buchanan. They have one child,
NELLIE E., and live at Greenview, Me-
nard county, Illinois. Mrs. Susan Pond
died March 10, 1855, and David B.
Pond was married to Mary E. Watson,
who was born Jan. i, 1833, in Erie
county, N. Y. They reside adjoining
Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois,
on the east.

ANN />., born May 24, 1825, in N.
Y., married in Sangamon county to John
Burris, have two children, and live near
Fredonia, Kansas.

HANNAH S., born April 23, 1829,
in New York, married Melvin Cushion,
and died, without children.

Mrs. Rhoda Pond died Oct. 8, 1838,
and Rev. Billious Pond was married, Oct.,
1839, to Mrs. Melissa Moore, whose
maiden name was Northrope. They had
one living child —

HENRY S., born Aug. 16, 1841, in
Sangamon county, went to Montana Ter-
ritory, in 1862, and was married there to
Delia Kirkpatrick. They have two chil-
dren, MARY and MAURICE E., and
reside in Bannock City, Motana.

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Rev. Billious Pond died Dec. 8, 1874,
and his widow resides at Farmingdale,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

POOR, EVAN, was married in
Tennessee to Mahala Enochs, a native of
that State. They had one child in Ten-
nessee, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the fall of 1829 at Spring-
field. One child was born in Sangamon
county, and Mrs. Mahala Poor died.
Evan Poor was married to Mary Moris.
They had one child. Of his three child-
ren—

WILLIAM, born Nov. 28, 1827, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county,
July 13, 1848, to Elizabeth C. Smith.
They had six children— JAMES MADI-
SON, born April 21, 1849, was killed
Nov. 1 6, 1862, by a horse that he was rid-
ing, falling on and crushing him. MARY
C., born Sept. 18, 1852, married April 20,
1871, to William Curtwright, have one
child, WILLIAM s., and live near Curran,
Illinois. MARTHA J. lives with her
parents. MELISSA A. died, March 25,
1871, in her tenth year. JOHN CAR-
ROLL and THOMAS M. reside with
their parents, one mile north of Curran,
Sangamon county, Illinois.
• JAMES A., born Feb. 8, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married, March 12,
1857, to Sarah A. Smith. They had
three children, ELLIS A., WILLIAM
R. and EMMA M. James A. Poor died
Nov. 12, 1867. His widow married, Dec.
24, 1868, to James McCausland, and live
one mile north of Curran, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

MARGARET C., born in Spring-
field, died at sixteen years of age, in
Iowa.

Evan Poor died in Springfield, in 1834.
Mrs. Mary Poor, after living a widow
twenty-seven years, married Rev. Mr.
Lynn, a Presbytei'ian minister, and re-
sides near Glasgow, Jefferson county,
Iowa — 1874.

PORTER, JOSIAH, was born
April 10, 1802, in Chester District, South
Carolina. Mr. Porter attended Bourbon
Academy and Centre College, Ky., and
completed his literary course by gradua-
ting at the Indiana State University, at
Bloomington, in Sept., 1832. He receiv-
ed his theological education at Lane Sem-
inary, Cincinnati, and was licensed to
preach, by Shiloh Presbytery, at Mur«

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EARLT SETTLERS OF

freesboro, Tenn., Oct. 3, 1835. After a
few months' missionary labor, in Tennes-
see, he came to Chatham, Sangamon
county, 111., arriving Oct. i, 1836. After
spending one year with the Chatham and
Sugar Creek churches, he went within
the bounds of Crawfordsville Presbytery,
and was ordained by that Presbytery, at
Waveland, in Api'il, 1838. In Nov.,
1838, he took charge of the church at
Wayneville, Dewitt county, 111., and sol-
emnized the first marriage in that county.
In the spring of 1845 ^e returned to Sanga-
mon county, and acted as colporteur, until
Jan. i, 1846, when he entered upon the mis-
sionary work of supplying the vacant
churches of Illinois Presbytery, which was
then New School. In the fall of 1846 he
became stated supply to Winchester Pres-
byterian church. In the spring of 1849 he
took charge of the Presbyterian church at
Chatham, and this has been his home to
the present time. In 1851 he took charge
of the Spring creek Presbyterian church,
for two years, and served the church at
Virden one year. He is now without
charge — 1874.

Rev. Josiah Porter was married at
Chatham, July 18, 1837, to Martha W.
Thornton. They have two children —

MART L. and

MARTHA A. They both reside
with their parents, on a farm adjoining
Chatham, Sangamon county, 111., on the
west. For Mr. Porter's recollection of
events connected with the " sudden
change," see page 66.

POTTLE, JEREMIAH, was
born about 1800, near Camden, Knox
county, or Waldo, Waldo county, Maine.
When he was twelve years old his pa-
rents moved to Bracken county, Ky.
Martha McDaniel was born Oct. 13,
1794, near Stroude station, Clark county,
Ky. They were married April 2, 1828,
in Bracken county, Ky., and had four
children there. They then moved to
Indianapolis, Ind., where one child was
born, and from there to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., arriving in the fall of 1836, at
Buffalo Hart Grove, where one child was
born. Of their six children —

JONATHAN, born Feb. 6, 1829, in
Kentucky, died August 29, 1866, in San-
gamon county.

ELIZABETH, born May 13, 1830,
is unmarried, and lives with her mother,

JAMES H., born Nov. 13,
unmarried, and resides with his mother.

DANIEL, born April 12, 1834, in
Bracken county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county, 111., Feb. 23, 1859, to
Mary E. Jones. They had four children,
JEREMIAH and HOMER died young.
LAURA and STROTHER live with
their father. Mrs. Mary E. Pottle died Jan.
24, 1868, and Daniel Pottle was married
Nov., 1874, to Sarah E. Ford, and re-
side three miles east of Buffalo Hart
Station. Daniel Pottle served in Co. I,
9th 111. Cav., from Feb., 1865 to Nov. 18,
1865, when he was honorably dis-
charged.

JOSEPH, born July 3, 1836, in In-
dianapolis, Ind., died Nov. 18, 1868, in
Sangamon county, Illinois.

ABNER, born Oct. 15, 1842, in San-
gamon county, is a school teacher, and
lives with his mother.

Jeremiah Pottle died August 9, 1861,
and his widow lives three miles east of
Buffalo Hart Station, Sangamon county,
Illinois — 1784.

POWER, GEORGE, was born
Feb. 18, 1798, in Fayette county, Ky.
His father was born in Virginia, and had
spent some time in North Carolina before
he went to Kentucky. When George
was about ten years old, his parents mov-
ed to Bath county. He was there mar-
ried, Feb. 10, 1820, to Nancy Wilcockson.
They had one child in Bath county, and
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1821, -in what is now Fancy
Creek township, where one child was
born. Of their two children —

WILLIAM £>., born May 2, 1821, in
Bath county, Ky., brought by his parents
to Sangamon county the same year, and
was married, Jan. 6, 1843, to Nancy J.
Barnett. They had five children, name-
ly: ARMINTA L., born Oct. 8, 1843,
married, March 3, 1869, to Joel Dalbey,
who was born August 28, 1829, in Picka-
way county, Ohio. They had one child,
JENNIE EMELINE. She died in the
spring of 1875, and Mr. and Mrs.
Dalbey live in Springfield, Illinois.
JAMES L., born May 4, 1847, died
in infancy. GEORGE D., born May
14, 1851, married, Oct. 25, 1871,10 Eliza J.
Dunlap. They have one child, WILLIAM
D., Jun., and live near Cantrall, Illinois.
MARY E. and WILLIAM E. live with

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their mother. William D. Power was
elected County Judge in 1857, re-elected
in 1861, served until March 2, 1863, when
he died in office. His widow and child-
ren reside in Springfield, Illinois.

JAMES E., born Dec. i, 1824, in
Sangamon county, is unmarried, and re-
sides with his parents, near Cantrall, Illi-
nois.

George Power and his wife now — 1876
— reside near Cantrall, Sangamon county,
Illinois, where he settled in 1821. He
has held civil and military offices,
among which are the following: Com-
mission from Governor Ninian Edwards,
dated Sept. 15, 1827, as Major of the
25th Reg. Illinois Inf., under the old
military laws. He was commissioned,
June 4, 1831, by Gov. Reynolds, as 2nd
Lieut, of a company of mounted volun-
teers, in the Black Hawk war. He has
an old commission as justice of the peace,
from Gov. Edwards, dated July 25, 1828.
For the same office from Gov. Reynolds,
Sept. 3, 1831. From Gov. Joseph Dun-
can, Aug. 27, 1835. From Gov. Thomas
Carlin, Aug. 27, 1839. From Gov. Thos.
Ford, Aug. 14, 1843; the whole covering
a period of nineteen years, as justice of
the peace. He built the first frame house
in Sangamon county north of the Sanga-
mon river. He commenced business in
Sangamon county with a total cash capi-
tal of five dollars. He has now a stock
farm in one body of two thousand acres.
His family vault cost five thousand dollars,
is situated on the farm where he resides.
It was built soon after the death of his
son, Judge William D. Power. His re-
mains were the first placed in it.

POWELL, ABEL, was born
June 28, 1785, in Virginia. He was mar-
ried in Bath county, Ky., Sept. 13, 1806,
to Dorothy Mitts. They emigrated to
Pickaway county, Ohio, where two chil-
dren were born, and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving June 27, 1828, in
what is now Fancy Creek township. Of
his two children —

HIRAM, born June 22, 1807, married
Lucy L. Willcoxon.

MAHALA, born April 5, 1809, mar-
ried A. J. Hornback.

JAMES M. LEVEL, came with
Mr. Powell to Sangamon county. See
his name.

Abel Powell died March 8, 1836. His
widow died Feb. 7, 1858, both on the
farm where they settled in 1828, near
Cantrall, Illinois.

PRENTICE.— The Prentice fam-
ily in Illinois descended from Thomas
Prentice and Grace, his wife, who came
from England in 1648. There is a tradi-
tion in the family that he served in the
army of the Commonwealth, and was one
of Oliver Cromwell's Life Guard. How-
ever that may be, soon after he came to
this country, "in 1656, he was chosen
Lieutenant of a troop of horse, and
chosen Captain in 1662." The brilliant
exploits of the "old trooper" are fully
recorded in Hubbard's history of the
early Indian wars. He settled in New-
ton, Massachusetts, and died there in
1709. The stone is still there which
marks his grave, and bears the following
inscription : " Here lies ye body of Capt.
Thomas Prentice, dec'd July ye 7th, 1709,
in ye 89th year of his age." His death
was caused by a fall from his horse,
while returning from church on Sunday.
Capt. Thomas Prentice and his wife,
Grace, had eight children, one of whom
was Thomas Prentice, Jun., who was
born in Newton, Mass., Nov. n, 1649,
and who married Sarah Stanton, Jan. i,
1675. They had four children, one of
whom was Samuel, who was born in
1680. He married Esther Hammond, and
in 1709 moved to Stonington, Conn.
They had nine children, one of whom
was Saumel Prentice, jun., who was
born Nov. 25, 1702. He married Abi-
gail . They had thirteen children,

one of whom was Amos, who was born
April 24, 1748, and who married Anna
Owen. He was a physician, and was for
some time Surgeon in the Revolutionary
army. He resided in New London, Conn.,
at the time that town was burned by the
traitor, Arnold, and lost his residence,
drug store, and very near all he had, by
that act of vandalism. After the close of
the war he removed to Milltown, on the
Susquehanna river, near the spot where the
little city of Waverly, N. Y., now stands,
and died there, July 19, 1805. Dr. Amos
Prentice and his wife, Anna, had five
children, one of whom was John Owen
Prentice, who was born in Groton, Conn.
Dec. 25, 1776. He married Rachel
Swain in 1799, emigrated to St. Clair

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county, 111., in 1816, and died at his resi-
dence, at Cold Spring, Shelby county,
Jan. I, 1838, leaving seven children. The
following are their names, with the dates
of birth: Charles, born in iSoo; Owen,
in 1802; Amos, in 1804; Harriet, in 1809;
Julia, in 1814; William Swain, in 1819;
and James B., in 1821. We will continue
the history of but one member of this
family : —

PRENTICE, WILLIAM
SVv^AIN, was born May 21, 1819, in
St. Clair county, Illinois, moved with his
father to Hillsboro, in 1827, and in 1829
to Shelby county, both in the same State.
In 1836 he was employed by his brother,
Col. Charles Prentice, who was Register
of the Land Office at Vandalia. After
the death of his brother Charles, in 1837,
he was employed as chief clerk in the
office of the Auditor of Public Accounts,
and removed with the seat of govern-
ment of the State of 111., from Vandalia
to Springfield, in 1839. Wm. S. Prentice
was married in 1842, in Springfield, to
Martha A. Wash, sister to Milton H.
Wash. See his name. She was born
Jan. 8, 1823, near Rnsselville, Logan
county, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Prentice had
six children, namely —

OWEN D., born Sept. 21, 1844, at
Cold Spring, Shelby county ^ 111., and
raised principally in Springfield.

ELLEN, born March 25, 1848, in
Shelbyville, 111., was married May 6,
1868, in Springfield, to Albert E. Pep-
pers. They have two children, LULA
and ALBERT PRENTICE, and re-
side in Detroit, Michigan.

HIRAM B., born May 21, 1853, in
Paris, 111., is now — 1876 — clerk in the
United States Pension Office, in Spring-
field, Illinois.

LAURA, born May 19, 1858, in
Springfield, resides with her parents.

WILLIAM C., born June 18, 1863,
died Jan. 3, 1869.

LIZZIE M., born Sept. 5, 1866, in
Springfield, lives with her parents.

In 1849 Wm. S. Prentice entered the
ministry, in connection with the Methodist
Episcopal church. He spent two years
preaching at Paris, two years at Danville,
two years at Carlinville, one year at
Quincy, and one year at Jacksonville, all
in Illinois. In the autumn of 1857 he
was appointed Presiding Elder of Spring-

field District, where he served one term
of four years. He was then four years
Presiding Elder of Jacksonville District,
three years pastor of the Second M. E.
church of Springfield, and again four
years as Presiding Elder of Springfield
District. He is now — 1876 — near the
close of a four years term as Presiding
Elder of the Decatur District. Rev. Mr.
Prentice was a delegate from Central Illi-
nois Conference to the General Conference
of the M. E. church, which convened. in
Buffalo, N. Y., in 1860. He was again a
delegate to the General Conference that
assembled in Brooklyn, N. Y., in May,
1872; also to the General Conference at
Baltimore, Md., in May, 1876. He re-
ceived the honorary degree of D. D. from
the Illinois Wesleyan University, in
Bloomington, June, 1876.

From the time Rev. Wm. S. Prentice
became Presiding Elder in 1857, his home
has been, and is now, in the city of Spring-
field, Illinois. — August, 1876.

PRESTON, EBENEZER,
was born in 1786, in Cape May county,
N. J. Mahala Tomlin was born April 7,
1789, in the same county. They were
there married, about 1809, and had nine
living children in New Jersey. The fam-
ily moved to Sangamon county, 111., ar-
riving Oct. 1 6, 1839, on Richland creek.
Of their nine children —

RICHARD was a navigator, never
married, and little is known of him since
the family came west.

DA VID married Amelia Corson in
New Jersey, came to Sangamon county,
raised a family, and moved to Carroll
county, Missouri.

EBENEZER, Jun., born May 14,
1821, in New Jersey, married February
15, 1849, in Sangamon county, to Catha-
rine Greene, who was born September 22,
1827, in Greene county, 111. They have
two living children — ALMEDA married
Robert Corson, have two children, MIN-
NIE B. and CYNTHIA c., and live in Cart-
wright township. JULIA A. lives with
her parents, three miles northwest of
Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.— 1874.

E L 1 Z A B E TH married David
Wright. He died, Oct., 1870, leaving a
widow and four children, five miles north
of Illiopolis, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

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58.

WILLIAM, born July 26, 1827, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Margaret
Hatch, have seven children, and live in
Mason countv, Illinois.

•SARAH married Hay thorn Tomlin,
have five children, and live in Mason
county, Illinois.

ROBERT married Marv Henderson,
have three children, and live in Mason
county, Illinois.

LTD I A married Jeremiah Corson,
have two children, and lives in Mason
county, Illinois.

OTHNEIL died, in 1855, in Mason
county, aged eighteen years.

Ebenezer Preston died May 10, 1849,
and his widow died Feb. 17, 1872, he in
Sangamon, and she in Mason connty, Illi-
nois.

PRICKETT, DAVID, was
born Sept. 21, 1800, in Franklin county,
Georgia, and came to Edwardsville,
Madison county, 111., in 1816. He gradu-
ated in the law department of Transyl-
vania University, at Lexington, Ky., in
his twenty-first year, and was admitted to
practice at Edwardsville, Nov. 15, 1821.
He was Judge of the probate court of
Madison county, and in 1826 was elected
to the General Assembly of Illinois, at
Vandalia. In 1831 he was aid-de-camp
to Gen. John D. Whitesides, iu the Black
Hawk war. David Prickett was married
Jan. 24, 1834, at Tremont, Tazewell
county, 111., to Charlotte G. Griffith,
who was born May 9, 1806, in Chester
county, Penn. She was a sister to Mrs.
Hannah G. Opkycke, and daughter of
Dr. Thomas Griffith, of Tremont, who
was formerly of Pennsylvania. Mr. and
Mrs. Prickett moved to Springfield, 111.,
in 1835. They had five children, all
born in Springfield. Susan, the youngest,
died in infancy. Of the other four —

CHRISTINA G., resides in Spring-
field, with her mother.

THOMAS G.y born in Springfield,
was elected city attorney three times, was
elected alderman from the third ward, is
now — 1876 — a member of the city council,
is a practicing lawyer, and resides with
his mother in Springfield, Illinois.

GIBSON R. and HANNAH O.
live with their mother.

David Prickett died March, 1847, and
Mrs. Charlotte G. Prickett resides in
Springfield, Illinois.

Hon. David Prickett was the first re-
porter to the Supreme Court of Illinois,
having been appointed to that office as
soon as it was created. He was elected,
by the General Assembly, State's Attor-
ney for the judicial circuit of Illinois in
1837. In 1840 he was Treasurer of the
Board of Commissioners of the Illinois
and Michigan Canal. In 1842 he was
appointed a director of the State Bank of
Illinois, on behalf of the State. He was
assistant clerk of the House of Represen-
tatives of Illinois at the time of his death.
He was a man whose integrity was above
suspicion, very genial, rich in anecdote,
addicted to witticisms, frequently pointing
them against himself. Every public man
of Illinois knew him to speak kindly of him.

PRIEST, JOHN W., was born
Oct. 1 8, 1809, in Pomfret, Windsor coun-
ty, Vermont. He was taken, in 1816, by
his parents, to Parishville, St. Lawrence
county, N. Y., where he was married,
Aug. 27, 1835, to Alice Wakefield. They
moved at once to Montgomery, Alabama,
and in the fall of 1836 to Columbus,
Miss., where he engaged in the manufac-
ture and sale of tin ware. Mrs. Priest
died there, May 14, 1840, leaving one child :

FRANKLIN G., who died in his
fourth year.

Mr. Priest came to Springfield, Illinois,
in June, 1840, and was married, March 30,
1845, to Lucinda M., daughter of Caleb
Stafford, of Rochester, 111. They had
four children, two of whom died young —

OLIVE L., born in Springfield, mar-
ried, in 1867, to George C. Latham. Sec
his name.

MART E., resides with her father.

Mrs. Lucinda M. Priest died Sept. 10,
1851, and John W. Priest was married,
Sept., 1853,10 Catharine Wright, a native
of St. Lawrence county, N. Y. She died
July 9, 1875.

Hon. John W. Priest was elected eight
successive years, alderman of the city,
was several years President of the city
School Board, and is now President of
the Board of Water Works Commission-
ers. He was elected Mayor of Spring-
field for three successive years, 1856, '57
and '58, and again in 1870. He is now
keeping a stove and tin ware store, in
Springfield, Illinois.

PRIMM, JOHN, was born July
25, 1780, in Stafford county, Va. When

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a young man he went to what became
St. Clair county, 111., and was there mar-
ried, Oct. 10, 1809, to Ruth Cox, who was
born March 9, 1783, in Delaware, and
came to Monroe county, 111., with her
parents in 1808. They had five children
in Monroe county, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, arriving May I, 1820, in
what is now Fancy Creek township,
where two children were born. Of their
seven children —

ELIZABETH, born Oct. 14, 1810,
married in 1828, in Sangamon county, to
Christopher Hussey. See his name. He
died, and she married Wm. B. Preston.
They had six children. Mr. Preston died,
and the widow married Lyman Olds. She
died in Middletown, Logan county, in
1869 or '70.

MART, born Sept., 1812, married in
Sangamon county, Nov. 30, 1829, to Isaac
Preston. They had six children, and Mr.
Preston died, and she married Felix
Green. He died, and she married David
Lee, had one child, and Mr. Lee died.
She lives in Logan county, Illinois.

ELISHA, been Oct. 24, 1814, in
Monroe county, 111., married in Sanga-
mon county, Sept. 19, 1837, to Lucinda
C. Glascock. She was born August 12,
1819, in Fauquier county, Va. They
have one child, SUSAN, who married
Wm. L. Rankin, being his second wife.
They have five children, ANNIE M.,

GEORGE M., WILLIAM, LEWIS T. and

LUCINDA, and live in Menard county,
near Athens, 111. Elisha Primm and his
wife reside in Menard county, three miles
southwest of Cantrall, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

ENOCH, born August 2, 1816, in that
part of Monroe which is now part of St.
Clair county, came to Sangamon county
with his parents. He was married May
23, 1839, to Lucinda — — . They had
fourteen children ; two died under five
years. MARY H. lives with her parents.
BENJAMIN F. married Martha Crow-
der. They have two children, and live
near Longton, Elk county, Kansas. EM-
ILY J. married William T. Hutchinson.
They have three children, and live in
Petersburg, 111. MARGARET E. mar-
ried D. A. Rankin, has three children,
and lives at Tallula, Illinois. FRANCES
E. married H. H. Irwin, had one child,
and Mrs. Frances E. Irwin died Nov. 12,

1873. Mr. Irwin lives in Menard county,
111. AMANDA lives with her parents
ROBERT L. died Dec. 4, 1873. JOHN
Q., ELVIRA E., THEOPHILUS B.
and WILLIE rtside with their father.
Mrs. Lucinda R. Primm died March 4,

1874, and Enoch Primm resides in Me-
nard county, northeast of Pleasant Plains,
Illinois.

SUSAN, born Sept., 1818, married
Feb. 24, 1848, to James Henton; have
seven or eight children, and live in Kansas.

JOHN H., born June 15, 1820, mar-
ried Jan., 1848, to Mary A. King, have
three children, and reside in Menard
county, four miles southwest of Cantrall,
Illinois.

ELIJAH S., born Oct. 27, 1822, in
Sangamon county, married August 20,
1844, in McLean county, to Mary E.
Glascock. They had two children,
JOSEPH H. died Jan. 30, 1863, in his
eighteenth year. ELIJAH S., Jun.,
born June 20, 1847, married April 5, 1866,
to Alice M. Myers, who was born Oct. 8,
1846, in Licking county, Ohio. They
have three children, JOSEPH T., JAMES B.,
and FREDERICK, and live in Menard
county, within two hundred yards of the
Sangamon line, and two and a half miles
southwest of Cantrall, 111. Elijah S.
Primm died Feb. 25, 1847, tnree months
before the birth of his son, of the same
name. His widow married Oct. 3, 1850,
to James Driskell. They had three child-
ren. MARGARET A. married William
F. Lake. See his name. They have
one child, OLIVE MAY, and reside in
Logan county. JAMES E. lives with
his uncle, Thomas Glascock, and MARY
L., with her aunt, Lucinda C. Primm.
Mrs. Mary E. Driskell died April 20,
1858, and James Driskell died Nov., 1862.

John Primm died August 9, 1848, where
he settled in 1820, and his widow died
Feb. 3, 1856, at the house of her son,
Elisha.

When Elisha Primm was married, his
wife remembers that they bought a
feather bed for seventy-five cents per
pound, and paid for it by selling corn at
ten cents per bushel. They sold bacon
for three cents per pound, and at the same
lime bought calico for forty cents per
yard. More recently they sold bacon for
forty cents per pound. Mr. Primm has
sold pork, neatly dressed, in Springfield,

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for one dollar and fifty cents per one hun-
dred pounds, and has sold the some quali-
ty at fourteen dollars per hundred. For
his account of cotton raising in Sangamon
county. See page ?j.

PRIMM, THOMAS, was born
May n, 1782, in Stafford county, Va.,
moved with his father's family, in 1801, to
St. Clair county. Elizabeth Stallions
•was born Aug. 19, 1792, in Wheeling,
Va. Her parents moved to St. Clair
county, 111., arriving May 13, 1796, at
'Whiteside station. Thos. Primm and Eli-
zabeth Stallions were there married, Mar.
12, 1807. She was less than fifteen years
old. They had six living children in
that county. The family moved to San-
gamon county, arriving Oct. 8, 1820,
where three children were born. Of
their nine children —

WILLIAM, born Jan. 11, 1808, in
St. Clair county, married in Sangamon
county to Maria Canterbury. They had
seven children — ASA C. married Fidelia
Hall, who died, in 1859, leaving two chil-
dren, and he married Mrs. Mary A. Ry-
ker, whose maiden name was Moore.
They have four children, and live in
Bourbon countv, Kansas. MARGA-
RET J. married, in 1866, to Wm. War-
field. They have two children, and live
in McLean county, Illinois. WILLIAM
H. enlisted in Aug., 1862, in Co. C, ii4th
111. Inf., served full term, and was honor-
ably discharged. He was married to
Catharine Perrine, have two children,
and live in Lucas county, Iowa. THOM-
AS N. enlisted Aug. 3, 1861, in Co. F,
28th 111. Inf., for three years, served more
than full term, and was honorably dis-
charged. He was married to Adelia
Perrine, had two .children, one died, aged
six years. They live in Lucas county,
Iowa. ISAAC H. married Ann M.
Roberts. They have two children, MAG-
GIE M. and ELVIRA M., and live one mile
east of Athens, and three miles north of
Cantrall, Illinois. Mrs. Maria Primm
died April 30, 1872, and William Primm
lives three-quarters of a miles south-
east of Athens, Illinois.

JAMES, born Sept. 4, 1809, in St.
Clair county, married Maria Russell, who
was born at Harper's Ferry, Va. They
had nine children, five of whom only arc
living. THOMAS F. and JOHN J.
were Union soldiers in an Illinois regi-

ment, and live with their mother. ED-
WARD T., WILLIAM R.and RUTH
E. live with their mother. James Primm
died, Jan. 4, 1872, and his widow and
children live two and one-half miles south
of Lincoln, Logan county, Illinois.

ABRAHAM S., born Dec. 25, 1812,
in St. Clair county, raised in Sangamon
county, married, June 18, 1839, to Lucin-
da Hall, who was born April 28, 1820, in
Ohio, opposite Guyandotte, Va. They
had eleven children, six of whom died
under five years. Of the other five —
MARY married Henry Cline. See his
name. MELISSA married Michael T.
Hargrave, who was born March 17, 1842,
in Guilford county, N. C. They have
one child, L ILL IE M., and live near Ath-
ens, Illinois. MINNIE E. married An-
drew P. West, and live in Atlanta, Illi-
nois. ROSE A. and LILLIE M. live
with their parents, adjoining Athens, Illi-
nois, on the northeast. — 1874.

JOHN L., born Oct. 31, 1814, in St.
Clair county, married Hannah M. Rankin.
She died, August, 1846, leaving three
children. He was married, Aug., 1847,
to Mrs. Sinai Davis, whose maiden
name was Allen. They have four child-
ren, and live two and one-half miles
southeast of Lincoln, Illinois.

DANIEL C., born Jan. 3, 1817, in
St. Clair county, married Elizabeth Tice.
He died, Oct., 1864, leaving a widow and
six children in Menard county, Illinois.

MARK A., born April 19, 1819, mar-
ried Augustus Rankin, and died, Nov. 21,
1852, leaving one child in Logan county,
Illinois.

THOMAS J., born Jan. 25, 1822.
He has practiced medicine more than a
quarter of a century, is unmarried, and
lives in Athens, Illinois. — 1874.

ELIZABETH, born Jan, 12, 1824,
married George W. Cline. See his name.
He died, and she married Jacob Barnsback,
who died, in 1861, leaving a widow and
four living children in Madison county,
Illinois.

NINIAN E., born April 6, 1830, mar-
ried Elizabeth Wood. He died, in 1857.
His widow lives in Athens, Illinois.

Thomas Primm died May 14, 1856,
and his widow, familiarly known as
Aunt Betty Primm, lived with her son,
Abraham S. Primm, near Athens. Illi-
nois, until her death in 1874. She was

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eighty-three years old. Her recollection
of early events was remarkably vivid.
She remembered passing over the ground
where Springfield stands when the grass
was higher than her head as she sat on
horseback. She carried a child on one
arm and used the other to keep the grass
out of her face, and lived to see that spot
of land occupied by a city of more than
twenty thousand inhabitants.

PROCTOR, SIMON L,, born
Jan. 12, 1793, in Shelby county, Ky. He
was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was
in the battle of Tippecanoe; was married
in Nelson county, Ky., May 16, 1813, to
Jane Scifers, who was born April 5, 1795,
in that county. They had one child, and
moved to Green county, Ind., where two
children were born, and moved to Hardin
county, where they had eight children,
and from there to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving May 18, 1837, at Springfield.
Three years later they moved to Lick
creek, and in 1845 *° what is now Cotton
Hill township. Of their eleven child-
ren—

SARAH, born February 5, 1815, in
Nelson county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, in 1846, to William Hays, who
died, and she married Wm. George, who
died, July, 1872, aged ni ety-three years.
She lives in Rochester, Illinois.

RICHARDSON H., born Oct. 28,
1816, in Indiana, married in Sangamon
county to Elizabeth Young, had two chil-
dren, and she died March, 1851, and he
married Sibbie A. Young, had two child-
ren, and R. H. Proctor died, in 1858, at
Springfield, Illinois.

MARGARET, born Oct. 7, 1818, in
Green county, Ind., married in Sangamon
county to John Williams, have a family,
and live near Milton station, Mills county,
Iowa.

ELIZABETH, born May 12, 1821,
in Hardin county, Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county to Stephen B. Neal.
See his name.

JANE, born June 1 5, 1823, in Ken-
tucky, died in Sangamon county, Oct. 10,
1850.

BARBARA, born May 12, 1825, in
Hardin county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Elisha T. Sanders. See
his name.

SAMUEL C., born June 14, 1827, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county

to Dorcas A. Crowder, a daughter of
Chandler Crowder. They had eight
children, two only are living, MARY E.
and JOHN. Mrs. Proctor died Jan. 9,
1869, and he died June 28, 1871. Samuel
C. Proctor was ordained, May 16, 1868,
as a minister of the gospel, at the Horse
Creek Baptist church.

LOUISA, born July 4, 1828, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county, Nov.
17, 1851, to Marion F. Greenawalt. They
have seven children, and live near Roch-
ester, Illinois.

LUCINDA, born Sept. 28, 1831, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to George W. Sanders. See his name.

BRTANT R. W., born May 11, 1834,
in Kentucky, was drowned while bathing,
in Sangamon county, June 28, 1851.

BENJAMIN K., born May 28, 1836,
in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county,
enlisted July, 1862, in Co. K, i I4th 111.
Inf., for three years, and died, Jan., 1864,
at Pawnee, 111., while at home on sick
furlough.

Simon L. Proctor died Sept. 18, 1845,
and his widow died June 14, 1853, both
in Sangamon county.

PULLIAM, ROBERT, was
born April 12, 1776, in Henry county,
Va. His father, John Pulliam, emigrated
to Kentucky when Robert was a boy,
and the family moved from there to Illi-
nois, arriving in 1796, in what was then
called the New Design settlement, now a
part of Monroe county. The next year
they moved into a settlement in the dis-
trict of St. Louis, in what was then local-
ly known as ''New Spain." They
moved to Cape Girai'deau, Missouri, and
a few years later to Randolph county, 111.,
near where the town of Red Bud now
stands. In 1802 Robert Pulliam im-
proved a farm a few miles east of Belle-
ville, St. Clair county, and about 1803 he
settled in the American Bottom, near the
Bluff, six or seven miles below the present
city of Alton. Mary Stout was born
April 9, 1776, but the locality is not
known. Robert Pulliam and Mary
Stout were married Sept. 13, 1804. In
1815 they moved to St. Clair county, and
in the fall of 1817, leaving his family in
St. Clair county, he, with two or three
hired men, and a woman by the name of
Strickland — sister of one of the hired
men — to cook for them, he came to Sugar

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creek and built a cabin in the timber, on
the east side of the creek. The land is
now owned by James Scott, and is situat-
ed nearly three-quarters of a mile west ot
a point ten and a half miles due south of
Springfield, on a line with Sixth street.
When the government survey was made
it was found to be on the southwest quar-
ter of section twenty-one, township four-
teen north, range five west, and is now in
Ball township. That is believed to have
been, without doubt, the first habitation ot
any kind built by white men in what is now
Sangamon county. Mr. Pulliam brought
with him a herd of cattle and some horses.
The growth of grass, which had been
luxuriant for ages, afforded ample grazing
when there was not any snow. When
that covered the ground Mr. P. had the
men cut down elm trees, and the stock
would live on the buds until the snow
passed away. The cabin was built in a
forest, composed principally of sugar
trees. As the spring approached, Mr.
Pulliam put his men to work and made
sugar. As the season advanced, and
caused the grass to grow, he collected his
horses and cattle and returned to his fami-
ly in St. Clair county in the spring of
1818. He remained there until the spring
of 1819, when he came, with all his fami-
ly, back to Sugar creek, to find his cabin
occupied by Zaehariah Peter. See his
name. Robert Pulliam had six children
in Madison and St. Clair counties, name-
ly-

NANCT, born July 26, 1805, in Mad-
ison county, married in Sangamon county
to John Brownell. See his name.

MARTIN G., born Sept. 17, 1807, in
Madison county, married in Sangamon
county, Nov. 25, 1827, to Lucy Knotts.
They had twelve children in isangamon
county, two of whom died young.
THOMAS J. married Elizabeth Mc-
Laughlin, and resides in Girard, Macoupin
county, 111. ROBERT L. married Re-
becca Wilson, and lives in Iowa. SARAH
married Basil Brawner. See his name.
They live in Iowa. GEORGE S. mar-
ried Ellen Knotts, has a family of child-
ren, and lives in Ball township, within
three-quarters of a mile of where his
grandfather built the first house in the
county. His postoffice is Chatham, 111.
MARGIN H. died unmarried, in Iowa,
aged 1 enty-four years. JOSEPH O.

married Sarah A. Stewart, and lives in
Iowa. DOROTHY is unmarried, and
lives near Chatham, 111. MARY E.
married Harvey Hegler, and lives near
Virden, 111. CHARLES M. is unmar-
ried, and lives near Chatham, 111. Mar-
tin G. Pulliam died in June, 1872, and his
widow, Mrs. Lucy Pulliam, resides with
her son, George S., in Ball township,
near Chatham, Sangamon county, Illi-
lois. — 1874.

IR WIN S., born Sept. 12, 1811, in
Madison county, Illinois, married in San-
gamon county, Dec. 18, 1834, toJMatilda
Nuckolls, who was born in Gray son
county, Va., Nov. 16, 1813. They had
nine children in Sangamon county, name-
ly: JOHN R., born Jan. 2, 1836. He
enlisted, May, 1864, for one hundred
days, served full time and one month over,
and was honorably discharged. He is un-
married, and lives in Ball township, four
miles southeast of Chatham, Sangamon
county, 111. MARY A., born August
19, 1837, married Benjamin H. Taylor,
who was born Oct. 2, 1835, m Morgan
county, 111. They have two children,
EDWARD c. and WILLIAM SHERMAN, and
live in Pawnee township, six miles east of
Auburn, 111. Benjamin H. Taylor en-
listed August 2, 1 86 1, in Co. B, 3oth 111.
Inf., served two years, was wounded, suf-
fered amputation of a leg twice, and was
honorably discharged August 7, 1863.
JAMES H., born Nov. 6, 1839, enlisted
Aug., 1862, in Co. B, ii4th 111. Inf., for three
years, and was captured at the battle of
Guntown, June, 1864. On the iSth o'*
that month he was imprisoned at Ander-
son ville, and was released April 28, 1865,
by the collapse of the rebellion. After
returning home he was honorably dis-
charged. His weight, in health, was
from one hundred and sixtv-five to otic
hundred and seventy-five pounds. When
he reached home, one month after his
discharge, he weighed one hundred and
twenty pounds. He was not sick a day,
but the loss of flesh and muscle was
wholly caused by starvation. James H.
Pulliam unites with B. F. Fletcher in
confirming the statement made by Stephen
Bell about the breaking out of a spring in
Anderson ville prison. See name of Bell.
Mr. Pulliam was married Nov. 26, 1868,
to Addie Fairbanks. They had one child,
on A v., and Mrs. Addie Pulliam died

March 25, 1870. James H. Pulliam was
married March 4, 1873, to Lydia Shell-
house, and lives now — 1876 — in Ball
township, at his grandfather's ^ old
homestead, not where he built the
first cabin, but the second. MAR-
GARET J. died young. CHARLES
IRWIN,born August 22, 1844, was mar-
ried Nov. 19, 1872, to Emily J. Drennan,
and lives in Pawnee township, five miles
east of Auburn. GEORGE W., born
March 31, 1847, was killed by a kick from
a horse, aged five years. THOMAS J.,
born Oct. 27, 1849, lives at the family
homestead. WILLIAM S., born April
3, 1852, lost his right hand by being
crushed in a corn mill when a boy. He
lives at the homestead with his brother,
Charles I. FRANCIS M., born Sept.
16, 1858, lives at the homestead. Irwin
S. Pulliam died May 8, 1869, and his
widow resides with her son, Charles I., at
the family homestead in Pawnee town-
ship, five miles east of Auburn, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

MARY, born Oct. 7, 1814, in Madison
county, married in Sangamon county,
April 19, 1835, to Ludwell P. Fariss.
They had four children, and both died at
Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. One of the daugh-
ters is now the wife of Dr. McBride, of
Decatur, Illinois.

MARGARET, born Oct. 13, 1816, in
St. Clair county, marrried in Sangamon
county to Samuel Peter, a son of Zacha-
riah. She died at Winterset, Iowa, leav-
ing four children, namely : ELIZA-
BETH, NANCY J., WILLIAM and
JOHN.

GEORGE PF., born Sept. 12, 1822, in
Sangamon county, died June 18, 1872,
after having been thirty years an invalid,
though the immediate cause of his death
was being thrown from a wagon by a
runaway team. He lived with his brother,
Irwin S., until the death of the latter, and
remained with the family until his own
death.

Robert Pulliam died July 31, 1838,
seven miles south of Carlinville, in Ma-
coupin county. His widow died Julv i,
1847, in Sangamon county, Illinois.

A paper was prepared by Gov. John
Reynolds, to be read at the first old set-
tlers' meeting in Sangamon county, in
1859. In that paper Gov. Reynolds re-
lated some incidents in the life of Robert

Pulliam. It was not read, as intended,
but came into my hands. It is known to all
the old settlers that Mr. Pulliam wore an
artificial leg. Gov. Reynolds says that
one of Mr. Pulliam's legs became dis-
eased, and in the summer of 1808 it was
found to be absolutely necessary to am-
putate it in order to save his life. Dr.
Tuthill, of Cahokia, performed the oper-
ation. The Governor says: "I resided
with my father in the neighborhood of
Mr. Pulliam, and knew the circumstances
of the amputation. The patient possessed
such courage that he held his body as firm
as a rock, without assistance, during the
operation. I presume this was the first
amputation of a limb that occurred in Illi-
nois, and at that time was considered a
surgical operation almost superhuman."
Gov. Reynolds describes Mr. Pulliam as
a man of fine proportions and perfect
physical development. He says the cir-
cumstances of his .ife prevented his ob-
taining an education from books, to any
considerable extent, but his natural good
sense and opportunities for studying men,
enabled him to hold a place in the front
rank of business men of that time. He
was fond of the rude sports of the times;
such as horse racing, hunting, and games
of various kinds, but later in life he felt
that the example was injurious, and
changed his course. He first united with
the Baptist church, and then, for greater
convenience, connected himself with the
Methodist church, and his wife did the
same. They continued in its communion
to the end of their lives. Mr. Pulliam
understood the advantages of improved
machinery, and endeavored to introduce
it into the settlement whenever it was
practicable. He was one of the 'earliest
to build a mill in the county. It was run
by tread wheel, and the motive power
was either horses or oxen. All the early
settlers raised cotton quite extensively, and
he was one of the first, if not the first, to
introduce a cotton gin into the settlement.
PURVIANCE, JOHN, was
born June 19, 1760. The place of his
birth is not known, but he went from
Pennsylvania to the vicinity of Concord,
Cabarras county, North Carolina. He
was a soldier in the colonial army that
achieved American Independence, but
whether he went from Pennsylv pi a or
North Carolina is not known. Jo^i Pur-

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587

viance and Nancy Ferguson were married
and had three sons and three daughters in
North Carolina, namely —

DA VI D SIMPSON, ALEXAN-
DER C., JOHN G., ELIZABETH,
MATILDA and MARGARET.

Mrs. Nancy Purviance died, and he
married Elizabeth Lisenhy. They had
two sons and two daughter —

JAMES, SAMUEL, NANCT
and ELIZA.

All except one of his children — who
married and died in North Carolina —
came to Sangamon county, and their his-
tories are given each as the head of a
family of early settlers. He came to
Sangamon county after nearly all his
children were settled here, and died Sept.
27, 1833. His remains were buried at
Richland Baptist church, in Cartwright
township. From the earliest records in
some branches of the family in this coun-
ty, I found the name spelled as it is at the
head of this sketch, but they have very
generally permitted it to be changed to
Purvines, probably because without pre-
cision in speaking the original name, the
sound would be that produced by the
modern spelling which is now adopted by
all the descendants in Illinois, as fol-
lows: *&" / ^

PURVINES, DAVID
SIMPSON, was born May 18, 1787,
in Cabarras county, N. C. Elizabeth
Weddington was born Dec. 25, 1790.
They were married, and had three child-
ren in North Carolina, and the family
moved to Richland creek, in what became
Sangamon county, and Cartwright town-
ship, arriving in the fall of 1820, where
they had five children. Of their seven
children —

JOHN L., born Feb. 6, 1814, in
North Carolina, married in Sangamon
county to Elizabeth Earnest. They had
two children — HENRY married Jane
Thompson, and lives near Clinton, De-
witt county, Illinois. JOHN died, at
twenty years of age. John L. Purvines
died, Jan. 6, 1842, in Sangamon county.
His widow has been twice married since,
is now a widow — 1873 — and lives near
Clinton, Illinois.

MATILDA, born May 3, 1816, in
Cabarras county, N. C., brought up in
Sangamon county, married Madison A.
Cartwright. See his name.

WILLIAM H., born Dec. 13, 1819, in
North Carolina; married Feb. 25, 1847^
in Sangamon county, to Frances A. Har-
rison. They had four children — AL-
FRED B., born May 11,1848, married,
Sept. 13, 1870, to Nannie C. Martin, who
was born- Nov. 27, 1850, in Robertson
county, Term. They have one child,
LEVI PERRY, and live two and one-half
miles northeast of Pleasant Plains — 1873.
PEYTON A. lives with his mother.
SARAH E. married Henry Welland,
has one child, HARRY A., and lives one
mile west of Pleasant Plains, Illinois.
WILLIAM H., Jun., lives with his
mother. William H. Purvines died,
Sept. 25, 1855, and his widow married
Wm. H. Harrison. They had one child,
FIELDING T., who lives with his
mother, one and one-half miles west of
Pleasant Plains, Illinois.

SAMUEL F., born March 24, 1822,
in Sangamon county, married April 16,
1845, to Elizabeth Bryant, and had two
sons. CHARLES married Miss Mc-
Atee, and lives at Greenview, Menard
county, Illinois. JOHN lives with his
mother. Samuel F. Purvines died July
22, 1849. His widow has been twice
married, and lives in Iowa or Kansas. —

iS73-

NATHAN S., born March 3, 1829,
in Sangamon county, married, Dec. 6,
1849, to Wealthy M.J.Harrison. They,
had seven children, one died in infancy.
EMILY F.. born Oct. 13, 1850, married
Feb. 25, 1868, to Wm. Fletcher Correll.
See his name. JOHN Q./NORMAN
M., ELIZABETH P., PEYTON L.
and NATHAN L., reside with then-
parents, near Pleasant Plains, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

DA VID P., born Jan. 17, 1832, in
Sangamon county, married, May 20, 1852,
to Amanda Crafton. She died, Aug. 29,
1865, and he lives in Springfield, Illi-
nois— 1873.

David Simpson Purvines died March
14, 1852, and his widow died Jan. 6, 1872,
both in Cartwright township, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

PURVINES, ALEXAN-
DER C., born March 16, 1794, in Cabar-
ras county, N. C., married Margaret Wed-
dington, and had one child there. They
moved to what became Sangamon county,
111., arriving in 1819, and settled on Rich-

588

EARL T SE 7 TLERS OF

land creek, where they had three child-
ren—

ALFRED B., born Oct. 25, 1818, in
North Carolina, died in Sangamon county
March n, 1839.

JOHN W., born Oct. 25, 1821, in
Sangamon county, died, aged twenty-
three years.

ELIZABETH J., born June 23,
1824, in Sangamon county, married John
C. Bone. She had one child, ALMEDA
J., who married Robert P. Harrison.
See his name. Mrs. E. J. Bone died in
1852.

ORAMEL G. Z., born Nov. 10, 1826,
in Sangamon county, married, February
4, 1862, to Louisa Potter. They have
two children, MARY E. and ELIJAH
A., and live in Menard county, three
miles northeast of Pleasant Plains, Illi-
nois.

Mrs. Margaret Purvines died January,
1831, and Alex. C. Purvines married,
Oct., 1831, to Mrs. Jane Hamilton, whose
maiden name was Coleman. They had
eight children —

MARGARET A., born Sept. 5, 1832,
married Abraham J. Duff, have six child-
ren, and live in Logan county, Illinois.

WILLIAM G., born Sept. 3, 1834,
married Emily F. Eaton. They have
four children, VIOLA, LOREN,
ALICE and CARROLL, and reside one
and three-quarter miles northeast of
Pleasant Plains, Illinois.

NANCT S., born Aug. 9, 1836, died,
aged sixteen years.

SARAH A. } born July 17, 1838, mar-
ried Samuel H. Armstrong, and lives in
Menard county, Illinois.

ALEXANDER J., born August 3,
1840, married Susan Jones. They have
seven children, and live in Iroquois coun-
ty, Illinois.

ITHA L., born Sept. 12, 1843, mar-
ried E. L. Bone, have five children, and
live in Menard county, Illinois.

JAMES O. and

EDGAR C, live with their mother.
Alexander C. Purvines died July 16, 1861,
from injuries received by being thrown
from a wagon, by a runaway team. His
widow, Mrs. Jane Purvines, resides one
ind one-half miles northeast of Pleasant
Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois. — 1873.
,. -PURVINES, JOHN G. born
JtolyiS, 1796, in Cabarras county, N. C.,

came to Sangamon county, when a young
man, with his brother Simpson, or Alex.
C., and was married, Jan. i, 1823, to Eli-
zabeth Coleman. They had ten children
in Sangamon county, namely —

E VAN E,, born Sept. 30, 1823, died
at seventeen years of age, caused by a
runaway ox team.

NANCT M., born Oct. 20, 1824, mar-
ried Hiram Stevens, has two living child-
ren, LOUISA F. and WILLIAM H.
and live at Pleasant Plains, Illinois.

JOHN /?., born Jan. 10, 1827, mar-
ried Mary Coleman, had four children,
and Mrs. Purvines died. His children,
JOHN G., DAVID S., NOAH G. and
MARSIA J. live in Sangamon county.
J. R. Purvines lives in Crawford county,
Missouri.

WILLIAM H., born Feb. 19, 1829.
He was killed, in his twenty-fifth year,
bv the accidental discharge of a gun.

"FRANCIS J/., born June 28, 1831,
married Lucretia J. Trask, had three chil-
dren, and she died, and he married Mrs.
Lucinda Coleman, whose maiden name
was Walton. They had seven children,
and live in Missouri.

CORNELIUS C, born Oct. 26,
1833, married, Nov. 22, 1855, to Martha
E. Irwin, born Feb. 27, 1837. They had
seven children, AZRO A., CHARLES
R., CHURCHILL G., LOLA J., LEW-
IS C., MARY E. and WILLIAM H.,
and live near Loami, Illinois. Elder C.
C. Purvines is pastor of Liberty Baptist
church. — 1874.

JAMES A., born July 23, 1835, mar-
ried Margaret S. Purvines. He died,
leaving two children. His widow married
David Crezy, and lives in Nebraska City,
Nebraska.

ALEXANDER F., born June n,
1839, in Sangamon county, married, May
7, 1868, to Margaret S. Duncan, and have
one child, GILBERT C. Dr. A. F.
Purvines is a practicing physician, at Sal-
isbury, Sangamon count}', Illinois.

JOSHUA C, born June 9, 1842.

MAR CIA A., born Jan. n, 1846,
married, Sept. 18, 1864, to John W. Foley.
•See his name.

John G. Purvines died Jan. i, 1863, in
Sangamon county, on the fortieth anni-
versary of his marriage, and his widow
lives with her son-in-law Foley, at Pleas-
ant Plains, Illinois. — 1874.

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589

PURVINES, ELIZABETH,
born in Cabarras county, North Carolina,
married John H. Plunkett. See his
name.

PURVINES, MATILDA,
born in North Carolina, married Samuel
Irwin. See his name. She died in
North Carolina.

PURVINES, MARGARET,
born in North Carolina, married William
Irwin. See his name.

PURVINES, JAMES, born
about 1798, in Cabarras county, N. C.,
came to Sangamon county when a young
man, married in Morgan county to Mary
Cox, had eight children, moved to Bona-
parte, Iowa, and died there.

PURVINES. SAMUEL, was
born Aug. i, 1801, in Cabarras county, N.
C., came to Sangamon county, when a
young man, and was married to Mary
Irwin, daughter of Samuel L. Irwin.
See his name. They had eight children
in Sangamon county —

TABITHA JANE, born Dec. 18,
1827, married Robert F. Hamilton. See
his name.

LTDIA A., born Jan. 16, 1831, mar-
ried, March, 1854, to John C. Bone.
They had one child, MARY E., who
married in Springfield, July, 1875, to
Thomas Long, a native of Morgan coun-
ty. They live in Chicago. Mrs. Lydia
A. Bone died Aug., 1862.

A CHILLES NE WTON, born Dec.
I, 1832, in Sangamon county, enlisted
Aug. 8, 1862, for three years, in Co. F,
H4th 111. Inf., was appointed Orderly
Sergt., Oct. I, 1863, was wounded in the
left ankle, at the battle of Guntown,
Miss., June 10, 1864, but escaped capture,
served to the end of the rebellion, and
was honorably discharged, Aug. 3, 1865.
He is unmarried — 1873 — and lives near
Pleasant Plains, Illinois.

ELIZABETH M., born July 23,
1834, married, Feb. 18, 1861, to Thomas
E. White, who was born June 13, 1832,111
Bond county, Illinois. They have two
children, LOLA A. and ROBERT E.,
and reside near Pleasant Plains, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

NANCT F., born Dec. 6, 1836, in
Sangamon county, married, Feb. 4, 1864,
to John C. Bone. They had four child-
ren— J O H N C., J tin , died young.
CHARLES R., CARRIE A. and OR-

LENA S. live with their parents. John
C. Bone was born Sept. 7, 1817, in Ruth-
erford county, T.enn., brought by his
father to Sangamon county, who after a
short stay moved to Rock creek, Menard
county. J. C. Bone has been married
four times: first to Catherine S. Foster,
who died March 25, 1841. See Constan-
tine Foster. Second, Elizabeth J. Pur-
vines, who died August, 1852. See Alex-
ander C. Purvines. Third, Lydia Ann
Purvines, who died August, 1862. See
Samziel Purvines. Fourth, Nancy F.
Purvines, his present wife. John C. Bone
has been a stock raiser and dealer all his
life, in Sangamon and Menard counties.
He moved to Chicago, in October, 1872,
and is now — 1876 — in the live stock com-
mission business, at the Union Stock
Yards.

JOHNF.,\K>r\\ April 6, 1839, in
Sangamon county, married Francis J.
Pirkins. Thev have two children, HAT-
TIE B. and JESSIE E., and live in
Cartwright township, near Richland sta-
tion, Sangamon county, Illinois. — 1873.

RACHEL M., born Aug. 25, 1840,
married James S. Zane. See his name.

SAMUEL S., born Feb. 26, 1844, is
unmarried — 1873 — and lives near Pleasant
Plains, Illinois.

Samuel Purvines died Sept. 26, 1852,
and in less than one month — Oct. 20,
1852 — his widow died; both near Pleasant
Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois.

PURVINES, NANCY, born
in North Carolina, married in Sangamon
county to Peter Shepherd, and lives near
Quirrcy, Adams county, Illinois.

PURVINES, ELIZA, born
in North Carolina, married in Sangamon
county to Peter Lanterman. See his
name.

PURVINES, JAM ESS., was
born Dec. 18, 1805, in Cabarras county,
North Carolina. He was a cousin to
David S., Alexander C., John G., etc.,
and came with some of his relatives to
Sangamon county in 1820 or '21. After
remaining six years he returned to North
Carolina, visited some of his brothers and
sisters in Georgia, and at the end of one
year came back to Sangamon county.
James S. Purvines was married in the fall
of 1829 to Mary Ann Hughes, of Morgan
county, 111. They had eight children,
namely—

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GEORGE C., died, aged twenty
years.

J ' OHN G. was drowned at nine years
of age.

WILLIAM B. married Mrs. Mary
Benner, whose maiden name was Fore-
man. They have one child, and live in
Menard county, three miles northwes-t of
Salisbury, Illinois.

FRANCIS M. married Permelia
Wetherby, have one child, CARRIE,
and live in Menard county, three and a
half miles northwest of Salisbury, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

MARGARET S. married James A.
Purvines. See his name. He died, and
she married David Crezy, has two child-
ren, and lives in Nebraska City, Neb.

EL VIRA married Alexander Carper,
and lives near Nebraska City, Neb.

MARTHA J. married Isaac N. Ball,
has three children, BENJAMIN, MA-
MIE and JAMES, and live in Menard
county, three and a half miles northwest
of Salisbury, Illinois.

ELIZABETH R. married George
Anderson, and died.

Mrs. Mary A. Purvines died in 1849,
and James S. Purvines married Martha
Donovan, who died, in 1872, and he was
married to Mrs. Harriet M. Harris, whose
maiden name was Barzel, a native of
Upper Canada. Tney reside in Menard
county, three and a half miles northwest
of Salisbury, Satfgamon county, Illinois.
-1873.

PURSELL, WILLIAM, was
born Jan. 23, 1820, at White Park, near
Belfast, Ireland. His parents emigrated
to Bytown, now Ottawa City, Canada, in
1824. His mother died there, and he was
taken to raise by Heraldus Eastabrook, of
Vermont. He was brought by Mr. Eas-
tabrook to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
at Old Sangamo, Oct. 25, 1833. William
Pursell was married, Jan. i, 1846, to Eli-
zabeth Van Patten. They had thirteen
children —

ROBERT H. died March i, 1860, in
his fourteenth vear.

MART ^4. "died Jan. 16, 1860, in her
twelfth vear.

ALBERT H. died Nov. i, 1871, in
his twenty-second year.

JENNIE ADA died Dec. 28, 1859,
in her second vear.

JOHN C. died Dec. 4, 1871, aged ten
years.

The other eight children —

CARRIE L., LA URA E., ALICE
B., CHARLES W., HATTIE L.,
ROBERT /?., FANNIE E. and
JESSIE T. live with their parents,
three and three-quarters miles southwest
of Farmingdale, Santramon county, Illi-
nois.

Mr. Pursell was present at the organi-
zation of the Sunday school in connection
with Farmington Presbyterian church, in
Dec., 1833. For forty years — until 1873 —
his connection with the school, as pupil,
librarian, teacher and superintendent, con-
tinued unbroken. He is one of the sub-
stantial farmers of Sangamon county.

PYLE, NICHOLAS. The fam-
ily came from England, and he was mar-
ried in South Carolina, during the Amer-
ican Revolution, to Ann Black, a sister of
Thomas Black. See his name. Some of
their children were born in South Caro-
lina, and the family moved on pack horses
to Christian county, Ky., where more
children were born, making a total of
fourteen sons and five daughters, some of
whom married in Kentucky. The par-
ents and part of the children moved to
St. Clair county, 111., where some of the
children married. The aged couple,
with their two youngest sons, came to
Sangamon county in 1825, and settled
about three miles east of Auburn. Of the
two sons —

THOMPSON, born about 1804, in
Christian county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, in 1828, to Margaret Mof-
fitt. They had nine living children.
MATILDA, born Jan. 26, 1829, died
Jan. 4, 1845. WM. ALFRED, born
Nov. 13, 1830, is unmarried, and lives
with his mother. SARAH ANN, born
April 10, 1832, married Solomon Taylor,
has five children, and resides in Macoup-
in county, near Zanesville, Montgomery
county, 111. ELIZABETH J., born Jan.
26, 1834, married Samuel H. Meteer, have
three children, and live near May Post-
* office, Martin county, Minn. GEORGE
M. born April 22, 1837, married Susan
Bridges, have three children, and live
near Elgin, Howard countv, Kansas.
LAWSON, born July 7, 1842, married
August 17, 1869, to Mary E. Shepherd,
have one child, MILDRED, and live six

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miles south of Springfield, 111. RE-
BECCA, born July 6, 1844, married
George Bridges. See his name. EL-
LEN S., born Sept. 7, 1846, married
Sept. 4, 1867, to George D. Crane, and
live near Woodside, Illinois. EVE-
LINE, born April 20, 1849, lives with
her mother. Thompson Pyle died Dec.
19, 1870, and his widow resides near
where they settled in 1828, six miles
south of Springfield, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

ALFRED, born Oct. 12, 1806, in
Christian county, Ky., and was the
youngest of nineteen children. He was
brought bv his parents to Sangamon
county in 1825, married in St. Clair
county to Melinda Padfield. They had
eight children, three died young. DAVID,
born March 8, 1838, married Harriet A.
Scott, have three children, IDA c., ROBERT
E. and DAVID H., and live eight miles
south of Springfield, 111. ARMINDA,
born Oct. 13, 1839, married Thomas B.
Shepherd. See hit name. WILLIAM
married Jennie Jackson, and both died.
ANN married John H. Shepherd. See
his name. LOUISA R. married John
W. Nuckolls. See his name. Mrs.
Melinda Pyle died Sept. 19 1849, and
Alfred Pyle died March 3, 1852, both in
St. Clair county, although they had spent
the greater part of their lives in Sanga-
mon county.

Nicholas Pyle died in 1829, in Sanga-
mon county, and his widow died at the
house of their son, Alfred, in St. Clair
county, Illinois.

RALSTON, WILLIAM, born
in 1759, in Virginia, was a Revolutionary
soldier, enlisting near the close of the
war. He was then quite young for a "sol-
dier, but was at the siege and capture of
Yorktown, and was present when Lord
Cornwallis surrendered to Gen. Washing-
ton. He was married in Virginia to
Nancy McClure, and soon after moved to
the vicinity of Crab Orchard, Kentucky,
and later to the vicinity of Mt. Sterling,
Montgomery county, in the same State.
They had twelve children in Kentucky,
and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving in 1828, on Spring creek, accom-

panied by five of his children, and the
sixth came a year or two later. The
others remained in Kentucky. Of the six
who came to Sangamon county —

WILLIAM, Jun., born May 20,
1796, in Montgomery county, Ky., was
married there to Frances J. Massie, Sept.
13, 1825. They had one child that died
in Kentucky, and the family moved to
Sangamon county, Illinois, in 1828, set-
tling on Spring creek in 1829, where seven
children were born. MARY E. married
Thomas Hessey, and died, leaving six
children, who live with their father in
Gardner township, Sangamon couuty,
Illinois. EMILY M., born Dec. 30,
1831, was married, Nov. 24, 1850, to
Jacob J. Brown. See his name. WIL-
LIAM T. died May 26, 1858, in his
twenty-fifth year. JOHN H. died June
9, 1861, in his twenty-sixth year. NAN-
CY A., born Dec. 23, 1837, was married,
Oct. 12, 1858, to Daniel Taylor. See his
name. JAMES H., born Aug. 27, 1840,
lives with his mother one and three-quar-
ter miles south of Farmingdale, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois. CHARLES F.,
born April 10, 1844, was man~ied Dec. 3,
1867, in Sangamon county, to Clara A.
Conklin, and live at Colorado Springs,
Colorado. William Ralston, Jun., died
Oct. 17, 1851, in Sangamon county, 111.,
and his widow resides now — 1873 — on the
farm where they settled in 1829, one and
three-quarter miles south of Farming-
dale, Sangamon county, Illinois. She
has been a member of the Baptist church
nearly half a century.

JOS1AH, born in Kentucky, was
married in Sangamon county to Roxana
Smith. They have eight children, and
live in Hancock county, Illinois.

NATHANIEL, born in Kentucky,
was married in Sangamon county to
Clemantine Kelly. They moved to Mis-
souri, but returned during the rebellion to
Sangamon county, where he died. His
widow and eight children live near Car-
thage, Jasper county, Missouri.

ELLEN, born in Kentucky, was mar-
ried in Sangamon county, Illinois, to
James Douglas. See his name.

SAMUEL, born in Kentucky, was
married there to Nancy Ellis. They had
two children in Kentucky, and came to
Sangamon county in 1835. One child
was born in Sangamon county, and one

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

in Petersburg, Menard county,' Illinois.
Samuel Ralston and family resi'de in
Washington, D. C.

JOSEPH, born Sept. 10, 1813, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., Nov. 13, 1833, to Mrs. Susan
Earnest, whose maiden name was Ken-
dall. They had two living children —
MARGARET J. married David Vulga-
mott, and have six children. They live
in Fairfield, Jefferson county, Iowa.
JOSEPH H., born Dec. 21, 1838, in San-
gamon county, studied medicine in Spring-
field, Illinois, was married, Sept., 1865, at
Placerville, Idaho Territory, to Lida
Keck. They have two children, HENRY
H. and EMIL. Dr. Ralston and family re-
side at Bentonsport, Van Buren county,
Iowa. Joseph Ra!ston died July 31, 1839,
in Sangamon county, and his widow
married James E. Reed. See his
name.

William Ralston, Sen., died July, 1835,
and his widow died eight or 'nine years
later, both in Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

RAMES, NATHANIEL,
was born April 19, 1806, in Tennessee.
Sarah Ogden was born Oct. 18, 1806, in
Logan county, Kentucky. They were
married March 8, 1829, in St. Louis, Mo.,
had one child there, and moved to Spring-
field, 111., arriving April 16, 1830, where
they had two children. Of their three
children —

MARTHA T., born Dec. 17, 1829, in
St. Louis, died in Springfield in her
seventh year.

JOHN O., born August 20, 1831, in
Springfield, married Oct. 7, 1852, to
Mary J. Connelly, who died in 1854.
Mr. Rames was married April 14, 1859,
in St. Louis county, Mo., to Mary E.
Redman, who was born there, June 14,
1839. They had six children in Spring-
field; two died young. MATTIE M.,
CORA B., MARY J. and JOHN O.,
Jun., live with their parents. J. O.
Rames was a member of the city council
three years, and has been a member of
the School Board since 1870, with the
exception of two years. He has been
engaged in harness making i for sev-
enteen years, and resides in Spring-
field, Illinois.

WILLIAM N., born May 22, 1834,
in Springfield, died March, 1853.

Nathaniel Rames died Feb. 29, 1836, in
Springfield, and his widow lives with her
son, John O., in Springfield. — 1876.

RANDALL, THOMAS E.,
was born in 1785, in Virginia, was taken
to Crab Orchard, Ky., when a child. He
was married and had three children in
Fleming county, Ky., and moved from
there to Sangamon county, 111., in 1827.
His son —

MARSHAL S., born Jan. 26, 1813,
in Fleming county, Ky., married in San-
gamon county, in 1837, to Deborah Can-
trail. They had twelve children. Their
daughter, MARY J., married William G.
Cantrall. See his name. Marshal S.
Randall and family reside near Blue
Mound Station, Christian county, Illinois.

RANSOM, JOHN G., was born
April 27, 1808, at Chazy, Clinton county,
N. Y.. and was there married, Sept 30,
1830, to Lucy M. Gregory. They moved
to Springfield, 111., arriving June 6, 1835.
Mr. Ransom commenced work as a jour-
neyman wagon and carriage maker, and
in a short time established the business on
his own account. He made, as he be-
lieves, the first buggy ever put up in
Springfield. In .1838 Mr. Ransom
moved to Chatham, which had just
been laid out, and he was among the
first to erect permanent buildings in the
town. He engaged in carriage and wagon
making there. In 1840 he moved to
Whitehall, 111., and back to Chatham in
1842. In 1845 ne moved to Galena, 111.,
where Mrs. Lucy M. Ransom died, Mar.
18, 1846, leaving three living children,
with whom Mr. Ransom returned to
Chatham. Of those children —

EDWARD H., born in Sangamon
county, married Gazena A. Brurink. He
was a soldier in Co. B, H4th 111. Inf., and
spent several months in prison at Ander-
sonville, Georgia. The privation and
disease contracted there caused his death
in Feb., 1869. He left a widow and four
children in Virclen, Illinois.

AMELIA M. married William Mont-
gomery. They have seven children, and
live at Stonington, Christian county, Illi-
nois.— 1874.

MARTHA married in Plattsburg,
New York, to William L. Wood. They
have one child, and live at Stonington,
Christian county, Illinois.

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John G. Ransom was married July I,
1847, m Chatham, to Mrs. Elizabeth
Bradley, whose maiden name was Hand.
They had seven children, two of whom
died young. Of the other five —

AUGUSTA E., born in Chatham,
married Henry D. Cogswell, has one
child, and lives in Bloomington, Illinois.
— 1873.

EMMA, CHARLES, JOHN E.
and MARIA T. live with their parents.
John G. Ransom a'nd family reside in
Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.

RANSOM, LORING, was born
April 13, 1806, in Chazy, Clinton county,
N. Y., and came with a colony of fifty-
three persons to Sangamon county, arriv-
ing at what is now Farmingdale, in Sept.,
1833. He was married Oct. 29, 1839, at a
place called Millville, north of Lick
creek, and three miles west of Loami, to
Mary Wariner, who was born April 20,
1817, in Barren county, Ky., and came to
Sangamon county in the spring of 1834,
with her father. Mr. and Mrs. Ransom
had three living children —

ISABELLA IV., born Sept. 13, 1840,
in Chatham, married in Springfield, Feb.
24, 1 86 1, to George W. Johnson, who
was born Aug. 7, 1835, in Henniker,
Merrimack county, N. H. He is an en-
gineer on the G. C. & S. railroad, and re-
sides in Springfield.

WILLIAM A., born Jan. 7, 1843, in
Chatham, was married Nov. 23, 1872, in
Hannibal, Mo., to Kittie Shelton Kiger,
who was born July 29, 1843, in Nelson
county, Va. They live in Springfield,
Illinois.

ISAAC N., born May 12, 1846, in
Springfield, married, Nov. 10, 1870, to
Annie E. Crary, and live in Springfield,
Illinois.

Loring Ransom was farming a few
years and then went to Chatham, from
there to Berlin, and from there to Spring-
field, where he died, Sept. 13, 1867.
Mrs. Mary Ransom resides with her
children, in Springfield, Illinois.

RANSOM, LUTHER N.,was
born about 1800, at Chazy, Clinton coun-
ty, N. Y. He was there married to Zer-
viah Ransom. They had two children in
New York, and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., with a colony, arriving in
Sept., 1833, at Farmington, in what is
now Gardner township. In 1835 Mr,

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R. sold out at that place, and entered two
thousand one hundred acres of land eight
or ten miles south of Springfield, and
laid out the town of Chatham. In 1840
he moved to Springfield, where Mrs. R.
died. Previous to this time Mr. R. had
been a member of and an officer in the
Presbyterian church, and was the princi-
pal means of establishing the church in
Chatham. After the death of his wife he
adopted communist principles as expounded
by Fourier, went to Economy, Ohio, and
united with the Fourierite community
there, believing it would be a good place
to bring up his children. He was mar-
ried while there to a widow lady, by
whom he had one child. At a time of
excessive high water in the Ohio river,
late in 1847, a veiT large brick building,
owned and occupied by the Fourierites,
was surrounded by water, weakening the
foundations, and it fell, burying in its
ruins a lai'ge number of persons. The
two eldest children and the wife of Mr.
Ransom were among the lost. She had
just handed her babe out of a window, by
which it was saved. Mr. Ransom was
not at the place when the calamity came,
but he soon after took his babe, left the
Fourierites, and joined the Shakers at
Lebanon, Ohio. This was in 1848. He
remained with the Shakers until August,
1859, when he took his son, ALBERT,
and went to Lawrence, Kansas, where
he resided until July, 1873, when he died,
a spiritualist, and an open disbeliever of
the Bible. He was an original abolition-
ist, an uncompromising temperance man,
scrupulously honest in his dealings, and it
was believed by those who knew him
well, that he was honest and conscientious
in all he did. His erratic course was re-
garded more as the manifestations of an
unsettled mind than of a depraved dis-
position.

RAPE, JOHN, was born about
1794, in South Carolina, and taken to
Tennessee by his parents, at eight years
old. He was a soldier from Tennessee, in
the war of 1812, and arrived at New
Orleans the day after the battle of Jan. 8,
1815. His father, Gustavus Rape, was a
soldier from North Carolina during the
war of the American Revolution. John
Rape was married Aug. 18, 1818, in
Tennessee, had two children there, and
moved to Sangamon county, 111,, arriving

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in what is now Cotton Hill township, in
Feb., 1826, where they had five children.
Of their children —

CATHARINE, born Dec. 31, 1821,
in' Tennessee, married in Sangamon
county to Benjamin R. Ridgeway. See
his name.

AMELIA, born May 29, 1823, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county,
Dec. 25, 1840, to Wesley Beam. See his
name. He died, leaving five children,
and she married, July 17, 1855, to James
Hewlett. They have six children, WIL-
LIAM M., DANIEL N., AMELIA L.
and MARTHA E., twins, JAMES F.
and GEORGE B. McL. Mr. Hewlett
had three children by a former marriage.
They reside in Cotton Hill township.

DANIEL, born March 30, 1826, in
Sangamon county, married, July 7, 1853,
to Myrah Snodgrass. They had three
children, CHARLES F., MOSES F.
and FLETCHER E. Mrs. Rape died
March 10, 1869, and he married, Sept. 2,
1869, to Mrs. Rebecca J. Hafdin, whose
maiden name was Snodgrass. They have
one child, EDWIN, and live near New
City, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JACOB, born Nov. 5, 1827, in San-
gamon county, married, Dec. 26, 1850, to
Rachel Beam. They have five chil-
dren, THOMAS J., MELINDA J.,
CHARLES W., JOHN W. and LEW-
IS M., and live in Cotton Hill town-
ship, two and one-half miles south of
New City, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois. Jacob Rape says that it was so
difficult to obtain farming implements,
that himself and a brother covered corn
many days with wooden hoes, made for
the purpose by their father.

ALFRED N., was born May 5, 1830,
in Sangamon county. He enlisted, Aug.
12, 1862, in Co. K, 1 24th 111. Inf., for
three years, served full term, was in fif-
teen battles, and was honorably discharg-
ed, Aug. 15, 1865. He was married, Oct.
17, 1871, to Mary A. Constant. They
had one child, WM. EDWARD, who
died in infancy. They live three miles
southwest of New City, in Cotton
Hill township, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

FRANCIS M., born Nov. 20, 1831,
in Sangamon county, married Melvina
Snodgrass, had two children, MARY D.
and NANCY I., and Mrs. Rape died,

and he married, Oct. 8, 1869, to Mary J
Hayden, a grand-daughter of Penrod
Vancil. They have two children, ROSA
E. and FLORA E., and live in Cotton
Hill township, near New City, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

AMANDA, born Oct. 25, 1835, in
Sangamon county, married, Aug. 5, 1852,
to Preston Haines. They had three chil-
dren—NANCY J., born April 9, 1855,
married., June 9, 1873, to Benj. K. Haii:es.
See his name. AMELIA C. aqd
JOHN W. live with their mother. Pres-
ton Haines enlisted in 1861, for three
years, in Co. B, nth Mo. Inf. He died
Feb. 14, 1863, in Military Hospital, at
Keokuk, Iowa. His widow married,
June 14, 1871, to W. T. Williams, have
one child, MARTIN L., and live in
Cotton Hill township, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

Mrs. Polly Rape died, July 19, 1838,
and John Rape was married, Feb. 3, 1839,
to Elizabeth Snodgrass. They had seven
children in Sangamon county —

JOSEPH, born Jan. 25, 1840, mar-
ried, March 7, 1872, to Frances M. Rea-
vis, who was born Feb. 23, 1856, in Fay-
ette county, 111. They have one child,
NOAH F., and live near New City,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOHN, born Dec. 16, 1843, lives near
New City, Illinois.

JAMES T., born Sept. 27, 1845,
married Mary West, have two living
children, and lives near Cotton Hill P. O.,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

MART E., born Oct. 18, 1848, mar-
ried, Sept. 13, 1863, to Thomas McLoon,
a native of Ireland. They have three
children, MARY B., LAURA A. and
JOHN E., and live near New City, Illi-
nois.

SAMUEL D., born Jan. 20, 1853,
lives with his mother.

NANCY E., born April 27, 1856,
married, Feb. 19, 1874, to B. F. Young,
and lives in Cotton Hill township.

EMILY J., born Aug. 12, 1859, lives
with her mother.

John Rape died Jan. 29, 1872, and his
widow lives on the farm where he settled
i. 1826. It is in Cotton Hill township,
near New City, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

RAPE, HENRY, born in 1784,
in South Carolina, came with his brother

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Peter to Sangamon county, 111., about
1825, preceding their brother John one
year. Henry Rape was married June,
1836, in Sangamon county, to Polly
Snodgrass. They had six children in
Sangamon county —

JAMES //., born July 23, 1837, in
Sangamon county, enlisted in 1861, for
three years, in Co. I, yth 111. Inf., served
full time, and was honorably discharged,
July 24, 1864, at Chattanooga, Tenn.
J. H. Rape was married Dec. 7, 1875,31
the Revere House, Springfield, 111., to
Mrs. Maria L. Campbell, whose maiden
name was Brownell. See Brownell fam-
ily. Mr. and Mrs. Rape live in Chris-
tian county, near Taylorville, Illinois.

GUSTAVUS F., born April 28,
1840, was married July 28, 1870, to Sarah
Raney. They had two children, ORA
VERNON *ul RALEIGH, and moved
to the vicinity of Virginia, Bates county,
Missouri. Their children both died
there.

THOMAS J., born Dec. 20, 1842,
was married July 29, 1869, to Clara A.
Pettibone. They have one child, EAR-
NEST R., and live in Cotton Hill town-
ship, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM L., born Nov. 23, 1845,
was married April 29, 1874, to Jennie
Beaty. They have one child, ROLLA
E., and live near Taylorville, Christian
county, Illinois.

ELIZABETH J., born April 23,
1844, was married Dec. 29, 1874, to
Richard Hill man. See his name.

Henry Rape died Nov. n, 1851, and
his widow married George Hamilton.
They had one child —

R OBERT RAPE, born May 5, 1855,
lives with his mother, three-fourths of a
mile west of New City, in Cotton Hill
township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Mrs. Polly Rape had never formed a
letter with a pen until her sixtieth year.
Her son, James H., was in the army, and
she found it difficult to induce others to
write to him as often as she desired, so
she resolved to learn, and commenced by
copying letters and other documents, and
was soon able to communicate with him.
She continued this correspondence, to the
great satisfaction of both, until his three
years of service terminated.

RAPE, JACOB, was born Mar.
I, 177^5 married Patsy Thornton, raised a

family, and died April 28, 1865, in San-
gamon county. His widow lives in
Christian county. Their grandaughter
married George Morgan, and lives in
Taylorville, Illinois.

RAPE, POLLY, born in 1786, in
South Carolina or Tennessee. She was
a sister to John, Peter, Henry and Jacob.
She was married in Sangamon county to
Henry Funderburk. See his name.

RAPE, PETER, was born Mar.
15, 179°) married and raised a family.
His wife, Sarah Rape, died July 23, 1841,
in her forty-sixth year. He died March
29, 1847.

RAUCH, JOHN JACOB, was

born July 25, 1796, in Stutgardt, Wirtem-
burg, Germany. He came to America in
1818, and was eleven weeks on the pas-
sage from Amsterdam, arriving at Phila-
delphia in September. He entered into
an agreement, before starting, with a
man who came on the same vessel, by
which that gentleman was to pay his pas-
sage across the ocean in exchange for
labor Mr. Ranch was to perform. He
had fulfilled part of the agreement before
starting, and acted as servant to the gen-
tleman and his wife on board the vessel.
On arriving in Philadelphia he found that
the money had not been paid. The only
excuse the man made was that his wife
objected to it. In the early history of the
American colonies some of them enacted
laws under which emigrants might be sold
at auction to pay for their passage across
the ocean. The custom still prevailed at
the time Mr. Rauch arrived in the coun-
try, but I have thus far failed to learn that
there was any law for it at that time.
Seventy dollars was the amount demand-
ed by the owners of the vessel, and he
was put up at auction to raise the money.
The lowest, and perhaps the only bid
was to pay the money on consideration of
his serving three years in return, at hard
labor, as the following paper will show :

PHILADELPHIA.

This Indenttire Witnesseth : That
Johan Jacob Rauch, of his own free will,
to go to Alabama Territory, hath bound
himself servant to Francis C. Clapper, of
Philadelphia, merchant, for the consider-
ation of seventy dollars, paid to Lewis,
Haven & Co., for his passage from Am-
sterdam; as also, for other good causes,

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he, the said Johan Jacob Rauch, hath
bound and put himself, and by these
presents doth bind and put himself, ser-
vant to the said Francis C. Clapper, to
serve him, his executors, administrators
and assigns, from the day of the date
hereof, for and during the full term of
three .years, from thence next ensuing.
During all which term the said servant,
his said master, his executors, administra-
tors and assigns, faithfully shall serve, and
that honestly and obediently in all things,
as a good and faithful servant ought to
do. And the said Francis C. Clapper, his
executors, administrators and assigns, dur-
ing the said term, shall find and provide
for the said servant sufficient meat, drink,
apparel, washing and lodging, and to give
him, at the end of the term, two complete .
suits of clothes, one thereof to be new.
And for the true performance hereof both
the said parties bind themselves firmly
unto each other by these presents. In
witness whereof they have interchangably
set their hands and seals. Dated the sec-
ond day of October, A. D. one thousand
eight hundred and eighteen.

F. C. CLAPPER.

Bound before Conrad Wile, Register.

Mr. Rauch was at once sent to
Alabama, and labored faithfully for two
and a half years, the principal part of the
time at boat building, and must have
earned many times the value of the money
paid out for him. His food and clothing
during the whole of that time was of the
very worst description, in addition to
which he was treated to all manner of
indignities on account of his lack of
knowledge of our language, and for
any other cause which the caprice or
malignity of those with whom he was
associated might suggest. Six months
before the expiration of his time his
hardships became intolerable. He left
Alabama and made his way into Muhlen-
burg county, Kentucky, arriving in 1821.
There he found German people, who
gave him employment by which he was
soon able to clothe himself decently, and
began to save money. He worked both
in wood and stone as the opportunity for
either presented itself. Oct. 24, 1824, he
was married to Pauline Poley, sister
to Joseph Poley. See his name. Soon
after his marriage he built a sawmill on a

small stream, and occasionally worked at
his trades, doing a good business. As
Mr. Rauch learned more of the influence
of slavery, he resolved to seek a free
country in which to bring up his family.
He accordingly removed with his wife
and two children, to Illinois, arrriving
Oct., 1829, in Sangamon county. In
December he bought three-fourths of
section thirty-three, which is the southern
tier of sections in this county. It is in
Auburn township, between the towns of
Auburn and Virden. The stream called
Sugar creek ran through his land, and
among the first things he did was to build
a saw and grist mill, and for many years
Rauch's mill was known far and near,
and hundreds of weary emigrants found
rest under his roof, his house being on the
road from Springfield to St. Louis. After
arriving in Illinois, seven ohildren were
added to the family. Of their nine child-
ren—

ANDRE W, born Aug. 14, 1825, in
Kentucky, was married June 13, 1854, in
Sangamon county, to Margaret E. Cas-
sity, a native of Kentucky. They have
five living children, FRANK, CLARA,
EMMA, ELMER and A. LEE. An-
drew Rauch and family reside in the
vicinity of the old homestead, in Sanga-
mon county, near Virden, Macoupin
county, Illinois.

CHARLES, born Dec. 28, 1827, in
Kentucky, was married Dec. 18, 1859, in
Sangamon county, to Mary Brooks, a
native of Delaware. They have four
children, LOUISA, JENNIE, JAMES
and JOHN, and reside at the homestead,
in Sangamon county, near Virden, Ma-
coupin county, Illinois.

ELIZABEJ^H, born April 25, 1830,
in Illinois, died in childhood.

SA VILLA, born Feb. 3, 1832, in
Sangamon county, married Hiram Orr,
and died five weeks later, at her mother's
house.

JAMES, born Oct. 5, 1833, in San'
gamon county, was married, April 3, 1863,
to Jennie B. Goss, who was born August
25, 1837, at Littleton, Grafton county,
New Hampshire. They moved to Cali-
fornia, and James Ranch died there, Nov.
12, 1864, leaving a widow, who returned
to Illinois, Oct. 26, 1865, and is now
— August, 1876 — residing in Virden, Illi-
nois.

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JACOB, born Aug. 16, 1835, in
Sangamon county, was married, Oct. 27,
1859, to Emma C. Cassity. They have
three living children, ADA, EFFIE and
BYRON, and reside in Virden, Illi-
nois.

FRANKLIN, born Oct. ti, 1837,
died Dec. 17, 1848.

REBECCA, born Nov. 6, 1839, in
h'angamon county, was married, Oct. 26,
1869, to John McGlothlin. They have
three children, LOUELLA, HORACE
and CHARLIE A., and reside five miles
southwest of Auburn, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

BARBARA A., born June 2, 1842, in
Sangamon county, married Matthew
Pattern, Jun. See his name. They do
not live in Chicago, as stated in connection
with his name, but now — Sept., 1876 —
reside three miles southeast of Auburn,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

John Jacob Ranch died Nov. 23, 1843,
.where he settled in 1829. His widow,
Mrs. Pauline Rauch, resides there with
her son Charles. It is in Sangamon
county, near Virden, Macoupin county,
Illinois.

Mr. Rauch left his family with the title
to a sufficient quantity of land to make a
good farm for each one; with a large
amount of personal property, and his
children are among the most respected
citizens of the county. When we consid-
er that he was twenty-two years of age
at the time he came to America, without
a knowledge of our language, compelled
to lose so much of the best time of his
life to pay for the privilege of coming,
and that he died before he was fifty years
of age, his success was wonderful, and it
is highly probable that his early death
was caused by over exertion. Although
he had been so treacherously dealt with
on coming to the country, and for the
first three years after his arrival; yet his
abhorrence of anything like repudiating a
contract was such, that he charged his
sons if the duplicate to the contract by
which he was robbed of his three years
time, should ever be presented, they
should pay the whole seventy dollars, for
the reason that he had not rendered the
last six months service, and that because
it was physically impossible for him to en-
dure it. In the later years of his life,
when pondering on the hardships and in-

dignities he had endured, he wrote in
German on the margin of the contract
quoted, "Jacob Rauch says this indenture
was not good." He doubtless alluded to
the fact that it was not binding because it
was never signed by himself. The back
of the indenture bears an inscription, also
in German, in his own handwriting. It
appears to have been more intended as an
expression of a sentiment than an address
to any particular one of his children. It
is in these words:

"DEAR CHILD, you had better remain
in a low station of life; the higher you
stand the more you may be humbled; and
the Lord will love you better, for He is
the Most High, and does great things by
means of the lowly.

"JACOB RAUCH."

RAY, THOMAS, was born Jan.
28, 1794, m Gallatin county, Ky. He was
married, Feb. 22, 1816, to Polly Furnish,
a native of the same county. Mrs. Ray
died, Sept. 21, 1820, leaving one child.
He then married Susan Ray, who was
born April 20, 1798. They had one child
in Kentucky, and the family moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving October,
1824, in Island Grove, south of Spring
creek, and the next spring moved north of
Spring creek, in what is now Gardner
township, where they had three living
children. Of their five children —

SAMUEL E.. born Dec. 25, 1817, in
Gallatin county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, Sept. 20, 1838, to Elcy
Jane Robison. They had four children —
SUSAN J., born July 21, 1839, in Wash-
ington county, Iowa, where her parents
lived one and one-half years. She was
married, march 12, 1856,10 Isaac Gregory.
See his name. She died, Nov. 19, 1864,
leaving twins. POLLY A., born May
6, 1842, in Sangamon county, married,
Jan. 17, 1861, to John Swarens. They
have five children, ELLA, FRANK, CLAR-
ENCE, LURA and HATTIE, and live one
and one-half miles north of Bradfordton.
ELCY C. died in her third year. EM-
MA M., born March 23, 1852, lives with
her parents, half a mile east of Bradford-
ton, Sangamon county, Illinois — 1874.

JOHN G., born Aug. 20, 1824, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
Feb. I, 1855, to Abigail Van Gilder, and
he died March 25, 18=55.

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MARGARET A., born Nov. 16,
1832, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county, June 24, 1852, to Seth W. Wick-
ham. He was one of three children born
of the same mother, Oct. 30, 1824, in
Muskingham county, Ohio. Of the other
two: Elmus died in his tenth year, and
Louisa married S. P. Weaver, and died
in Ohio, in her twenty-first year, two
weeks after she was married. Seth W.
Wickham and wife had one child, THOM-
AS W., and she died April 7, 1867. He
was married, Dec. 31, 1868, to Mrs. Cor-
nelia A. Large, whose maiden namfe was
Frazee. See Frazee. They have one
child, MINNIE L., and reside one mile
southeast of Farmingdale, Sangamon
county, Illinois — 1874.

SUSAN P., born March 26, 1836,
married Thomas Johnson, had one child,
and she died in 1856. Her son, Charles
Johnson, lives with his uncle, Thomas B.
Ray.

l^HOMAS B., born March 10, 1841,
married, Feb. 23, 1865, to Charlotte
Brown. They had one child, CHAR-
LOTTE, who lives with her grandfather,
Rezin D. Brown. Mrs. Ray died, Jan. 5,
1866, and T. B. Ray lives at the home-
stead settled by his father in 1825, in
Gardner township, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

Mrs. Susan Ray died Dec. 15, 1859,
and Thomas Ray died Aug. 24, 1871,
both in Gardner township.

William Ray, the father of Thomas,
came to Sangamon county, and after a
few years sojourn, returned to Kentucky,
and died there.

RAY, REASON or REZIN,
was born in Maryland, went to Kentucky,
where he married Sarah Walters. They
had four children, and came to Sangamon
county in 1823, settling in Gardner town-
ship. His daughter —

LA VINA, born in Kentucky, in
1822, married in Sangamon county, to
Ezekiel Drennan. See his name.

Mrs. Drennan remembers the "deep
snow." She was eight years old, and
was helping her father gather corn, and
slipped into a whirlpool that formed
around a hill of corn. She went under
the snow, and her father happening to see
her go down, drew her out in time to
save her from suffocating.

RAY, SAMUEL. His daugh-
ter—

ELIZABE7W, born Aug. 5, 1833,
married, Dec. 2, 1852, to Robert Haggard,
in Sangamon county, and died July 22,
1867, in Labette county, Kansas, leaving
six children.

REDMAN, JAMES B., was
born in St. Louis county, Mo., and com-
menced learning the trade of a black-
smith in St. Louis with Rames & Owens,
moved with them to Springfield, Illinois,
in April, 1830, and later was four years
engaged in the same business with
Nathaniel Rames, as Rames & Redman.
He then returned to St. Louis county,
and was there married, in 1834, to Mar-
tha A. Graham, and had two children —

MAR Y E., born near St. Louis, mar-
ried John O. Rames. See his name.

MARGARET married William T.
Henly, and resides near St. Louis.

Mrs. Redman died, and James B. Red-
man is living with his third wife, at.
Baden, St. Louis county, Mo.

REDMAN, WILLIAM E.,
was born May 15, 1815, in Maryland,
eight miles north of Washington City.
He was married, Jan. 6, 1840, in Hagers-
town, to Catharine Wolgamot, and moved
with her father to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving May 31, 1840, in what is now
Woodside township. They ha:l eight
children in Sangamon county, five of
whom died under seven years. Of the
other three children —

ISABEL 0., born July 16, 1843,
married Dec. 19, 1865, to Daniel Keller.
She had one child, MARY, and died in
Chatham, Illinois.

CATHARINE F., born March 18,
1842, married Nov. n, 1872,10 Daniel
Keller, also. Thev have three children,
HETTIE, HARRY and CHARLEY,
and live in Chatham, Illinois.

CKL OE ANN E., born March 20,
1847, married Oct. 15, 1867, to D. F.
Brewer. They have four children,
KATIE E., ADAM POE, JOHN M.
and CHLOE B., and reside in Spring-
field, Illinois. Daniel F. Brewer was
born April 26, 1842, in West Chester,
Butler county, Ohio, enlisted Sept. 4,
1861, at Cincinnati, Ohio, in the nth
Independent Battery, served until Nov.
5, 1864, when he was honorably discharg-
ed, and came to Chatham in 1865.

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William E. Redman enlisted June 28,
1861, in Co. F, 2ist 111. Inf., for three
years, at Springfield. Although he was
past the age to be subject to military laws,
he went to the field under Col. Ulysses
S. Grant, served until April 28, 1864,
when he was honorably discharged on
account of physical disability. He was
employed for a few months after that in
the quartermaster's department. Mrs.
Catharine Redman died Dec. 31, 1874,
and Wm. E. Redman resides in Chatham,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

REED, JAMES E., was born
July 14, 1810, in Wayne county, Ky.
His father died when he was four, and
his mother when he was seven years old.
He came to Springfield, 111., in the fall of
1828, was in the Black Hawk war from
Sangainon county in 1831, and again in
1832. He was married July 6, 1837, to
Eliza A. Kendall. They had two child-
ren—

MART A., born Feb. 27, 1838, mar-
ried March 4, 1858, to Josiah B. Morgan.
They have four children, and live near
Neodesha, Wilson county, Kansas.

SUSAN P., born March 12, 1839,
married Feb., 1858, to Edward S. Mc-
Murry. They have three children, and
live at Leghorn, Pottawatomie county,
Kansas. He is Postmaster there. — 1874.

Mrs. Eliza A. Reed died Sept. 22,
1847, and James E. Reed was married
Nov. 6, 1847, to Mrs. Susan Ralston, who
had previously been Mrs. Earnest, and
whose maiden name was Kendall. They
had two children —

SARAH E., born Dec. 21, 1848, lives
with her parents.

BURZILLA AT., born Nov. 20,
1850, married Oct. 16, 1873, to William
T. Simpson. See his name.

J. E. Reed and wife reside five miles
west of Springfield, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

REID, SAMUEL H., was born
in 1781, near Richmond, Virginia. His
parents moved, when he was a young
man, to Davidson county, Ttnn., near
President Jackson's country seat, the
Hermitage; and from there to Warren
county, Ky. While visiting his brother,
Judge Alexander Reid, at Shelbyville,
Samuel H. became acquainted with Eliza-
beth Roberts. They were there married,
and lived near Bowling Green, Warren

county, until six children were born.
Mrs. Reid and three of the children died
there. Mr. Reid was married in Warren
county to Jane Gott, and moved at once
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in
Sept., 1827, and settled on a farm he had
previously purchased, three miles west of
Springfield, where they had four children.
Of his seven children —

SAMUEL H. and SARAH J.,
twins, born May 20, 1818, in Warren
countv, Kentucky.

SAMUEL H. married Oct. 20, 1840,
in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth Davis.
They had three children— SARAH J.,
born Oct. 27, 1841, married, April 19,
1858, to Thomas L. Conner, who was
born Sept. r, 1832, in Allegheny county,
Penn. They had four children, SAMUEL
R. died young. WILLIAM L., MARGARET
E. and SARAH j. live with their parents in
Springfield, Illinois. DAVID A. died in
infancy. ROBERT S., born Oct. 12,
1848, married, Oct. 20, 1869, to Olive M.
Cross, who was born Nov. 22, 1850, in
Christian county, Illinois. They have
one child, SARAH E., and live one and
one-half mile west of Springfield. Sam-
uel H. Reid, Jun., and wife now — 1876 —
reside three miles west of Springfield,
Illinois, on the farm settled by his father
in 1827.

SAKAH J. married David A. Reid,
a distant relative, had one child, and
mother and child died, in Lincoln county,
Missouri.

DA VID A., born April, 1822, in Ken-
tucky, raised in Sangamon county, and
died March, 1840, in Lincoln county,
Missouri.

By the second marriage —

AD ALINE, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married Thomas Reid, had two child-
ren, and she died Jan., 1855, m Lincoln
county, Missouri.

WILLIAM M., born in Sangamon
county, died, aged eighteen years, in
Lincoln county, Missouri. .

LUCINDA died, aged fourteen years,
in Lincoln county, Missouri.

J AMES, born and died in Sangamon
county, aged four years.

Samuel H. Reid, Sen., was a ruling
Elder in the church organized by Rev.
John G. Bergen, the first ever organized
in Springfield, now the First Presby-
terian church. He afterwards became a

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ruling Elder in the Second Presbyterian
church, and continued to the end of his
life. He died Sept., 1836, and his widow
died sixteen days later, both in Sangamon
county.

REED, JAMES FRAZIER.
was born Nov. 14, 1800, in county Ar-
magh, Ireland. His ancestors were of
noble P'olish birth, who chose exile
rather than submission to the Russian
power, and settled in the north of Ireland.
The family name was originally Reed-
noski, but in process of time the Polish
termination of the name was dropped,
and the family was called Reed. James
F. Reed's mother's name was Frazier,
whose ancestors belonged to Clan Fra-
zier, of Scottish history. Mrs. Reed, and
her son, James F., came to America when
he was a youth, and settled in Virginia.
He remained there until he was twenty,
when he left for the lead mines of Illi-
nois, and was engaged in mining until
1831, when he came to Springfield, San-
gamon county, 111. He served in the
Black Hawk war, and at its termination
returned to Springfield, where he engaged
in mercantile pursuits, made money, and
bought a farm near the latter city. Mr.
Reed was for several years engaged in
manufacturing cabinet furniture at a point
on the Sangamon river, seven miles east
of Springfield. He employed a large
number of men, and a village grew up
there, which, in honor of his first name,
was called Jamestown. It has since been
twice changed, first to Hewlett and then to
Riverton, the present name. He was mar-
ried, in 1834,10 Mrs Margaret W. Backen-
stoe, whose maiden name was Keyes, a
daughter of Humphrey Keyes. See his
name. Mrs. Reed had one child by her
first marriage. In Apr., 1846, Mr. and Mrs.
Reed, with many others, started overland
for California. See Reed and Donner
party. Mr. Reed settled at San Jose
Mission, California, and invested in land
from time to time. He was among the
first who tried their fortunes at gold hunt-
ing, in which he was very successful. Of
Mrs. Reed's child by a former marriage —
VIRGINIA E. Backenstoe, born in
Sangamon county, 111., was married in
San Jose, California, in 1850, to John M.
Murphy, who was born Jan. 8, 1824, in
Canada, and went to California in 1844.
They had nine children, three died young.

Of the other six : M AR Y M., born Oct.
1850, in San Jose, was married there, in
June, 1869, to P. McAram. They have
two children, THOMAS p. and MARY v.
Mr. McAram is a Banker in San Fran-
cisco, California, and resides there. JOHN
M. was born March, 1858; VIRGINIA,
born April, 1860; JULIA A., born Feb.,
1866; DANIEL J., born Dec., 1867, and
THADEUS S., born July, 1874; they are
natives of San Jose, California, and the
five latter live there with their parents.
Mrs. Virginia E. Murphy writes me, in
Dec., 1875, that she never was taught or
made to feel, during Mr. Reed's lifetime,
that she was a step-child or half-sister,
and that he was the most loving and in-
dulgent step-father that ever lived. So
thoughtful was he of her feelings that he
took occasion, after the death of her
mother, to assure her of his continued
affection, and that he knew no difference
between herself and nis own children, as
she came to him with her mother, a little
babe. He made no distinction between
Mrs. Murphy and his own children in his
will.

Mr. and Mrs, James F. Reed had six
children; one died in infancy. Of the
other five —

MARTHA J., born Feb. 26, 1838, in
Springfield, Illinois, accompanied hjr
parents to California, and was married
there, at Santa Cruz, Dec. 25, 1856, to
Frank Lewis, who was born in Lancaster,
Worcester county, Mass., Sept. 15, 1828.
They had eight children; one died in
infancy. KATE, born Oct. 6, 1857.
MARGARET B.. born June 6. 1860.
FRANK, Jun., born March 22, 1862.
MARTHA J., born April 6, 1864.
JAMES F., born August 35, 1866.
CARRIE E., born September 15, 1870.
and SUSAN A., born Dec. 31, 1873,
live with their mother, in San Jose, Cali-
fornia. Mr. Lewis enlisted, in 1846, in
the ist Massachusetts Vol. Inf., for the
Mexican war, and served to its close. He
spent the next two years in New Orleans,
and three years in Central and South
America, went to San Jose, California, in
June, 1852, and was for many years a
member of the city council of that place.
He was a wholesale and retail grocer,
and died June 18, 1876, mourned by a
large circle of acquaintences. The Mayor

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and city council acted as pall bearers at
his funeral.

JAMES F., Jun., born March 26,
1841, at Springfield, 111., accompanied his
parents to California, and has been engag-
ed in mining in Idaho, Nevada and Cali-
fornia, until the last two years. He lives
now — 1876 — in San Jose, California.

J^HOMAS K., born April 2, 1843, in
Springfield, Illinois, accompanied his pa-
rents to California, has been engaged in
mining, is unmarried, and lives in San
Jose, California.

CHARLES C.,fborn Feb. 6, 1848,
under the Mexican flag, in San Jose, Cali-
fornia, was married there, Aug. 12, 1872,
to Imogene Bergler. They have two
children, CHARLES C., Jun., and WIL-
LIE F. Charles C. Reid is a farmer and
stock raiser, and resides in San Jose, Cali-
fornia.

W1LLIANOSKI TOUNT, born
Dec. 12, 1850, in San Jose, Cal., died June
12, 1860.

Mrs. Margaret W. Reed died Nov. 25,
1 86 1, and James F. Reed died July 24,
1874, both in San Jose, Cal. He was a
man of great energy, warm and genial in
his friendships, social and entertaining in
his family. He made money fast, and used
it liberally. He was one of the most active
men in trying to make San Jose the capital
of theState, circulating documents and try-
ing to impress the members elect to the
State Convention, of the importance and
value of that place as a seat of government,
and spent not less than twenty thousand
dollars in behalf of that place. Mr. Reed
left his family in good circumstances,
with a possibility of immense wealth for
them in the future, as he owned mines in
Idaho, on Reese river, and at White
Pine. For a more full account of his
sufferings and almost superhuman efforts
to relieve others, see the following sketch
of the Reed and Donner emigrant party.

REED AND DONNER. A
party was organized in the vicinity of
Springfield, Sangamon county, 111., and
started from that city, April 14, 1846, for
California and the Pacific coast. It has
always been spoken of by the people of
Sangamon county as the "Reed and
Donner emigrant party." They were not
lured there on account of gold, for it had
not then been discovered. When they
left Springfield the company numbered
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thirty-four persons. Of the two news-
papers published in Springfield at the
time — the Journal and Register — each
have the identical number missing that
should have contained information about
them. The following are the names as near
as I have been able to determine, of the
persons composing the company: —

James F. Reed and Mrs- Margaret W.
Reed, his wife, with their four children,
Virginia E. B., Martha J., James F., Jun.,
and Thomas K.; also Mrs. Sarah Keyes,
the mother of Mrs. Reed.

George Donner and Mrs. Tamsen
Donner, his wife, with their five children,
Elitha C., Leanna C., Francis E., Georgi-
ana and Eliza P.

Jacob Donner and Mrs. Elizabeth Don-
ner, his wife, with their five children,
Isaac, Lewis, Samuel, George and
Mary; also William and Solomon Hook,
children of Mrs. Donner by a former
marriage.

There were also Milford Elliott — often
mentioned as Milton Elliott — James
Smith, John Denton, Eliza and Bayless
Williams, Walter Herron and Hiram O.
Miller. There were some others, but I
have been unable to learn their names.

Leaving Springfield, their first point of
destination was Independence, Missouri,
where they were to make the final pre-
paration for crossing the Plains. They
were joined at various points by parties
from other places, as follows : —

From Lacon, Illinois: Jay Fausdick
and Mrs. Sarah Fausdick, his wife. Mr.
and Mrs. Graves, with their eight child-
ren, Frank, Mary, William, Ellen, Lavi-
na, Nancy, Jonathan and Elizabeth. Mrs.
Fausdick was a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Graves.

From Iowa: Patrick Brien — spelled,
in some places, Brein and Breen — Marga-
ret Brien, Margaret J., John, Edward,
Patrick, Jun., Simon, James and Peter
Brien, and Patrick Dolen.

From Belleville, Illinois: J. P. Eddy,
Mrs. Eddy and W. H. Eddy.

From St. Louis, Missouri: William
Foster, Mrs. Foster and George Foster;
and from Ray county, Missouri: William
McCutchen, Mrs. McCutchen and Har-
riet McCutchen.

From Tennessee: Lemuel Murphy,
Mrs, Murphy, Lander, Mary, William

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and Samuel Murphy; William Pike,
Cynthia Pike and N. Pike.

From Germany: Mr. and Mrs. Kies-
berger, or Keysburg, B. and L. S. Keys-
burg. Mrs. Wolfinger, Mr. Rinehart,
Mr. Spitzger and Carl Berger.

From Springfield, Ohio: Samuel
Shoemaker, and —

From Chicago, Illinois: C. T. Stanton.

Others are mentioned on the road, in-
cidentally, but this sketch is only intended
for those who left Sangamon county. At
Independence, Mr. Reed loaded eight
wagons with provisions and supplies of
various kinds. The Donners made simi-
lar preparations, as also the other mem-
bers of the party. They, of course, had
a sufficient number of oxen to haul all
their wagons. It was absolutely neces-
sary that emigrants, at that time, should
travel in large bodies as a safeguard
against the Indians on the Plains. It was
never safe to start until the grass had
made sufficient growth to afford susten-
ance for the cattle. This company of
eighty-one persons, thirty-four of whom
were from Sangamon county, left Inde-
pendence early in May, for their long,
tedious and perilous journey across the
Western Plains. All went well until they
approached the Big Blue river, four miles
above its mouth, where Manhattan, Kan.,
now stands. They found the stream
quite full, and the whole party camped
and commenced building boats and rafts
for crossing. Just before reaching there,
Mrs. Keyes, the mother of Mrs. Reed,
showed signs of failing health under the
fatigue and discomfort of travel in un-
pleasant weather. While in camp she
grew worse, and on the morning of May
29, 1846, breathed her last. Work was
suspended, and each vied with every other
in rendering the last tribute of respect to
her remains. A neat coffin was made of
timber, split, hewn and planed, from a
cottonwood tree near by. The remains
were placed in it and buried on a beauti-
ful elevation, near an upland burr oak.
Religious services were conducted by a
Cumberland Presbyterian minister. The
grave was sodded, and the tree made to
serve the purposes of a head board. On
it was cut the following inscription :
"SARAH KEYES, AGED 70 YEARS. DIED
29th MAY, 1846. FROM SPRING-
FIELD, ILLINOIS."

At the foot a coarse white stone, re
sembling marble, was placed, containing
the words :

MRS. S. KEYES, AGED 70 YEARS.

Flowers and young Cedars were plant-
ed at the head and foot.

Between Independence and Blue river
the Reed and Donner party fell in with
Col. W. H. Russell and company, who
had left Independence a few days before
them. Passing Blue river, they all trav-
eled together until they reached Little
Sandy river, where a separation took
place, the majority of them going to
Oregon, Col. Russell heading the latter.
The day after the separation the Reed
and Donner party elected George Don-
ner Captain, and from that time it was
known as the "Donner Company." They
continued their journey up the valley of the
Platte river, passing Fort Laramie and
crossing the Rocky Mountains to Fort
Bridger without any serious mishap. This
had occupied the entire summer. They
tarried at the Fort four days. Parties
who had gone before, learned the dangers,
and knowing the Donner party were coin-
ing, left letters, directed to Mr. Reed, with
Mr. Vasques, the partner of Bridger, for
whom the fort was named, advising him
by no means to take what was known as
the Hastings cut off, but to go by the Fort
Hall route. The latter was an established
route, and well known, but it required a
detour to the northwest, whereas the Has-
tings cut off, passing through Webber
canyon to the south end of the great
Salt Lake, about where Salt Lake City
now stands, made the route more direct,
and doubtless was three hundred miles
shorter, which was the inducement to
take that route. Vasques being interested
in having all travelers go that way, with-
held the letters from Mr. Reed, and he
never knew, until his arrival in California,
that any such letters had been left for him,
and they unfortunately took what they
supposed would be the more direct road.
Approaching the mouth of the Web-
ber canyon, they found a letter sticking
in the top of a sage bush. It was from
Hastings, the discoverer of the new
route. He was then piloting a company
through, and proposed to the Donner
Company that, it they would send mes-

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sengers for him, he would return and
pilot them through a better way than
the one given them. Messrs. Reed,
Stanton and McCutchen, of the Donner
Company, went to Mr. Hastings, and,
after going back part of the way with
Mr. Reed — he having procured a fresh
horse — Mr. Hastings gave him directions,
and leaving him about where Salt Lake
city now stands, returned to the first
party he was piloting. Mr. Reed return-
ed east to the Donner Company, all
hands went to work, and by digging and
cutting timber, made a road passing to
the south end of Salt Lake, crossing the
outlet to the lake — now called the river
Jordan. Passing to the northwest,
around the lake, they were detained a
few days by the death, from consumption,
of one of the company, a Mr. Halloran.
A few more days' travel brought them to
the Springs where they were to provide
water and grass for crossing what was
called Hastings' desert, an alkaline region
destitute of water or vegetation. They
were led to believe that it was less than
fifty miles across, but it proved to be nearer
eighty. It was understood they must
travel day and night, stopping only to
feed and water the cattle. When about
two-thirds of the way across, the stock
manifested signs of being exhausted, and
the company requested Mr. Reed to go
forward until he found water and report.
He did so, reaching it in about twenty
miles, and returning, met his teamsters
about 1 1 o'clock at night driving the
cattle, having left their wagons. After
directing them how to proceed, he went
on to meet his family and the re-
mainder of the company. Soon
after leaving his teamsters, one of
their horses sunk down in the road,
and while they were endeavoring to
raise it, the cattle scented the water, scat-
tered, and nine yoke were never found,
leaving one ox and a cow only ; his
wagons and family, with all their sup-
plies, out on a desert, hundreds o*' miles
from any human habitation, and winter
close upon them. The mistake of his
teamsters — and one he would not have
permitted had he been present — was in
leaving the wagons so soon.

The Donners and other members of
the company drove their teams much
further before leaving their wagons, and

some few succeeded in taking them
the entire distance.

We will return to Mr. Reed, who was
seeking his family twenty miles in the
desert. He reached them about daylight
the next morning. Not knowing that
his cattle were lost, he waited with his
family all day, expecting some of his men
to return and haul them to water. Not
receiving any information, and their sup-
ply of water being nearly gone, he start-
ed with his family on foot, carrying the
youngest child in his arms, and in the course
of the night the children became exhaust-
ed. They spread a blanket on the
ground; all lay down on it, and covered
themselves with shawls; but a cold hurri-
cane commenced blowing soon after, and
he could only keep the children warm by
having their four dogs lie down against
them, outside the shawls. About day-
light they moved on, and soon came to a
wagon, which belonged to Jacob Donner,
and contained his family. Mr. Reed left
his family with Mrs. Donner. Mr. Don-
ner returned from the water with his
cattle, and took his own and Mr. Reed's
families to the water, where they remained
in camp about a week, hunting for their
cattle. Mr. Reed never found any of
his; the Indians had made sure work,
and secured all except the two previously
mentioned. He then divided his provis-
ions, except what he could haul in one
wagon, borrrowed another yoke of oxen,
and, leaving his seven wagons in the
desert, moved on with the company, — all
the others having found a sufficient num-
ber of their oxen to haul their wagons.
After a few days' travel, the party who
had loaned him the yoke of oxen needed
them, when another neighbor loaned him
a yoke.

Some days further on it was found
that provisions were running shoi't. An
estimate was made of the quantity it
would take for each family. Mr. Reed
then proposed that if two men would go
forward to Captain Slitter's in California,
he, Reed, would write him a letter, ask-
ing for the whole amount, and would
become personally responsible for the
pay. Mr. William McCutchen, of Mis-
souri, and Mr. Stanton, of Chicago,
volunteered to go. The progress was •
slow, and weeks passed without any
tidings from McCutchen and Stanfon.

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It was suggested that Mr. Reed go in
advance to see what had become of
them, and hurry up supplies. la all cases
of that kind those remaining were to
take care of the families of those detach-
ed for the good of all. The two Donner
families were in advance of the main
body. Walter Herron was with George
Donner, and when Mr. Reed overtook
them, Herron volunteered to go with
him. Having but one horse, they rode
by turns. Their provisions gave out, and
they traveled for days without food, ex-
cept wild geese and other game which
they occasionally killed on Truckee
river. When they reached the Sierra
Nevada mountains, Herron wanted to
kill the horse, and Mr. Reed persuaded
him from it by agreeing to kill him rather
than perish with hunger. That afternoon
Herron became delirious for want of food.
They found Jive beans. Herron ate
three of them, and Reed the other two.
The next morning they came upon some
abandoned wagons, which they ransacked,
but failed to find any food. Taking the
tar-bucket from one of the wagons, and
scraping the tar from the bottom, Mr.
Reed discovered a streak of rancid tallow
in the bottom, which he made known to
Herron, who swallowed a piece about the
size of a walnut without giving it a
smell. He swallowed a second piece, and
wanted more, which Mr. Reed refused to
give him, having himself eaten some
which made him deathly sick. They
soon after descended into Bear river
valley, where they found some emigrants
in wagons, who gave them food and re-
lieved their sufferings. They there met
Mr. Stanton, and two Indians sent by
Captain Sutter to aid in carrying provis-
ions. Mr. Reed was so emaciated that
Mr. Stanton did not recognize him until
they had conversed with each other sever-
al minutes. The next morning, Oct. 23,
1846, each party continued their journey.
Mr. Reed went on to Captain Sutler's,
where he secured thirty horses, one mule
and two Indians to aid him in bringing
out the sufferers. He was joined by Mr.
McCutchen, who had been separated
from Mr. Stanton by sickness. With
some flour and beef they started to meet
the suffering emigrants in the mountains.
After weekL- spent in unavailing efforts,
they had to return, as men and horses

sank out of sight in the snow. It was
evident that nothing could be done until
spring, the mountaineers all being absent
fighting Mexicans, the war with Mexico
having commenced the year before, jand
the natives of Spanish and Indian blood
having expressed a determination to exter-
minate the Americans.

Snow commenced falling the latter part
of October, and caught the whole party,
not in a body, but scattered along some
distance, the extremes being probably a
day's journey apart. The following jour-
nal kept by one of the suffei'ers, includes
the time from Oct. 31, 1846,10 Mar. i, 1847.
This is taken from a copy of the Illinois
State Journal of Sept. 16, 1847, and is
dated :

TRUCKEY'S LAKE, Nov. 20,

Came to this place on the 315! of last
month; went into the Pass, the snow so
deep we were unable to find the road, and
when within three miles from the summit,
turned back to this shanty, on Truckey's
Lake. Stanton came up one day after we
arrived here; we again took our teams
and wagons and made another unsuccess-
ful attempt to cross the mountains, as it
continued to snow all the time. We
now have killed most part of our cattle,
having to remain here until next spring,
and live on lean meat, without bread or
salt. It snowed during the space of eight
days, with little intermission, after our ar-
rival, though now clear an'd pleasant,
freezing at night; the snow nearly gone
from the valleys.

Nov. 21 — Fine morning, wind north-
west; twenty-two of our company about
starting to cross the mountains this day,
including Stanton and his Indians.

Nov. 22 — Froze hard last night; fine
and clear to-day; no account from those
on the mountains.

Nov. 23 — Same weather, wind west;
the expedition across the mountains re-
turned after an unsuccessful attempt.

Nov. 25 — Cloudy ; looks like the eve of
a snow storm ; our mountaineers are to
make another trial to-morrow, if fair;
froze hard last night.

Nov. 26 — Began to snow last evening;
now rains or sleets; the party do not start
to-day.

Nov. 29 — Still snowing; now about
three feet deep; wind west; killed my

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last oxen to-day; gave another yoke to
Foster; wood hard to be got.

Nov. jo — Snowing fast; looks as likely
to continue as when it commenced; no
living thing without wings can get
about.

Dec. i — Still snowing; wind west;
snow about six or six and one-half feet
deep; very difficult to get wood, and we
are completely housed up; our cattle all
killed but two or three, and these, with
the horses and Stanton's mules, all sup-
posed to be lost in the snow; no hopes of
finding them alive.

Dec. j — Ceases snowing; cloudy all
day; warm enough to thaw.

Dec. 4 — Beautiful sunshine, thawing a
little; looks delightful after the long
storm ; snow seven or eight feet deep.

Dec. 5 — The morning fine and clear;
Stanton and Graves manufacturing snow
shoes for another mountain scrabble; no
account of mules.

Dec. 8 — Fine weather; froze hard last
night; wind southwest; hard work to find
wood sufficient to keep us warm, or cook
our beef.

Dec. 9 — Commenced snowing about
eleven o'clock; wind northwest; took in
Spitzer yesterday, so weak that he cannot
rise without help, caused by starvation.
Some have a scant supply of beef; Stan-
ton trying to get some for himself and
Indians; not likely to get much.
• Dec. 10 — Snowed fast all night, with
heavy squalls of wind; continues to snow;
now about seven feet in depth.

Dec. 14 — Snows faster than any previ-
ous day; Stanton and Graves, with sev-
eral others, making preparations to cross
the mountains on snow shoes; snow eight
feet on a level.

Dec. 16 — Fair and pleasant; froze hard
last night; the company started on snow
shoes to cross the mountains; wind south-
east.

Dec. if — Pleasant; Wm. Murphy re-
turned from the mountain party last even-
ing: Bayless Williams died night before
last; Milton and Noah started for Don-
ner's eight days ago, not returned yet;
think they are lost in the snow.

Dec. 19 — Snowed last night, thawing
to-day ; wind northwest, a little singular
for a thaw.

Dec. 20 — Clear and pleasant; Mrs.
Reed here; no account from Milton yet;

Charles Berger set out for Donner's;
turned back unable to proceed; tough
times, but not discouraged; our hopes are
in God; Amen.

Dec. 21 — Milton got back last night
from Donner's camp; sad news; Jacob
Donner, Samuel Shoemaker, Rhinehart
and Smith are dead ; the rest of them in
a low situation; snowed all night, with a
strong southwest wind.

Dec. 23 — Clear to-day; Milton took
some of his meat away; all well at their
camp. Began this day to read the
"Thirty days' Prayers;" Almighty God
grant the requests of unworthy sinners!

Dec. 24 — Rained all night and still
continues; poor prospect for any kind of
comfort, spiritual or temporal.

Dec. 25 — Began to snow yesterday,
snowed all night and snows yet, rapidly ;
extremely difficult to find wood, offered
our prayers to God this, Christmas, morn-
ing; the prospect is appalling, but we
trust in Him.

Dec. 27 — Cleared off yesterday; con-
tinues clear; snow nine feet deep; wood
growing scarcer; a tree, when felled,
sinks into the snow, and is hard lo be got
at.

Dec. jo — Fine, clear morning; froze
hard last night; Charles Berger died last
evening about ten o'clock.

Dec. ji — Last of the year; may we,
with the help of God, spend the coming
year better than we have the past, which
we propose to do if it be the will of the
Almighty to deliver us from our present
dreadful situation; Amen. Morning fair,
but cloudy; wind east-by-south; looks
like another snow storm; snow storms
are dreadful to us; the snow at present is
very deep.

Jan. i, 1847 — We pray the God of
mercy to deliver us from our present
calamity, if it be His holy will. Com-
menced snowing last night, and snows a
little yet; provisions getting scant; dug
up a hide from under the snow yesterday ;
have not commenced on it yet.

Jan. j — Fair during the day ; freezing
at night; Mrs. Reed talks of crossing the
mountains with her children.

Jan. 4 — Fine morning, looks like,
spring; Mrs. Reed and Virginia, Milton
Elliot and Eliza Williams started a short
time ago, with the hope of crossing the
mountain; left the children here; it was

difficult for Mrs. Reed to part with
them.

Jan 6. — Eliza came back from the
mountains yesterday evening, not able to
proceed; the others kept ahead.

Jan. 8 — Very cold this morning ;
Mrs. Reed and others came back, could
not find their way, on the other side of the
mountains; theyjiave nothing but hides
to live on. %

Jan. 10 — Began to snow last night;
still continues; wind west-north-west.

Jan. JTJ — Snowing fast; snow higher
than the shanty; it must be thirteen feet
deep; cannot get wood this morning; it
is a dreadful sight for us to look upon.

Jan. 14 — Cleared off yesterday; the
sun shining brilliantly renovates our
spirits; praise be to the God of Heaven.

Jan. 15 — Clear day again; wind north-
west; Mrs. Murphy blind; Lanlhron not
able to get wood ; has but one axe be-
tween him and Kiesburg; it looks like
another storm; expecting some account
from Sutler's soon.

Jan. 77 — Lanthron became crazy last
night; provisions scarce; hides our main
subsistence; may the Almighty send us
help.

Jan. 21 — Fine morning; John Battise
and Mr. Denton came this morning with
Eliza. She will not eat hides; Mrs.

sent her back to live or die

on them.

Jan. 22 — Began to snow after sunrise;
likely to continue; wind north.

Jan. 23 — Blew hard and snowed all
night; the most severe storm we have ex-
perienced this winter; wind west.

Jan. 26 — Cleared up yesterday ; to-day
fine and pleasant, wind south; in hopes
we are done with snow storms; those
who went to Slitter's not yet returned;
provisions getting scant; people growing
weak ; living: on small allowance of

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hides.

Jan. 28 — Commenced snowing yester-
day— still continues to-day. Lewis (Sut-
ler's Indian,) died three day's ago; food
growing scarcer; don't have fire enough
to cook our hides.

Jan. jo — Fair and pleasant; wind
, west; thawing in the sun; John and Ed-
ward Breen went to Graves' this morn-
ing; the seized on Mrs.

goods until they would be paid; they also
took the hides which herself and family

subsisted upon ; she regained two pieces
only, the balance they have taken. You
may judge from this what our fare is in
camp; there is nothing to be had by hunt-
ing yet, perhaps there soon will be.

Jan. ji — The sun does not shine out
brilliant this morning; froze hard last
night; wind northwest. Lanthron Mur-
phy died last night about one o'clock;
Mrs. Reed went to Graves' this morning
to look after goods.

Feb. 5 — Snowed hard until 12 o'clock
last night; many uneasy for fear we shall
all perish with hunger; we have but little
meat left, and only three hides; Mrs.
"Reed has nothing but one hide, and that
is on Graves' house; Milton lives there,
and likely will keep that; Eddy's child
died last night.

Feb. 6 — It snowed faster last night and
to-day than it has done this winter before;
still continues without intermission; wind
southwest; Murphy's folks and Kiesburg
say they cannot eat hides; I wish we
had enough of them ; Mrs. Eddy is very
weak.

Feb. 7 — Ceased to snow at last; to-day
it is quite pleasant; McCutcheon's child
died on the second of this month.

Feb. <?-Fine, clear morning; Spitzer died
last night; we will bury him in the
snow. Mrs. Eddy died on the night of
the seventh.

Feb. o— Mr. Pike's child all but dead ;
Milton is at Murphy's, not able to get out

of bed: Kiesburg gets up; he

says he is not able; Mrs. Eddy and child
were buried to-day; wind southeast.

Feb. 10 — Beautiful morning; thawing
in the sun; Milton Elliot died last night
at Murphy's shanty; Mrs. Reed went
there this morning to see after his effects;
J. Denton trying to borrow meat for
Graves; had none to give; they had noth-
ing but hides; all are entirely out of meat;
but a little we have ; our hides are nearly
all eat up; with God's help spring will
soon smile upon us.

Feb. 12 — Warm, thawy morning.

Feb. 14 — Fine morning, but cold; bur-
ied Milton in the snow. John Denton
not well.

Feb. 75 — Morning cloudy until nine
o'clock, then cleared off warm. Mrs.

refused to give Mrs. any

hides. Put Sutler's pack hides on her

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shanty and would not let her have them.

Feb. 16 — Commenced to rain last even-
ing, and turned to snow during the night,
and continued until morning; weather
changeable, sunshine, then light showers
of hail, and wind at times. We all feel
very unwell; the snow is not getting
much less at present.

Feb. 19 — Froze hard last night. Seven
men arrived from California yesterday
evening with provisions, but left the
greater part on the way. To-day it is
clear and warm for this region ; some of
the men have gone to Donner's camp;
they will start back on Monday.

Feb. 22 — The Californians started this
morning, twenty-four in number, some in
a very weak state; Mrs. Kiesburg started
with them, and left Kiesburg here, unable
to go; buried Pike's child this morning in
the snow; it died two days ago.

Feb. 23 — Froze hard last night; to-day
pleasant and thawy — has the appearance
of spring, all but the deep snow; wind
south-south-east; shot a dog to-day, and
dressed his flesh.

Feb. 23 — To-day Mrs. Murphy says
the wolves are about to dig up the dead
bodies around her shanty, and the nights
arc too cold to watch them, but we hear
them howl.

Feb. 26 — Hungry times in camp; plen-
ty of hides, but the folks wont eat them;
we eat them with tolerable good appetite,
thanks be to the Almighty God. Mrs.
Murphy said here yesterday, that she
thought she would commence on Milton
and eat him; I do not think she has done
so yet; it is distressing. The Donner's
told the California folks, four days ago,
that they would commence on the dead
people, if they did not succeed that day
or the next in finding their cattle, then
ten or twelve feet under the snow, and
did not know the spot or any where near
it; they have done it ere this.

Feb. 28 — One solitary Indian passed by
yesterday; came from the lake; had a
heavy pack on his back; gave me five or
six roots, resembling onions in shape;
tasted some like a sweet potato, full of
tough little fibres.

Feb. 29 — Ten men arrived this morn-
ing from Bear Valley, with provisions.
We all leave in two or three days, and
cache our goods here. They say the
snow will remain until June.

The above mentioned ten men started
for the Valley with seventeen of the suf-
ferers; they traveled fifteen miles and a
severe snow storm came on ; they left
fourteen of the emigrants, the writer of
the above journal and his family, and suc-
ceeded in getting in but three children.
Lieut. Woodworth immediately went to
their assistance, but before he reached
them the«y had eaten three of their num-
ber, who had died from hunger and
fatigue; the remainder Lieut. Wood-
worth's party brought in. April, 1847,
the last member of the party was brought
to Cap't Suiter's Fort. It is utterly im-
possible to give any description of the
sufferings of the company. Your readers
can form some idea of them by perusing
the above diary.

Yours, etc.,
GEORGE McKINSTRY, JR.

FORT SACRAMENTO, April 27, 1847.

The emigrants thus caught in the moun-
tains died, one by one, until thirty-six of
the eighty-one who left Independence in
the spring with such high hopes, literally
starved to death. To make it more in-
telligible than the journal would indicate,
I give the names of those from Sangamon
county : —

George Donner and his wife, Mrs.
Tamsen Donner; Jacob Donner and his
wife, Mrs. Elizabeth Donner; her son,
William Hook, sometimes called William
Donner; the three sons of Jacob Don-
ner and wife, Isaac, Lewis and Samuel;
four unmarried men, Bayless Williams,
Milford Elliott, James Smith and John
Denton, making a total of twelve from
Sangamon county ivho perisJied from
exposure and want of food. For Mr.
Elliott's family history, see page 285.
For the Donner family history, see page

257-

I do not think it will be agreeable to
the surviving members of the bereaved
families, neither is it congenial to my
feelings, to dwell on the horrors of that
dreary winter among the inhospitable
mountains. Those who could have given
most in detail, were always reticent on
that subject. They doubtless would have
regarded it as the greatest boon that could
have been conferred upon themselves if
every recollection of it could ha.ve been
erased from their memories. With the

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exception of the glimpse into the abyss of
woe given in the preceding journal, I think
it best, now, in this centennial year, after
the lapse of the lifetime of one generation,
to draw a veil over the horrors of the
scene, and only extract such lessons from
it as will tend to elevate our common
humanity.

Jacob Donner died among the first, if
not the first. He was a tender-hearted,
conscientious man, and it is attested that
his death was caused more by grief at the
present and prospective sufferings of his
family, than from disease or want of
food. George and Jacob Donner were
members of the German Prairie Christian
church. See 'what Isaac Taylor says
about it. The five surviving children of
George Donner, and the three surviving
children of Jacob Donner and wife, with
their descendents, are among the most re-
spected citizens of California. A few
words more with reference to Mrs.
George Donner. She was a native of
New England — Maine, I believe — and
was a lady in the highest sense of the
word. Some of the citizens of Sanga-
mon county remember her especially on
account of her perfect self-control and
power to govern. She taught school in
the vicinity of Auburn when it was more
unusual for a lady to teach than it is now.
Some almost full grown, rough, uncouth
young men were in her school, and yet
she would govern them as thoroughly as
though they were children. This self-
control seems never to have left her.
According to the testimony of Mr. Reed,
who, after his own family had been
rescued, vis. ted the two camps of the
Donners, to find Mrs. Jacob Donner and
and Mr. George Donner helpless, and no
means of removing them. They were
prepared to leave provisions, and a man at
each camp to care for the sick, and used
every argument to induce Mrs. George
Donner to go with them, but with the
full knowledge of the probabilities that
she would lose her own life she utterly
refused, prefering to meet death in the
discharge of her duty to her husband
rather than save her own life by seeming
to abandon him in his hour of peril ; and
so she died, as truly a martyr as though
she had been burned at the stake.

Other acts of heroisms are too numer-
ous to mention all, but we will notice

some of them. Hiram O. Miller proved
to be courageous and efficient through all.
Milford Elliott could have saved his own
life, and having neither wife, children, or
any other blood relative among the suf-
ferers, no blame could have been laid to
his charge if he had saved himself by
pushing through, but he would not aban-
don helpless women and children, and
his life paid the forfeit. The Eddy fami-
lyj of Belleville, Illinois, was totally ob-
literated.

All that is known of C. T. Stanton
is that he was from Chicago, Illinois.
In my opinion, history does not record
the name of a greater hero. It does
not appear that he was in any way
related, or even acquainted, with one of
the sufferers previous to their departure
from the States. He aided many of them
on their way, and after their calamities
came upon them, pushed his way through
the mountains and reached Sutler's fort,
where he was absolutely safe; but he
knew there were men, women and child-
ren perishing with cold and hunger, and
knowing this, there was no rest for him.
He secured supplies of food and mules,
enlisted the sympathies of two of the un-
lettered children of the forest, and all
pushed on days and weeks, through
storms and snow-drifts, until even the
two savages, prompted by him, fell
a sacrifice in the cause of humanity.
Savages, did I say? I reverently with-
draw the word. Their conduct would
put to shame thousands who have been
reared under the best of Christian in-
fluences. There can be no more exalted
evidence of humanity than to give one
life with the hope of rescuing others from
impending death. Mr. Stanton was one
of the party of fifteen who attempted to
pass out of the mountains, starting Dec. 16,
1846. He was weak and emaciated, as all
were, and on the twenty-first of December
became snow blind, and that night failed to
reach the camp. The whole party lay in
camp the next day waiting for him, but
he never came. A party of men who
went in the mountains the next summer
to bring out the goods belonging to the
Donner and Graves children, found his
bones at the very tree where they left
him on the twenty-first of December.
They were chewed and broken in small
pieces. The only way they could recog-

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nize them to be Stanton's was by a letter
from his sister in one of his pockets, with
some tobacco, the latter having prevented
the wild beasts from destroying every evi-
dence of identity. There was also a pis-
tol that had been loaned to Stanton by Mr.
Fallen, the man who found his remains.
No one of those who perished was more
sincerely mourned by the survivors than
Mr. Stanton. Mr. Reed left this testimony
to his worth : " Poor Stanton, who had no
relative in the caravan to draw him back,
but from the noble disposition he had,
and the kind feelings he entertained for
myself and family, and another person
who had befriended him, induced him to
return with provisions, and he lost his
life as a noble PHILANTHROPIST. * * *
His kindness saved my little ones from
starvation."

When we last mentioned James F.
Reed, he had been baffled in his attempt
to reach the camp of the suffering emi-
grants, and had returned to Captain Sut-
ter's, where he became satisfied that it
would be utterly impossible to do any-
thing more for them until spring. He
was advised by Captain Sutter to proceed
to Yerba Bueno — now San Francisco —
and make his case known to the naval
officer in command. Arriving at San
Jose, he found the San Francisco side of
the bay occupied by Mexicans. Here he
joined a company of volunteers, and took
part in the battle of Santa Clara; that
opened the way to San Francisco. There
he was enabled to raise, by voluntary
contributions, $ i, ooo in the town and $300
from the sailors in port, with which he
purchased supplies, which were placed on
board a schooner, in command of midship-
man Woodworth, who took all to the
mouth of Feather river, where men and
horses were procured for carrying relief
to the emigrants. On their way to the
camp they met a party coming oftt with
women and children, among them Mr.
Reed's wife and two children, his other
two children, Martha and Thomas K.,
having been left in camp in charge of a
Mr. Glover of the rescuing party, who
volunteered to stay with and care for
them, assuring Mrs. Reed that he was a
Free Mason and knew her husband to be
such, and that he would rescue her child-
ren or die in the attempt. He was as
good as his word, protected and cared for

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the children until they were rescued by
their father, and soon all the members of
the family were re-united and rejoicing
over their great deliverance. Mr. Reed's
was the only entire family who left San-
gamon county, all the members of which
lived to reach their destination, and they
did it without any one of them being
driven to the necessity of eating human
flesh. It seems the more wonderful that
they should all have lived through, when
their natural protector was separated from
them so much of the time. Having in
my possession sufficient material to make
a more thrilling narrative of facts, than
anything that could be drawn from the
imagination, I feel how utterly futile this
attempt to convey an idea of the sufferings
of that company of emigrants has been,
but want of space forbids that I should
say more, and I am compelled to close.

The scene of the great suffering just
described began west of the Great Salt
Lake, in a salt desert, and extended hun-
dreds of miles westward, over a succession
of mountain ranges, running principally
north and south, known as the Sierra
Nevada mountains. Localities could not
then be described, except by natural
boundaries, such as mountains and valleys.
The territory then belonged to Mexico,
and the suffering and destitution that met
the emigrants seemed only a realization of
what might reasonably be expected in
leaving the land of the Stars and Stripes
to come under the sway of the benighted
Mexican flag. But the old adage that
" the darkest hour is just before the break
of day," has been fully realized in this
case to those who survived. The war
they found in the Sacramento valley,
waged by Mexico for the avowed pur-
pose of exterminating the few scattered
Americans on the Pacific coast, terminated
in that whole region of country being
ceded to our government. Then followed
the discovery of gold, the influx of
Americans, and the organization of the
States of California and Oregon, and, a few
years later, Nevada. The locality of the
closing scene, the camp where the Donners
died, is marked by a small body of water
among the mountains, now known as
Lake Donner, in the western part of the
State of Nevada.

RENSHAW, WILEY P.,
was born Nov. 7, 1800, near Salisbury,

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Ga., and was taken by his parents to
Dickson county, Tenn. In 1817, the
family moved to Madison county, 111.
Martha Nesbitt was born Nov. 8, 1794,
near Lexington, Ky., and was taken by
her parents in 1797 to Sumner county,
Tenn. In 1817 they moved to Madison
county, and in 1818 to Bond county, 111.
W. P. Renshaw and Martha Nesbitt were
married Dec. 31, 1818, in Bond county.
They lived in Madison county until one
child was born, and moved to San-
gamon county, 111., arriving Feb. 26, 1821,
on the north side of Richland creek, in
what is now Cartw right township, where
they had seven children.

JANE, born Oct. u, 1819, in Madi-
son county, is unmarried, and lives with
her mother.

MART A., born Oct. 20, 1822, in
Sangamon county, married May n, 1845,,
to Simeon Q. Harrison. See his name.

MARGARET E., born July 12, 1825,
in Sangamon county, married Jan. it!,

1848, to Felix Butler, had one child, and
Mrs. Butler died at Decatur in June,

1849. The child died in September fol-
lowing.

JAMES N., born July 16, 1827, died
Sept. i, 1852.

BARBARA A. H., born Sept. 18,
1829, in Sangamon county, married
April 17, 18^6, to Andrew M. Houghton.
They had two children. WILEY P.
died in his fourth year. ANNIE M.
lives with her parents, in Menard county,
seven miles north of Pleasant Plains,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOHN SINCLAIR, born Dec. 28,
1831, in Sangamon county, married Nov.
17, 1858, to Elizabeth Ogden, who was
born May 5, 1835, in Menard county.
They have three children, MARTHA
J., ABIGAIL L. and MARY A., and
reside in Cartwright township, three
miles west of Salisbury, Illinois.

WILLIAM P., born Dec. 28, 1833,
died Oct. 7, 1852.

GEORGE , M., born Aug. 7, 1839, in
Sangamon county, married Oct. 22, 1866,
to Matilda F. Parker, who was born
Sept. 25, 1840, in Robertson county,
Tenn. They live at the Renshaw family
homestead, near Salisbury, Illinois.

Wiley P. Renshaw died Oct. 27, 1852,
in Sangamon county, and his widow re-
sides at the homestead where they settled

in Feb., 1821. She has now — Sept.,
1873 — lived more than fifty-two years
within less than two rods of the same
spot. It is in Cartwright township,
three miles west of Salisbury, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

Mrs. Margaret Renshaw, mother of
Wiley P. Renshaw, came to Sangamon
county in 1823, bringing seven children.
Her daughter, Margaret H., married
Michael Davis, has five children, and lives
in Menard county. Delilah married
Carroll Archer. Sec his name. Mrs.
Margaret Renshaw died in August,
1842.

Mrs. Jane Nesbitt, the mother of Mrs.
Wiley P. Renshaw, came to Sangamon
county about 1826, bringing five children
with her. Two years later she moved to
Morgan county. In 1844 she came back
to Sangamon, and died Feb. 14, 1846.
Her daughter, Jane, and son, William,
reside near Nemaha, Nebraska.

REISCH, FRANK, was born
Jan. 24, 1809, in Baden, Germany. He
came to America, landing at New Orleans
in the winter of 1832, and traveled over
the country until 1836, when he made his
home in Beardstown, Illinois. The next
year he returned to Germany, and was
married Nov., 1837^ to Susan Maurer,
who was born Feb. n, 1817, in Germany.
In the spring of 1838 Mr. Reisch brought
his wife to Beardstown, and from there to
Richland creek, in Sangamon county, the
same year. They had five children there,
and moved to Springfield in 1850, where
they had two children. Mr. Reisch en-
gaged in the business of brewing, which
he continued until May, 1875, when he
sold his brewery to his sons. Of the
seven children —

FRA NK, Jun., born Jan. 19, 1842, in
Sangamon county, married in Spring-
field, Oct. 15, 1865, to Anna Hammon,
who was born Jan. i, 1845, m Winchester,
Scott county, 111. They have three child-
ren, CHRISTINA, SUSAN and
MARY, and reside in Springfield. Mr.
Reisch was elected to represent his ward
in the Sangamon county Board of Super-
visors for 1871 and '72. He was elected
alderman in April, 1873, for three years.
He is associated in the brewery business
with his brothers George and Joseph, un-
der the firm name of F. Reisch & Bros.,

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since May, 1875, at which time they
bought out the interest of their father.

JOSEPH, born in Cartwright town-
ship, Sangamon county, was married in
Springfield, April 25, 1876, to Mary
Stehlin. They immediately left on a
tour to Europe. Joseph Reisch is a
member of the firm of Reisch & Bros.,
brewers.

MART, GEORGE and ELIZA-
BETH were all born in Cartwright
township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

SUSIE and LEONARD, born in
Springfield. The five latter reside with
their mother, George being associated
with his brothers, Frank and Joseph, in
business.

Mr. Frank Reisch, Sen., was instantly
killed by a fall from an upper window,
August 1 8, 1875. He was in the act of
pitching a piece of scantling from the
window, when a spike in the timber, un-
observed by him, caught in his clothing
and drew him out. His widow and child-
ren reside in Springfield, Illinois.

RENN, HENRY, was born
April 8, 1805, in Franklin county, Penn-
sylvania, came to Sangamon county
in the spring of 1840, and bought a farm
half a mile east of where Woodside Sta-
tion now stands. A few years later he
returned to Pennsylvania, and married
Nancy Smith, who was born August 20,
1807. Their son —

JOHN WESLEY, born Oct. 15,
1847, in Sangamon county, married Jan.
20, 1869, to Laura J. Jones, daughter of
Joshua W. Jones. See his name. Mr.
and Mrs. Renn have three children,
JESSIE A., LAURA S. and EDNA,
and now — 1876 — reside on the farm pur-
chased by his father in 1840. It is half a
mile east of Woodside, Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois.,

RHEA, JAMES, was born June
3, 1780, in Greenbrier county, Va., and
when a young man, went to Barren coun-
ty, Ky., where he was married, Nov. 20,
1801, to Rachel JolifF, who was born Oct.
16, 1783. They had ten children in Ken-
tucky, and the family moved to Jefferson
county, 111., where one child was born,
and moved to Sangamon county, arriving
in 1827, in what is now Island Grove
township. Of their eleven children —

ELIZABETH,\x>\n Sept. 25, 1802,
jn Kentucky, married there to George

May. They came with her parents to
Sangamon county, had several children,
and moved to Mason county, where she
died. Mr. May married again, and took
their living children to Gentry county,
Missouri.

JAMES, Jun., born August 27,
1804, in Kentucky, married in Jefferson
county, 111., to Susan Mattix, moved to
the vicinity of Little Rock, Ark., and
died there in 1840, leaving a widow and
three children.

WILLIAM, born March 10, 1807, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
Dec. n, 1828, to Susan Foutch, and had
twelve children, three of whom died in
infancy. William Rhea died Feb. 8,
1860, and his widow lives three miles
southwest of Berlin, Illinois.

RICHARD, born Jan. 14, 1809, in
Kentucky, married Eliza Rhea. They
had three children, and Mr. Rhea died.
His widow married William Ethridge,
and moved to Iowa.

NANCY, born Dec. 24, 1811, in Ken-
tucky, married Hugh Foutch. See his
name. He died, and she married and
moved to Iowa.

JEHOIDA, born Oct. n, 1813, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county to John Foutch. See his name.

RACHEL, born Sept. 8, 1815, died,
aged ten years.

JOHN, born July 14, 1817, in Barren
county, Ky., married Nov. 14, 1839, in
Sangamon county, to Julia A. Stark,
who was born June 21, 1823, in Rut-
land, Vermont. They had seven child-
ren in Sangamon county. JAMES B.,
born Nov. 2, 1841, married America
Montague, in Sangamon county, and
lives near Hamburg, Fremont county,
Iowa. STEPHEN E., born Nov. 4,
1843, married Lucy Wilcox, have one
child, and live near Berlin, 111. MARY
A., born Jan. 6, 1846, married John F.
Wilcox. See his name. THOMAS
T., born June 10, 1848, married Sallie
Williams. They have one child, JOHN \v.,
and live near Berlin, 111. JOHN H. died
in in$mcy. MATH A E., born May 10,
1852, married R. Smith, and reskles near
Berlin. ABIGAIL R. died in infancy.
John Rhea and his wife live two and one
half miles northwest of Berlin, Sangamon
county, Illinois. — 1874.

MAHAL A, born April 25, 1820, in

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Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to Joseph Pulsifer. They
had twins, and Mrs. Pulsifer died. Mr.
Pulsifer is believed to have been murdered
while on a business trip to St. Louis, as
he was never heard of. Their two sons,
NEVO and NEVI, are married, and live
in Gentry county, Missouri.

MART A., born Oct. 27, 1822, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., -to E. R. Alsbury, had one
child, LUCINDA, who married James
ShufF. See his name. Mrs. Alsbury
died April 28, 1851.

THOMAS F., born July 27, 1824, in
Jefferson county, 111., married in Sanga-
mon county, Oct. 3, 1844, to Lucinda
Wilcox. They have five children,
ELIZA E. and REBECCA, the third
and fourth, died young. ANNA L.,
KATE and LOU live with their parents
in New Berlin, Illinois.

James Rhea died Feb. 12, 1843, and his
widow died Oct. 28, 1851, both in Sanga-
mon county. He was a soldier in the
war of 1812, from Kentucky, under Gen.
Harrison; was on Lake Erie, and saw
the British vessels brought in after Perry's
victory.

RHODES, RANDOLPH,
was born about 1791, in North Carolina,
and when he was a young man, went to
Barren county, Ky. He was married in
the adjoining county of Greene, in Oct.,
1820, to Elizabeth Short. They had
three children in Kentucky, and moved
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the
fall of 1826 on Sugar creek, east of
Springfield, where four children were
born. In the spring of 1838 Mr. Rhodes
moved to southwest Missouri, where two
children were born, and returned to San-
gamon county in the spring of 1845. In
1849 or '50, he moved to Macoupin coun-
ty, and die:l there, Dec. 25, 1851, leaving
a family near Macoupin station. Of their
children —

WILLIAM, born about 1821, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to
Jemima Center, had three children, and
all the family died in Sangamon county.

JOHN T., born Nov. 10, 1825, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon countv,
March 2, 1848, to Ttlitha M. Vice.
They had six living children, MARY E.,
married Levi King. See his name.
LAURA A., CHARLES I., JULIUS

W., ANNIE B. and LUCINDA A. live
with their parents, four miles northwest
of Springfield, Illinois. — 1874.

MARY A., born Jan., 1831, in Sanga-
mon county, married, in 1851, to Wm. R.
Hammonds. They had six children, and
Mr. Hammonds died, leaving his family
in Crawford county, Kansas. Two of
the children were killed, and two others
severely wounded by a tornado, May 22,

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JAMES J., born May, 1837, in San-
gamon county, married Mary M. Tibbs,
have two children, and live near Cremona,
Allen county, Kansas.

RICHARDSON, LEWIS
B., came to Sangamon county in 1824,
has been twice married, raised a large
family, and lives in Auburn township.

RIGG, SAMUEL, was born in
Rutherford county, North Carolina, mar-
ried there to Nancy Vawters. They had
two children, and moved in 1816 to
Greenup county, Ky., where six children
were born; and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in 1827. Of their
children, the eldest daughter married in
Kentucky to Wm. Robinson, came to
Sangamon county with her parents, and
raised a family of seven daughters.

E WELL, born in North Carolina,
married in Sangamon county to Sarah
Kelly. They had nine children, and
Mrs. Rigg died. Their daughter, NAN-
CY E., married John G. Park. See his
name. Ewell Rigg married Mrs. Sarah
Darden, whose maiden name was Brad-
ley. They reside at Macomb, Illinois.

JOHN E., born in Kentucky, mar-
ried Alice Cox, and raised a family in
McDonough county, Illinois.

JOSEPH R., born in Kentucky,
married Julia A. Park, had fifteen child-
ren, four of whom died young. JAMES
S. married and lives in Moultrie county.
The ten, THOMAS E., JOHN E.,
WILLIAM Z., ROBERT R., LEON-
ARD M., NANCY M., HENRY S.,
SARAH E., BENJAMIN B. and
HARRIET O., live with their parents,
near Macomb, Illinois.

MART died, aged twenty-three or
twenty-four years.

RUSSELL married Jane Venard,
and raised a family near Macomb, Illi-
nois. •

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ALPHA married Theophilus Mitch-
ell, and raised a family near Macomb,
Illinois.

PETER married Lucy Heuston, and
raised a family in McDonough county,
Illinois. ,

Samuel and Nancy Rigg both died in
McDonough county, Illinois.

RIGGINS, WILLIAM, was
born July 28, 1812, in Cape May county,
New Jersey, was married Jan. 6, 1834, in
Cumberland county, to Martha Mosslan-
der, who was born in that county July
28, 1813. They had one child in Cum-
berland county, and moved to Cape May
county; had one child, and moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving October,
1838, in what is now Gardner township,
where they had one living child. Of
their three children —

CALEB, born Sept. 9, 1836, in New
Jersey, died in Sangamon county, aged
fifteen vears.

ELIZABETH, born Jan. 15, 1837,
in Cape May county, New Jersey, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, January, 1859,
to James Tripp; have five children, and
reside near Greenview, Menard county,
Illinois.

MART,\>orn April 24, 1840, in San-
gamon county, married Dec. 31, 1863, to
Franklin H. Wood. They have three
children, SEYMOUR, CHARLES and
HARRY, and live near Maroa, Macon
county, Illinois.

Mrs. Martha Riggins died April, 1844,
and William Riggins was married March
6, 1867, to Mrs. Mary Rathsack, whose
maiden name was Boehme. She was
born Jan. 22, 1827, in Altkloster, Ger-
many. They have two children —

ANNA C. and

WILLIAM H., and reside in Cart-
wright township, two miles south of
Richland station, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois— 1874.

RICKARD, PETER, born in
1787, in London county, Va., was there
married to Elizabeth Everhart, who was
born in 1790 in the same county. They
had one child, and the family moved to
Fauquier county, Va., where ten children
were born, thence to Sangamon county,
111., arriving at Springfield in the fall of
1830. In the spring of 1831 they moved
three miles west of Springfield, and set-
tled in what is now the southeast corner

of Gardner township. Of their ten child-
ren—

LEWIS, born Oct. 13, 1806, in
Loudon county, Virginia, went to Clark
county, Ohio, and was there married to
Catharine Wood, a native of Virginia.
They moved to Sangamon county, 111., in
1836. In the fall of 1838 they moved to
Missouri, and in the fall of 1844 returned
to Sangamon county, and nine years later,
in the fall of '53, went to Christian coun-
ty, Illinois. They had nine children —
JOHN died in Christian county, aged
about twenty-one years. ROBERT,
born Feb. 12, 1837, in Sangamon county
111., served in company I, 41 st 111. Inf.,'
through the war to suppress the rebellion,
was with Sherman in his march to the
sea. He was married in Kansas, has
three children, and lives in Texas. Mrs.
Catharine Rickard died in Christian
county, Feb. 18, 1866, and Lewis Rickard
was married, March 12, 1868, to Susan
Wood, at Springfield, Ohio, and reside
there.

ELIZABETH, born April i, 1809,
in Fauquier county, Virginia, was married
in Sangamon county to William Butler.
See his name.

CATHARINE, born July 24, 1811,
in Fauquier county, Va., was married in
Sangamon county, 111., June 4, 1833, to
Dr. Jacob M. Earley. See his name.
They had two children. GEORGE N.,
born Feb. 4, 1837, entered the army as
assistant surgeon, Nov. i, 1863, and died
June 3, 1864, at Vicksburg, just before
the surrender of that place. JACOB M.,
Jun., born Oct. 26, 1838, entered the army
April, 1 86 1, as Lieutenant in the first
company raised in Petersburg, Illinois.
Served three years, and was honorably
discharged. He was married, March 27,
1868, to Caroline Lurton, of Delhi, Jersey
county, Illinois. He died June 24, 1868,
of consumption, in Petersburg, Menard
county, Illinois. Dr. J. M. Early was
murdered, March n, 1838. See his name.
His widow was married Oct. i, 1851, at
her father's house, three miles west of
Springfield, to George U. Miles. They,
have one child, CHARLES, who lost
one hand in firing a salute in 1865. He
resides with his parents, in Petersburg,
Menard county, Illinois. — 1876.

SUSAN, born Aug. 26, 1813, in Fau-
quier county, Va., was married in Sanga-

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

mon county, 111., to David Talbott, Jun.
See his name.

NOAH /!/., born March 20, 1817, in
Fauquier county, Va., was married in
Sangamon county to Harriet Talbott.
They had five living children in San-
gamon county. HARRIET E.,
born Feb. 4, 1839, was married, Oct.
4, 1865, to John Johnson, who was born
Nov. 14, 1834, in New York city. They
have one child, LAURA R., and reside five
miles southwest of Springfield, III. Mr.
Johnson has a certificate of the honorable
discharge of his grandfather from the
Revolutionary army, signed by George
Washington. MARY F., born Aug. 16,
1840, was married, May 5, 1869, to Daniel
G.Jones. See his name. NOAH M.,
Jun., born March y, 1845, was married,
Dec. 18, 1867, to Mary L. Patteso.:.
They have one child, CHARLES M., and
reside one mile southwest of Curran,
Sangamon county, Illinois. GEORGE
W., born June 13, 1847, was man"ied,
March 16, 1871,10 Mary L. Gray. They
have one child, GEORGE T., and reside at
Philadelphia, Cass county, Illinois. SA-
RAH L., born Oct. 23, 1848, was mar-
ried, Oct. 4, 1871, to Aaron C. Reed, and
died Sept. 27, 1872. Noah M. Rickard
died Jan. 8, 1849, and widow resides with
her daughter, Mrs. Johnson. — 1876.

JOHN G., born Oct. 16, 1819, in
Fauquier county, Va., raised in Sanga-
mon county, and married July 5, 1859, in
Allen county, Kansas, to Elizabeth Brod-
erick, who was born May 21, 1831, in
Shelby county, Indiana. Thev had three
children in Kansas, CHARLES B.,
FREDDIE O. and NOAH FRANK-
LIN. The latter died in infancy. They
reside four miles west of Springfield, Illi-
nois.

SIMON P., born Oct. 16, 1821, in
Fauquier county, Va., was married in
Sangamon county, 111., Nov. 12, 1846, to
Sophia J. Earnest. They had seven chil-
dren, three of whom died under five
years. LAURA E., born Sept. 6, 1847,
.was married, Oct. 19, 1871, to Edwin
Watts. See his name. HELEN M.,
born* Dec. 6, 1848, was married, May 18,
1871, to Sidney French. They have one
child, FLORENCE H., and reside near
Frankfort, Ky. THOMAS E., born
July 2, 1850, and ALLETTA E. reside

with their parents, two miles west of
Springfield, Illinois.

SARAH A., born March 2, 1824, in
Fauquier county, Va., was married in
Sangamon county, 111., to Richard F.
Barrett. See his name. They reside in
St. Louis.

MART M., born March 16, 1827, in
Fauquier county, Va., married Luther
Talbott. See his name.

HENRT WASHINGTON, born
Jan. i, 1830, in Fauquier county, Va.,
was married April 4, 1852, in Sangamon
county, 111., to Sarah A. Sims. They
had seven children; one died in infancy.
ELIZABETH L. was married Sept. 26,
1872, to Isaac French, a native of Frank-
lin county, Ky. MINNIE A., LEWIS
F., WASHINGTON M., ROBERT I.
and GEORGE E. reside with their
father. Mrs. Sarah A. Rickard died
Dec. 21, 1864, and H. W. Rickard was
married June 7, 1866, to Henrietta M.
Earnest. They have two children,
CATHARINE J. and THOMAS E.
H. W. Rickard resides on the farm set-
tled by his father in 1831. It is three
miles west of Springfield, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

Mrs. Elizabeth Rickard died Jan.,
1858, at the family homestead. Peter
Rickard died Sept. 17, 1860, in Spring-
field, Illinois.

RIDDLE, DAVID, was born
April 20, 1780, in Mifflin county, Pa. He
went to Champaign county, Ohio, in 1807.
Mary Hamilton was born in Mason coun-
ty, about seven miles from Maysville,
Ky., March 9, 1786. Her mother died
when she was quite young, and she went
to Champaign county, Ohio, with some
friends, and was there married, about
1808, to David Riddle. Six children
were born in Ohio, and the family moved,
in 1819, to Washington county, 111., where
one child was born, and Mrs. Riddle died
there, July n, 1821. David Riddle was
married in 1822, to Mrs. Elizabeth Crock-
er, whose maiden name was Wakefield,
and moved to Sangamon county, arriving
at Springfield Oct. 14, 1822, and the next
day moved to a farm in Williams town-
ship. They had two children in Sanga-
mon county. Of his children —

JOHN, born Jan. 8, 1809, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county, Oct. 2,
1834, to Sarah H. Clark. They had

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five children. ELIZA C. died, aged
twenty-four years. MARY E. married
John Tomlinson, have four children,

FRANK L., HELEN A., ELMER S. and

CLARENCE A., and live near Mt. Pulaski.
FRANCIS A. enlisted at Springfield,
July, 1862, in Co. A, i3Oth 111. Inf., for
three years, was promoted to ist Lieut.,
and acted as Captain, Major and Judge
Advocate, and was honorably mustered
out of the service in August, 1865. He
was married in Jacksonville, 111., to Sarah
Gallaher. He is a lawyer, and resides in
Chicago. SARAH W. is unmarried,
and lives with her father. Mrs. Sarah
H. Riddle died, and John Riddle married
Martha Archer, who was born May 24,
1819, in Greenville, Bond county, 111.
They have one child, NANCY E., who
lives with her parents, one mile northeast
of Barclay, Sangamon county, 111. John
Riddle remembers that when he was a
boy the family found that there was a
letter in the postoffice, but they had not
the money to pay for it. He gathered a
load of corn, took it to town, and sold the
whole load for ninety-five cents, paid
twenty-five cents for the letter, and re-
turned home rejoicing.

JAMES, born April 30, 1811, in
Ohio, wast married in Sangamon county
to Susan A. Sampson. They had two
children. JOHN M. married Sarah M.
Woltz. They have one child, CHARLES
A., and live one and a half miles north of
Barclay, Illinois. DAVID A. lives at
DesMoines, Iowa. James Riddle was a
soldier from Sangamon county in the
Black Hawk war. He died March 4,
1849, and his widow lives with her son,
John M. — 1874.

MARGARET, born Sept. 25, 1812,
\ in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
vjoseph Dement. He died, leaving a
widow and four children in Logan coun-
ty, Illinois.

ABNER, born Oct. 6, 1814, in Cham-
paign county, Ohio, married in Sangamon
county to Mrs. Mary A. Pickrell, whose
maiden name was Elkin. They had one
child, HAMILTON R., born Dec. 9,
1841, in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug.
i, 1862, in Co. B, i30th 111. Inf., for three
years. He was captured, with Bank's
Red river expedition, April 8, 1864, im-
prisoned at Camp Tyler, Texas, thirteen
months, and released in May, 1865. While

in prison his regiment was consolidated
with the yyth 111. Inf., and he was mus-
tered out as a member of Co. A, of that
regiment, June 17, 1865, at Springfield.
He was married, Sept. 2, 1868, to Corde-
lia F. Constant. They have three child-
ren, EARL A., ELIZA MAY and WILLIAM

E. Hamilton R. Riddle graduated Feb.,
1873, at Rush Medical College, Chicago,
and is a practicing physician at Mechanics-
burg, 111. Mrs. Mary A. Riddle died, and
Abner Riddle married Mai'y J. Clark.
They have ten children. RUSSELL O.
married Sabra Constant, have two child-
ren, MAY o. and LOUELLA, and live half
a mile south of Barclay, Sangamon coun-
ty, 111. MARY J. married Samuel Mc-
Cullough, and lives in Kansas. The
other eight children reside with their pa-
rents, near Ottowa, Kan.

NANCY, born April 10, 1817, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county to Abraham
Bird. See his name.

MAX r, born May 13, 1819, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county to William
H. Fowkes. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born June 12, 1823,
in Sangamon county, married Alexander
Mills, and resides at Lincoln, Illinois.

SARAH A., born Sept. 30, 1826, in
Sangamon county, married to Rev. Alex-
ander Semple. They have three children,
anfl live at Decatur, 111. He is Presiding
Elder in the M. E. Church.'

David Riddle died August 12, 1846,
and his widow, Mrs. Elizabeth Riddle,
died in 1854, both in Sangamon county.

RIDDLE, WILLIAM, was
born Sept. i, 1805, in Kentucky. He' is
a nephew of David Riddle. At six
months of age, he was taken by his par-
ents to Logan county, Ohio. Maxamillia
Bousman was born in 1809 in Champaign
county, Ohio, where they were married
in 1826. They had four living children
in Ohio, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving May 31, 1836, in what is
now Williams township, where they had
five children, and in 1851 moved to Doug-
las county, Oregon. Of their nine child-
ren—

JANE, born April 14, 1828, in Logan
county, Ohio, married Jan. 15, 1850, in
Sangamon county, to Thomas Wilson,
who was born Nov. 4, 1817, in Dumfries-
shire, Scotland. They have four living
children, born in Sangamon county,

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EA RL T SB TTLERS OF

namely: JANE F., WILLIAM R.,
JOHN T. and LILLIAS H., and reside
two miles southwest of Buffalo Hart
station, Sangamon county, Illinois — 1874.

ARl^AMESIA, born Oct. n, 1830,
in Sangamon county, married in Feb., 1849,
to James P. Chapman, who died, and she
married. William H. Merriman. See his
name.

ISABELLA, born Jan. 16, 1835, in
Ohio, came to Sangamon county with her
parents; thence with them to Oregon,
and was there married to Israel R. Nich-
olls. They have eleven children, and re-
side near North Canyonville, Douglas
county, Oregon — 1874.

WILLIAM H., born March, 1836,
in Ohio, came to Sangamon county;
thence with his parents to Oregon, and
died there in July, 1836.

GEORGE W., born Feb. 22, 1840,
in Sangamon county, married Anna Rice,
has two children, and live near North
Canyonville, Douglas county, Oregon.

ABNER, born in 1842, in Sangamon
county, married Alice Rice, has two chil-
dren, and reside near North Canyonville,
Oregon.

J ' O H TN B '.,born in 1845, in Sangamon
county, married in Oregon, and his wife
and child were drowned while crossing a
stream in a wagon. He is living with
his second wife in North Canyonville.
Oregon.

ANNA M., born April 8, 1847, in
Sangamon county, married Vincent Beal,
has one child, and lives in Jacksonville,
Oregon.

TOBIAS S., born Aug. 30, 1849, in
Sangamon county, married Sarah Smith,
Ir.'S two children, and lives at Harney
lake, Oregon.

Mrs. Maxamillia Riddle died August,
1868, and William H. Riddle resides at
North Canyonville, Oregon — 1874.

RICHARDS, ANDREW, was
married in Nicholas county, Kentucky, to
Mrs. Rosanna Dinsmore, whose maiden
name was McCune, a sister to Gavin Mc-
Cune. She had one child by her first
marriage, and they had five children, all
in Nicholas county, Ky. The family
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1832, at Rochester, where
one child was born. Of all their child-
ren—

CELIA DINSMORE, born in

Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Joseph Clawson. Both died, leaving
three children near Taylorville, Illinois.

Of the Richards children —

ROBER7" E., born Sept. 16, 1822,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, April 15, 1845, to Louisa Stokes.
They had two children. ANNA died in
infancy. AMANDA, born May 3, 1848,
died Nov. 6, 1862. Robert E. Richards
died Feb. 15, 1848, and his widow lives at
the house of her neice, Mrs. L'awson H.
Smith. Sec Bcllfamilv,

JOHN A., born August 15, 1824, in
Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county, March 29, 1846, to Sarah E.
Dickerson. They had nine children;
three died young. JANE married Scott
Clawson, has three children, and lives
near Taylorville, Illinois. KATIE M.,
ELECTA, IDA and EMMA, twins, and
JOHN P. live with their parents in
Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM M., born "in Nicholas
county, Ky., was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to Mary J. Menara. They
had nine children; one died. Wm. M.
Richards and family live near Brecken-
ridge, Sangamon countv, Illinois.

BENJAMIN A., born March 3,
1829, in Nicholas county, Ky., was mar-
ried Oct. 10, 1850, in Sangamon county,
to Matilda Hutchings, who was born Feb.
23, 1832, in Rochester, New York. They
had ten children; five died young.
PHILIP A., WILLIAM T., CHAR-
LES E., LEMUEL C. and MABEL
live with their parents. Benj. A. Rich-
ards is the proprietor of a book and job
printing office in Springfield, II., where
he now resides.

ANDREW M., born in Nicholas
county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county,
went to Texas about 1859, married there,
has a family, and lives at Wheelock,
Robertson county, Texas.

NANCY, born in Sangamon county,
married Thomas Dye, has four children,
and lives near Bradfordton, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

Andrew Richards and Mrs. Rosanna
Richards both died in Sangamon county,
Illinois.

RIDGELY, NICHOLAS H.,
was born April 27, 1800, on his father's
tobacco plantation in Maryland, near
Baltimore; was educated in Baltimore,

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and was engaged in mercantile business
there until April, 1828, when he removed
to St. Louis, Mo., and became a clerk in
the United States branch bank established
there shortly after his arrival. He con-
tinued in this position until May, 1835,
when he was appointed cashier of the
State Bank of Illinois, incorporated in
that year, which office he held until the
termination of the charter of the bank,
and was one of the trustees who finally
closed the business of the bank. While
engaged in this closing process, and after-
wards, he carried on a private banking
business on 'his own account, and organ-
ized "Clark's Exchange Bank of Spring-
field," and continued his connection with
it until it was discontinued, and all its
obligations promptly and fully discharged.
In 1866 he, in connection with Charles
and William Ridgely — his sons, — J. Tay-
lor Smith, and Lafayette Smith, organized
"The Ridgely National Bank of Spring-
field." He became President, and has
continued in this office ever since. He
has thus been actively engaged in the
banking business constantly for forty-
eight years. He has been married twice,
and has a family of thirteen adult child-
ren living, namely:

SARAH married Rev. Richard V.
Dodge, and resides in Chicago.

VINCENT is married, and now re-
sides in Adams county, Illinois.

SOPHIA married J. Taylor Smith, of
Springfield, Illinois. See his name.

REDICK M. is married, and now re-
sides in Springfield, Illinois.

HENR T married, and now resides in
Springfield, Illinois.

CHARLES married, and now resides
in Springfield, Illinois.

JULIA married John H. Rea, now of
Chicago.

WILLIAM is unmarried, and resides
in Springfield, Illinois.

ANNA married James L. Hudson, of
Springfield, Illinois.

MART married Chas. E. Hay, of
Springfield, Illinois.

JANE married James T. Jones, of
Springfield, Illinois.

HENDERSON is unmarried, and
resides in Springfield, Illinois.

OCTA VIA married Charles D. Rob-
erts, of Springfield, Illinois.

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N. H. Ridgely and wife reside in
Springfield, Illinois.

RID GEL T, RE DIC KM., was born
March 29, 1830, in St. Louis, Mo., and
brought by his father (N. H. Ridgely) to
Springfield in 1835. He was mari"ietl
July i, 1850, to Margaret Aitken, who
was born March 6, 1835, in Glasgow,
Scotland. They have four living child-
ren, JANEY H., ALICE M., REDICK
and JOHN A. Redick M. Ridgely was
City Treasurer from 1851 to 1853, a mem-
ber of the Board of Supervisors of San-
gamon county for two years, and a mem-
ber of the City Council four years. He
was in the Quartermaster's Department
in Springfield from 1861 to 1862, and was
in the same department in Memphis,
Tenn.,from 1862 to 1865. He is now —
1876 — Superintendent of all the street
railroads of Springfield.

RID GELT, CHARLES,\he eldest
son of N. H. Ridgely by the second wife,
is a native of Springfield; married Jane
M. Barrett, and has several children.
Charles Ridgely is President of the
Springfield Iron Company, Vice-Presi-
dent of the Ridgely National Bank, and
resides in Springfield, 111.

RIDGEWAY, AUSBURN,
brother to Samuel, was born in Berkley
county, Va., and married in North Caro-
lina to Jane Phelps. They moved to
Lincoln county, Ky., from there to Wash-
ington county, in the same State, thence
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the
fall of 1828, in Buffalo Hart grove. They
raised a large family, and the parents both
died in Sangamon county. Of their
children we will mention four only —

JOHN, born Feb. 23, 1806, in Lin-
coln county, Ky., came with his parents
to Sangamon county, in 1828, and was
married, Feb. 12, 1829, to Sarah Bridges.
They had seven children, two of whom
died young. MARTHA J., born Jan. 3,
1830, married Charles Eckel, and lives
near Ottawa, Kansas. ALFRED A.,
born March 13, 1834, died in 1857. AD-
ALINE and CAROLINE, twins, born
Jan. 17, 1837. ADALINE married Ben-
jamin F. Hill, has six living. children,
and reside near Decatur, Illinois. CARO-
LINE married Henry Lee, and died Nov.
2, 1864, near Illiopolis. LEVI S., born
Sept. 29, 1839, married Rhoda Fletcher.
He died, August 2, 1868, in Sangamon

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county, leaving a widow and four child-
ren, who live near Decatur, 111. John
Ridgeway died Oct. 28, 1858, and his
widow married Jonathan Constant. See
his name.

PATTERSON, born Nov. 19, 1813,
in Lincoln county, Ky., married in San-
gamon county to Nancy Huddleston, who
died, leaving two children, and he married
Mrs. Rhoda J. Walker, whose maiden
name was Withrow. They have one
child, and live in Cooper township, San-
gamon county.

MELINDA married Alexander Dick-
erson. See his name.

ALEXANDER served three years in
the 73d 111. Inf., has a. large family, and
moved west after the close of the rebel-
lion.

RIDGEWAY, SAMUEL,
was born May 10, 1777, in Berkley coun-
ty, Va., and was taken by his parents to
the valley of the Yadkin river, North
Carolina, when he was quite young. He
was there married, about 1799, t.o Elizabeth
Caton, who was born August 25, 1775, in
Berkley county, Va., also. Shortly after
marriage Samuel Ridgeway and wife
packed all their worldly goods on one
horse, and each rode another. Thus
equipped, they set out for Kentucky, and
settled near Stanford, the capital of Lin-
coln county. They had eight children
there, and the family moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in Nov., 1829, in
what is now Clear Lake township, west
of the Sangamon river, and five miles
northeast of Springfield. Of their child-
ren—

CHARLES, born May 18, iSoi, was
married in Kentucky to Sally Wilson.
They had two children there, and moved
to Sangamon county with his parents;
lived near Mechanicsburg two years, and
returned to his native State. Charles
Ridgeway died in 1875, at Danville, Ky.,
and his family reside there.

A US BURN, horn June 8, 1803, died
in Kentucky, August 12, 1826, within two
weeks of the time set for his marriage.

PHILIP, born Jan. i, 1806, in Ken-
tucky, was married in Sangamon county
to Margaret Henderson. He died, Sept.
8, 1838, leaving a widow and four child-
ren, who moved to Hancock county, Illi-
nois.

JOHN, born March 30, 1808, in Ken-
tucky, was married in Sangamon county,
and his wife died within six months. He
was married again, moved to Missouri,
and from there to Oregon in 1845, and
died there in 1872, leaving ten children.

MART, born Dec. 14, i8n,in Ken-
tucky, was married in Sangamon county
to James Watson. See his name.

SAMUEL L., born April 25, 1813, in
Lincoln county, Ky., was married in San-
gamon county, 111., Aug. 10, 1837, *-°
Charlotte A. Stout. Sec Stout family
name. They had seven children, and in
July, 1872, moved to Maryville, Mo. Of
their children, PHILEMON, born May
11, 1839, in Sangamon county, 111., resides
in California. ELIZABETH A., born
Oct. 17, 1841, died in her third year.
OLIVER, born March 23, 1844, m San-
gamon county, 111., was married to Emma
F. Orr, in Adair county, Mo. They have
three children, GEORGE, CHARLOTTE and
ARTHUR, and reside in Nodaway county,
Mo. SAMUEL L.,Jun., born March
7, 1847, in Sangamon county, 111., was
married Dec. 26,1872,10 Laura H.Hamlin.
They have one child, SAMUEL L., and
reside in Nodaway county, Missouri. See
Hamlin name. MARY E., born May
n, 1849, was married Jan. n, 1870, to
George L. Drennan, of Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois. See his name. ARME-
NIA J., born June 25, 1851, married
Sept. 4, 1876, to Edward Headley, of
Sangamon county, 111. CHARLOTTE
EMMA, born Jan. 9, 1853, and FRAN-
CIS, born March 16, 1855, reside with
their parents, in Maryville, Nodaway
county, Missouri.

BENJAMIN R., born Feb. 5, 1815,
in Lincoln county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county June 13, 1839, to Cath-
arine Rape. They had six children.
THOMAS J., born Dec. 10, 1840, mar-
ried Jane Snodgrass, has two children,
and live in Springfield. JOHN B., born
April 3, 1846, married Lucy E. Cullom,
and live near New City, Sangamon
county, 111. ANNA E. married James
L. Plummer. They had two children,
and Mr. Plummer died April 30, 1871.
SAMUEL N. died, aged ten years.
NANCY S. died in her sixteenth year.
MARTHA F. lives with her parents,
near New City , Sangamon county, 111,

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LINDSAT, born Jan. 20, 1818, in
Lincoln county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county Dec. 7, 1841, to Lucy
M. Dawson. They had five children in
Sangamon county. SAMUEL F., born
Dec. 25, 1842, enlisted Aug. 12, 1862,
for three years, in Co. A, 73d 111. Inf.;
served until March 26, 1864, when he
was discharged on account of physical
disability. He was married Jan. 2, 1868,
in Springfield, to Nancy M. Logan.
They have -one child, JENNIE MAY, and
reside in Springfield, 111. NANCY S.,
born Aug. 23, 1845, died in infancy.
JOHN D., born July 17, 1848, was mar-
ried Dec. 24, 1872, to Mary li. McVay,
who was born April 7, 1852, in Sanga-
mon county. They have one child,
CHARLES ALBERT, and reside five miles
east of Springfield, 111. BERTRAND
D., born Dec. 9, 1849, and CHARLES
L., born Dec. 14, 1863, both live with their
parents. Lindsay Ridgeway and wife re-
side five miles east of Springfield, on the
farm settled by his father in 1829.

Mrs. Elizabeth Ridgeway died Feb. 28,
1847, and Samuel Ridgeway died June
22, 1847, both i° Sangamon county,
Illinois.

ROBB, DAVID, was born Jan.
24, 1789, in the town of Acworth, N. H,
He was there married to Diana Farr,
who was born in the same town, May 15,
1791. They had six children in Acworth,
and the family moved to West Virginia,
and from there to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in 1830, and settled about two
miles south of the present town of Breck-
enridge. Of their children —

DANIEL, born July 12, 1815, in New
Hampshire, married in Sangamon county
to Jennie Rogers. They have a family,
and reside near Nebraska City, Neb.

LUCY, born July 19, 1816, in Acworth,
N. H., married in Sangamon county to
Preston Breckenridge. See his name.

JOHN, born May 30, 1820, in New
Hampshire, raised in Sangamon county,
married near St. Joseph, Mo., to Mary E.
Broiles, Oct. 15, 1843. They had two
children, and came to Sangamon county,
where four children were born. Of their
six children : MARY J., born August
12, 1844, in Missouri, married Marshall
Raines, have four children, and reside
near Xenia, Ohio. DAVID, born Jan.
28, 1846, near St. Joseph, Mo., married in

Sangamon county, Nov. 28, 1867, to Ella
Gray, have two children, and reside near
Breckenridge, 111. ELIZA E., born and
died in Sangamon county, aged ten years.
PHCEBE, born Oct. 2, 1850, in Sanga-
mon county, married Andrew J. Poffen-
berger. See his name. WILLIAM,
born Jan. 3, 1844, and JOSEPH, born
April 28, 1857, live with their mother.
John Robb died August 6, 1858, in San-
gamon county. His widow married,
Dec. 4, 1860, to Abraham Martin. He
died in 1863, and she resides one mile
west of Breckenridge, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

ELECTA, born Dec. 9, 1821, in New
Hampshire, married in Sangamon county
to Joseph Clawson. He died, and she
lives near Assumption, Christian county,
Illinois.

WILLIAM, born Feb. 10, 1824, in
New Hampshire, married in Sangamon
county to Helen R. McLean. They have
five children, and live near Corydon,
Iowa.

MART J., born May 21, 1827, in
New Hampshire, married in Sangamon
county to Joseph Clawson, had eight chil-
dren, and she died. Her children live
with her sister, Electa, who is their step-
mother.

Mrs. Diana Robb died Nov. 4, 1835,
and David Robb married Mrs. Elizabeth
Graham, whose maiden name was Day.
She died in 1856, and David Robb died
Nov. 3, 1859, in Sangamon county.

ROBBINS, HIRAM, was born
Dec. 26, 1793, in Buncombe county, N. C.
His parents moved to Overtoil county,
Tenn., thence to Washington county,
Ky., and from there to Vincennes, Indi-
ana Territory. At that place he entered
the army, and served six months in the
war of 1812 with England. The family
after the war, moved back to« Tennessee,
and from there to Pope county, Illinois,
where the father died, and the family
moved to Madison county. Hiram Rob-
bins was there married, E ec. 29, 1816, to
Elizabeth Dean. They had two children,
and moved to Sangamon county, arriving
in the summer of 1821 within one mile of
where Barclay now stands, and in 1823
moved to what is now Cooper township,
where they had six living children. He
was a soldier from this county in the

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Black Hawk war. Of their seven child-
ren—

JOHN was twice married, served
three years in the 73d 111. Inf., and died
April i, 1868.

WILLIAM H., born March i, 1821,
in Madison county, 111., raised in Sanga-
mon county, married in Greene county,
Aug. u, 1845, to Ann Dodson. She
died Aug. 12, 1846. He was married
May 14, 1848, to Sarah A. Miller. They
had one child, ALICE A., born July 5,
1850, married Benjamin F. Miller, and re-
sides three and one-half miles west of
Mechanicsburg, 111. Mrs. S. A. Robbins
died in 1852, and Wm. H. Robbins mar-
ried, Sept. 4, 1856, to Elizabeth Laswell.
They have four children, JOHN W.,
THOMAS LYON, NANCY E. and
ANDREW H., and live near Mechanics-
burg, Illinois.

JEREMIAH, born Nov. 29, 1821, in
Sangamon county. He has been twice
married; served three years in Co. H,
I I4th 111. Inf., and lives in Cooper town-
ship, Sangamon county.

WILSON, born Jan. 3, 1824, in San-
gamon county, married, Oct. 25, 1850, to
Susan A. Cantril. They had six living
children. ANNA M., born Jan. i, 1851,
married, Dec. 18, 1871, to George Baker,
have two children, and live in Cooper
township. MARY E., ALBERT S.,
MARTHA S., JOSEPH E. and AL-
LEN L. live with their parents, two and
one-half miles west of Mechanicsburg,
Illinois. Wilson Robbins served one
year, from June, 1846, under Col. E. D.
Baker, in the war with Mexico.

MART A., born April 27, 1825, in
Sangamon county, married Thomas
Simpkins, who died, and she married
William Taff. They had one child,
THERESA TAFF, who married John
Johnson. See his name. Mr. Taff died,
and she married Joseph Brown, had one
child, and Mr. Brown died, and she mar-
ried Francis Gough, and she died April,
1862.

ELIZABETH A. married E. Tay-
lor, and died in 1847.

HIRAM, Jun., was twice married,
and died in McDonough county.

PRUDENCE married M. D. Gough.

ELIZA A., born June 21, 1842, mar-
ried J. Wesley Veach. See his name.

Mrs. Elizabeth Robbins died Aug. 17,
1866, and Hiram Robbins was married to
Mrs. Merada Gordon. For a third wife
he married, Oct. i, 1872, to Mrs. Eliza-
beth E. White, whose maiden name was
Strode. They reside in Cooper, town-
ship, Sangamon county, 111.

RpBERTS, EDMUND, was
born in 1785, in Farmington, New Hamp-
shire. His ancestors were Welsh, and
emigrated to New England before the
Revolution. They were members of the
society of Friends. Forbidden by their
principles to take up arms, they, neverthe-
less, assisted in that struggle as far as they
consistently could, by carrying supplies to
the army. The subject of this sketch left
New Hampshire when a young man, on
horseback, for western Pennsylvania. In
1808 an Indian treaty opened the coun-
try between the Mississippi and Arkan-
sas rivers, and as far west as Fort Clark
now Peoria, Illinois. Mr. Roberts was
one of the first eastern men who settled
in that country. Steamboats not being
used on the western waters then, he
made the voyage down the Ohio river
in a flatboat, and in 1810 engaged in
merchandizing at St. Genieveve, Mis-
souri, as a member of the firm of Keil,
Bisch & Roberts. He afterwards re-
moved to Kaskaskia, 111., where he as-
sociated with himself in business, Thomas
Mather and James L. Lamb. Mr. Rob-
erts made his trips east on horseback,
crossing the Ohio river at Shawneetown,
111., often sleeping on the ground, with a
saddle for a pillow. He was always liable
to attacks from Indians and once lost his
horse by them, compeling him to walk
and carry his saddle until he could buy
another. He was married, in 1819, at
Mt. Pleasant, Pennsylvania, to Susan
Lamb, a native of Chester county, in the
same State. She was a sister to his part-
ner, James L. Lamb. See his name.
After prosecuting business for many
years at Kaskaskia and Chester, he re-
moved to Springfield, in the same State,
in 1832. Mr. and Mrs. Roberts had eight
children, three only of whom survive —

GEORGE L., born March 16, 1821,
in Kaskaskia, 111., was married in Leba-
non, 111., to Virginia E. Horner, a native
of the latter place. They had two child-
ren in Lebanon, EDMUND and VIR-

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GINIA, and reside in Old Mission,
Grand Traverse county, Michigan.

JAMES H., born Dec. 12, 1825, in
Kaskaskia, 111., was married Sept. 16,

1863, to Harriet E. Smith, who was born
Dec. 6, 1840. Mrs. Harriet E. Roberts
died Feb. 28, 1866, leaving two children,
LUCRETIA B., born Sept. 6, 1864, and
JAMES H., Jun., who died in infancy.
James H. Roberts was married Nov. 9,
1870, to Mrs. Susan M. Slater, whose
maiden name was Lamb. They have
one child, MARY T. J. H. Roberts
and family reside in Chicago, 111. He is
engaged in business at 86 Washington
street — Sept., 1876.

MART R., born July 13, 1829, in
Kaskaskia, 111., was married Nov. n,
1857, *° Benjamin M. Thomas, who was
born Aug. 10, 1810, in Philadelphia,
Penn. They had three children: SU-
SAN R., born Oct. 25, 1858, in Spring-
field, 111.; MARY P., born April 7, 1860,
in Chicago, 111., died July 26, 1863;
MORRIS ST. P., born Feb. 27, 1862, in
Chicago. Mr. Thomas died Oct. 31,

1864, in Vincennes, Ind. His widow and
children reside in Chicago, Illinois.

Mr. Roberts was a citizen of Illinois
when it contained less than twelve thous-
and inhabitants. In 1829 he was ap-
pointed one of the commissioners on the
part of the State of Illinois to determine
the route for a canal to connect the Illi-
nois river with Lake Michigan, and lay
out town sites; Chicago and Ottawa were,
two of these towns. Seven years later —
1836 — ground was broken, and the work
of constructing the canal commenced.
Mr. Roberts was a firm friend of educa-
tion, having himself been a teacher in his
younger days. He was, in the early his-
tory of McKendree college, at Lebanon,
111., a member of its board of trustees.
His two sons were educated there. In
1846 he visited the Eastern States in the
interests of this institution, and was suc-
cessful in supplying it with funds and
teachers. From that to the present time,
McKendree college has continued to
prosper. In consequence of failing health,
he retired from active business about 1836,
and passed many of his winters in the
south, but continued to make Springfield
his home.

Mrs. Susan Roberts died Aug. 4, 1844.
She had long been a member of the Meth-

odist Episcopal church, loved and revered
by all who knew her. In his funeral ad-
dress on the occasion of her death, Rev.
Dr. Akers, describing her influence, said:
"She moved among her sisters like the
moon among the stars." Her husband
never recovered from the shock occasion-
ed by her death, and he died March 28,
1847, both in Springfield, and the remains
of both are buried in Oak Ridge Ceme-
tery.

ROBISON, EDWARD, born
Oct. 1 6, 1781, in London county, Va. In
1787 his parents moved to Nelson county,
Ky., and a few years later the family
moved to Caldwell county, in the same
State, leaving Edward at Bardstown to
finish his trade as a hatter. He was mar-
ried in Caldwell county, March 14, 1809,
to Jane Hanley, who was born Feb. 29,
1788, in Pendleton District, South Caro-
lina. They had five children in Ken-
tucky, and moved to Pope county,
111., in 1819, where one child was born.
Thence to Sangamon county, 111., arriv-
ing Nov., 1821, near Springfield. After
some changes they settled in what is now
Gardner township, north of Spring creek,
where they had six children. Of all
their children —

GEORGE H., born May 9, 1810, in
Kentucky; served his country in the
Black Hawk war, Mexican war, and
about three years in Co. H, loth 111. Cav.,
in the late rebellion. He died unmarried,
Dec., 1873, in Sangamon county.

JOHN H., born Oct. 15, 1811, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county to Mary A. Duff. They have
three children, GEORGE C., JOHN S.;
the latter married Sarah Handley ; MAR-
THA married Major Moore. J. H.
Robison and family reside near Carleton,
Yamhill county, Oregon.

MELISSA, born Nov. n, 1813, in
Caldwell county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county, 111., to Logan McMur-
ry. See his name.

DA VI D P., born March 6, 1816, in
Caldwell county, Ky., was married in
Sangamon county, Sept. 3, 1836, to Lucy
Simms. They had ten children; two died
young. LUCINDA J. and EMILY L.
died, aged seven years. MARY E. H.,
or "TIP," born Sept. 25, 1840, was mar-
ried Sept. 10, 1857, to Thomas A. Sims,
who was born Oct. 3, 1835, in Culpepper

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county, Virginia, and brought up in
Muskingum county, Ohio. They have
six children, JAMES P., LUCY A., MARY E.,

JENNIE A., GEORGE J. and MARTHA E., and

reside in Gardner township, west of
Springfield. MARTHA A. married
Edmund McClure. They have four chil-
dren, JAMES, MARGARET, LEWIS and

CLAUD, and live near Linden, Osage
county, Kansas. JULIA, born Oct. 30,
1847, was married to Michael Dolan, who
was born Dec. 28, 1845, in Gal way, Ire-
land. They have three children, JOHN j.,
ELLEN and T. EDWARD, and live near
Berlin, Sangamon county, 111. ED-
WARD J. married Annie Archer. They
have one child, and live in Gardner town-
ship. GEORGE J., MARION P.,
KATIE V., and JAMES T. reside with
their parents, five miles southwest of
Springfield, Illinois.

ELIZABETH,\>o\K April 21, 1818,
in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county to Richard Hall. They had three
children. Mrs. Hall and the youngest
child were killed by lightning, April 27,
1845, in Gardner township. This occurred
at the house of Mrs. Hall's mother.
Three other members of the family were
injured seriously at the same time. Of
the other two children: WILLIAM E.
married Miss Lowery, in DeWitt county.
He was a soldier in an Illinois regiment,
and died in the army. MELISSA mar-
ried James Moore. They have six child-
ren, two of whom are married, BENTON
and CHARLES. James Moore and family
live near White Church, Wyandotte coun-
ty, Kan. Richard Hall was married, in 1847,
to Sarah Sanders, of Springfield. They
had three children in Sangamon county,
and moved to Clinton, Dewitt county,
Illinois. Richard Hall died in 1870, near
Clinton, and his widow married a Mr.
Cobb. They reside near Clinton, Dewitt
county, Illinois.

ELCT y., born Oct. 22, 1820, in Pope
county, Illinois, was married in Sangamon
county to Samuel Ray. See his name.

POLLY A., born March 29, 1823, in
Sangamon county, married Benjamin
Fobes, and died Feb. 24, 1852, leaving
one child, SARAH E., who married Jere-
miah Messenger, ISov. 21, 1869, and lives
in Waverly, Bremer county, Iowa.

MARGARET E., born July 3, 1825,

in Sangamon county, married William H.
Morgan. See his name.

SARAH A. and BARBARA A.,
twins, born Feb. I, 1827, in Sangamon
county, Illinois.

SARAH A. married Benjamin Ken-
dall. She died Aug. 28, 1851, from inju-
ries received by a runaway team, on the
road to Oregon. She left one child —
FANNIE, born Nov. 20, 1850, who mar-
ried Mr. Henkle, and died, leaving one
child, near Corvallis, Oregon.

BARBARA A. married Milo Morris.
They had two children— GEORGE H.,
who lives in Butler county, Missouri.
WILLIAM lives near Rushville, Schuy-
ler county, Illinois. Mrs. Morris died
Aug. 9, 1851, in Loami township.

BURL1NDER, born April 20, 1829,
in Sangamon county, married Joshua W.
Short. They had four children. Mrs.
Short and one child died. The other
three children — JOHN R. died February,
1876. CHARLES E. married Lola
Scripture, in 1873. ANNIE M. lives
near Lamar station, Nodaway county,
Missouri.

EDWARD J., born May 17, 1833,
in Sangamon county, married Sarah Hag-
gard. They have five children, viz:

FANNIE, 'MAY, JENNIE, UMA-

TILLA and KATE, and live near La-
bette, Labette county, Kansas.

Edward Robison died May 15, 1836,
and Mrs. Jane Robison died March 12,
1853. He in Sangamon countv, Illinois,
and she in Jasper county, Missouri.

Edward Robison was Colonel of a mili-
tary company, in Kentucky, and was al-
ways called Col. Robison. He represent-
ed Pope county in the first Legislature of
Illinois that assembled at Vandalia. He
was justice of the peace twelve or fifteen
years in Sangamon county, and solemn-
ized the marriage of James Parkinson
and Mahala Earnest, and many others.

ROBISON, JOHN, was born in
Virginia, and married in Maryland to
Nancy Robbins. They moved to Dela-
ware, where they had four children, and
moved to Nicholas county, Ky., where
five children were born, and from there
to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in the
fall of 1830, in Buffalo Hart Grove. Of
their children —

ELIZABETH R., born Nov. 26,
1797, in Delaware, married in Kentucky

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to Samuel H. Steele. See name of Eliza-
beth R. Stcclc.

WILLIAM, born about 1799, in Del-
aware, married in Nicholas county, Ky.,
to Mahuldah Tarr, moved to Buffalo
Hart Grove, Sangamon county, thence to
Madison county, where the parents died,
leaving several children.

SALLT and NANCT, twins, born
about 1801, in Nicholas county, Ky.

SALL T died in Buffalo Hart Grove,
about 1835.

NANCT married Hiram Starr. See
his name.

JOHN W., born about 1803, in Nich-
olas county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county to Lucinda Burns. They had
four children, WILLIAM T., born in
Sangamon county Aug. 2, 1833, married
Dec. 4, 1856, to Julia A. Lunbeck.
They had five children; four died under
five years. IDA LOU resides with her
parents in Springfield. William T. Rob-
ison is a clerk in the freight depot of the
C. and A. railroad. ELIZABETH
M., born April 4, 1835, in Sangamon
county, married Dec. 20, 1866, to John
Finfrock, who was born July 8, 1833,
near Chambersburg, Penn. They have
four children, EDGAR H., FRANK E., GRA-
CIE M. and MARY L. Mr. Finfrock en-
listed July, 1862, for three years, in Co. I,
1 1 4th 111. Inf.; served until Aug., 1865,
when he was honorably discharged.
They live three-quarters of a mile north
of Buffalo Hart station. MARY J.,
born April 20, 1837, in Sangamon county,
married Sept. n, 1864, to Joseph W.
Martin, who was born Nov. 16, 1838, in
Ohio county, Kentucky. They have four
children, JESSE w., WILLIAM H., LENA F.
and ROBERT F., and live one-half mile
north of Buffalo Hart station. JOHN
F., born June 20, 1839, in Sangamon
county, enlisted July, 1862, for three years,
in Co. I, 1 14th ill. Inf.; served until Aug.,
1865, when he was honorably discharged.
He was married March 20, 1867, to Eli-
za A. Guthrie. They have two children,
IVA E. and a babe, and live in Atlanta,
Illinois. John W. Robison was killed by
lightning at one o'clock on the morning
of August 28, 1840, three and a half miles
northeast of Buffalo Hart Grove. He
was sitting at the bedside of, and was fan-
ning his sick mother, who died two days
later. His widow married Sept. 20, 1848,

to David S. Warner. She is now a wid-
ow, and resides half a mile north of Buf-
falo Hart Station, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

MART, born and married in Ken-
tucky, to Alexander James. They came
to Illinois with her parents, in 1830, but
settled in Shelby county. Mr. James died
there in the fall of 1871. His widow re-
sides with her son, WILLIAM JAMES
who is married, has seven children, and
lives near Shelbyville, Illinois.

MILLICENT, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Annanias
Heaton. He died in Madison county,
leaving a widow and children.

GEORGE, born in Nicholas county,
Ky., came to Sangamon county with his
parents, in 1830, married, in 1841, to Car-
oline Snyder. She died, in 1860, leaving
five children. He married Mrs. Jane

B , whose maiden name was

James. They have two children, and re-
side in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois.

ELEANOR J., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Phineas
Jordan, had four children, and he died.
She married James Hibbs, had one child,
and Mrs. Hibbs died in Logan county,
Illinois.

Mrs. Nancy Robison died Aug. 30,
1840, and John Robison died in 1841.
She in Logan, and he in Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois.

ROBINSON, JAMES T., was
born Jan. 21, 1808, at New Malton, York-
shire, England. Of his ancestors, Thomas
Robinson, merchant of Malton, England,
died Oct. 23, 1779, aged sixty-eight years.
His son, Marmaduke, died April 28, 1797,
aged seventy-nine. His son, William
Barton Robinson, married Alice Black-
burn. They had four children. Their
two youngest were James T. and Barton,
sketches of whom are herewith given.
James T. came to New York in 1829,
traveled through the Eastern States and
Canada, and came to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in December, 1830, in Buffa-
lo Hart Grove, just in time to witness
the "deep snow." He bought land there,
and was married Oct. 10, 1832, to Miner-
va Starr. They had five children in San-
gamon county, Illinois.

EMMA L., born Feb. i, 1834, died,
unmarried, Sept. 13, 1868, in Sangamon
county.

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

EDMUND H., born Dec. 31, 1835,
was married Oct., 1874, to Harriet Chap-
man. They reside near Buffalo Hart,
Sangamon county, 111.

WILLIAM B., born May 29, 1838,
enlisted July 25, 1862, for three years, in
Co. I, H4th 111. Inf. He was captured at
the battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10,
1864, was taken to Anderson ville prison,
entering about the i8th of June; remain-
ed three months; taken to Savannah,
thence to Millen; back to Savannah, and
from there to Florence, South Carolina,
where he remained three months, and on
the approach of Sherman's army was re-
moved to Goldsboro', North Carolina,
where he was paroled Feb. 2-", 1865; re-
leased at Wilmington the next day, and
honorably discharged at Springfield May
30, 1865. He was married Feb. 21, 1867,
to Arminta Burns. They have two chil-
dren, JOHN B. and ALICE CAREY,
and reside two miles north of Buffalo,
Sangamon county, Illinois — 1874.

JOHN B., born Nov. 21, 1839, enlist-
ed at Spi'ingfield July, 1861, in what be-
came Co. B, nth Mo. Inf., for three years.
He was killed in battle at luka, Miss.,
Sept. 19, 1862, and buried on the field.

CHARLES, born Sept. 25, 1845,
raised in Sangamon county, spent three
years, 1870, '71 and '72, in Oregon, is un-
married, and lives with his mother.

James T. Robinson died Dec. 8, 1871?
and his widow resides two miles south of
Buffalo Hart station, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

Mr. Robinson had business east, and in
the spring of 1831 he embarked on the
steamboat Talisman, in the Sangamon
river, near Springfield, and went as far as
St. Louis on that boat, and from there to
Pittsburg on another boat, and over the
Allegheny mountains, by stage, to Phila-
delphia. The Talisman was the only
steamboat that ever ascended the Sanga-
mon river.

ROBINSON, BARTON, was
born May 19, 1819, at New Mai ton,
Yorkshire, England; studied medicine
and graduated with the degree of M. D.,
in London. He came to America, and
joined his brother, James T., at Buffalo
Hart Grove, in Dec., 1831. He was mar-
ried in Sangamon county, May, 1833, to
Mahala Barber. They had two living

children in Sangamon county, and in the
year 1836 Dr. Robinson and Jabez Capps
laid out the town of Mt. Pulaski, 111.
He moved there, and continued in the
practice of medicine. They had two liv-
ing children in Mt. Pulaski, and in 1858
moved to Lynn countv, Kansas, taking
their four sons with them, namely —

HERBERT, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married in Kansas to Hester Black-
burn. They have five children, and live
near Farlinville, Kansas.

JAMES, born in Sangamon county,
married in Kansas to Cassander Black-
burn, has four children, and lives near
Farlinville, Kansas.

LANDER, born in Mt. Pulaski, 111.,
married in Kansas to Jennie Blackburn,
and lives near Farlinville, Kansas.

FREMONT, born in Mt. Pulaski,
Illinois, resides with his parents near
Farlinville, Linn county, Kansas.

Dr. Barton Robinson and his wife re-
side near Farlinville, Kansas.

William Blackburn and Alice Southing-
ton were married Nov. 30, 1725. They
were both of Sneaton, England. They
had five children. Their fourth child,
John, born at Sneaton, Dec. 15, 1733, O.
S.. married Oct. 6, 1763, N. S., at Malton,
to Bertha Turner. Their fifth child,
Alice Blackburn, married William Barton
Robinson, at Malton. The names of two
of their sons, James T. and Barton, head
the preceding sketches.

ROBINSON, WM., R., was
born about 1776, in England. When he
was ten or twelve years old, his parents
came to America, and settled in Virginia.
When he attained to manhood he went to
Blount county, Tenn., and was there mar-
ried, in 1808, to Sarah Witcher. They
had five children in Tennessee, and moved
to Barren county, Ky., where six children
were born, and then moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving in what is now Wil-
liams township, in 1836. One of their
children only resides in Sangamon coun-

ty—

JANE, the third child, born in Ten-
nessee, married in Sangamon county to
Abel Yocum. See his name.

The children are scattered all the way
to the Pacific coast. The family moved
to Logan county, where the parents both
died in 1860.

SANGAMON COUNT.

ROBINSON, MRS. ANN,
whose maiden name was Norris, was born
May 5, 1779, in Harford county, Mary-
land. She was married there, in 1805, to
Richard Robinson, a native of the same
county. They had two children, and Mr.
Robinson died in Baltimore, Nov. 5, 1811.
Mrs. Robinson, with two sisters, Temper-
ance Norris, born May 4, 1775, and Eliza-
beth, born March 22, 1777, and Mrs.
Robinson's two children, moved to
Springfield, 111., arriving in March, 1835.
Of her two children —

ARNOLD R., born Dec. 10, 1807,
in Baltimore, Md., came to Springfield,
111., in 1835, was married at Jacksonville,
111., March 19, 1840, to Eliza Robison,
who was born July 4, 1822, in the city of
New York. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson re-
side in Springfield, 111. A. R. Robinson
has been for many years an active Free
Mason and Odd Fellow, having taken all
the degrees in both orders, and always
holding some official position. He is
Secretary of St. Paul's Lodge of Masons,
No. 500; is Grand Tyler of the Grand
Chapter, and Grand Council of the State
of Illinois. He has been six years in the
employ of the- United States Government
as Custodian of the U. S. Court House
and Postoffice, in Springfield, Illinois.

PRISCILLA, born August 9, 1809,
in Baltimore, Md., lives with her brother,
Arnold R., in Springfield.

Mrs. Ann Robinson died July 30, 1860,
in Springfield, Illinois. Of her two sis-
ters who came with her — Temperance
died Feb. 4, 1849, and Elizabeth died Dec
20, 1872, both in Springfield, Illinois.

ROBINSON, MRS. MARY,
whose maiden name was Mayhew, was
born Sept. 9, 1786, at Martha's Vineyard,
Mass. Zenas Robinson was born Aug.
i, 1782, in Falmouth, Mass. They were
married Sept. 14, 1814, at Cincinnati, O.,
and had one child there. Mr. Robin-
son took his family to Big Bone Lick,
Boone county, Ky., where he was fulfill-
ing a building contract, and one child was
born there. They returned to Hamilton
county, O., and had one child near Car-
thage. Mr. Robinson moved in 1825 to
Grand Gulf, Miss., and died there Nov. 8,
1828 or '9. His widow and children re-
turned to Cincinnati to her parents. She
remained there until 1836, when she re-
moved, in company with her daughter

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and son in-law, to Sangamon county,
eight miles west of Springfield. Of the
three children —

BENJAMIN S., born July 24, 1815,
in Cincinnati, O. He studied medicine
and attended lectures at the Medical Col-
lege of Ohio, session of 1839 and '40, and
came to Sangamon county, arriving Nov.
3, 1840, at the house of his mother and
sister on Spring creek, having taken his
last cigar and last glass of intoxicating
drink that day in Springfield. Dr. Rob-
inson was married May 20, 1846, to
Sophronia Earnest. 'They had six living
children. HELEN F., born March 23,
1849, married September 26, 1872, to
Alexander L. Patteson. They have one
child, HELEN A., and live two miles south-
west of Curran, Sangamon county, 111.
LOUISA, born Sept. 7, 1852, MARY
ALLETTA, born April 17, 1854, A.
MAYHEW, born June 28, 1856, LIZ-
ZIE E., born May 9, 1858, and FRED-
ERICK A., born Jan. 5, 1867. The five
latter reside with their parents, two and a
quarter miles northeast of Curran, Sanga-
mon county, 111.

Dr. B. S. Robinson commenced practice
in 1841, within two miles of where he
now resides. He is now (Nov. 22, 1873,)
the oldest practitioner in Sangamon
county.

CHRISTIANA M., born in 1818, in
Boone county, Ky., married J. Munson
Beach. See his name.

CHARLES W., born in 1821, died,
aged eleven years.

Mrs. Mary Robinson was married in
1852 to Joshua Brown. See his name.
She died May 29, 1861, in Sangamon
county, 111.

RODGERS, ROBERT B.,
born Aug. I, 1793, in Westmoreland
county, Pa. Catharine A. Huggins was
born Feb. ir, 1800, in Liverpool, Perry
county, Pa. They were married and had
eight children in Pennsylvania, and moved
to Medina county, O., where one child was
born, and from there to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the spring of 1837 m
what is now Clear Lake township, east of
the river, where two children were born.
Of their twelve children —

LUCETTA, born Jan. i, 1814, in
Dauphin county, Pa., married in Wooster,
O., to Charles McClure. She died there
in 1844, leaving three children,

626

EARL? SE7TLERS OF

THOMAS, born April 5, 1816, in
Perry county, Pa., married in Sangamon
county, to Catharine Hazlitt. They had
seven children; two died young. LU-
CETTA is married, and lives in Iowa.
ALFRED, MARY C., LOUISA and
THOMAS, Jun., live with their mother.
Thomas Rodgers died in 1852, and his
widow and children live one and a half
miles north of Riverton, 111.

JANE, born November, 1819, in
Perry county, Pa., married in Wooster,
O., to William McClure. They died,
leaving two children.

REBECCA, born May 30, 1821, in
Dauphin county, Pa., married in Sanga-
mon county to James Morton. They
have eight living children. THOMAS
married Sarah Smith, and lives near
Sadoris, 111. AMANDA married Avery
Constant, and lives near Williamsville,
111. MARY C. married James W. Wil-
son. See his name. CAROLINE mar-
ried Jefferson Yocom. See his name.
JOSEPHINE, LUCY J., ANN R. and
JAMES W., live with their parents.
James Morton and wife reside near
Sadoris, Champaign county, 111 — 1874.

AMANDA, born Aug. 17, 1826, in
Dauphin county, Pa., married Dec. n,
1845, m Sangamon county, to William
Steele, who was born April 2, 1821, in
Carlisle, Ky. They had six children.
ELIZABETH C. married Charles Wilk-
ison, who was born Nov. 6, 1838, in
Stark county, O. They have two child-
ren, WILLIAM and JOSEPHINE, and live in
Riverton, 111. Mr. Wilkison served three
months — from April, 1861 — in the I3th
Ohio Inf. He enlisted at Springfield,
Feb. 2, 1865, for one year, in Co. I, 7th
111. Cav., served until Nov. 4, 1865, when
he was honorably discharged. JOHN H.,
born Feb. 19, 1846, enlisted Feb. 2, 1865,
for one year, in Co. I, 7th 111. Cav., served
until Nov. 4, 1865, when he was honorably
discharged. He was married to Euphemia
Wilson. They have two children, and live
in Riverton, 111. ROBERT F. married
Emily R. Mann, and live in Riverton.
HARRIET married John Wood, and
died Nov. 20, 1873, having been married
but three weeks. GEORGANA married
Benjamin F. Flagg in Sangamon county,
and lives in Muskegon, Mich. ALFA-
RETTA lives with her mother. William
Steele enlisted for three years in 1863, in

Co. A, n6th 111. Inf., and died in St.
Louis, March, 1864. His widow resides
at Riverton, Sangamon county, 111.

MART,\)ovK Nov. 17, 1827, in Dau-
phin county, Pa., married in Sangamon
county to J. C. Harris. She had eight
children, and died in Christian county, 111.
Robert B. Harris, the last one of her
children, was scalded to death at Riverton,
Dec. 22, 1873.

JOHN, born July 9, 1830, in Dauphin
county, Pa., raised in Sangamon county,
enlisted at Springfield, September, 1861,
for three years, in Co. A, 3d 111. Cav.,
served full term, and was honorably dis-
charged at Springfield, September, 1864.
He was married Oct. 9, 1865, at Riverton,
to Mrs. Nancy J. Harsh, whose maiden
name was Kinder. She was born Dec. 4,
1844, in Wythe county, Va. They have
three children, IDAHO, PARLEY and
ASA, and reside two miles southeast of
Illiopolis, 111. — 1874.

CAROLINE, born Nov. 24, 1834, in
Dauphin county, Pa., is unmarried, and
lives with her brothers in Sangamon
county.

RICHARD, born June 5, 1836, near
Wooster, Medina county, O., married
Dec. 25, 1867, in Sangamon county, to
Mary A. Major. They have two living
children, LOUIS and BYRON, and live
in Riverton, 111.

SAMUEL D., born Nov. 28, 1838, in
Sangamon county, enlisted July 25, 1862,
for three years, in Co. I, H4th 111. Inf.,
served until May 14, 1863, when he was
honorably discharged on account of phy-
sical disability. He was married Dec. 7,
1865, to Emma Yocom. They have two
living children, LEONA and ELLEN
MAUD, and reside in Riverton, Sanga-
mon county, 111. — 1874.

ROBERT, born Sept. 7, 1842, in San-
gamon county, enlisted in 1861 in Co. — ,
7th 111. Inf., for three months, and died at
Cairo, July 9, 1861.

Robert R. Rodgers died March 25,
1862, and Mrs. Catharine A. Rodgers died
April, 1864, both near Riverton, Sanga-
mon county, 111.

ROGERS, JOTHAM S.,
was born June 25, 1816, in Bangor, Maine,
came to Springfield, 111., in 1837, and was
married to Mary A. Benham, who died
without children in 1843. Mr. Rogers
was married May 27, 1848, to Sarah

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Elder. See Elder family. Mr. and
Mrs. Rogers had two children in Spring-
field—

HANSON G. died at eight years of
age.

MART LOUISA, born July 14, 1850,
in Springfield, married, May 2, 1868, to
Josiah P. Kent, and had one child. Mrs.
Kent married the second time, May 29,
1873, to John Hunter. See the Elder
family. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter moved, in
1875, from DesMoines, Iowa, to Wash-
ington, D. C.

Jonathan! S. Rogers died July 3, 1857,
in Springfield, and his widow was mar-
ried, Feb. 7, 1859,10 Isaac Lindsay. See
his name.

ROLL, JACOB C., was born
April 4, 1782, at Springfield, Essex coun-
ty, N. J. Sarah Pierson was born July
23, 1786, in the siime town. They were
there married, Oct. 9, 1810. One child
was born in New Jersey, and the family
moved, in 1813, to Cincinnati, Ohio, where
they had one living child. In the sum-
mer of 1825, Mr. Roll loaded a keel boat
at Cincinnati with family stores and mer-
chandise. He went down the Ohio to its
mouth, and when he had ascended the
Mississippi river about thirty miles, his
boat sunk. By that accident he lost the
principal part of his goods. Securing
what he could from the wreck, he con-
tinued to ascend the rivers, and reached
Sangamo, in Sangamon county, Oct. 10,
1825. There, in connection with Ebene-
zer Brighain, he commenced merchandis-
ing, and at the same time began to
improve some land. One eighty acre lot
that he broke and fenced, foiled some
other man, who was evil disposed, and
his fences were destroyed, hay burned and
other depredations committed, but the
parties who did it all passed away, and he
enjoyed the land peaceably for many
years after. Of the two children brought
to Sangamon county —

PIERSON, born July 31, 1811, in
Springfield, N. J., married in Sangamon
county, Oct. 12, 1837, to Rachel Carman,
who was born Feb. 19, 1814, in New
York or Pennsylvania. They had two
living children — AMELIA H., born in
Sangamon county, March 29, 1838, mar-
ried, June 7, 1855, to Henry Shoemaker.
They had seven children, CHARLES p.,

SARAH, CHRISTOPHER, MARY, CATHA-

RINE, JACOB and MARGARET A., and re-
side in Gardner township, six miles north-
west of Springfield, Illinois. MARY
M., born Nov. 10, 1839, in Sangamon
-county, married, March 3, 1859, to James
Moyer, who was born Sept. 19, 1838, in
Lancaster county, Penn. They have four
children, SARAH E., CATHARINE, MARY
and DRUZILLA, and reside in Gardner
township, north of the river. Mrs.
Rachel Roll died Oct. 19, 1841, and Pier-
son Roll was married, May 8, 1845, to
Catharine Spencer. They had thirteen
children, four of whom died young. Of
the other nine— MARGARET A., born
Aug. 17, 1846, married, April 29, 1863, to
Joshua Jones, who was born Dec. 20,
1840, in Franklin county, Ohio. They
had four children, WILLIAM p., JAMES B.,
WILLARD M. and PERCY MELVILLE; the
latter died, aged two years. Mr. and
Mrs. Jones live east of the river, in Salis-
bury township, Sangamon county, 111.
SARAH P., born Sept. 19, 1848, mar-
ried, May 24, 1866, to William J. Schroy-
er, who was born Jan. 7, 1836, in Fayette
county, Penn. Mr. and Mrs. Schroyer
live with her parents. JACOB C. and
JAMES B. live with their parents.
PHCEBE D. married, Jan. 18, 1876, to
John E. Roll, son of Alpheus Roll. See
his name. ROMOLD, JUDY, WIL-
LIAM N. and JOHN S.; the four latter
live with their parents. Pierson Roll and
family reside north of the Sangamon
river, six miles northwest of Springfield,
Illinois.

CHARLES Z>., born Aug. 28, 1818,
in Cincinnati, died in Sangamon county,
June 2 1, 1839.

Jacob C. Roll died Jan. 25, 1849, and
his widow died Jan. 28, 1861, both in
Gardner township, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

ROLL, WILLIAM, was born
near Springfield, Essex county, N. J. He
engaged in school teaching at Green Vil-
lage, Morris county, and was there married,
Feb. 9, 1809, to Mary Eddy, who was
born Feb. 18, 1793. They had eight
children, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving June 7, 1830, at the house of
his great-uncle, Jacob C. Roll, near the
town of Sangamo, and a few weeks later
moved into the town, where they had
one child. Of their nine children —

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EARLY SET1LERS OF

ANN P., born August 11, 1810, in
New Jersey, married in Sangamon county,
to Alfred Riley. They had four children;
one died, aged fifteen. WILLIAM, born
April n, 1835, is married, and lives in*
Springfield, 111. LUTHER, born Oct.
10, 1836, is married, and lives in Spring-
field, 111. HARRIET lives with her
mother. Alfred Riley was run over by a
team in the streets of Springfield, and
after two days' suffering, died Nov. 23,
1870. His widow lives in Springfield,
Illinois.

PHEBE L., born March i, 1812, in
New Jersey, married Thomas S. Edwards,
who died in Bureau county. She lives
with her brother, John E. Roll.

JOHN E., born June 9, 1814, at
Green Village, N. J. came to Sangamon
county June y, 1830, married Jan. 31,
1839, to Harriet Vandyke, who was born
Jan. 29, 1815, in New York City. They
had three living children in Springfield.
WILLIAM V., born November 6, 1839,
FRANK P., born March 7, 1852, and
JOHN L., born June 25, 1854, all live
with their parents. In coming to Sanga-
mon county J. E. Roll walked from St.
Louis, with Clawson Lacy and Alfred
Riley. While the family lived in Sanga-
rno, Abraham Lincoln built the boat
spoken of in his biography. He began
in March, 1831, just as the deep snow
went off. Mr. Roll made the pins for
putting the boat together. They made a
canoe to go with the boat as a yawl. John
Seaman and Walters Carman got into it
to take the first ride. It upset with them,
and floated away while they took refuge
in a tree. Lincoln saved them by swim-
ming to the tree with a log, having a
long rope attached. After getting all on
it, those on shore drew it in. J. E. Roll
learned the trade of a plasterer and brick
mason, and for thirty years followed the
business of building and dealing in real
estate, having built about one hundred
houses, on his own account, in Spring-
field. He has been in the boot and shoe
trade for the last seventeen years. J. E.
Roll and family reside in Springfield, Illi-
nois.

MART C., born Nov. 29, 1816, in
New Jersey, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, May 2, 1840, to John Bagby. They
have four children, and lives near Marion
Centre, Kansas.

ELIZABETH W., born April 22,
1819, in New Jersey, married in Sanga-
mon county to Isaac H. Smith, who was
born either in North or South Carolina,
and died in 1851, in Springfield, leaving
a widow and five children. Of their
children: WILLIAM married Esther
R. Brokaw, have three living children,
ADA, LIDA and LILLIE, and live in Mason
City, 111. JOHN was killed by a passing
train on a railroad, in childhood. ELIZA
P., born July 26, 1848, married George
E. Mott. See his name. Their son,
HARRY w., died Aug. 27, 1876, aged six
years and five months. JAMES and
EDWARD live in Springfield. Mrs.
Elizabeth W. Smith resides in Spring-
field, Illinois.

SARAH and WILLIAM, twins,
born August 19, 1822, in New Jersey.

SARAH, married in Sangamon coun-
ty to William P. Short, had seven child-
ren; three died young. WILLIAM died
in the Union army. William P. Short
and family reside near Teheran, Mason
county, Illinois.

WILLIAM died in Springfield, Aug.
24, 1839.

NANCT, born March 13, 1828, in
New Jersey, married in Sangamon coun-
ty to Jeremiah Riggins, have five living
children, and reside in Mason City, Illi-
nois.

ALP HE US P., born Sept. 17, 1830,
in Sangarno, Sangamon county, 111., mar-
ried in Mason county to Mary Mosslan-
der. They have four children. Their
son, JOHN E., was married Jan. 18, 1876,
in Sangamon county, to Phoebe D. Roll,
daughter of Pierson Roll. See his name.
John E. Roll and wife live near Teheran,
111. The other three children live with
their parents. Alpheus P. Roll and fam-
ily reside near Teheran, Mason county,
Illinois.

William Roll died August u, 1844, in
Sangamon county, and his widow lives
with her daughter, Mrs. Riggins, in
Mason City, Illinois.

RpSS, MRS. NANCY, was
born in 1777, in Essex county, N. J. Her
maiden name was Dunn. Her father,
Jeremiah Dunn, was captain of a com-
pany of New Jersey rangers in the Revo-
lutionary army, and was killed July 28,
1778, at the head of his company, at the
battle of Monmouth, N. J. He left a

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widow with one son and three daughters.
The widow never married, although she
survived her husband sixty years. Their
daughter Nancy, whose name heads this
sketch, was married in 1795 to William
Ross, who was born in the same county,
Feb. 14, 1769. They were married in
Essex county, had six children there, and,
in 1813, moved to Cinci nati, O., where
seven children were born. William Ross
died there of cholera, Nov. 18, 1832. Mrs.
Nancy Ross moved with some of her
children to Sangamon c ^unty, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1839 in Round Prairie, four
miles east of Springfield, and the next
year moved to what is now Cooper town-
ship. Seven of her children died young.
Of the other six —

HETJ^Y, born in 1796 in New Jersey,
married in Cincinnati, O., to Jonathan L.
Cory, who died near Natchez, Miss.,
while there on business. He left one
child, WILLIAM ROSS CORY, born
March 18, 1823, in Cincinnati, and came
to Sangamon county with one of his
uncles previous to 1840, and was married
in Springfield to Icy Isabel Deck. They
had four children, three of whom died
under eight years. WILLIAM R., Jun.,
born Jan. 16, 1847, in Sangamon county,
married Sept. 12, 1875, to Annetta Deyo.
William R. Cory, Jun., is a teacher, and
resides in Rochester, 111. Mrs. Icy I.
Cory died in 1855, and Mr. Cory was
married Sept. 22, 1859, to Christiana
Clements, who was born July 22, 1836,111
Montgomery county, Md. They have
five living chihlren, JOHN A., ANNIE i.,
ALICE A., ELLA L. and CLARA H. Wil-
liam Ross Cory resides in Springfield,
111. Mrs. Hetty Cory married in Cincin-
nati to Martin H. Flagg, and moved to
Springfield in 1838. They had five child-
ren ; twins died young; one lives in Cin-
cinnati and two in Minnesota. Mr. Flagg
died in 1843 *n Springfield, and his widow
went to Cincinnati and died of cholera,
July 3, 1849.

NANCY, born about 1800 in New Jer-
sey, married in Cincinnati, in 1817, to
Bennajh English, born near Philadelphia,
and was a soldier in the war of 1812. He
died in Cincinnati in 1837, leavmg a
widow and two children. They came
to Sangamon county in 1840. AFFAL-
INDA married John Tunnicliffe, and
lives in St. Louis. BENNAJH married

Sarah Firey, and lives in Cooper town-
ship. Mrs. Nancy English resides with
her son in Cooper township, Sangamon
county, 111.

WILLIAM R., born Oct. 3. 1809, in
Rahway, Essex county, N. J., married in
Cincinnati, O., May 18, 1834, to Ann
Flagg. They had two children born in
Cincinnati, and moved to Springfield, 111.,
in 1838, and from there to Cooper town-
ship, where Mrs. Ross died, Feb. 18,1844.
Mr. Ross was married Dec. 28, 1845, to
Mary E. Crowl. They had six children.
Of his children— LAURETTA, born
April 13, 1835, in Cincinnati, married in
Sangamon county, Dec. 15, 1851, to
Henry O. Stafford". They had four child-
ren; two died young, and Mrs. Stafford
died Dec. 7, 1859. Of her two children,
ORLANDO c. lives with his father in Deca-
tur; LAURETTA A. resides with her grand-
father Ross. ADELIA, born in Cincin-
nati, died in Sangamon county May 22,
1854, in her seventeenth year. By the
second marriage— GEORGE R., MOR-
DECAI V. and JOSEPH H., live
with their parents. William R. Ross and
family reside three miles east of Rochester,
Sangamon county, 111.

ANDRE W J., born March 8, 1815,
in Cincinnati, was married in Sangamon
county June n, 1843, to Elizabeth Lord,
who died Nov. 26, 1865, leaving five
children, WILLIM R. ANDRDW J.,
Jun., LOUISA J., JESSE E. and
HENRY H. A. J. Ross married Oct.
10, 1868, in St. Louis, to Mi's. Elizabeth
Viler, whose maiden name was Ford.
They have three children, RICHARD
M., MILES M. and MILTON R., and
reside three miles north of Berry station,
or Clarksville, Sangamon county, 111.

CHARLOTTE Z>., born in 1816, in
Cincinnati, married there to W. H. Mor-
ris, raised a family, came to Sangamon
county on a visit, and died suddenly at the
house of her brother, William R. Ross,
Aug. 8, 1871. Her remains were taken
back for interment in Spring Grove Cem-
etery, Cincinnati, O.

LOUISA y., born in Cincinnati, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, 111., to Milton
Ross. He died Aug. 20, 1845, an^ h's
widow resides three and three-quarter miles
east of Rochester.

Mrs. Nancy Ross died Feb. 24, 1852, in
Cooper township. The remains of her

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

husband (William Ross) were removed
from Catharine street Cemetery, Cincin-
nati, by their son, William R., and depos-
ited by her side in Cooper township, in
1870.

ROSS, WILLIAM, was born
Jan. 9, 1801, in North Carolina. His
father, John Ross, was born in Scotland,
and came to America before the Revolu-
tion. He was a soldier from North Caro-
lina in the Revolution, for five years,
when he was wounded, and thus disabled
for further service. He was married in
North Carolina, and moved to Adair
county, Ky., when the subject of this
sketch was a boy. William Ross and
Maria Willis were there married, in 1827,
and had four children in Adair county.
They moved to Sangamon county, Illi-
nois, arriving in Nov., 1836, in what is
now Gardner township, where three chil-
dren were born. Of their seven child-
ren—

MARTHA, born Jan. 10, 1829, in
Adair county, Ky., married May 13, 1845,
in Sangamon county, to Matthias Miller,
who was born April, 1819, in Germany.
They had five living children — SARAH
E., born April 17, 1846, married, May 17,
1860, to John L. Gard. See his name.
GEORGE W. enlisted April, 1864, in
Co. B, 1 1 4th 111. Inf. From over exer-
tion, lack of food and exposure at the
battle of Guntown, June 10, 1864, he was
sent home on sick furlough, and died Feb.
6, 1865. ALFRED F. lives with his
parents. FLORENCE married, Jan. 3,
1871, to Alexander Campbell, have one
child, FRANKLIN M., and reside near
Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois.
VIRGINIA lives with her parents.
Matthias Miller and wife reside one and
one-half mile south of Salisbury, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois. — 1874.

SARAH J., born Feb. 14, 1831, in
Kentucky, married James Short, had two
children, and he died, and she married
Frank Ernst. They have six children,
and live one mile north of Farmingdale,
Illinois.

ALFRED, born March 18, 1833, in
Adair county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, April 2, 1856, to Rachel E. Gard.
They'have seven children, JASPER N.,
ANNIE MAY, CHARLES LIN-
COLN, JOHN WM., ZULAIDA, MA-
RIA JANE and OLIVER F., and live

two miles northeast of Richland station,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOHN W., born April 24, 1835, in
Kentucky, and raised in Sangamon county.
He enlisted in 1862, in Co. D, 33d 111.
Inf., for three years, had one leg shot off,
in an assault on the rebel fortifications at
Vicksburg, June 22, and died in hospital,
July i, 1863.

MART E., born Oct., 1838, in Sanga-
mon county, married John P. Goodman,
have five children, and reside at Monti-
cello, Piatt county, Illinois.

OLIVER M., born in Sangamon
county, married Rachel Laborrence, have
two children, and reside near McLean,
McLean county, Illinois.

J ULIA A., born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married Charles Stough, have two
children, and reside in Monticello, Piatt
county, Illinois.

W INFIELD S., born in 1851 in
Sangamon county, resides with his mother
and brother, Oliver M.

William Ross died Oct. 27, 1862, in
Gardner township, and his widow resides
with her two youngest sons, near McLean,
McLean county, Illinois — 1874.

ROYAL, THOMAS, Was born
about 17=58, in Manchester, England. He
came to America with a comrade about
his own age, near the beginning of the
war for Independence. They both vol-
unteered in the army of the colonists,
and his comrade at his side had his head
blown completely off. About the same
time Mr. Royal was severely wounded
by a charge of buckshot entering his
ankle, some of which he carried to his
grave. After the Revolution he married
a Miss Cooper, in Virginia, and raised a
family. Mrs. Royal died, and he mar-
ried Rebecca Matthews. They moved to
Franklin county, Ohio, where Mrs. Re-
becca Royal died, leaving one child. Mr.
Royal married Mrs. Ellen Brunk. They
had one child in Ohio, and moved to San-
gamon county, 111., in company with her
sons, George and David Brunk, the New-
comer family, and others, numbering in
all sixty-three persons, arriving in the fall
of 1824, in what is now Ball township.
Thomas Royal brought two children by
his first wife —

WILLIAM, born m 1796, in Virginia,

entered the ministry in connection with

. the M. E. church, in Ohio. He came to

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Sangamon county in 1826, and after the
first three or four years his itinerant con-
nection took him out of Sangamon coun-
ty, but he remained in Illinois until 1853^
when he went to Oregon. He died in
Salem, Sept. 29, 1870, leaving a family
there.

MAR Y, born in Virginia, and married
in Ohio to Absolom Meredith. See his
name.

By the second wife- —

REBECCA, born July 30, 1812, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Jacob Boyd. See his name.

By the third marriage —

JOSEPH B., born Nov. i, 1816, in
Franklin county, near Columbus, Ohio,
was married in Sangamon county, Aug.
19, 1841, to Louisa Downing. She died
Jan. 8, 1853, in Vermont, Fulton county,
111., leaving four children ; two died young.
THOMAS M. was married in Washing-
ton county, 111., to Sarah M. Kelso, and
lives in Chatsworth, 111. ELEANOR
E. married James M. Little, and lives in
McDonough county, near Vermont, Ful-
ton county, 111. Joseph B. Royal was
married Oct. 23, 1853, at Vermont, 111.,
to Mrs. Elsey McHendry whose maiden
name was Boyle. She had one child,
SARAH C. McHENDRY, and Mr.
and Mrs. Royal have three children,
GEORGE A., MOLLIE M. and
EUGENE D. The family live at Ver-
mont, Fulton county, 111. Joseph B.
Royal is pastor of the Christian church
there.

Thomas Royal died August, 1834, and
his widow died September, 1844, both in
Ball township, Sangamon county, 111.

RUCKER, THOMAS, was
born Oct. 29, 1807, in Caldwell county,
Ky. The first of the name in America
was John Rucker, a native of France.
On the voyage to America the vessel in
which he sailed was wrecked about twelve
miles from shore, and nearly all on board
were lost. Before leaving the wreck Mr.
Rucker took the precaution to tie a couple
of large flasks of rum to his neck, which
buoyed him up. By that means, and by
taking an occasional drink of it, he was
enabled to reach the shore. He settled in
Amherst county, Virginia, married and
raised a family there, from which has
sprung, in a larger sense, one of the most
numerous families in the United States.

Some of his descendants moved to Cald-
well county, Kentucky. Thomas Rucker,
whose name heads this sketch, was mar-
ried in Woodford county, Kentucky, to
Diedamia Rucker, who was born in that
county Dec. 12, 1805. She was also a
descendant of the same John Rucker.
Thomas Rucker and wife had one child
in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon
county, arriving in the fall of 1832 in
what is now Gardner township, where they
had five living children. Of their six
children —

JAMES H., born June 16, 1832, in
Woodford county, Ky., died in Sanga-
mon county, Jan. 17, 1852.

BISHOP EMERY, born Dec. 12,
1834, in Sangamon county, married Lu-
cinda Shaver. They have two living
children, and reside near Taylorville, Illi-
nois.

PERMELIA J., born Dec. 12, 1836,
in Sangamon county, married George W.
Forden. See his name.

MARTHA E., born June 2, 1838, in
Sangamon county, married Andrew L.
Crowl. They have two children, and re-
side half a mile west of Sangamon Station,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOSHUA Y., born Nov. i, 1841, died
Nov. 8, 1861.

LUCY A., bori July 3, 1843, m San-
gamon county, married Thomas Upton,
have four children, and live near Summit,
Butler county, Neb.

Mrs. Diedamia Rucker died in the
autumn of 1863, and Thomas Rucker
was married April 7, 1869, to Mrs. Julia
A. Leonard, previously Mrs. Boatwright,
whose maiden name was Russell. She
was born April 7, 1813, in Murray county,
Tenn. Her daughter —

MARY E. Boatwright, married John
M. Green. They have two children,
CHARLES L. and CALLIE M., and
live in Springfield.

Thomas Rucker and wife reside near
the west end of Monroe street railroad,
Springfield, 111.

RUCKEL, DANIEL E., was
born May 5, itfii, in New York City.
Catharine V. G. Forbes was born Feb. 8,
1812, in the same city. They were mar-
ried, April 22, 1834, and hatl one child
there. Mr. Ruckel came to Springfield in
the fall of 1836, and his wife and child
came the next spring with his brother

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

Jacob. Mr. and Mrs. Ruckel had three
children in Sangamon county. Of their
four children —

CATHARINE F., born Feb. 23,
1835, in New York City, brought up in
Springfield, 111., and married in her native
city, Feb. 23, 1859, to Curtis H. Hall.
They have two living children, MINNIE
and THOMAS, and reside at Senaca
Falls, New York.

EDGAR W., born Jan. 22, 1839, in
Springfield, 111. He was in New York
City when Fort Sumter was fired upon,
and enlisted on the first call for 75,000
men, April 16, 1861, in Co. H, 8th New
York Inf., for three months, and served
full term. He enlisted August 22, 1861,
in Co. A, 6th New York Inf., for two
years; served full term, being on duty in
New York City at the time of the great
riots in July, 1863, and was honorably
discharged at the expiration of his term
of service soon after. Since that time,
Springfield, 111., has been his home. He
is not yet married. — Sept., 1876.

MA TILDA B., born Nov. 22, 1841, in
Springfield 111., married March 3, 1863, in
her native place, to William D. Ward,
who was born Aug. 10, 1826, in Reading,
England, and was brought by his parents
to America in 1830. They settled at
Zanesville, Ohio, and died there. William
D. Ward came to Springfield in 1854.
They have two living children, GRACE
V. and LIDA F., and reside in Spring-
field, 111. Mr. Ward i* engaged in the
business of a watchmaker and jeweler.

ELIZABETH C., born July 29,
1844, in Springfield, 111., married Richard
H. Dawson. See his name in connec-
tion with the Meacham family.

Daniel E. Ruckel died in Springfield,
April 9, 1854, and Mrs. Ruckel was married
March 17, 1857, to E. G.Johns. He was
accidentally killed by a falling derrick
while passing the corner of Fifth and
Monroe streets, Springfield, August, 1863.
Mrs. Johns resides with her daughter,
Mrs. Ward, in Springfield, Illinois.

RUCKEL, JACOB, was born
Oct. 27, 1815, in New York city, and came
to Springfield, 111., in the spring of 1837.
He was married near Farmington — now
Farmingdale — to Laura A. Stone. They
have five living children, namely —

SAMUEL, FANNTA., WAL TER
B., JOHN H. and JOSEPH B., who

live with their parents.

When the two brothers came to Spring-
field they engaged in cabinet-making, and
about 1840 went to Sangamo, where they
run a saw mill and manufactured cabinet
furniture, which they continued about
three years, and returned to Springfield.
Jacob Ruckel afterwards changed to up-
holstery, and is now dealing in paper
hangings of every variety, and resides in
Springfield, 111.

RUSK, BENJ. D., was born in
Virginia. His father was killed in the
Revolutionary army. His son —

ARCHIBALD H., born Nov. 20,
1833, in Sangamon county, enlisted on
the first call for 75,000 men, April, 1861,
in Co. E, 7th 111. Int., for three months;
served full term, and was honorably dis-
charged. He enlisted in August, 1861, in
Co. A, 3d 111. Cav., for three years; served
until May, 1862, when he was discharged
on account of physical disability. In
June, 1863, he was received into Co. E,
ii4th III. Inf., in place of his brother,
David L. Rusk, who was discharged in
consideration of that exchange. In 1865
he was transferred to Co. A, 58th 111. Inf;
served until April, 1866, when he was
honorably discharged at Springfield, and
lives in Cotton Hill township.

DA VID L. was one of the Super-
visors of Sangamon county from Cotton
Hill township.

RUTH, REUBEN F., was born
Aug. 26, 1815, in Wrightsville, York
county, Penn. He came to Springfield in
April, 1839, and engaged in the business
of a saddle and harness maker. He was
married Aug. 11, 1840, in Philadelphia,
Penn., to Maria W. Diller, who was born
July 20, 1817, in Lancaster county, Penn.
They had two children —

J. DILLER, born June 14, 1841, in
Springfield, was married in Petersburg,
Illinois, to Anna Bacon. They have one
child, GEORGI ANA. Mrs. Anna Ruth
and her daughter reside in Springfield,
Illinois.

R. FRANCIS, born May 8, 1856, in
Springfield, lives with his father.

Mrs. Maria W. D. Ruth died May 28,
1870, in Springfield.

R. F. Ruth was a member of the firm
of Ruth & Hurst, dry goods merchants,

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633

fifteen years, terminating in 1875. He
served one term as alderman, and four
years as Water Works Commissioner.
In 1868 he became President of the Ma-
rine and Fire Insurance Company Bank,
and now — 1876 — occupies the same posi-
tion, and resides in Springfied, Illinois.

Roland W. Diller, a brother of Mrs.
Ruth, was born Oct. 5, 1822, in Chester
county, Penn. He came to Springfield
in 1844, and worked one year as a prin-
ter in the Register office. In 1849 ne
engaged in the drug business as a member
of the firm of Corneau & Diller. He is
now — 1876 — in the same business, on the
same ground — east side of the court house
square — and is the oldest druggist in
Springfield. Mr. Diller was married Oct.
30, 1850, in Philadelphia, Penn., to Esther
C. Ridgeway, a native of that city. They
have three children, all born in Spring-
field. Emma married David B. Ayers, of
Jacksonville, Illinois. They have one
child, Marshal Roland, and reside on a
farm near Homer, Champaign county, 111.
Isaac R. is in the drug business with his
father and lives in Springfield. Essie lives
with her parents. R. W. Diller and fam-
ily reside in Springfield, Illinois.

SACKETT, CLAUDIUS C.,
was born Dec. 16, 1813, in that part of
Portage which is now Summitt county,
Ohio, with Akron as the county seat. Mr.
S. came to Waverly, 111., in the fall of
1836. During the winter ;-nd spring of
1836 and '7 he chopped wood and made
rails, and with the money thus earned he
walked to Springfield, changed it into
silver, entered eighty acres of land in
what is now Loami township, and re-
turned to Waverly. Mr. Sackett went
back to Ohio in the fall of 1837, and came
to Sangamon county again in the fall of
1839. He was married Dec. 2, 1843, at
Waverly, to Sarah Heaton, of Pennsylva-
nia. They had two living children —

EMILT z\\& ANNA, who live with
their father. Mrs. Sarah Sackett died
December, 1847, anc^ ^-" ^~" Sackett was
married Jan. 10, 1849, to Mrs. Juliette
Coe, whose maiden name was Shumway.
She was born Jan. 25, 1823, in the town
of Canisius, Livingston county, N, Y.
They have two children — •
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R OS COE J. and CLARA A. reside
with their parents in Loami township,
Sangamon county, three miles northeast
of Waverly, Morgan county, 111. — 1874.

In 1841 Mr. Sackett raised some wheat
of a superior quality, and the following
winter he sent a young man to St. Louis
with a load of it to sell. He engaged to
take a trunk through, for which he was to
receive $5.00. The team was gone just
one week, and when it returned the young
man had exactly the amount received for
carrying the trunk, the money obtained for
the wheat having been expended in de-
fraying expenses. From this an idea may
be formed of the markets for farm pro-
ducts at that time.

SACKETT, THOMAS, was

brought up near Hamilton, Butler county,
Ohio, and was there married to Peggy
Martin. They had six children in Ohio,
and moved to Sangamon county, near
Sa igamo, previous to 1830. Of their
children —

D OR CA S, born in Ohio, married in
Sangamon county to Levi Batterton. See
his name.

PHEBE married Miles Goodman, and
moved first to Iowa, and then to Oregon.

MAR T married A. Clay Gaines. See
his name.

HARRIET married Thompson Cri-
der, and died.

JOHN, married and moved to Missouri.

SAMUEL married Cyrena Goodman,
and moved to Missouri.

Mrs. Peggy Sackett died, and Thomas
Sackett was twice married. After the
death of his third wife he moved to Mis-
souri with his sons and died there.

SAFLEY, ADAM, was born in
Loudon county, Virginia, and was mar-
ried to Melinda Ferrell, a native of Vir-
ginia also. They had one child in Ohio,
and came to Sangamon county, 111., arriv-
ing in 1820 on Lick creek, where they
had ten children. We have sketches of
three only of them —

•S" TEPHEN, born in Ohio, married in
Sangamon county to Nancy Prunk.
They have a family, and live near Ches-
nut, Logan county, 111.

L UCINDA M., born in Sangamon
county, married William PofFenberger.
See his

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MART R., born July 7, 1832, in San-
gamon county, married William P. Mat-
thew. See his name.

Mrs. Melinda Safley died, and Adam
Safley married Mrs. Nancy Spicer, whose
maiden name was Clifton. Adam Safley
died January, 1870. Mrs. Nancy Safley
lives with her son, John Spicer. See
his name.

SANDERS, ELISHA, was
born Jan. 16, 1804, in Green county, Ky.
He was married Jan. 17, 1824, in the same
county, to Jane Faucett. They had three
children there, and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving Dec. 16, 1829, and
stopped two miles west of Springfield.
In 1832 he bought land on Brush creek,
fifteen miles south of Springfield, where
Timothy Meader now lives. In 1836 he
sold out there, and bought land on Horse
creek, four miles east of the latter place.
They had ten children in Sangamon coun-
ty. Of their thirteen children —

ROBERT E., born May 26, 1825, in
Green county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, April i, 1846, to Eliza Funder-
burk. They had two living children.
ELISHA, born April 26, 1848, married
Sept. 30, 1869, to Mary E. Fry. They have
one living child, JULIUS o., and live five and
a half miles southeast of Pawnee, in the
corner of Sangamon county. MARY
E., born April 8, 1850, married Oct.,
1867, to George Payn, have three child-
ren, ROBERT L., HARRIET M. and JOHN H.,

and live in Cotton Hill township, on the
Vandever place, east of New City. Mrs.
Eliza Sanders died Dec. 27, 1852, and
Robert ii.. Sanders married July 12, 1853,
to Isabel Bridges, daughter of James.
They had six children. MARGARET
A., born May 5, 1854, married William
T. Beam. See his name. ELIZA J.,
bom Oct. 8, 1856, married Oct. 28, 1873,
to James H. Beam. See his name.
SUSAN A., born Oct. n, 1857, died
April 6, 1865. JOHN E., THOMAS E.
and JAMES W. live with their father.
Mrs. Isabel Sanders died August i, 1865.
R. E. Sanders was married May 31, 1868,
to Sophia Porter, who was born Feb. 10,
1842, in Belmont county, Ohio. They
have two living children, SARAH R.
and ROBERT W. live with their par-
ents. Robert E. Sanders resides three
miles northeast of Pawnee, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

JOHN H., born June 26, 1827, in
Green county, Ky., married in Sangamon
county, Feb. 25, 1847, to Martha Funder-
burk. They had four living children :
MARY E., born Jan. 6, 1848, married
Nov. 23, 1867, to John L. Ludwick, who
was born June 6, 1846, in Rockbridge
county, Va. He served from August,

1864, to July, 1865, in Co. A, 147111 Ohio
Inf. They have two children, MARTHA
E. and CHARLES H., and live near Pawnee,
111. VIENNA M., born April 4, 1851,
married Oct. 23, 1866, to Joseph Hallo-
way, who was born Jan. 16, 1837, *n Har-
din county, Ky. They live two and a
half miles northeast of Pawnee. SARAH
F., born Sept. 24, 1858, and CHARLES
T., born Dec. 14, 1859, live with their
mother. John H. Sanders died March 7,

1865, in Pawnee, and his widow resides
in Christian county, three miles northeast
of Pawnee, Sangamon county, 111. John
H. Sanders was in the store of James
Bodge, in Pawnee, on the evening of
March 7, 1865, when two men entered it,
ostensibly with the view of trading, but
really with the view of robbery. Mr.
Sanders passed out of the door, and as he
did so, was shot by an accomplice of the
robbers, stationed on the outside, to pre-
vent his giving the alarm. He died be-
fore any of his friends could reach him.
Two of the robbers, James P. Lemon
and Barney B. Vanarsdale, were arrested,
the former in Missouri and the latter in
Iowa. They were tried, convicted April
25, and hung at Springfield, July 20,

1866, The other, Ballard, was

hung in Missouri by a mob, but confessed
that he assisted in the murder of Mr.
Sanders.

MART A. .F., born Oct. 18, 1828, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Rape Funderburk. See his name.
She died June 8, 1848.

ELISHA 7\, born July 2, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married Dec. 15, 1850,
to Barbara Proctor. They had eight chil-
dren : JOHN T., ELIZABETH A. and
EMMA died under six years of age. Of
the other five: LOUISA, born Oct. 15,
1851, was married Jan. 31, 1869, to
Edward Tilley. They have two living
children, ANDREW j. and EDWARD, and
live in Pawnee, Sangamon county, 111.
HARRIET A., born August 16, 1853,
was married July 7, 1872, to William R.

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Galyen, who was born March 15, 1844,
in DeKalb county, Tenn. They have
two children, JESSE M. and GEORGE ED-
WARD, and live in Cotton Hill township.
MARTHA I., LEONARD F. and
PHILEMON S. live yfith their parents,
two miles east of Pawnee, Sangamon
county, 111. Elisha T. Sanders was or-
dained a Predestinarian Baptist minister,
June 20, 1874.

WILLIAM M., born Jan. 10, 1832, in
Sangamon county, married Ellen Peak.
They have four living children, SARAH,
SINAI, TYRA and ETTIE. William
M. Sanders and family reside in Chris-
tian county, nine miles east of Pawnee
and eight miles west of Taylorville, Illi-
nois.

GEORGE W., born April 16, 1835,
in Sangamon county, married, June 15,
1856, to Lucinda Proctor, had one child,
MARY F., and Mrs. Sanders died Sept.
12, 1863. Mr. Sanders married, Feb. 25,
1864, to Mrs. Margaret McLaughlin,
whose maiden name was Henwood.
They have three children, JOSEPH W.,
WILLIAM E. and ELI PRESTON,
and reside two and one-half miles north-
east of Pawnee, Illinois.

HARRIEJ^ A., born May 25, 1836,
in Sangamon county, married, August 17,
1856, to William J. Wheeler, who was
born Feb. 21, 1835, in Gibson county,
Indiana. They had nine children, seven
of whom died under six years of age.
MADELON and WILLIAM A. re-
side with their parents, half a mile north-
east of Pawnee, Sangamon county, 111.
Mr. Wheeler has been acting as justice of
the peace since April, 1872, and is elected
to serve until April, 1877. He was or-
dained, June 20, 1874, at the Horse creek
Predestinarian Baptist church, as a preach-
er of the gospel.

ANDRE W y., born April 22, 1838,
in Sangamon county, married, October 7,
1858, to Sarah Lambert, who was born
Jan. 30, 1843, m Greene county, Indiana.
They had four children, two of whom
died. JAMES R. and EMMA died
under four years. MILTON J. and
FLORA live with their parents, one and
one-half mile northeast of Pawnee, 111.
He was ordained June 20, 1874, at the
Horse Creek Predestinarian Baptist
church, as a preacher of the gospel.

TIMOTHY E. J/., born June 2, 1841,

in Sangamon county, married, August 28,

1864, to Elizabeth Tilley, who was born
April 10, 1844, in Kentucky. They had
four children — WILLIAM died in in-
fancy. ALBERT M.. CALVIN and
EFFIE E. live with their parents, one
and one-half mile northeast of Pawnee,
Illinois. Mr. Sanders was ordained, Oct.
1 8, 1873, as deacon of the Horse creek
Predestinarian Baptist church.

ELIZA ANN, born Sept. 17, 1842,
in Sangamon county, married, Oct., 1860,
to Dr. Charles Kerr. They had two
children, EDWARD EVERETT and
ELIZA ANN. Mrs. Kerr died, Feb. 3,

1865, and Dr. Kerr was married, Sept. 13,

1866, to Melissa McMurry. See Mc-
Murry family. Dr. Kerr was assistant
surgeon of the 59th 111. Inf., appointed
Feb. 1 8, 1865, was promoted to Major
Surgeon of the loth 111. Cav., Oct 23,
1865. That regiment was mustered out
in November, when he returned to the
59th, and was mustered out with it, at
Springfield, in January, 1866. He is now
a practicing physician in Pawnee, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois — 1876.

JOSEPH W., born Oct. 16, 1844, in
Sangamon county, married, Nov. 2, 1865,
to Mollie E. Sanders, who was born
October 25, 1845, m Kentucky. They
have three children, AMANDA M.,
WILLIAM T. and CHARLES AR-
THUR, and reside two and thi*ee-quar-
ter miles east of Pawnee, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

NANCT ANN, born Dec. 14, 1845,
in Sangamon county, married, Jan. 17,
1865, to John Faucett, who was born
Nov. 23,1840, in that part of Green which
is now Tavlor county, Ky. They have
three children, ELISHA M., FANNY
M. and JASPER J., and reside one and
one-quarter miles east of Pawnee, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

STEPHEN A. Z>., born December
9, 1852, in Sangamon county, married,
Dec. 7, 1871, to Amanda A. Womack,
who was born Oct. 12,1853, in Sangamon
county. They have one child, MAN-
FORD W., and reside two miles east of
Pawnee, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Mrs. Elizabeth Sanders died, June 30,
1865, and Elisha Sanders was married,
February 20, 1866, to Nancy Jane Fau-
cett. They have two living children —

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ELIZABETH F., and MARTHA

E., who live with their parents.

Elisha Sanders was for many years a
licensed preacher, previous to May, 1863,
when he was ordained, at Horse creek,
regular Predestinarian Baptist church,
and is now pastor of that church.

This sketch was completed in June,
1874.

Rev. Elisha Sanders says, that although
he came into the county ten years after
settlement commenced, yet he found
houses very scarce. His brother-in-law,
Wm. Crowder, and himself, in December,
1829, cut down oak trees, split them in
halves, built a cabin west of Springfield,
covered it with clapboards, chinked it
with wood, and, instead of lime, made
mortar of the rich black soil, and plaster-
ed the cracks. The plastering was done
in freezing weather, but they kept up a
fire on the inside until it was dry. The
chimney was made of sticks and plastered
in the same way, and when it was dry,
the prints of their fingers could be seen
all over in the plastering. Mr. Sanders
now lives in a house much better than the
average farm houses in the county, but he
says he never felt so rich as when he
moved into that cabin plastered with the
mud.

Mr. Sanders remembers that the "deep
snow" of i83O-'3i was about three and
one-half feet deep on a level. He had to
gather his corn twice. The first time he
took all the ears on a level with and
above the snow, and after it went off he
went over again and gathered nearly as
much more. He saved a cow and calf
from perishing by taking them in with
his family and keeping them in one cor-
ner of the house.

SANDERS, ROBERT W.,
was born April 10, 1815, near Harper's
Ferry, Virginia. His father died when
he was a child, and his widowed mother,
with her eight children, moved to Ruther-
ford county, Tenn., in 1827. Robert W.
was married there, in 1834, to Keziah
Johnson. They had two children in Ten-
nessee, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the fall of 1838 in what is
now Cotton Hill township, where two
children were born. Mr. Sanders assisted
in quarrying the stone for the State
House, then in course of construction at
Springfield. His family suffered greatly

from sickness, and in 1840 he returned to
Tennessee, where he died May 31, 1857,
leaving a widow, nine sons and one
daughter. Robert W. Sanders was a
minister in the Baptist church for thirteen
years previous to, his death. The widow
felt that some great calamity was about to
befall that part of the country where she
lived, and without any definite idea of
what it was, she meditated long upon the
subject, and when her children were
wrapped in slumber she resolved, if possi-
ble, to take them again to Illinois as a
place of safety. She wrote at once to her
eldest son, who had returned to Illinois
soon after the death of his father. He
was glad to give them such aid and en-
couragement as he could, and they all
arrived in Sangamon county Oct. 10, 1859,
just in time to understand the situation of
the country and add five soldiers to the
Union army. Of Mrs. Sanders ten living
children —

STEPHENN.,\>ovn March 16, 1835,
in Rutherford county, Tenn., studied
medicine in Sangamon county, 111., enlist-
ed there in Co. K, i24th 111. Inf., was
elected Captain of same company and
twice wounded — once severely. He was
acting assistant aid-de-camp on Gen. J. B.
Coats' staff a portion of the time; also
assistant government marshal of the pro-
visional encampment at Vicksburg, Miss.,
during the winter of 1864 and '5; served
three years and was honorably discharged
Aug. 12, 1865. He was married at
Loami, Sangamon county, 111., to Mary J.
Smith. They had two children; one
died; the other, NORA, lives with her
grandmother Smith in Christian county.
Mrs. Mary J. Sanders died May 28, 1868.
S. N. Sanders was married Nov. 23, 1871,
to Susan Elliott, at Wilmington, 111. He
is a practicing physician at Arcola, Doug-
las county, 111.

GEORGE W., born Dec. 8, 1838, in
Cotton Hill township, Sangamon county,
was married near Auburn, 111., to Eliza-
beth Bremer. They have two children,
CLARA A. and IDA B., and reside in
Auburn, 111.

THOMAS y., born Aug. 23, 1840, in
Cotton Hill townsnip, Sangamon county,
brought up in Tennessee, and enlisted in
Co. K, 1 24111 111. Vol. Inf., in 1862, for
three years; was elected sargeant, served
full term, and was honorably discharged

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Aug. 12, 1865. He was married Febru-
;irv, 1875, to Maggie Hackley, and resides
in Auburn, 111.

MARTIN L., born Feb. 8, 1842, in
Rutherford county, Tenn., enlisted April,
1864, in Co. K, 1 24th 111. Inf., served one
year and eleven months. He was hon-
orably discharged at the close of the rebel-
lion, and was married at Mechanicsburg
to Mary J. Sparrow. They have two
children, VIRGIL H. and JAMES H.,
and reside at Lincoln, 111.

JOHN /?., born Nov. 4, 1844, in
Rutherford county, Tenn., enlisted in Co.
K, 1 24th 111. Inf., April, 1864; served
eleven months, and was honorably dis-
charged November, 1865. He was mar-
ried in Auburn, Sangamon county, 111., to
Jennie Wallace. They have one living
child, CLYDE. J. 'F. Sanders is a
practicing physician at Sullivan, Moultrie
county, 111.

ANDRE W /?., born Oct. 14, 1846, in
Tennessee, enlisted in Co. K, i24th 111.
Vol. Inf., for one year, served eleven
months, and was honorably discharged at
the close of the rebellion. He was mar-
ried Sept. 22, 1872, to Susan A. Ballen-
ger. They have one child, WILLIAM
A., and live in Auburn, Sangamon coun-

ty, HI.

" CLEMENT J., born Nov. 27, 1848,
in Tennessee, was married Sept. 23, 1871,
to Ella Watson. They have two child-
ren, GUY and a babe, and reside in
Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

CHRISTOPHER //., born Oct. 14,
1850, in Williamson county, 111., is unmar-
ried, and practicing medicine in Coving-
ton, Moultrie county, 111.

HENRY J., born Jan. 18, 1852, in
Williamson county, is unmarried, and re-
sides in Auburn, Sangamon county, 111.

ELLA, born Nov. 17, 1855, in David-
son county, Tenn., was married in
Auburn, 111., to Charles Tomlinson.
They live at Butler, Indiana.

Mrs. Keziah Sanders went to Nash-
ville, Tenn., in March, 1873, to visit her
relatives and acquaintances, but returned
to Illinois in the fail of the same year, and
now resides with her daughter in Butler,
Ind. She often says that when she left
Tennessee in 1859, it was the best move
she ever made.

SAUNDERS, GUNNELL,
was born July 27, 1783, in Loudon county,

Virginia, of English ancestry. His par-
ents emigrated to the vicinity of Lexing-
ton, Ky., and a year or two later moved to
Fleming county, in the same State. Mary
Mauzy was born April 15, 1784, in Fau-
quier county, Virginia. Her parents,
who were of French descent, moved to
Bourbon county, and from there to Flem-
ing county, Ky. Gunnell Saunders and
Mary Mauzy were there married about
1801, and had seven children there. He
was a soldier from Fleming county in the
war of 1812, and afterwards moved his
family to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
May 10, 1828, and settled four miles north-
east of Springfield. Of their children —

JONATHAN R., born Feb. 17, 1802,
in Fleming county, Ky., was married
there Dec. 18, 1823, to Sarah McKinnie.
They moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving Nov. 28, 1824, at Springfield.
He entered the land on which the Sanga-
mon county fair is held, two miles north
of Springfield, and moved there in 1828.
They had six children in Sangamon coun-
ty. GUNNELL A., born Jan. 13, 1825,
died in his second year. LEWIS A.,
born Dec. 27, 1826, in Springfield, was
trained to mercantile pursuits in Col. John
Williams' store, in Springfield. When
gold was discovered in California, he
formed a partnership with Samuel Fisher,
who for several years had lived with Mr.
Saunders. Lewis A. Saunders and Sam-
uel Fisher left Springfield early in 1849,
as part of a company of sufficient magni-
tude for safety. They reached their des-
tination and engaged in mining and sell-
ing provisions to the miners on South
Feather river. Mi\ Saunders wrote to
his parents regularly once a month. In a
letter written to them early in April, 1850,
he reported himself well and in a pros-
perous condition. That was the last com-
munication his friends ever received from
him. His partner, Mr. Fisher, went to
Sacramento on business for the firm, and
Mr. Saunders was last seen by a Rev. Mr.
Mayfield, and a blacksmith from St. Jo-
seph, Mo., April 8, 1850. Neither of
those men could say whether it was before
or after his partner left for Sacramento.
All that his parents ever received from his
effects was about two hundred dollars in
gold dust, much less than he took with
him. Samuel Fisher returned a few
months later, and is now — ^874 — a

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

wealthy farmer and manufacturer at
Brooklyn, Schuyler county, 111. AS-
BERRY H.,born Nov. 7, 1828, in Spring-
field, was married Oct. 20, 1856, at Mt.
Pleasant, Iowa, to Marcia E. Underwood,
who was born Feb. 7, 1837, a^ Portage,
Ohio. They had four children; three
died young. HELEN, born June 2, 1863,
lives with her father. Mrs. Marcia E.
Saunders died Sept. 30, 1874. Mr. Saun-
ders has farming done in Arkansas, and
lives in Springfield, 111. MARTHA A.
and FRANCES died in infancy. MIL-
TON, born Oct. 3, 1836, near Springfield,
was married Jan. 3, 1861, to Anna E.
Edwards, who was born April 29, 1840,
in Salem, N. J. They had three children.
CORA died in infancy. Mrs. Anna E.
Saunders died June 30, 1863, leaving two
children, NELLIE E. and FRANCES s., who
live with their father. Milton Saunders
was married Aug. 28, 1872, to Martha E.
Beeley, who was born of English parent-
age, Aug. 31, 1842, at Concord, Morgan
county, 111. They have two children, LIL-
LIE and MARCIA. Milton Saunders and
family live at his father's house, two miles
north of Springfield — 1874. Mr. Saun-
ders is a deaf mute, caused by disease, and
his present wife was so from her birth.
They were both educated at the State In-
stitution at Jacksonville. All his children
can hear and converse. Jonathan R.
Saunders was a lieutenant in a light-horse
company from Sangamon county in the
Winnebago war of 1826 and '7, and cap-
tain of the same company in the Black
Hawk war of 1831. He was one of the
board of officers who made the treaty
with Black Hawk, which the latter violated
and caused the war of 1832. J. R. Saun-
ders and wife reside two miles north ot
Springfield, 111., and have lived within two
miles of their present residence 52 years.

NANCY, born about 1804, in Fleming
county, Ky., was married there to Amos
Locke, and moved to Bloomington, Ind.,
and from there to Sangamon county in
1830. The deep snow of 1830 and '31
discouraged them so much that they re-
turned to Bloomington in 1832, and both
died there, leaving six children, all ot
whom moved to Iowa. Two of the sons
were killed in the Union army while
assisting to suppress the great rebellion.

PRESLEY, born in Fleming county,
Ky., came to Sangamon county, 111., in

1827, and married Edith Cooper. They
had three children in that county, who all
died young. They moved in 1834 to
Iowa, and Presley Saunders laid out the
town of Mt. Pleasant. Of their two
children born in Iowa, AMANDA mar-
ried Dr. J. D. Harper, and died in Mt.
Pleasant. \See Dr. Harper's name in
connection with the Mitchell family .]
MARY married in Mt. Pleasant to John
McCoy, and lives in Denver, Col. Mrs.
Edith Saunders died in Mt. Pleasant, and
Presley Saunders married Huldah Bowen.
They had four children, and all are mar-
ried. Presley Saunders is President of
the First National Bank at Mt. Pleasant,
Iowa, and resides there — 1875.

FRANCES, born in Fleming county,
Ky., was married in Sangamon county,
111., to David K. Mackey. They had one
child, and Mr. Mackey and the child died.
Mrs. Frances Mackey was married to
Rev. Arthur Miller, who died, and she
died Sept. 24, 1876, in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.
GEORGE M., born Oct. 6, 1811, in
Fleming county, Ky., was married April
9, 1833, to Maria L. Sampson, who was
born April 5, i8n,in Fleming county,
Ky. They had four children. EVE-
LINE M., born March 4, 1835, married
Dr. William Logan. They have one
child, and live in Oconee, Shelby county,
Illinois. JAMES W., born March 24,
1837, an<l served three months in the be-
ginning of the rebellion, in an Illinois
regiment. He married Sarah Dorrell,
and lives in Mason City, 111. JOHN S.,
born May 2, 1840, enlisted for three years,
in 1861, in Co. G, loth 111. Cav., served
three years and four months, and was hon-
orably discharged. He was married
August 4, 1866, to Cordelia Montgomery.
They have two children, ARAMINDA and
LEWIS L., and live two miles north of
Springfield. DAVID S., born June 17,
1842, enlisted in 1861, in the 2d 111. Art.,
for three years, and died at Fort Donel-
son, May 3, 1864. Mrs. M. L. Saunders
died Nov. 29, 1847, an^ George M. Saun-
ders was married March 9, 1849, to Nancy
A. Offill, who was born May 4, 1826, in
Bath county, Ky. They had seven living
children. ALVIN L., born Feb. 4,
1850, enlisted in 1862, for three years, in
Co. C, 1 1 5th 111. Inf., was transferred to
the 1 2 ist 111. Inf., served to the end of the
rebellion, and was honorably discharged.

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He married Mary J. Shaw. They have
one child, and live two miles north of
Springfield, 111. JULIA E., SARAH
J., EDWARD L., ETNA A., MARY
E. and HARVEY E., live with their
parents, four miles north of Springfield,
Illinois. — 1874.

AL VI N, born July 12, 1817, in Flem-
in7 county, Kj., came with his parents
to Sangamon county, 111., in 1828, drove
an ox team in breaking prairie and haul-
ing wood to Springfield. He remained
with his father until 1836, when he joined
his brother Presley at what is now Mt.
Pleasant, Henry county, Iowa, then part
of the territory of Wisconsin. There
were but four families, and not more than
a dozen houses in the town. He first
hired to a farmer, but soon after found
employment as a clerk in a small dry
goods store. His education was too lim-
ited for the latter position, so he attended
night school, and in this way improved
himself, and retained his position as clerk.
He was the first Postmaster at Mt. Pleas-
ant, and continued in that position seven
years, during which time he was in a
partnership with his brother Presley, in
mercantile business. He was a member
of the constitutional convention of Iowa,
under which that State was admitted into
the Union, and was elected State Senator
in 1854. He was a delegate to the first
Republican convention of Iowa, which
met Feb. 22. 1856. Alvin Saunders was
married March n, 1856, in Washington,
D. C., to Marthena Barlow, who was
born Oct. 24, 1834, at Greencastle, Ind.
She is a niece of Mrs. Senator Harlan.
They have two children. CHARLES
L., born Dec. 23, 1856, and MARY A.,
born Nov. 16, 1860, live with their pa-
rents. In 1858 Mr. Saunders was elected
his own successor to the State Senate. He
was a delegate to the National Republican
Convention of 1860, which nominated Mr.
Lincoln as a candidate for President of
the United States He and Mr. Lincoln
became acquainted in Sangamon county,
111., when both were unknown. During
Mr. Saunders' second term as State Sena-
tor of Iowa, Mr. Lincoln appointed him,
early in 1861, Governor of Nebraska Ter-
ritory, a position he held for six years,
and until Nebraska was admitted to the
Union as a State, which he officially an-
nounced by proclamation, March 27,

1867. When the Union Pacific Railroad
bill passed congress, Gov. Saunders was
appointed by that body one of the commis-
sioners to give practical form to the meas-
ure, and on Dec. 2, 1863, ground was
broken at Omaha by his moving with his
own hands the first spadefull of earth for
the construction of that great thorough-
fare. When he was appointed Governor,
Nebraska Territory was in debt equal to
two dollars per head for every man,
woman and child within its limits, and
when she was admitted as a State, and
Governor Saunders retired, there was
sufficient money in the treasury to pay all
indebtedness, including the expense of
furnishing Nebraska's quota of troops to
suppress the great slaveholders' rebellion.
Ex-Gov. Saunders resides in Omaha,
Nebraska, and is President of the State
National Bank of that place.

WILLIAM A., born in Fleming
county, Ky., came with his parents to
Sangamon county, in 1828, and afterwards
went to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, where he
was married to Louisa Dickey. All their
children died young, except one. Mr.
Saunders died in 1863, and his only child,
WILLIAM, born after his father's death,
lives with his mother, in Mt. Pleasant,
Iowa.

Gunnell Saunders and his wife moved
from Springfield, 111., to Mt. Pleasant,
Iowa, in the summer of 1846. Hon. E.
D. Baker, of Ball's Bluff fatal memory,
with whom Mr. Saunders was on terms of
most intimate friendship, visited Mt.
Pleasant, and made a speech in favor of
the election of Gen. Taylor. Mr. Saun-
ders took Col. Baker in his carriage to
Ottumwa, and on the morning of Oct. 26,
1848, bade him adieu and left for home.
He was found about two miles from Ot-
tumwa, in his carriage, dead, with, the
lines so adjusted as to bring the carriage
on a cramp. Gunnell Saunders was about
sixty miles from home, but his remains
were taken to Mt. Pleasant for interment.
His widow continued to live there until
Oct. 18, 1851, when she died from the
effects of a dose of arsenic carelessly put
up bv a druggist in place of morphine.

S ATT LEY, ROBERT, was
born Oct. 27, 1788, in the vicinity of Ver-
gennes, Vermont. He and his brother
Archibald went with the family of Mrs.
Lovina Hawley, a widow lady with two

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daughters and three sons, to White coun-
ty, near Carmi, 111., in the fall of 1818.
He was there married, February, 1819, to
Eliza Hawley. She was born March 7,
1801, near Vergennes, Vt. Mr. and
Mrs. Sattley moved to what became San-
gamon county, 111., arriving in June. 1819,
and settled about half a mile north of
where Rochester now stands. They ha i
eight children in Sangamon county —

AARON, born Jan. 25, 1820, "in San-
gam on county, mariied March 4, 1858, to
Delilah Shaver, who was born Feb. 9,
1835, m Ohio. They have seven children,
JOSEPHINE, ROBERT H., RALPH
D., LOVINA A., WILLIAM A.,
MARY E. and HARRIET, and reside
one mile west of Sangamo station, Sanga-
mon county, 111. — 1874.

RALPH, born Nov. i, 1821, in Sanga-
mon county, was drowned June 15, 1844,
in South Fork, after having saved the life
of another young man who was bathing.

HARRIET, born Nov. 27, 1823, in
Sangamon county, married Jan. 3, 1849, to
George M. Greene. See his name.

JULIA, born Sept. 6, 1825, in Sanga-
mon county, married Horace Collins, a
native of Ohio. They have seven living
children, and reside near Solon, Johnson
county, Iowa.

LOVINA, born Sept. 14, 1827, in
Sangamon county, married Charles Fair-
child. See his name.

EMILY, born Oct. 22, 1829, in San-
gamon county, died Dec. 15, 1851.

ALFRED died in infancy.

ELIZA J., born June 15, 1834, mar-
ried John A. Twist. See his name.

ROBERT H., born Sept. 18, 1837, in
Sangamon county, married Nov. 7, 1860,
to Margaret J. Greene. They had four
children. The eldest and youngest died
in infancy. MARY E. and EMMA J.
live with their parents, three miles south
of Rochester, Sangamon county, 111.

Robert Sattley died March 27, 1842,
and Mrs. Eliza Sattley died June 13, 1860,
both in Rochester, Sangamon county, 111.

SATTLEY, ARCHIBALD,
born Oct. 8, 1794, near Vergennes, Ver-
mont, was married Feb. 13, 1819, near
Carmi, White county, 111., to Harriet
Hawley, who was born March, 7, 1801,
in Vermont. She was a twin sister of
his brother Robert's wife. They moved
to what became Sangamon county, arriv-

ing in June, 1819, and settled half a mile
north of where Rochester now stands.
They had eight children in Sangamon
county, two of whom died young. Of
the others —

MEL VINA, born Sept. 3, 1819, mar-
ried John C. Miller. See his name.

ALBERT, born April 10, 1821, in
Sangamon county, was married, Sept. 21,
1853, in Springfield, to h'usan C. Torrey.
They had six children, three died young.
The others live with their parents, in
Taylorville, Illinois. Albert Sattley is
one of the firm of Sattley Bros., Taylor-
ville, Illinois, and resides there.

MARY, born Dec. 31, 1822, in Sanga-
mon county, was married Jan. 16, 1845,
in Rochester, to Thomas Cheney. They
had four children, two died young. JEN-
NIE married Dr. Henry Jayne, and lives in
Taylorville. See his name. CHARLES,
born Oct. 9, 1850, in Taylorville, was
married there, Jan. 30, 1872, to Jennie
Murphy, who was born July I, 1850, in
Christian county, Illinois. They live in
Taylorville, Illinois. Thomas Cheney
died Sept. 6, 1854, and his widow married
Matthew E. Long. See his name.

ELIZA, born Nov. ir, 1824, in San-
gamon county, married Isaac H. Firey.
See his name.

MARSHALL, born Oct 24, 1831, in
Sangamon county, was married, Nov. 5,
1857, to Ruth A. Prather, who was born
July 22, 1838, in Washington county,
Maryland. They have one child, MYR-
TLE, and live in Taylorville, Illinois.
He is one of the firm of. Sattley Bros.

EDMUND was killed by a loaded
wagon running over him, in Rochester,
at the age of five years.

Mrs. Harriet Sattley died Oct. 13, 1833,
in Sangamon county, and Archibald Satt-
ley was married in March, 1834, to Julia
E. Sherman, a native of Vermont. They
had three children in Rochester.

HENRY, born Sept. 25, 1835, was
married Feb. 29, 1861, in Taylorville, to
Mary Thompson, a native of Virginia.
They had four children, three died young.
ELIZA lives with her parents in Taylor-
ville.

ARCHIBALD, Jun., born Sept. 2,
1837, was married Oct. 25, 1860, to
Martha J. Ferguson. Thev have five
children, CLYDE A., JAMES F.,

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FREDERICK L., HIRAM L. and
LUCY. A. Sattley, Jim., is of the firm
of Sattley Bros., Taylorville, Illinois.

CHARLES, born Feb. 12, 1839, was
married Feb. 15, 1862, near Taylorville,
to Clara A. Ferguson. They have five
children, LULIE, EMMA, OSCAR,
MAUDE, and a babe, and live near Wil-
ley station, Christian county, 111.
Archibald Sattley, Sen., died March 16,
1842, in Rochester, and his widow, Mrs.
Julia E. Sattley, was married there to
Lewis Thompson. They had two child-
ren—

VICTORIA, married J. E. Davis,
and lives at Brookton.

ALICE married Harry Smith, and
lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Mrs. Julia E. Thompson died in 1865,
in Springfield, 111., and Lewis Thompson
died in 1872, near Taylorville, Illinois.

SAYRE, JOHN, was born Oct.
12, 1762, near Bridgeton, Cumberland
county, New Jersey, and was married
there, August 20, 1792, to Catharine
Teel, who was born May 3, 1774, near
Bridgeton, also. They had eleven child-
ren in New Jersey, and the family moved
to Green county, near Xenia, Ohio, in
1822, and from there to Sangamon coun-
ty, 111., arriving in the fall of 1834, in
what is now Cartwright township, south
of Richland creek. Of their children —

JOHN, Jun., born July 18, 1795, in
New Jersey, was married in Ohio to
Nancy Maxwell. They had three child-
ren. He came on a visit to his relations,
and died Dec. 31, 1870, in Springfield. He
was buried in Cartwright township, and
his two daughters are both married. One
lives in Iowa and the other in Missouri.

DA VID, born August 2, 1797, was
married in New Jersey, and never moved
west.

MARGARET, born Feb. 22, 1800,
near Bridgeton, Cumberland county, N.
J., was married there to Constantine Fos-
ter. See his name.

THOMAS, born Dec. 14, 1802, in
Cape May county, N. J., married in San-
gamon county, June 23, 1836, to Effie
Waggoner. They had eight living child-
ren— JOHN, born Jan. 11, 1838, died un-
married, Oct. 7, 1865. MARY AR-
MINDA, born Nov. i, 1839, married
William T. Pirkins. See his name.
JAMES T. born June 6, 1841, and

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GEORGE W. born Aug. 11, 1843, lives
with their mother. ELIZA JANE, born
Oct. 4, 1847, married Aug. 10, 1871, to James
W. Shoup, who was born July, 1846, in
New York city. They live near Rich-
land Station. CHARLES C., ANN E.
and MARGARET E. live with their
mother. Thomas Sayre died Jan. 23,
1861, and his widow resides now (1876) on
the farm where he settled on coming to
the county. It is two and a half miles
northeast of Richland Station, Sangamon
county, 111.

ELIZA, born August 26, 1806, in
New Jersey; was married in Sangamon
county to Rolla Morgan. They had
eight children, moved to Iowa, and Mrs.
Morgan died there. The family started
over the plains, and Mr. Morgan and one
of the children died on the road. The
others continued their journey, and reside
in Portland, Oregon.

FOSJ^ER, born July 8, 1809, in New
Jersey, died in Ohio, July 22, 1836, from
injuries received in a well.

EDMOND, born Dec. 2, 1812, in New
Jersey, is unmarried, and lives in Cart-
wright township, Sangamon county, 111.,
now, 1876.

MART, born June 16, 1814, near Bridge-
ton, New Jersey, was married Sept. 15,
1842, in Sangamon county, 111., to John
H. Beaumont. They had one living
child, FANNIE, who married Dr. Harri-
son Withrow. See his name. They live
in Petersburg, 111. Mr. Beaumont died
May 3, 1870, at Pleasant Plains, Sanga-
mon county, and his widow lives at Peters-
burg, Menard county, 111.

CLARISSA, born Oct. 31, 1816, in
New Jersey, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., to Jordan Simpson. See his
name.

Mrs. Catharine Sayre died Sept. 18,
1835, anc^ Jonn Sayre died Dec. 27, 183=5,
both near Richland creek, Sangamon
county, 111.

SCOTT, DALLAS, was born
April 6, 1791, in Cumberland county, Ky.
Sarah Foster was born May i, 1793, in
the same county. They were there mar-
ried in 1815, and had two children in Ken-
tucky, and the family moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving Nov. i, 1819, on
Richland creek, three miles east of the
present town of Pleasant Plains, where

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EARL? SETTLERS OF

six children were born. Of their eight
children,

ELIZABETH, born Nov. 13, 1816,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county to Travis Elmore, and live near
Ashland, Cass county, Illinois.

GEORGE M., born July 18, 1819, in
Kentucky, married in Cass county, 111., to
Margaret Whitmire. They had two
living children. He was a physician, and
died June 13, 1851, at Lagrange, Missouri.
His children live with their mother, who
married, and lives near Sidney, Ohio.

CINTHELIA, born Sept. 10, 1821,
in Sangamon county, married Feb. 9,
1841, to Valentine C. Cartwright. See
his name.

MILTON M., born Feb. 24, 1824, in
Sangamon county, 111., married in Ken-
tucky to Jane Scott. They have one
child, and live in Crawford county Mo.

JOHN P., born April 6, 1826, in San-
gamon county, married, has five children,
and lives near Omaha, Nebraska.

MATTIE J., born April 24, 1829, in
Sangamon county, is unmarried, and lives
with her sister, Mrs. Cartwright.

HA TTIE N., born December 4, 1831,
in Sangamon county, married Amos Dick,
has one child, EMMA, and lives near
Wapella, DeWitt county, Illinois.

FRANCIS M., born April 26, 1835,
in Sangamon county, married January 17,
1858, to Mary L. Brockman, who was
born Oct. i, 1836, in Morgan county, 111.
They had seven children. HARRIET
E., the third child, died at four years, and
AMOS, the seventh child, died Sept. 4,
187$, in his second year. The other five,
GEORGE D., CYNTHIA A., JOHN
L., JAMES H., and EUGENE, live
with their parents. F. M. Scott resides
at the homestead where his parents
settled in 1819. It is in Cartwright town-
ship, three miles northeast of Pleasant
Plains, Sangamon county, 111.

Dallas Scott died June 18, 1841, and his
widow died Feb. 4, 1862, both in Cart-
wright township, Sangamon countv, 111.

SCOTT, JAMES, was born Oct.
22, 1797, in Culpepper county, Va. His
father moved to South Carolina, thence to
Rutherford county, Tenn., and from tHere
to Caldwell county, Ky., all when James
was a boy. Mary Woods was born Feb.
29, 1804, in Georgia, and her pare'its soon
after moved to Caldwell county, Ky.

James Scott and Mary Woodsywere there
married May 6, 1819. They had 6 chil-
dren in Kentucky, and moved to Missouri,
crossing the Mississippi on the ice in the
winter of 1827 or '28. After four weeks,
they went to Morgan county, 111. In the
spring of 1828 they returned to Kentucky,
and in the fall of 1829 moved to Morgan
county, 111., where nine children were
born, in all fifteen children, namelv —

EVELINE, born March 8, "1820, in
Caldwell county, Ky., married Henry N.
Hamlin. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born April 20, 1821,
in Caldwell county, Ky., married in Mor-
gan county, 111., to John H. Ham. They
have a family, and reside near Decatur,
111.

FRANCIS M., born March 27, 1823,
in Caldwell county, Ky., married Mrs.
Sarah Burch, and reside near Franklin,
Morgan county, 111. They have five chil-
dren, viz.: MINERVA E., GEORGE,
MARTHA, WILLIAM H., and
SARAH F.

LUCY, born March 3, 1825 in Cald-
well county, Ky., married in Morgan
county 111., to Samuel O'Neal. See his
name.

MART A., born Dec. 9, 1826, in Ken-
tucky, married George G. Harnsburger,
and resides near Decatur, 111.

SARAH, born Oct. 9, 1828, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county, 111.,
to Joseph Stickel, and reside near Hills-
boro, Montgomery county 111.

MINERVA J., born 'April 2, 1830,
in Morgan county, 111., and was married
there to William R. Ford. See his
name.

MARTHA E., born Feb. 13, 1832, in
Morgan county, 111., was married in San-
gamon county to Hiram W. Walker. See
his name.

NANC1 M., born in Morgan county,
died aged 6 vears.

THOMAS y., born Dec. 9, 1835, in
Morgan county, 111., married Fannie Bird,
and for his second wife, married Mary
Ford. They have one child, LUTHER
D., and reside at Virden, Macoupin coun-
ty, 111.

WILLIAM P., born April 9, 1838, in
Morgan county, married April 9, 1862, in
Sangamon county, to Matilda Headley,
who was born Sept. 27, 1838, in Parke
county, Ind. They have four living chil-

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dren, HELEN. THALBERG W.,
CHANNINGH., and LAUREL. Their
second child, EDNA, died Sept. 9, 1865.
The following lines written by the
mother, and published in the Illi-
nois State Journal expresses her feelings
at the time:

IN MEMORIAM.

Sleep, little baby sleep,

Not in thy mother's arms or cradle bed,

But in the grave forever with the dead

To sleep thy last long sleep.

My precious child ! alas, no longer mine,

Earth holds no form so dear to me as thine.

Rest, little darling, rest,

Thy mother's heart is breaking o'er the loss

Of thee, sweet baby ! O, the bitter cross

la hard to bear — what joys, what hopes are hid

Forever undernea' h thy coffin lid !

Yet rest thee, darling, rest.

Could I again behold
Thee, baby, as when living, my delight,
Thy beauteous face so fair, thine eyes so bright,
Thy h>»ir of sunny gold,
How would it ease this aching, longing pain,
Could I but clasp thee to my heart again !
BALL, 111., March. 1872. M S.

William P. Scott resides in Ball town-
ship, about two hundred yards north of
where Robert Pulliam built the first cabin
in the county.

HARRIET A., born May 6, 1840, in
Morgan county, married in Sangamon
county to David Pyle. See his name.

JULIA, born in 1842, died in 1857.

NANCT ANTIONE7^7^E, born
April 13, 1845, m Morgan county, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Fletcher A.
Stickel, and resides in Centralia, Kansas.

JAMES /?., born Dec. 9, 1847, in
Morgan county, married in Sangamon
county, in 1872, to Marv R. Patterson.
They have one child, CLARA ETTIE,
and live in Ball township.

James Scott and wife reside in Ball
township, three hundred yards east
of where Robert Pulliam built the
first cabin in Sangamon county, in the
autumn of 1817. Mrs. Scott's youngest
child has witnessed more returns of his
birthday than she has of her own. See
date of her birth for explanation.

SCOTT, JOHN, was born about
1734 in Pennsylvania. His father, An-
drew Scott, emigrated from Scotland and
settled in Pennsylvania about 1725. John
Scott was a soldier in the American
Revolution, and was married about 1756
to Anna Crayton. They had one child —

ELIZABETH, who married James
Maston.

Mrs. Anna Scott died and John Scott
married Nancy Keith. They had twelve
living children. The family moved to
Sangamon county in 1824, and settled at
Island Grove. Of his children —

ANDREW, born Nov. 21, 1786, in
North Carolina, was married May 28, 1808,
in Jackson county, Tenn., to Anna Lon-
gest, who was born in 1791 in South Caro-
lina, near the sea coast. They had seven
children there, and moved to Sangamon
county, 111., first stopping east of Spring-
field, thence to Richiand creek, and from
there to Island Grove, arriving in 1824.
Four children were born there. Of their
eleven children, GADDIAL, born Aug.
9, 1809, in Jackson county, Tenn., was
married July 25, 1833, at Island Grove,
Sangamon county, 111., to Susan Sexton,
who was born May 25, 1810, in Knox
county, Kentucky. The moved to Knox
county, 111., settling four miles north of
Knoxville, Oct. 6, 1834. They had six
living children, WILLIAM M., born July 21,
1834, died July 18, 1863. JOHN w., born
March 26, 1836, died Oct. 6, 1862.
ELIZABETH s., born April 27, 1839, died
Feb. 22, iS64« ENOCH s., born July 25,
1841, near Galesburg, was married July 4,
1863, to Mary R. Grant. They had two
living children, John W. and Clarence
R., and live at the homestead near Gales-
burg, 111. JAMES M., born May 5, 1843,
in Knox county, was married Feb. 23,
1870, to Delia Lotts. They had two
children, Forrest L. and Olive P., and
live at the homestead near Galesburg, 111.
JACOB A., born Oct. 14, 1846, died May 3,
1865. Mrs. Susan Scott died Jan. 22,
1875, and Gaddial Scott resides near
Galesburg, 111. NANCY, born Feb. 22,
1 8 1 1, in Lincoln county, Ky., married in
Sangamon county to John Slatten. They
moved to DeWitt county, 111., and from
there to Des Moines, Iowa, in 1856, where
they now reside. They have seven chil-
dren. JAMES L., born Jan. 12, 1813, in
Giles county, Tenn., came to Sangamon
county in 1824, and was married in Iowa
to Mary A. Gilmer. They have eight
children, and reside near Des Moines,
Iowa. ELIZABETH A., born Jan. 20,
1815, in Harrison county, Ind., came to
Sangamon county with her father's family
and married John Maxwell, of Macon

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County. They have five living children,
and reside near Waynesville, DeWitt
county, 111. ANNA, born Jan. 21, 1817,
in Orange county, Ind., married Tilford
Gilmer. They have one child, and reside
near Glasgow, Jefferson county, Iowa.
WILSON A., born Nov. 20, 1818, in
Crawford connty, Ind.; came to Sanga-
mon county, 111., in 1824, was married in
Iowa to Mrs. ' Louisa Jayne. Wilson
A. Scott went to Fort Des Moines
and traded with the Indians there
until they were removed west. He ac-
companied them but returned to Des
Moines, laid out the town on the east side
of the river, and it was largely through
his influence and contributions that the
capital was built on that side. He went
to California, returned to Des Moines and
contributed two or three years to the
building up of the city; started to Pike's
Peak and died at Fort Laramie in 1859.
His remains were buried at Des Moines.
CALEB L., born Dec. 22, 1821, in San-
gamon county, 111., spent ten years, from
1850 to 1860, in California, was married
Oct. 21, 1860, in Jefferson county, Iowa, to
Charlotte K. Templeton, who was born
Oct. 9, 1827, in Wayne county, Ohio.
They came at once to Island Grove town-
ship, Sangamon county, 111. They had
five children, CHARLOTTE j., ANN M.,
JOHN H. c., HENRY w., and EDNA E., and
reside adjoining Berlin on the east.
JOHN W., born June 3, 1824, at Island
Grove, was married Sept. 7, 1848, to
Martha Yates. They had nine children,
three died in infancy, MINNIE died in her
eighth year. The other five, HEXRY A.,
LOUISA, RICHARD Y., JOHN w., Jun., and
THOMAS Y., reside with their parents in
Berlin, Illinois. DORINDA, born Dec.
12, 1828, in Sangamon county, was mar-
ried to William T. Hughes, who was born
in Adair county, Ky. They have two
living children, MARY L. married Samuel
Mendenhall, and lives at Elkhart, 111.
ADA M. resides with her parents. Wil-
liam T. Hughes and family live at Elk-
hart, Logan county, 111. LUCINDA,
born April 17, 1830, in Sangamon county,
married Stewart Goodrell. They had
three children, MARY, STEWART, Jun., and
ANNA. Mr. Goodrell died in 1872 ; his
widow and children reside at Des Moines,
Iowa. Stewart Goodrell represented
Polk county, Iowa, in the State Legisla-

ture several years, and was pension agent
at the time of his death. MALINDA,
born May 2, 1832, in Sangamon county,
married Thomas B. Reed. They had one
child, WILSON T., and Mr. Reed died at
Island Grove, 111. His widow and son re-
side at Des Moines, Iowa. Mrs. Anna
Scott died and Andrew Scott married
Mrs. Maxwell, whose maiden name was
Ellis. He died in 1859 and his widow
died in 1861. He was a minister in the
Christian church.

ALEXANDER, JOHN, WIL-
SON, WILLIAM, JAMES, MAR-
TIN, SAMUEL, RUTH, ANNA
and NANCY, all these brothers and
sisters named above, settled in DeWitt
county, Illinois; none came to Sangamon
county.

SEELEY, BISHOP, born Feb.
10, 1794, at Williston, Chittenden county,
Vt. Betsy Brush was born Oct. 18, 1795,
at Waltham, Vt. Her father was a Colo-
nel in the Revolution. Bishop Seeley
and Betsy Brush were married Aug. 14,
1816, at Madrid, St. Lawrence county,
New York, and their six children were
born there. The family moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving Nov. 13, 1835,
in the Farmington settlement, in what is
now Cartwright township. Of their chil-
dren—

SUSAN P., born Aug. 8, 1818, was
married in Sangamon county, Illinois,
Dec. 25, 1838, to Robert B. Zimmerman.
See his name,

LUCIUS A., born Aug. 10, 1820, was
married in Sangamon county, Oct. 16,
1844, to Sophia H. Buckman, and moved
to Oregon in 1850. They have ten liv-
ing children, and reside near Portland,
Oregon.

JOSEPH S., born Oct. 20, 1824, in
St. Lawrence county, N. Y., was brought
up in Sangamon county, 111., went to Ore-
gon in 1848, was married there, had two
children, and lives in Wasco county, Ore-
gon.

GEORGE B., born June 8, 1829, in
New York, was married April 26, 1850,
in Sangamon county, 111., to Mary L.
Child. They are without family, and re-
side, at Abilene, Kansas.

STEPHEN B., born May 29, 1832,
in New York, was married in Tazewell
county, 111., Oct. i, 1854, to Agnes R.
Powers, who was born in Hardy county,

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West Va. They have three living chil-
dren, LUCIUS A., GEORGE B., and
FANNIE, and reside adjoining Pawnee,
Sangamon county, 111.

JANE L., born Sept. 20, 1834, in
New York, was married March 19, 1856,
in Sangamon county, 111., to James Mc-
Coy. See his name. They have four
living children, HARRIET, ROBERT
B., SEELE Y and MARTHA, and reside
in Topeka, Kansas.

Bishop Seeley moved in 1853 from
Farmingdale to Springfield, where he and
his wife now reside — 1876.

SELLS, DANIEL K., was
born Aug. 22, 1800, in Ross county, Ohio,
and came with his brother-in-law, Chris-
topher Newcomer, to Sangamon county
in 1824, and taught school at Rochester in
1825. He enlisted at Columbus, O., and
served through the Mexican war. Has
traveled all over the American continent.
He lives with his nephew, Dow New-
comer. See his name.

SHANE, JOHN, was born in
Kentucky, near the mouth of Kanawha
river, and was there married and moved
to what is now Loami towhship in 1828;
raised a large family and died there in
1847-8. His widow and all except three
of his children moved to Harrison county,
Missouri.

ED WARD, married Mary A. With-
row, raised a family and died at Mechan-
icsburg, 111.

ELIZA, married Emanuel Jones. See
his name.

EMELINE, married John Jones.
See his name. After his death she went
to Missouri and died there.

SHELLHOUSE, LYDIA,
was born in Georgia. Her maiden name
was Leadbetter. She married Daniel
McDowell, and had three children. Mr.
McDowell died, and she married Lewis
Shellhouse. Leaving her three children
with their relatives in Georgia, she and
Mr. Shellhouse moved to Kentucky,
where they had four children, and Mr.
Shellhouse died there.

The widow and her two youngest chil-
dren came to Sangamon county, 111., arriv-
ing in what is now Ball township in the
fall of 1830, just in time for the " deep
snow." Of her four children —

CAS WELL, married in Kentucky, to
Elizabeth Laughlin, came to Sangamon

county several years later than his mother,
and died in Ball township.

REBECCA, married in Kentucky to
Joseph Laughlin, moved to Christian
county, 111., and both died there.

WILLIS, born in Kentucky, came
with his mother to Sangamon county in
1830, married Sarah Easley, had six chil-
dren, and she died. He married Martha
Nuckolls. They had four children,
namely: JOHN H., resides with his
mother. CHARLES M., married Milly
A. Blount, and lives in Christian county,
111. WILLIAM B., married Amanda
M. Lockridge, who died July 28, 1873, and
their only child, JENNIE F., died a month
later. Mr. Shellhouse lives in Ball town-
ship. LYDIA A., married James H.
Pulliam. See his name. Willis Shell-
house died Oct. 24, 1852, and his widow
resides near the centre of Ball township,
four and a half miles southeast of Chatham
Illinois. The house she lives in was
built by Robert Pulliam in 1820. It was
built ot round logs, and hewn or scutched
after it was put up. Being but one story
high, no upper floor was required, but three
heavy beams, about six by eight inches,
serve as joists. On top of these there is a
covering of two-inch plank, all hewn from
solid logs, because there was not at that
time a saw-mill so far north in Illinois.
The interior is neatly whitewashed, and
with the blazing wood in the wide, open
fire-place has every appearance of quiet
comfort. It is, beyond a doubt, the oldest
dwelling house in Sangamon county.

ORLENA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Clark Nuck-
olls. See his name.

Mrs. Lydia Shellhouse died in 1842, in
Ball township.

SHELTON, STEPHEN, was
born about 1777, in North Carolina, mar-
ried there to Lydia Heath, and at once
moved to Ohio, near the mouth of Sciota
river, where two children were born, and
the family moved across the Ohio river
into Cabell county, West Virginia, where
seven children were born. He was a
soldier from Virginia in the war of 1812,
and from there moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving in May, 1826, in
what is now Curran township, where two
children were born. Of their eleven
children —

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WILLIAM, born March 18, 1807, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county, Feb.
n, 1830, to Prudence Neal. They had
five living children. JOHN R. enlisted
Sept. 1862, in Co. B, I30th 111. Inf., for
three years, served until late in 1863,
when he was detailed to the Chicago
Mercantile Battery, which was cap-
tured and he was returned to his regi-
ment, which was afterwards consolida-
ted with the yyth 111. Inf. He was
honorably discharged in August, 1865.
J. R. Shelton married Eliza Kinney.
They had five children. WILLIAM A.
died Sept. 23, 1876. JAMES R., LUELLA,
CHARLES and MARGARET c., the four lat-
ter, live with their parents near Atwood,
Moultre county, Illinois. AMARINE
married Richard C. Smith. See his
name. DANIEL M. married Nancy A.
Dodd. They have three children, and
live near Chatham, Illinois. JAMES M.
married Louisa McComas. They have
three living children, MARY s., IDA E.,
and SMITH, and live in Chatham.
ZARILDA married James Worth.
They have six children, and live near
Taylorville, Illinois. William Shelton and
his wife live in Chatham, Sangamon
county, 111. He was at work in the Galena
lead mines when the Winnebago war
broke out in 1827, and volunteered in a
company raised at the mines. When it
was over he remained at Galena until
1830 when he returned to Sangamon
county. His recollection of the " deep
snow " is that it was four feet on a level in
the timber. Corn shocks showed eighteen
inches above the snow. He also remem-
bers the sudden change of Dec. 20, 1836,
and that geese and chickens froze fast in
the slush. Water froze in ripples.

SOPHIA, born in 1809 in Ohio, was
married in Sangamon county to Elisha
McComas. See his name.

NANCY, born in Cabell county, Va.,
married in Sangamon county to David
McComas. See his name.

JAMES, born in Cabell county,
West Virginia, married in Sangamon
county Sally A. Beckelheimer, who died,
aud he married Letitia Wyckoff, who died,
and he married a third time. He had
seven children. He had two sons, JASPER
and NEWTON. The former was killed at
the battle of Chickamauga; the latter was
wounded at the same battle, had a leg

amputated and died in consequence of it
nearly five years later. James Shelton re-
sides in Texas.

MORRIS,\>mn in West Virginia, was
a soldier in an Illinois regiment in the
Mexican war, and was killed on a scout
the day before the battle of Cerro Gordo
in 1847.

JOHN, born in West Virginia, was in
the same company and regiment from Ill-
inois, in the Mexican war, fought through
the battle of Cerro Gordo, came home,
married Nancy Bogbv, had eight children,
and lives in Kansas.

ELE VEN, born in West Virginia,
married in Sangamon county to Martha
Bogby, have six children, and lives in
Kansas.

SALL Y, born in West Virginia, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Thomas
Wyckoff, and both died without children.

LUCINDA, born in West Virginia,
married in Sangamon county to Samuel
Clarke. They have nine children, and
reside at Butler, Bates county, Mo.

ELEANOR, born in West Virginia,
married in Sangamon county to Mordecai
Howard, had three children, and both
died.

ZERILDA, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, married Jesse Mitts, have six childi'en,
and live in Montgomery county.

ELISHA, born in Sangamon county,
married Esther Murphy, had four children,
and she and two of the children died, and
•he married Leathv Tongate. They have
one child, and reside in Wayne county,
Iowa.

Mrs. Lydia Shelton died Nov. 20, 1830,
and Stephen Shelton was married in
April, 1831, to Judith Neal. They had
five children born in Sangamon county.

MART, married Francis Reed, and died
leaving four children in Iowa.

REBECCA, married James Stamper.
They have eight children, and reside in
Curran township.

AMANDA, married William Jones,
have five children, and live in Iowa.

MAN VILLA, married Elisha Harbor,
had six children, • and she died. He mar-
ried and resides in Montgomery county.

MAR7^IN, born March 2*2, 1844,
in Sangamon county, enlisted June
6, 1862, in Co. B, '7th 111. Inf., for
three years, was honorably discharged
Oct. 3, 1862; enlisted Oct. 5, 1864, in Co.

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B, 1 3th U. S. A., for three years, and was
honorably discharged July 27, 1867, in
Montana Territory, married in Sangamon
county, June 24, 1868, to Sarah J. Dill,
have two children, WILLIAM DALLAS and
LOUIS \v., and reside in Chatham town-
ship.

Stephen Shelton died Jan. 22, 1859, in
Sangamon county, and his widow resides
with his son, William, in Chatham.

SHEPARD, LEWIS M., was
born July 31, 1817, near Green village,
Morris county, N. J. He came to Sanga-
mon county with his aunt Phoebe Mesler,
wife of Cornelius Mesler, in the fall of
1834. He is not yet married and resides
with his aunt Mesler, three miles northeast
of Berry Station. See her name.

SHEPHERD, the origin of this
family in America was with Thomas Shep-
herd, a native of Wales, who came to Vir-
ginia long before the thirteen colonies
declared themselves independent of the
British crown. He settled on the south
bank of the Potomac about ten miles west
of the Blue Ridge and the mouth of the
Shenandoah river. According to the cus-
tom then prevailing, he tomahawked, or
"blazed" the trees around a tract of land,
including several thousands of acres, all
lying south of the Potomac. The record-
ing of the description of this iand secured
to him the title. He laid out and named
for himself Shepherdstown. In order to
encourage settlement he sold lots — gener-
ally half an acre each — at nominal prices,
but required an annual quit rent of five
shillings to be paid perpetually. That
rent is still being paid by owners of the
lots, who have not bought off. He ac-
quired other landed property by purchase,
and at his death, Thomas Shepherd left a
will, a copy of which is in posse sion of
Thomas B. Shepherd, of Sangamon coun-
ty, the fifth Thomas Shepherd in a direct
line from Thomas Shepherd, of Wales.
By that will he bequeathed some land, de-
clared to have been deeded to him June
12, 1751, by the Right Hon. Thomas,
Lord Fairfax. The will is dated Aug. 20,
1776, and bequeaths to his sons, Thomas,
William, John, Abraham and David, lands
and a saw-mill in the county of Berkley,
Virginia, and lots in the townofMech-
lenburg, same county. To his daughters,
Susannah, Mary, Martha, Sarah and Eliz-
abeth, he bequeaths money and some per-

sonal property. The will covers some
eight pages of fools'-cap, and in its metes
and bounds is quite a curiosity. Two of
the sons of the original Thomas Shep-
herd were soldiers in the Revolutionary
army. One of them, Captain Abraham
Shepherd, was captured and held on
board a British prison ship until he came
near losing his life. The eldest son, or
Thomas No. 2, married Susan Hulse, and
raised a family of eight children. His
eldest child, or Thomas No. 3, was born
Nov. 3, 1774, and was married Oct. 15,
1805, to Mary Byers, who was born Dec.
13, 1779, in Shepherdstown, also. They
had eight children in Shepherdstown, and
Thomas No. 3 died Nov. 9, 1832, in his
native town. Eight of his children came
to Sangamon county, namely —

SHEPHERD, THOMAS C.,

or Thomas No. 4, born June 28, 1806, in
Shepherdstown, Jefferson county, Va., was<
married in his native town July 3, 1834,10
Ellen Miller, who was born June 24, 1813,
in Shepherdstown, also. They made their
home at Blackford's Ferry, Washington
county, Md., until one child was born, and
on the death of his father, Thomas C.,
took charge of the family, and with his
mother, sister and two brothers, moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving Nov. 17,
1836, at a farm six miles south of Spring-
field, that Thomas C. had purchased the
spring before. They moved in wagons,
and were six weeks on the road. Thomas
C. and wife had four children in Sanga-
mon county, namelv —

THOMAS B., or Thomas No. 5, born
Sept. 28, 1835, i° Washington county,
Md., was married in Sangamon county,
Oct. 26, 1859, to Armii da Pyle. They
have three children, THOMAS A., or
Thomas No. 6, ANN E.and MARY E.,
and live three miles northwest of Pawnee,
Sangamon county, 111.

JOHN H., born Feb. 21, 1838, in
Sangamon county, was married Oct. 6,
1869, to Ann Pvle. They have one child,
ARMINDA M., and live one and a half
miles southeast of Pawnee, Sangamon
county, 111.

WILLIAM B., born Jan. 6, 1840, in
Sangamon county, married Oct 22, 1867,
to Elizabeth K. Brown, who was born
Oct. 20, 1848, near Wheeling, West Va.
They have one child, ALICE VIR-

EARLY SETTLERS OF

GINIA, and live near Woodside, Sanga-
mon county, 111.

CHARLES M., born Nov. 18, 1841, in
Sangamon county, 111., enlisted at Spring-
field, July 20, 1861, in what became Co.
B, nth Missouri Inf., served three years
and twenty days, and was honorably dis-
charged Aug. 10, 1864. He was married
Nov. u, 1869,10 Sarah E. Ford: They
have one child, CHARLES RAY-
MOND, born Sept. 26, 1875, and live six
miles south of Springfield, 111.

MART E., born Jan. 5, 1849, married
Lawson Pvle. See his name. They
have one child, MILDRETH.

Thomas C. Shepherd and wife reside
where they settled in 1836, six miles south
of Springfield, Sangamon county, 111.

SHEPHERD, HENRY, born
Dec. 3, 1807, in Virginia, went in 1830 to
Chillicothe, Ohio, and was married there
to Margaret PeafF. They came to Sanga-
mon county in 1838. In 1849 he went to
California, and died in Sacramento, in the
autumn of 1850, leaving a widow and one
child—

HARRIET, who married George
Metlin. He died in 1872.

The mother and daughter, both widows,
live in Petersburg, Menard countv, 111.

SHEPHERD, SUSAN', born in
1809, in Virginia, married George R.
Weber. See his name.

SHEPHERD, MARY, born
Oct. 31, 1813, in Shepherdstown Virginia,
married Nov. 15, 1833, in Sharpsburg,
Maryland, to S. B. Smith, who was born
June 10, 1810, in Martinsburg, Virginia.
They had thirteen children, six of whom
died under two years. Of the other
seven —

ANDRE W, born August 3, 1837, m
Pickaway county, Ohio, was in Berkley
county, Va., at the beginning of the
rebellion, and voted against the ordinance
of secession. He was forced into the rebel
army by receiving a severe bayonet
wound, but refused to take the oath of
allegiance or perform military duty.
Some whisky was offered him which he
could not be induced to drink. It was
carelessly left in the way of one of their
own men, who drank it, not knowing that
it was poisoned, and he died in two hours.
Andrew Smith escaped from the rebels,
entered the Union army at Washington,
D. C., and after a brief term of service

was discharged on account of physical
disability. He is now — 1876 — engaged in
mercantile business at Boise City, Idaho
Territory.

WILLIAM, born Jan. 5, 1839, in
Allegheny City, Penn., enlisted in 1862,
for three years, in Co. I, 29th 111. Inf.,
served six months over time, and was
honorably discharged. He was married
Sept. 5, 1866, to Lou Ray. They have
three children, LILLIAN, GRACE and
JESSIE, and live in Champaign City,
Illinois.

HENRY H., born Oct. 10, 1840, in
Pittsburg, Penn., brought up in Sanga-
mon county, enlisted in April, i86i,onthe
first call for 75,000 men, but was rejected
on account of physical disability, went to
the gold regions of the Pacific in 1862,
was married Nov. 14, 1864, at Three Mile
Creek, Utah, to Mrs. Lovina Wakley,
who was born July 25, 1843, in Hancock
county, Illinois. They have three chil-
dren, MARY P., FRANCES A., and
GEORE W., and live at Corinne, Box
Elder county, Utah Territory.

JOSEPH S., born Jan. 23, 1844, in
Allegheny City, Penn., brought up in
Sangamon county, was married Feb. 15,
1872, in Springfield, 111., to Mary J.
Craig. They have one child, and live
near Morrisonville, Illinois.

THOMAS C., born March 31, 1848,
in Sangamon county, and is the seventh
son in succession. He was married Jan.
12, 1876, to Annie Craig, and lives three
miles south of Rochester, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

AMANDA L., died Nov. 19, 1869, in
her twenty-first year.

MAR Y P., died Oct. 4, 1869, in her
seventeenth year.

S. B. Smith was four times Sergeant-
at-Arms, as assistant and principal, in the
Illinois Legislature, from 1850 to 1854.
Mr. Smith and his wife now — 1876 — re-
side three miles south of Rochester, San-
gamon county, Illinois. He was four
times Sergeant-at-Arms as assistant and
principal in the Illinois General Assembly
from 1850 to 1854.

SHEPHERD, JOSEPH, born

July n, 1816, in Shepherdstown, Virginia,
came to Sangamon county Nov. 17, 1836,
was married March 16, 1848, to Fanny
Smith, who was born Oct. 25, 1818, in

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Franklin county, Penn. They had six
living children in Sangamon county —

J. THOMAS, horn Jan. 18, 1849,
was married September 4, 1872, to Amai.da
Whitecraft, and lives in Christian county,
six miles east of Pawnee, Sangamon
county, 111.

JAMES H., born Oct. 19, 1850, was
married Sept. 10, 1874, to Jessie F. Win-
chester, who was born Oct. 3, 1856, in
New Jersev. They live four miles south-
east of Springfield, 111.

FANNY A., died in her i6th year,
Dec. 14, 1869.

SALOME C., JOSEPH J. and
AMANDA E., live wit'i their father.

Mrs. Fanny Shepherd died Feb. 19,
1863, and Joseph Shepherd was married
to Mrs. Lydia Haggard, whose maiden
name was Byers. She has one child,
MARGARET C. Haggard, by the first
marriage, and Mr. and Mrs. Shepherd
have two children, WILLIAM C. and
LYDIA.

Joseph Shepherd and family reside four
miles southeast of Springfield, 111.

SHEPHERD, AMANDA,
born Nov. 8, 1812, in Virginia, married
Philip WTeber. See his name.

SHEPHERD, JOHN J., born
in 1821 in Virginia, was married in San-
gamon county to Susan Pettus, sister to
Thomas P. Pettus. See his name. She
died without children, and he married
Mrs. Ann Lewis, whose maiden name was
Wright. They are without family and
live in Lincoln, 111.

SHEPHERD, SARAH C.,
born July 5, 1823, in Shepherdstown, was
married there in the fall of 1836 to Dr. E.
C. Williams. They have several children,
and reside in Martinsburg, Va. Their
son, LEWIS, was in Sangamon county,
when the rebellion commenced, and en-
listed on the first call for 75,000 men in
the 7th 111. Inf. for three months. He en-
listed for three years in the 29th 111. Inf.,
re-enlisted as a veteran in 1864, and was
honorably discharged at the close of the
war. He is now married, and lives in
Texas.

Mrs. Mary Shepherd, whose maiden
name was Byers, came to Sangamon
county with her son, Thomas C., in 1836,
and died in the house of her son-in-law,
Philip W. Weber, Nov. 25, 1870, aged
ninety-one years. John Miller, of Shep-

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herdstown, father of Mrs. Thomas C.
Shepherd, visited them, and died at their
house Sept. 29, 1860, in his 77th year.

SHEPHERD, JpSEPH H.,
was born in 1812 in Ohio, and came to
Sangamon county about 1833, and was
married to Nancy Center, a native of
Ohio also. They had six children in San-
gamon county, namely —

JAMES Af., born Jan. 15, 1834, en-
listed April 16, 1861, in Co. G, 7th 111. Inf.
for three months, served full term, enlisted
Aug. 9, 1862, in Co. K, H5th 111. Inf. for
three years, served until after the battle
of Chickamauga, at which his lungs be-
came diseased from exposure, in conse-
quence of which he was discharged in
May, 1865, and died in Williams town-
ship Sept. 2, 1869.

WILLIAM R. and HENRY P.,
twins, born March n, 1836.

WILLIAM R., married Clarissa Huff-
man, have two children, and live in Me-
nard county, Illinois.

HENR Y F., married Louisa J. Over-
street, and both died, leaving one child.

OSCAR F., born May 15, 1839, in
Sangamon county, enlisted April 16, 1861,
on the first call for 75,000 men, in Co. G,
7th 111. Inf., served three months and was
honorably discharged. Enlisted Aug. 9,
in 1862, in Co. K, U5th 111. Inf., served
until Feb. 13, 1863, when he was dis-
charged at Nashville on account of physi-
cal disability. He was married March i,
1865,10 Arminda Thaxton, have two chil-
dren, EDWIN and PERRY, and live in
Sherman, 111. — 1874.

ANNA J/., born April 16, 1841, mar-
ried Harry L. Morris, and died at Daven-
port, Iowa, in 1870, leaving three children.

SEBASTIAN B., born May 12,
1844, enlisted Aug. 9, 1862, in Co. K, ii5th
111. Inf., for three years, served full term,
and was honorably discharged June 23,
1865. He was married Dec. 25, 1866, to
Elizabeth Overstreet. They have three
children, LOUISA S., EMMA L. and
LAVINA G , and live near Cantrall, 111.

Mrs. Nancy Shepherd died in 1845, and
Joseph H. Shepherd died in 1851.

SHIELDS, ALEXANDER,
born in 1797 in Franklin county, Pennsyl-
vania. After three years spent in the
Western University of Pennsylvania, at
Pittsburgh, he graduated there in 1824 or
1825. In 1832 he graduated in the medi-

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cal department of the University of Penn-
sylvania, at Philadelphia. He practiced
medicine in his native county, and in
April, 1835, started west, visiting St.
Louis and Palmyra, in Missouri; Alton,
Beardstown, Jacksonville, and lastly
Springfield in Illinois, arriving May 15,
1835. He intended stopping in Spring-
field, but he said it rained forty days and
nights, and in hopes to escape so much
water he went to Tremont to wait until
the shower was over. He returned to
Springfield in about two weeks and en-
gaged in the practice of his profession.
He was married in Springfield in 1837 to
Mrs. Ann Salisch, whose maiden name
was Capps. See Capps family. Dr.
Shields moved to what is now Ball town-
ship, south of Sugar Creek, near Crow's
Mill, in 1845. They had four children.

THOMAS A. died unmarried Sept.
29, 1862, aged twenty-four years.

MANT J., born in Springfield, 111.,
was married Nov. 27, 1867, to Henry
Sanders. She died March, 1868. Mr.
Sanders married Miss Riddle, and lives in
Springfield.

SUSAN A., was married Oct. 22,
1873, to Virgil Downing. They have
one child, GERALDINE, and live near
Cotton Hill P. O.

BENJAMIN F. lives with his
parents.

Dr. Shields and family live near Cotton
Hill P. O., Sangamon county, Illinois.

SH INKLE, CHRISTIAN,
(a brother to Mrs. Mary M. Shinkle) was
born in Berks county, Pa., and taken by
his parents to Brown county, Ohio. Me-
linda Judd, sister to Rezin Judd, was horn
in Maryland, and taken to Brown county,
Ohio. Christian Shinkle and Melinda
Judd were married and had four children
in Ohio, and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving October, 1826, in what is
now Mechanicsburg township, where one
child was born. Of their five children —

CHRIS7TAN, born October, 1813, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county, to
Sibbeth Carrico, have six children, and
live near Fullerton, DeWitt county, 111.

EZEKIEL, born April 26, 1816, in
Ohio, is living with his third wife, and has
seven children. They reside near Fuller-
ton, 111.

AIA7TLDA A., born June 24, 1821, in
Brown county, Ohio, married in Sanga-

mon county to David S. McDaniel, who
died in less than three months after mar-
riage, and she married Aaron Morgan.
See his name.

JAMES, born September, 1823, in
Brown county, Ohio, raised in Sangamon
county, married in DeWitt county, to
Martha McCord. They have three chil-
dren, and reside near Twin Springs, Linn
county, Kansas.

JOHN J., born Nov, 1 1, 1832, in San-
gamon county, married in DeWitt county
to Sarah A. Barnes. They have four
children, and live near Twin Springs, Kan-
sas.

Mrs. Melinda Shinkle died April, 1842,
and Christian Shinkle died March 3, 1849,
she in Sangamon, and he in DeWitt
county, 111.

SHINKLE, JOHN, was born
in February, 1783,111 Berks county, Penn.,
and when he was a boy his parents moved
to Brown county, Ohio. Mary M.
Shinkle was born Nov. 12, 1784, in Berks
county, Penn. In May, 1805, her parents
moved to Brown county, Ohio. John
Shinkle and Mary M. Shinkle were there
married Nov. 7, 1805. They had ten
living children in Brown count). The
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving December, 1826, in what is now
Clear Lake township, north of Sangamon
river, where one child was born. Of their
eleven children —

DANIEL, born August 17, 1806, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Nancy Owens, moved to the vicinity of
Maquoketa, Iowa, had several children,
and Mrs. Shinkle died. He was married
to Elizabeth Simons and he died in 1872.

SARAH, born Sept. 4, 1807, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county to Clinton
Wilson. See his name.

JAMES, born May 2, 1810, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county, to Rebecca
Williams. They had five children, one
died in infancy, and one, JOHN, died in
the Union Army. James Shinkle and his
wife reside near McConnell's Grove P.
O., Stephenson county, 111.

ELIZABETH, born May 22, 1813,
in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
David Worley. They have a family, and
reside near Ottawa, Kansas.

THOMAS, born June 12, 1815, is a
cripple, and resides in Dawson, Illinois.

CHRISTIANA, born May 20, 1817,

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in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to
Jeremiah Smith. They had two children.
ZACHARY T. lives at Marion, DeWitt
county, 111.; HARRIET A. married A.
Herrol, and lives near Twin Springs,
Kansas. Jeremiah Smith died in 1849,
and his widow lives with their son,
Zachary, T., in DeWitt county, Illinois.

JOHN, Jun., born Oct. 21, 1819, in
Ohio, married Oct. 4, 1851, in DeVVitt
county, Illinois, to Martha Miller, who
was born there Aug. 28, 1830. They
have four children, MARY KATE,
CYRUS L., IDA MAY and LINCOLN
A. Mr. Shinkle lived on the farm where
the fami.y settled in 1826, three miles
southwest of Dawson, until 1875, when
he moved to Springfield, 111.

GEuRGE,\>o\-n Nov. 7, 1821, in Ohio.
He enlisted at Sp ingfield in 1862 in Co.
C, 1 24th 111. Inf. for three years, and died
of disease at St. Louis, Oct. 8, 1864. His
remains were brought home for interment.

BARBARA,\>v\\\ March 12, 1823, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Jo-
seph Prokopp. They have one child and
live near Riverton, 111.

REBECCA, born Oct. 21, 1824, died
in her fifteenth year.

LE WIS, born March 5, 1827 in San-
gamon county, lives at the old homestead,
near Dawson.

John Shinkle died August, 1827, in
Sangamon county, less than one year after
his arrival in the country. His widow
raised her family on the farm where they
settled, and now resides there. It is three
miles southwest of Dawson, 111. She is
92 years old, and has been a widow nearly
half a century.

SHIPLEY, RICHARD A.,
was born Jan. 15, 1812, in Baltimore
county, Md., and was married August 6,
1835, in Washington county, in the same
State, to Ellen Albert. They had one
child, and moved to Springfield, Illinois,
arriving May 20, 1837, where they had
six children, three of whom died young.
Of their four children —

McKENDREE, born April 7, 1836,
in Washington county, Md., raised in
Springfield, spent fourteen years in Texas,
and died August, 1872, in Springfield.

MART E., born September, 1838, in
Springfield, died in her seventeenth year.

RICHARD A., Jun., born April 8,
1840, in Springfield. He enlisted in 1862,

in Co. — , i3oth 111. Inf., served three
years and was honorably discharged. He
was married in 1862 to Laura Stall. They
have one living child, WILLIAM R.,
and resides in Springfield.

WILLIAM H., born April 8, 1842, in
Springfield. He enlisted in 1862 for three
years in the Chicago Board of Trade Bat-
tery of Artiliery, served full term and was
honorably discharged in 1865. He was
married in 1867 to Ann Johnson. They
have one child, ALBERT R., and live
in Springfield.

Richard A. Shipley and wife reside at
1108 Monroe street, between Eleventh
and Twelfth, Springfield, 111.

S H O RT, J A M ES, was born Feb.
5, 1776, in South Carolina, and was one of
six sons of Hezekiah Short, who died in
South Carolina in 1803. The ancestors of
this family came from Scotland. James,
the subject of this sketch, was married in
South Carolina in 1800, to Lucretia Ten-
nyson, a native of that State. They had
two children there, and moved to Greene
county, near Greensburg, Ky., in 1804,
where five children were born. Mrs.
Lucretia Short died Sept. 14, 1817, in
Kentcky, and James Short was married
there in 1818 to Mrs. Margaret Wright,
whose maiden name was Strater. They
had two children in Kentucky, and moved
in the spring of 1822 to Sangamon county,
111., settling at the junction of Salt creek
and Sangamon river, in what is now Me-
nard county. In the spring of 1827, they
moved to Sugar creek, settling three and
a half miles southeast of Springfield,
where eight children were born. Of the
seven children of James Short by his first
marriage, two died young. The other
five are —

IGNATIUS T., born Nov. 28, 1801,
in South Carolina, was married in 1820 at
Columbus, then in Pulaski, but now in
Hickman county, Ky., to Mary Arnett,
who was born in 1802 in South Carolina,
also. They moved from Kentucky to San-
gamon county, 111., on horseback, in 1823,
settling near Springfield. He was a sol-
dier in the Blackhawk war from Sanga-
mon countv. They moved to Macoupin
county, 111?, in 1830. Of their six chil-
dren who lived to maturity, RANSOM
A., born Oct. 8, 1824, near Springfield,
was married July 20, 1845, at Edwards-
ville, Madison county, 111,, to Orlean M.

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Cread. He enlisted in 1846 in the Mexi-
can war, and died at Monterey, Mexico.
LOUISA M , born Nov. 27, 1828, was
married in 1844 in Madison county, 111., to
George Woodward, who died in 1846.
Mrs. Woodward was married in 1847 to
Levi Gimlin. They had one child, ZACH-
EUS, who was born Jan. 12, 1850, and was
married in 1871 to Mary A. Parks. They
have two children, William W. and Win-
nie A., and reside near Carlinville, Ma-
coupin county, Illinois. Levi Gimlin
died July, 1850, and Mrs. Gimlin was
married in 1852 to Charles Emrick.
They had five living children. ELNO-

RA, LAURA, THADDEUS D., JERUSHA

E. and FANNY live with their mother.
Charles Emrick died Jan. 15, 1874, and
Mrs. Emrick resides near Carlinville, 111.
MARTHA A., born Jan. 20, 1831, was
married in 1849 in Macoupin county, 111.,
to Edward Miller. They had one child,
MARTHA A, born Jan. 1850, and married
Jan. 4, 1867, in Cass county, to George
W. Zircles. They have one child, Ada
C, and live near Ashland, 111. Mrs. Martha
A. Miller died Jan. 22, 1850, and Edward
Miller died in 1851, both in Macoupin
county, 111. WILLIAM HENRY, born
March 16, 1840, died unmarried in De-
cember, 1856. MARY ELIZABETH,
born March 30, 1842, died in November,
1856. HEZEKIAH M., born Feb. 14,
1845, in Macoupin county, enlisted May
12, 1864, for 100 days in Co. G, i33d 111.
Inf., served until Sept. 24, 1864, when he
was honorably discharged with the regi-
ment. He entered MeKenclree College
in the fall of 1867, and graduated there in
June, 1874. In September, -875, he united
with the Illinois Conference of the Meth-
odist Episcopal Church, and isnow — Sep-
tember, 1876 — preaching on the Chatham
circuit, and is not yet married.

Ignatius T. Short died in 1853, and
Mrs. Mary Short died in 1855, both near
Carlinville, Macoupin county, 111.

ELIZABETH, born May 12, 1804,
in South Carolina, was married in Greene
county, Ky., to Randolph Rhodes. See
his name. She lives with her son, John
T. Rhodes.

ANNA S., born Jan. 3, 1810, in South
Carolina, married Andrew McCormick.
See his name.

CASSANDRA, born in 1813 in South
Carolina, married Harvey E. Armstrong,

of Waverly, Morgan county, 111. She
died in 1838, without children.

LUC1NDA B., born Oct. 5, 1815, was
married to James Q. Wills, of Sangamon
county, 111., June 23, 1836. They had
two children, LUCRETIA C., born
April 16, 1837, married James Bracken.
Mrs. Bracken died Nov. 2, 1860, leaving
two children. JAMES D., born April i,
1841, enlisted in Co. A, loth 111. Cav., and
died in the army, May 2ist, 1862. James
Q. Wills died July 3, 1845, an<J ms widow
was married April 20, 1^49, to B. Y. Sin-
gleton, of Sangamon county. They have
three children. MARGARET L., born
April 23, 1850, married at Petersburg, 111.,
Nov. i, 1871, to James A. Robb. They
have two children, EVA MABEL and LES-
LIE ELBERT, and live near Walshville,
Montgomery county, 111. BENJAMIN
Y., Jun., and WINFIELD S. Singleton
live with their parents. B. Y. Singleton
lives near Petersburg, 111.

Of James Short's children by his sec-
ond marriage four died young.

JOHN W., born Dec. 21, 1821, in Ken-
tucky, was married Nov. 4, 1852, in San-
gamon county, 111., to Nancy E. Billings.
See Billings family. She died Aug. 20,
1865, leaving one child, MELISSA E.,
who was born May 7, 1856, and lives with
her step-mother. John W. Short was
married Aug. 27, 1866, to Mrs. Eliza
Dalaney, whose maiden name was Potts.
Mr. Short died March 15, 1876, and his
widow and daughter reside near James-
town, Clinton county, 111.

MARTHA, born in 1822, in Menard
county, 111., married John Potts, of San-
gamon countv. They had five children,
and both died near Jamestown, Clinton
county, Illinois.

DOR1NDA, born in 1824, in Menard
county, 111., married James Tibbs. They
had five children, MARGARET,
MARY, MARTHA, AMANDA and
NETTIE. Mr. Tibbs died in 1856, and
his widow lives near Rochester, 111.

WILLIAM S., born in 1826, in San-
gamon county, was married there in 1847,
to Harriet Wilson, who was born April
26, 1829. They had three children,
OLIVE C., born July n, 1848, was mar-
ried November 14, 1868, to Robert Atkin-
son, and live in Rochester, Illinois.
AMANDA M., born Oct. 12, 1850, died
young. WILLIAM T., born Nov. 21,

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653

1855, lives with his father. Mrs. H: rriet
Short died July 6, 1865, in Chatham, 111.,
and William S. Short resides near Cha-
nute, Neosho county, Kansas. Mr. Short
served in Co. C, 2d 111. Light Art., from
Jan. 4, 1864,10 Aug. 3, 1865, when he was
honorablv discharged.

MARGARET C, born in 1828 in
Sangamon county, married Edward Nee-
ner. They have three children and live
near Chanute, Neosho county, Kansas.

AMANDA M., born Oct. 28, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married Jonas L.
Fletcher. See his name.

James Short died June 7, 1836, and
Mrs. Margaret Short died Dec. 25, 1850,
both at the homestead where they settled
in 1827, three and a half miles southeast of
Springfield, in Sangamon county, 111.

SHORT, JOSHUA, was born as
early as 1760 in ,Virgiana, was a soldier
from that State in the Revolution, and
after the war for Independence, married
there, and moved with his family to
Green county, Kentucky, near Mul-
draugh's Hill, which gave the name to
one of the battles fought in suppressing
the rebellion. He came with some of his
children to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving October, 1825, on Spring creek,
six miles west of Springfield. If there
was any relationship between him and
James Short, who came from South Caro-
lina, through Green county, Kentucky,
their descendants seem not to be informed
of it. Joshua Short is remembered as one
of the aged men who rode in a canoe,
mounted on wheels and rigged as a ship,
in the procession at the Whig or Harrison
political gathering at Springfield in 1840.
He was then more than eighty years of
age, and died a few years later in Menard
county, Illinois. Some of his children
came to Sangamon county, but I have
sketches of two only, James and Caleb.

JAMES, born about 1787, either in
Virginia or Green county, Kentucky, was
the captain of a company and was about
marching from that latter county to the
scene of conflict when the war of 1812
and '15 closed. He was married, had
some children there, and brought his
family to Sangamon county, Illinois, in
1825, in company with his father, bring-
ing his family and worldly goods in a cart.
James Short died in 1827 at a place called
Turkey Point, about five miles west of

Chatham, Sangamon county. I have the
sketches of two only of his children,
Allen and Susan C. ALLEN, born Feb.
6, 1816, in Green county, Kentucky, was
brought by his father to Sangamon
county in 1825, and left an orphan and a
cripple at eleven years of age, with
younger brothers and sisters, whom he
aided all he could. When he was ten
years of age he says he had heard but one
sermon, had only seen one pair of boots,
and had never seen a newspaper, tract or
pamphlet. He was married in Sanga-
mon county to Margaret A. Campbell,
daughter of Rev. Thomas Campbell.
See his name. They had three chil-
dren in Sangamon county. JAMES L.,
born Jan. 4, 1839, in Sangamon county,
enlisted at the first call for 75,000 men in
Co. G, 7th 111. Inf., for three months in
April, 1861, served full time and was
honorably discharged. He enlisted again
Sept. 20, 1861, in Co. B, loth 111. Cav.,
served until Dec. 20, 1862, when he was
discharged on account of physical disabili-
ty. He was married Feb. 17, 1863, to
Mrs. Nancy H. Hudson, whose maiden
name was Park. They have one living
child, Hugh Francis, and live in Lincoln,
Illinois. EDWARD j., born Oct. 18, 1840, en-
listed Sept. 20, 1861, in Co. B, loth 111.
Cav., for three years, re-enlisted as a
veteran, January, 1864. He was captured
July 8, 1864, at Bayou Des Arc, was kept
under guard three weeks, parolled and ex-
changed January, 1865. He was mustered
out with the regiment at San Antonio,
Texas, in November, 1865, ant^ was mar-
ried May 6, 1869, to Sarah C. Dial, who
was born Sept. 17, 1850, in Morgan
county, Illinois. They have two children,
Nellie and Minnie, and live four miles
northwest of Chatham, Sangamon county,
Illinois. WILLIAM, H. H., born June 29,
1843, ennsted August, 1862, in Co. B, loth
111 Cav., for three years, served full term,
and was honorably discharged June, 1865,
at New Orleans, and was married Oct. 26,
1871, to Martha E. Robertson. He died
June 2, 1873, at New Berlin, Illinois.
Mrs. Margaret A. Short died Sept. 23,
1845, and Allen Short was married to
Harriet A. Park, sister of John G. Park.
They had nine childred, three died young.
Of the other six, THOMAS N. lives in Au-
burn (with Mr. Morse). The other five
live with their parents at Columbia, Marion

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EA RL T SB TTLERS OF

county, Iowa. Allen Short is now a
minister in the Cumberland Presbyterian
Church. SUSAN C., born in 1819 in
Green county, Kentucky, married in San-
gamon county to John A. Campbell.
See his name. Mrs. Susan C. Campbell
died April 3, 1852.

CALEB, born April 19, 1790, in Green
county Kentucky, was married there May
26, 1814, to Elizabeth Walters, who was
born in that county Feb. 13, 1798. They
had three children, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, in 1823, and settled
in what is now Curran township, south of
Spring creek, where they had three chil-
dren. Of their six children, PAULINE,
born March 15, 1815, in Green county,
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to William Henton. See his name.
JAMES, born Nov. 23, 1816, in Green
county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county, Illinois, April 4, 1844, to Mary
McPherson, niece of Robert Eachus. See
his name. Mr. and Mrs. Short had five
living children in Sangamon county.
SARAH A. married April 10, 1873, to
Martin L Webb, who was born Nov. 12,
1844, near Cazenovia, New York. They
live in Loami, Illinois — 1874. ROBERT E.
married Oct. 7, 1873, to Ollie A. Dawson.
See her name with the Meacham family.
Mr. and Mrs. Short have one child, Olive
I., and live near Loami, Sangamon
county, 111. CAROLINE, ELIZABETH and
•WILLIAM live with their mother. James
Short died, and his widow and children
now — 1876 — reside two miles northeast of
Loami, Sangamon county, 111. JANE,
born Sept. 5, 1819, in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Thompson Ren-
shaw, and died leaving two children.
LUCILLE, born Feb. 9, 1823, in Green
county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county July 2, 1840, to George W. Foster.
See his name. He was born May n,
1817, near Winchester, Kentucky. She
died at Kirksville, Mo., leaving four chil-
dren. Mr. Foster lives at Louisiana, Mo.
JOSHUA W., born May 25, 1825, mar-
ried in Sangamon county, Illinois, to
Berlinder Robison. See her name.
They had four children. Mrs. Short and
one of the children died. JOHN R. died
February, 1876, in Missouri. CHARLES
E. married in 1873 to Lola Scripture, and
live in Missouri. ANNIE M. lives near
Lamar's Station, Missouri. Joshua W.

Short married

Carson, and reside

near Maryville, Nodaway county, Mo.
ROWAN J., born March 10, 1827, in
Sangamon county, was a soldier from that
county in the Mexican war, and died in
1847 m t^ie army- Mrs. Elizabeth Short
died Nov. i, 1856, and Caleb Short died
Sept. 18, 1863, both in Sangamon county,
Illinois.

SHORT, SAMUEL, was born
March 10, 1792, in Batetourt county, Va.,
of German parents. His father died when
he was quite young, and at the age of 15,
he went to East Tennessee, remained two
years, went to Bourbon county, Ky., back
to Virginia, and thence to Mechlenberg
county, Ky., where he was married Dec.
i, 1814 to Rebecca Strong, who was born
Dec. 24, 1787, in Frederick county, Va.
They moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in September, 1836, in what is
now Auburn township. Mrs Short died
in September, 1869. They never had any
children, but raised four orphans. Mr.
Short married again when he was over So
years of age, and moved back to Ken-
tucky.

SHOUP, JACOB, born May 9,
1780, in Huntington county, Pa., was
married there May 2", 1802, to Sarah
Downing, who was born Aug. 13, 1782,
in the same county. They moved to
Pickaway county, Ohio, where th^y had
sixteen children, each one of whom lived to
be twenty-six years of age and over. The
family moved to Sangamon county, 111.,
arriving in what is now Ball township, in
the autumn of 1831. It was then called
Cotton Hill Precinct. Of their sixteen
children —

JOHN, born May 31, 1803, in Ohio,
was married there to Hannah Martin.
They both died in Logan county, 111.,
leaving six children, near Lincoln.

MART, born Sept. 5, 1804, in Ohio,
was married in Sangamon county, 111., to
James Fletcher. He died, leaving a widow
and two children, near Lincoln, 111.

JACOB, born Sept. 17, 1805, died un-
married in Pickaway county, Ohio, in the
twenty-seventh year of his age.

SARAH, born May 12, 1807, in Ohio,
died in Sangamon county, 111., unmarried,
in the sixtv-first year of her age.

THOMAS, born Dec. 19, 1808, in Ohio,
was married there to Rachel Anderson.
They had six children, and Thomas

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655

Shoup died in Logan county, 111. His
widow and children live near Lincoln,
Illinois.

ELIZA, born Feb. 27, 1810, in Picka-
way county, Ohio, was married in Saga-
mon county, 111., to William Gulliford.
They moved to Oregon in the spring of
1852, and both died there, leaving nine
chiinren.

MARIA, born Jan. 30, 1812, in Ohio,
was married in Sangamon county, 111., to
David Brunk. See his name.

TIMOTHY^ born March 12, 1813, in
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county,
to Mary Keys. They had five children.
JACOB, died in his tenth year. ELIZA-
BETH J., married James Crawley. They
have two children, MARY E. and JOHN E.,
and live in Ball township, near Cotton
Hill postoffice, Sangamon county. James
Crawley enlisted Oct. 5, 1861, at Spring-
, field, in Co. I, yth 111. Inf., for three
years, re-enlisted as a veteran Jan. 1864,
was captured at Allatoona Mountain,
Georgia, Oct. 5, 1864, within one hour of
three years from his first enlistment.
After spending five months in prison, he
joined his regiment, was commissioned
First Lieutenant Nov. i, 1864, served to
the close of the rebellion, and was honor-
ably discharged July 12, 1865. ISAAC
F., married Maria N. Byers, a native of
Madison county, Ohio. They have four
children, LILA A., LEWIS, JOHN T. and
JESSE E.; and live one and a half miles
east of Cotton Hill postoffice, Sangamon
county, 111. ALEXANDER F., born
March 3, 1844, married Arthalinda Bell.
They have three children, MINA, ADALEE
and SAMUEL B., and live near Bell's mill,
seven miles southeast of Springfield, III.
JOHN H., born July n, 1847, was mal"-
ried in October, 1868, to Rachel Bell.
Thev have one child, WILLIAM, and live
near Zion's Chapel, and New City, San-
gamon county, 111. Timothy Shoup died
Feb. 28, 1850, at Crow's mill, which he
then owned. His widow lives with her
son-in-law, James Crawley, near Crow's
mill, or Cotton Hill, postoffice, 111.

ELIZABETH, born May 9, 1815, in
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county,
to Barrett Ramsey. They moved to the
Pacific coast in 1852, have five children,
and live at Marysville, Baker county,
Oregon.

DFLILAH, born April 27, 1817, in
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county,
to Elijah Bradshaw. She died without
children. Mr. B. was married again in
the winter of 1875, and lives one mile east
of Cotton Hill postorfice. Sangamon
county.

ALEXANDER, born Feb. 23, 1819,
in Ohio, was married in Sangamon county
to Marv J. Wilkinson. They had five
children, and Mr. Shoup was .accidentally
killed while pressing cider, in the fall of
1856. His widow married Mr. Brown,
and lives in St. Joseph, Missouri.

DORCAS, born Jan. 28, 1821, in Ohio,
was married in Sangamon county to
Thomas Lovelock. They had six chil-
dren, JOSEPH, ALEXANDER,
THOMAS, SAMUEL, GEORGE and
MARY. Mr. Lovelock died, and his
widow lives in Ray county, Mo.

HENRT,\)o\-K May 4", 1822, in Ohio,
was married in Sangamon county to Ruth
Knotts. They have seven children.
ELBERT W., married Martha A. San-
ders. They have one child, CHARLES L.,
and live near Cotton Hill. SARAH E.,
married James Milliner, and lives near
Cotton Hill. JACOB, ELIJAH, LEAN-
DER, SAMUEL and DELILAH live
with their parents. Henry Shoup lives
on the farm where his father settled in
1831, in Ball township, east of Crow's
mill, or Cotton Hill postoffice, Sangamon
county, 111.

NANCY, born May 8, 1824, in Ohio,
was married in Sangamon county to Jo-
seph Penn. They have five children,
SARAH, JOHN, ROSY, HENRY
and GEORGE, and live near Lancaster,
Dallas county, Texas.

SAMUEL N., born May 16, 1827, in
Pickaway county, Ohio, was married Nov.
18, 1857, in Sangamon county, 111., to Alice
J. Mourer. They had seven children.
JOHN CARROLL, the fifth child, died
July 24, 1874, from injuries inflicted by be-
ing thrown from a buggy attached to a
runawav team two days previous. SAL-
LIE IRVING, the sixth child, died
August 13, 1874. WILLIE H., E TTIE
MAY, HARRY S., LUELLA M. and
LUCY live with their parents. Sam-
uel N. Shoup has had an eventful
life. He accompanied two of his sisters
to Oregon in 1852 and returned in 1855.
He went with another sister to Texas in

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

the fall of 1855 and returned in 1856. When
the rebellion began he raised a company
which became Co. E, H4th 111. Inf., and
was elected and commissioned captain at its
organization, was promoted through the
different grades to colonel of the regiment,
and was in command at the close of the
rebellion. He was elected Sheriff of San-
gamon county in 1866 for two years. Col.
S. N. Shoup and family reside in Ball
township, near Cotton Hill Post Office,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

MELISSA, born March 15, 1827, in
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county to
Philemon Stout. See his name.

Jacob Shoup died Dec. 19, 1849, and
Mrs. Sarah >houp died April 20, 1850,
both on the farm where tin y settled in
1831, in Sangamon county, Illinois.

SHRYER, EPHRIAM, was
born Nov. I, 1813, in Christian county,
Kentucky. He came to Spiingfield, Illi-
nois, April i, 1837, lived there about one
year, went to Taylorville, from there to
the Galena lead mines, and from there to
the mines in Lafayette county, Wisconsin,
where he was married March 15, 1843, to
Mary A. Tolley. He came back to San-
gamon county, where they had eight chil-
dren, namely —

SARAH, maried Robert Campbell,
has one child, JAMES E., and lives near
New Berlin, Illinois.

JAMES H. unmarried and resides in
Dallas county, Texas — 1873.

KATE E., married Reuben Skeen,
have two children, WILLIE and EPH-
RIAM, and live in Island Grove town-
ship.

JULIA M. died aged twelve years.

JOHN T. lives near New Berlin,
Illinois.

HARVET W., ELLA MAT and
EMMA R. reside with their parents.
Ephriam Shryer and family live near
Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

SHUFF, MRS. HANNAH
H, was born April 18, 1784, in Green-
brier county, Virginia. Her father,
Anthony Houston, when she was a child,
made up his mind to emigrate west.
There were no wagon roads and but few
wagons. He provided himself with a
large number of pack-saddles, anil loaded
thirty-two horses with household goods,
farming implements,, and his family, and
moved to what became Scott county, Ken-

tucky. There he settled in a cane brake
among the Indians, raised a family of thir-
teen children, and lived to be nearly one
hundred years old. Two of his sons be-
came Methodist preachers and one a
lawyer. Ex-Governor Sam. Houston, of
Texas, now deceased, was his nephew.
His daughter, Hannah H., whose name
heads this sketch, was married Nov. 5,
1806, in Scott county, Kentucky, to Jacob
Shuff. They had three children in Scott
county, and the family moved to Gallatin
county in the same State, where Mr.
Shuff died August 24, 1824. Mrs. Shuff
moved with her family to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1833
in Island Grove, three miles west of Ber-
lin. Of her three children —

JOHN W., born August 28, 1807, in
Scott country, Kentucky, married in Galla-
tin county, in the same State, to Ange-
line Lindsay. He came with his mother
to Sangamon county, and in 1835 m°ved
to Morgan county, Illinois, five miles east
of Jacksonville. They had nine children.
Mr. Shuff died in May, 1872, while sitting
at a table with a friend, drawing a map of
a road. A few days after his death, his
fifth son, JAMES, was drowned while
bathing. His widow and children, nearly
all of whom are married, reside near Jack-
sonville, Illinois.

MAR T ANN, born August 9, 1809, in
Scott county, Kentucky, married in Galla-
tin county Feb. i, 1831, to Henry Yates.
See his name. She died May -u, 1835.

ANTHONY //., born August 18,
1811, in Scott county, Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county, Illinois, Feb. 23,
1837, to Siron Foutch. They had eight
living children. MARY A. "P. married
J. W. Walker. WILLIAM H. H.
resides with his father. JOHN W. mar-
ried Mary Mendenhall and died April 2,
1872. JAMES A. married Lucinda Als-
bury and li\es one mile west of Berlin,
Illinois. NANCY H. and THEOPHI-
LUS A. are unmarried. CAROLINE
married A. Shultz, and lives at Carthage,
Illinois. MILLARD F. lives with his
father. Mrs. Siron Shuff died June 4,
1868. Anthony H. Shuff was married
March 17, 1873, to Mrs. Elizabeth A.
Phelps, whose maiden name was Town-
send, a native of Ithica, New York. She
has one child by her first marriage, AN-
NIE PHELPS. A. H. Shuff and wife

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657

reside on the farm where the family settled
in 1833. It is three miles west of Berlin,
Sangamon county, Illinois. Mr. Shuff
has been a cripple for more than forty
years, caused by having taken eleven doses
of calomel in 1835, an<^ without proper
attention afterwards, the greater part of it
remained in his system, and it seems won-
derful that he could endure what he has,
and live.

SHUTT, HENRY, was born
July, 1763, in Pennsylvania. His parents
dying when he was a child, he went when
a young man to North Carolina, and was
married there to Elizabeth Groves. They
had four children, and moved about 1810,
to Muhlenberg county, Ky., where they
had three children, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, Hi., arriving October, 1829, in
what is now Auburn township. Of their
children —

CfJRlSTIANA^orn'm North Caro-
lina, married in Sangamon county to Pe-
ter Dick, moved to Cass county, 111., and
both died there.

E LIZ ABE TH, born in North Caro-
lina, married in Sangamon county, 111.,
to Green Dukes, who died near Auburn,
and she went to Kentucky and died there.

JACOB, born in North Carolina,
went with his parents in 1810 to Muh-
lenberg county, Ky., and married there to
Elizabeth Wagner, who was born July
31, 1799. They moved, in company with
his father, to Sangamon county in 1829.
.They had thirteen children, including two
pairs of twins. Three of their children
died, including one pair of twin . Of the
other ten, JOHN H., born Jan. 29, 1822,
in Muhlenberg county, Ky., married
Elizabeth Baldwin, and had seven chil-
dren. Mr. Shutt died April 3, 1872, leav-
ing his widow and children in Macoupin
county, six miles south of Auburn, San-
gamon county, 111. GREEN B., married
Elizabeth J. Wimer, who died, and he
married Matilda Caroline Stout, and lives
in Virden, 111. MARTHA A., married
Elias Owen, and for her second husband
married William Luth. They live five
miles south of Auburn, 111. ELIZA-
BETH J., married William Foster. See
his name. LOUISA C., married Sam-
uel Hurst, who died, and she married
Richard Hughes, has several children,
and resides in Virden, 111. ME LINDA
E., married James F. Miller. See his

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name. JACOB W. and MICAJAH,
twins. Jacob W. married Susan C. Gates,
a native of Muhlenberg county, Ky.
They live five miles south of Auburn,
111. Micajah lives in Nevada — 1874.
DAVID M., married Nancy E. Lowder-
milk, and live one mile east of Auburn.
NANCY C., married John Miller, has
two children, and lives near Auburn, 111.
Jacob Shutt died March 17, 1859, and
Mrs. Elizabeth Shutt died Oct. 9, 1859,
both i Sangamon county.

JONATHAN, married Elizabeth
Gates, and remained in Kentucky.

J OSEPH,\>®VT\ in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Rachel Long, and
lives in Iowa.

HENKY, Jun., was born July 19, 1814,
in Muhlenberg county, Ky., and came in
1829, with his father, to Sangamon county.
He was married in 1835 *° Sarah Long.
They had eight children. CHRIS-
TIANA, married Isaac Landers, and lives
in Iowa. WILLIAM R., married Miss
Lowdermilk, and for his second wife mar-
ried Miss Edwards, and lives near Auburn,
111. MATILDA, marrie ; John Shutt,
and lives in Kentucky. SARAH ANN
and MARY ANN, twins. Sarah Ann
married Andrew Pickens. She died Feb.
5, 1876, near Auburn, 111. Mary Ann
married Thomas Smith, and lives in Ma-
coupin county. BETSY, married Wil-
liam H. Owen, and died. DAVID H.
married Miss Stamper, and lives in Au-
burn township. RACHEL, married
John Orr, and died. Mrs. Sarah Shutt
died March 27, 1853, and Henry Shutt
was married Sept. 22, 1853, to Charity J.
Stamper. They live where he settled in
1829, one and a half miles southeast of
Auburn, 111.

Mrs. Elizabeth Shutt died in 1840, and
her husband, Henry Shutt, Sen., died in
1852, both in Auburn township, Sanga-
mon county, 111. He was in his eighty-
ninth year.

SIMPSpN, JAMES, was born
about 1785 in Maryland, and went to
Washington county, Kentucky, when he
was a young man, and was there married
to Mary A. Boone. They had five chil-
dren, and she died. He married Monica
McAtee, had six children in Kentucky,
and the family moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of
1828. He located about three hundred

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EARL 7 SE7TLERS OF

yards southeast of where St. Bernard
Catholic church now stands, in Ball town-
ship, where two children were born. Of
their children —

MATILDA married John Burtle.
See his name.

James Simpson moved his family to
Randolph county, Illinois, in April, 1838.
He and his wife both died there. Part of
their children live in that county and part
in Missouri.

SI. M PS ON, RICHARD,
brother to James, born in 1790 in Mary-
land, went when he was a boy, with his
parents to Washington county, Kentucky.
He was there married to Monica Higdon.
She had six children, and died, and he
married Ann Vinson, had three children
in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving in 1830, in what
in now Ball township. After a stay of
but one year in Sangamon county, Rich-
ard Simpson moved his family to Chris-
tian county, and both died there. Of
their children who remained in Sangamon
county —

LOUISA married Thomas Burtle.
See his name.

MAR? married James R. Durbin.
See his name.

SIMPSON, JOHN P., was born
Oct. 17, 1794, in Somerset county, New
Jersey. Mary J. Cross was born Jan.
13, 1793, in New Jersey. They were
there married and had fourteen children,
some of whom married in New Jersey.
The remainder of the family came to San-
gamon county, IlLnois, arriving Nov. 8,
1839, at Springfield, and the next year
settled in what is now Williams township.
Of their children —

SAMUEL married in New Jersey to
Mary A. Benjamin, and came with his
father to Sangamon county. He went to
Texas before the rebellion, leaving his
family at Canton, Missouri. They have
never heard of him since.

CLEMANTINE married James C.
Sutton. They have five children, and live
in Springfield, Illinois.

BENJAMIN is unmarried and lives
in Kansas.

THOMAS L., born in New Jersey,
married in Sangamon county to Fanny
Halbert. She died in 1853, leaving one
child, GEORGE W. He was married in
Sangamon county to Alice Booth, have

two children, and live near Lincoln, Ben-
ton county, Missouri.

SUSAN A. married James Riddle.
See his name.

JOHN died aged two years.

AGNES married Harvey Darnall.
See his name.

JAMES is unmarried, and lives in
Montana.

MART E., unmarried, and lives in
Springfield, Illinois.

CAROLINE married Dennis Taylor.
He died, leaving a widow and four chil-
dren in Iowa.

HENRT died in Galveston, Texas,
aged twenty-seven years.

Mrs. Mary J. Simpson died Feb. 14,
1842, and her husband, John P. Simpson,
died Feb. 27, 1842, both in Sangamon
county, Illinois.

SIMPSON JOHN, was born Sept.
30, 1801, in Tennessee, and when a young
man went to St. Clair county, Illinois.
Mary Taylor was born August 25, 1803,
in Georgia, and when a child was taken
to Lookingglass Prairie, St. Clair county,
Illinois. They were married there in
1821, and moved to Shelby county in the
same State, where they had one child,
and from there to Sangamon county,
arriving in 1824 in what is now Williams
township, where they had two living chil-
dren. Of their children —

CHARLES, born Aug. 25, 1823, in
Shelby county, Illinois, brought up in
Sangamon county, married in White
Water, Wisconsin, to Mary Bothrell.
Mr. Simpson enlisted in 1862 in the I9th
Wis. Inf. for three years, and died August
22, 1864, at Pine Bluff, Arkansas, leaving
a widow and six daughters at White
Water, Walworth county, Wisconsin.

PERM ELI A A., born April 14,
1825, in Sangamon county, married Wil-
liam Correll. See his name.

SILAS B., born Oct. 10, 1831, died
June 18, 1851.

John Simpson died Feb. 2, 1835, and
Mrs. Mary Simpson died Feb. 25, 1864,
both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

SIMPSON, JORDAN, was
born July 19, 1808, near Lexington,
Ky., came to Sangamon county, '1833, and
was married Oct. 27, 1835, ^° Clarissa
Sayre. They had eight children in San-
gamon county, namely—

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659

JAMES W., born Sept. 8, 1836, mar-
ried Nov. 6, 1867, to Julia B. Butler (a
daughter of Stephen H. Butler). They
have three children, WILLIAM E'.,
SALLIE E., and MARY E., and live in
Pleasant Plains, 111.

ISAAC N., born Nov. 26, 1838, en-
listed October, iS6i, in Co. G, loth 111.
Cav., served three years, and was honor-
ably discharged. He was married Dec.
14, 1865, to Lucinda Laswell, had one
child, ISAAC N., and Mr. Simpson died
Feb. 24, 1866.

WILLIAM J., born April 24, 1841,
is a student at Normal University — 1874.
He is engaged in teaching in the public
schools.

CATHARINE B., born Aug. 18,
1843, married Dec. 28, 1864, to Benjamin
Watts, a son of Nicholas Watts. They
have three children, and live near War-
rensburg, Macon county, 111.

MAR T J/., born April 6, 1848, mar-
ried Nov. 20, 1867, to Morris Hillyard,
have three children, and reside near Cli-
max, Greenwood county, Kansas.

JEMIMA J., born Oct. 25, 1850,
married in 1869 to David Gibson, has two
children, and lives near Bolckow, Andrew
county, Missouri.

JULIA A., born March 5, 1863, lives
with her sister, Mrs. Watts.

LUCT J/., born Aug. 20, 1857, lives
with her aunt. Mrs. Beaumont, in Peters-
burg, 111.

Jordan Simpson, died Dec. 23, 1872, at
Pleasant Plains, and Mrs. Clarissa Simp-
son lives with her son, James W. Simp-
son, in Pleasant Plains, 111.

SIMPSON, WILLIAM, was
born in 1808, in Simpson county, Ky.
He came to Sangamon county, 111., in
1829, and was married to Elizabeth Willis,
who was born May 17, 1806. They had
six children in Sangamon county, namely:

MAR THA, born Aug. 6, 1837, married
May 8, 1861, to Joel H. Ellis. See his
name.

MARGARET J., born March 10,
1839, is unmarried, and lives at the south-
east corner of Gard ler township, at the
homestead.

HENRIETTA, born Jan. 10, 1841,
is unmarried, and lives near Sidney,
Champaign county, 111.

MARY, born March 24, 1843, married
April 24, 1873, to Miller Winston, and

lives near Sidney, Champaign county,
Illinois.

NANCY, born Aug. 30, 1845, married
Sept. 28, 1859, to John Spinning. They
have one child, WILLIAM S., and live
in Bloomington, Illinois.

WILLIAM T., born April 5, 1852,
married Oct. 16, 1873, to Burzilla K. Reed,
and lives at the family homestead, three
and a half miles southwest of Farming-
dale, Sangamon county, 111.

Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson died Feb. 17,
1860, and William Simpson died March
30, 1872, both in Sangamon county, 111.

SIMS, JAMES, was born in Vir-
ginia, taken by his parents to South Caro-
lina, where he was married to Dolly
Spillers. They had four children there,
and moved to Logan county, Kentucky,
where they had one child, and frorn there
to Caldwell county, where three children
were born; thence to St. Clair county,
Illinois, and from there to Sugar Creek,
Sangamon county, arriving in the spring
of 1820 in what became Ball township,
Sangamon county. He built a horse
mill there to run by bands. He quarried
stone of the same kind of which the first
State House in Springfield was built, and
by the aid of his brother-in-law, William
Spillers, made the burrs for his mill. He
was the first Representative from Sanga-
mon county in the State Legislature.
He moved to Rock Creek in what is
now Menard county, and from there to
Morgan county. He was a Methodist
preacher, and formed the first circuit ever
organized in Sangamon county. Of his
children —

BE TSY married James Black in St.
Clair county, raised a large family, and
died August, 1872, in Mason county, Illi-
nois.

LUCY married Henry Morgan, raised
a large family south of Richland creek in
Sangamon county. He died there in
1867, and she died in Kansas two or three
years later.

POLL Y married in Morgan county to
George Wolf. They had seven sons.
JOHN is a lawyer in Champaign City,
Illinois. THOMAS is a lawyer in Pax-
ton, 111. JAMES was clerk of Macoupin
county one term. Mrs. Polly Wolf died
December, 1872, and George Wolf died
in 1873, both near Girard, Macoupin
county.

EARLY SETTLERS OF

MATILDA, married John Kirkpat-
rick, raised a family, and moved to Mc-
Donough county, where he died.

AGNES, born June 7, 1807, in Logan
county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county, April, 1827, to Reuben Bryant.
They had six childi'en. One son lives
in California. THOMAS married a
grand-daughter of Rev. John Berry, and
lives in Clinton, Illinois. R. Bryant died
and his widow married William Mc-
Murry, Sen. See his name.

WESLEY married, raised a family
and lives near Manchester, Scott county,
Illinois.

VIZILLA married Thomas Dun-
woody, raised a large family and he died.
She lives near Arcadia, Morgan county,
Illinois.

CECELIA married James Dough-
erty, had four children, and died in Mor-
gan county, Illinois.

BLA CKMAN,L., married four times,
raised a large number of children, and re-
sides in Naples, Illinois.

SIMS, WILLIAM, (uncle to
John Sims) was born in Virginia, taken
when young to South Carolina, married
there to a Miss Welch. He came to San-
gamon county among the earliest settlers,
and raised a family of nine children, none
of whom now live in the county. He
was for many years a pioneer local Metho-
dist preacher of limited education, but re-
markable for piety and good common
sense. He died in Knox or Henry county,
Illinois, in 1859.

SIMS, JOHN, was born Sept. 13,
1799, in Spartanberg county, S. C. His
father died and his mother married again
and moved to North Carolina, thence to
Tennessee, and from there he went to
live with his uncle, James Sims, in Logan
county, Ky. His uncle moved to Cald-
well county, and from there to St. Clair
county, 111., in 1815. John Sims and Lu-
cinda Duff were there married Jan. 13,
1819. They moved, with his father-in-
law, to what became Sangamon county,
arriving in April, 1819, and settled south
of Spring creek, in what is now Gardner
township, four miles west of Springfield.
They had seven children in Sangamon
county, namely —

LUCY, born Oct. 8, 1820, married
David P. Robison. See his name.

EMIL Y J., born April 27, 1824, mar-
ried John Skipton. See his name.

VERLINDA, died aged seven years.

CAROLINE, born Jan. 21, 1828, in
Sangamon county, married James A. Pat-
terson. They have nine children. EMI-
LY A. married William Wr. Morgan.
See his name. VIRLEY A., married
John R. Henton, and lives near Linden,
Kansas. The other seven live with their
parents, five miles southwest of Spring-
field, 111.

SARAH A., born Nov. 15, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married Henry Wash-
ington Rickard. See his name.

JOHN M., born Aug. 12, 1833, mar'
ried Mary Kendall, and both died.

GREEN VIRGIL, born Nov. 15,
183=5, in Sangamon county, married Mary
McClure, has five children, and resides
near Linden, Osage county, Kansas.

JAMES B., born April 13, 1838,
married December 29, 1864, to Mary F.
Massie. They have three children,
JACKEY E., CARRIE A., and LIL-
LIAN G. and resides four miles west of
Springfield, Illinois.

Mrs. Lucinda Sims died Sept. 26, 1864,
and John Sims resides at his old homestead
four miles west of Springfield, 111. See page
71, for Mr. Sims statement concerning the
honesty of the early settlers.

SKEEN, JAMES, was born
March 29, 1811, in Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania. Lydia A. Moore was
born Feb. 13, 1813, in Lycoming county,
Pennsylvania. Her parents moved to
Lancaster county, when she was a child.
James Skeen and Lydia A. Moore were
married November, 1834, and had two
children in Lancaster county, and moved
to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving
May 15, 1838, at Springfield. A few
days later they moved twelve miles west
of Springfield and south of Spring creek,
where they had seven children, namely —

ELIZA J., born Sept. 21, 1825, in
Pennsylvania, married in Sangamon
county to William Parsons. They have
six children, and reside near Decaturville,
Camden county, Missouri.

SAMUEL, born Dec. 7, 1837, in
Pennsylvania, died 1838 in Sangamon
county.

SARAH A., born Feb. 26, 1840, in
Sangamon countv, married John Allen,
had one child, ELIZABETH, and the

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parents both died.

MART S., born Dec. 19, 1843, mar-
ried Moses O. Booker. They had one
child, MARY O., and Mr. Booker en-
listed August, 1862, tor three years, in Co.
A, io6th 111. Inf. He died Sept. 17, 1863,
at Paducah, Kentucky. His widow ma-
ried James Davenport, had one child,
ELIZA J., and the mother died April 26,
1870.

NANCT, born June 23, 1845, married
Feb- 17, 1869, to Bryant Fay. They
have one child, and live in Berlin, Illinois.

REUBEN^ born Jan. 4, 1847, married
Catharine E. Shryer, April, 1868. They
have two children, WILLIE and EPH-
RAIM, and reside near Bates, Illinois.

LTDIA C., born Nov. 23, 1849, mar-
ried John Davenport, have one child, and
live near Berlin, Illinois.

WILLIAM F. and ISABELLA,
(twins) born March 29, 1853. She died
in infancy, and he lives with his mother.

AGNES J., born March 18, 1858,
lives with her mother.

James Skeen died Oct. 12, 1859, in San-
gamon county, and his widow resides five
miles east of Berlin, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

SKIPTON, DANIEL, came
from Muskingum county, Ohio, to San-
gamon county with his wife, Susan, and
one or more children, previous to 1840.
He stopped first on Archer's creek, and
later settled four miles west of Springfield.
Of their children —

JOHN, born in Muskingum county,
Ohio, came with his parents to Sanagmon
county, and was married about 1838 to
Emily J. Sims. They had seven chil-
dren, namely, JOHN S., born Dec. 28,
1840, Married Feb. 9, 1864, to Susan A.
Williams, has one child, FREDDIE R., and
live six miles west of Springfield, Illinois.
LUCY A. married J. W. Gaines, has
three children, and lives near Cayuga,
Livingston county, Illinois. MARY J.
married Henry Hays, has three children,
and live near Cayuga, Illinois. LUCIN-
DA died aged fourteen years. JAMES
V.. DANIEL and EMILY A., live with
their parents near Odell, Livingston
county, Illinois — 1874.

ANN married Vinson Singleton, has
three children, and lives at Mason City,
Illinois.

MAR T married Samuel Scott. They

have five children, and live near Havana,
Illinois.

JAMES K. has been married three
times, and lives near Mason City, Illinois.

S ALL T married Isaac Lane, and lives
near Havana, Illinois.

MATILDA married Wilson Logue,
and live in Sidney, Iowa.

DANIEL, Jun., married Jane Sims,
has eight children, and lives in Kansas.

L UCINDA lives with her sister, Mrs.
Sykes.

6" US AN married Edward Sykes, and
lives near Mason City, Illinois.

WILLIAM died aged twenty-four
years.

Daniel Skipton died in Mason county
in 1842, and his widow lives with her
daughter, Mrs. Singleton, in Mason
City, Illinois, aged seventy-nine years
-1874.

SLATER, ELIJAH, was born
Dec. 8, 1775, in Wyoming county, Penn.
His parents, Samuel and Sibyl Slater,
were among the few who escaped
the historic massacre of Wyoming in
1778, during the bloody years ot
the American Revolution. .They had
barely time to save their lives, each
carrying one of their two children on
horseback until they reached their friends
in Massachusetts. Samuel Slater was
killed by a falling tree, and his son and
daughter were brought up in Massachu-
sets. Elijah Slater was married in West
Stockbridge, Mass., in 1797, to Olive
French. They moved in a few years to
Great Barrington, where he engaged in
the mercantile business. In 1813 the fam-
ily moved to Pennsylvania, and occupied
the house from which Mr. Slater's parents
fled many years before. He left the farm
for Kingston, Pa., where he opened a
store; from there he moved to Ithica, New
York, and continued merchandizing. In
1817 he visited the West, selected Milton,
near Alton, 111., for his residence, and
returned to New York for his family.
Soon after their arrival at Milton they
moved to Sangamon county, settling on
Sugar creek, in 1818, where they lived
until Springfield was laid out, when he
moved therein 1821 or '2, among the first
settlers. Elijah Slater and wife had sev-
enteen children —

SAMUEL, born Jan. 27, 1798, in West
Stockbridge, Mass, lived with his parents

until 1818, when he left Ithica, New York,
and came West, landing at Shawneetown,
and traveled through Illinois to St. Louis
on foot, joining his father at Milton, where
he clerked in a store for a short time, and
afterwards took charge of a store at Hun-
terstown (now lower Alton), for Major C.
W. Hunter, a merchant of St. Louis. The
goods were brought up the Mississippi
river on keel boats from the latter city, as
there were few steamboats, and they sel-
dom went above St. Louis. Mr. Slater's
health failed, and he went north to the
" Sangamo " country, where his father
had bought some land. His favorable
report of the country induced Major Hun-
ter to fit him out with a stock of merchan-
dize for a store on Sugar creek. There
was only one other store in the country,
and that was kept by John Taylor, farther
up on the same stream. Mr. Slater found
an empty log house on the farm of Isaac
Keys, just below the mouth of Lick creek,
which he occupied, and among his stores
were medicines and whisky, the latter be-
ing indispensible. He remained on Sugar
creek until 1821, when he went as super-
cargo to New Orleans for Major Hunter,
with some flat boats loaded with oak
staves, in 1823. He went again with a
lot of bacon, and remained in New Or-
leans during the winter, at which time he
took a lot of hogs to Havana, Cuba, and
returned with the proceeds in coffee.
Found a clerkship at fifteen dollars per
month, with board, for three months.
Afterwards, his salary was raised to five
hundred dollars per year and board. He
visited his friends in Illinois, and was mar-
ried at Alton, Oct. 27, 1831, to Mary W.
Avis. He returned to New Orleans,
where they resided until 1839, he moved
to Galveston, Texas, and was book-keeper
a portion of the time in the United States
custom House there. His health failing,
he removed in 1848 to his land in the
northern part of same State, where he
had ten thousand acres. They remained
there twelve years. In 1860 he sold the
most of his land, determined to move
where there was a railroad. He went to
Tyler, to settle some business preparatory
to leaving, and found the people greatly
excited by the news of the general elec-
tions and the success of the Republican
party. Mr. Slater was told by a friend
that" the Vigilance Committee was trying

to find something out against him, that it
had been reported he was about leaving
the country, and would take a great many
negroes with him. Mr. S. intended leav-
ing town that night, but concluded it was
safer to remain, as the mob might follow
him, so he reported himself to the Vigil-
ance Committee, saying he was willing to
appear before them and answer any ques-
tions they might ask, thinking that would
end the matter; but not so, they cited him
to appear at the court house. He did so,
and found there about forty men, self
elected jurors. There was no charge
made against Mr. Slater and of course no
witnesses, but a little lawyer said: "/'//
fix him ! " and the trial began. After
questioning him some time about where
he was born, and the different places he
had lived before coming to Texas, they
dispatched two men twenty-five miles
to search his house for abolition docu-
ments, keeping him under guard at Tyler
during the time. The two men returned
next day with large bundles of the New
York Observer, which they called those
abolition documents. The trial was opened
next day, and a Methodist preacher, whom
Mr. S. considered his friend, and who
secretly was one, was called on to testify.
He stated that a third person had told him
that Mr. Slater was an abolitionist, and he
believed it. This settled the question.
The trial closed and he was sent to the
Vigilance committtee of his own county
for punishment, but before arriving at his
destination the guard told him of a plan
they had formed for his escape. A man
who owed Mr. Slater met them at this
point and paid him five hundred dollars,
besides giving him a good mule to make
out his team. He found his wife had
made all preparations, and they started
Aug. 17, i _6o, and traveled ten miles
through the woods that night. One of
the guard told Mrs. Slater that the com-
mittee would have hung her husband the
first day had it not been for the Methodist
minister, who only testified against Mr. S.
to save his own life, and was secretly doing
all he could to save Mr. Slater. Some of
the guard traveled with them two days
and then returned. They made good
marches, resting every Sabbath, and ar-
rived at Alton in October of the same
year Mr. Slater was in the Quartermas-
ter's department early in the late war to

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suppress the rebellion, and subsequently
mail agent, in place of his son, who en-
listed and went as orderly sergeant. Sam-
uel Slater resigned his position as mail
agent in 1868, and purchased land in Bates
county, Missouri, where he is cultivating
a farm, and enjoys better health than
when he left New Orleans, in 1839.

Samuel Slater and wife attended a meet-
ing of the early settlers of Sangamon
county, held on Sugar creek, in 1874,
near where his father settled in 1818,
but was unable to find a single per-
son who knew him, and felt as though
they thought he was trying to de-
ceive them. He was the Rip Van
Winkle of the occasion. Mr. and Mrs.
Slater had nine children. THOMAS
AVIS, born February 12, 1833, m
New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1855 went
to Alton, Illinois, to attend Shurtleff
College. He studied law, and was ad-
mitted to the bar, and soon after received
an appointment in the Land Office at
Washington, D. C. By too close atten-
tion to business lost his health, and died at
his father's house in Brighton, Illinois,
Sept. 13, 1865. SAMUEL N., born
Jan. 15, 1836, in New Orleans, Louisiana,
attended school at Alton, enlisted May 15,
1861, in Co. I, 4th Reg. Mo. Vol. Inf.,
for three months, went out as Orderly
Sergeant, served full time and was honor-
ably discharged. He was substitute for
his brother in the Land Office at Wash-
ington, and afterwards, through the in-
fluence of Governor Yates, was sent with
appointment in the Custom House to New
Orleans, remained there a year or two
and returned, was appointed in the Agri-
cultural Department at Washington, D.
C., where he remains. He married Ida
V. Tramell Nov. 16, 1871. They have
one child, OLIVE' MAY, and reside in
Washington, D. C. MARY O., born
Nov. 18, 1839, in Galveston, Texas, at-
tended school in Springfield, Illinois, and
Monticello Seminary, and was married
August 13, 1873, to William Page, who
attended college in Chicago, and graduated
in the Law School of Michigan Univer-
sity, at Ann Arbor. He is a practicing
attorney, and resides in Butler, Bates
county, Missouri. JAMES H., born
March 3, 1842, in Galveston, Texas, en-
listed in Missouri in the same company
with his brother, Samuel N., for three

months, served full time, re-enlisted in
August, 1862, for three years in Co. D,
i22d 111. Inf. He was honorably dis-
charged July 18, 1865. In 1868 he was
appointed Postal Clerk on the Chicago
and Alton Railroad, in place of his father,
(who had just resigned) which position he
still retains. WILLIAM A., born Dec.
29, 1844, in Galveston, attended school in
Springfield, and in March, 1865, enlisted
in Co. D, 1 8th 111. Inf., went out as a
drummer boy, was taken sick and died at
Pine Bluff, Arkansas, Oct. 20, 1 865, and was
buried there. MARTHA, born Feb. 21,
1847, a* Galveston, attended school in
Springfield, Illinois, and Monticello Semi-
nary two sessions. She resides with her
parents. CHARLES M., born Sept. 19,
1849, in Henderson county, Tex-.is, was
sent in 1861 to Boston, Massachusetts, at
his uncle Charles1 request, to be educated
by him. He is now, and has been for
several years, a traveling agent for a busi-
ness house in New York City. His route
is as far west as Omaha and as far south as
New Orleans. JOSEPH B., born Nov.

21, 1852, in Henderson county, Texas, re-
sides with his father. PERRY J., born
Sept. 21, 1854, in Starrville, Smith county,
Texas, is a dentist, and lives in Butler,
Missouri. Samuel Slater and family re-
side near Butler, Bates county, Missouri.

HENRIETTA MARIA was born
in 1800 in Berkshire county, Massachu-
setts. She was married in Madison
county, Illinois, to Rev. Thomas Lippin-
cott, and died in 1820. Mr. Lippincott
was the father, by a subsequent mar-
riage, of General Charles E. Lippincott,
present Auditor of State for Illinois, who
resides in Springfield — 1876.

OLJVE, born in 1801 in Berkshire
county, Massachusetts, was married in
Ithica, New York, to Joseph Torrey.
See his name. They settled on Sugar
creek, Sangaman county, Illinois, where
she died in August or September, 1820.

SIBYL, born in 1807 in Berkshire
county, Massachusetts, was married Dec.

22, 1842, in Springfield, Illinois, to Dr.
Gershom Jayne. See his name.

C. PERRY, born September, 1823, in
Springfield, Illinois, studied medicine with
Dr. Jayne, spent three years in California,
returned and was married in 1854 to Susan
Mather Lamb. He was a practicing phy-
sician, and died in 1858 in Springfield,

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Illinois, leaving a widow and one child,
HANNAH M., who was married in Chi-
cago. Sept. 27, 1876, to Walter Trumbull,
eldest son of Hon. Lyman Trumbull.
They reside in Chicago. C. P. Slater's
widow married James H. Roberts, a law-
yer, and resides in Chicago, Illinois.

Elijah Slater and wife were two of the
original members of the first Presbyterian
church of Springfield, Illinois, formed by
the Rev. J. G. Bergen. Mr. Slater was
distinguished for his energy and upright
life, and died July, 1836. His widow died
in November, 1844, and both were buried
in Springfield, Illinois.

SLATER, JAY, born Feb. 25,
1795, in Massachusetts, was married
March 12, 1826, in Sangatnon county, 111.,
to Lucretia Carman, who was born in
1806, in New York. They had six living
children in Sangamon county —

JAMES HARVEY, born Dec. 28,
1826, nine miles south of Springfield, left
home March 28, 1849, Driving an ox team
over the plains, and arrived in California
Sept. n, of that year. In the autumn of
1851 he went to Oregon, and was one of
the delegates to the territorial legislature
of Oregon, also a member of the constitu-
tional convention. He was married there
in 1853 to Elizabeth Gray, a native of
Georgia. They had nine children. James
Harvey Slater was elected in 1870 to rep-
resent Oregon in the United States Con-
gress. He lives at LaGrande, Union
county, Oregon.

L TMAN BEE CHER, born Aug. 7,
1828, in Sangamon county, was married
April 28, 1853, in Mt. Auburn, Christian
county, 111., to Angeline Bodkin. She
died July 30, 1854. Lyman B. Slater
graduated in thje medical department of
Missouri State Univei\sity, in St. Louis, in
1855. Dr. Slater was married Oct. 4,
1855, to Sarah Stockwell, who was born
July 15, 1830, in Vermont. They have
six children, MARGARET, LYMAN
T., EMMA, ALICE L., MARY T., and
JAMES H., who live with their parents.
Dr. L. B. Slater is a practicing physician,
and resides at Taylorville, 111.

J ULIA, born Sept. 26, 1833, in San-
gamon county, married William Camp-
bell. They have three children, MARY,
OLIVE and CHARES.

JOHN M., born Aug. 26, 1835, in
Sangamon county, was married April 30

1 856 to Leah Campbell, daughter of Lewis
Campbell. They had eight children,
LEWIS J. and IDA C., died young.
LAURA L., CHARLES GRANT,
LYMAN H.JOHN A., NORA E. and
ROBERT O.,live with their parents, half
a mile north of Cross Plains postoffice,
Sangamon county, 111.

OLIVE J., born Nov. 8, 1838, in
Sangamon county, was married March 2,
1858, to Samuel P. Stevens. They have
four children, ENOS, SAMUEL, MA-
RIETTA and LYMAN, and live near
Arvilla, Jasper county, Missouri.

SOPHRONIA P., born Jan. 19,
1845, was married in 1865 to William
Neer. They have two children, and live
four miles west of Grove City, Christian
county, Illinois.

Mrs. Lucretia Slater died July, 1853,
and Jay Slater was married March 15,
1854, to Lavina Alkire, who was born
Oct. 6, 1823, in Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania, and came to Springfield in
1838. Mr. and Mrs. Slater had two chil-
dren, one died in infancv.

ALBERT J., bom Dec. 19, 1856, in
Sangamon county, is a student — 1874.

Jay Slater died July 19,1860, in Sanga-
mon county. Mrs. Lavina Slater was
married Oct. 19, 1863, in Sangamon
county to Frederick G. Tabler, who was
born Sept. 2, 1827, in the Kingdom of
Wurtemburg, Germany, and came to
America in 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Tabler
have two children.

GEOGE F., born Sept. 10, 1864, and

MART E,, born Dec. 15, 1866. The
two latter reside with their parents, one
and a half miles northwest of Bradfordton,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

SMITH, JAMES D., born Dec.
5, 1805, in Harrison county, Kentucky,
was married at Cynthiana, in that county,
in 1829, to Ruth Ann Brown. They had
one child in Kentucky, and Mr. Smith
visited Missouri and Illinois in 1832. He
purchased land in Sangamon county, and
moved with his father-in-law, Colonel
William Brown, arriving in the fall of
1833 at Island Grove, where nine children
were born, three of whom died in infancy.
Of their children —

WILLIAM B., born Dec. 6, 1832, in
Harrison county, Kentucky, brought up
in Sangamon county, was married near
Burlington, Vermont, Oct. 13, 1873, to

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Julia B. Kinney, who was born near Bur-
lington in 1845. They live two miles
southwest of Berlin, Illinois.

JOHX /'., born July 25, 1835, in San-
gamon county, was married near Lexing-
ton, Kentucky, April 28, 1864, to Anna
P. O'Bannon. They have six children.
HATTIE B., the fifth child, died Oct. 12,
1873. RUTH \V., O'BANNON,
ELIZA, JAMES D. and ANNIE P.
live with their parents four miles west of
Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois, within
one mile of where Mr. Smith was born.

JAMES /?., Jun., born Dec. 20,
1837, in Sangamon county, was married
at Jacksonville, Illinois, Sept 29, 1864, to
Elizabeth B. Brown, who was born April
2, 1842, in Boonville, Missouri. They
have four living children, ELISHA B.,
JAMES D., MARY B., and HALLIE,
and live at the homestead, three tuiles
west of Berlin, Illinois.

HATTIE B., born July 27, 1844, in
Sangamon county, was married May 27,
1865, to Samuel S. Deweese. They have
two children, ELIZA S. and JAMES
SMITH, and live one mile north of
Alexander, Morgan county, Illinois.

MARrrHA /A, born March 26, 1847,
in Sangamon county, was married Feb.
20, 1872, to George Prewitt, have one
child, HALLIE, and live in Georgetown,
Kentucky.

RUTH ANN, born Jan. 25, 1850, in
Sangamon county,, was married Sept. 24,
• 1874, to James G. Kelly. They have one
child, CONWAY, and live in George-
town, Kentucky.

LLOTD B., born Sept. 24, 1852, in
Sangamon county, was married at Alex-
ander, Morgon county, Illinois, to Lulu B.
Alexander, daughter of John T. Alexan-
der, Esq.

"On the afternoon of Tuesday, Nov.
7, 1871, James D. Smith, an old and hon-
ored resident of Island Grove, Sangamon
county, Illinois, was thrown from his
buggy and killed whilst returning alone
to his home from the town of Berlin.
On the afternoon of the Thursday follow-
ing, the large concourse of people, from
town and country for miles around, which
gathered at his grave, spoke impressively
of the high esteem in which he was held
by all who kew him. In 1833, in com-
pany with his father-in-law, Col. William
Brown, he emigrated to Illinois and made

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his home on the farm from whence he
was borne to the grave. Shunning pub-
lic life, though often urged to accept posi-
tions of trust and honor by his friends, he
but once yielded his personal feelings to
their solicitations, and was elected and
served as a member of the Constitutional
Convention of 1862. During the whole
of his life in Illinois, he was a member of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, and
with his brother-in-law, Captain James N.
Brown, who, just three years in advance
of him, went into the better land, was the
founder and most liberal supporter of
Island Grove station, the first rural station
established in Illinois Conference. An
active, earnest, humble Christian, he was
peculiarly free from sectarian prejudice,
and although warmly attached to the
church of his choice, regarded with frater-
nal feeling every follower of his Master.
Eminently domestic and social in his na-
ture, and urbane in manner, the loved and
honored companion of childhood and
youth, as well as of those of mature
years, his time outside the requirements of
large farming and stock operations, was
devoted to his family, his kindred and his
neighbors, in whose welfare he ever felt
the deepest interest. As illustrative of
his character, it might here be stated that
early in his life at Island Grove he was
commissioned Justice of the Peace, and
during the whole time he held that office
he had but one suit brought in his court
to come to trial, having in every other
case, by his personal influence with the
parties, and efforts in the true interests of
peace, affected an amicable settlement of
differences. Decided in his convictions,
and uncompromising as to the right, yet
the intercourse with his fellow men was
marked by the exercise of judgment so
unwarped by selfishness, and was softened
by such abounding charity, that he lived
without an enemy. With him benevo-
lence was an ever present sentiment, fall-
ing like the gentle dew into the every-d; y
acts of life, manifesting itself alike in the
sacred precincts of his family, in his deal-
ings with the many in his employ, and in
an open hand to the poor, the needy, the
sick, and the stranger. Of him it may be
truly said, " He\ was a good man" one
whom the church, the state and society
could illy afford to lose. Living, he was
the embodiment of every domestic virtue;

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dying, he has left his stricken family a
treasure more valuable than his ample for-
tune— the priceless heritage of a well
spent life."

His widow, Mrs. Ruth A. Smith, sur-
vived her husband exactly ten months,
and died Sept. 7, 1872. The remains of
both are interred in Wood Wreath Ceme-
tery, near where they spent so many years
of their lives.

SMITH,GEORGE M., was born
April 23, 1785, in Virginia. His parents
moved when he was a child to Henry
county, Ky. Matilda Dowdall was born
in Culpepper county, Virginia, Feb. 18,
1793. Her mother died when she was
two years old, and her grandfather Holmes
soon after moved to Shelby county, Ken-
tucky, taking Matilda and another sister
and brother with him. George M.
Smith and Matilda Dowdall were mar-
ried Aug. 14, 1810, in Shelby county, and
afterwards lived some time in Henry
county, Ky., where they had four chil-
dren and moved in 1824 to Jennings
county, near Vernon, Indiana, where one
child was born, and thev returned to
Henry county, where one child was born.
They then moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in March, 1834, in what is
now Island Grove. Of their eight chil-
dren—

JACOB H., born Dec. 23, 1815, in
Henry county, Ky., came to Sangamon
connty, Illinois, with his parents in
1834, and was married in Hennepin, 111.,
Dec. 19, 1838, to Joanna Higgins. They
moved to Saline county, Missouri, and
had five children there. JACOB H.
SMITH and his eldest son, GEORGE,
were both soldiers in the Union army.
They reside at Marshall, Saline county,
Missouri.

JOHN W., born July 10, 1818, in
Henry county, Ky., was married in San-
gamon county June i, 1845, *-° Ann E.
Fox, who was born June 7, 1827, in Lou-
don county, Virginia. She was the eldest
daughter of Dr. J. B. Fox, lately deceased,
in Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Smith had
eight children in Sangamon county, three
of whom died young. Of the other five,
AMANDA was married Sept. 14, 1871,
to George Parish, and lives in Oskosh,
Wisconsin. MARY M., JOSEPH B.,
WILLIE and CARRIE live with their
relatives. Joseph B. Smith is a clerk in a

mercantile house in Quincy, Illinois.
Mrs. Ann E. Smith died May 21, 1871,
in Springfield. John W. Smith filled
many important positions of honor and
trust in Sangamon county. He discharged
the duties of census commissioner in 1845,
by appointment from the county court.
In 1848 he was elected one of the repre-
sentatives of Sangamon county in the State
Legislature, and was again census com-
missioner in 1855. He was elected sheriff
of the county in 1860 for two years, and
mayor of the city of Springfield in 1863.
He was appointed by the United States
government, commissioner on the board of
enrollment for military duty for the eighth
congressional district in 1864, but soon re-
signed to accept the position of collector
of internal revenue for the same district.
He was one of the commissioners named
in the law of Feb. 25, 1867, to manage the
building of the new state house, and re-
mained on the board until the laws of
March 1 1 and 27, 1869, reduced the number
from seven to three. He was elected
Mayor of Springfield in 1871, and re-
elected in 1872. He was appointed by
Gov. Beveridge in 1873 warden of the
state penitentiary at Joliet. WThile dis-
charging the duties of that office
he was on his way from Chicago to Joliet
on the night of Saturday, Aug. 16, 1873.
The train on which he was traveling col-
lided with a freight train near Sag
Bridge, a few miles southwest of Chicago.
He was in the smoking car at the time '
and was terribly scalded by the escaping
steam from the broken pipes. He, with a
number of others, were taken to Chicago,
and died there at eight o'clock on the
morning of the iSth. His remains were
brought to Springfield and buried at Oak
Ridge cemetery, Aug. 19th.

ELS1R A., born Dec. 30, 1821, in
Henry county, Ky., was married in San-
gamon county to Stephen Butler — brother
of William Butler, recently deceased — in
Springfield. They have ten children,
two of whom are married. The family
reside at Mondamin, Harrison county,
Iowa.

THOMAS Z>., born Aug. 24, 1823, in
Henry county, Ky., was married in San-
gamon county Jan. i, 1851, to Julia A.
Maxwell. They had seven children in
Sangamon county, and moved from Berlin
to Humboldt county, Kansas in 1869. T.

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D. Smith died there March 10, 1873, and
his family reside there.

MART y., born April 24, 1825, near
Vernon, Indiana, was married in Henry
county, Ky., Dec. 21, 1847, *-° Owen T.
McCormick. They lived in Shelby
county, Ky., until November, 1849, when
they moved to Island Grove, Sangamon
county, 111., and had five children there.
SARAH A. was married Oct. 29, 1842,
to Benjamin R. B. Weber. See his name.
TOSAPHINE A., OWEN T., Jun.,
MOLLIE E. and GEORGE R. live
with their mother. Owen T. McCormick,
Sen., died Oct. 27, 1865, and Mrs. McCor-
mick resides at Pawnee, Sangamon coun-
ty, 111.

' MARTHA M., born Dec. 24, 1827, in
Henry county, Ky., was married April 12,
1849 to John Foutch. See his name.

HARRIET 0., born Sept. 19, 1830,
married Addison Gibson, of Gallatin
county, Ky. They left there in July,
1864, on account of the rebellion and came
to New Berlin, where Mrs. Harriet O.
Gibson died April 24, 1865, leaving six
sons, all of whom live with their father in
Kentucky.

GEORGE W., born May 10, 1833, in
Kentucky, brought up in Sangamon
county, went to Weston, Missouri, mar-
ried Fannie King, and died there.

George M. Smith died Feb.. 27, 1842, at
Island Grove, and his widow lives with
her children.

SMITH, GREENBERRY,
was born Feb. 5, 1793, in Washington
county, Kentucky, and was married there
to Nancy Killen, who was born in 1800 in
the same county. They had one child
there, and moved to Sangamon county,
Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1830, in
what is now Springfield township, where
they had one child. Of their two chil-
dren—

E THE LINDA J., born Dec. 21,
1826, in Washington county, Kentucky,
married Nov. 21, 1844, in Sangamon
county to John Prince. They had six
children, WILLIAM P., JAMES L.,
NANCY J., GREENBERRY, JO-
SEPH and CHARLES, and live in
Springfield, Illinois.

LAFATETTE, born Nov. 21, 1834,
in Sangamon county, married Jan. i, 1857,
in Springfield to Harriet A. Buchanan.
They had seven children, two of whom

died in infancy, and ALBERT G. died at
fourteen years of age. FRANK B.,
EDWIN F., HARRY L. and FRED-
ERICK WORRALL, reside with their
parents in Springfield, Illinois. Lafayette
Smith is the senior member of the firm of
Smith & Hay, wholesale grocers, in
Springfield.

Greenberry Smith died April 23, 1871,
and Mrs. Nancy Smith died May 21,
1873, both in Springfield, Illinois.

SMITH, JONAS, was born
April 10, 1810, on Long Island, New
York. His father moved to Monroe
county, Illinois, about 1820. In 1831
Jonas visited his sister Mrs. Ebenezer
Colburn at Loami, and in July, 1836, came
from Cincinnati to put up and run mill
machinery for William and Ebenezer
Colburn. He has been engaged in milling
from that to the present time as owner
and builder of mills on Lick creek and
other parts of the country. Jonas Smith
was married in 1839, at Loami, to Char-
lotte Colburn. They had six children,
two of whom, Adam L. and Millard F.,
died young. Of the other four —

MART J., born Dec. 27, 1842, mar-
ried Dr. Stephen N. Sanders. See his
name. She died in 1867, leaving one
child, ANNA.

NOE N., born Nov. 24, 1845, enlisted
May 2, 1864, in Co. E, i33d 111. Inf., for
one hundred days, served until Sept. 24,
1864, when he was honorably discharged,
and died at Loami, Nov. 3, 1864, of disease
contracted in the army.

JULIA A., born March 25, 1848, and

ADNA J., born August 6, 1854, live
with their parents.

Jonas Smith and wife reside at Loami,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

SMITH, JOHN, was born June
23, 1812, in Hartford, Connecticut, and at
six years of age he was taken by his pa-
rents to Ontario county, New York, and
from there to Michigan in 1830. John
Smith went to St. Louis, Missouri, in
February, 1840, and was there married
Jan. n, 1841,10 Charlotte Getchel, who
was born Nov. 5, 1812, in Maine. They
came to Sprinfield, 111 , in February,
1841, where they had one child, and
moved to Chatham, where four children
were born. Of their children —

MART E., born Oct. 5, 1841, in
Sprinfield, died Nov. 6, 1853.

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BENJAMIN P., born Jan. 12, 1843,
in Sangamon county, enlisted Dec. 8, 1863.
in Battery A., 3d 111. Art., served to the
end of the rebellion, and was honorably
discharged in Springfield. He was mar-
ried in 1869, in Lynn county, Missouri to
Elizabeth Dustin. They have four chil-
dren, and live near North Salem, Lynn
county, Missouri.

GEORGE W., born May 3, 1845, in
Sangamon county, enlisted Dec. 8, 1863,
in Battery A, 3d 111. Art., served to the
end of the rebellion, and was honorably
discharged in Springfield. He was mar-
ried April 22, 1872, in Missouri to Mrs.
Elizabeth Britton. They live near North
Salem, Lynn county, Missouri.

EDWARD, born Oct. 19, 1847, in
Sangamon county, died Aug. 30, 1870,
about seventy miles below St. Louis, on
the Mississippi river.

ANNIE L., born April 7, 1851, in
Sangamon county, died Oct. 22, 1865.

Mrs. Charlotte Smith died Feb. 2, 1853,
in Sangamon county, and John Smith
was married Oct. 2, 1860 to Elizabeth
Trumbo, They have two children —

ADAM T., borrijuly 14, 1861, and

EMMA L., born Feb. n, 1866, live
with their parents, three-fourths of a mile
south of Woodside, Sangamon county. 111.

SMITH, JOHN M., born Aug.
ii, 1813, in Sanbornton, New Hampshire,
spent six years as clerk in Boston, and
married there to Almyra Andrews. They
had three children and moved to Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, arriving at Spring-
field May 4, 1839. Of the three chil-
dren—

SARAH A., born in Boston, married
in Sangamon county to James A. Poor.
Sec his name. He died and she married
lames McCausland, and live near Curran,
Illinois.

EM1L Y married Thomas Springhall,
and resides in Springfield — 1874.

JOSEPH E., is married and lives in
Kansas.

Mrs. Almyra Smith died and he was
married in 1844, to Julia A. Duff. She
died and J. M. Smith married May 4,
1846, Harriet Baldwin. They have three
children —

WILLIAM W., JOHN E. and
NANCY E., and live half a mile north
of Curran, Sangamon countv, Illinois.

SMITH, JOSEPH, was born in

Loudon county, Virginia. His parents
moved to Harrison county, Ky., when he
was seven or eight years of age. At the
age of fifteen he entered a store in Paris,
Ky., as clerk, and afterwards became a
merchant in Frankfort. He was married
April 9, 1822, in Franklin county, near
Frankfort, to Sally Taylor. She was born
Nov. 22, 1807, in that part of Gallatin
that afterwards became Trimble county,
Ky. The family residence at the time
was on a very elevated site opposite the
city of Madison, Indiana, and was called
Mount Bird. It afforded a fine view of
the city and of the Ohio river, with its
passing steamers. Her father, John Tay-
lor, was a native of Virginia, and entered
the Baptist ministry in that State.
He became acquainted in Virginia with
the father of General who was afterwards
President, Zachary Taylor. Both moved
to Kentucky, and although they were
not related to each other, they mar-
ried step-sisters and continued their in-
timacy during their lives. Miss Sally
Taylor, now Mrs. Smith, was named
for the mother of President Taylor.
Joseph Smith and wife had four children
in Franklin county, Ky., and moved to
Sangamon county, 111., arriving in Octo-
ber, 1834, and settled on Richland creek,
in what is now Cart w right township,
where two -children were born. Of their
six children —

TEMPLE, born Jan. 21, 1823, was
drowned in Kentucky at ten years of age, '
by his horse falling while crossing a
stream.

J. TA YLOR was born March 6, 1825,
in Frankfort, Ky., came so Sangamon
county with his parents in 1834. In 1844
he engaged in the mercantile business in
Springfield. J. Taylor Smith was mar-
ried March 27,1850, to Sophia N. Ridgely.
They had four children in Springfield,
one of whom died in infancy. JULIA V.
born March 31, 1851, died Aug. 27, 1873.
FRED. E. was born July 18, 1853. In
June, 1872, he entered the United States
'Military Academy, at West Point, N. Y.,
graduated there in June, 1876. He is lieu-
tenant in Co. D, 1 3th U. S. Inf., and is
now — Oct. 1876 — at New Orleans, La.
JESSIE T., born Oct. 9, 1864, resides
with her parents. Mr. Smith was in the
mercantile business in Springfield from
1844 to 1874, when he retired. During

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that time he has dealt in lands and stocks,
and is now a director in the Ridgely Nation-
al Bank, and resides in Springfield, 111.

JOSEPH S., born July 21, 1827, in
Kentucky, is an extensive farmer and
stock raiser at Bates, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

RLIZA J., born Jan. 21, 1830, in
Kentucky, married David A. Brown. See
his name.

BRADFORD 7\, died in infancy.

J/. W. De WITT, born Dec. 12, 1844,
in Sangamon county, married Sept. i,
1864, to M. Adelia McConnell. They
have three children, ANDREW SYD-
NEY, ELIZABETH ADELIA and
TEMPLE. M. W. DeWitt Smith is a
farmer and stock raiser at Bates, Sanga-
mon county, 111.

Joseph Smith prosecuted the business
of farming, and at the same time was in
the mercantile business in Springfield, in
connection with James M. Bradford. He
also represented Sangamon county in the
State Legislature. He died August, 1862,
on the farm where he settled in 1834. His
widow, Mrs. Sally Smith, resides with her
son, Joseph S., at Bates, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

SMITH, PHILIP, was born
about 1790 in Montgomery county,
North Carolina. He was manned there
to Nancy Cooper. They had seven chil-
dren, and moved to Sangamon county,
Illinois, arriving in 1822 in what is now
Cooper township, and the next year
moved to Williams township, where five
children were born. Of their children —

EPHRAIM, born in North Carolina,
has been twice married, and lives in Put-
nam county.

TILGHMAN, born in North Caro-
lina, married in Sangamon county to
Nancy Doughty, have several children,
and live near Burlington, Iowa.

ELIZABETH married Andrew Sut-
ton. Both died, leaving one child, WIL-
LIAM I.

PHILIP Jim., born May 13, 1813,
in North Carolina, married in Sangamon
county July 17, 1834, had ten children.
MARY A. married William Dolvan,
have two children, and live at Elkhart,
Illinois. JOHN enlisted in 1862 in Co.
C, i i4th 111. Inf., for three years, served
until June, 1864, when he was discharged
on account of physical disability, married

Martha Williams, have two children,
ULYSSES F. and IDA BELL. Mrs. Smith
died March 13, 1872, and he resides with
his parents — 1874. NANCY J. married
Sylvanus Tuttle, had one child, RALSTON.
Mr. Tuttle enlisted in 1862 for three
years in Co. C, H4th 111. Inf., and was
killed at the siege of Vicksburg, May 19,
1863. His widow married William H.
Smith. They have two children, PHILIP
and IVY MAY, and live in Wiliiamsville,
Illinois. WILLIAM O. enlisted August,
1862, in Co. C, H4th 111. Inf., came home
on sick furlough and died Oct. 13, 1862, in
his 2ist year. HENRY T. married Har-
riet Kinnaman, have two children, and
live in Williams township. REZIN
married Izora Fisher, and lives in Wil-
liams township. JULIA F. married Ed-
ward Clapman, and live in Williams
township. LAURA L. and SUSAN C.
live with their parents, four and a half
miles southeast of Wiliiamsville, Illinois.

LE VI married Eveline Darnall. They
have eleven children, and reside in Henry
county Iowa.

CELIA married Joseph Hill. Both
died of cholera and lett four children.

JOHN, married Martha Brown, had
two children, JOHN W. and ROMU-
LUS, and Mrs. Martha Smith died. He
married Elizabeth Hendrix. They had
three children, SUSAN married in 1860 to
William H. Smith, had one child, FLORA
E., and Mrs. Susan Smith died. ALICE A.
married WTilliam T. Ham. See his name.
JENNIE married George Strawn, and
lives in Wiliiamsville, Illinois. John
Smith died and his widow married
Stephen King. See his name.

EDA married George Sutton, have
six children, and reside near Lincoln.

NANCT A. married William Mc-
Daniel, had two children, and he died, and
she married William Starr, had three
children, and he died and she married
Mr. West, and lives- near Riverton,
Illinois.

MART A. married Charles Kinnaman
and had nine children. CELIA J.;
ANTHONY W. served three years in
Co. C, i i4th 111. Inf. He married Emily
Blue, has two children, and lives in Wil-
iiamsville, Illinois. GEORGE \V. lives
in Palmer, Christian county, Illinois. All
the other members of the familv live at
Clayton, Adams county, Illinois.

EARLT SETTLERS OP

LOUISA married William House,
who died, leaving one child, and she mar-
ried Joseph Young, and lives in Cali-
fornia.

IR VI N M. married Jennie Holt, and
lives in Louisa county, Iowa.

Mrs. Nancy Smith died in 1854, near
Barclay, and Philip Smith died in 1860
in Christian county, Illinois.

SMITH, THOMAS, was born in
1769 in Virginia, and went with his parents
when he was a young man to Washing-
ton county, Kentucky. He .was there
married to Elizabeth Peter, who was
born in 1772 > she was an aunt of
Zachariah Peter. -They had nine
children in that county. In the fall
of 1819 they moved to Madison county,
Illinois, and from there to Sangamon
county, arriving in February, 1822, in
what is now Curran township, north of
Liek creek. Of their children —

MARGARET married Thomas Cum-
mings. See his name.

RICHARD, born June 6, 1795, mar-
ried in Kentucky, Dec. 22, 1816, to Eliza-
beth Hart, who was born near Richmond,
Virginia, May 11,1798. They came to
Madison county, Illinois, and from there
to Sangamon in 1823. They had seven
children. Richard Smith died Feb. 2,
1859, and his widow resides with her son,
Thompson, at Clinton, Illinois.

THOMAS, Jun., born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Mary
Cooper. They had six children, and Mr.
S. died in 1838, two miles east of Spring-
field, Illinois. Of the children, JORDAN
P., died in 1848, aged twenty-one years.
LUCY M., born Nov. 30, 1830, married
Thomas Smith of Lick creek. See his
name. The other four children and
mother reside in DeWitt county, Illinois.
She is now — 1874 — the wife of Samuel
Smith.

HANNAH, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon-county to Henry Whit-
lock. They had ten children, and he was
murdered in the spring of 1871 in Green
county, Illinois, and his widow and chil-
dren live there.

ELIZABE 777, married Augustus
Kirkpatrick, had nine children. She and
nearly all her children died at Camp
Point, Illinois. Mr. Kirkpatrick lives
there.

JOHN, born March 18, 1805, in Wash-

ington county, near Springfield, Ken-
tucky, came with his parents to Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, in 1822, and was
married June 23, 1825, to Jane G. Dren-
nan. They had six children. WIL-
LIAM C., born March 24, 1826, was
married June 16, 1844, to Rebecca T-
Walker. They had eleven children, the
three eldest died under four years. JOHN
D. married Martha Alsbury. They had
three children, Anna L., Clemantine and
Bertie. Mrs. Martha Smith died April
20, 1875, leaving an infant that died in
October, 1875. John D. Smith lives near
Woodside, Sangamon county, Illinois.
WILLIAM J. married Eliza J. Cloyd.
They have one child, Jesse N., and live
near Chatham, Sangamon county, Ill-
inois. RICHARD P. was married Sept.
16, 1875, to Marion E. Patteson, and live
two miles south of CuiTan, Sangamon
county, 111. The other five, HIRAM N., JO-
SEPH F., MARTHA J., MARY C. and THOMAS

E., live with their parents. William C.
Smith and family live one and a half miles
south of Curran, Sangamon county, 111.
THOMAS, born April 4, 1827, married
Lucy M. Smith. They have seven chil-
dren. LOUISA married Dallas Davis.
See his name. JOHN JORDAN was mar-
ried Sept. 7, 1876, to Sadie Dennis, and
lives near Curran, Sangamon county,
Illinois. LAURA B., MARY A., THOMAS
and RICHARD live with their parents.
Thomas Smith resides three miles east of
Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois. In
order to distinguish himself from others
of the same name, he is accustomed, in
business transactions, to sign his name
Thomas Smith, Lick Creek. REBEC-
CA A., born Oct. 21, 1828, married
William Barbre. See his name.
ELIZABETH, C. born March 25, 1830,
married William Poor. See his name.
LUCY M., born April 17, 1831, married
William Barbre. See his name. RICH-
ARD C., born Feb. 12, 1833, married
Amarine Shelton. They had eight
living children, WILLIAM T., JOHN R.,

MARIA E., JAMES A., RICHARD E.,
CHARLES E., FLORA J. and FREDERICK H.,

live with their parents. Richard C.
Smith lived in Chatham township, Sanga-
mon county, until 1874, when he moved to
the vicinity of Tolono, Champaign
county, Illinois. Mrs. Jane G. Smith
died Sept. 16, 1833, and John Smith was

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married Oct. 6, 1834, to Rebecca Enochs.
They have two children, MAHAL A J.,
born Dec. 21, 1841, married David Miller,
who was born Jan. 28, 1838, in Coshocton
county, Ohio. They have three children,
JOHN M., THOMAS E. and LiLLiE M., and
live near Curran, Sangamon county, 111.
MARTHA H., born Jan. 13, 1847, mar-
ried Andrew J. Drennan. -See his name.
John Smith and his wife live three miles
southeast of Curran, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

He savs that two thousand Indians,
camped on Lick creek, soon after the
arrival of his father's family there in 1822,
and remained about two weeks. They were
very friendly. He also says that the first
time he saw Springfield was in February,
1822. Elijah lies was keeping store in a
very small cabin built of round logs and
covered with clapboards held on by
weight poles. There was not a nail used
in the building. Mr. lies had sold out
nearly all his goods and gone to St. Louis
for more. The hotel consisted of a double
log cabin, and was kept by Dr. Gershom
Jayne and his wife. The store, hotel and
blacksmith shop constituted the town.

RUTH married Andrew P. Drennan.
Sec his name.

MART Married William Withrow.
See his name.

SARAH died aged forty years.

SAMUEL, born in Kentucky, was
married' in Sangamon county to Mrs.
Marv Smith, whose maiden name was
Cooper. They had two children, JOHN
H. and AMANDA C., and live in
Clinton, DeWitt county, Illinois.

Thomas Smith, Sen., died Jan. 28, 1841,
and his widow died Feb. i, 1852, both in
Curran township, Sangamon county, 111.

SNODGRASS, JAMES. The
place ')f his birth is not known, but he
was married in Cocke county, Tenn., to
Elizabeth Snodgrass. They had eleven
children in Tennessee, and moved to San-
gamon county, III., arriving about 1820, in
what is now Cotton Hill township. Of
their children —

MARGARET, born in Tenn., mar-
ried in Sangamon county, in 1821, to
Thomas Howey.

JA^IES, Jmi., born in Cocke county,
Tennessee, about 1785, married there to
Mary Martin. They had two children in
Tennessee, and moved to Madison county,

111., where one child was born and
from there to Sangamon county, arriving
in 1820 in what is now Cotton Hill town-
ship, where three children were born. Of
their six children, SAMUEL D., born
£ept. 22, 1812, in Tennessee married in
Sangamon county, April 12, 1832, to
Nancy W. Haines. They had seven liv-
ing children, MARY j. born Dec. 7, 1834,
died March i, 1852. MYRAH, born Jan.
22, 1837, married Daniel Rape. See his
name. MELVINA, born Feb. 25, 1842,
married Francis M. Rape. See his name.
GEORGE W., born Sept. 7, 1844, enlisted
in August, 1862, for three years in Co. — ,
1 14th 111. Inf. His father dying a few
days later, he was released from military
duty, as the only support of his mother.
He died at home April 12, 1863. ARSTIL-
LIA J., born Dec. 25, 1846, married Nov. 2,
1865 to William H. Park, who was born
Oct. n, 1839, in Hampshire county, Va.
They have two children, Alice J. and
Alvin L., and reside at Rienzi, near
New City, Sangamon county, Illinois.
JOHN S., born April 22, 1853, and
SAMUEL N., born Dec. 16, 1857, reside
with their mother. Samuel D. Snodgrass
died Aug. 31, 1862, and his widow,
Nancy W., resides one mile eastofNtw
City, Sangamon county, 111. JAMES A.,
born April 25, 1814, in Tennessee, married
in Sangamon county to Telitha Pippin.
She died and he was married Aug. 10,
1837, to Mary A. Wise. They had six
children. REBECCA J., born April 15,
1839, married Thomas J. Hardin and the
second time married Daniel Rape. See
his name. MELISSA, married Jackson
Brent or Bunce, and died in one year
after. JOHN w., ANDREW j., and NANCY
all died under fourteen years. ZACHARY
T., born Aug. n, 1844, married Sarah E.
Rape. They have two living children,
Ada A. and Lola B., and live four miles
southwest of Edinburg, Christian county,
111. James A. Snodgrass died Feb. 18, 1849,
and his widow died March 8, 1872, he
in Sangamon and she in Christian county,
111. ELIZABETH, born Feb. i, 1819, in
Madison county, 111., married in Sugamon
county to John Rape. See his name.
JOHN, born in Sangamon county in 1821,
married Polly Bird, has five children, and
lives near Ashley, Washington county,
111. GEORGE was twice married, and
died, leaving a widow and a son, GEORGE,

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near Stonington, Christian county, 111.
NANCY, married John Morris, has five
children, and lives in Missouri. Mrs.
Mary Snodgrass died Aug. 31, 1835, in
Sangamon county, and James Snodgrass,
Jun., married Mrs. Nancy Wilkison,
whose maiden name was Moon. They
had two children. WILLIAM H.
Snodgrass, born Nov. 27, 1842, in Sanga-
mon county, married Jan. 2, 1862, to Sarah
S. Hall. They have five living children,

IDA J, DORA B., REUBEN E., MARY E. and

NANCY B., and live near New City, San-
gamon county, 111. LEVINA J., born
Oct. 18, 1838, married Oct. 17, 1856, to
James L. McKee, who was born Nov.
13, 1831, in Frederick county, Va. They
have six living children, NANNIE A.,

JAMES WILLIAM, CHARLES L., VIRGINIA
A., NOAH MATHENY, and CLARKE M., and

live near New City, Sangamon county,
111. James Snodgrass, Jun., died Jan. 27,
1864, and his widow lives — May, 1874 —
with her son, William H. James Snod-
grass, Jun., was captain of a company
from Sangamon county in the Blackhawk
war.

FANNY, born in Cocke county, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county
to Henry Crull. They had seven chil-
dren, four of whom are living. NANCY,
born Aug. 17, 1835, in Sangamon county,
married Oct. 18, 1858, to Philemon H.
Plu miner, who was born Aug. 5, 1834, in
Richland county, Ohio. They have five
children FANNY E., JAMES P., LAURA D.,
SAMUEL N. and OLIVE w., aud reside —
1874 — at Breckenridge, Sangamon county,
Illinois. CATHARINE married Mr.
Poor; MARY married Mr. Martin;
Mr. and Mrs. Crull are both dead.

ELIZA, born in Tennessee, married
Peter Rape. See his name. They died
without children.

POLLY, born March 29, 1813, in Ten-
nessee, married Henry Rape. See his
name.

JANE born June 13, 1815, in Tennes-
see, married in Sangamon county to
Henry Funderburk. See his name.

ROBERT, born in 1808, in Tennessee,
married in Sangamon county to Eliza
Martin. They had six children, ISAAC,
born in Sangamon county, married Sarah
C. Ward. They reside in Springfield.
JAMES and DALLAS, died in the army.
Mrs. Eliza Snodgrass died, and Robert

Snodgrass married Sept. 15, 1854, to Mrs.
Mary Ward, whose maiden name was
Shivers. Robert Snodgrass died Febru-
ary, 1856, and his widow married Lemuel
Hall. See Ward.

James Snodgrass, Sen., died Feb. 11,
1836, and his widow died July 7, 1854, both
in Cotton Hill township, Sangamon
county, 111.

SNODGRASS, JOSEPH,
brother to James, Sen., with whom he
came to Sangamon county, in 1820. He
was a wheelwright on Horse creek for
about fifteen year,, and moved to the vi-
cinity of Bloomington.

SOUTH WICK, JESSE, was
born about 1762 near Lebanon, Conn.
Nancy Moore was born Jan. 17, 1770,111
Connecticut, also. They were married
and moved to Oneida county, New York,
where they had four children, all died of
the disease called cold plague. Thev then
moved to Junius, Seneca county, in the
same State, where they had seven chil-
dren. The family embarked at Olean
Point, on the Allegheny river, in a family
boat, and arrived at Shawneetown, Illi-
nois, in December, 1819. He was in com-
pany with James Stewart, and they moved
in wagons from Shawneetown to a village
called Milton, near Alton, where they
halted until March, 1820, and then moved
to Sugar creek and settled in what is now
Woodside township, six and a half miles
southeast of Springfield. Sarah Pierce,
a niece of Mr. Southwick, came with
them, also Joseph Inslee. The two latter
were married in Sangamon county. Of
the seven children of Mr. Southwick —

ORPHA, married in New York to
Abram Pease. See his name. They
came to Sangamon county in 1820 with
her father. They both died in Sangamon
county, leaving three sons. Brigham is
married and lives in Ball township.

ELECT A, born and married in New
York to Marquis Martin, and died there,
leaving one child.

EUNICE, married in 1819 in New
York to Patrick Lynch, and came to San-
gamon county with her father. Mrs.
Lynch died in Sangamon county October,
1820, leaving one child, JESSE LYNCH,
who is a practicing lawyer at Chenoa,
111. P. Lynch married again, moved to
Naples, 111., and died there.

ADALINE, born July 29, 1803, mar-

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ried in New York, August 1819, to For-
tunatus Bailey, came to Sangamon county
with her father, had three children, moved
to Wisconsin, where both parents died.

LUCINDA, born 1805 in New York,
married in Sangamon county late in 1823,
to William Hawes, who was born Sept.
23, i So i. She died without children.
Mr. Hawes married again, and lives at
Magnolia, Putnam countv, 111.

WILLIAM, born Feb. 9, 1807 at Ju-
nius, New York, married September,
1831, in Sangamon county, to Louvicy
Proctor, who was born Nov. 23, 1811, at
Charleston, Clarke county, Ind. They
had seven children in Sangamon county.
NANCY E., born may i, 1^33, married
Feb. 7, 1851, to Jerome Duncan. They
have three children, MARY, WILLIAM D.
and CHARLES, and live in Taylorville, 111.
EUNICE, born Aug. 19, 1835, married
July 4, 1855, to Craven O. Fox, who was
born Aug. 29, 1825, in Loudon county,
Va. He died Jan. 20, 1873, leaving a
widow and four children, T. c. BOND,

MARY O., MATTIE V. and LUETTA, live in

Springfield, 111. DAVID, born July 23,
1839, enlisted in 1861 for three years
in Co. A, 3d 111. Cav., served full term,
and was honrably discharged in 1864. In
1 866 he went to Montana, and from there
in the fall of 1870, to Cerbat, the county
seat of Mohave county, Arizona, where
he now lives — 1874. JAMES W. born
April 20, 1842, enlisted for three years,
Aug. 1862, in Co. E, ii4th 111. Inf., served
full term and was honorably discharged
in 1865. In 1867, he became a clerk in
the quartermaster's department, was at
Fort Harker, while it was being built. He
was employed in connection with the
building of the Central Pacific Railroad,
until it was opened. He is now — Feb.
1874— at Amarilla, New Mexico. JOHN
H., born Feb. 14, 1844, left home Dec.
31, 1861, and enlisted at Camp Hall, Ky.,
in Co. — , 7th 111. Inf.; was at the siege
and capture of Fort Donelson, was in hos-
pital at Pittsburg Landing, during the
battle, and was discharged on account of
physical disability after four months ser-
vice. He is now of the law firm of Ste-
vens & Southwick, at Onavva City,
Monona county, Iowa. PHILIP S.,
born Feb. 22, 1847, h'ves with his father.
LAURA A., born July 28, 1851, married
March, 1873 to Henry A. Stevens, and

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have one child. Mr. Stevens is of the
law firm of Stevens & Southwick, Onawa
City, Iowa. William Southwick and
wife reside on the farm where they settled
in 1820. It is six and a half miles southeast
of Springfield, 111.

JAMES L,, born Jan. 16, 1814, in New
York, married in Sangamon county, July
29, 1832, to Louvicy Trumbo, who was born
April, 29, 1815. They had 13 children;
four died young. JESSE, born May 12,
1833, married Theodosia Raney, have six
children, and live near Oceola, Missouri.
W^ILLIAM H,born Sept. 4,1834, married
Sarah J. Brunk, and live near Cotton Hill,
111. HARNESS, born Nov. 3, 1837
has been for several years a member of
the Sangamon county board of supervisors.
He lives in Woodside township, seven
miles south of Springfield. CAROLINE
S., married H. Payne, have four children,
and resides near Connersville, Missouri.
ADAM, enlisted in the ist 111. Cav., and
died at Rolla, Missouri, May i, 1862.
AMANDA, married William Butler, and
lives in Macoupin county, Barr's Store
postoftice. MARTHA lives with her
mother. ANDREW, married Ann M.
Brunk. They have one child, JOHN, and
live near Cotton Hill postoffice, Illinois.
OLIVE M., lives with her mother.
James L. Southwick died Jan. 26, 1868,
and his widow resides seven miles south
of Springfield, 111.

PA ULINA, married Mr. Fields, had
two children, and died in Carlinville,
Illinois.

Jesse Southwick died Sept. 25, 1826,
and his widow died in 1845, he in Sanga-
mon, and she in Putnam county, at the
house of her daughter, Mrs. Hawes.

SOWELL, STEPHEN, was
born February, 1785, on the river Roa-
noke, Charlotte county, Virginia. Jane
Hannah was born Sept. 12, 1795, in that
county. They were there married and
had three children, and moved to Ruther-
ford county, Tennessee, about 1817, where
three children were born, and moved to
Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving April,
1828, in what is now Chatham township,
thence to Cooper township, and from
there to Loami township in 1830, where
three children were born. Of all their
children —

MARTHA, born Jan. 22, 1812, in
Virginia, married in Sangamon county to

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William Eustace, have three children, and
live in Jefferson county, Wisconsin.

THOMAS, born . July 15, 1814, in
Charlotte county, Virginia, married in San-
gamon county, Nov. 10, 1836, to Theresa
Barger. They had two children, MAR-
THA A. married William T. Graham,
had three children, and Mr. G. died in
April, 1871. The widow and children
live near Chatham, Illinois. JOHN H.
enlisted in Colorado in a cavalry regiment.
He was wounded, after two years service,
bv six shots in his body, from rebel bush-
whackers in Missouri, and was honorably
discharged on account of physical dis-
ability in the spring of 1865. He was
married in Sangamon county, August 26,
1866, to Maggie Post. They have one
child, and live in Osage county, Kansas.
Mrs. Theresa Sowell died Dec. 4, 1846,
and Thomas Sowell was married April
20, 1848, to Jane E. Lansden, who was
born April 21, 1817, in Wilson county,
Tennessee. They have one child,
THOMAS A., and reside in Loami, San-
gamon county, Illinois.

JANE, born in Virginia, married Hoi-
lister Burr, and lives in Cherokee county,
Kansas.

ME LINDA, born in Tennessee, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Schuyler
Goodell, have eight children, and live in
Miami county, Kansas.

MACCA M., born Sept. 16, 1822, in
Tennessee, married July 28, 1844, in San-
gamon county to Adna P. Colburn. See
his name.

SALLT, born April 18, 1824, in,
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county
to Willis Goodell, had one child, and Mr.
Goodell died. The widow married
William R. Goodell. They have seven
children, and live in Harrison county,
Missouri.

NANCY, born in Sangamon county,
married James E. McElvain. See his
name.

ANGELINE A., born in Sangamon
county, married William A. McElvain.
See his name.

WJLLIAM H., born in Sangamon
county, married Maria N. Campbell.
They have five children, and live at Macon
Station, Macon county, Illinois. W. H.
Sowell enlisted in 1861 for three years in
Co. B, 3oth 111. Inf., served full term, and
was honorably discharged in 1864.

Stephen Sowell died June u, 1863, and
his widow resides with her son, Thomas,
in Loami, Illinois — 1874.

SPATH, GEORGE, was born
April 8, 1816, in Baden, Germany. He
came to America and arrived at Alton,
Illinois, in April, 1837, and in May, 1838,
came to Springfield. He had learned the
trade of cabinet maker in his native
country and when he came to Springfield
soon found employment at his trade. He
was married in Springfield Nov. 3, 1843,
to Mary Mischler, a native of Germany,
also, and sister of Philip Mischler. They
had eight children in Springfield.

GEORGE, born July 25, 1844, died
March i, 1873.

MARGARET, born Feb. 14, 1847,
married in Springfield, Feb. 10, 1868, to
Charles Bouchert. They have one child,
GEORGE, and reside in St. Charles,
Missouri.

BARBARA, born Feb. 3, 1849, lives
with her father.

ELIZABETH, born March 25, 1850,
married to Adolph Daiken, and live in
Springfield, Illinois.

JOHN, born Feb. 4, 1855; lives with
his father.

ANNIE, born May 23, 1857, married
Jan. 15, 1875, to John Auger, and live in
St. Charles Missouri.

CATHARINE and JULIA live
with their father.

Mrs. Mary Spath died Sept. i, 1872,
and George Spath married Mrs. Gertrude
Meisenbach, whose maiden name was
Wise. She was a native of Baden, Ger-
many, also. They reside in Springfield,
Illinois.

SPENCER, JOHN was born
about 1800 in Adair county, Ky. Cynthia
Harvey was born in the same county, and
they were there married and had three
children. The family moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving August, 1836,
in what is now Salisbury township, where
two children were born. Of their five
children.

CATHARINE, born Aug. 29, 1830,
in Adair county, Ky., married in Sanga-
mon county to Pierson Roll. See his
name.

NANCT, born in Adair county, Ky.,
married in Sangamon county to Isaaac
Miller. They have six children, and live
in Pike county, Missouri.

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DIANA, born in Adair county, Ky.,
married in Sangamon county, to John
Shanahan, have three children and live at
Point of Rocks, Wyoming Territory.

MART E., born in Sangamon county,
married Eli Drone. They have four chil-
dren, and live in Pike county, 111.

J ' OHN W., born in Sangamon county,
married Mary Clements, and live in the
southeast corner of Macoupin county, 111.

John Spencer died September, 1863,
and Mrs. Cynthia Spencer died Nov. 26,
1869, both in Sangamon county, north of
the river.

SPICER, LEMUEL, was born
about 1770 in Kent county, Delaware, and
was there married to Sarah Johnson, a
native of the same county. They had
one child there, and moved to Scott
county, Kentucky, thence to Fayette
county, in the same State, and from there
to Clarke county, Indiana. In the spring
of 1833 he moved to Sangamon county,
Illinois, and settled in what is now
Cotton Hill township. Of their only
child—

UP SHEAR £>., born Sept. 24, 1795,
in Kent county, Delaware, married in
Fayette county, .Kentucky, April 27,
1816 to Nancy Clifton. They moved to
Clarke county, Indiana, where they had
seven children, and moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of
1833, in Cotton Hill township, where they
had five children. Three of their children
died young. Of the other nine, ELIAS
S., born May 2, 1818, in Clarke county,
Indiana, married in Sangamon county to
Lucinda Kent. They both died; Mr.
Spicer, Dec. 28, 1872, in Sangamon
county, leaving three daughters in
DeWitt county, and a son in Iowa.
MINAS B., born July 12, 1820, in Clarke
county, Indiana, married in Sangamon
county to Mary Miller. They have four
living children, and reside near Clinton,
DeWitt county, Illinois. MARY P.,
born February 20, 1823, in Clarke county,
Indiana, married in Sangamon county to
Joseph Beam. See his name. THOMP-
SON C., born Dec. i, 1825, in Clarke
county, Indiana, married in Sangamon
county Jan. 18, 1848, to Melvina Vigal.
They had seven children, two of whom
died under four years, of age. MARY j.,
born Nov. 2, 1850, married Oct. 3, 1869,
to Aaron C. Colean, who was born March

4, 1848, in Jersey county, Illinois. They
have one living child, Etta Alice, and
live two miles west of New City, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois. OLIVER A., ALICE
H., EMMA L. and CHARLES R., live with
their father. Mrs. Melvina Spicer died
Dec. 9, 1873, and Thompson C. Spicer
resides one and a half miles west of New
City, Sangamon county, 111. GEORGE
W., born July 15, 1832, in Indiana, mar-
ried in Sangamon county March 5, 1854,
to Caroline E. Britton. They had four
children, WILLIAM B.,died aged ten years,

BENJAMIN O., CHARLES F., and GEORGE

w., Jun., live with their mother. George
W. Spicer died Nov. 26, 1862, and his
widow married August 8, 1866, to Nathan

5. Plummer, who was born March 15,
1836, in Richland county, Ohio. Mr. and
Mrs. Plummer have four children, IDA

E., CARRIE A., OSCAR F. and MARGARET

A., and live near New City, Sangamon
county, Illinois. SARAH and SOPHIA,
twins, born August 18, 1834, the former
died in infancy and the latter in her ninth
year. JOHN, born May 21, 1838, in San-
gamon county, married Mary E. Porter-
field, and for his second wife married,
March 4, 1871, Mrs. Mary J. Dee, whose
maiden name was Waker. Her first hus-
band, John C. Dee, was a member of the
44th Ohio Inf., and was killed at the battle
of Fort Donelson, Feb. 14, 1862. Mr.
and Mrs. Spicer live near Cotton Hill
P. O., Sangamon county, Illinois.
ROSE ANN, born Oct. 13, 1840, died
June 26, 1856. EMILY, born August
13, 1843, in Sangamon county, married
Oct. 27, 1864, to David Marshall, and
have one child, MARY .FRANCES. They
live in Cotton Hill township. Upshear
D. Spicer died Feb. 15, 1855, and his
widow married Adam Safley. See his
name.

Mrs. Sarah Spicer died Nov. 6, 1837,
and Lemuel Spicer married a second time.
He died March 31, 1842, both in Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

SPRINGER, Rev. FRAN-
CIS, D. D., was born, March 19, 1810,
at Roxburry, Franklin county, Pa. When
a young man, he learned the business of
sign and ornamental painting. He re-
ceived his literary education in Pennsyl-
vania College, and his theolgical studies
were pursued at the Theological Semi-
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at Gettysburg, Pa. He also studied under
two distinguished ministers, one atOtsego,
and the other at Schohaire, N. Y. He
paid his expenses by occasionally working
at his trade, and teaching school. He was
licensed to preach by the Evangelical Lu-
theran Synod of Maryland, Oct. 18, 1836,
and was ordained by the same body Oct.
17, 1837. ^e was married April n, 1837,
to Mary Kriegh, at Clear Springs, Wash-
ington county, Md. She was born Feb.
28, 1815, in that county. He taught
school and preached in that vicinity from
October, 1836, for about two and
a half years. They had one child
in Maryland, and moved to Spring-
field, Illinois, arriving May, 1839,
where four children were born. In 1847
he moved to Hillsboro, 111., where they
had two children, and in 1855 moved back
to Springfield, where they had one child.
Of their children —

MART E.. born March 25, 1838, in
Maryland, lives with her parents.

PHIL. M., born July 15, 1840, in
Springfield, is unmarried, and is of the
firm of Springer Bros., stock breeders, in
the southeast corner of Clear Lake town-
ship, Sangamon county. Their address
is Springfield. Phil. M. Springer is
Treasurer and Assistant Secretary of the
American Berkshire Association. Office
in Springfield, 111.

IDA M., born March n, 1842, in
Springfiield, married Henry L. Sanford,
They have three children, MARY S.,
ANNIE E. and FRANCIS S., and live
near Elkhart, Logan county, 111.

JOHN (7., was born March 13, 1844,
in Springfield. .He enlisted Sept. 20,
1 86 1, for three years in Co. B, loth 111.
Cav., was appointed sergeant major and
commissioned second lieutenant of Co. I,
March, 13, 1862, and commissioned first
lieutentant May 10, 1864, and commissioned
quartermaster of the regiment Dec. 31,
1864. At the expiration of his first term,
he re-enlisted as a veteran, was with the
regiment at San Antonio, Texas, when it
was discharged, in November, 1865, and
received his final discharge at Spring-
field in February, 1866. He was in the
third district internal revenue department
of Arkansas, as clerk and assistant
assessor from December, 1866, to June,
1873, and was married at Fort Smith,
Arkansas, September 29, 1868, to

Frances A. Stratton. They have three
children, FRANCIS S., JOHN P.
and MIRIAM ESTELLA, and reside at
Fayetteville, Arkansas. He is still in the
government employ.

CHARLES W., born Oct. 5, 1846,111
Springfield, enlisted May n, 1864, in Co.
A, I33d 111. Inf. for one hundred days. He
served until Sept. 24, 1864, and was hon-
orably discharged. Is unmarried and is a
practicing lawyer at Hillsborough, 111.

FRANCIS K., born Dec. 21, 1848, at
Hillsboro, Illinois, married in Sangamon
county, Feb. 20, 1872, to Eveline H. Nes-
bitt. They have two children, HENRY
and SAMUEL FRANCIS and live in
the southeast corner of Clear Lake town-
ship, Sangamon county, 111. Is of the
firm of Springer Bros.

LAURA L., born Nov. 20, 1850, in
Hillsboro, died Oct. 25, 1860, at Spring-
field, Illinois.

ANNIE (?., born Aug. i, 1858, in
Springfield, lives with her parents.

Rev. Francis Springer commenced
teaching soon after his arrival in Spring-
field, and continued to teach and preach
until 1847, wnen ne moved to Hillsboro,
111., as President of Hillsboro, College.
That institution was moved to Springfield
in 1852, as Illinois State University.
These were both under the direction and
patronage of the Lutheran church. He
resigned in 1855. He was afterwards
school commissioner of Sangamon county,
and was superintendent of schools for the
city of Springfield, which position he re-
signed, and became chaplain of the zoth
111. Cav.. soon after the beginning of the
rebellion in 1861. A short time after the
battle of Prairie Grove, Ark. — Dec. 7,
1862 — he united with Dr. James Johnson
in raising a loyal regiment in Arkansas, of
which he became chaplain. It was the
ist Ark. Inf. He was appointed in 1863
post chaplain at Fort Smith, which he
held until 1867, when he resigned, and re-
turned to his family, at Springfield. In
1870 he moved to Irving, Montgomery
countv, 111., and continued preaching until
the fall of 1873, when he was elected su-
perintendent of schools for Montgomery
county, with his office at Hillsboro, 111.
He continues to preach, as opportunity
offers, and fully believes that the only re-
forming influence in the world is Chris-
tianity. Rev. Francis Springer is a man

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of lively sympathy with the rest of man-
kind, without regard to race, color, nation-
ality or religion. He has large faith in
the perfectability of the human race by
means of the labors and experiences of
the life that now is, and the hereafter.
His orthodoxy, as a religious man, does
not descend to the minute particulars of a
creed, but confides mainly in the cardinal
fact of Christianity, that the only true en-
nobling of the race must be wrought out
under the recognized leadership of the
word's Redeemer "the Christ of God."

The degree of Doctor of Divinity was
conferred on Rev. Francis Springer in
1869 by Wittenburg College, Springfield,
Ohio.

ST. CLAIR, LEVI H., was
born May 6, 1800, in New York, near
Lake Champlain, and there married to
Lorinda Spaulding, a native of the same
State. They had four children in New
York, and moved to the vicinity of
Cleveland, Ohio, where one child was
born, thence to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving June, 1833, in what is now
Rochester township, where two children
were born. Of their seven children —

H. CICERO, born July 18, 1825, in
Essex county, New York, was married in
Sangamon county, Illinois, Nov. 6, 1851,
to Eliza E. Neal. Mrs. " St. Ciair died
near Rochester, Illinois, Sept. 27, 1854,
leaving one child, MINNIE, who was
born in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois, and resides
with her grand-mother, Neal. H. C. St.
Clair was married Oct. 7, 1858, to Katie
Ring at Lancaster, Ohio. He enlisted at
Mt. Pulaski in 1862 in Co. G, 35th 111.
Inf., for three years, was commissioned as
second lieutenant, and after serving one
year was transferred to the quartermaster's
department, in which he served the
remainder of the three years. Mr. St.
Clair lived in Logan and Macon counties
until 1871, when he moved to Belle Plain,
Sumner county, Kansas, where he was
elected county commissioner in 1873, and
state senator in 1874. H. C. St. Clair and
family reside at Belle Plain, Kansas.

HELEN, born Sept. 24, 1826, in
Essex county, New York, was married in
Sangamon county, Illinois, Feb. 21, 1850,
to George L. Ormsby. He died in
August, 1868, leaving a widow and one
child, ALBERT, in Decatur, Illinois.

MARION 7., born Sept. 18, 1828, in

Essex county, New York, was married in
Sangamon county, Illinois, Oct. 19, 1852,
to S. D. Fisher, who was born March 7,
1822, in Charlotte, Chittenden county,
Vermont, brought up in Essex county,
New York, and came to Sangamon ooun-
ty in 1844. Mrs. Marion J. Fisher died
Nov. 10 1867, and he married E. M.
Benton. They reside at Atlanta, Illinois.
S. D. Fisher was elected in 1872 for four
years to represent the thirteenth district in
the State Board of Equalization. He
served four years, from 1870, as a member
of the State Board of Agriculture, and
was elected January, 1875, for two years
as secretary of the same, with his ofKce in
Springfield, Illinois.

MART, born Oct. n, 1829, in Essex
county, New York, was married in San-
gamon county, Illinois, to Francis J.
Taylor. See his name.

OSCAR L., born Jan. 31, 1832, in
Cleveland, Ohio, was married .in Sanga-
mon county, Feb. 10, 1853, to Nancy E.
Neal. O. L. St. Clair died Oct. 15, 1853,
in Mt. Pulaski, leaving a widow and one
child, OSCAR C., born May 6, 1854.
They reside at the Neal family homestead,
one mile west of Rochester. O. C. Neal
is clerk in the State National Bank,
Springfield, Illinois — 1875.

MORTIMER, born Oct. 11,1839,111
Sangamon county, married Lizzie Kim-
ball. She died suddenly July, 1869, near
Rochester, Leaving two children, MAG-
GIE L. and LEWIS S., who reside with
their grand-mother, West, in Springfield,
Illinois. Mortimer St. Clair resides at
Belle Plain, Sumner county, Kansas.

AMELIA, born April 8, 1843, in San-
gamon county, was married there to Cal-
vin C. Johnson. See his name. They have

two children, EMMA FAY and O ,

and reside in Chicago.

Mrs. Lorinda St. Clair died Feb. 21,
1853, near Rochester. Mr. St. Clair was
married in Springfield, Illinois, to Mrs.
Eliza Rague. He died in April, 1866,
near Rochester, Illinois, and his widow
resides in Madison, Wisconsin.

STAFFORD. It has long since
passed into history that a conspiracy,
known as the Gun Powder Plot, was to
have culminated in blowing up the Eng-
lish Parliament buildings, on the
assembling of that body Nov. 5, 1605.
The plot was frustrated by an anonymous

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letter, advising Lord Monteagle, a Roman
Catholic member, to absent himself at that
time. That letter led to an investigation
on the evening of November 4th, when
thirty-six barrels of powder was found in
a mine under the Parliament houses.
Guy Fawkes was arrested at the entrance,
and boldly avowed it as his purpose to
have fired the train at the time set. He,
with seven of his confederates were tried,
convicted and executed.

Another conspiracy, known as the
Popish Plot, occurred nearly three quar-
ters of a century later. Titus Gates, who
claimed to be a Catholic, pretended to
divulge a plot in 1678, on the part of the
Jesuits, to murder the King and subvert
the Protestant religion. Many promi-
nent Catholics were arrested, tried and
convicted of conspiracy, or being con-
cerned in the plot. Titus Gates was after-
wards convicted of perjury, and there
were many reasons to believe that instead
of revealing a plot he and his confederates
were conspiring against those they ac-
cused. Among their victims was William
Howard Stafford, an English statesman,
who was born Nov. 30, 1612. As the
successor of his uncle on his mother's side
he became Baron Stafford, and in 1640
Viscount Stafford. On the oath of
Titus Gates he was committed to the
Tower of London, October 30, 1678.
Witnesses on the trial testified that Lord
Stafford had incited them to assassinate
the King, and he was condemned and
executed Dec. 29, 1680, on Tower Hill,
London. The sympathy felt for Lord
Stafford turned the tide against Oates, and
there were no other executions. His
brother, Edward Stafford, being also
suspected, fled from England to America
ami settled in Rhode Island. The only
representative of the family left in Eng-
land was a younger brother, who inherited
the property and titles of the family. The
Duchess of Sutherland, who died in
England . but a short time ago was a
descendant of that brother.

On his arrival in America. Edward
Stafford abjured the Roman Catholic
religion and embraced that of the Friends,
or Quakers. He was married in Rhode
Island to Margaret Green. They had
three children. Rebecca and Edward
died young. Joseph .married Orpha
Sweet. They had three sons, John

Joseph and Stephen. The eldest and
youngest died without children. Joseph
married Nancy Green. Their eldest son,
Joseph, was born April 25, 1759, in
Coventry, Kent county, Rhode Island,
and although his parents were Quakers
he became a soldier in the American
Revolution. He was under his relative,
General Greene, from that State, who was
also of a Quaker family, and of whom it
is said that his mother, when she became
satisfied that she could not change his de-
termination to go in the army, said: " If
thee must go, I do not want to hear of
thee being shot in the back." After the
Revolution, Joseph Stafford was married
to Orpha Sweet, being the second couple
bearing similar names. They had ten
children, James, Job, Diadema, Caleb,
Oliver, Jewett, Prudence, Christopher B.,
Moses and Joseph. Four of them came
to Sangamon county, namely —

STAFFORD, CALEB, was born
June 22, 1789, in Coventry, Kent county,
Rhode Island, went with his father,
Joseph Stafford, in 1804, to Essex county,
New York, where he was married in
1810 to Rebecca Eggleston. He was a
soldier in the war of 1812, and was in the
battles of Plattsburg, Sept. 17, 1814,
Bouquet river, and others in New York.
Mr. and Mrs. Stafford had eleven living
children in New York, and moved to San-
gamon county, Illinois, in 1836, settling
near Rochester. Of their children —

DIADEMA, born Dec. 25, 1812, in
Essex county, N. Y., married there Dec.
25, 1833, to Gardner T. Bruce, born in
1806, in Keene, N. H.,and came to Sanga-
mo-i county, in 1842. They had three
children, namely, GARDNER AUGUS-
TUS, of Watson, now Buffalo, Sangamon
county, 111., became second lieutenant of
Co. L, roth 111. Cav., April 8, 1862; was
promoted to ist lieutenant Sept. 29, 1862,
promoted to captain July 13, 1864, trans-
ferred to captain of Co. A, the same regi-
ment in Jan. 1865, when it was consoli-
dated with the 1 5th regiment. He was
honorably mustered out Nov. 22, 1865, at
San Antonia, Texas. G. Augustus Bruce
was married to Susan Constant, daughter
of Jacob D. Constant. See his name.
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce have two children,
ADELAIDE and WILLIAM, and live at Cor-
inne, Box Elder county, Utah. CHAS.
T., has been a soldier in the U. S. army

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since 1859, and is now — 1876 — with the
army in San Antonio, Texas. HELEN,
died at Mechanicshurg, 111., aged eighteen
years. Mrs. Diadema Bruce died at Me-
chanicsburg, 111., and Gardner T. Bruce
married Mrs. Eliza Lyon, whose maiden
name was Correll. See Correll and Lyon
families. Gardner T. Bruce and wife re-
side in Atchison, Kansas.

'JHOMAS D., born Nov. 14, 1814,
in Essex county, New York, and mar-
ried there to Polly Fisher. They
came to Sangamon county in 1836,
and had three children. ELIZA married
George Flagg, at Rochester, and now
lives at Galesburg, 111. CECELIA mar-
ried Neely Wood, and lives in Galesburg.
NELLIE lives with her father. Mrs.
Polly Stafford, died in 1872, and T. D.
Stafford married Mrs. Butcher. They
live in Galesburg, 111. He has been
totallv blind for several years.

ORSON N., born Sept. n, 1816, in
Willsboro, Essex county, N. Y. In 1829,
he went to sea and led the life of a sailor
until 1835, when he was disabled by a
shipwreck, making him a cripple for life.
In 1837 he was attached to a government
surveying party, on the northern lakes,
charged with the duty of selecting sites for
light-houses. At Chicago — in his own
words — not finding' that terrible monopoly,
the railroad, to bring him here in eight
hours, for six or seven dollars, he had the
privilege of paying twenty-five dollars in
gold for a stage ticket, enjoyed the lux-
ury of eight days' jolting, and arrived at
Springfield, Nov. 29. 1837. He was mar-
ried in Rochester, 111., Aug. 29, 1841, to
Eliza A. Sherman, a native of Addison,
Vermont. She is a direct descendant of
Roger Sherman, one of the signers of the
Declaration of Independence. They had
one child, EMMA E.,.born May 23, 1854,
and died March 30, 1^55. O. N. Stafford
has been in different kinds of business. He
has sold dry goods, built and remodeled
eighteen houses in Springfield, has been
connected with the Illinois State Journal
at various times for several years, was
elected a member of the city council of
Springfield for 1854 and 1855. He consid-
ers Springfield his home, but spends the
greater part of his time at St. Augustine,
Florida, engaged in the cultivation of
oranges, lemons and other tropical fruits.

AMANDA MALVINA, born in

1818, in Essex county, N. Y., married in
Rochester, 111., to Dr. Samuel D. Slater.
They have five living children. ALBERT
S., married Miss Lee, and is a physician
and druggist at Wataga, Knox county,
111. AMANDA M., married Frank M.
VanPelt, and lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
ANNA E., married Mr. H. H. Harsh, a
banker of Creston, Union county, Iowa,
and resides there. FRANK, married
Carrie Dutcher, and lives in Galesburg,
111. MINNIE married Dr. Herbert Judd,
and lives in Galesburg. Dr. S. D. Slater
resides in Galesburg, 111.

AMOS* born in 1824, in Essex county,
N. Y., came with his parents to Sanga-
mon county, in 1836, and married Sarah
Johnson. They had three children. ADA
A. married and lives in Galesburg, 111.
EVA J. and Edward live at Maroa, 111.
Mrs. Stafford died Sept. 26, 1867, and
Amos Stafford died Nov. 26, 1867, both
in Decatur, 111.

HIRAM P., born in Essex county,
New York, married in Sangamon county
to Mrs. Eunice Black, whose maiden
name was Eggleston. Thev had five
children. FRANCES, the third child,
died young; LUCINDA, MOSES,
WILLIAM and MINNIE live with
their parents. H; P. Stafford lived in
Decatur, Illinois, until the fall of 1876,
when he moved to Carrollton, Missouri.

HENRT H., born July 16, 1829, in
Essex county, New York, brought up in
Sangamon county, was married Dec. 7,
1851, to Lauretta Ross. They had two
children, and moved to Decatur Sept. 16,
1856, where they had one child. Of their
children, ADELAIDE died Dec. 21,
1859, aged seven years and four months.
ORLANDO C., born Jan. n, 1856, in
Sangamon county, is a steam engineer in
an oil mill at Decatur, Illinois. LAU-
RETTA A., born Nov. 8, 1859, lives
with her grand-father, Ross. Mrs. Lau-
retta Stafford died Dec. 7, 1859, in Decatur
and Henry H. Stafford was married Aug.
6, 1863, in Jamestown, now Riverton, 111.,
to Lydia A. Wright. They had five
children, CELESTIA M. and EFFIE
G., the second and fourth, died young.
MARY E., GRACIE H. and DAISY
L. live with their parents. Henry H.
Stafford is an engineer, and has been run-
ning stationary engines for twenty years.
He resides in Decatur, Illinois.

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L UCINDA M., born Sept. 10, 1826,
in Essex county, New York, married in
Sangamon county to John W. Priest.
See his name. She died Sept. 10, 1851.

MART E., born Sept. n, 1832, in
Essex county, New York, married in
Sangamon county to James Ransdale, and
died in Rochester, Illinois.

LOUISA, born in Essex county, New
York, married in Sangamon county to
James Matthew McCoy. See his name.
He died and she married James Huston,
and lives near Carrollton, Missouri.

RODNEY NELSON, born Oct. 2,
1834, in Essex county, New York, brought
up in Sangamon county, and married in
Rochester, 111., April 2, 1857, to Sarah M.
VanOrmann. They moved to Decatur,
October, 1858, and had six children.
HENRY O., was killed on a railroad
Nov. 19, 1873, aged about fifteen years.
AMOS A., died young. MARY L.,
WILLIAM N,, REUBEN C. and AR-
THUR C., the four latter live with their
parents. When R. N. Stafford was about
fifteen years of age he was run over by a
wagon loaded with railroad ties, by which
he came near losing his life. He enlisted
Aug. 6, 1862, in Co. A, i i6th 111. Inf. He
was wounded three times at the siege of
Vicksburg, was with Sherman on his
" march to the sea," and served until the
close of the rebellion, when he was honor-
ably discharged with the regiment, June 7,
1865, at Washington, D. C. Soon after
his discharge he came near losing his life
by the explosion of a boiler. He became
a Christian in January, 1876. R.N. Staf-
ford and family reside in Decatur, 111.

Mrs. Rebecca Stafford died June 21,
1843, a"d Caleb Stafford died May 7,
1855, both at Rochester, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

STAFFORD, OLIVER, was
born in Coventry, Kent county, Rhode
Island. He was married in Addison
county, Vermont, to Polly Sattley, and
came to Rochester, Sangamon county, in
1825. They had six children, namely —

DANIEL SA TTLET, born in Ad-
dison county, Vermont, married in San-
gamon county to Mattie Parker. They
had one child, CLARA A., born April
2, 1836, in Rochester, Illinois, married
Jan. 2, 1856, to John H. Brown. See his
name. Mr. Brown died April n, 1866,
and Mrs. Brown was married May 5,

1869, to Dr. Justus Townsend. Dr.
Townsend and wife reside in Springfield,
Illinois, where he is engaged in the prac-
tice of his profession. Mi's. Mattie Staf-
ford died in 1838. D. S. Stafford married
for his fourth wife Eliza Patterson. They
had two living children, EDWARD R.
is in the United States Army; MATTIE
married a Mr. Black, and lives in Decatur,
Illinois. D. S. Stafford died Feb. 4, 1866,
in Decatur, and his widow resides there.

PRUDENCE A., born May, 1812,
in Addison county, Vermont, married in
Sangamon county, 111., to Jabez Capps
See his name.

JANE, born in Vermont, married in
Sangamon county to Dr. Franklin Dick-
inson, and had several children. Their
son John married Elizabeth Young, who
was born in Anderson county, Ky. They
have three children, and live near Roch-
ester, 111. Dr. Dickenson and his wife
both died in Rochester.

WILLIAM P., born near Vinccnnes,
Indiana, brought up in Sangamon county,
married in Whiteside county to Susan
Coffman, and died there, leaving a widow
and children.

OLIVER C, born July i, 1826, in
Rochester, Sangamon county, 111, married
in 1847 to Kitty A. Baker. They have
three living children, CHARES, NET-
TIE and MARY, and live in Mt. Pulaski,
Logan county, 111.

JOSEPH, born in Rochester, Illinois,
married Mitylene Ann G. Bowling. They
have two children, BURT and FRANK,
and live in Galesburg, Illinois.

Oliver Stafford, Sen., died, and Mrs.
Polly Stafford died July 4, 1863, both near
Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.

STAFFORD, JEWETT, was
born Jan. 13, 1795, at Coventry, Kent
county, R. I., was taken by his parents in
1804, to Essex county, N. Y. In 1812
he went as a soldier from that county
in the war with England, was in
the battle of Plattsburg, Boquet river,
near Willsboro, his home. Jewett
Stafford was married in 18:8 to Harriet
Eggleston, in Essex county, New York.
She was born there March 4, 1802.
They had two living children in that
county, and moved to Sangamon county,
Illinois, arriving July, 1825, where
Rochester now stands, and had one living

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child in Sangamon county. Of their
three children —

CHARLES, born Oct. 12, 1820, in
Essex county, New York, married
in Sangamon county, March 21, 1847,
to Julia A. Stafford. They had one child,
JULIA A., born Dec. 6, 1847. She mar'
ried Mitchell Lickerson. They have two
children, and live near Rochester, Illinois.
Mrs. Julia A. Stafford died Dec. 17, 1847,
and Charles Stafford was married Sept.
27, 1848, to Mrs. Sarah A. Stafford,
widow of John Stafford. Her maiden
name was Wallace. She was born Dec.
24. 1822, in Culpepper county, Virginia.
They had four children, MARY A., born
Feb. 12, 1854, married George W. Boyce,
has one child, and lives near Clarksville,
Sangamon county, Illinois. ALBERT
R., born. Sept. 17, 1856, lives with his
parents. IDA L., born Jan. 4, 1860, died
May 26, 1874. WILLIAM W., born
April 6, 1868, lives with his parents at
Clarksville, Sangamon county, Illinois.

HORACE, born June 23, 1822, in
Essex county, New York, raised in San-
gamon county, married in Taylorville,
Illinois, Dec. 9, 1850, to Mary A. Gessner,
who was born Nov. i, 1834, in Frederick-
town, Maryland. They had three chil-
dren, CHARLES J., the second one, died
in infancy. MARIA L., born Feb, 27,
1852, and EDMUND W., born Oct. 7,
1855, live with their parents. Horace
Stafford and family reside at Clarksville,
Sangamon county, Illinois. He is post-
master thei-e, of Berry post office.

AMANDA, born May 9, 1826, in San-
gamon county, died April 11, 1837.

Mrs. Harriet Stafford died May 3, 1835,
in Sangamon county, and Jewett Stafford
married Mrs. Elizabeth Steele, whose
maiden name was Robison. She had one
child.

HARRIET A., born June 28, 1838,
and married Nov. 10, 1860, to William E.
Hill, who was born Nov. 9, 1839, in
Macon county, Illinois. They had four liv-
ing children/LAURA E., CARRIE F.
and HARRY W. Mrs. Hill died in 1876,
and William E. Hill and his children live
at Clarksville, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Mrs. Elizabeth Stafford died March,
1842, and Jewett Stafford was married
November, 1845, to Mrs. Prudence Staf-
ford, whose maiden name was Putnam.
Jewett Stafford died August 12, 1862, and

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his widow Wves one mile southeast of
Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.

STAFFORD, CHRISTO-
PHER B., was born July 22,1797,31
Coventry, Kent county, Rhode Island.
He was married in Essex county, New
York, in 1820 to Laura Eggleston, who
died in one year, and he married her sister,
Sophronia Eggleston, and moved to San-
gamon county, Illinois, arriving July 25,
1824, at Rochester, where they had five
children, two of whom died young. Of
the other three —

MOSES, born in Sangamon county,
Illinois, is married, has children, and
resides at Decatur, Illinois.

OSCAR C., born near Rochester,
Sangamon county, is married has children,
and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

PRUDENCE ^7v7V,born near Roch-
ester, Sangamon county, and now lives at
925 east Carpenter street, Springfield, 111.

Mrs. Sophronia Stafford died and he
was twice married after that. His two
last wives were sisters, by the name of
Shelton. Christopher B. Stafford was an
ordained preacher in the Baptist church
more than forty years. Thirty years of
that time he was a Justice of the Peace,
or rather a peace maker, as it is said of
him that he used his office to settle diffi-
culties without law, although by that way
of doing business he generally deprived
himself of fees. He died March 17, 1870,
near Rochester, Illinois, and his widow
resides in Iowa.

STAFFORD, JOB, brother to
Caleb, Oliver, Jewett, Christopher B.,
etc., never came to Sangamon county ; but
his son,

HENRT C., born in 1804 in Essex
county, New York, came with his uncles
to Sangamon county, arriving July, 1825,
at Rochester. He was married Dec. 27,
1827, to Clara Ann Gregory. See
Gregory family. They had one child,
ALFRED, born Jan. 31, 1829, in Sanga-
mon county, and married April 27, 1856,
to Lucy A. Foss, who was born Oct. 7,
1839, in Medina county, Ohio. They
have one living child, CHARLES \v., and
reside near Rochester. Henry C. Stafford
died Feb. 2, 1834, in Sangamon county,
and his widow married David Crouch.
See his name.

STAFFORD, W I L L I A M,
was born 1799 at Coventry, Kent county,

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Rhode Island. He was a son of John
Stafford, consequently a cousin to Caleb,
Oliver, Jewett, and Christopher B.
William Stafford was married in Essex
county, New York, to Prudence Putnam,
who was born March 19 1801, at Lewis,
in Essex county. She was a leneal
descendant of Israel Putnam. William
Stafford and wife had two children in
New York, moved to Ohio, and three
years later to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving Jan. i, 1834, at Rochester. Of
their children —

JOHN W., born in Essex county,
New York, brought up in Sangamon
county, and died March 21, 1870, at
Havana, Mason county, Illinois.

JULIA A., born in Essex county,
New York, married in Sangamon county
to Charles Stafford. See his name.

William Stafford died in 1840, and his
widow married Jewett Stafford. See his
name. Mrs. Prudence Stafford now —
September, 1876 — resides near Rochester,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

STALKY, DANIEL, was born
Feb. n, 1799, in Jefferson county, Va.
His father moved to Cabell county, West
Virginia, when he was a boy. He was
married there in February, 1821, to Re-
becca Bowen, who was born Jan. 9, 1802,
in Guilford county, North Carolina. She
was sister to Zaza Bowen. They had two
children in Virginia, and the family moved
to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall
of 1826, in what is now Loami township,
where seven children were born. Of
their nine children —

SUSANNAH, born Aug. 12, 1822, in
Virginia, married in Sangamon county to
Levi Campbell. See his name. • He died
and she married William B. McCray, and
lives near Loami, 111.

ELIZABETH, born in Virginia,
married in Sangamon county to George
Owens, and she died Sept. 29, 1844.

MINER VA J., born in Sangamon
county, married George Owens. They
have seven living children, and live in
Macoupin county, near Scottville, 111.

BARBARA P., married William
Russell, and lives in Newton county, Mis-
souri.

REBECCA, married James F. Ward.
They had eight children, and Mrs. Ward
died. The family live near Trenton,
Grundy county, Missouri.

STEPHEN, born March 2, 1835 in
Sangamon county, married March 15,
1855, to Isabel Jacobs. They have six
children, MARY E., SARAH A., LIZ-
ZIE M., SUSAN, STEPHEN D., and
DANIEL, and live two and a half miles
west of Loami, Sangamon county, 111.

MART C., born Jan. 4, 1838, married
Williamson M. Nipper. See his name.
She had one child, NANCY M. F., and
died March 6, 1857.

DANIEL, born Feb. 10, 1841, in San-
gamon county, married March 7, 1861, to
Elsa J. Hudson. They had five children.
ALICE D., the third child, died young.
The other four, ADA L., ARNfO V.,
WILLIAM Y. and JOE D., twins, live
with their parents on the farm where his
father settled in 1826. It is two miles
west of Loami, Sangamon county, 111.

SARAH M., died aged tour years.

Mrs. Rebecca Staley died Nov. 24,
1847, and Mr. Staley married Mrs. Hep-
sey Nipper, whose maiden name was Gib-
son. She died March 8, 1873. Mrs. S.
resides two and a half miles west of
Loami, Sangamon county, 111.

STANLEY, THOMAS, was
born March 23, 1790, in Virginia, and
was taken by his parents to Ohio. Eliza-
beth Centre was born June 22, 1790,
in New York. She was married there to
Andrew Campbell. He was a soldier in
the war of 1812, and was killed at the bat-
tle of Fort Meigs, leaving a widow and
two children. Thomas Stanley was a sol-
dier in the war of 1812 also, and after the
war was married to Mrs. Elizabeth
Campbell. They had four living children
in Ohio and moved to Sangamon county,
111., arriving in the fall of 1829. Of their
children —

ABRAHAM Campbell, born in
1811 in Ohio, came in 1829 to Sangamon
county and married Phoebe Shepherd. He
is a traveling preacher in the M. E.
Church. They have four living children.
JOHN W. is a physician. SOPHRO-
NIA, MELISSA and WILLIAM art-
all four married and live in Illinois. Rev.
Abraham Campbell lives now — 1876 —
at St. Elmo, Fayette county, 111.

SARAH Campbell, born Sept. 14,
1813, near Columbus, Ohio, and came in
1829 to Sangamon countv, married John
D. Swallow. They had three children.
DANIEL E., born Jan. u, 1844, in

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Menard county, married Cornelia Day.
They have three children, EFFIE M., MA-
MIE E. and ELSIE M. D. E. Swallow is a
Erinter and lives in St. Louis, Missouri.
AMUEL M., born Jan. 27, 1846, in
Mason county, married Mary K. Allen.
They have two children, WILLIAM A.,
and JULIA B. S. M. Swallow is a printer
and lives in Mexico, Missouri. HES-
TER, born Sept. 17, 1849, is unmarried
and lives in Springfield. Mrs. Sarah
Swallow lives in the latter city.

Of Thomas Stanley's children —

LEONORA, born in Ohio, was mar-
ried in Sangamon county, to George
Neal. They had four living children,
and Mrs. Neal died. George Neal mar-
ried again and lives west of Springfield,
Illinois.

DA VID, died aged fourteen years.

CURRENCY, born in Ohio, was
married in Sangamon county to Joseph
VanNatten. See his name.

AQUILLA W., bora in Sangamon
county, 111., enlisted in 1862 for three
years in the looth 111. Inf., served about
six months, and was discharged on account
of physical disability. He married Eliza-
beth Dooley. They have five chil-
dren, MARGARET, MATILDA,
CHARLES, FRANK, and CORNE-
LIA. Aquilla Stanley and wife live
northeast of Linccln, 111.

Thomas Stanley died in 1837 *n Sanga-
mon county, and his widow lives with her
daughter, Mrs. Joseph VanNatten, north
of Springfield, 111.

STARR, ADAM, was born about
1777, in Culpepper county, Va., and went
with his parents to Bourbon county,
Ky., when he was a young man. He was
married in Clarke county to Mary Car-
son, a native of Baltimore, Md. They had
eight children in Clarke county, Ky., and
moved to Sangamon county, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1828 at Buffalo Hart Grove.
Of their children —

HIRAM, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Nancy Robinson,
had seven or eight children, moved to
Pike county about 1858, and the parents
died. Their children live near Rockport,
Pike county, 111.

DIANA, born in Kentucky, was mar-
ried in Sangamon county, 111., to Riley
Barber. They had six children, and
moved to Kansas in 1856. The parents

and three of the children died. One son,
HENRY, was killed in Arkansas by
guerrillas during the rebellion. DEME-
TRIUS married Mary Griffith, and lives
near Farlinville, Kansas. AMANDA
married James Bastion, and lives in Far-
linville, Linn county, Kansas.

BARTON, born in Kentucky, was
married in Sangamon county in 1835 to
Rebecca Patterson. They had four chil-
dren. Mrs. Starr died near Mt. Pulaski,
and he died at Little Rock Arkansas.

SHELBT, born October, 1813, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., in 1814, to Nancy Groves.
They had five children, MARY, AL-
BERT, JOSIAH, LEANDER and
SHELBY, Jun., who live with their
mother in Vermillion county, 111. Shelby
Starr died Aug. 8, 1855, in Sangamon
county.

MINER VA, born Jan. 9, 1815, in
Clarke county, Ky., married m^Sangamon
county to James T. Robinson. See his
name.

WILLIAM, born 1817, in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Mrs.
Nancy McDaniel, whose maiden name
was Smith. They had two children, and
he was drowned in 1860 in Sangamon
river, near the crossing of the G., C. &
S. R. R. The family live at Riverton, 111.

AMANDA, born May 26, 1820, in
Kentucky, married Sept. 26, 1840, to Ben-
jamin Bell. See his name.

MART ANN, born Oct. 25, 1822, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
March, 1842 to William A. Constant.
See his name. He died, and she married
Casper Byerline, and lives near Buffalo
Hart, Sangamon county, 111.

Adam Starr died August 15, 1839,
and his widow died in 1852, both at Buff-
alo Hart grove,* Sangamon county, 111.

STARR, ANDREW, was born
Jan. 27, 1795, in Bourbon county, Ky. He
was a brother to Adam Starr, and was
married in Kentucky, Dec. 27, 1821, to
Mary Neal. They had two children in
Kentucky, and the family moved to Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of
1030, in what is now Chatham township,
where three children were born. Of their
five children —

WILLIAM M.f born Jan. 17, 1823,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamou
county to Amanda A. Withrow. Thcv

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have two children. MARY A., married
Oct. 9, 1865, to Edward W. Lucas. See
his name, in connection 'with the Colburn
family. ADDISON B., lives with his
parents. William M. Starr and his wife
reside at Loami, Sangamon county, 111.

BARBARA ANN, born May 19,
1825, in Kentucky, married William V.
Greenwood. See his name.

JOHN ALFRED, born March 22,
1831, in Sangamon county, was married
Sept. 20, 1854, to Marion Gould, who was
born April 23, 1836, in Jefferson county,
New York. They have six children.
MARY C., born June 26, 1855, was mar-
ried March 23, 1871, to Robert T. Har-
din. They have three children, JOHN w.,
IDA MAY., and WILLIAM SHERMAN, and
live near Sweetwater, Menard county,
111. LILLIE I., WILLIAM A.,
THOMAS S., ANNIE F., and CAR-
RIE A., live with their parents, three
and three-fourth miles west of Chatham,
Sangamon county, 111., on the farm settled
on by his parents in 1830. John A. Starr
is now — 1876 — plowing his thirty-sixth
season in succession on the farm where he
was born, and has no recollection of a
physician ever having been called to see
him.

MART J., born July 3, 1834, married
Sept. 5, 1851, to Dr. A. M. Browning, and
died six weeks later. Dr. Browning is a
practicing physician in Loami, Sangamon
county, 111.

GEORGE W., born Feb. 3, 1836,
married Sarah O. Kelly, and lives in Green
county, Missouri.

Andrew Starr died May 5, 1851, and his
widow died Aug. 28, 1856, both on the
farm where they settled in 1830, near Chat-
ham, Sangamon county, 111.

STEELE, Mrs. ELIZA-
BETH R., whose maiden name was
Robison, was born in Delaware, and taken
bv her parents to Nicholas county, Ky.,
where she was married to Samuel H.
Steele, who was born in Ohio. They had
six children in Kentucky, and Mr. Steele
died in Natchez, Miss., of cholera, while on
business there in 1832. His widow and
children moved to Sangamon county,
arriving December, 1833, in Buffalo Hart
Grove, where her father, John Robison,
had moved three years before. Of her six
children —

WILLIAM M., born April 2, 1820,

in Nicholas county, Ky., married in San-
gamon county, to Amanda Rodgers, and
had six children. Mr. Steele enlisted in
1862 for three years in Co. E, n6th 111.
Inf. He died March, 1864, in military hos-
pital at St. Louis, Missouri, See the
Rodgers family name.

'JOHN R., born in Kentucky, came to
Sangamon county in 1833 with his
mother, went in 1842 to Arkansas, married
there to Martha J. Hendrix. Being a
Union man, he was killed by rebel bush-
whackers in the fall of 1863, leaving a
widow and three children.

NANCT A., born April 10, 1825, in
Bath county, Ky., was brought by her
mother to Sangamon county in 1833, mal"-
ried Aug. 4, 1844, to Wesley Lanham.
See his name. He died Aug. 26, 1861,
and she was married Jan. 29, 1868, to Wil
Ham Graham, who was born Jan. 13, 1808,
in Lincoln county, N. C.; lived in Todd
county, Ky., from 1827 to 1839, when he
moved to Morgan county, 111., thence to
Sangamon county in 1858. He has three
children by a former marriage. MARY
M., born Dec. 30, 1840, in Morgan county,
married John Churchill. See his name.
NANCY J., married B. M. Wood. See
his name ^u^th the Burns family.
JOHN F., is unmarried and lives near
Illiopolis. William Graham and wife re-
side near Illiopolis, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

ELIZABETH J., born April 4,
1827, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon
county in 1845 to Jonn M. Crary. They
had two children. ANNIE E., married
Isaac Newton Ransom. See his name.
GEORGE E., lives in Wisconsin.

JULIA A., born October 16, 1829, in
Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, aged
thirteen years.

GEORGE R., born December, 1831,
in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county,
went to California in 1849, an<^ ^os^ n^s'
life by the caving in of a mine.

Mrs. Elizabeth R. Steele was married
in 1836 to Jewett Stafford. See his name.
She died March 29, 1842, near Rochester,
Illinois.

STEPHENSON, JAMES,
was born July 3, 1482, in South Carolina.
His parents moved about 1800 to Caldwell
county, Ky. Margaret Clinton was born
in North Carolina, and when she was
about thirteen years old her parents moved

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685

to Caldwell county, Ky. James Stephen-
son and Margaret Clinton were there mar-
ried, and had six children in that county,
and the family moved to Wayne county,
111., where two children were born, and
moved to Sangamon county, arriving in
1825, on Sugar creek, southeast of Spring-
field, where three children were born.
Of their children —

PENINAH, born in Kentucky and
died in Illinois in 1845.

WILLIAM C., born in Kentucky,
raised in Sangamon county, and was a
graduate of the Medical College of Ohio.
He married Mrs. Diana Ruble, whose
maiden name was Bowen. Dr. William
C. Stephenson died at Mt. Pleasant, Iowa,
leaving a widow, but no children.

HANNAH A., born in Kentucky,
raised in Sangamon county, married Jacob
Zwingle. They have two children,
MARTIN LUTHER and WILLIAM
MELANCTHON, and live near Athens,
Menard county, 111.

JAMES W., born in Kentucky,
raised in Sangamon county, married Mary
Allen, and have seven children. James
W. Stephenson was a soldier in an Illinois
regiment, and now lives at Mexico, Au-
drain county, Missouri. •

FINN1S E., born in Kentucky, raised
in Sangamon county, and maried Maria
Houghton. They had two children.
FRANK died in infancy, and CHARLES
lives with his father. Mrs. S. died
November, 1857. F. E. Stephenson was
sergeant of Co. K., 33d 111. Inf. He
lives at Chandlerville, 111.

ALEXANDER, died at seventeen
years of age.

BENJAMIN F., born Oct. 3, 1823,
in Wayne county, 111., and raised in San-
gamon county. He graduated Feb. 7,
1850, at Rush Medical College, Chicago,
and was married in Sangamon county
March 30, 1855, to Barbara Moore. She
was born in 1828, in Woodford county,
Ky. They had three living children,
BENJAMIN M., MARY H. and CAR-
RIE A. Dr. B. F. Stephenson was sur-
geon of the I4th 111. Inf. He died August
30, 1871, and his widow and child reside
in Menard county, three miles north of
Salisbury, 111.

EL VI R A A., born Dec. 7, 1824, in
\\ ayne county, Ill.> raised in Sangamon
county, married May 29, 1854, to Aaron

R. Houghton, who was born Dec. 9,
1855, in Menard county, 111., and served
one year as a soldier in the Mexican war.
They have three children, JAMES F.,
CHARLES W. and MARY A., and
live six miles south of Petersburg, Me-
nard county, 111.

MART E., died March 2, 1848, at
nineteen years of age.

HARRIET, born Oct. 5, 1830, in San-
gamon county, married Nov. 14, 1860, to
William N. Spears, who was born Nov.
12, 1826, in Menard county. They had
four children. WILLIAM F., died at
five years old. EMMA M., RUTH S.
and VIRGINIA live with their mother.
William N. Spears died in Menard county,
111., March 28, 1868, and his widow and
children reside at Lincoln, Logan county,
Illinois.

James Stephenson died Dec. 29, 1867,
and his widow died October, 1868, both
in Menard county, 111.

STEVENSON, MILES, was
born in Tennessee, 'and came to Sangamon
county about 1822, in what is now Cart-
wright township. He was married to
Deborah Irwin. They had one child in
Sangamon county, and moved to Menard
county, where six children were born. Of
their seven sons —

JAMES M., born Nov. 7, 1829, near
what is now Richland Station, Sangamon
county, 111. He was married May 4, 1856,
to Martha A. Loving, of Logan county.
They have two children, MINERVA J.
and SOPHRONIA A., and live near
Salisbury, Sangamon county, 111.

SAMUEL L. and WILLIAM A.,
died aged about seventeen years each.

DA VID F., is pnmarried, and lives
with his brother, James M.

JOHN, enlisted in 1862 for three years
in Co. F, 1 1 4th 111. Inf. He was captured
at the battle of Guntown, Mississippi,
June, 1864, was in Andersonville prison
pen until the end of the rebellion, and
came very near losing his life. He was hon-
orably discharged in 1865, married Mary
Loving, has two children, FRANLIN
C. and MATILDA, and live near Salis-
bury, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ALBERT, died young.

WES LET, married Effie Sharp, has
two children, and lives near Cantrall,' Illi-
nois.

Mrs. Deborah Stevenson died Decem-

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her, 18^2, and Miles Stevenson diedJMay
14, 1868, both in Menard county, 111.

STEWART, JAMES, was
born Sept. 28, 1777,31 Fort Ann, Wash-
ington county, New York. That was in
the very height of the conflict for Ameri-
can Independence, and at times all the
families in the neighborhood were com-
pelled to take refuge in the fort. On one
occasion, when the men had gone for pro-
visions, Indians entered the fort and found
the subject of this sketch at his mother's
breast, as she lay sick in bed. One of
them took him by the heels and was about
to dash his brains out, when she made the
savages believe that she was in the act of
summoning the white men. He dropped
the infant and fled. James Stewart grew
to manhood in that region, and followed
the business of a lumberman on the Hud-
son river. He was married in 1803 in
Bloomfield, Ontario county, to Roxana
Stillman, and in 1806 moved to Buffalo,
in the same State. In 1810 Mr. Stewart
moved his family back to Bloomfield,
thence to Junius, Seneca county. They
had six living children in New York. In
the fall of 1819 they embarked at Olean
Point, on the Allegheny river, in a boat
prepared for the purpose. Two other
families, those of Joseph Inslee and Jesse
Southwick, each occupied a boat. The
three united in the purchase of a boat for
the conveyance of their horses, wagons,
and household goods. The whole party
landed at Shawneetown on the last day of
1819. They made their way through the
mud and water of the sloughs and run-
ning streams, all unbridged, until they
reached Sugar creek, about eight miles
south of the present city of Springfield,
111. Each of the families commenced im-
provements by building cabins. A few
weeks later, the mother-in-law of Mr.
Stewart — Mrs. Stillman — arrived with her
family. Mr. and Mrs. Stewart started to
accompany them to the north side of the
Sangamon river. After seeing that part
of the country they determined to settle
there also. Mr. Stewart returned to Su-
gar creek, and moved his family and prop-
erty, arriving in the spring of 1820, in
what is now Williams township, where
three children were born. On coming to
the country, there were so small a number
before them, that it was almost impossible
to ob^in food. Mr. Stewart rode two

days in search of provisions, and all he
could obtain was a bushel or two of frost-
bitten corn — for which he paid two dol-
lars per bushel — and a few pounds of rusty
bacon, at twenty-five cents per pound.
The nearest postoffice was at Edwards-
ville, seventy-five miles south, and they
had to pay twenty-five cents for a letter
from their friends. Of their nine chil-
dren—

JANE C, born Oct. 2, 1804, in New
York, married in Sangamon county to
Oramel Clark. See his name.

BENJAMIN H., born March 22,
1806, at Bloomfield, Ontario county, New
York, married Margery Morgan, and had
four children. Mrs. Margery Stewart
died, and he married Nancy Hall. They
had three children. Benj. H. Stewart
died in 1871 in Missouri. His son, WIL-
LIAM A., born Aug. 16, 1836 in Sanga-
mon county, married Sept. 27, 1858, to
Sarah L. Schick, a native of Danville, Pa.
He enlisted Aug. 14, 1861, in Co. A,
3d 111. Cav. was discharged on account
of physical disability, Dec. 30, 1861. He
enlisted Jan. 20. 1864, in Co. A, 34th 111.
Inf., served until April, 1865, when he
was discharged on account of physical dis-
ability. He was appointed postmaster at
Williamsville, April 8, 1869, and died
April 1 8, 1870. His widow, Mrs. Sarah
L. Stewart was appointed as his successor
April 20, 1870.

WILLIAM A., born May 24, 1809,
in Buffalo, N. Y. He was brought by his
parents to Sangamon county in the spring
of 1820. He was captain of a Sangamon
county company in the Blackhawk war of
1832, and was in command of a supply
train under his uncle, Isaiah Stillman at
the time of his defeat on Rock river. Mr.
Stewart taught school on Fancy creek for
a time after the Indian war, and still later
became a steamboat clerk on the Illinois
river, and rose to the positions of pilot and
captain. He was engaged in navigating
the Illinois, Mississippi, Ohio and other
western rivers, with his home at
Cincinnati, until the breaking out
of the great rebellion. William A.
Stewart was married at Cincinnati
October 14, 1841, to Elizabeth Haman.
They had one child, JAMES E., born
May 10, 1843, in Cincinnati. He had just
completed his literary studies and gradu-
ated at Delaware, Ohio, when the rebel-

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lion broke out. His home was in Cincin-
nati, but he went over the river and en-
listed on the eighteenth anniversary of his
birth, May 10, 1861, in Co. D, 2d Ky. Inf.,
for three months, and re-enlisted for three
years in the same company and regiment.
He carried his musket for nineteen months,
passing through Pittsburg Landing and
many other battles. He was promoted
August, 1862, to second lieutenant. In
May, 1864, he was commissioned captain
of Co. A, i6yth Ohio Inf., and March 13,
1865, promoted to Colonel of United States
Volunteers. In October, 1865, he en-
gaged in the practice of law at Cincinnati.
In October, 1869, moved to Springfield,
Ohio, where he succeeded to his father's
interests, and was. elected Vice President
of the Republic Printing Company, pub-
lishers of the Daily Republic ; is also a
member of the City Council of Spring-
field. Colonel James E. Stewart was
married April 3, 1871, at Mount Vernon,
Ohio, to Mary E. Durbin, and resides at
Springfield, O., 1874. Mrs. Elizabeth Stew-
art died at Cincinnati August 26, 1860, and
W. A. Stewart was married in the same
city Sept. 14, 1864, to Mrs. E. W. Hall,
whose maiden name was Norton. They
moved to Springfield, Ohio, in July, 1866.
He died there July 21, 1869, and his widow
resides there.

Of the public services of W. A. Stewart
I can onlv make a very brief statement.
When the rebellion burst upon the country
he was engaged as an expert as one of a
committee appointed by the United States
Government to ascertain the channels and
bearings of the Mississippi river. Whilst
he was at Washington making his report
in July, 1861, he witnessed the battle and
defeat at Bull Run. He superintended,
under direction of Commodore Foote, the
fitting out of the gunboats Carondelet and
Mound City, and was on the latter in its
engagement with the rebel ram Van Dorn ;
also in the battles of Fort Henry and
Island No. 10. He was pilot of the
United States Monitor Osage at the battle
of Fort Durussy, in April, which was his
last service in the war. He was appointed
in April, 1864, United States Inspector of
.Steamboats at Cincinnati, which he re-
signed in 1867. While in the naval service
he and Commodore Foote co-operated
with each other in holding religious ser-
vices on the gunboats, on all suitable oc-

casions. He was a member of Park
Street M. E. Church and Sunday School,
at Cincinnati, and of the High Street M.
E. Church, Springfield, Ohio; also of the
Masonic Fraternity.

ABIGAIL C., born May 16, 1811, in
New York, married to Ossian Stone. See
his name.

MART M., born April 6, 1813, at
Junius, New York, married in Sangamon
county to Nathan E. Constant. See his
name. Mr. Constant died August 25,
1843, and his widow married Miletus W.
Ellis. See his name.

ROXANA, born Sept. 8, 1818, in
Bloomfield, Ontario county, New York,
married in Sangamon county, Jan. 30,
1873, to Ira Knights, a native of St. Law-
rence county, New York. They reside
at the family homestead, where her father
settled in 1820, two and a half miles west
of Williamsville, Sangamon county, 111.

MARTHA B., born March ib, 1821,
in Sangamon county, married George W.
Constant. See his name.

JAMES a, born Oct. 20, 1822, in
Sangamon county, died June 6, 1849, at
Paducah, Kentucky, of cholera, and was
brought home for interment.

JOSEPH B., born July 4, 1825, died
in the 22d year of his age.

Mrs. Roxana Stewart died Nov. 11,

1833. James Stewart married Mrs.

Pha;be Twist. She died Jan. 11, 1836, in

Sangamon county. See the Twist

family name.

The last years of his life James Stewart
required a great deal of care, which was
freely bestowed by his faithful daughter,
Roxana, who declined very advantageous
offers of marriage, expressing her deter-
mination to remain unmarried as long as he-
required her attention, and most faithfully
and lovingly did she discharge the self-
imposed duties. Mr. Stewart died April
1 6, 1872, in the 95th year of his age,
and on the farm where he had spent more
than half a centurv of his life.

STILLMAN, Mrs. ABI-
GAIL, widow of Benjamin Stillman,
came to Sangamon county, 111., arriving in
the spring of 1820, in what is now Wil-
liams township, accompanied by three
sons and three daughters, all unmarried.
She had a son and daughter mar-
ried, the daughter came with the
family, being the wife of James Stew-

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art. The son came two years later.
The descendants of Benjamin and
Abigail Stillman do not know where they
were born or married, but they lived in
Massachusetts until four children were
born. They moved in 1793 to Bloom-
field, Ontario sounty, N. Y., where four
children were born, and Mr. Stillman died
there. The family moved to Morganfield,
Union county, Ky., where Philo Beers be-
came acquainted with the family. They
moved from there to Sangamon county,
111. Of their eight children —

Sl^EPPIEN, born in Massachusetts,
came with the family to Sangamon county,
selected the land where they settled in what
is now Williams township, one and a half
miles west of Williamsville. There was a
beautiful natural grove on the land, which
he called Fancy Grove. A postoffice was
established there and called Fancy Grove
postofHce, Mr. Stillman being postmaster.
It was the first postoffice north of the
river. The name has since been applied
to a stream of water, and to a township.
Stephen Stillman died in Peoria, between
1835 anc^ '4O>

JOSEPH B., born in Massachusetts,
came with his mother to Sangamon coun-
ty, and soon after went to the West India
islands, and died therein 1825. He was a
physician.

ROXANA, born March 22, 1786, in
Massachusetts, married James Stewart.
See his name.

ISAIAH, born in Massachusetts, mar-
ried in New York State to Hannah Sher-
wood, came to Sangamon county, about
1822, and settled on the farm now owned
by B. F. Fletcher, one and a half miles
southwest of Williamsville. They had
three children, two daughters and a son,
HENRY, who is a lawyer, and resides
at C;-nton, Fulton county, 111. Isaiah
Stillman was in command of a body of
soldiers, as General Stillman, and was de-
feated at Rock river in 1832, in the war
against the Indians, under their chief,
Blackhawk. After the war, General Still-
man moved to Canton, 111., and died there
in 1865 or '6. His widow still resides
there.

MART, born in New York, died un-
married at Tremont, 111., in 1862 or '3.

MARTHA, born in Bloomfield, New
York, and came with her mother to San-

gamon county. She was married Nov. 2,
1820, to Philo Beers. See his name.

HENRY, born in New York, married
in St. Louis, and died at Peoria, between
1860 and '65.

CAROLINE, born in New York,
married in Peoria to Peter Menarcl. Both
died at Tremont, 111., leaving four chil-
dren.

Mrs. Abigail Stillman moved with
three of her children to Peoria in 1828,
and died there in 1830.

STITT, WILLIAM, was born
August 12, 1820, near Lebanon, Warren
county, Ohio. He left home quite young,
and traveled by water down the Ohio and
up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers to
Beardstown, Illinois, in company with
William W. WykofF. They started from
Beardstown with one horse to ride and tie.
When within about fifteen miles of their
destination, Mr. WycofF mounted the
horse, gave Mr. Stitt particular directions
about the road, and forgot to tie any more,
for which he was excused by Mr. Stitt,
because he was so near his family, from
whom he had been absent several months.
This caused Mr. Stitt to arrive on foot,
alone, tired and hungry, at the south side
of Richland creek, in what is now Cart-
wright township, in 1838. William Stitt
was married Sept. 5, 1847, ^n Sangamon
county, Illinois, to Elizabeth Hardin.
They had five children in Sangamon
countv. The fourth child died young.

WILLIAM WALLACE was mar-
ried March 9, 1875, to Julia F. Hurt.
They live in Cartwright township, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

HELEN A., LAURA L., and
EDITH BELLE live with their
parents, three and one-tourth miles south-
west of Richland Station, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

Isaac Stitt, the father of William, was
born in 1779, in Pennsylvania, and mar-
ried there to Elizabeth Phillips, who was
born July 9, 1780, in New Jersey. They
had nine children, and Mr. Stitt died in
October, 1825, in Ohio. In 1845 Mrs.
Stitt, her son, David and family, and her
daughter, Elizabeth, came to Island Grove,
Sangamon county. David moved the
next year to Peoi'ia county, and died there
June, 1865, leaving a widow and two
children. Elizabeth married Joshua But-
ler. See his name. Mrs. Elizabeth Stitt

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died March 10, 1871, at the residence of
her son, William.

STONE, ASAHEL, was born
Sept. 25, 1780, in Chesterfield, New
Hampshire. His father, Colonel William
Stone, was born in Groton, Mass., and
was second in command at the taking of
Crown Point, by Ethan Allen. He was
a prisoner at Ticonderoga at the time of
its evacuation by the British, immediately
after Burgoyne's surrender. Col. Stone's
wife was Submit Ward. At the time of
his imprisonment, they had two children,
aged respectively two and four years. The
day before Col. Stone was to leave for
Great Britain to be tried for high treason,
Mrs. Stone left these two children at home
alone and went to the fort, twelve miles
distant, in a canoe, accompanied by her
brother, David Ward, aged ten years —
who was afterwards a Baptist minister and
grandfather of Captain E. B. WTard, the
late detroit millionaire. They reached
the fort late in the afternoon, but the offi-
cer in command refused to admit her, not-
withstanding all her pleading, and com-
pelled her to wait all night in the boat.
On returning home she found her children
safe. The next day her husband was lib-
erated. The rapid advance of our troops
up the country having compelled the Brit-
ish to leave without being able to provide
transportation for their prisoners.

Asahel Stone, whose name heads this
sketch was a graduate of Dartmouth Col-
lege, in the same class with Daniel WTeb-
ster. He was married February, i8o>", in
Bridport, Addison county, Vt., to Laura
Culver They came to Sangarnon county,
111., Nov. 1831, and entered the land now
owned by Hiram E. Gardner six miles
west of Springfield. They had six chil-
dren, viz: —

WHEL OCK, S., born Nov. 28, 1805,
in Madrid, St. Lawrence county, N. Y.
He was a classmate of Dr. Hatfield, of
New York city; Dr. J. J. Owens, Prof.
Cozzensand D. B. Tower, at Middlebury
College, and graduated there in 1828 with
the second honors of his class. He after-
wards became a minister of the gospel.
He was married September, 1832,10 Mar-
tha Storrs and died at Mobile, Alabama,
in 1837, of yellow fever.

OSSIAN L.,\iorn May 24,1807,^ Mad-
rid, N. Y., was brought up in Vermont.
He came to Sangamon county with his

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father in 1831 and was married October
29, 1835, 'n Sangamon county, to Abigail
C. Stewart, who was born in Junius Sen-
eca county, N. Y., May 16, 1811. See
James Stewart. They had four living
children, namely: LAURA L., born
June 7, 1840, in Sangamon county, was
married March 30, 1858, to Jacob Greg-
ory. See his name. They have two
children, MARY and GEORGE, and reside in
Decatur Illinois. JAMES A., born May
6, 1842, in Sangamon county, married Sep-
tember 26, 1866, in Morgan county, to
Eliza Allyn. They have three children,
JESSIE, PERCY A., and JAMES R. J. A.
Stone owns and resides with his family on
the farm entered by his father in Septem-
ber, 1834, the patent for which was signed
by Andrew Jackson. The farm joins that
entered by his grand-father, Asahel Stone.
HENRY" A., born April 3, 1844, in San-
gamon county, died April 21, 1861.
CHARLES O., born May 4, 1847, in
Sangamon county, is unmarried and re-
sides in Springfield, Illinois. Ossian L.
Stone died in 1850 and Mrs. Abigail Stone
was married March, 1862, to Aaron
Thompson and died in Springfield, 111.,
Feb. 15, 187^. Mr. Thompson is one of
the firm of Thompson<& Newman, plan-
ing mill.

'1HEDA S., born Dec. 14, 1808, in
Madrid, N. Y., died at Bridport, Vt.,
March 31, 1820.

FRANCES S., born Dec. 17, 1813, in
Bridport, Vt. Came with her father's
family to Sangamon county, and was mar-
ried at their farm residence Feb. 13, 1840,
to Jonathan C. Bancroft. See his name.
Rev. Dr. A. P. Happer, of the Chinese
Mission, was groomsman at their wed-
ding.

PHILIP Z., born Dec. 16, 1816, in
Bridport, Vt., was married Feb. 1843,
to Julia McCarty in Sangamon county.
She died in 1852, while on their way to
Oregon. P. Z. Stone resides in St. Louis,
Missouri.

LAURA A., born April 10, 1821, in
Bridport, Vt., was married at her fath-
er's farm residence in Sangamon county,
111., April 21, 1842,10 Jacob Ruckel. See
his name.

Mrs. Laura Stone died June 21, 1845,
and Asahel Stone was married Septem-
ber, 1846, in Springfield, 111., to Lucretia
Dresser. He died there Oct. 2, 1871. His

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widow resides in Springfield. Asahel
Stone was the last survivor of the class in
which he graduated in Dartmouth col-
lege, of which it has already been stated
that Daniel Webster was a member.

STONE, DAN, was born March
13, 1800, in Monkton, Addison county,
Vermont, and graduated at Middlebury
College, in his native State, in 1818. He
went to Cincinnati and studied law with
his uncle, Ethan Stone, and was married
in that city in 1824 to Augusta M. Farns-
worth, who was born March 8, 1808, in
Vermont, also. Mr. Stone practiced law
in Cincinnati a few years, and during that
time was a member of the State Legisla-
ture of Ohio, and four years a member of
the City Council. He moved to Spring-
field, Illinois, in 1834, anc^ m l&& was
elected one of the Representatives of San-
gamon county to the Legislature of
Illinois. He was, consequently, one of
the " Long Nine." See sketch tinder
that heading. While a member of the
Legislature he received the appointment
of Judge of the Circuit Court, and was
assigned to the district in the extreme
northwestern part of the State, and moved
to Galena. In 1838 he rendered a deci-
sion, with reference to the vote of an
alien, that was distasteful to the Demo-
cratic party — he being a Whig. That
decision led to a reorganization of the
judiciary system of the State. The
Supreme Court then consisted of four
Judges. In February, 1841, the Legisla-
ture added five to the Court, all Demo-
crats, and made it the duty of the nine
judges composing the Supreme Court to
act as Circuit Judges, also. Judge Stone,
finding himself thus legislated out of
office, soon left the State, and a few years
later died in Essex county, New Jersey.

His son, Henry S., is unmarried and
lives in San Francisco. His daughter,
Jennie A., now the wife of Josiah Paul,
lives in Cincinnati. His widow resides in
Cincinnati, Ohio, also — 1876.

STOKES, JOHN, was born
April 14, 1796, in Nicholas county, Ken-
tucky. He was married in that county
April 15, 1819, to Deborah Dickerson,
who was born Feb. 4, 1798, near Hagers-
town, Maryland. They had four chil-
dren in Kentucky, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall ot
1830,111 what is now Rochester township,

where four children were born. Of their
eight children —

SU-SAN, born Sept. 13, 1822, in
Nicholas county, Kentucky married Isaac
B. Bell. See his name.

LOUISA, born June 22, 1825, in Ken-
tucky, married Robert E. Richards. See
his name.

BENJAMIN F., born Nov. 27, 1827,
in Nicholas county, Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county to Malvina C. Cooper.
She died and he married Elzirah C.
Cooper. They had four living children,
JOHN W., JACOB F., MINNIE M.
and GABRIEL, live with their parents
in Christian county, near Edinburg,
Illinois.

WILLIAM, born Jan. 30, 1830, in
Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county,
went to California in 1852, and died
there December, 1862.

ELIZABETH A., born August 6,
1832, in Sangamon county, married
Robert E. Berry. See his name.

JOHN, born April 19, 1835, in Sanga-
mon county, married April 18, 1858, to
Drada Lovelace, who was born August 7,
1840, in Shelby county, Illinois. They
have three living children, CHARLES
H., IDA A., and HARRIET A., reside
with their parents near Edinbuig, Chris-
tian county, Illinois.

THOMAS, born Nov. 4, 1837, in San-
gamon county, married Priscilla Jones.
They had three children, two of whom
died young. Thomas Stokes enlisted
August, 1862, in Co. E, ii4th 111. Inf.,
was taken sick at Camp Butler, conveyed
home, and died Oct. 28, 1862. His son,
HERSCHEL V., resides with his
mother, who is now the wife of James
Layard. They reside near Sunny Side,
Montgomery county, Kansas.

EMILY, born April 14, 1840, in San-
gamon county, married Samuel Hedrick,
and died August 25, 1867, leaving two
children, who live with their father near
Morrisonville, Christian county, Illinois.

John Stokes died March 15, 1853, and
Mrs. Deborah Stokes died Feb. 12, 1870,
both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

STOUT, the origin of this family in
America is quite romantic. The princi-
pal points in their history may be
found in Benedict's History of the Bap-
tists. Some of his statements are based on
the writings of an earlier historian. The

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following embraces all that is known on
the subject:

Some time during the seventeenth cen-
tury, probably about 1680 or '90, a young
couple just married in Holland, embarked
on a vessel bound for America. The
voyage was prosperous until they were
nearing the port of New Amsterdam, now
the city of New York. The vessel was
wrecked off what is now the coast of New
Jersey, and nearly all on board drowned.
The young couple of Hollanders, escaped
drowning and with a small number of the
passengers and crew succeeded in reaching
the shore. Upon landing they were at-
tacked by Indians, who lay in ambush
awaiting their arrival. The whole party
were tomahawked, scalped and otherwise
mutilated, and left for dead. All were
dead except the wife, from Holland. She
alone survived, and although her scalp
was removed and she was otherwise hor-
ribly mangled, she had sufficient remain-
ing strength to crawl away from the
scene of the slaughter, and secreted her-
self in a hollow log which was concealed
by underbrush. She lay there a day or
two, during which time her mental and
bodily suffering may be imagined but can-
not be described. She finally made up
her mind that there was no possibility of
her escaping with life; that if she remained
quiet she would certainly die of hunger
and thirst, and if she attempted to seek
sustenance, that would expose her to the
Indians, who would be sure to kill her.
At this juncture, a deer, with an arrow
sticking in its body, ran past where she
was. This led her to believe that Indians
were near, and she reasoned that it would
be a much easier death to let them kill
her, than to endure the pangs of starva-
tion by remaining where she was. She
then summoned all her remaining strength
and dragged her body out to an open space
that the Indians might see her should
they pursue the deer. In a short time
three of the savages appeared on its trail.
Two of them rushed upon her with up-
lifted tomahawks, but the third one, a
chief, restrained them and saved her life.
It was not humanity, but gain that
prompted him to this act of mercy. He
took his prisoner to New Amsterdam and
there received a ransom for her. That
placed her in the hands of friends who
gave her the proper surgical treatment

and nursing as she recovered. The name
of her husband is not known, neither is
her own family name, nothing but her
first or given name, Penelope; a name
that has stood for more than twenty-five
centuries, in tradition and literature, as the
highest ideal of a true and loyal wife. It
will readily be understood that I allude to
one ol the creations of Homer, the father
of Greek poetry. A brief statement of
the case, gleaned from his works will not
be out of place here.

When the Greeks declared war against
Troy, in consequence of the abduction of
Helen, the wife of Menelaus, a Greek
chieftain, it was found that one of their
number, Ulysses, although a soldier by
profession, and a farmer in time of peace,
manifested great reluctance to leaving his
young and beautiful wife, Penelope, and
their infant son, Telemachus, for the pur-
pose of engaging in the war. He feigned
insanity, by sowing salt instead of wheat.
As a test of his sanity, Nestor, whom all
respected for his wisdom and probity, pro-
posed that the infant son of Ulysses
should be laid in the furrow in front of
the oxen with which he was plowing.
The device was successful, and caused him
to throw off the disguise by saving his
child. It was expected that the war
would be brief, but it was extended to a
long series of years, and of those who
finally returned, Ulysses was the last, after
twenty years's absence. Meanwhile, he
was supposed to be dead, and many suit-
ors for the hand of Penelope, pressed their
claims, and a simple " No " from her
was not taken for an answer. The very
thought of marrying again, especially
while the fate of her husband was in
doubt, was peculiarly revolting to her and
she announced her intention of choosing
a husband among the suitors, when she
had completed the weaving of a shroud
for her father-in-law. Her ardent suitors
waited with all the patience they could
command until it was discovered that she
undid at night what she had woven
through the day. She was then obliged
to proceed with her work when the long
absent Ulysses returned just in time to
save her from what seemed a horrible fate.

This modern Penelope had no such
doubts to contend with. The death of
her first husband was only too sure, hav-
ing been witnessed by her own eyes.

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After her recovery, she became acquainted
with and married an Englishman by the
name of Richard Stout. They then went
over into New Jersey, made themselves a
home and raised a family of twelve sons.
One of them, Jonathan Stout, and his
family, were the founders of the Hope well
settlement, in Hunterdon county, New
Jersey, where Hopewell Baptist Church
was afterwards constituted. Of the first
fifteen members, nine were Stouts. The
church was organized at the house of a
Stout, and for forty years their meetings
were held chiefly at the houses of the
Stouts; after which they erected their
first house of worship. In 1790, two of
the deacons and four of the elders were
Stouts. Jonathan Stout lived until his
descendants were multiplied to one hun-
dred and seventeen. Another one of their
sons, David, had a son Benjamin, born in
1706. He had a son, Jediah, born April
10, 1757. His son —

STOUT, PHILEMON, was
born May 15, 1785, in New Jersey, and in
1789 was taken by his parents to Fayette
county, Kentucky. He was married Feb.
8, 1810, in Woodford county to Penelope
Anderson, settled in Scott county in the
same State, and in 1820 moved back to
Fayette county. They had seven children
who lived to maturity. The family
moved to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving Oct. 5, 1836, in what is now Ball
township. Of their children —

JACKSON, born August 6, 1814, in
Kentucky, married Jan. 8, 1838, in San-
gamon county, to Matilda Willian. He
died Feb. 24, 1839. His widow married
Samuel Haines. See his name.

ELIHU, born Jan. 30, 1816, in Scott
county, Kentucky, was married in Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, August 30, 1839, to
Rebecca A. Patton. They had three
children, JAMES M., born June 15.
1840, married Mollie A. Mason. They
have two children, JAMES WILLIAM and
JOHN PHILEMON, and live two miles south
of Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.
PHILEMON, born Feb. 22, 1842, mar-
ried Mary Abernathy. They have two
children, WILLIAM ADOLPHUS and MAR-
THA ANN, and live in Auburn, Illinois.
Mrs. Rebecca A. Stout died Sept. 21,
1852, and Elihu Stout married Mrs. Sarah
J. Moore, whose maiden name was
Williams. They had two living children,

THOMAS ELIHU and CHARLES
H., who live with their father. Mrs.
Sarah J. Stout died Sept. 17, 1866, and
Elihu Stout was married June 18, 1867,
to Mrs. Margaret E. Davis, whose maiden
name was Williams. They reside three
miles southeast of Auburn, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

CHARLOTTE A., born Oct. 13,
1817, in Kentucky, was married in Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, August 10, 1837, to
Samuel L. Ridgeway. See his name.

PHILEMON, J^ln., born April 19,
1822, in Fayette county, Kentucky, was
married in Sangamon county, Illinois,
Sept. 7, 1848, to Melissa Shoup. They
had four children, three of whom are dead.
Her only living child, SAMUEL J., born
August 22, 1849, was married July 30,
1871, to Emma L. Brasfield. They had
one child, EDNA MAY,.whodied in infancy.
Mrs. Emma L. Stout died Dec. 20, 1875.

5. J. Stout lives in Ball township, two
miles south of Cotton Hill P. O., San-
gamon county, Illinois. Mrs. Melissa
Stout died February 26, 1855, and
Philemon Stout, Jun., was married
Oct. 26, 1856, to Louisa P. Brasfield.
Thev have three living children, JAMES
B.JOAB PHILEMON and MELISSA
J., live with their parents. Philemon
Stout, Jun., lives one mile southwest of
Cotton Hill P. O., Sangamon county,
Illinois, where his father settled in 1836.
He has represented Ball township, in the
County Board of Supervisors for many
years, and is one of the most extensive
farmers in Sangamon county.

MART, born Feb. 22, 1825, in Fayette
county, Kentucky, was married in Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, March 25, 1841, to
Dickson Hall, who was born June 15,
1813, in Ohio county, West Virginia.
They had six children, one of whom,
CHARLOTTE, died in August, 1849.
They moved to Christian county, Illinois,
in 1849. Of their five children,
ELIZABETH E., born March i, 1842,
in Sangamon county, was married Sept.

6, 1870, to Abner Bond, who was born
August n, 1832, in Belmont county,
Ohio. In 1838 he was taken to Indiana,
and in 1855 came to Christian county.
Mr. and Mrs. Bond have three children,

ELBRIDGE, MAY and NELLIE STOUT, and

live near Taylorville, Illinois. FANNIE
H., born August 6, 1843, *n Sangamon

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county, was married in Christian count}',
March i, 1870, to George A. Kautz, who
was born Jan. 23, 1833, in Brown county,
Ohio. They have one child, DICKSON,
and live in Moweaqua, Shelby county,
Illinois. WILLIAM W., born Nov. 30,
1847, in Sangamon county, brought up in
Christian county, was married May 28,
1874, in Waukegan, Illinois, to Sarah L.
Stewart, who was born there. They live in
Taylorville, Illinois. MARY N., born
Dec. 31, 1849, in Christian county, Illinois,
was married Sept. 15, 1875, to William
M. Dalbey, who was born Feb. 28, 1838,
in Pickaway county, Ohio. He came to
Sangamon county, Illinois, in 1862, and is
a stock raiser in Christian county, five
miles west of Edinburg, 111. EMMA S.,
born in Christian county, lives with her
mother. Dickson Hall died June 23,
1854, and his widow lives near Taylor-
ville, Christian county, Illinois.

ELIZA P., born Sept. 25, 1827, in
Kentucky, was married Sept. 21, 1848, in
Sangamon county to William Forbes,
who was born in Hardeman county, near
Bolivar, Tennessee, where they had four
children. Mr. Forbes was murdered
there in time of the rebellion, but not con-
nected with it. The widow and four
children came to Sangamon county. Her
son, John P., lives near Oswego, Labette
county, Kansas. ROBERT lives with
his mother, MATTIE married Joseph
Drennan. See his name. MOLLIE
lives with her mother. Mrs. Forbes lives
eight miles south of Springfield, in
Woodside township, near the line of Ball.
Her postoffice is Woodside, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

MARTHA A., born May i, 1830, in
Kentucky, was married Dec. 3, 1847, in
Sangamon county to Robert G. Simpson,
who was born May 6, 1826, in Fayette
county, Kentucky. TJiey ha^e three
living children. ELLEN R., was married
Oct. 24, 1872, to William S. Richardson.
They have one child, CHARLES M., and
live in Taylorville, Illinois. RAN-
DOLPH J. is one of the firm of Barnes
& Simpson, druggists, Taylorville, Illinois.
Mr. Barnes, his partner, is a son of Ezra
Barnes. -See his name. WILLIAM
R. lives with his parents in Ball township.

Philemon Stout, Sen., died Jan. 31,
1846, and his widow died Nov. 23, 1860,

both in Ball township, where they settled
in 1836.

The Stouts very justly take pride in
their family history, and being mostly
Baptists, they take pride in their Baptist
history also. When they meet a stranger
by the name of Stout, who manifests a
disposition to claim relationship, they ap-
ply one test only in their family history.
They do not ask him to pronounce the
word Shibboleth, but ascertain if he has
any knowledge of PENELOPE, and if he
knows nothing of her, they know nothing
of him. In other words, they do not culti-
vate his acquaintance, in the direction of
relationship, any further.

STOVER, SAMUEL, was
born Nov. 10, i8io,in Franklin county, Pa.
He was married Oct. 26, 1837, m Well-
ington county, Md., to Elizabeth Wol-
gamot. In the following spring they went
to Pittsburg, and from there by water,
down the Ohio, and up the Mississippi and
Illinois rivers to Peoria, thence to Spring-
field in a wagon, arriving in June, 1838.
He settled six miles south of Springfield,
and had two children there, namely —

SUSANNAH, born Jan, 17, 1841,
married May 31, 1864, to John Brother-
ton, a native of Franklin county, Pa.
They had two children, SAMUEL S.
and MAUD, and Mr. Brotherton died
Dec. 3, 1867, in Springfield. He was a
druggist. His widow and children reside
with her parents in Springfield.

JOHN, born March 28, 1844, married
Sept. 15, 1871, to Emma Wagner, of Ogle
county. They had two children. He
died July 15, 1875, in Springfield.

Samuel Stover and wife lived on the
farm where they settled in 1838, until Jan-
uary, 1875, when they moved to Spring-
field, Illinois, where they now reside —
November, 1876.

STRAWBRIDGE, THOS.,
was born March 13, 1755, in county Don-
egal, Ireland. Jane Mitchell, was born
in the town of Bally kelly, county Derry.
Her mother's maiden name was Straw-
bridge, a second cousin to her father. The
Strawbridge family was of English origin.
Thomas Strawbridge and wife had seven
children in county Donegal, and Mrs.
Jane Strawbridge died in 1809. The
family came to America, landing at Balti-
more in May, 1810, and went to North-
umberland county, Pa. In the fall of

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SETTLERS OF

1811, they moved to that part of Cham-
paign, which is now Clark county, O.
From there they moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving October, 1823, in
what is now Fancy Creek township, near
Cantrall. Of the se\7en children —

MARGERY, married in Baltimore to
Hugh Jack, a sea captain. He abandoned
the sea, and was about taking his wife
back to Ireland, when she died in Balti-
more.

JOHN, was drowned in the Muskin-
gum river, Ohio. He was about twenty-
seven years old, and unmarried.

JAMES, born Aug. 29, 1792, married
October, 1839, in Springfield, to Mrs.
Elizabeth McDonnald, whose maiden
name was lies. They had two children.
MARY E., married John W. Melton,
have one daugnter, and live in Jackson-
ville, 111. ELIZA J., lives with her sis-
ter, Mrs. Melton. Mrs. Strawbridge died,
and James Strawbriedge died October,
1868, 'both in Jacksonville, and both were
buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery, Spring-
field, 111.

WILLIAM, born June, 1794, came to
Sangamon county in 1823, married in
1834, in Jo Daviess county, 111., to Mrs.
Mary Ames, whose maiden name was
Mitchell. They lived in Sangamon coun-
ty until 1838, and moved to Jo Daviess
county, where he prosecuted the lead
smelting business until 1849. He then went
to California, was returning to his family,
and died December, 1851, in New York
city, leaving a widow and four children at
Elizabeth, Jo Daviess county, Illinois. Of
the children, MARY J., married John
W. Shaffer. He was appointed Governor
of Utah territory. Mrs. Shaffer died
June, 1869. Gov. Shaffer died in office
at Salt Lake city, Oct. 31, 1870, and was
buried at Freeport, 111, They left three
children, who live in New York city with
their uncle, William F. Shaffer. MAR-
GARET S., married Col. William F.
Shaffer, a banker of New York city, and
reside there. WILLIAM, Jun.. married
Miss Coulter, and lives in Ottawa, Kansas.
THOMAS, lives in Burlington, Kansas.
Mrs. Mary Strawbridge, widow of Wil-
liam Strawbridge, resides with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Shaffer, in New York city —
1874.

JANE, born Dec. 25, 1796, married in
Ohio to John McCain. They had one

child, and Mr. McCain went to New
Orleans on business, and is supposed
to have lost his life there, as he was never
heard of. His widow came to Sangamon
county in 1823. Her daughter, MAR-
GERY married in Sangamon county to
Cyrus G. Saundeis. Mrs. McCain died
Aug. 2, 1848, near Woodside, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

THOMAS, Jun., born Feb. 8,1798 in
county Donegal, Ireland, came with the
family to America and to Sangamon
county in 1823. He learned saddle and
harness making at Lebanon, Ohio, and
engaged in that business in the fall of
1823, in Springfield, the first in that line
in the place. He consequently made the
first saddle in Sangamon county and cen-
tral Illinois. He has for many years been
engaged in farming, is unmarried, and re-
side five miles southeast of Springfield,
Illinois.

MART, born Nov. 30, 1800, in Ireland,
married in Sangamon county, April, 1824,
to David Anderson, a native of York
county, Pa. He died July 16, 1825, in
Morgan county. His widow married
October, 1839, to Samuel Lyons, who was
born near Belfast, Ireland. He died Oct.
12, 1842, in Sangamon county. Mrs.
Lyons had no children by either mar-
riage. She lives with her brother,
Thos. Strawbridge, Jun., five miles south-
east of Springfield, 111.

Thomas Strawbridge, Sen., died Sept.
24, 1834, in what is now Fancy Creek
township, Sangamon county, 111., in his
8oth year.

STRICKLAND, GEORGE,
was born March 29, 1812, in Amherst,
Massachusetts. He was married May 30,

1836, in Northampton, Massachusetts, to
Sarah Little — sister to Thomas S. Little
and Mrs. Sophia Phelps. Mrs. Strick-
land was born Nov. 21, 1814, in North-
ampton. They had one child, and moved
to Springfield, Illinois, arriving in August,

1837, They had five children in Spring-
field, two of whom died young. Of their
four children —

ED WARD P., born May 14, 1837,
in Northampton, Massachusetts, and
raised in Springfield. He enlisted in the
first call for 75,000 men in April, 1861, for
three months, in Co. I, 7th 111. Inf., served
full term and was honorably discharged.
He again enlisted for three years in 1862,

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in Co. B, H4th 111. Inf., and commissioned
as first lieutenant at the organization of
the company. After the capture of
Vicksburg he was promoted to captain.
The regiment was put on provost duty at
Memphis, Tennessee. • He was sent on an
expedition and was taken prisoner in June,
1864. He was part of the time at Macon,
Georgia, and part of the time at Charles-
ton, South Carolina, where he was with
other Union prisoners, placed by the rebel
authorities under the guns of the Union
army, in order to protect the city. He
was moved from Charleston to Columbia,
South Carolina, from where he escaped,
and, with his first lieutenant, traveled
thirty-five days, making a distance of be-
tween tour and five hundred miles, on
foot, to Kno.xville, Tennessee, without
seeing a white man, neither did they wish
to. They traveled at night and subsisted
on what they could obtain from the
negroes, arriving Dec. 31, 1864. They
were sent from Knoxville to Louisville,
Kentucky, furloughed home, returned to
the regiment, and was with it at the cap-
ture of Mobile, after which he was
breveted major. He served until the fall
of 1865, when he was honorably dis-
charged. He now resides in Springfield,
Illinois.

•SAP AH S., born Sept. 12, 1842, in
Springfield, married Oct. 4, 1859, to Jesse
D. Lloyd, a native of Springfield, also.
He enlisted in 1861 in the nth Mo. Inf.,
was commissioned as first lieutenant at
the organization of the company, and pro-
moted to captain. He served to the end
of the rebellion and died April 10, 1865,.
leaving his widow and two children,
\\ "INFIELD S. and FRANK M.,
residing in Springfield, Illinois.

HELEN C., born July 16, 1847, in
Springfield, and married in her native city
May, 1874, to Newell Sturtevant, a native
of Maine. They reside in New York
City.

THOMAS S., born Oct. 14, 1853, in
Springfield, is a printer, and resides with
his parents in Springfield, Illinois.

Mr. George Strickland and wife are
both living and reside in Springfield,
Illinois.

STRINGFIELD, JAMES,
was born about 1765 in Buncombe county,
North Carolina. His parents moved to
Warren jounty, Kentucky, when he was

a young man. He was there married to
Nancy Simmons who was born in Roa-
noke county, Virginia. They had ten
children in Kentucky, and moved to San-
gamon county in the fall of 1820 in com-
pany with their son-in-law, John Strode.
Of their children —

MARY, born August 12, 1796, in
Warren county, Kentucky, married John
Strode. See his name.

ROLAND resides near Williamsville.
Their other children are scattered and
many of them dead.

James Stringfield died in 1835, anc^ ms
widow died a year or two later, both in
Sangamon county, Illinois.

STRODE, JOHN, was born
March 13, 1790, in Greenbrier county,
Virgiana. His parents moved in 1804 to
Warren county, Kentucky. He volun-
teered in a Kentucky regiment in the war
of 1812 and served three months on Lake
Erie. After Perry's victory he was hon-
orablv discharged, again enlisted, and was
in the battle of New Orleans. Jan. 8,
1815. He received a land warrant for his
services but never drew a pension. The
papers were ail burned at Bowling Green,
Ky., in 1863. John Strode and Mary
Stringfield were married August 14, 1815,
in Warren county, Kentucky. They had
three children there, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, arriving in October,
1820, in what is now- Fancy creek town-
ship, where eight children were born.
When they came, there had been such an
extensive and long continued drouth that
they could walk across Sangamon river
on the stones. They lived four weeks in
a tent, while their house was building.
Of their children —

NANCY, born June 28, 1816, married
William Hargis. See his name.

JAMES B., born March 28, 1818, in
Kentucky, was married August, 1845, *°
Susan Hargis. They had eight children.
WILLIAM R. enlisted in February,
1864, in Co. G, loth 111. Cav., for three
years, served until the close of the rebel-
lion, and was honorably discharged
November, 186^, at San Antonio, Texas.
He married Lucetta Plunkett, and lives in
Springfield township. JOHN T. enlisted
in Springfield May 14, 1864, in Co. I,
I33d 111. Inf., for one hundred clays, served
full term and was nonorably discharged
Sept. 14, 1864. He lives with his mother

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

—1874. AMANDA married John Mil-
ler. They have one child, and live in
Fancy Creek township. MARY mar-
ried Clarence Mallory. See his name,
BARBARA and ELIZA live with
their mother. James B. Strode enlisted
in 1862, for three years, in Co. K, H5th
111. Inf.. and was orderly sergeant. He
was killed at the battle of Chickamauga,
Tennessee, Sept. 20, 1863. His widow
lives near Cantrall, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

SARAH S., born Feb. 3, 1820, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Ira Judd. She died March 28, 1865,
leaving one child, MARY.

ELI, born March 29, 1823, in Sanga-
mon county, married Diantha Strode — a
distant relative — and lives near Nickerson,
Reno county, Kansas.

BARBARA, born April 13, 1825, in
Sangamon county, married Jan. 25, 1864,
to John H. Cannon, who was born June
20, 1837, in Jefferson county, Ten lessee.
They had two children, WILLIAM H.
and LEONARD B., both died in infancy.
Mr. and Mrs. Cannon live near Cantrall,
Illinois.

ELIZABETH, born June 30, 1829,
resides with her mother.

ROLAND B., born March 24, 1831,
married Lutitia Weese. They have five
children, MARY E., CHARLES A.,
JAMES R., EMMA J. and MINNIE
E., and live at the family homestead, near
Cantrall, 111.

JOHN A., born Jan. 4, 1824, married
Letitia Gilmore. Thev have four chil-
dren, ALICE, MINNIE E., VICTO-
RIA, and EVA M. John A. Strode
enlisted at Springfield in 1862 for three
years in Co. K, ii5th 111. Inf. He was at
the siege and capture of Fort Donelson,
was soon after sent to hospital and dis-
charged on account of physical disability.
He lived at Brookfield, Mo., a few years,
but now lives near Cantrall, Illinois.

WILLIAM H., born July 19, 1836, in
Sangamon county, married June 4, 1863,
to Henrietta F. Strode, a distant relative.
They had six children, NIREM P. and
CORA BELL died under four years, LU-
ZETTA A., THOMAS J., ELIZA-
BETH and J. MAUD live with their
parents near Cantrall, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

JOEL B., born March 7, 1839, mar-

ried Mary E. King. They have three
children, JACOB E., MAGGIE M.
and JOHN E., and live at the old home-
stead, seven miles north of Springfield,
near Cantrall, 111.

MART C., born in 1841, died in her
seventh year.

John Strode died Nov. 27, 1866, and his
widow resides on the farm settled by
them in 1821. It is in Fancy Creek town-
ship, eight miles northwest of Springfield,
Illinois.

STUART, JOHN T., was born
Nov. 10, 1807, in Fayette county, Ky.,
seven miles east of Lexington. His father,
Robert Stuart, was born of Scotch-Irish
parents, in Rockbridge county, Virginia.
He was a Presbyterian minister, but went
to Lexington, first as professor of lan-
guages in Transylvania University. He
was there married to Hannah Todd,
daughter of General Levi Todd. £>ee
sketch of the Todd family. Rev. Robert
Stuart, while connected with the Univer-
sity, became pastor of the Presbyterian
church, at Walnut Hills, seven miles east
of Lexington, where the subject of this
sketch was born. John T. Stuart gradu-
ated at Centre College, Danville, Ky., in
the fall of 1826, studied law with
Judge Breck in Richmond, Ky., and came
to Springfield, Illinois, arriving Oct. 25,
1828. He traveled on horseback and was
ten days on the road. He at once en-
gaged in the practice of his profession,
and when the Indian troubles came on,
that culminated in the Blackhawk war,
Mr. Stuart became the major of the
battalion in which Abraham Lincoln com-
manded a company. In 1832 Mr. Stuart
was elected one of the Representatives of
Sangamon county in the State Leg.sla-
ture. In 1834 he was re-elected.
Abraham Lincoln was elected that year,
also, and they roomed together at Van-
dalia. While they were taking a morn-
ing walk during that session, Mr. Lincoln
asked Mr. Stuart his opinion in regard to
his studying law. Mr. Stuart advised
him to begin at once, proposed to loan
him the necessary books and act as his
preceptor, all of which was gratefully
accepted by Mr. Lincoln, and when he
was qualified for practice he gladly
accepted the offer of his preceptor to be-
come his partner. In 1836 Mr. Stuart
was a candidate for Congress, but was

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defeated, as he expected to be, his object
being to keep the Whig party — which
was largely in the minority in his district
— in order for future campaigns.

John T. Stuart was married Oct. 25,
1837, at Jacksonville, 111., to Mary V.
Nash, a daughter of General Frank Nash,
of St. Louis county, Missouri, and a niece
of the late Judge Lockwood, of Illinois.
They had six living children —

BETTIE, born July, 1838, in Spring-
field, married Christopher C. Brown.
Sec his name. She died, and the Bettie
Stuart Institute was named in honor of
her memory.

JOHN T., Jun., born Dec. 16, 1842,
in Springfield, was married there Sept. 6,
1866, to Emily W. Huntington. They
have four children, GEORGE H.,
MARY V., ELIZABETH H. and ED-
WARD S. BROWN. John T. Stuart,
Jun., is a merchant in Chicago, and, with
his family, resides there.

FRANK N., born in Springfield, 111.,
is running a ranch in Plum VaLey, near
Sedalia, Colorado.

VIRGINIA L., HANNAH and
ROBERT, all born in Springfield, live
with their parents.

John T. Stuart was elected to Congress
in 1838, defeating Stephen A. Douglas,
when the partnership between him and
Mr. Lincoln ceased. He was again
elected in 1840, served that term, and in
1843 formed a partnership with Benjamin
S. Edwards, under the firm name of
Stuart & Edwards. It is the oldest law
firm in the State, and with one exception,
Mr. Stuart is the oldest practicing attorney
in the State. He was elected in 1848
State Senator for four years for the dis-
trict composed of Sangamon, Menard and
Mason counties. He was out of politics
after that until 1862, when he was elected
to Congress, serving one term. In 1866 he
was elected President of the Springfield
City Railway Company, President of the
Springfield Watch Company, President
of the Bettie Stuart Board of Trustees,
and is one of the three commissioners
for building the new State House.
As Chairman of the Executive Com-
mittee of the National Lincoln Monu-
ment Association, it devolved upon
him to do more than any other one
man, in superintending the erection
of that monument to the memory

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of his legislative colleague, law student
and partner, and life-long friend —
Abraham Lincoln. The law firm of
Stuart & Edwards was changed in 1858,
by admitting C. C. Brown, to that of
Stuart, Edwards & Brown.

STLTBBS, ROBERT L,., was
born Dec. 24, 1813, in Virginia, taken by
his parents to Greene county, Kentucky,
and came to Island Grove, Sangamon
county, 111., in the fall of 1832. Martha
Ann Smith was born Dec. 5, 1818, in
Greene county, Kentucky. Her parents
were from the vicinity of Nashville, Tenn.,
and both died in Kentucky; the
father in 1823, and the mother in 1826.
She came to Sangamon county in 1834,
with the family of Dr. Richard Barrett.
R. L. Stubbs and M. A. Smith were mar-
ried August 4, 1836, and had fourteen chil-
dren in Sangamon county.

MARTE., born June n, 1837, mar-
ried Sept. n, 1856, to Samuel Clawson,
have two children, WILLIAM H. and
MARTHA M., and live near New Home,
Bates county, Mo.

JAMES T., born March 5, 1839, mar-
ried Oct. 29, 1867, to Hannah F. Robeson,
who was born Dec. 12, 1840, in Morgan
county. They have three children, AL-
BERT L., ELIZABETH A.and JAMES
T., and live three and one-half miles east
of Berlin, Sangamon county, 111.

SARAH F., born Dec. 3, 1840, mar-
ried March 18, 1858, to A. Jackson Rude,
have one child, EDWARD E., and live
five miles west of Chatham, 111.

NANCY H., born Sept. 30, 1842, mar-
ried Sept. 10, 1862, to James Campbell.
See his name,

ELIZABETH A., born March 13,
1844, married Jan. 29, 1870, to Edmund T.
Miller. See his name.

GEORGE W., born August 23, 1846,
married Sept. 15, 1870, to Eliza Miller.
They have one child, GEORGE R., and
reside four miles west of Chatham, 111.

WILL I A At S., born Jan. 7, 1851, mar-
ried Nov. 6, 1872,10 Annie A. Johnson,
have one child, JAMES G., and live two
miles west of Berlin, Sangamon county,
111.

MARGARET %, born June 6, 1853,
married Dec. 29, 1870, to Dayton LaDue,
have two children, and reside near
Arthur, Moultrie county, 111.

ROBERT L., Jun., MARIA .)/.

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EARL? SETTLERS OF

PETER G., DOLL1E T. and
CHARLES E. reside with their mother.

Robert L. Stuhbs died Sept. 7, 1871,
and his widow resides four miles east of
Berlin, Sangamon county, 111.

SWEET, JOSEPH, was born
March 15, 1789, in Otsego county, New
York. He was there married to Abigail
Neal, who was born Oct. 30, 1793, in
Hartford Connecticut. They had eight
children in Otsego county, and moved to
Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the
fall of 1830 at Lebanon, now Loami,
where two children were born. Of their
children —

ASENATH, born Nov. n, 1813, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to John Kinney,
had three living children, and reside at
Linden, Osage county, Kansas.

MAN ASS EH, born August 10,
1815, married three times, had one child
by the first, and three by the second wife.
He died in 1872, in Canton, Missouri.

EUNICE, born Sept. 9, 1817, mar-
ried Jacob Markle, has several children,
and lives in Omaha, Nebraska.

FRANCIS, born March 13, 1819,
married Phebe Morton, who died, leaving
one child, and he married again, and lives
in Lewis county, Missouri.

CORDELIA, born June 14, 1823,
married Jacob Weidner, has ten children,
and lives in Lewis county, Missouri.

JOSEPH, born March 25, 1824, in
Otsego county, New Yoi'k, married in
Sangamon county to Lola Hinman.
They live in Chatham, Illinois.

IRA, born May 2, 1826.

VERMELIA A., born Feb. 5, 1828,
the last birth of the family in New York,
married in Sangamon county to Wash-
ington Clawson, had two children, and
Mr. C. died and the widow married
Theodore Watson, had one child, and
lives in Waverly, Illinois.

ARABELLA L., born March 18,
1831, the first birth of the family in San-
gamon county, married August 22, 1848,
in Springfield to Ebenezer B. Watson,
who was born Nov. 21, 1819, at East
Windsor, Connecticut. They had ten
children, six of whom are dead, namely,
ALICE died March 10, 1864, in her
fifteenth year, PHILIP, GRACE A.,
HENRY, ARABELLA and MARY
R. died under three years. The other
four, ANNA, SERENA, EBINEZER

B., Jun., and ARABELLA L. live
with their parents in Talkington town-
ship, three miles east of Waverly, Illinois.

SARAH T., born Sept. 25, 1833, in
Sangamon county, married Samuel Brown
and moved to Texas.

Joseph Sweet moved to Scyene, Dallas
county, Texas, in 1852, and soon after be-
came postmaster, and died in office in
1864. His wife died the same year.

SWEET, ROBERT, was born
in 1791, in Otsego county, N. Y. He was
married to Sarah Parker, and they had
five children in that county. They em-
barked at Olean Point, in a family boat,
and floated down to Shaweetown in May,
1820, and engaged in farming until the
spring of 1824, when he moved to Dia-
mond Grove, near Jacksonville, and from
there to what is called Sweet's Prairie, in
consequence of their being the first set-
tlers there. It is about five miles west of
Manchester, Scott county, 111, In 1830,
he moved back to Diamond Grove, and in
1837 movecl to Loami, Sangamon county.
They had four children in Illinois. Of
their nine children —

DANIEL, born June 19, 1809, in New
York, married Elcey Sweet. They had
four children, and Mrs. Sweet died in
1849. He resides at Chenoa, 111.

AL VTA., born July i, 1811, in New
York, married, had fourteen children, and
resides at Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

MORRIS, born April S, 1813, in Ot-
sego county, New York, married in San-
gamon county May 2, 1839,10 Olivia Bar-
ger. They had nine children, SOPH-
RONIA I., married William McKee.
See his name. SYLVESTER H., born
August 12, 1841, enlisted August 12, 1861,
in Co. C, nth Missouri Inf. for three
years, re-enlisted as a veteran January, 1864,
and died of disease April 17, 1865, at Mem-
phis,Tenn. MONTGOMERY Z.,enlisted
August, 1862, in the same company and
regiment, was wounded at the battle of
luka, Mississippi, Sept. 17, 1862, and dis-
charged on account of physical disability.
Resides at Loami. LETHE M. married
Haskell Jones, had two children and
mother and children died. MARCELLA
and LORI.NTINE C. reside with their
parents. LUCINDA married lohn Brash
and reside in Loami. MARGARET J.
and LUELLA reside with their parents
in Loami, Sangamon county, 111.

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JONATHAN, born March i, 1815, in
New York, married Phebe Weaver. She
had one child, and mother and child died.
He resides at Chenoa, 111.

LODASCA M., born. April 5, 1817,
married in Sangamon county to Adna P.
Colburne. See his name.

LORENTINE, born Jan. 21, 1821,
near Shawneetown, married Sarah A.
Sweet. He died in 1851, leaving a widow
and one child. They have since died at
Waverly, 111.

MART y., born Dec. 2, 1824, married
Benjamin Fry, has three children, and
lives at Hinsdale, Dupage countv, 111.

HIRAM A"., born Feb. 25, 1828, mar-
ried Julia A. Ayers, has four children and
lives at Forest, Livingston county, 111.

CAROLINE A., born August 5, 1831,
married Joseph S. Snell, have five chil-
dren, and live in Winchester, Illnois.

Mrs. Sarah Sweet died Nov. 22, 1846,
and Robert Sweet died July, 1861, both in
Sangamon county, Illinois.

SWEET, THEOPILUS, a
cousin to Joseph and Robert, was born
and married .in Otsego county, New
York. Had children born there, and
moved to Morgan county, Illinois, and
from there to the vicinity of Loami, San-
gamon county, in 1826. They brought
six children and three were born in San-
gamon county. I have not a full history
of his children. His eldest son —

LE VI, born in New York, married
in Sangamon county in 1832 to Lucy
Colburn, a daughter of Isaac Colburn,
who died at Louisville, Kentucky, in
1820. They had five children, moved in
1853 to Scvene, Texas, and Mr. S. died
there in 1863, leaving his family there.
Levi Sweet was a preacher in the
Christian Church before he went to
Texas, and continued to preach as long as
he lived.

ADONIRAM married Abigail Green-
ing. He died and she married again and
lives in \Vaverly, Illinois.

ANSEL married Elizabeth Anderson
in Morgan county, Illinois.

The wife of Theopilus Sweet died at
Loami and he married Lucinda B. Harri-
son. He moved with part of his children
to Scott county, and died about 1860 at
Winchester, Illinois. His widow died
August 20, 1873, on Richland creek, at the
residence of her nephew, John H. Har-

rison. Theopilus Sweet was a preacher
of the Old School Baptist Church when
he came to Sangamon county, and soon
after changed to the Christian, or what is
called Campbellite. He preached in
Sangamon about eighteen years, and was
then the principal mover in organizing a
phalanx of Fourierites at Loami in 1844.
That was disbanded in two or three
years. Mr. Sweet joined the Missionary
Baptists two or three years before his
death.

EXPLANATION.

For the convenience of those consult-
ing this volume, the explanation is again
inserted, by which it may be known what
generation of a family any person belongs
to, by the kind of type used in printing his
or her name. Original early settlers or
heads of families are in LARGE
LETTERS; second generation,
ITALIC CAPITALS; third, in
CAPITALS; fourth, in SMALL CAPI-
TALS; fifth, in Italics.

TAFT, MRS. PHCEBE, whose
maiden name was Davis, was born June 5,
1780, in Vermont. She was married there
to Josiah Taft. They had eleven children,
and Mr. Taft died Sept. 17, 1838, in Ver-
mont. Mrs. Taft and some of her children
came to Sangamon county, Illinois, part
before and part after her arrival. She and
two of her daughters arrived at Rochester
in the fall of 1839. Of the five who came
to Sagamon county —

WILLIAM W., born Sept. 7, 1803, at
Vergennes, Vermont, came to Rochester,
Sangamon county, in 1833 or '34, and was
married Feb. i, 1838, to Eliza Delay. They
had seven children, near Rochester, name-
ly, JOSIAH, born Nov. 12, 1838, died Oct.
21/1866. JOHN, born March 14, 1840,
died June 10, 1860. CAROLINE born
Nov. 9, 1841, and HATTIE, born August
25, 1843, l've with their mother. WIL-
LIAM and ELIZA, twins, born Nov. 23,
1846. Wiiliam lives with his mother.
ELIZA married Dec. 18, 1873, to Dr. R.
T. McNeill. See his name. HENRY,
born July 20, 1850, lives with his mother.

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William W. Taft died Feb. 16, 1855, and
his widow resides on the farm where they
settled in 1838. It is one mile west of
Rochester, Sangamon county, 111.

SARAH, born August 13, 1805, in Ver-
mont, married in Sangamon county to
Caleb Sherman, and both died ; she in San-
gamon county and he in Iowa.

ANN, born April 10, 1812, in Vermont,
married Mr. Tracy. He died and she mar-
ried Munson Carter, and resides in Roches-
ter, 111.

NANCy, born Sept. 5, 1819, in Ver-
mont, married in Sangamon county to
Henry Pier. They reside at Belvidere,
111.

HARRIET, born April 18, 1822, in
Vermont, married Josiah Adams. They
reside near Harrel, Christian county, 111.

Mrs. Phoebe Taft died April 2, 1861, in
Rochester, Sangamon county, 111.

TALBOTT, DAVID, was born
Jan. 6, 1786, in Baltimore county, Mary-
land. " There is a tradition that has been
handed down to the Talbotts in this coun-
try, that prior to, or about the year 1 700,
three brothers came over from England,
two of whom settled in Virginia and one
in Maryland. They seem to have visited
and continued their acquaintance, and in
the course ot time united in looking up
up their old-fashioned silver plate, of which
they appear to have had a considerable
quantity. After a general consultation,
they decided to return this silver plate to
England for remodeling. It was conse-
quently shipped for that purpose, but the
vessel in which it was sent was never
heard from." The above was taken from
a letter written by Thomas E. Talbott, of
Dalhoff, St. Charles county, Mo., to his
cousin, Thomas Talbott, of Sangamon
county. He facetiously adds: "Perhaps
some of the Spirit Rappers might call up
the spirit of the captain of that old ship
and ask him the name of the shippers of
this precious plate." He thus disposes of
the effort to trace the geneology of the
three brothers, but at the same time makes
it quite plain that the one who settled in
Maryland was named John. He had a son
Edward who married an English lady by
the name of Margaret Slade. Edward
Talbott died soon after marriage. A son,
Edward, was born April 6, 1764, after the
death of his father, on what was called
" My Lady's Manor," in Baltimore county,

Maryland. This Edward Talbott was
married in 1783, in Harford county, Mary-
land, to Elizabeth Standiford. They had
twelve sons and one daughter. It was
their second son, David, whose name heads
this sketch. When David Talbott was
about ten years old his father moved to
Shelby county, Kentucky. He was there
married Dec. 4, 1806, to Harriet Harding,
who was born Dec. 25, 1787, in Berkley
county, Virginia. Her father, Nathan
Harding, moved to Shelby county about
1802. David Talbott and wife had twelve
living children in Shelby :ounty, Ken-
tucky. The whole family, with the excep-
tion of the eldest son, moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving April 16, 1835, in
what is now Curran township, south of
Spring creek. In the fall of that year
they moved north of Spring creek, in what
is now Garden township. Of their chil-
dren—

LUCINDA, born Dec. 14, 1808, in
Kentucky, is unmarried, and resides with
her brother Thomas, at the family home-
stead.

FLETCHER, born March 24, 1810,
in Shelby county, Kentucky, commenced
the study of medicine in 1832, with Dr.
Hanson Harding, in Shelbyville, Ken-
tucky, attended lectures at Transylvania
University, Lexington, Kentucky, in the
winters of 1834 and '5, and in the spring
of the latter year commenced practice in
Spencer county, Kentucky. He came to
Springfield, Illinois, in the autumn of 1836,
where he practiced medicine one year and
returned to Lexington, Kentucky, attended
a second course of lectures and graduated
in March, 1838. He returned to Spring-
field in May and continued there until Sep-
tember, when he moved to the country a
few miles west of Springfield, where he
has continued practicing his profession until
the present time. Dr. Fletcher Talbott
was married in Morgan county, Illinois,
June 18, 1839, to Ruth R. Gatton. They
had seven children. WILLIAM T.,
born July 6, 1841, in that part of Mor-
gan which is now Cass county, Illinois,
was married November 2, 1864, in St.
Louis county, Missouri, to Sarah F.
Gardner, a daughter of Thomas Gardner.
She was born April 6, 1842. They ru-ve
five children, THOMAS G., JOHN F., NET-
TIE E., MABEL and CHARLES D., the lat-
ter born May 13, 1876, is the " centennial "

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of the family. William T. Talbott is one
of the neatest farmers I have found in San-
gamon county, or any other place. That
he is thoroughly posted on all the late-t
improvements in agriculture, a visit to his
farm, "Elder Grove," will convince the
most casual observer. He has an extensive
library, a large collection of minerals, fos-
sils, copper coins, etc., etc. Mr. Talbott
and family reside at " Elder Grove," two
miles northwest of Farmingdale, Sanga-
mon county, 111. David C., born August
i, 1843, in Sangamon county, was married
Oct. 28, 1868, to Elizabeth A. Firkins.
They have three children, namely, WAL-
TER, CARLTON and HENRY FLETCHER,
and reside in Curran, Sangamon county,
Illinois. JAMES L., born April 25,
1846, in Sanfamon county, was married
June 19, 1873, to Jennie Gill. They
have two children, ROSE and JOHN GILL,
and live two miles west of Springfield.
FLETCHER H., born October 28,
1848. MARY R., EDWARD R. and
CHARLES R. live with their parents.
Dr. Fletcher Talbott and wife reside six
miles west of Springfield, Illinois.

ELIZABETH, born Oct. 14, 1811, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, to Noah Mason. See his name.

DA VID, Jun., born July 22, 1813, in
Shelby county, Kentucky, was married in
Sangamon county, Oct. 3, 1850, to Susan
Rickard. They had one child, ELLA
BELLE, who was born July 5, 1855, and
died August 20, 1875. David Talbott and
wife reside six and one-half miles west of
Springfield, Illinois.

ARSENETH, born Nov. 12, 1814, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county to James M. Bradford. See his
name.

77? OAM 3", born Feb. 21, 1816, in Ken-
tucky, is unmarried and lives at the home-
stead, where his parents settled in 1835,
six and a half miles west of Springfield,
Illinois.

HARRIET, born Jan. 31, 1818, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county March, 1838,10 Noah M. Rickard.
See his name.

LUTHER, born Feb. 11, 1820, in
Shelby county, Kentucky, was married in
Sangamon county, Illinois, June, 1851, to
Mary M. Rickard. They have eight chil-
dren, namely, CHARLES W., CATH-
ARINE L., ELIZA F., THOMAS F.,

ARSENETH H., CAROLINE L.,
DAVID K. and EMILY BELLE.

Luther Talbott and family reside near
Harristown, Macon county, Illinois.

MART R., born Jan. 2, 1822, in Ken-
tucky, was married Dec. 9, 1858, in Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, to Rev. Moses Sum-
mers, of the M. E. Church. They have
two children, EMILY F. and MOSES
W., and live two miles north of
Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois.
Rev. Moses Summers was born Sept.
n, 1818, in Onondaga county, New York.
He came to that part of Morgan county
which has since been added to Cass coun-
ty, Illinois, arriving Nov. 3, 1838. He was
there married to Eleanor Yaples. They
had three daughters. AZUBA R. lives
with her father, MARY E. married Pres-
ton H. Gibson, and lives at Brownsville,
Nebraska. SARAH C. married Irwin B.
Towl, and lives in Lincoln, Illinois. Mrs.
Eleanor Summers died Oct. 5, 1857.

EMIL Y, born Oct. 21, 1823, in Ken-
tucky, was married in Sangamon county
to George Brunk. See his name. He died
and she married Lindsey H. English, and
resides two miles southeast of Springfield,
Illinois.

CAROLINE, born August 24, 1825,
in Kentucky, died April 22, 1875, at the
family homestead, unmarried. Her death
was the first ot the twelve children David
Talbott brought to Sangamon county,
forty years before.

SARAH, born May i, 1827, in Ken-
tucky, was married in Sangamon county,
Oct. 12, 1847, to H. K. Cooper, who was
born Jan. 5, 1820, in Mercer county, Penn-
sylvania. They had two children, ROSE
H. married William E. Pirkins. See his
name. WILLIAM K. married Kate S.
Van Patten. They live one and a halt
miles northwest of Bradfordton, Sanga-
mon county, 111. Hugh K. Cooper died
Sept. 7, 1850. Mrs. Cooper was married
Sept. 5, 1858, to William J. Shaver, who
was born May 10, 1834, in Rensselaer
county, New York. They had three chil-
dren, JAMES A., and THOMAS T., the
eldest and youngest died under four years.
GEORGE D. lives with his mother. Wm.
J. Shaver died Jan. 25, 1864, and Mrs.
Sarah Shaver lives in Gardner township,
one and a half miles northwest of Brad-
fordton, Sangamon county, 111.

David Talbott died Oct. 31, 1867, and

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Mrs. Harriet Talbott died Dec. 22, 1867,
both in Gardner township, Sangamon
county, 111.

TALBOTT, BENJAMIN,
was born June 19, 1798, in Fairfax county,
Virginia. He went to Kentucky, where
he was married Jan. 21, 1808, to Mrs.
Frances Lumsford, whose maiden name
was Johnson. Her former husband, Mr.
Lumsford, was an overseer and was
poisoned by negroes in Kentucky. They
had three children in Kentucky, and Mrs.
Frances Talbott died Nov." 17, 1817.
Benjamin Talbott was married April 8,
1818, to Elizabeth Johnson, sister of his
first wife, and a native of North Carolina.
They had two children. Benjamin Tal-
bott moved to Springfield, Illinois, >in
1826. Of their children —

HANNAH, born Dec. 14, 1808, in
Kentucky, was married there to Alex-
ander Harrower. She died April 28,
1859. Mr. H. resides in Athens, Illinois.

HARVEY, born March 14, 1810, in
Kentucky, died in Springfield Oct. 8,
1832.

WILLIAM H., born August 10, 1817,
in Kentucky, was married Dec. 3, 1838, in
Sangamon county to Matilda Enyart.
They had six children, four died young.
Of the two living children, CHARLES
H., born May 13, 1845, in Springfield, is a
merchant in Burton View, Logan county,
Illinois. BENJAMIN F., born Feb. 10,
1848, in Springfield, is a printer and stock-
holder in the Springfield Printing Com-
pany. He is also Superintendent in the
job department, and resides in Springfield.
Mrs. Matilda Talbott died March 16, 1855,
and William H. Talbott was married Oct.
2, 1856,10 Mary Winters, who was born
August 2, 1824, in Franklin county, Penn.
They had two children, MARY E. and
WILLIAM H., Jun. The latter died
March 14, 1871, aged 11 years. William
H. Talbott, Sen., died Jan. 21,1874, and
his widow resides in Springfield, Illinois.
He was at the time of his death engaged
in the business of carriage and wagon
making, and had been for many vears.

MARJ^HA, born March 8," 1824, in
Kentucky, was married in Springfield
Oct. 27, 1842, to Daniel W. Witmer.
They have one child, MARY E., born
July 21, 1843, was ma^ied May n, 1863,
to Reuben M. Huckey. They have two
children, MATTIE R. and DANIEL w., and

reside in Springfield. Mr. and Mrs. Wit-
mer reside in Springfield, Illinois.

R QBE RT A., born Nov. 5, 1826, in
Springfield. He was married December,
1851, in Menard county, to Eveline
Robinson. They had five living children,
J. HARVEY, BENJAMIN S., CLARA
W., BETTIE N. 'and ROBERT W.,
reside with their parents in Logan
county, six miles west of Lincoln, Illinois.
In the fall of 1874 R. A. Talbott was
elected to represent Logan county for two
years in the Legislature of Illinois.

Benjamin Talbott died April 29, i8t;S,
and Mrs. Elizabeth Talbott died March
29, 1870, both in Springfield, Illinois.

Soon after Benjamin Talbott came to
Springfield, in 1826, he acted as deputy
sheriff and assessor, and filled other minor
offices until 1836, when he was elected
county recorder, which office he held
until 1848, when, under the constitution
adopted that year, the office of recorder
was merged into that of circuit clerk. He
was elected to the latter office four years,
and after that had charge of the recorder's
branch until his death.

TAYLOR, FRANCIS, was born
August 23, i797> m Shelby county, Ken-
tucky. Nancy Jackson was born march
18, 1795, in the vicinity of Richmond,
Virginia, and was taken by her parents to
Shelby county, Kentucky, when she was
a child. They were married October,
1821, in Spencer county, where they had
two children, moved to Oldham county,
where three children were born, and then
returned to Spencer county, where they
had twins, one of whom died in infancy.
The family moved to Sangamon county,
Illinois, arriving Oct. 13, 1834, at what is
now Sangamon Station. Of their six
children —

JULIA P., born and died in Ken-
tucky at ten years of age.

PER ME LI A A., born May 16, 1824,
in Spencer county, Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county April 16, 1840, to Ben-
jamin West. See his name. He died
and she married Erastus Woodruff, of
Orange county, New York. (His son,
Augustus Woodruff, by a former wife re-
sides near Sangamon Station.) Mr. and
Mrs. Woodruff had one child, MARY E.,
born August i, 1853, married Oct. 22,
1873, to Frederick D. Wilson, a native of
St. Lawrence county, New York. They

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reside four miles northwest of Illiopolis.
Erastus Woodruff died of cholera Oct.
30, 1854, on Round Prairie, five miles east
of Springfield. Mrs. Permelia A. Wood-
ruff married John North. See his name.

PHILIP W., born March 16, 1826, in
Old ham county, Kentucky, married Ann
M. Connelly. Thev had eight children,
and live at Clinton, DeWitt county, 111.

FRANCIS J., born March 14, 1828,
in Olclham county, Kentucky, married in
Rochester, Illinois, to Mary T. St. Clair.
They have five children, and reside at
Decatur, Illinois.

FANNY, born August 7, 1830, in
Oldham county, Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county June 22, 1848, to Rev.
Robert F. Shinn, of the Protestant
Methodist Church, and resides in Quincy,
Illinois.

*JOHN S., born Jan. 13, 1834, in
Spencer county, Kentucky, married Julia
Mills. They had two children, and Mr.
Taylor was drowned near Henry, Illinois,
Feb. 22, 1860.

Francis Taylor died March 21,1841, and
his widow died Nov. 21, 1852, both in
Sangamon county, Illinois.

TAYLOR, EDMOND, was
bora Oct. 22, 1785, in Christian county,
Kentucky, married there to Mary Pugh,
had five children, and she died. He mar-
ried Constant Blakey, who was born June
22, 1791, in Georgia. They moved to
what became Sangamon county, arriving
in the fall of 1819, on Sugar creek, and in
1822 or '23 mcved to the south side of
Spring creek, four and a half miles west of
Springfield. They had eight children in
Sangamon county, three died young. Of
his ten children —

'JOHN, born in Kentucky, raised in
Sangamon county, married in 1829, in
Pike county, to Eveline Mclntire. They
have seven children, and live in Seneca,
Nemuha county, Kansas.

ED WARD, died in Sangamon county,
aged thirteen years.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky,
raised in Sangamon county, married
Samuel McClure, have nine children, and
resides near Macomb, Illinois.

ELLEN, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Martin L. C.
Kendall.

JAMES, born in Kentucky in 1818,
raised in San«ramon countv. became sheriff

of Menard countv, and died in office, un-
married, about 1848.

By the second wife —
WILLIAM, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, died in Iowa, aged twenty-one years.

NANCY, born in Sangamon county,
married Benjamin R. Kendall, have seven
children, and live in Jefferson countv,
Kansas.

SUSAN, born in Sangamon county,
married John Archer. See his name.
They reside near Macomb, Illinois.

DANIEL, born Nov. 28, 1829, in San-
gamon county, married Oct. 12, 1858, to
Nancy A. Ralston. They have six chil-
dren, WILLIAM E., JAMES H.,
FANNIE E., LAURA A., JOHN G.
and JANE K., and reside on the farm
where his parents settled in 1822 or '23.
It is four and a half miles west of Spring-
geld, Illinois.

AMERICA A., born Nov. 18, 1831,
in Sangamon county, and married John
Vulgamott. They have nine children,
and reside near Oakley, Macon county,
Illinois.

Edmond Taylor died August 20, 1866,
and Mrs. Constant Taylor died Sept. 17,
1872, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

T A Y LO R, J O H N . was born May
i, 1772, in Maryland. Three brothers,
Isaac, James and William Taylor, came
from England to America long before our
Revolution. \Vhere James and William
settled is unknown to the decedants of
Isaac, who settled in Maryland, and who
was the father of John, whose name heads
this sketch. The parents of John Taylor
emigrated when he was quite young to
Chester district, South Carolina, where
John was married to Susan Mobley. They
had seven children there, and moved in
1805 to that part of Barren which after-
wards became Hart county, Kentucky,
where one child was born, and Mrs. Susan
Taylor died there in 1808 or '9. John
Taylor was married in that county in 1816,
to Susan Trotter. They had one living
child there, and the family moved in 1818
to White county, Illinois. In the spring
of 1819 they moved to Wayne county,
where five children were born, and from
there to Sangamon county ,arriving in May,
1829, on Wolf creek, in Williams town-
ship, where three children were born,
making a total of seventeen children. John
Taylor spent six vears in Sangamon coim-

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ty, and then moved to Moultrie county Il-
linois. In 1849 he settled in Davis county,
Iowa. He left home in Davis county to
tend a religious meeting in the adjoining
county of Appanoose, and died there Nov.
7, 1856. His widow now resides with some
of her children near Drakesville, Davis
county, Iowa. Of all the children of John
Taylor, three only settled permanently in
Sangamon county. Simeon, the eldest,
James, the fifth, and Isaac, the eighth, all
hy the first marriage. Of the other four-
teen I shall speak first.

ELIZABETH, born Sept. 27, 1796,
was married in Kentucky to David Garri-
son. They moved to Whits, and from
there to Wayne county, Illinois, brought
up a family, and both died there.

MARY, born March 5, 1798, in South
Carolina, was married in Hart county,
Kentucky, to George Coats, and still lives
there, near Mumfordville.

NINIAN, born Dec. 19,1799, in South
Carolina, was married in Kentucky,
brought up a large family, and died there
in 1862.

NANCT, born Oct. 4, 1803, in South
Carolina, was married in Wayne county,
Illinois, to James Bowling, moved to
Moultrie county, brought up a large
family, and lives near Sullivan, Illinois.

JOHN M., born April 24, 1805, in
South Carolina, was married in Kentucky
to Nancy Wilson, moved in 1849 to
Appanoose county, Iowa, brought up a
large family, and died there.

HARRISON, born about 1817 in
Hart county, Kentucky, came to Sanga-
mon county with his parents, and was
married in Moultrie county, Illinois, to
Eliza Killian. They moved to Appanoose
county, Iowa, and he enlisted in the 37th
Iowa (Graybeard) Regiment. Harrison
Tavior died in Iowa, a member of that
regiment, leaving a large family near
Drakesville, Davis county, Iowa.

ANN, born in Wayne county, Illinois,
was married in Moultrie county to Albert
Killian, ant' died in Appanoose county,
near Drakesville, Iowa.

MELINDA, born in Wayne county,
Illinois, was married in Moultrie county
to John Fleming, and both died in Davis
county, Iowa.

CHESJ^ER, born in Wayne county,
Illinois, was married in Davis county,
Iowa, and still lives near Drakesville.

DENNIS, born in Wayne county,
Illinois, was married in Sangamon county
to Caroline Simpson, and died in Davis
county, Iowa, leaving a widow and four
children, one of whom died young. Of
the other three, PASCO, in stepping
from one railroad car to another, fell
through and was killed instantlv, in June
1875. ADDIE and LULA live with
their mother near Drakesville, Iowa.

HENRT, born in Wayne county,
Illinois, was married in Davis county,
Iowa.

LUCINDA, born in Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois, was married in Davis county,
Iowa, and died there.

AL VIN S., born June 19, 1834, in
Sangamon county, was married there
August 7, 1856, to Louisa J. Wilson.
They had two children in Sangamon
county, and moved in 1860 to Drakesville,
Davis county, Iowa, where two children
were born, one died in infancy. Mr.
Taylor enlisted August 9, 1862, in Co. B,
3oth Iowa Inf., for three years, was ap-
pointed first sergeant at the organization
of the company, promoted to first lieu-
tenant, but before receiving his commis-
sion, was promoted to captain and commis-
sioned by Governor Kirkwood, to take
rank from May 30, 1863. He entered
upon its duties in Mississippi, Sept. 2,
1^63, and was mortally wounded May 13,
1864, at Resacca, Georgia. He died there
in military hospital, June 7th. Of his
three children, CHARLES W. died Jan.
22, 1876. The other two, S. LESLIE
and NELLIE A., live with their mother,
half a mile south of Barclay, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

FOSTER, born in Sangamon county,
was married in Davis county, Iowa, and
moved farther west in the same State.

Of the three sons of John Taylor who
settled permanently in Sangamon county:

TAYLOR SIMEON, born
May 10, 1795, near Chester Court House,
Chester district, South Carolina, was
married March 5, 1817, in Hart coun-
ty, Kentucky, to Sarah Sturgeon. They
had one child there, and, in company
with his father's family, moved, in 1820,
to Wayne county, Illinois, where two chil-
dren were born. Mr. and Mrs. Tavior,
with their children, returned to Kentucky
on a visit, and Mrs. Taylor died there Au-
gust 19, 1824. In September, Mr. Taylor

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returned with his three children to Wayne
county, where he resided until the spring
of 1829, when, in company with his
brother James and family, he moved to
Sangamon county, and settled in what is
now Williams township. Of his three
children —

JAMES S., born May 29, 1818, in
Hart county, Kentucky, was married Feb.
25, 1841, in Sangamon county, to Sarah
Halbert, They had five living children.
SIDNEY E., born Feb. 26, 1842, married
James VV. Jones. See his name. MAR-
GARET J., born Dec. 9, 1843, was mar-
ried March i, 1866, to John L. Wright.
They have one living child, SARAH H.,
and reside five and one-half miles south-
east of Williamsville, Sangamon county,
111. SUSAN C., born Nov. 22, 1848, was
married March 29, 1869, to Benjamin F.
Cleverly. They have one child, LENA,
and live at Illiopolis, Sangamon county,
111. DRUSILLA, born Oct. 28, 1851,
married Mr. Hunter, and lives at River-
ton, Sangamon county, 111. ANNIE,
born Feb. 6, 1854, lives with her parents,
three-fourths of a mile south of Barclay,
Sangamon countv Illinois — 1874.

ELlZAJ3E7W,\)ovn March 31, 1821,
in Wayne county, Illinois, married Hugh
L. Cooper. See his name.

SUSANNAH, born Jan. 27, 1823, in
Wayne county, Illinois, was married in
Sangamon county to John Webb. See
his name. They have six children, and
live in loka, Keokuk county, Iowa.

Simeon Taylor was married the second
time August 9, 1832, in Sangamon county,
to Jane Blue. They had seven children,
namely:

JOHN B., born Nov. 2, 1833, married
Anna Thompson, who had one child,
JANE M., and Mrs. Anna Taylor died.
John B. Taylor married Jane Dickerson.
They have one child, JOHN W., and live
five miles southeast of Williamsville, in
Logan county, Illinois.

NANCY, born Nov. 23, 1834, was
married August 17, 1854,10 Adam Braugh-
ton, who was born June i, 1829, in Frank-
lin county, Ohio. They had nine children,
three of whom died under nine years of
age. JAMES A. died August 19, 1872, in
his tenth year, caused by the kick of a
horse. WTILLIAM M., GEORGE W.,
A DEL BERT C., EMELINE and
ETHEL live with their parents, two miles

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west of Barclay, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

NINIAN, M., born Dec. 26, 1835, was
married Jan. 15, 1857, to Elizabeth P.
Constant. She died Feb. 2, 1858, and N.
M. Taylor was married Jan. 11, 1859, to
Mahala E. Lard. They have four children,
SIMEON W.,CHARLES A., NINIAN
L. and LORIN O., and live four miles
southeast of Springfield, Illinois.

MART, born April 16, 1837, in Sanga-
mon county, and

EMILY, born August 16, 1838, are
unmarried, and live with their father.

CAROLINE, born Jan. 20, 1839, was
married August 28, 1857, to John Hendrix.
See his name. They live near Dawson,
Sangamon county, 111.

WILLIAM L., born Nov. 13, 1842, is
unmarried and lives with his father.

Mrs. Jane Taylor died Feb. 23, 1843, ant*
Simeon Taylor was married April 15, 1850,
to Susan Hendrix. They had one child,
SIMEON, which died in infancy, and
Mrs. Susan Taylor died July n, 1852.
Simeon Taylor resides on the farm where
he settled in 1829, three-fourths of a mile
north of Barclay, Sangamon county, 111.

TAYLOR, JAMES, born Nov.
2, 1801, in Chester district, South Caro-
lina, moved with his parents to Hart coun-
ty, Kentucky, and thence to Wayne coun-
ty, 111., where he was married to Mary
Kelly, who was born in Hart county, also,
and taken by her parents when young to
Wayne county. They had five children,
and moved to Sangamon county in the
spring of 1829, settling in what is now
Williams township, near Barclay, where
seven children were born. Of their nine
children who lived to any considerable age:

Z.ERELDA, born in Wayne county,
Illinois, married James W. Cooper. See
his name.

NINIAN R., born Feb. 13, 1825, in
Wayne county, Illinois, was married April
i, 1847, 'n Sangamon county, to Catha-
rine (Kittie) Halbert. They have five
living children. JOHN B., born May 22,
1851, was married Dec. 2, 1873, to Miranda
Turley, and lives in Williamsville.
LEWIS C., born April 9, 1854, graduated
at Bellevue Medical College, New York,
March i, 18755 and is practicing medicine
at Auburn, 111. ELLEN, EMMA and
FRANK H., live with their parents.
Ninian R. Taylor was elected in 1870 to

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represent Sangamon county, in the twenty-
seventh General Assembly of Illinois, for
two years. He and his family reside at
Williamsville, Sangamon county, 111. He
is a merchant there.

JOHN was drowned, aged ten years.
He and Eli Wilson were skating and both
were drowned.

R.HODA, born in Wayne county, Illi-
nois, was married in 1848 in Sangamon
county, 111., to Wm H. White. She died
of cholera in 1851, leaving one child, BER-
TRAND D. WHITE, who lives near
Gibson, Ford county, 111.

ISAAC J., born Oct. 12, 1830, in San-
gamon county, married Margaret Halbert.
They had two children, ALEXANDER
D , born May 9, 1854, graduated at Rush
Medical College, Chicago, in 1875, and is
practicing medicine at Cotton Hill, Sanga-
mon county, 111. MARY ETHEL, lives
with her father. Mrs. Margaret Taylor
died May 16, 1863, and I. J. Taylor was
married May 27, 1864, to Mary A. Mc-
Ginnis. They have two children, JOHN

E. and LEONARD R., and reside two
and a half miles southeast of Williamsville,
Sangamon county, 111.

JAMES H., born Dec. 25, 1832, in
Sangamon county, was married Jan. 5,
1855, to Rachel C. Groves. They had six
children. JAMES A. died in his fourth
year, BARBARA A., MARY E.,DORA
B., GERTRUDE C. and WILLIAM H.
live with their parents. James H. Taylor
moved his family to Danville, Illinois, Nov.
28, 1868, and now — 1876 — reside there.

SIMEON M., born Feb. 2, 1835, in
Sangamon county, married Louisa Bu-
chanan. They have one child, MARY
K., and reside on West Monroe street,
Springfield, Illinois

FRANCIS K., born June 14, 1840,
in Sangamon county, was married Oct.
24, 1 86 1, to Elizabeth Kalb. They had
three children, FLORA L., died Nov.
1 8, 1875, in her thirteenth year; NELLIE

F. died Nov. 25, 1875, in her tenth year,
and JAMES C. died Nov. 14, 1875, in his
sixth year, all of malignant diptheria. F.
L. Taylor and wife reside at the home-
stead where his father settled in 1829,
three-fourths of a mile north of Barclay,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

MARTIN K, born March 22, 1842,111
Sangamon county, married Mary Buch-
anan, a native of Brown county, Illinois.

They have three children, JESSE O.,
WILLIAM A. and JENNIE L., and
live near Barclay, Illinois.

Mrs. Mary Taylor died July 27, 1852,
and James Taylor died July 27, 1857, both
where they settled in 1829, near Barclay,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

TAYLOR, ISAAC, born Feb. 9,
1807, in Hart county, Kentucky, came
with his father to \Vhite county, and from
there to Wayne county, Illinois. He
came alone in 1828 to Sangamon county,
being the first of the family to arrive. In
February, 1829, he went to the Wisconsin
lead mines, and returned in September of
that year, entered land and made some
improvements near where German
Prairie Station now stands. He enlisted
in 1831 under Captain, now General,
Moses K. Anderson, in the Blackhawk
war, but their services were not needed.
In the spring of 1832 he passed through
Blackhawk's army at Dixon, on his way
to to the lead mines, and was in great
danger, as hostilities commenced soon
after. He volunteered at the mines and
served until the close of the war, returning
home in December, 1832. He was mar-
ried Feb. 13, 1834, to Sarah M. Elliott, at
Springfield, Illinois. They had thirteen
children. Of their eleven living chil-
dren—

MART J., born Dec. n, 1835, in
Sangamon county, was married Feb. 9,
1854, to William H. White. They have
seven living children, CHARLES,
FLORENCE, MARTHA, GEORGIA,
MARY A., EMMA and NELLIE, who
live with their parents near Gibson City,
Ford county, Illinois.

ZILPHA A., born May 27, 1838, in
Sangamon county, was married there in
July, 1856, to James S. Halbert. They
had two living children, M. ESTELLA
and ROSELLA. Mrs. Halbert then
married James H. Cartwell. See his
name. They have one child, LESLIE
G.

SARAH E., born July 19, 1840, mar-
ried Isaac Wilson. See his name. They
have five living children, KATE,
ALBERT, ELMER, ELIZA and
NORA.

DA VID A., born j"uly 16, 1842, in
Sangamon county, was married January,
1866, to Mary C. Constant. She died
August 21, 1874, leaving three children,

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OTTO, EMMA H. and JIMMIE H.,
who live at present — 1876 — with their
grand-papa Taylor. David A. Taylor
lives near Gibson City, Ford county, 111.

NANNIE E., born March 13/1864,
and

AMANDA M., born June 4, 1846, re-
side with their parents.

JOHN W., born March i, 1848, in
Sangamon county, was married Jan. 17,
1872, in Springfield, Illinois, to Lydia A.
Claspill, who was born Nov. 5, 1849, at
Moore's Hill, Dearborn county, Indiana.
They have two children, CLARA
MAUD and NELLIE M., and reside
on the farm where his father settled in
1830. It is near German Prairie Station,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

ISAAC H., born March 16, 1850, in
Sangamon county, graduated at Rush
Medical College, Chicago, Illinois, Feb-
ruary, 1871, and was married Jan. 16, 1872,
to Irena Constant. They have one child,
PERCY L. Dr. I. H. Taylor is a prac-
ticing physician, and resides at Barclay,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

JAMES Z., born Feb. 7, 1853, in
Sangamon county, and attend lectures at
Rush Medical College, Chicago, Illinois,
during the winter of 1875 and '76.

C. L. ROSCOJ5,born April 8, 1855,
in Sangamon county, and

WALTER C., born Dec. 28, 1856,
live with their parents.

Isaac Taylor and family reside one and
three-quarter miles west of Dawson,
Sangamon county, Illinois. Mr. Taylor
says that Jacob Donner and Wife were
members of the Christian Church, that
then worshipped near German Prairie
Station. Mr. Taylor being clerk, gave
them letters, by order of the church,
when thev left for the Pacific coast, and to
the horrible doom that awaited them. His
recollection of Jacob Donner is that he
was a model Christian gentleman.

TAYLOR, JOHN, was born in
Danville, Ky. He came when a young
man to Madison county, Illinois, and was
there married to Elizabeth Burkhead,
who was born near Charleston, South
Carolina. They returned to Kentucky,
and had three children there, and moved
to Edwardsville, Illinois, where they had
one child, and from there to what became
Sangamon county, arriving in 1819 on
Sugar creek, in what is now Ball town-

ship, where they had two children, and in
1822 moved to Springfield, where they had
two children. When Sangamon county
was organized, in 1821, John Taylor was
elected sheriff, and by re-elections held the
office about six years. He was afterwards
appointed receiver of the United States
Land Office at Springfield, was one of the
original proprietors of the town, and did
much in the way of improvements to ad-
vance its interests. Of his children —

HANNAH, born Jan. 27, 1811, in
Kentucky, was married in Springfield
April, 1832, to S. M. Tinsley, a native of
Virginia. They had eleven children in
Springfield. Mr. Tinsley was for many
years one of the leading merchants of the
city, and died in 1867. Mrs. Hannah
Tinsley died m July, 1869.

MARGARET, born Dec. 28, 1813, in
Kentucky, was married Sept. 28, 1829, in
Springfield, Illinois, to Edmond Dick
Taylor, who was born October 18,
1804, at Lunenburg Court House,
V irginia. His father's name was Giles
Taylor, and his mother's maiden
name was Sina Stokes. They moved
to Lexington, Kentucky, in 1806, and
two years later to Hopkinsville, in the
same State. In 1814 they moved to
Gallatin county, Illinois, where Mr.
Taylor was tor several years engaged in
the manufacture of salt. Edmund D.
Taylor came to Springfield in the fall of
1823, and went into general merchandising,
with Colonel John Taylor, who after-
wards became his father-in-law. In 1832
he was elected to represent Sangamon
county in the Illinois Legislature, his
opponent being no less a personage than
Abraham Lincoln. He can justly boast
of being the only man that ever defeated
Mr. Lincoln in an election. In 1834 he
was elected to the State Senate. In 1835
he resigned his seat in the Senate to
accept the appointment from President
Jackson as receiver of public moneys in the
United States land office in Chicago, and
opened the first land sale ever held there, in
June, 1835. ^n f°rty days he found himself
in possession of $493,000. When he re-
ported it to the Secretary of the Treasury,
that officer responded with the exclama-
tion, " Is this not fiction ? " Colonel Tay-
lor's bond was only $30,000. He was for
many years actively engaged in politics as
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been engaged in banking and land specu-
lations all his life. He lost several thousand
dollars in the Chicago fire, but is still very
wealthy and full of business. Colonel E.
D. Taylor and wife had thirteen children,
six only of whom are living. One
daughter married S. Snowden Hayes, and
lives in Chicago. Colonel Taylor's busi-
ness is largely in Chicago, but he resides
at Mendota, Illinois.

JAMES, born Jan 27, 1814, in Chris-
tian county, Kentucky, was brought up in
Springfield, Illinois. He was a soldier
from Sangamon county in the Blackhawk
war. His sister, Mrs. Hurst, remembers
that herself and some other school girls
went into a bakery and assisted in preparing
crackers for the soldiers, at the time her
brother went. James Taylor was married
in Springfield July 25, 1837, to Eliza C.
Bryan, daughter of Nicholas Bryan.
See his name. They had six living chil-
dren, MARY E., born June 14, 1839, in
Petersburg, Illinois, married in Spring-
field June, 25, 1874, to James M. Barclay,
a native of Kentucky. They have one
child, LOUAN E., and live in Cairo, Illinois,
ELIZA B., born Dec. 9, 1841, in Peters-
burg, Illinois, was married March 19,
1863, in Beardstown, Illinois, to Robert
W. Miller, of Sangamon county. They
have four children, WINLOCK w., JEAN-

NETTE, ROBERT TAYLOR and MARY B.,

and live at Cairo, Illinois. HANNAH
T., born Oct. 15, 1843, was married in
Springfield April 17, 1867, to James M.
Epler. They have three children, ANNIE
LOU, HANNAH T. and JAMES T., and live
in Jacksonville, Illinois. ANN M., born
Oct. i, 1845, in Springfield, lives with her
mother. JOHN C., born Nov. 10, 1647,
in Bath, Mason county, Illinois, was mar-
ried in Clinton, Illi lois, Sept. 24, 1873, to
Mary Jane Bryan, a native of Pennsyl-
vania. They have one child, JOHN CLAY,
and live in Springfield. JAMES S.,
born August 16, 1855, at Beardstown,
Illinois, lives with his mother. James
Taylor went to Petersburg soon after
marriage, and sold goods there five years.
He afterwards moved to Springfield and
remained five years, thence to Beardstown,
where he was sheriff of Cass county from
1850 to i £>59, and four years circuit clerk.
He returned to Springfield in 1863 and
acted as deputy shei'ifF one year. He

died July 26, 1873, and his widow resides
in Springfield, Illinois.

ED WARD J., born in Edwardsville,
Illinois, brought up in Springfield, is un-
married, and lives now — 1876 — in Mary-
ville, Missouri.

JANE E., born June 27, 1820, in San-
gamon county, was married in Springfield
to David Kriegh, a native ot Hagerstown,
Maryland. They live in Chicago, Illinois.

ANN, born April 3, 1822, in Sangamon
county, was married in Springfield to
Charles R. Hurst. See his name.

WILLIAM W., born October, 1820,
in Springfield, Illinois, died in 1853.

ANDRE W J.

John Taylor died at Beardstown May
12, 1849, on his waj to New Orleans.
Mrs. Elizabeth Taylor died July, 1855, in
Springfield, Illinois.

TAYLOR, JOHN, was born Sept.
I, 1804, in Tennessee, and when quite
young was taken by his parents to Cape
Girardeau county, Missouri. Mary
Thomas was born Nov. 14, 1799, in
Bracken county, Ky. Her parents moved
to Lebanon, Ohio, and from there to St.
Genevieve county, Mo., and then to Cape
Girardeau county. She was there married
to Samuel Cupples, had three children, and
Mr. Cupples died in 1828. Mrs. Cupples
was married March 22, 1834, to John Tay-
lor. They had two children in Cape Girar-
deau county, and moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving in the spring of
1837, we§t of Springfield, and early in
1838 moved to a farm he purchased, in
what is now Gardner township, north of
Spring creek, where three children were
born. Of all her children —

MART Cupples, born Dec. 8, 1821, in
Missouri, is unmarried, and lives with her
mother.

FRANCES T. Cupples, born March
9, 1823, in Missouri, married Sept. 28,
1847, to Ly sander Root, and she died Feb.
16, 18=50.

R US ETTA C. Cupples was born
Nov. n, 1826, in Missouri, married April
9, 1844, in Sangamon county, to Jesse M.
Shepherd. They have three living chil-
dren, and reside at Baker City, Oregon.
He is a practicing attorney, and editor of
the Bed Rock Democrat — 1874.

Of the Taylor children —

ANN E., born Nov. 25, 1834, in Mis-

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souri, died in Sangamon county, Feb. 6,
1850.

AD ALINE C., born August 8, 1836,
in Missouri, married in Sangamon county,
March, 1854, to John P. Attix. They have
three children, and live near Keosauqua,
Iowa.

RICHARD S., born May 25, 1838, in
Sangamon county, married in Iowa, Dec.
25, 1867, has two children, and lives at Os-
wego, Kansas.

MARGARET A., born June 18, 1840.
in Sangamon county, lives with her mother,

JOHN W., born August 10, 1842, in
Sangamon county, was married Feb. 25,
1864, to Margaret L. Stevenson. They
had three children, LOTTIE B., JESSE
B. and CLARA L. Mrs. Margaret L.
Taylor died July 6, 1872, and John W.
Taylor married in 1874 Nancy E. McKin-
nie. They have one child, WILLIAM,
and live near Bradfordton, Sangamon
county, 111.

John Taylor died April 22, 1853, in San-
gamon county, and his widow resides
where they settled in 1838. It is one and
three-fourth miles southwest of Bradford-
ton, Sangamon county, 111.

TAYLOR, JOHN W I C K-
LIFFE, was born April 21, 1798, in
Boone county, Kentucky, nearly opposite
Lawrenceburg, Indiana. In 1802 his
parents moved to that part of Gallatin
which is now Trimble county in the same
State, opposite the city of Madison,
Indiana. <See sketch of his two sisters,
Mrs. Jane E. Elliott, widow of James
Elliott, and Mrs. Sally Smith, widow of
Joseph Smith. J. Wickliffe Taylor was
married June i, 1820, in Tremble county,
Kentucky, to Jemima Gray, who was born
there Feb. 8, 1804. They had one child
there, and moved to Springfield, Illinois,
. early in 1833. In April, 1834, they moved
to what ia now Cartwright township, ten
miles west of Springfield, where they had
three children. Of their four children —

JOHN P., born April 10, 1821, in
Kentucky, died there July 19, 1832.

BENJAMIN P., born and died in
Sangamon county, aged three years.

WILLIAM //., born August 2, 1838,
in Sangamon county. He has spent the
last two years in Colorado, and has just
returned to Sangamon county, and lives
near Wheatfield.

SALLIE JANE, born August 12,
1843, and died April 18, 1858.

Mrs. Jemima Taylor died in 1874, near
Wheatfield. Since her death Mr. Taylor
has lived with his sister, Mrs. Smith, at
Bates.

T. W. Taylor was elected in 1852 Judge
of the Sangamon county court, and served
four years.

TAYLOR, WILLIAM, was
born in Bath county, Kentucky, married
there to Mrs. Patrick, and brought his
family to Sangamon county, Illinois, ar-
riving in 1835 in what is now Cotton Hill
township. His son —

ED WARD,\>ovn in Bath county, Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to a
daughter of Isaac Martin, who was a
brother to Abraham Martin. His daugh-
ter, MELISSA, born in Sangamon county,
Jan. 8, 1845, mari~ie(3 Sept. 27, 1866, to
John W. Wigginton, who was born Jan.
12, 1835, in Trimble county, Kentucky, and
came to Sangamon county in 1866. They
reside at Breckenridge Sangamon county,
Illnois.

TAYLOR, WILLI AM, B., was
born Dec. 25, 1800, near Salem, New Jer-
sey. Beulah Smith was born Dec. 19, 1810,
in Cape May county, New Jersey. They
were married Jan. 4, 1830, in Cape May
county, and had three living children in
New Jersey. They moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving May 16, 1838, in
what is now Gardner township, one and a
half miles north of Farmingdale, where
they had five children. Of their eight
children —

JOHN L., born Oct. 13 1830, in New
Jersey, raised in Sangamon county, and
started April 4, 1851, to California. He has
not been definitely heard fiom by his
friends since 1857.

BEULAH ANN., born August 10,
1835, in New Jersey, married in Sanga-
mon county, in 1857, *° Isom Bolin. They
have six children and live in Sangamon
countv, Illinois.

R OX AN A S., born Oct. 22, 1837, in
New Jersey, is unmarried, and resides with
her brother, William B., Jun.

VICTORIA M., born Dec. 28, 1839,
in Sangamon county ,lives with her brother,
William B. Jun.

JOSEPHINE, M., born March 3,
1840, in Sangamon county, married Nov.
ii, 1858,10 Sidney Robins, had one child,

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CHARLES, and for a second husband
married, August, 1867, to Geo J. Fiddler.
They have one child, JACOB BEN., and
live in Mason City, Illinois.

WILLIAM BIDDLE, Jun., born
June i, 1842, in Sangamon county, and re-
sides four miles north of Farmingdale,
Sangamon county, Illinois — 1874.

ABIGAIL B., born March 20, 1845,
in Sangamon county, married April 6,
1865, to Thomas Maylor, and lives near
Coyville, Wilson county, Kansas.

ZACHART, born 'Oct. 23, 1846, in
Sangamon county, and died Oct. 15, 1864.

William B. Taylor, Sen., died May 26,
1852, and his widow died August 22, 1860,
both in Sangamon county. He was re-
lated to Nicholas Biddle, who was asso-
ciated with the first United States bank.

THAYER, JOSEPH, was born
June. 30, 1786, at Amherst, Massachusetts.
He moved to Springfield, Illinois, in 1834.
He is the father of Rev. Erastus W.
Thayer, of Chatham, Illinois, and of
Edward R. Thayer, one of the oldest
merchants of Springfield. Joseph Thayer
is in his ninety-first year, and resides in
Springfield, Illinois. His brother, Asahel,
resides in Waverly, Illinois. His brother,
Martin, was the father of William P.
Thayer. See his name. Joseph Thayer's
brother, Stephen, was the father of Henry
Thayer, of Chatham, Illinois. See
Huston.

THAYER, ASAHEL, born
Feb. 104 1790, in Amherst, Massachusetts,
was married May, 1813, to Mary Cannon,
of Greenwich, Massachusetts. They had
eleven children, five of whom died young.
They moved to Chatham, Sangamon
county, Illinois, May 14, 1839, thence to
Morgan -county, Illinois, in 1846. Ot their
children —

LOIS K., born in 1814 in Amherst,
Massachusetts, was married in February,
1839, to George W. Crooker. See his
name. Mrs. Lois Crooker died suddenly
at Taylorville, Illinos, July 5, 1876, after
the Crooker family sketch was printed.
See sketch of G. W. Crooker.

ASAHEL E., born in 1821 in Am-
herst, was a member of the junior class in
Amherst College, when he came to
Illinois with his father, began the study of
medicine with Dr.J. B. Lewis,of Chatham,
and died in his twenty-first year.

GUSTAVUS H., born in 1825, in

Amherst, is a graduate of Illinois College,
and at one time a minister in the M. E.
Church. He is unmarried, and resides
with his father.

HELEN, born in 1827, in Amherst,
died in her twenty-eighth year.

EMMA) born in 1832, in Amherst,
was married January, 1850, to T. Milton
Metcalf. He is now county clerk of
Macoupin county. They have an
adopted daughter, and reside in Carlinville,
Illinois.

FRANCES A., born in 1834 in Am-
herst, resides with her father.

Mrs. Mary Thayer died May, 1866, in
Waverly, where Asahel Thayer now re-
sides— 1876.

THAYER, WILLIAM P.,

was born March 15, 1815, in Petersburg,
Virginia. His father, Martin Thayer,was
a native of Amherst, Massachusetts, and
when a young man went to Petersburg,
Virginia, where he engaged in business,
and was there married to Mrs. Mary C.
Mason, whose maiden name was Russell.
When the subject of this sketch was about
seven years old, his mother died, and his
father closed his business and returned to
Amherst, Massachusetts, where William
P. remained until he was fifteen years old,
when he went to New York city as clerk
in a dry goods house. About a year later
his father engaged in the dry goods busi-
ness in Philadelphia, and William P. joined
him there as clerk. In 1835 the latter went
to Newville, Cumberland county, Pennsyl-
vania, and began merchandizing on his
own account. He was there married, Jan.
4, 1837, to Mary Huston, who was born
in Newville, Jan. 21, 1817. Mr. Thayer
closed his business there, and started Jan.
31, 1838, for the west, accomnanied by his
wife, babe and servant girl. They traveled
in a two-horse wagon, fitted up with a
stove, and windows on the sides, so that the
family might be comfortable, and also see
the country as they passed along. After
six months travel and many hair-breadth
escapes from icy roads and high water,
they arrived in Springfield, Illinois, March
13, 1838, and came very near stalling, with
his wagon to the axles in the mud, near
the southeast corner of the State House
Square. They had seven children in San-
gamon county. Of all their children —
JAMES H., born Sept. 19, 1837, in

SANGAMON COUNT?.

711

Pennsylvania, died July 25, 1861, in San-
gamon county, Illinois.

SARAH J., born Sept. 2, 1839,111 San-
gamon county, was married Oct. 14, 1857,
to Thomas P. Boone, who was born June
27, 1833, in Elton, Todd county, Ky. He
is a distant relative of Daniel Boone, the
famous hunter and Indian fighter. Mr.
and Mrs. Boone had seven children.
WILLIE I. died in his seventh year,
MARY E. died in infancy, MARTIN
R., CHARLES H., FRANK1E P., and
HARRY F., live with their parents. The
youngest died in infancy. Mr. and Mrs.
Boone reside in Springfield, Illinois.

MARTIN R., born Feb. 27, 1842, was
married Sept. 19, 1867, to Harriet Melvin,
a native of Beaver county, Pennsylvania.
They have three children, MAUD, LIL-
LIAN and RUSSELL, and live in
Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM P., Jun., born Jan. 10,
1846, was married at Paris, 111., June 26,
1873, to Mollie E. Patton, who was born
August 21, 1854. They reside in Spring-
field, 111.

ARCHIE F., EDWARD R, and
BERTIE reside with their father.

DOLLIE, next to the youngest child,
was married in Chatham in September,
1873, to Joseph Hudson, an agent of the
Chicago and Alton Railroad, and resides
at Chenoa, Illinois.

Mrs. Mary H. Thayer died June 10,
1872, in Chatham, 111., and William P.
Thayer, Sen., was married Dec. 31, 1873,
in Springfield, to Elizabeth Dresser. See
sketch of Re~c. Chas. Dresser and family.
Wm. P. Thayer, Sen., is, in connection
with his son, Martin R., proprietor of the
Chatham flouring mill, and resides in
Springfield, 111.

TH AXTO N, J A M ES H.,
was born Oct. 28, 1823, in Allen county,
Kentucky. He came to Sangamon coun-
ty, arriving in the fall of 1839, in what is
now Fancy Creek township. He was
married in 1845 *-° Margaret Huffman.
They had six living children in Sangamon
county, namely —

ARMINDA, born in Sangamon
county, married Oscar F. Shepherd.
See his name.

MART A. married James B. Van
Meter. See. his name.

CLAR1XDA, LEWIS, CARO-
LINE and RHODA live with their

parents near Sherman, Sangamon county,
Illinois — 1874.

James H. Thaxton had a sister who
married Thomas Brown. See his name.

THOMPSON, JOHN, born
March 28, 1783, in Dauphin county,
Pennsylvania, left Harrisburg in 1802 for
Grant county, Kentucky, and was married
there January 9, 1810, to Sarah Points,
who was born Feb. 12, 1791. They had
two children, and Mrs. Sarah Thompson
died Feb. 21, 1815. John Thompson was
married Nov. 13, 1817, in Montgomery
county to Elizabeth Ferguson, who was
born June 18, 1791, in that county. They
settled in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and
had five children there. They returned
to Montgomery county, where four chil-
dren were born, and moved from there to
Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct.
8, 1836, near Springfield, and a few weeks
later moved to a farm adjoining
Mechanicsburg on the west. Of their
eleven children —

JAMES, born Nov. 7, 1810, in Ken-
tucky, married a Miss Black and moved
to the vicinity of Greencastle, Indiana, in
1835, anfl cuefl there soon after.

JOHN, born August i, 1813, in Ken-
tucky, died in Sangamon county, Nov. 16,
1837. The children by the second mar-
riage are —

MART G., born Oct. i, 1818, in Bour-
bon county, Kentucky, was married in San-
gamon county May 30, 1837, to Benjamin
B. Branson. See his name.

HARVET, born Feb. 2, 1820, in
Bourbon county, Kentucky, was married
March 4, 1844, in Sangamon county to
Mary B. Hughes, a native of Bourbon
county, Kentucky, also. She died in
November, 1864. He was married
May 6, 1851, to Mary A. Patton, who
was born April 9, 1832, in Pike county,
Missouri. They had one child, ED-
WARD P., born Feb. 24, 1852, and Mrs.
Mary A. Thompson died. Harvey
Thompson was married Sept. 9, 1869, at
Pittsfield, Pike countv, Illinois, to Mrs.
Ruth A. Hubbard, whose maiden name
was Davis, a native of Scott county, Illinois.
She had two children by a former mar-
riage, MARY L. and THOMAS J.
HUBBARD, who live with their mother.
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Thompson reside
in Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, 111.

WILLIAM *., born April 21/1821,

EARLT SETTLERS OF

in Bourbon county, Kentucky, was mar-
ried in Sangamon county, Illinois, to Mar-
garet Vanderen. They had two children,
one of whom died young. ELIZA F.
lives with her mother. W. F. Thompson
died Sept. 23, 1851, and his widow mar-
ried Louis Johnson. See his name.

JOSIAH M., born Oct. 11,1822, in
Bourbon county, Kentucky, was married
in Sangamon county, April 13, 1860, to
Maggie Munce, who was born Jan. 17,
1837, at Rising Sun, Indiana. They have
three children, ELIZA, JOHN A. and
THOMAS M., who live with their
parents in Mechanicsburg, Illinois.

PRISCILLA M., born April 22,
1824, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, was
married in Sangamon county to John R.
Grove. See his name. John R. Grove
died Sept. 20, 1849, and his widow mar-
ried Rev. Joseph M. Grout, who was born
near Boston, Massachusetts. Mr. Grout
was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at
Shelbyville, Illinois, and died of cholera,
August 7, 1855, &ivm£» his life as a sacrifice
in his efforts to relieve the sick. His
widow died at Mechanicsburg, Dec. 2,
1855. They left two sons, WILLIAM
T.. born March 12, 1853, in Mechanics-
burg, Illinois, was married Oct. 20, 1875,
in his native place, to Georgie E. Hall,
daughter of David S. Hall. See his
name. William T. Grout is cashier in
Thompson & Bro's bank, and resides in
Mechanicsburg, Illinois. JOSEPH M.
Grout, born Sept. 21, 1855, m Mechanics-
burg, Illinois, was brought up by his aunt,
Mrs. Branson, graduated at Illinois Col-
lege, in Jacksonville, June, 1876, and is
now — November, 1876 — a law student in
Springfield, Illinois.

ANDREW TODD, born Jan. 30,
1827, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, was
married Dec. 19, 1850, to Elizabeth C.
Grove. Thev have three living children,

WILLIAM" w., LAURA B. and

MAGGIE E., who live with their parents
in Mechanicsburg, Illinois.

SALLY A., born July 10, 1828, died
in Kentucky.

ELIZABETH A., born April 11,
1830, in Montgomerv county, Kentucky,
was married in Sangamon county to Peter
L. Earnest. See his name.

HENRY CLAY, born August 10,
1833, in Montgomery county, Kentucky,
was married at Brighton, Illinois, to

Maggie E. Johnson. They have three
children, ADDIE L., HENRY R. and
ZOIE, and reside at Boulder City, Colo-
rado.

John Thompson died Oct. 14, 1855, and
his widow died Nov. 22, 1868, both at
Mechanicsburg, Sangamon countv, 111.

THOMPSON, ROBERT B.,
born March 17, 1795, at Saratoga, N. Y.,
came to Springfield in the autumn of 1824.
He was a carpenter by trade, and found
work immediately. It is believed that he
nailed on the first shingles, and hung the
first panel door in Springfield. He was
married Jan. 13, 1825, to Mary Matheny,
sister of Noah, Charles, James and Cook.
They had ten children, namely:

LUCY M., born August 26, 1826, in
Springfield, was married Nov. 12, 1850,10
George Shake. They have four children.
GEORGE A. is a dry goods clerk in Pal-
mer, 111. CHARLES L., LUCY M. and
ANNA M., the three latter reside with
their parents, near Palmer, Christian coun-
ty, 111.

MEL VINA A., born August 24, 1828,
in Springfield, was married there Feb. 14,
1856, to Colby Smith. They have three
children, NOAH M., CLARA C. and
ALMA L., and reside at Fort Scott, Kan-
sas.

JOSEPH R., born August 9, ig3o,
died in his twentieth year.

MARTHA C. J., born Aug. 20, 1833,
in Springfield, married Sept. 12, 1852, to
William F. Hill. They have one child,
WILLIAM A., who resides with his
parents, near Joplin, Jasper county, Mo.

GEORGE R. S., born Dec. 2, 1835, in
Springfield, married Martha T. Miller, and
died in January, 1853, leaving one child,
GEORGETTA. Mrs. Martha T.Thomp-
son married J. S. Robinette, and resides in
Springfield, 111.

MARYE.,born Feb. S, 1838, in Knox
county, 111., died Jan. 7, 1845.

CHARLES R., born March 29, 1840,
in Knox county, Illinois, married Eliza-
beth A. Sears, of Humboldt, Kansas. They
have seven children, MARY W., HAR-
RISON S., MATILDA, ANNA,
MARTHA,CHARLES S., and ALMA,
who reside with their parents, near Golden
Gate, Chautauqua county, Kansas.

JAMES M., born Nov. 27, 1841, in
Warren county, Illinois, died in April,
1860.

SANGAMON COUNTY.

ISABELLA F., born March 29, 1844,
in Sangamon county, married B. F. Watts,
Nov. 8, 1867. They have three children,
ROBERT T., MARY M. and VIOLA
I., who reside with their parents, near Pal-
mer, Christian county, 111.

NOAH A., born August 5, 1847, in
Sangamon county, died in his eighth year.

Robert B. Thompson died March 9,
1853, two and a half miles northeast of
Chatham, and Mrs. Mary Thompson, died
July 30, 1872, in Christian county. Both
were buried in Sangamon county, Illinois.

THOMPSON, SAMUEL M.,
was born Feb. 12, i8oi,in Davidson coun-
ty, eighteen miles west of Nashville, Tenn.
He educated himself, and, in connection
with General Moses K. Anderson, taught
a military school, having branches in David-
son and Dickson counties. Mr. Thomp-
son came to Sangamon county, Illinois, ar-
riving in the fall of 1828 in what is now
Cartwright township. He returned to
Davidson county, Tennessee, and was mar-
ried in February, 1831, to Cynthia Mc-
Crary. He returned to Sangamon county
in the spring of that year. Mr. Thomp-
son volunteered in 1832 for the campaign
against the Indians under their chief, Black
Hawk. He was in the company of which
Abraham Lincoln was Captain, and was
elected First Lieutenant at the time
the company was organized, on Rich-
land creek. Lincoln was elected Captain
at the same time and place. That com-
pany united at Beardstown with another
from Sangamon county, under Captain
Gooding. They were ordered from Beards-
town to Rushville, and were consolidated
with two other companies to form the
4th Reg. 111. Vols. Lieutenant Thompson
was elected Colonel of the Regiment. He
was thus promoted over Captain Lincoln.
The latter, however, it should be said, was
not a candidate for the office of Colonel.
The call was for thirty days, expecting the
Indians would retreat across the Missis-
sippi river as they had done the year be-
fore. The savages did not retreat, and the
regiment was out about sixty days without
an engagement. It was disbanded and
mustered out of service at Ottowa, June,
1832, by Colonel Zachary Taylor, after-
wards President of the United States.
Colonel S. M. Thompson and wife had
one child born in Sangamon county, and
moved to Beardstown in the fall of 1832,
—90

where one child was born. In 1836 Colo-
nel T. moved to Burlington, Iowa, where
three children were born, all of whom
died in infancy. Of the two eldest —

ALETHIA A., born Feb. 13, 1832, in
Sangamon county, Illinois, was married
July 31, 1848,511 Monroe county, Iowa, to
Isaac Hittle, Dec. 7, 1849,111 Rush county,
Indiana. They had eleven children. One
died in infancy. CYNTHIA E., born
Feb. 5, 1851, was married Feb. 15, 1865,10
John Blnkeley. They reside near Wil-
liamsburg, Franklin county, Kansas.
CLARISSA A., born May 15, 1853, was
married August 12, 1875, to David Horbi-
son, and reside in Howard county, Kansas.
WILLIAM H., SAMUEL A., LIDA
M., SABINA, MARY A., ISAAC O.,
JAMES A. and ROSA A., reside with
their parents near Hillsdale, Miami county,
Kansas.

ZANE E., born May 18, 1834, at
Beardstown, Illinois, was married May 4,
1851, at Eddyville, Iowa, to William
Briggs, of Ohio. They had seven chil-
dren, MAHLON S., OLIVE, JULIA,
ANNIE, CHARLIE, GEORGE and
GRANT. Mr. Briggs lost his life in
attempting to rescue his son from a coal
bank infected with fire damp. He failed
in his efforts, and a third man, who came
to their assistance, lost his life. This acci-
dent occurred in 1870 or '71. Mrs. Briggs
by that calamity was incapacited from
taking care of herself and the children re-
side near Eddyville, Iowa.

Mrs. Cynthia Thompson died in Octo-
ber, 1843, near Burlington, Iowa. Colonel
Thompson was married in 1855 in Ma-
haska county, Iowa, to Mrs. Nancy Wai-
don, whose maiden name was Sullivan.
She was a native of Davidson county,
Tennssee, also. They reside iti Osage
county, near Williamsburg, Franklin coun-
ty, Kansas.

Colonel Thompson has always heard
that railroad trains were swift, but he was
able to keep ahead of them until Novem-
ber 26, 1874, when he entered a car for the
first time at Garnet, Kansas, to visit his old
friends in Illinois.

THOMAS, Mrs. FRANCES,
was born in Culpepper county, Virginia,
moved to Kentucky, thence to Missouri,
and to Sangamon county in 1837, with her
daughter —

EARL? SETTLERS OF

MARY, who married William B. Tay-
lor. See his name. Her son

JESSE B. Thomas, was one of the
two first United States Senators from Illi-
nois.

Mrs. Frances Thomas died in Sanga-
mon county in 1855.

T H O R N T O N, WI LLI AM,
was born Jan. 17, 1789, in Caroline coun-
ty, Virginia. He was married Sept. 6,
1808, to Judith P. Thornton, who was
born in the same county, June 28, 1788.
Soon after they were married they moved,
in company with her fathe'r, to Bourbon
county, Kentucky, where they had seven
children and moved to Harrison county,
where two children were born. They
moved to Montgomery county in the same
State, and from there to Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1834,
stopping one year in what is now Wood-
side township, and in 1835 moved on land
Mr. Thornton had previously entered, in
what is now the town of Chatham. Of
their children —

MILDRED R., married in Kentucky
to Rev. Dewey Whitney. They came to
Sangamon county with her parents, and
had two children. Mr. Whitney was pas-
tor of the Second Presbyterian Church in
Springfield a few years, when he aban-
doned the ministry in consequence of fail-
ing health, studied medicine, and after
practicing at different places in New York,
moved to Yazoo county, Mississippi,where
he was killed by a fall from a horse in
1856. Their daughter, JULIA O., mar-
ried Geoiye O. Allen and lives in St.
Louis, Missouri. WILLIAM D., married
in Brandon, Mississippi, to Mrs. Rebecca
Carroll, whose maiden name was Cal-
houn. They both died leaving one child.
Mrs. Mildred R. Whitney died June 17,
1871, at the house of her daughter, Mrs.
Allen, in St. Louis, Missouri.

MART E., married Samuel N. Fullin-
wider. See his name,

EMMA Z>., married John R. Duryee,
and had two children. JOHN W-, mar-
ried Lucy M. Whitney and lives at Mar-
shalltown, Iowa. MARY L., lives with
her mother. Mr. Duryee died Jan. 31,
1860, and his widow and daughter reside
in Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois —
1874.

MARTHA W., married Rev. Josiah
Porter. See his name.

WILLIAM S,, married Jan. i, 1838,
to Roxana Lyman, and he died June n,
1838, less than six months after he was
married. His widow married Aaron
Palmer, moved to Chicago, and died there
in 1871.

ELIZABEJ^H W., is unmarried, and
lives at Chatham, on the homestead settled
by her parents in 1835.

LUCY D., married Francis Conway
Thornton, had two children. He died
June 26, 1844, and hi« widow married Wil-
liam K. Hardin. They have three chil-
dren and live in Virden, Illinois.

JUDITH P. is unmarried, and lives
at the homestead in Chatham, Illinois.

L YMAN 7\ died in Kentucky at three
years of age.

Mrs. Judith P. Thornton died Dec. 29,
1851, and Colonel William Thornton died
May 7, 1871, both at Chatham, Sangamon
county, Illinois. Mr. Thornton was a
Lieutenant in the war of 1812 from Ken-
tucky.

The Misses Thornton remember that
on the day of the " sudden change," Dec.
20, 1836, a man by the name of Lucas,
who lived about a mile and a half north-
east of Chatham, rode to their house. It
was raining when he started, and when he
had got half the distance the cold wave
struck him. His overcoat was frozen to
his saddle, his feet frozen in the stirrups,
and he so chilled as to be helpless. Their
father (Mr. Thornton) had to knock the
ice from the stirrups before he could be
taken from the horse.

TIPTON, DAVID B., born
May 4, 1799, in Blount county, Tennessee,
was married there to Rebecca Jones, who
was born in 1802 in Carter county, in the
same State. Thev had three children in
Tennessee, and the family moved in 1837
to Clarke county, Illinois, and a year later
moved to Sangamon county, arriving
October, 1838, in what is now Chatham
township, where they had five children.
Of their children —

WILLIAM 7., born Oct. i, 1830, in
Blount county, Tennessee, married in
Sangamon county, Feb. 26, 18^52, to
Martha Fordner, who was born March
15, 1833, m Green county, Tennessee.
They have seven children, JAMES,
TEMPERANCE, LEWIS H., MAR-
GARET J., DAVID B., MARY A.

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and MATT1E, and live near Curran,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

PHEBE A. married Charles Fer-
guson, have three children, and their resi-
dence is not known.

LA I IN A married John H. Large,
who enlisted in Co. B, 3Oth 111. Inf., and
died in 1863 in Mississippi. She married
Philip Fordner, had three children by
each marriage, and lives near Curran,
Illinois.

TENNESSEE, born 1840 in Sanga-
mon county, married Peter Large, and
live in Morgan county, Illinois.

ELIZA, born 1842, married Theodore
Leggett. He died, leaving a widow and
one child in Curran township.

MAR? A. married Joseph Large, has
two children, and lives in Fort Scott,
Kansas.

DA VI D B., born Feb. 12, 1847, mar-
ried Ellen Large, Feb. 20, 1867, and had
one child. He served four years and
eight months in Co. B, nth 111. Cav. He
is in Santa Fe, New Mexico — 1873.

Mrs. Rebecca Tipton died in March,
1849, and David B. Tipton died January,
1863, both in Curran township, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

TODD. The first of this family in
America came from the north of Ireland,
and it is known that they were originally
from Scotland. A man by the name of
Todd — it is thought that his first name
was David — was married in Ireland to
Hannah Owen, and came to America,
with other members of the family, previous
to the American Revolution. They
settled at Pequea, Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, and had three sons, John,
Robert and Levi. They were educated
by their uncle, parson John Todd, who
conducted a literary institution in Virginia.
These three brothers emigrated about
1778 or '79 to what became Fayette coun-
ty, Kentucky. They were all influential
men in the Indian wars, and in forming
the institutions of that State. The eldest:

John Todd, under commission from
Patrick Henry, Governor of Virginia,
dated Dec. 12, 1778, at Williamsburg, then
the capital of the State, was authorized to
establish the county of Illinois. He was
styled in his commission the County
Lieutenant Commandant. As such he
organized the county and thus became in
fact, though not in name, the first

Governor of Illinois. See page 28. His
first act was to issue a proclamation with
reference to land titles, June 15, 1779.
Nearly three ye:-rs later he had been to
Virginia, and on his way back made it
convenient to visit his family in Kentucky.
While at Lexington, news came that the
Indians west of the Ohio river were cross-
ing over into Kentucky. Colonel Todd,
as one of the commanders, was slain at the
battle of Blue Licks, August 18, 1782.

Robert Todd, the second brother, ac-
quired the title of General in connection
with the Indian wars, and later military
operations in Kentucky. None of his de-
scendants ever came to Illinois. One
daughter became the wife of General
William O. Butler, of Carrollton, Ken-
tucky.

Levi Todd, the youngest of the three,
was engaged in the early Indian wars in
Kentucky, and was a lieutenant under
Colonel Clark in the expedition that left
Corn Island, opposite Louisville, and cap-
tured Fort Gates and the village of Kas-
kaskia, July 4, 1778. M. Rochebiave, the
commander of the fort, was so mortified
at his having been surprised and captured
without firing a gun, that he would not
accept any courtesies from his captors,
and was sent under a military guard to
Virginia. Lieutenant Levi Todd com-
manded the squad of soldiers who took
the prisoner back. He afterwards ac-
quired the title of General, was clerk
of the circuit court of Fayette county,
Kentucky, the greater part of his life, and
lived and died in Lexington. General
Levi Todd's daughter, Hannah, was the
mother of Hon. John T. Stuart. See his
name. His son, Robert Todd, was the
father of Mrs. Ninian W. Edwards, Mrs.
Dr. William S. Wallace, Mrs. C. M.
Smith and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, all of
Springfield, Illinois. One only of his
children became an early settler of Sanga-
mon county, of whom the following is a
sketch :

TODD, JOHN, was born April
27, 1787, near Lexington, -F ay ette county,
Kentucky. He was among the earliest
graduates of Transylvania University at
Lexington. He next entered the Medical
University of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
and graduated there. Dr. Todd was mar-
ried July i, 1813, in Lexington, Kentucky,
to Elizabeth Smith, daughter of Rev.

EAR LI SETTLERS OF

John Blair Smith, D. D. She was born
April 18, 1793, in Philadelphia. Her
mother was a daughter of General Nash,
a leader in the American Revolution from
Virginia. Dr. Todd was appointed Sur-
geon General of the Kentucky troops in
the war of 1812, and was at the battle and
massacre of the River Raisin in Canada,
where he was captured. Atter the war
he returned to Lexington and practiced
there. He was for a short time at Bards-
town, Kentucky, and from there, in 1817,
moved to Ed wardsville, Illinois. In 1827
he was appointed by President John
Quincy Adams, Register of the United
States Land Office, at Springfield, and at
once moved there. He remained in office
until he was removed solely for political
reasons, by President Jackson in 1829.
Dr. John Todd and wife had six living chil-
dren. Of their children —

JOHN B. S., born April 4, 1814, in
Lexington, Kentucky, came with his
parents to Springfield in 1827, and July i,
1833, entered the United States Military
Academy at West Point, New York, and
graduated there July i, 1837. He was
assigned to duty as second lieutenant in the
6th U. S. Inf., promoted to first lieutenant,
Dec. 25, 1837, and promoted to captain in
1843. After more than eighteen years
active service, during which time he was
in almost every frontier fort, and served
through the Mexican war, Captain Todd
resigned his commission Sept. 16, 1856,
and entered into mercantile business. In
the summer of 1861 he was elected the
first Delegate of Dakota in the United
States Congress. He was commissioned
September 19, 1861, by President
Lincoln, Brigadier General of Volun-
teers, and in 1862 commanded the
6th Division of the Army of the Ten-
nessee. He was re-elected Delegate to
Congres- and served until March 4, 1865.
He was elected in 1867 to the Territorial
Legislature of Dakota, and was Speaker
of the House at the session of 1867 and '8.
General J. B. S. Todd, then a Captain in
the United States army,was married March
25, 1845, at Fort Smith, Arkansas, to Cath-
arine S. Hoffman, a daughter of Colonel
William . Hoffman, of the United States
army. They had nine children. The
second and third both died in infancy. Of
the other seven, KATE H., born in 1845,
at Fort Gibson, Arkansas, married March,

1869, at Yankton, Dakota to Edward F.
Higbee. They have one child, JOHN TODD,
and live in Yankton. FANNIE A., born
in 1852, at Fort Ripley, Minnesota, was
married June, 1873, to J. B. Van Velsor,
at Yankton, Dakota, where they now re-
side. JOHN, born in 1854, at Fort Rip-
ley, Minnesota, married August, 1875, to
Mary F. Hughes, at Yankton, Dakota,
where they now reside. DANA, born in
1 857, at Springfield, Illinois. M AR Y H.,
born in 1859, MATILDA C., born in
1861, SOPHIA J., born in 1864, the three
latter at Fort Randall, Dakota. General
J. B. S. Todd died Jan. 5, 1872, at Yank-
ton, Dakota, and his widow and four minor
children reside there.

FRANCIS WALTON, born April
17, 1816, at Bardstown, Nelson county,
Kentucky, and brought by his parents to
Springfield, Illinois, in 1827. He was edu-
cated at Jacksonville, and graduated in
medicine at Cincinnati Medical College
in 1838. He was appointed surgeon in the
United States army while in the City of
Mexico, in 1846. In 1849 he went to Cali-
fornia, and was married there in March,
1851, to Mrs. L. M. Jackson, nee Bullitt,
of Nachitoches, Louisiana. They have no
children. Dr. Todd is a member of the
California State Board of Health, Presi-
dent of the Stockton Board of Health, and
Secretary of San Joaquin County Medi-
cal Society. He resides at Stockton, Cali-
fornia.

WILLIAM Z., born April 14, 1818,
at Edwardsville, Illinois, and brought up in
Springfield, where he learned the business
of a druggist. He went to California in
1845, before the Mexican war or the discov-
ery of gold and was there when the survi-
vors of the Reed and Donner party
arrived; so many of whom starved to
death as they were snow-bound in the
mountains. William L. Todd was married
April 14, 1868, in California, to Mrs. Cla-
rissa J. Pike, whose maiden name was
Chase. She was born in 1823 in Duchess
county, New York. Mrs. Todd died child-
less in March, 1874, in Sacramento. Mr.
Todd resides at Los Angelos, California.

ELIZABETH J. was born January,
1825, at Edwardsville, Illinois, married
in Springfield July 21, 1846, to Harrison J.
Grimsley. They had two children. JOHN
T., born Feb. 3, 1848, in Springfield, mar-
ried Dec. 12, 1871, in Summerfield, New

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Jersey, to Cornelia Meesler, daughter of
Rev. A. Meesler, D.D., pastor of the
Dutch Reformed Church of that place.
They have one child, MARY SWIFT. John
T. Grimsley is a partner in the mercantile
firm of Herndon & Co., and resides in
Springfield, Illinois. WILLIAM L.,
born March 17, 1852, is a clerk with
Herndon & Co., and resides in Spring-
field, Illinois. H. J. Grimsley died in
1865, and his widow married in January,
1867, to Rev. John H. Brown, D.D., pas-
tor of the First Presbyterian Church in
Springfield, and later of the Thirty-first
Street Presbyterian Church of Chicago.
Dr. Brown died Feb. 23, 1872, in Chicago,
and was buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery,
Springfield. His widow resides in Spring-
field, Illinois.

LOCKWOOD M., born June 17, 1826,
in Edwardsville, raised in Springfield,
studied medicine and graduated in St.
Louis in 1851. He was with Sherman as
commissary in his march to the sea. He
married Emily Husband, and lives in Vir-
ginia City, Montana Territory.

FRANCES vS1., born Dec. 19, 1832,111
Springfield, Illinois, married there Dec. 18,
1849, to Thomas H. Shelby, of Lexington,
Kentucky. Mrs. Shelby died in Springfield
Feb. i, 1851, leaving one child, JOHN
TODD Shelby, born Jan. 25, 1851, in
Springfield, Illinois. He was brought
up near Lexington, Kentucky, gradu-
ated at Princeton College, New Jersey,
in the class of 1870, married Novem-
ber 7, 1872, in St. Louis, Missouri,
to Lizzie M. Craig. They have one
child, THOMAS HART. John T. Shelby
is a practicing lawyer in Lexington, Ken-
tucky. Soon after the death of his wife,
Thomas H. Shelby, with his infant son re-
turned to Kentucky, and is now an exten-
sive farmer near Lexington. He is a grand
son of Isaac Shelby, the first Governor of
Kentucky, and on his mother's side, a
grandson of Edmond Bullock, Speaker of
the first Kentucky House of Representa-
tives.

Dr. John Todd and wife celebrated their
golden wedding July i, 1863. He died
Jan. 9, 1865, and she died March 11, 1865,
both in Springfield, Illinois. Dr. Todd was
a Ruling Elder in the First Presbyterian
Church in the city at the time cf his death.

TO L LEY, ISOM, was born about
1754 in Virginia, went to Bourbon county,

Kentucky, when he was a young man, and
was there married to Isabel Whitesides,
had six children in Kentucky, moved to St.
Clair county, Illinois, thence to Morgan
county, and from there to Sangamon coun-
ty, in what is now Loami township in
October, 1823. Of their children — t

DANIEL, married Jane Bailey and
left Sangamon county soon after.

ELIZABETH married -John Weir,
and moved to Iowa in 1843 or '4.

JAMES born in Bourbon county,
Kentucky, and married Elizabeth Mace.
They had eight children. SAMUEL was
killed by lighting on Spring creek in 1840,
aged twenty years. LUCINDA married
Arthur Davenport. They have seven chil-
dren, and reside near Berlin, Sangamon
county, 111. MARY A. married Ephraim
Shryer. See his name. MARTHA J.
married Aaron Van Patton. See his
name. KATE or (CATHARINE E.),
born August 27, 1828, was married Jan. 8,
1845, in Sangamon county, to William W.
Beerup. See his name. They had three
living children. SOPHIA, born Feb. 25,
1849, married John K. Shumate, and lives
in Springfield, Illinois. ROSETTA, born
Sept. 8, 1855, died March 19, 1861. ADA-
LINE, born Dec. 18, 1858, resides with her
parents one and one-half miles south of
Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois.
ELIZABETH married Charles Myers.
He died leaving a widow and six children
at Middletown, Logan county, Illinois.
MATILDA married Harris Elliott, has
two children, and lives at Middletown.
SUSAN married William Douglas. See
his name. Mrs. Elizabeth Tolley died in
1838, and James Tolley married America
Kelly. They moved to Kansas, and he
died there.

NANCY married John Porter. She
olied leaving one daughter in Clear Lake
township, Sangamon county, 111.

yO^/A^married Susan Washburne,who
died. He married again and lives near
Salisbury, Illinois.

UNITY died unmarried, aged about
twenty-five years.

Mrs. Isabel Tolley died aged about
ninety-six, and John Tolely died, aged
about one hundred and six years, both in
Sangamon county, Illinois.

TOMLIN, ALMARIN, was
born July 28, 1800, in Cape May county,
New Jersey. Rhoda Smith was born

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June 15, 1802, in the same county. They
were there married January n, 1821, and
had seven children in New Jersey. The
family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving October, 1837, in what is now
Cartwright township, where five children
were born. Of their children —

E ME LINE, born in 1822 in New
Jersey, married Samuel Sutton, a native
of New Jersey, also. They have three
children, HENRIETTA, JOSEPH and
CHARLES N., and reside three miles
north of Salisbury, Menard county, 111.

LOUISA, born April 4, 1824, in New
Jersey, married William B. Quinn. They
have one child, ALMARIN, and live
near St. Paul, Minnesota.

ED WIN, born July 29, 1826, in New
Jersey, was married April 5, 1854, in San-
gamon county, to M. Margaret Correll.
They had nine children. FANNIE, the
second, died in infancy. EVA H. was
married March 16, 1876, near Pleasant
Plains, Illinois, to William Sinclair, of
Cass county, Illinois. THOMAS A.,
CHARLES S., LEE C., SALLIE,
JACOB, ANNIE and ISAAC F. The
seven latter live with their parents on the
farm settled by Mr. Tomlin's father in
1837, and is one and one-fourth miles north-
west of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois.

JEREMIAH T., born Oct. 5. 1828,
in New Jersey, married Jennie Richmond
of the same State. They had four children,
and Mrs. Jennie Tomlin died in 1869. J.
T. Tomlin was married to Mrs. Belle
Newman, whose maiden name was Hall,
and moved to Quincy, Illinois.

HARRIET, born August 27, 1832,
married Josiah Reed. They have eleven
children, and live near Circleville, Ohio.

JAMES S., born Oct. 19, 1834, in
New Jersey, married in Sangamon county
to Anna Townsend, of New Jersey.
They have ten children, and reside near
Wichita, Kansas — 1873.

LTD I A H., born Sept. 11, 1836, mar-
ried Josiah Alkire. They have three
chi.dren, and reside in St. Louis, Missouri.

MART and MARTHA, twins, born
Sept. n, 1839, in Sangamon county.

MART, died in her thirteenth year.

MARJ^HA is unmarried and lives with
her mother at Jacksonville, Illinois.

RACHEL "and RHODA, twins, born
January, 1842, in Sangamon county.

RA CHEL married Monroe Rankin.
They have two children, and live in Mc-
Lean county, Illinois.

RHODA married Stephen Capps.
They have four children, and live at
Jacksonville, Illinois.

Almarin Tomlin died April, 1859, and
his widow resides at Jacksonville, Illinois.

TOMLINSON, ELIZA-
BETH, whose maiden name was Mc-
Kinnie, was born in Orange county, on the
Shenandoah river, Virginia. She was
taken by her parents to Fayette county,
Kentucky, and was there married to Elijah
Tomlinson, a native of Virginia, also.
They had ten children in Fayette county,
and Mr. Tomlinson died about 1812. Mrs.
Tomlinson with her children came to
Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of
1829, three miles northwest of Springfield.
Of their children —

WILLIAM raised a family and died in
Kentucky.

CA THARINE died in Kentucky,aged
twenty years.

MARTHA married Andrew McKin-
nie. See his name.

CHARLES B. went to the Galena
leac* mines when a young man, and died of
cholera in 1833, at Mineral Point, Wiscon-
sin.

LOUISA, born April 16, 1801, in Ken-
tucky, married there to Nathaniel Hurst,
and came to Sangamon county in 1829,
and died in Springfield many years later.

NICHOLAS, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in St. Louis county, Missouri, to
Nancy Davis, and came to Sangamon
county in 1845. Mrs. T. died leaving
seven children, and he married Mrs. Sarah
Brady, and both died in Springfield, leav-
ing four children. Their son, Charles
Tomlinson, lives in Springfield.

REBECCA married C. Hendricksand
remained in Kentucky.

LE WIS.

ANDRE W, born in Kentucky, went
to the Galena lead mines in 1827, and died
there in 1828 or '9.

JAMES M., born May 20, 1809, in
Fayette county, Kentucky, came to Sanga-
mon county with his mother in 1829. He
spent five years in the lead mines, went to
Kentucky, and was married April 30, 1837,
in Fayette county, to Louisa Hurst, who
was born Jan. i, 1809, in Ohio. They had
one child in Kentucky, and came to San-

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gamon county in 1838, where they had
four children. Of their five children,
MARTHA E., born Jan. 31, 1838, in Ken-
tucky, married March 6, 1866, to John W.
Hurst, has three children, and lives in
Galena. ELIJAH and ELISHA T.,
twins, the former died in infancy. Elisha
T. enlisted in November, 1861, in Co. G,
loth 111. Cav. for three years, re-enlisted
January, 1864, served to the end of the re-
hellion, was honorably discharged in Janu-
ary, 1866, and lives with his parents.
JOHN B. and THOMAS H. B., twins,
born July 5, 1841. The former died in in-
fancy. T. H. B. served from August 7,
1862, to the end of the rebellion in Co. I,
7th 111. Inf. He married Mrs. Sarah Shu-
felt, whose maiden name was Meadow,
and lives near Lafayette, Indiana. AN-
DREW}., born April 16, 1843, enlisted
September, 1861, in Co. I, 39th 111. Inf. for
three years, re-enlisted as a veteran, was
wounded August 16, 1864, at Deep Bot-
tom, Virginia, and died Sept. 14, following,
from the amputation of a leg. NICHO-
LAS B., born June 24, 1845, married Sarah
Gillock, have one child, and live in Spring-
field. James M. Tomlinson and wife re-
side three miles northwest of Springfield.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tomlinson died at the
house of her son, James M., Dec. 31, 1850,
near Springfield, Illinois.

TORRENCE, WILLIAM,
was born in Hampshire county, Virginia,
and married there to Margaret Cham-
baugh. They had seven children, and
Mrs. T. died in that county. Mr. Tor-
rence was married to Celia Sheriff and
had two children in Virginia, and the
family moved to Sangamon county,
Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1834, in
what is now Rochester township, and
two years later moved into Cotton Hill
township. Two children were born in
Sangamon county. Of all his children —

JOHN, born in Hampshire county,
Virginia, married in Sangamon county to
Sarah Donner, (a sister to George and
Jacob Donner.) They had five children.
GEORGE is married and lives in Tay-
lorville; SUSAN married Henry Baker
and lives near Medoc, Missouri ; MAR-
GARET married Edward Todd, and lives
in Springfield; WILLIAM, married, and
lives near Atlanta,* Illinois. John Tor-
rence and wife died in Atlanta.

ABSALOM, born in Virginia, died
in Sangamon county, August, 1835.

ROBERT, born in Hampshire county,
Virginia, came to Sangamon countv with
his parents, married in Iowa, and lives
near Medoc, Missouri.

NANCY, born in Virginia, was mar-
ried in Sangamon county to John Adams.
They had three children.

SAMUEL, born May 7, 1819, in
Hampshire county, Virginia, was married
January 7, 1841, in Sangamon county, to
Polly Delay. They had eight children in
Sangamon county. GREENBERRY,
born Dec. 8, 1842, is proprietor of Cotton
Hill mills, formerly the old Breckenridge
mill, and lives in Cotton Hill township,
Breckenridge postoffice. ELIZA, born
May 8, 1844, married H. Peddicord, and
died August 15, 1873, leaving three chil-
dren in Champaign City. CHARLES,
born August 22, 1846, married Josephine
Peddicord. They have one child and live
near Taylorville, Illinois. ELIZABETH,
born Sept. 13, 1848, married Edgar Eggle-
ston, and lives near Taylorville, Illinois.
JENNIE, born March 22, 1850, married
James Shaw. They have one child, and
live near Taylorville. JOHN, EMMA
and ANNA live with their mother.
Samuel Torrence was killed by being
thrown from a wagon attached to a run-
away team, Sept. 21, 1875. His widow
and children live two miles south of
Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM, born in Hampshire coun-
ty, Virginia, came to Sangamon county
with his parents and is living with his
third wife near Taylorville, Illinois. He
has one child by his second marriage.

SILAS, born in Virginia, raised in
Sangamon county, married in Iowa, and
lives near Winona, Minnesota.

JANE, born in Virgina, married in
Sangamon county to Harvey Fasset, and
lives near Winona, Minnesota.

By the second wife:

EMANUEL, born in Virginia and
died in Sangamon county at about twenty-
one years of age.

JOSEPH, born in Virginia, raised in
Sangamon county, and is living with his
second wife in Taylorville, Illinois.

ISAAC, born in Sangamon county, is
unmarried, and lives near Decatur, Illinois.

MARGARET, born in Sangamon
county and died at fifteen years of age.

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William Torrence died in 1841 in Cotton
Hill township, Sangamon county, and his
widow married John Davis. He died,
and she lives in Taylorville, Illinois.

TORREY, JOSEPH, was born
March 25, 1788, in Connecticut, came to
Madison county, Illinois, and was there
married to Olive Slater. They moved to
Sangamon county, and settled on Sugar
creek, where she died in 1820. Joseph
Torrey returned east and was married
Jan. 17, 1828, at Millhury, Mass., to Abi-
gail Sibley, who was born Nov. 29, 1804,
in Massachusetts. They had four children
there, and moved to Springfield, Illinois,
arriving in 1836, where three children were
born. Of their seven children two died
young.

ELIZA A., born March 2, 1829, in
Massachusetts, was married July 3, 1851,
in Springfield, Illinois, to John C. Moses.
They had two children. ABBIE, born
August, 1832, was married in Taylorville,
Illinois, to David Hay. They reside at
Wichita, Kansas. JOHNC., lives in Tay-
lorville. Mr. Moses died May 16, 1860,
and Mrs. Moses resides with her sisters,
Mrs. Sattley and Mrs. Rockwell.

SUSAtf, born March 18, 1831, in
Massachusetts, married, Sept. 21, 1853, to
Albert Sattley. See his name.

ABIGAIL E., borti Sept. 10, 1833, in
Massachusetts, was married in Springfield,
Illinois, Oct. 7, 1856, to Sylvester Paden.
He died August 15, 1860. She was mar-
ried July 7, 1869, to Humphrey H. Hood.
They have one child, HARROLD, and
reside in Litchfield, Illinois.

ELLEN,\)orn April 4, [841,1*11 Spring-
field, was married Dec. 29, 1858, in Tay-
lorville, to Charles V. Rockwell, who was
born in Richland county, Ohio. He came
to Chicago in 1848, and from there to De-
catur, Illinois, in 1850, studied medicine,
and attended one course of lectures at
St. Louis Medical College. In 1854
he located and practiced medicine at
Taylorville. He graduated at St. Louis
Medical College in 1858. They
have five children, LULU, SUSAN E.,
GERTRUDE, ESTELLA and
GRAC1E A., who reside with their
parents at Tavlorville, Illinois.

JOSEPH S., born Feb. 8, 1844,
in Springfield, was married Oct. 27,
1868, in Centralia, to Elizabeth H. Sloan,
who was born Nov. 27, 1844, nl Rock-

, Randolph county, Illinois. They
have three living children, JULIA E.,
LEWIS E. and MABEL. J. S. Torrey
resides in Taylorville, Illinois.

Joseph Torrey was in the boot and shoe
business for a short time, afterwards en-
gaged in hotel keeping, and subsequently
n pork packing with James L. Lamb. He
died on a farm near Illiopolis, Illinois,
Sept. 2, 1845. Mrs. Torrey died in Tay-
lorville, Sept. 10, 1857.

TRAYLER. Three brothers, Wil-
liam, Henry and Archibald Trayler, were
born of respectable parents, in Green
county, near the line of Adair county,
Kentucky. They came to Illinois about
1829. William settled near Greenbush,
Warren county, more than one hundred
miles northwest of Springfield. Henry
married a sister of Eli C. Blankenship, a
merchant of Springfield, and settled at
Clary's Grove, about twenty miles north-
west of Springfield. It was then in San-
gamon, but now in Menard county.
Archibald was unmarried, and engaged in
business in Springfield, as a carpenter and
builder, in partnership with Reuben Rad-
ford, the latter of whom went out of the
business, when Mr. Trayler associated
himself with a Mr. Myers, under the firm
name of Trayler & Myers. Mr. Trayler
owned the lot on which the Episcopal
Church now stands, at the corner of
Adams and Third streets. He had a
dwelling .house there, and Mr. Myers,
having a family, kept the house. Mr.
Trayler boarded in his own house, with
his partner. William Trayler was some-
what given to telling marvelous stories,
and a little inclined to boasting. With
that exception, the three brothers were
sober, industrious and retiring men. For
ten or twelve years after coming to the
State, nothing occurred in their lives un-
usual to the settlers in a new country.

It has become a proverb that "truth is
stranger than fiction." This w.as never
more completely verified than in the
events 1 am about to relate, concerning
these three brothers, who became victims
to the most remarkable case of circum-
stantial evidence on iccord, one that
would, if given in proper terms, be of
absorbing interest to the legal profession.
I must, from necessity, make my statements
as concise as possible. Hon. William But-
ler, deceased, is my authority for what I

SANGAMON COUNTY.

have said of the birth and parentage of the
brothers. I have gathered all the other in-
formation from the older citizens of Spring-
field, files of the Journal and Register
newspapers, and from an elaborate article
that first appeared in the Quincy Whig,
and copied into the Springfield Journal
of April 23, 1846. The latter is princi-
pally true, but contains some glaring
errors, which, by the aid of men who took
part in the proceedings, I have been able
to avoid.

A man about fifty years of age, by the
name of Archibald Fisher taught school
in Monmouth, Warren county, Illinois,
and in that vicinity. He also worked at
odd jobs when he was not regularly em-
ployed. He was unmarried, economical
in his habits, and lived in the families of
the people wherever his business called
him. In that way he had saved a few
hundred dollars, and at the beginning of
the events I am about to relate was mak-
ing his home with William Trayler, who
was then a widower, with several chil-
dren.

Mr. Fisher, wishing to enter some land,
he and Mr. Trayler started for Spring-
field together. They set out in a bug-
gy without springs — called a Dearborn
wagon — drawn by one horse. On Sun-
day evening they reached the house of
Henry Traylor, and the next day all three
came to Springfield, Henry riding on
horseback. They arrived about noon,
Monday, June i, 1841, and stopped at the
house where Archibald Trayler boarded.
After dinner the three Traylers and Fisher
left the boarding house in company, for
the purpose of looking about the town.
At supper time the three brothers re-
turned, but Fisher, having stepped aside,
as they were passing along a foot path
among the trees in the northwestern part
of the city, did not appear. After supper
all the others went in search of him. One
by one they returned, as night approached,
but without any tidings of Fisher. The
next morning the search was continued,
and up to noon was still unsuccessful.
William and Henry, having expected to
leave early that morning, expressed their
intention to abandon the search and start
for home. This was objected to on the
part of the boarders, because it would
leave Fisher without any means of con-
veyance. They continued to search the
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remainder of that day, but at night'
William, who evidently felt greatly dis-
appointed at being detained so long,
hitched up his buggy and started without
the knowledge of his brother, Archie,
who, missing him, followed on foot, and
overtook him just as he was entering the
water at Hickox mill, on Spring creek,
near where the O. & M. railroad now
crosses. Archie called to William, and
remonstrated against his going until the
mystery was cleared up. William turned
around in the water, and they both re-
turned to Springfield. Notwithstanding
all this, William and Henry started for
home the next day. The mysterious dis-
appearance had to that time attracted but
little attention. Three or four days later,
Henry returned to Springfield for the
purpose of making a more diligent search,
and with his brother, Archie, and some
of the boarders, another day was spent,
and he returned home. On Friday, June
12, James W. Keyes, the postmaster in
Springfield, received a letter from Mr.
Tice, the postmaster of Greenbush, War-
ren county, saying that William Trayler
had returned home, and was circulating
the report that Fisher, the man who had
left there with him for Springfield, was
dead, and with something of a boastful
manner, stated that Fisher had willed his
money to him, and that he had gained
about fifteen hundred dollars by it — a
much larger sum than Fisher was sup-
posed to possess. Postmaster Tice re-
quested the Springfield postmaster to give
him all the information on the subject that
he could. The contents of that letter
were made public, and the excitement be-
came widespread and intense. Springfield
had, only the year before, adopted a city
organization, with about two thousand
inhabitants. The mayor, William L.
May, and Josiah Lamborn, the attorney
general of the State, headed the move-
ment to ferret out the mystery. Men
were formed into squads, and marched
about in all directions, so as to leave no
spot unsearched. Examinations were
made of wells, and every conceivable
place where a body might be concealed.
A club was found with some hair
attached to it. It was confidently believed
that the murder had been committed with
that weapon, but it was afterwards
demonstrated that the hair was from a cow.

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This search was continued until Saturday
afternoon, when it was determined to
arrest William and Henry Trayler, and
officers started for them on Sunday morn-
ing. Henry, being nearest, was brought
to Springfield on Monday. The mayor
and attorney general took him in hand
and used every device to elicit information
of the supposed murder, but he protested
his innocence of any knowledge on the
subject. He was reminded that the cir-
cumstantial evidence was so strong that
he, with his two brothers, would certainly
all be hung, and that the only chance to
save his own life was for him to become a
witness on the part of the State. He
withstood all the pressure until Wednesday,
the seventeenth of the month, when, pro-
testing his own innocence, he stated that
his brothers, William and Archibald, had
murdered Fisher, by hanging him to a
tree , without his knowledge at the time,that
they had temporarily concealed the body,
that immediately preceding the departure
of himself and William from Springfield,
on the second or third of June, William
and Archie communicated the fact to him,
and engaged his assistance in making a
permanent concealment of the body; that
at the time he and William left, ostensibly
for home, they did not take the direct road,
but, wending their way through the
streets, entered the woods at the northwest
of the city, and that on approaching,
where the body was concealed, he was
placed as a sentinel. He then entered into
a minute description of the murder, going
into the smallest details. He said that his
brothers entered a thicket of underbrush,
where the body was concealed, placed it
in the buggy, moved off with it in the
direction of Hickox mill pond on Spring
creek, and soon after returned, saying they
had put it in a safe place; that Archibald
went back to town, and that William and
himself found their way to the road, and
proceeded to their homes.

Until that disclosure was made, the
character of Archibald was such as to
repel all suspicion of his complicity in the
matter, but he was at once arrested and
hurried to jail, which was probably the
best thing that could have been done
for him, for he was in great per-
sonal danger from the infuriated popu-
lace. Search then commenced anew
for the body. The thicket was found,

and indications of a struggle under a
small tree, bent over as though the
hanging might have been done there. A
trail was also visible, as though a body had
been dragged to where the tracks of a
buggy were to be seen, (ending in the
direction of the mill pond, previously
spoken of, but could not be traced all the
way. At the pond, however, it was found
that a buggy had been down into the
water and came out again. Hundreds of
men were engaged in dragging and fish-
ing for the body. Becoming impatient,
the dam was cut down on Thursday
morning, the eighteenth of June, and the
water drawn off, but no body found.

About noon that day the officers, who
had gone to arrest William Trayler, re-
turned with him in custody, accompanied
by a gentleman who called himself Dr.
Gil more. Then it was ascertained that
William Trayler had been arrested at his
own house, on Thursday, the sixteenth of
the month, and started for Springfield,
stopping at Lewiston, Fulton county, for
the night. Late in the night Dr. Gilmore
arrived there and told the officers that
Fisher was alive and at his house; that he
had followed them to give the information
so that the prisoner might be released
without further trouble. The deputy
sheriff— James Maxcy — very properly re-
fused to release him on the word ot an
entire stranger, and they continued their
journey to Springfield.

Dr. Gilmore told the officers that when
he heard of the arrest of AVilliam Trayler
for the murder of Fisher, he was a few
miles from home; that when he returned
to his own house he found Fisher there;
that he would have taken Fisher with
him in pursuit of the officers with the
prisoner, but that the state of Fisher's
health would not admit of it. The doctor
further said that he had known Fisher for
several years, and that he was subject to
fits of temporary derangement of mind in
consequence of an injury to his head,
received in early life. The doctor still
further stated that Fisher told him that the
first he knew after visiting Springfield, he
found himself in the vicinity of Peoria.
Being nearer to his home than to Spring-
field, he proceeded at once to Warren
county, without the slightest thought of
his acts leading to the injury of anv other
person. On their arrival at Springfield,

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Dr. Gilmore's statement was made public,
and at first the people seemed to be struck
dumb with astonishment. When the
news was communicated to Henry Tray-
ler, in the jail, he, without faltering, re-
affirmed his own story about the murder
of Fisher. The idea was at once taken
up by the crowd that Dr. Gilmore was
in collusion with the murderers, and that
he had invented that story as a ruse to
secure their release and escape. The
Doctor was permitted to remain
at liberty, but was regarded with
strong suspicion. About three o'clock
that afternoon Mr. Myers, the partner
of Archibald Trayler, started with
a two-horse carriage, accompanied
by Egbert M. Mallory, to ascertain
whether Fisher was alive or not, and if so
to bring him back to Springfield.

Without waiting for the return of
Myers and Mallory, the Traylers were
brought before proper officers for pre-
liminary examination, on the charge of the
murder of Archibald Fisher. Henry
Trayler was introduced on the part of the
State, and on oath testified that his
brothers, William and Archibald, had
murdered Archibald Fisher, re-affirming
all the minutia of his former statements,
and at the close bore a rigid cross examin-
ation without faltering or exposure. It
was also proven by a respectable lady,
who was well acquainted with Archie, that
on the Monday afternoon of Fisher's dis-
appearance, she saw Archibald Trayler
and another man, who she identified as
William Trayler, — then present — and still
another, answering the description of
Fisher, all enter the timber at the north-
west of town, and an hour or two later,
saw the two former return alone. Many
other witnesses were examined, giving a
combination of testimony that seemed to
weave a net-work ot circumstances about
the prisoners, from which it would appear
to any other than a legal mind, to be
utterly impossible to extricate them. It
was also proven that Archibald Trayler
had passed an unusual number of pieces of
gold coin. The buggy tracks in the mill
pond were unexplained, as the prisoners
were the only persons who could give
any light upon that subject. The evidence
of a struggle in the thicket, under the
bending tree, where the hanging was
supposed to have taken place, was unex-

plained, although it was afterwards proven
that school children had been using the
tree as a support to a swing. These and
mony other points of evidence, the
intricacies of which space forbids that I
should follow out, were before the court.

When the prosecution had introduced
all their evidence and rested the case, one
of the attorneys for the defense, Hon.
Stephen T. Logan, arose, and with every
eye turned towards him, said that on the
part of the defendants, he would introduce
a single witness only.

Archibald Fisher, in full life and proper
person, was then conducted slowly into
the presence of the court. Messrs. Myers,
and Mallory had returned late in the
evening before — J-une 2ist — with Fisher,
and the friends of the prisoners kept him
secreted until the proper time. The
effect may be imagined, but can not be de-
scribed. A gentleman who was cognizant
of the proceedings from beginning to end,
and who is now a judge of one of the
courts of Illinois, describing the appear-
ance of one of the prisoners in the court
room, says: "Archibald Trayler was as
fine looking a man as I ever saw. When
his own full brother was testifying that he
was a murderer, he stared at him with a
look of astonishment, settling into an
appearance of stoical indifference, that
seemed to say, ' there is no hope of relief,
therefore I must calmly endure the worst;'
but when the man he was accused of
having murdered was led into his presence,
he broke down and gave vent to his feel-
ings in "a flood of tears, followed by uncon-
trollable fits of sobbing and moaning."

By this time it began to dawn on the
minds of the people that the threats of
death to all three of the brothers had so
wrought on the mind of Henry Trayler
as to destroy his competency as a witness.
A feeling of indignation immediately
spnmg.up against May and Lamborn, who
had led in the prosecution, and it only
lacked a bold leader to mob and hang
them. The feeling was so intense that
Judge Logan, who had defended the
prisoners, felt it his duty to come to the
rescue of their prosecutors. He made a
pacific speech, in which he exhorted all to
abide by the laws. It had the desired
effect, and all dispersed without violence.

A public meeting of the citizens of
Springfield was held on the evening of

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June 22, 1841, to express sympathy with
the brothers, who had passed through that
worse than firey ordeal, and particularly
with their fellow citizen, Archibald
Trayler, whose character had never been
tarnished with the slightest shadow of
reproach. That sympathy was of little
avail. His fine, manly countenance was
never again lighted up with a smile. He
made some feeble attempts at business, but
wandered about, avoiding all society,
pined away, and died in less than two
years. One who knew him well, says:
" If ever a man died of a broken heart it
was Archibald Trayler."

William Trayler died in less than a
year after the trial.

Henry Trayler lived several years after
the death of his brothers, but was never
known to speak of the mournful event
after his departure from Springfield at the
close of the trial. He died in Menard
county, and one of his sons, if not more,
are among the most respected citizens of
the county. It is said that the three
brothers never met after they passed out
of the court room.

If the unhappy and afflicted being who
was the innocent cause of all the trouble,
had wandered away and died on the open
prairie, much of which had not then been
trod by the foot of man, William and Arch-
ibald Trayler would, beyond a reasonable
doubt, have been executed as his murderers,
and that upon the force of surrounding cir-
cumstances and the testimony of their own
brother, who would doubtless have become
hopelessly insane, caused by threats to
make him confess a crime never committed,
and afterwards by the appaling effects of
his own testimony. The world would
probably have looked on and called it retri-
butive justice. Such may and doubtless
has been the effect of circumstantial evi-
dence, in cases where the truth was never
known.

Thus ended one of the most remarkable
affairs of its kind on record. Many points
and circumstances connected with the case
are yet enshrouded in mystery, and will
ever remain so.

TRIMBLE, GEORGE, was
born Apil 22, 1814, in Montgomery coun-
ty, Kentucky. He was married August
23, 1836, to Lydia Shumate, who was born
in that county August 15, 1815. They
started the next morning after marriage

for Sangamon county, Illinois, and arrived
in September, 1836, in what is now
Curran township. They had six children
in Sangamon county, namely:

HUGHE T 7\, born June 2, 1837, died
in his seventh year.

WILLIAM H., born Dec. 31,1839,
married October, 1864, to Nancy A. Gib-
son. They had two children. JOHN died
in infancy, and ANNA E. resides with her
father. Mrs. Trimble died Feb. 9, 1869,
and Mr. T. was married Oct. 14, 1869, to
Helen J. McGraw. They have one child,
DORA BELL, and live two miles south of
Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois.

ELIZA y.,born March 28, 1840, mar-
ried F. M. Miller. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born April 27, 1842,
married Edmund T. Miller. See his
name.

JAMES A., born July 27, 1846, mar-
ried Mary A. Barbre, and reside in Cur-
ran township.

GEORGE C., born Sept. 28, 1849,
died Nov. 21, 1870.

Mrs. Lydia Trimble died Dec. 3, 1866,
and George Trimble was married Dec. 5,
1867, to Rebecca Drennan. They reside
two miles southeast of Curran, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

TROTTER, GEORGE, was
born about 1782, in Dunbarton, Scotland.
He went to the West Indies about 1801,
and came to the United States at thirty
years of age. About 1813 he was married
in Hartford, Connecticut, to Catharine Im-
lay, who was born in that city Oct. 29,
1786. Soon after marriage Mr. Trotter
went to New York city and engaged in
the mercantile business. They had one
child, and Mrs Catharine Trotter died
there, April i, 1832. Mr. Trotter was
married in New York July, 1835, to Mary
Ward, a native of Longford, Ireland.
They moved to Springfield, 111., arriving
in the fall of 1835, where they had three
children. Of his four children.

AGNES D., born Feb. 15, 1825, in
New York city, married in Springfield to
Zimri A. Enos. See his name.

JOHN E., born August 10, 1838, in
Springfield, was married Sept. 14, 1865,
to Martha L. Slates, who was born July
19, 1844, m Zanesville, Ohio. They had
six children, five of whom died young.
CLARA A. resides with her parents in
Springfield.

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GEORGE W., born Nov. 17, 1840, in
•Springfield, was married in his native place
to Ellen Tague, who was born August 5,
1841, in Peterborough, Canada. They have
seven children, GEORGE T., MARY
E., JOHN E., LOUISA S., WILLIAM
A., FRANCIS J., and BERTHA C.,
and live in Springfield. G. W. Trotter
has been three years on the police force.

MART D., born April, 1842,111 Spring-
field, resides with her mother.

George Trotter was engaged in land
speculating from the time he came to
Springfield until his death, which took
place in May, 1842. His widow resides
with her son, John, in Springfield, Illinois.

TROTTER, JAMES, born
about 1770, in Culpepper county, Virginia.
He was taken by his parents, about 1792,
to Bourbon county*, Kentucky, and was
there married to Elizabeth Kenny, who
was also a native of Virginia. They had
eight children born in Bourbon county,
and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving in the fall of 1826, and settled on
Round Prairie, four miles east of Spring-
field. Of their children:

JOSEPH died aged 19 years.

JAMES A'., born Feb. 19, 1799, in
Bourbon county, Kentucky, married there
March 22, 1823, to Mary A. Daubinspeck,
who was born Feb. 24, 1800, in the same
county. They had two children, and moved
to Rush county, Indiana, where one child
was born, thence to Sangamon county, Illi-
nois, in i827,one year later than his father.
Six children were born in Sangamon
county. Of their nine children, ELIZA-
BETH, born Jan. 2, 1824, in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county, June 21,
1849, to Stephen Lawyer, a native of
Guernsey county, Ohio. They had seven
children, four of whom died young. Mr.
Lawyer enlisted August 10, 1861, at Ana-
mosa, in what became Co. L, 1st Iowa
Cav., and died Nov. 14, 1863, at Little
Rock, Arkansas. The three children,
ROBERT, ELIZABETH A. and STEPHEN re-
side with their mother in Clear Lake town-
ship. WILLIAM, born March 15, 1825,
in Kentucky, enlisted September, 1862,
in Co. I, i I4th 111. Inf. for three years, and
died of disease March 17, 1863, at Mem-
phis, Tennessee. JANE, born Feb. 2,
1827, in Rush county, Indiana, married
Henry R. Clark, had two children, and
her second husband is William A. But-

ler. See his name. NANCY, born Dec.
8, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Feb.
24, 1848, to Hiram Lawyer, who was born
Dec. n, 1823, in Guernsey county, Ohio.
They had nine children, three of whom
died young. AMANDA married Mahlon
Geathard, has four children, and lives
near Rochester. GEORGE w. resides with
his parents. EL-IZA j., married James
Burch. WILLIAM T., ADA A. and EVE-
LINE reside with their parents two miles
northeast of Sangamon station, on the farm
where her parents settled in 1827. JAMES
born Jan. 2, 1831, in Sangamon county,
married Dec. 24, 1857, to Elizabeth Burch.
They had five children. WILLIAM A.
died aged two years. PHILEMON, LUETTA,
GEORGE and MARY E. reside with their
parents two miles northeast of Sangamon
station. JULIA A., born April 20, 1833,
in Sangamon county, married James Law-
yer, and died January, 1864, leaving three
children, two of whom reside with their
father, near Salisbury, and Charles lives on
Round Prairie. MARY, born August 6,
1835, in Sangamon county, married
Thomas W. Long. She died leaving one
child, EDWARD, who lives with his
father in Taylorville. GEORGE, born
Dec. 14, 1839, in Sangamon county, mar-
ried Eliza Brown, who died, and he en-
listed August, 1862, in Co. I, i i4th 111. Inf.
for three years, served full time and was
honorably discharged. He was married
Nov. 23, 1864, to Mary E. Griffiths, who.
was born Oct. 29, 1846, in Madison county,
Indiana. They had one child, JANE, born
Nov. 3, 1866. George Trotter died Jan.
21, 1807, of disease contracted in the army.
His widow married March 6, 1873, to Bur-
gess Taintor, a native of New York. He
has one child by a former marriage, ELLA
MAY. Mr. and Mrs. Taintor have one
son, and resides two miles north of Spring-
field, Illinois. CATHARINE, born Jan.
8, 1840, in Sangamon county, married
Willis Wilson, has three children, 'and
resides in Tazewell county, Illinois.
James K. Trotter died Dec. 27, 1839.
His widow resides with her son James, on
the farm where she and her husband set-
tled in 1827, two miles northeast of Sanga-
mon station, and five miles east of Spring-
field, Illinois. When James K. Trotter
was moving to the country, in 1827, he
had to cross the Sangamon river three
miles from his father's house. He left his

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team and family in safe hands and was
about to enter a canoe to cross the river
when he saw the two dogs his father
brought with him the year before, at the
time they all moved from Kentucky. These
dogs were sitting on the opposite bank ap-
parently waiting for him. He called and
they plunged in and swam to meet him
with every appearance of pleasure. He
took them across in the canoe and then
halloed, supposing that his brothers wei'e
hunting near by. The dogs paid no atten-
tion to his call, but ran back and forth
along the road, and in that way conducted
him to the house, when he learned that
none of the family had been near the river
for several days. Three questions naturally
suggest themselves: Why were the dogs
there? Did they know he was coming?
If so, how? Perhaps they could be an-
swered by some writer on the higher life
of animals.

JOHN, born about 1800, in Bourbon
county, Kentucky, married Isabel Brazzle,
and moved to Wisconsin, where the parents
died leaving four children, all married.

MARY, born Nov. 19, 1802, in Bour-
bon county, Kentucky, married Thomas
J. Turley. See his name.

NANCY, born Feb. 14, 1805, in Bour-
bon county, Kentucky, married in Sanga-
mon county, to Edward Clark. See his
name.

JANE, born April 18, 1807, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county, to
Samuel Williams. See his name.

GEORGE, born June 13, 1809, in
Bourbon county, Kentucky. In 1826 he
accompanied his parents from Bourbon
county to Sangamon countv, Illinois. They
settled on Round Prairie. He remained
at home ten years. In 1831 he left for the
Wisconsin lead mines, worked in them
that summer, returning home in the fall.
He served in the Black Hawk war, and
was married March 24, 1833, in Sangamon
county, to Sarah Chilton, who was born
Dec. 19, 1816, in Madison county, Illinois.
They had two children in vSangamon
countv, and in 1836 moved to Stephenson
county, locating near what is now Orange-
ville. Twelve children were born in
Stephenson county, three of whom died
in infancy. Of their eleven children,
THOMAS, born July i, 1834, in Sanga-
mon county, married, and in 1857 emi-
grated to Missouri, in 1858, was married

there to Mrs. Martha Clemens, formerly
Miss Myers, who was born in Missouri.
They had three children, namely, NANCY,
JOHN and GEORGE. Mrs. Martha Trotter
died in 1865, and Thomas T. returned
to Illinois. He was married in September,
1867, to Mrs. Sarah Seidel, formerly Miss
Woodring, of Pennsylvania. In the
spring of 1868 he returned to near Barn-
ard,Nodaway county, Missouri, where they
still reside. Of his children by the third
marriage, namelv: ELIZABETH, born
Nov. 7,1835, in Sangamon county, married
July 4, 1858, to Joseph Van meter, of Ohio.
They had two living children, GEORGE
and HENRY,and reside near Oneco,Stephen-
son county, Illinois. JAMES, born March
27, 1837, in Stephenson county, was mar-
ried in 1860 to Sarah Riem, a native of
Pennsylvania. They Jiad five children,

ESTHER, ELMER, CHARLES, FRANK, and

ARCHIE. He enlisted in the 46th 111.
Vet. Vol. Inf. in January, 1864, and served
until the close of the war when he was
honorably discharged. In 1869 he moved
with his family to Nodaway county, Mis-
souri, where they still reside. WIL-
LIAM, born September 19, 1839, in
Stephenson county, Illinois, married in
December, 1864, to Emily J. Lorch, who
was born in 1840 in Springfield, Illinois.
In 1865 they moved to Orangeville, where
they had three children, WILLIAM,
ANNA MAY and MELVIN. In 1875 the
family moved to Polo, Ogle county, Illi-
nois, where they now reside. GEORGE,
born July 1,1841, in Stephenson county,
enlisted August 28, 1861, left home Sept.
10, 1861, served two and a half years, was
promoted from the ranks to fife major of
the regiment. Re-enlisted Dec. 6, 1863,
at Camp Cowan, Miss., came home on a
furlough, returned, was struck b\- lightning
March 16, 1865, while at Dauphin Island.
He reluctantlv returned home May 21,
1865, where he died Mar:h 25, 1866.
URANIA, born February 24, 1843,
in Stephenson county, married there Oct.
i, 1863, to David W. Scott, a native of
Ohio, and a graduate of Cincinnati Eclec-
tic Medical College. Is at present practic-
ing medicine, in Buena Vista, Stephenson
county, Illinois, where they reside. They
have two children, MINNIE and MYRON.
MARY A., born Dec. 27, 1844, in
Stephenson county, died April II, 1868.
MILLARD F., "born May 25, 1850,

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in Stephenson county, resides with his
parents. SARAH J., born May 24, 1852,
in .Stephenson county, died December
S, 1871. LUCY C., born July 30,
1854, in Stephenson county, married
there December 21, 1873, to Wood-
bury Robey, who was born in the
same county. They have one child, LEROV,
and reside in Stephenson county. JOHN
C., born .Sept. 4, 1857, lives with his parents
at Orangeville, Stephenson county, Illinois.

ELJZAJ3E7T1, born in Kentucky,
married William Graham. See his name.

Mrs. Elizabeth Trotter died March 4,
1825, before the family left Kentucky, and
James Trotter died Sept. 26, 1839, in San-
gamon countv, Illinois.

TROXELL, Mrs. SARAH,
whose maiden name was Rouk, was born
in Washington county, Maryland, and
was there married to Abraham Troxell, a
native of the same county. They had ten
children in Maryland, and Mr. Troxell
died there, March 4, 1824. His widow
and some of her children came to Sanga-
mon county in 1836, and the others came
later. Of her children —

ELIZABETH, born Jan. 19, 1815,
in Washington county, Maryland,was mar-
ried there to Perry Prather. They had
twelve children, and the family moved to
Sangamon county, Illinois, in iS^o. Of
their children, ABRAHAM went to
California in March, 1859, and after a few
years absence was not heard of until 1875.
He now lives in Prescott, Arizona.
SARAH E., married Harvey N. North.
See his name. RUTH A., married
Marshal Sattley. See his name.
WASHINGTON B. was a soldier in an
Illinois regiment, and aided in suppressing
the rebellion. He lives with his mother.
WILLIAM D. is in Prescott, Arizona.
MARY C. married Jacob C. Miller. See
Jus name. KITTURAH, SAMUEL J.,
ISAAC R., RACHEL F., JEMIMA'j.
and JOHN L., the six latter, live with
their mother, except Isaac R., who is a
telegraph operator. Perry Prather died,
and his widow lives four miles east of
Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.

DA VI D, born Jan. 15, 1815, in Wash-
ington county, Maryland, came to Sanga-
mon countv, Illinois, in the autumn of
1835, settling in what is now Cooper
township. He was married in Macon
countv to Lucinda Dickev. They ha 1

two living children, JAMES B., married
Harriet Jones, and lives near Argenta,
Macon county, Illinois. JOHN was stab-
bed in the heart, when about fifteen years
of age, by a southern refugee, during the
time of the rebellion. They were at work
together in a field, and although others
were near them, the murderer escaped
and has never been heard of. The stab-
bing was done without provocation or
warning. Mrs. Lucinda Troxell died
Jan. 8, 1875. David Troxell left Argenta
March 10, 1874, intending to visit his
brother, Peter. Having to pass through
Decatur, Illinois, he was seen there the
day he left home, and that is the last that
is certainly known of him by his relatives.
He was a sober, honest and substantial
farmer, and his fate is enshrouded in the
most profound mystery.

PETER, born May 2, 1816, in Wash-
ington county, Maryland, and came to
Sangamon county, arriving October, 1836,
in what is now Cooper township, south of
Sangamon river. He was married in San-
gamon county, Feb. 18, 1841, to Susan
Firey. They had twelve children.
Abraham died in his eighth year.
GRANT E., next to the youngest, died
in infancy. MARY E., born Jan. 14,
1844, was married Feb. 23, 186^, to John
W. North. See his name. "SARAH
E., born Feb. i, 1847, was married Sept.
i, 1870, to Henry C. Neer, who was born
Jan. 6, 1842, in London county, Virginia,
and brought by his parents to Sangamon
county in the fall of that year. He en-
listed in August, 1862, for three years, in
Co. I, i I4th 111. Inf., and was taken
prisoner at the battle of Guntown, Miss.,
June 10, 1864. He was imprisoned, at
Andersonville, Georgia, and other places,
until April 4, 1865, when he was released,
and was honorably discharged May 8,
1865. H. C. Neer and wife live three
miles north of Breckenridge, Sangamon
county, Illinois. ANNIE was married
Feb. 22, 1876, to J. Henry Ross, and live
near Breckenridge, Sangamon countv,
Illinois. RUTHE., ISAAC H.,
WILLIAM P., JOHN T-, GRACE E.,
PHCEBE J. and MARTHA A; the
seven latter live with their parents at
Edgewood farm, five miles east of Roch-
ester, Sangamon countv, Illinois.

WILLIAM, born Nov. 12, 1817,111
Washington countv, Maryland, came to

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Sangamon county in 1836, is unmarried,
and lives at the house of his niece, Mrs.
North.

JOHN, born July 8, 1819, in Washing-
ton county, Maryland, came to Sangamon
county in the fall of 1836, and was mar-
ried Nov. 18, 1857, to Mary S. Firey.
They had one child, MARY, who was
married August 9, 1876, to Alexander
Anderson, and lives in Pana, Illinois. Mrs.
Mary S. Troxell died Nov. 16, 1859, and
John Troxell was married Nov. 19, 1862,
to Cynthia Willy. They have six living
children, EVA R., ABRAHAM P.,
LUCINDA A., ELIZA J., JOHN W.
and LUTHER, and reside near Grove
City, Christian county, Illinois.

MART, born Feb. 2, 1821, in Mary-
land, died in Sangamon county, aged
eighteen vears.

ABRAHAM and ISAAC, twins,
born Nov. 2, 1824, in Washington county,
Maryland. The former died in infancy.

IS A A C came to Sangamon county in
1836, and married Eliza J. Hazlett. They
had two children in Sangamon county.
WILLIAM was married Nov. 19, 1874,
to Jemima P rather. They have one child,
DELBERT, and live near Edinburg, Chris-
tian county, Illinois. GEORGE was
married Nov. 26, 1874, to Annie Foster,
and live in Missouri. Mrs. Eliza J.
Troxell died in Christian county, Illinois,
and Isaac Troxell lives in California.

SARAH, born Jan. i, 1823, in Wash-
ington county, Maryland, came to Sanga-
mon county in 1836, and was married in
DeWitt county to Ralph Rosencrans.
She died November, 1867, leaving one
child, SARAH, who married James
Powell. They live near DeWitt, DeWitt
county, Illinois.

JAMES, born Sept. 16, 1827, in
Maryland, came to Sangamon county in
1836, enlisted in 1846 in the 4th 111. Inf-,
served one year in the Mexican war,
under Colonel E. D. Baker, and died in
1847, m Sangaman county, of disease con-
tracted in the army.

Mrs. Sarah Troxell died March 27,
1844, and was buried in Cooper township,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

TRUE, Mrs. SUSANNAH,
whose maiden name was Williams, was
born about 1782 near Richmond, Virginia.
Her parents moved to Woodford county,
Kentucky, and she was there married to

Ezekiel True. They had eleven children
in Kentucky, and moved to Morgan coun-
ty, Illinois, in 1825, and in 1827 moved to
Randolph county, Missouri, where Mr.
True died, and Mrs. True, with four of her
children, moved to Springfield, Illinois, in
1832. Of their children —

WILKINS raised a family in Kentucky
and resides near Oconee, Illinois.

PA TTTT, born in Kentucky, married
in Morgan county, Illinois, to Moses
Pilcher, and died in 1840 at Springfield.
Her son, JEPTHA, resides in Springfield,
Illinois.

GREEN £., died in California.
WILLIAM married in Kentucky.
Residence not known.

LE WIS lives near Moberly, Missouri.

MATILDA married in Springfield to
Mossman Ballard, and died in California.

JAMES married in Chicago, and lives
at Durant, Illinois.

L UC1NDA was born August 19, 1823,
in Woodford county, Kentucky, came to
Sangamon county in 1832, married in
Springfield Nov. 12, 1843, *-° Willis H.
Johnson. He was born Sept. 18, 1818, in
Wilson county, Tennessee, and brought up
in Davidson county in the same State. He
came to Springfield, Illinois, in the spring
of 1843. They had nine children. Three
died young. WILLIAM T., born Aug.
25, 1844, enlisted February, 1862, in Co.
G 5th 111. Cav. for three years, re-enlisted
as a veteran in January, 1864, served until
November, 1865, and was at the capture of
Helena, Arkansas, siege of Vicksburg, and
capture of Jackson, Mississippi. He was
honorably discharged, and was married
May 8, 1867, to Margaret A. Hillman.
They have two children, KATIE and AL-
BERT PALMER. William T. Johnson
live in Springfield, Illinois. MARY
F., born Feb. 10, 1847, was lllan"ied Feb.
19, 1868, to L. Herbert Spaulding, who
was born near Hudson, New York, Aug.
14, 1849, came to Springfield with his
father in 1858. They have three chil-
dren, CLARA L., WILLIE J. and L. DANA,

and live in Springfield, 111. GEORGE
W., born June 15, 1848, was married Nov.
28, 1872, to Helen Maxon, in Blooming-
ton, Illhiois, and lives there. JOHN M.,
DRUSILLAJ. and CHARLES H., live
with their prrents in Springfield, Illinois.
Willis H. Johnson was the pioneer
machinist in Springfield, so far as doing

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all kinds of work to supply the country.
He also established the ten hour system,
by making a pattern with his own hands,
casting a bell, and having it rung at
regular hours. That was in 1845 or '4^-
JANE, born Feb. 10, 1826, in Ken-
tucky, married in Springfield to George
Anderson, who died May 15, 1856, in
Springfield, leaving a widow and four
children, who now live in Omaha,
Nebraska.

Mrs. Susannah True died August, 1834,
in Springfield, Illinois.

TRUMBO, ADAM, was born
May 6, 1790, in Bourbon county, Ken-
tucky. Mildreth Foster was born Feb-
ruary, 1790, in the same county. They
were there married, had ten children, and
moved to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving in November, 1828, about six
miles south of Springfield, in what is now
Woodside township, where two children
were born. Of their children —

J OHN married Ellen Haley and died
in 1848 or '49, and his widow married
Milton Bridges. See his name.

ME LINDA married Jeremiah Adams.
She died, leaving four children near
Galena, Illinois.

JACOB died at seventeen years of
age.

LA VIC A married James L. South-
wick. See his name.

HARNESS, born Oct. 9, 1816, in
Bourbon county, Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county, July 15, 1838, to
Elizabeth Hall. Thev had eight children.
WILLIAM, born April 10, 1840, died
Sept. 14, 1862. SARAH C., born 'Jan.
26, 1843, lives with her parents. JAMES
P., born Jan. 27, 1845, married Dec. 25,
1870, to Anna Staley. They have one
child, WILLIAM, and live one and one-
half miles west of Chatham, Illinois.
JACOB, born July 2, 1848, lives with his
parents. M/\RIA L. died at five years
of age. HARNESS, Jim., born Nov.
15, 1854, and OSCAR, born Feb. 7, 1856,
live with their parents. ANDREW J.,
born August 25, 1861, died Sept. 23, 1875.
Harness Trumbo lives six miles south of
Springfield, near where his father, Adam
Trumbo, settled in 1828.

LOUISA J. married Thomas Chord,
had ten children, and Mr. Chord died Jan.
20, 1874, leaving his family near Peters-
burg, Illinois.

NANCT married Joseph Scales.
They have ten children, and five in Wis-
consin, near Galena, Illinois.

ELIZABETH, born March 10, 1823,
in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to John Smith. See his name.

ANDREW F., born in Kentucky,
raised in Sangamon county, and married
in Missouri to Mary Flernoy, has three
children, and lives near Barr's Ridge P.
O., California.

REBECCA married Mitchell Gra-
ham. See his name. She had one child,
REBECCA, who married Mitchell
Lawson, and lives near Johnstown, Bates
county, Missouri.

ISAAC H., born March 13, 1830, in
Sangamon county, married Emma
Bridges. They had three children. The
secord one, AMANDA J., died, aged
seven years. ALMA and ARABELL
live with their parents, one mile north of
Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.

GEORGE W., born Mov. 28, 1832,
in Sangamon county, married March 29,
1865, to Mary F. Malone, who was born
Feb. 24, 1844, in St. Louis county,
Missouri. They had four children, twins,
died in infancy. EUGENE L. and
ARTHUR A. live with their parents.
G. W. Trumbo resides where his parents
settled in 1828, and where he was born.
It is six miles south of Springfield, Illinois.

Mrs. Mildreth Trumbo died April 20,
1835, and Adam Trumbo married Mrs.
Hannah Hall, whose maiden name was
Cunningham. He died Oct. 6, 1856, arcl
she died January, 1872, both in Sangamon
county, Illinois.

TURNER, ARCHIBALD,

was born June 11,1750, in Ireland. He
was the youngest of twelve children, all
the others having died in infancy. He
came to America when he was more than
thirty years of age, and was married about
1790, on James River, Virginia to Rachel

. They had five children in

Virginia, and Mrs. Rachel Turner died
July 29, 1818. He moved with his chil-
dren to the Wabash valley, Indiana, where
he was married to Catherine White, also
a native of Ireland. They had two chil-
dren in Indiana, and the family moved to
Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in
1820 or '21. Of his children —

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EARL If SETTLERS OF

MARY, born Nov. 8, 1797, in Virginia,
married in Indiana to William Harvey,
moved to Christian county, Illinois, raised
a family, and she died about 1869.

JOHN, born Oct. 7, 1799, in Virginia,
married in Sangamon county to Esther
McMurry. They had seven children, and
he died. Their son, Archibald Turner,
lives in Springfield, Illinois.

ESTHER, born August 21, 1801, in
Virginia, married in Indiana to Daniel
McCaskill, moved to Brown county,
Illinois, where the parents died, leaving a
large family. Their son, JOHN, is a
physician in Colorado, and their son,
ARCHER, is a Methodist preacher.

MARK, born Oct. 3, 1803, in Virginia,
married in Sangamon county to Elvira
Bell. They had three children, moved to
Decatur, where he died about 1855, and
his widow died the next year.

ARCHIBALD, Jun., born July i,
1808, in Virginia, married in Sangamon
county to Elizabeth Lemons, moved to
Washington county, Illinois, and died there
in 1871. He was a local preacher in the
M. E. church.

By the second wife:

HUGH, born February, 1816, in
Indiana, married in Christian county,
Illinois, to Elizabeth Stokes, and had eight
children in Sangamon county. DAVID
A., born Sept. 28, 1839, married Eliza-
beth Littrell, had one child, EDWARD, who
died, aged seven years. They live near
Pawnee, Illinois. JAMES W., born Dec.
20, 1841, married Lutheria Huston, and
live six miles west of Springfield, Illinois.
SARAH C., born April 14, 1844, married
William M. Young, have five children,
and live near Elkhart, Logan county,
Illinois. GEORGE W., born March 21,
1847, lives near Edinburg, Illinois.
ELIZA J., born Feb. 9, 1849, married
Nov. 25, 1868, to Charles W. Ewell.
See his name. JOHN H., born Jan. 21,
1851. ROBERT, born July, 17, 1853.
ELIZABETH, born April 7, 1857, and
MARY A., born April 30, 1859, reside
at the family homestead, four miles west
of Springfield. Illinois. Mrs. Elizabeth
Turner died April 7, 1870, and Hugh
Turner died Dec. 14, 1872.

JAMES, born Jan. 26, 1818, in
Indiana, married Oct. 25, 1848, in Sanga-
mon county, to Elizabeth A. Earnest.
They had two children, SALOME O.,

born Nov. 10, 1849, married Jacob E.
Ingalls. See his name. NOAH H.,
born Nov. 7, 1851, lives with his mother.
James Turner died Oct. 22, 1853, and his
widow married Henry B. Chambers.
See his name,

Archibald Turner died June 29, 1855,
aged one hundred and five years and
eighteen days. His widow, Mrs Catherine
Turner, died May 10, 1870, both near
where they settled in 1820 or '21, four
miles west of Springfield, Illinois.

Archibald Turner was raised by Pres-
byterian parents, and was thoroughly
trained in the -Westminster Confession of
Faith and larger Catechism. He became
dissipated in early life, but while living in
Indiana he was converted at a camp-meet-
ing, and for the last fifty years of his life
was a devoted Christian. Near the close
of his pilgrimage of more than a century
his memory failed on all current events,
but he could repeat correctly passages of
the catechism, and the prayers that his
mother had taught him in childhood.

T U R P I N, Mrs. ELIZA-
BETH, whose maiden name was
Isom, was born about 1775, in Kentucky,
and married there to Philip Turpin.
They had twelve children, and Mr.
Turpin died in Kentucky. Mrs. Elizabeth
Turpin, with six of her children, came to
Sangamon county in 1831 or '32, and
settled two miles southeast of Loami. Of
her children —

WOODFORD married in Kentucky,
moved to Missouri, and afterwards to
Sangamon county. - His son, JAMES M.,
born May 10, 1848, in Howard county,
Missouri, married Charlotte Webb. See
Webb family. Mr. Turpin is a merchant
in Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

SARAH married in Kentucky to John
Clements, and she died there.

Of the six children who came to Sanga-
mon county —

ELIZABETH, after the death of her
sister, Sarah, married John Clements and
came to Sangamon county. See his
name.

WILLIAM, born in Kentucky about
1797, died unmarried in Sangamon county,
Oct. 2, 1865.

CELIA married William Withrovv.
See his name.

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URIAH, born in Kentucky, died in
Sangamon county, aged twenty-two
years.

MARTHA,\>or\\ in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Absalom Stine,
had eight children, and he died. The
widow and some of her children live in
Missouri.

.V. I NCT, born in Kentucky, married
Jefferson Back. They had nine children.
The parents arc dead. Their daughters,
ELIZABETH married George J.
Walker. See his name. They live in
Loami, Illinois. CAROLINE married
D. Rose, and live in Loami, Illinois.
MIRANDA married David D. Martin,
and resides in Auburn, Illinois. He is a
carpenter and builder there.

CHARLES /., born Nov. 28, 1818,
in Kentucky, came with his mother to
Sangamon county in 1831 or '32, married
August n, 1836, to Sarah Jarrett. They
had eight children. They moved to
Missouri and returned. Some of their
children were born in each State.
REBECCA A., born August 9, 1837, in
Sangamon county, married Aaron Hall,
Jun. See his name. WILLIAM A.,
born August 29, 1839, in Lewis county,
Missouri, enlisted August, 1862, for three
years, in Co. I, /3d 111. Inf. He died Dec.
26, 1862, at Nashville, Tennessee. His
remains were brought home and buried in
Sulphur Springs Cemetery, near Loami,
Illinois. ELIZABETH, born Feb. 8,
1841, in Missouri, married Hugh A. Park.
See his name. JONATHAN J., born
July 7, 1842, in Missouri, married in San-
gamon county to Sarah E. Cloninger,
who was born August 12, 1841, in Cabell
county, West Virginia. They have three
children, WILLIAM A., CHARLES L. and
SARAH M., and reside one and one-half
miles southeast of Loami, Sangamon
county, Illinois. CHARLES L, Jun.,
born Feb. 24, 1849, enlisted in Co. E, I33d
111. Inf., for one hundred days, and was
honorably discharged, with thanks of
President Lincoln, Dec. 15, 1864. He
was married June 27, 1867, to Eliza Jane
Hays, who was born March 24, 1849, in
Macoupin county. They reside two and
a half miles south of Loami, Illinois.
DENNIS, born Sept. 19, 1851, married
Dec. 21, 1870, to Caroline F. Hays, who
was born May 21, 1853, in Macoupin
county, Illinois. They live two miles

south of Loami, Illinois. JAMES F., born
Sept. n, 1853, lives with his mother — 1874.
Charles I. Turpin, Sen., died April i,
1869, in Sangamon county, and Mrs.
Sarah Turpin resides one and one-half
miles southwest of Loami, Sangamon
county. Illinois.

L UCINDA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to George
Taylor, has five children, and resides in
Christian county, Illinois.

Mrs. Elizabeth Turpin died in 1860 in
Sangamon county, Illinois, aged eighty-
five years.

TURLEY, THOMAS J., was
born May 7> 1802, in Montgomery county,
Kentucky. His parents had fourteen
children, seven of each sex, all born in the
same county. The parents, with part of
their chiildren, came to Logan county,
Illinois, about 1823, and there are many
of the name in that county, as the whole
fourteen children raised families. The
eleventh child, being the youngest son,
is the one whose name heads this sketch.
He came from Logan to Sangamon
county, and was married Sept. 27, 1827,
to Mary Trotter. They had ten children,
all born in Sangamon county. Two died
young. Of the other eight children —

ELIZABETH, born June 8, 1828, in
.Sangamon county, married Nov. 7, 1850,
to William Kenney, who was born in
1827, in Harrison county, Kentucky, was
a soldier from DeWitt county, Illinois, for
one year, from June, 1846, in Co. E, 4th
111. Inf., in the war with Mexico, and
came to Sangamon county in 1849. Mr.
and Mrs. Kenney had five children,
MARY A. died in her second year.
JOHN B., VICTOR, SARAH F. and
WILLIAM live with their parents, two
miles west of Mechanicsburg, Illinois.

AGNES J., born Nov. 18, 1829, mar-
ried Nicholas B. Whitesides. See his
name.

BOLIVAR, born August 12, 1831, in
Sangamon county, married in the same-
county, Jan. 22, 1857, to Maria Wilson,
who was born Nov. 15, 1834, in Nrw
Hampshire. They had five children, one-
died in infancy, and ALBERT J. died in
his third year. GEORGE LINCOLN,
NICHOLAS IRVING, and HENRY
ELMER live with their parents on the
farm where his parents settled in 1828.

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EARL1 SETTLERS OP

It is two miles north of Sangamon Station,
and four miles east of Springfield, Illinois.

JAMES, born May 4, 1833, married
Oct. 20, 1853, to Mary B. Kenney. They
had six children, JAMES T., AM-
BROSE, ADA BELLE, LAURA C.,
CHARLES H. and ELIZA A. Mr.
Turley died August 26, 1862, and his
widow and children reside five miles east
of Springfield, Illinois.

HENRT D., born Feb. 3, 1836, in
Sangamon county, married Sept. to, 1856,
in Logan county to Eliza J. Scoggin,who
was born in that county Dec. 12, 1840.
They had nine children, four died under
two years. FANNIE A., MARY A.,
CHARLES L., MAGGIE MAY and
CHLOE E. reside with their parents,
five miles east of Springfield, Illinois.

THOMAS J., Jun., born Jan. 20,
1838, married May 20, 1858, to Rebecca
Barr. She died Feb. 14, 1874, leaving
five children, ALVAN, ELIZABETH,
FLORA A., JAMES and ELIZA A.
Mr. Turley was married a second time,
and resides three miles east ot Springfield,
Illinois.

WILLIAM, born Oct. 16, 1840, in
Sangamon county, enlisted July 25, 1862,
in Co. I, i I4th 111. Inf., for three years,
served until the end of the rebellion and
was honorably discharged July 4, 1865.
He was married August 10, 1865, in St.
Louis, to Ellen Curran, who was born
April 7, 1842, in Glasgow, Scotland.
They had two children, JOSEPH W. and
MARY E., and Mrs. Ellen Turley died
August 8, 1872. Mr. T. and his children
live with his mother, five miles east of
Springfield, Illinois — 1874.

MART, born Dec. n, 1842, in Sanga-
mon county, married Dec. 28, 1864, to
Quintus Embree. They had one child,
FANNIE A., born Nov. 4, 1865. Mrs.
Embree was married Feb. 20, 1875, to
William D. Henry. They have one son,
WILLIAM D., Jun., and reside five
miles east of Springfield, Illinois.

Thomas J. Turley died Sept. 7,1852,
and his widow resides with her children,
near where she and her husband settled in
1828, five miles east of Springfield, Illinois.

TWIST, JOHN, was born in
Cambridge, Massachusetts, went to Seneca
Falls, when a young man, and was there
married to Phoebe Russell, who was born
in Newark, New Jersey. They had two

children at Seneca Falls, and moved to
Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in
1821, in what is now Woodside township,
six miles southeast of Springfield, where
they had two children. Mrs. Twist made
cheese and her husband hauled it to St.
Louis on an ox wagon, where he found a
market for it. In that way they raised
the money to buy their first eighty acres
of land. Early in 1826 they moved to a
place on the Sangamon river, two miles
northeast of Rochester, and about eight
miles east of Springfield. Mr. Twist, in
connection with Dr. Darling, of Spring-
field, built a saw and grist mill further up
the river, four miles northeast of Roch-
ester. It required all the men within a
radius of ten or twelve miles to raise the
mill. Mr. and Mrs. Twist had two chil-
dren near the Sangamon river. Of their
six children —

THADDEUS, born in New York,
died in Sangamon county, aged fifteen
years.

CICERO, born in 1820 in Seneca
Falls, New York, married in Sangamon
county, Illinois, May 21, 1845,10 Sarah A.
Baricman, and moved in August, 1848, to
DeWitt county, Illinois. They had ten
children, CICERO S., the sixth, and
SARAH P., the eighth, died young. Of
the other eight, NORVILLA A. was
married Sept. 20. 1866, to John W. Dunn,
has one child, JAMES E., and lives in
Macon county, Illinois. LOUISA was
married June, 1872, to James Long, has
one child, CHARLES, and lives in McLean
county, Illinois. MYLO lives with his
father. EVAN A. was married Feb. 19,
1874, to Jane Bennett. MARY E.,
WESLEY W., ADELIA E., and
JOANNA live with their father. Mrs.
Sarah A. Twist died Jan. 10, 1867, and
Cicero Twist was married Nov. 3, 1867,
to Sarah Enos, and resides near Weldon,
DeWitt county, Illinois. .

JOANNA, born Feb. 26, 1822, in San-
gamon county, married Henry Johnson.
See his name.

MYLO, born in 1824 and died, aged
seven years.

JOHN A., born Nov. 12, 1826, near
Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois,
was married Nov. 26, 1856, in Rochester,
to Eliza J. Sattley. They have six chil-
dren, IRA F., RALPH S., MARY A.,

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ELLA R., ELIZA J. and JOHN A.,

Jun., and reside in Rochester, Illinois.

John Twist died July 13, 1831, at his
mill, on the Sangamon river, north of
Rochester. His widow married James
Stewart. They had one child.

EMELINE Stewart, born in Sanga-
mon county, and married Addison Foley.
They have two children, and live at Hay
Market, Prince William county, Virginia.

Mrs. Phoebe Stewart died Jan. n,
1836, in Sangamon county, Illinois. See
name of Barnes Stewart.

TJ

UNDERWOOD, REUBEN,
was born March 17, 1798, in Nicholas
county, Kentucky. He was married in
Bracken county, Kentucky, December 5,
1822, to Margaret Dawson, a sister of
John Dawson. See his name. She was
born August 31, 1796, in Fairfax county,
Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. Underwood lived
for some time in Harrison county, Ken-
tucky. Then moved with four children
to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in
the fall of 1833 m what is now Mechanics-
burg township. Of their five children —

ELIZA, born Sept. 7, 1823, in Ken-
tucky, died Sept. 28, 1825.

JOHN H., born July 31, 1825, in Har-
rison county, Kentucky, was brought up
in Sangamon county, and married in 1859,
at Rusnville, Illinois, to Jane E. E. Smith.
They had six children, CHARLES E.,
JOHN R., SARAH M., ADELIA E.,
ARTHUR A. and ALBERT E., the
latter twins. J. H. Underwood and
family reside at Carrollton, Green county,
Illinois.

WILLIAM D., born Jan. 14, 1828, in
Kentucky, died in Sangamon county,
August 4, 1835.

THOMAS J., born Oct. 30, 1829, in
Harrison county, Kentucky, was married
at Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county,
Illinois, Oct. 28, 1858, to Margaret D.
Bondurant. They reside at the home-
stead, where his parents settled in 1833.
It is three miles southeast of Dawson,
Sangamon county, Illinois. Thomas J.
Underwood enlisted August 6, 1862, for
three years, in Co. I, 73d 111. Inf. He
was elected second lieutenant, on the

organization of the company. After the
battle of Perry ville he resigned in conse-
quence of failing health.

ADELIA, born Feb. 29, 1832, resides
at the family homestead.

Reuben Underwood died Feb. 10, 1844,
and his widow died Jan. 9, 1875, both at
the homestead where they settled in 1833.
Reuben Underwood's widowed mother
came with him to Sangamon county, he
being the only child. Her maiden name
was Sarah Con way. Her parents were
among the earliest settlers in Kentucky.
They had taken refuge from the Indians
either in Randall's or Martin's station, and
when those fortifications were captured
and destroyed, June 22, 1780, by the com-
bined forces of the British and Indians,
she was separated from her parents and
adopted by an Indian and his squaw. She
was then about seven years old. They
took her to Detroit, Michigan, and after a
search of three years, her father, learning
where she was, secured an order from the
British officers for the Indians to restore
her to her father. They also advised Mr.
Conway to make the Indian a present to
prevent his injuring her. Acting on their
advice, he paid them forty dollars. She
died at her son's residence, Sept. 19, 1845,
aged about seventy-three years.

UNDERWOOD, JOHN, was
born about 1785, in North Carolina.
Went to Sumner county, Tennessee, when
a young man, was there married to
Clarissa Cook, and had eleven children in
Tennessee. The family moved to Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, arriving November,
1829, in what is now Island Grove town-
ship, where one child was born. Of their
children —

GEORGE, born Jan. 27, 1811, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Elizabeth
Sweet, had six children, and she died, and
he married Ann Campbell, had four chil-
dren, and the parents died, leaving their
children near St. Joseph, Missouri.

LA WRENCE, born August 5, 1812,
in Davidson county, Tennessee, married
in Sangamon county, April 9, 1835, ^°
Abigail Colburn. They had fourteen
children, four of whom died under nine
years. Of the ten, ACHSA, born May
6, 1836, married Nov. 24, 1854, to William
HufFmaster. See his name. Thev have
ten children, and live at Owaneco, Chris-
tian county, Illinois'. NATHAN T.

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EA RL T SE TTLERS OF

born October i, 1837, married Mary
L. Dorrance, have six children, and
live near Loami, Illinois. A Z U B A,
born April 18, 1839, married August 13,
1862, to Benjamin F. Weeks, who was
born July 6, 1841, in Belmont county,
Ohio. They have two children, AMY A.
and i, AURA A., and reside in Loami,
Illinois. Mr. Weeks enlisted August 2,
1862, in Co. F, 5 ist 111. Inf., for three
years, served until June 29, 1865, when he
was honorably discharged. He was in
the dispensing druggists' department the
last year. CLARISSA, born Jan. 4,
1841, married April 14, 1859, to Samuel
M. Neal, have three children, and live
near Springfield, Missouri. BARTON
W., born Sept. 26, 1842, lives near Spring-
field, Missouri. JESSE T., born Sept.
4, 1847, man"ied June 25, 1868, to Abigail
M. Kinney, and live at Linden, Osage
county, Kansas. LAWRENCE T., born
July 31, 1849, married July 8, 1869, to
Martha J. Weir, have two children, and
reside two miles west of Loami, Illinois.
LUCY, born August 9, 1853, married
June 16, 1870, to Scott Carter, who died,
and she lives with her parents. DAVJD
O. and FANNY live with their parents,
near Bois D'Arc, Greene county, Missouri.

MARTHA A., born April 10, 1814,
married Abel Jones, had several children,
and both died in Lewis county, Missouri.

EMELINE, born July 20, 1816, mar-
ried March 6, 1842, to William Hammond.
See his name,

MATILDA, born March 29, 1818,
married December, 1842, to Thomas
Deaton, have nine children, and reside
near Jacksonville, Illinois.

PRESLEY, born Sept. n, 1819, died
unmarried at thirty years of age.

TURNER, born Jan. 14, 1823, mar-
ried Mary Harbour, had four children,
and he died, leaving his widow and chil-
dren at Hamburg, Iowa.

WILEY, born May 16, 1823, died
1858.

TABI7^HA, born Oct. 23, 1824, mar-
ried John Morgan. They live in Atchi-
son county, Missouri.

LOUl'SA, born May 29, 1826, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county
to Milton, Douglas. See his name.
Her name is erroneously printed Eliza.

JAMES T., born Oct. 9, 1830, in
Sangamon county, was married Jan. 29,

1866, near Chambersburg, Pennsylvania,
to Elizabeth Coble, a native of that place.
James T. Underwood was for several
years assessor of Island Grove township.
He was elected in 1864 to represent that
township in the board of supervisors of
Sangamon county. He is now — Novem-
ber, 1876 — a Justice of the Peace, and re-
sides in Springfield, Illinois.

John Underwood built a horse mill in
Island Grove, soon after his arrival. It
was the first in that part of the county.
The settlers came from twenty to thirty
miles to do grinding with their own teams.
He died Oct. 27, 1866, in Island Grove,
where he settled in 1829. His widow
died Jan. 18, 1866, at Loami, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

UNDERWOOD, WIL-
LIAM, was born and married in
Kentucky, and brought his family to
Sangamon county, arriving about 1834 at
Berlin. They had three children, one of
whom died, aged ten V years, and Mrs.
Underwood died. Their two sons,
CHARLES and LTCURGUS,™^
to their friends, in Kentucky, and went
from there, as soldiers, in the Mexican
war. William Underwood married for his
second wife, Eliza Lemon, and he died in
1840. His widow married John Churchill.
See his name.

UTTERBACK, ELIJAH,

was born in Culpepper county, Virgiana,
Sept. 25, 1776. When he was a young-
man he went to Henry county, Kentucky,
and was there married to Susan Bice — a
sister to John Bice. They had three
children born in Kentucky, and moved to
Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in
October, 1835, ni wnat ifi novv Williams
township, where one child was born. Of
their four children —

MARY D., born April 12, 1824, in
Henry county, Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county to Peter Braughton.
See his name.

ELIZABETH C., born in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangamon county to
James Dode. They have six children, and
live in Lafayette county, Missouri.

NANCY A., born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Jacob Lucas.
They have six children, and live in Fre-
mont county, Iowa.

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ADAL1NE S., born in Sangamon
county, married James Henry. They
have two children, and live in Bourbon
county, Kentucky.

Mrs. Susan Utterback died August 19,
1841, and her husband died March 3, 1862,
both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

VANCIL. This name— Vanzael,
anglicised — is quite common in Germany,
especially among the soldiers of the fath-
erland. The circumstances which led to
its being transferred from Prussia to
America were somewhat peculiar. A
young man bearing the name, put to
death a valuable dog belonging to an old
German husbandman. This was deemed
a grave offense, and he was called up by
his father for trial. The boy plead guilty,
but justified his actions. The venerable
parent decreed that he' should be severely
chastised or leave the country. The proud
spirited stripling chose the latter, imme-
diately embarked for America, and settled
in Virginia. Nothing is known of his
marriage, but his son, John Vancil mar-
ried Mary Penrod. They had a large
family, consisting in part of six sons, five
of whom were over six feet high, and
weighed upwards of two hundred pounds
each. While these were yet children,
John Vancil joined a company of rangers
— the first military organizations at the
beginning ot our troubles with the mother
country — and sent his family into Mary-
land. One of his sons —

VANCIL, SAMUEL, born
about 1768, was but six years of age at
the beginning of the American Revolu-
tion, when his father separated his tamily
upon going into the army. Samuel was
placed in a family of Germans, who, from
their religious convictions were opposed
to war. At the close of the war John
Vancil collected his family in Patrick
county, Virginia, where Samuel was mar-
ried about 1795 to Mary Peckelheimer,
and moved to Montgomery county, in
the same State, where they iiad two chil-
dren, and then moved to Logan county,
Ky., where they had one child, and moved
back to Virginia, where two children
were born, and then moved to Lincoln
county, Ky., and from there, in i8ii,to

Warren county, Ohio, where one child
was born; from there to Franklin county,
Indiana, and after a stay of five yeai's,
moved to Union county, Illinois, where
he left his family, and with several others
rode up to Sugar creek, and selected a
tract of land about one mile southeast of
where Auburn, Sangamon county now
stands, where he arrived with his family
late in November, 1818. They lived in
their wagons until cabins could be built.
Their only neighbors were the Drennan
and Dodds families. Sec their sketches.
Game being abundant, they lived largely
on wild meat and honey. The Kickapoo
Indians were quite numerous, though
friendly. Of the six children of Samuel
Vancil —

BETSY, was born in 1796, in Mont-
gomery county, Va., married in Warren
county, Ohio, to John Walker, and came
with her parents to Sangamon county,
where she died in 1830, leaving five chil-
dren, three of whom, when last heard
from, were living in Texas.

PENROD, born in 1797, in Mont-
gomery county, Va., married in 1819, in
Preble county, Ohio, to Elizabeth Hous-
ton. They had eight children, five of
whom lived to maturity, namely:
JAMES, married Martha A. Gatton.
They had eight children, and she died.
He married Sarah E. Greenawalt. He
died February, 1872, in Virtlen, 111., leav-
ing his widow and children there.
NANCY, married Jacob B. Vancil See
his name. ELIZABETH, married Ab-
ner Hayden. They had six children.
WILLIAM D., married Mrs. Melvina Van-
cil, and live in Montgomery county, 111.
SARAH E., married Noah Greenawalt,
and lives near Cerro Gordo, Piatt county,
111. NANCY j., married James Cruise
who died, and she lives in Piatt county.
MARY j., married Francis M. Rape. See
his name. EMILY K., married Francis M.
Cross. See his name. EMILY E., lives
with her sisters. Abner Hayden died,
and his widow has since been married, but
is now a widow living with her children,
near Cerro Gordo, 111. MARY married
A. Henderson. He died 'and she married
William Forsythe. See his name. She
lives at German Prairie Station, near
Springfield, 111. GEORCE W., married
Melvina Gatton, and died in May, 1872,
leaving several children. Penrod Vancil

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died in 1865, and his widow died in 1868,
both near Auburn, Sangamon county, 111.

SARAH, born about 1800, in Logan
county, Kentucky, married in Franklin
county, Indiana, to John Houston. She
died in Preble county, Ohio, leaving four
children, one of whom lives in Iowa.

GIDEON, born Feb. 1,1802, in Mont-
gomery county, Virginia, married in San-
gamon county, Illinois, March, 1820, to
Feraba Wilson, believed to have been the
first marriage ever solemnized in the what
is now Sangamon county. They had
eleven children, all born in Sangamon
county. CLARINDA, born in 1821,
married in 1835, ^° Henry Duke. They
had several children, all of whom died
except one, who is married and lives in
Dallas county, Texas. Mr. Duke died in
1864, and his widow lives in Dallas coun-
ty, Texas. MARY J. is unmarried, and
lives in Lawrence county, Missouri.
ADAM, born August 16, 1826, died in
Logan county, Illinois, Jan. 18, 1849.
AARON BRYANT, born July 9, 1828,
married in 1852 to Elizabeth Scott, have
one child, and reside six miles southwest
of Waverly, Illinois. JAMES M., born
June 13, 1830, married in 1865 to Isabel
Morland, have two children, and live in
Camanche county, Texas. E L I Z A-
BETH, born May 26, 1832, married in
1850 to George W. Foster. He died in
Texas, leaving a widow and two children,
who live in Lawrence county, Missouri.
GIDEON H., born May 23, 1835, mar-
ried in 1862 to Martha A. Severe. They
have four children, and live in Lawrence
county, Missouri. SARAH A., born
Nov. 13, 1837, married Dec. 4, 1851, to
Robert Scott, have one child, and live in
Carroll county, Missouri. THOMAS J.,
born Nov. 17, 1841, and died June 26,
1866. BENJAMIN F., born Nov. 7,
1843, is unmarried, and lives in Lawrence
county, Missouri. MINERVA C., born
Feb. 4, 1846, married J. C. Jenkins, and
died in Texas, May 21, 1873. Gideon
Vancil lived four miles southwest of
Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois, until
1847, when he moved to Hopkins county,
Texas, where he lived until the close of
the rebellion, when he moved to Missouri.
Mrs. Feraba Vincil died in 1866, and
Gideon Vancil resides with his children,
near Mount Vernon, Lawrence county,
Missouri.

SIMEON, born Jan. i, 1805, in Mont-
gomery county, Virginia, came to Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, in 1818, with his
• father, was married March 16, 1826, to
Mary Black. They had two children,
WILLIAM, died in infancy; JACOB B.,
born August n, 1828, married Nancy
Vancil. They had three children, all died
young. J. B. Vancil died in 1873. His
widow is married and lives near Auburn,
Illinois. Mrs. Mary Vancil died in 1830,
and Simeon Vancil was married Jan. 19,
1832, to Mary A. Gates. They had eight
children, three of whom died young. Ot
the other five, CORN ELI US P. married
Emily J. Pritchard. They have three
children, and live four miles south of
Auburn. Illinois. PAULINE C. mar-
ried Robert Hudgen. They have one
child, OWEN, and reside near Cerro
Gordo, Piatt county, Illinois. FRANCIS
M., born Jan. 29, 1840, in Sangamon
county, Illinois, took a select course at
Shurtleff College, and studied law. In
1869 he moved to Brownsville, Nebraska,
and engaged in a newspaper enter-
prise there for two years. He was
married October, 1870,10 Emma Argo, of
Vermont, Illinois, who was born Sep-
tember, 1851, in Jersey county, Illinois.
They have two children EARLE FRANCIS
and EMMA LEOLA. In 1872 Mr. Vancil
initiated the movement and assisted in
laying out the town of Bloomington,
Franklin county, Neb. He resides there;
is engaged in the practice of law and stock
raising. MARGARET J., born Jan. 15,
1842, married George W. Cray. They
have four children, and reside two miles
northwest of Virden, Illinois. MARY
A. married Andrew Eagen. They have
two children, and live three miles north
of Virden, Illinois. Mrs. Mary A. Vancil
died Feb. 3, 1873, and Simeon Vancil died
April, 1875, both at the homestead where
they had lived more than half a century.
It was three and a half miles southwest
of Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Mr. Simeon Vancil was very fond of
conversing on subjects connected with the
early history of the country. Speaking of
the " deep snow " of 1830 and '31, he said
that it was about three and a half feet deep
on a level, but that it drifted to a depth of
eight or ten feet. After it became suffi-
ciently hard by thawing and freezing on
the surface to bear his weight, he remem-

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bered attempting to walk across a ravine
•where the snow brought all on a level.
The crust was weakened by hazel brush
that came up through it, and at the deep-
est place he went down, quick as thought.
When he brushed the snow from his eyes
and looked up, he found the crust at least
three feet above his head. It required a
long time for him to work his way out,
but he finally succeeded by using his gun
to break the crust over his head. He said
that after the snow disappeared the stumps
from which they had cut the trees for
fuel were from six to ten feet high. He
said that from the Indians who were here
at the time, he learned that a deep snow
had fallen about thirty years before, and
that the buffalo, unable to find food,
would collect on the highest points, where
the snow was thinest, and remain hud-
dled together until they died of hunger
and cold. He said their account of it was
corroborated by large quantities of buffalo
bones being found on nearly all those
high places. Simeon Vancil was a man
of strong mental capacities, hospitable
and kind. With one exception, he was
for many years the oldest settler of San-
gamon county. That exception was
William Drennan. They have both
passed away.

REBECCA, born in Warren county,
Ohio, was married in Sangamon county
to Henry Landis, of Logan county, Illi-
nois, and died there a few years later
without children.

Mrs. Mary Vancil died in 1822, and
Samuel Vancil married a Mrs. Wakefield.
He died in 1828, both near where they
settled on coming to the country. They
were buried in the Wimer grave yard,
southeast of Auburn, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

VAN DEREN, BARNARD,
born May 22, 1789, in Harrison county,
Kv., was married there May 27, 1813, to
Eliza McKee, who was born May 16,
1795, in the same county. They had nine
children in Kentucky, two of whom died
there. The family moved to Sangamon
county, 111., arriving June 12, 1835, in
what is now Curran township. When
they came to the county the greater
part of it was flooded with water. Bara-
ard VanDeren was never a strong man
physically, and the over-exertion and anx-
iety connected with bringing his family to

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so new a country brought on disease. There
was not sufficient vitality left to counter-
act it, and he died July 6, 1835, ^ess than a
month ofter their arrival. Of their seven
children —

CYRUS W., born May 6, 1815, in
Kentucky, was married there April 2,
1835, to Margaret Patton, and came to
Sangamon county, 111., in 1838, three
years later than the other members of the
family. They had three living children.
ELIZA J., born March 7, 1836, in Ken-
tucky, was married Nov. 21, 1855, in
Sangamon county, to Jesse F. Taylor,
who was born Jan. 2, 1828, in Clarke
county, Ky. They have three children,

CYRUS W., LITTLEFIELD and JESSE F., the

first born in Jackson county, Missouri, and
the last two in Helena, Montana Terri-
tory, where Mr. Taylor and his family
reside. MARTHA S., born in Wood-
side township, Sangamon county, married
John M. Taylor. They have three chil-
dren, GEORGE WILLIAM, FREDERICK and

LUELLA, and live in Chatham, Illinois.
MARY L., lives with her parents in
Chatham, Sangamon county, 111. Cyrus
W. VanDeren was for a number of years
a justice of the peace, and before the town-
ship organization, he was one of the San-
gamon county judges, and was elected
state senator in 1856, serving one term.

BARNARD A., born May n, 1819,
in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, 111., Nov. 7, 1839, to Mary J. Mc-
Ginnis. They had two living children.
MARY J., died aged 12 years. JOHN
D., married Lydia A. Smith, and lives in
Oswego, Kansas. Mrs. Mary J. VanDe-
ren died in July, 1852, and Barnard A.
VanDeren was married Nov. 8, 1853, to
Mary A. Baker. They had two children,
THOMAS N. and MAGGIE L. B. A. Van
Deran died Feb. 25, 1866 and his widow
married John Lowry. They had two chil-
dren. BARNARD A. died in infancy.
MARY LOUISA lives with her parents.
John L^wrey and family live near Loami,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

MARTHA J., born Oct. 24, 1821, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, Illinois, Nov. 3, 1842, to Lewis
Johnson. See his name,

DA VI D J/., born Feb. 12, 1824, in
Kentucky, was married June 17, 1851, to
Margaret Evans. Mrs. Margaret Van
Demi died in December, 1853, and D, M.

EARL? SETTLERS OF

VanDeren was married Dec. 8, 1859, to
Rebecca M. Kinney. They had one
child, MAGGIE E., and D. M. VanDe-
ren died Feb. 15, 1874, in Springfield,
where his widow and daughter still reside.

MARGARET W., born June 9, 1828,
in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, March 13, 1849, *° William F.
Thompson. See his name. They had
one living child, ELIZA F., who lives
with her mother. William F. Thompson
died, and his widow was married July 18,
1854, to Lewis Johnson. See his name.

ARCHIBALD J., born Jan. 15, 1831,
in Kentucky, brought up in Sangamon
county, was married there May 22, 1866,
to Mary W. Lloyd. They have four
children, LLOYD, JOHN JAY, MARY
and ARCHIE ALEXANDER. A. J.
VanDeren and family live in Central City,
Colorado. He was Grand Master of the
Grand Lodge of Free Masons of Colorado
in its early history, and was a member of
the territorial legislature of Colorado for
1863.

JOHN M., born May 26, 1833, in
Kentucky, brought up in Sangamon
county, was married there Sept. 8, 1864,
to Louisa M. Coe, who was born April
1 8, 1838, in Waterbury, Connecticut, and
raised in Morgan county, Illinois. They
have five children, ARCHIE C.,
FRANK W., HELEN, CHARLES
W., and JOHN E.; the latter died in in-
fancy. John M. VanDeren and family
now — September, 1876 — live in Chatham,
111., but expect soon to move to Boulder
City, Colorado.

As an illustration of the slovenly ir>- n-
ner farming has been done in Sangamon
county, J. M. VanDeren says he has seen
the corn on land that produced from fifty
to sixty bushels to the acre stand in the
field until time for planting again. Then
they would knock down the stalks of
corn and burn all together to clear the
ground for planting a new crop. As
already stated, Barnard VanDeren died
within one month after bringing nis fam-
ily to the county in 1835. His widow,
Mrs. Eliza VanDeren, thus left alone in
the prime of life, has remained a widow
now more than forty years, and still lives
with her children in Chatham.

On the 6th of June, 1874, just as she en-
tered her eightieth year, a family reunion
was held at the house of her son where

she lives. There were present seven of
the ten children of David and Jane — Wal-
lace— McKee, of Harrison county, Ky.
The parents and three children are dead.
The seven present were Mrs. Eliza Van
Deren, of Chatham, 111., aged seventy-
nine, Mrs. Nancy McClintock, of Hunt-
ington city, West Virginia, seventy-two.
Miss Margaret McKee, of Catlettsburg,
Ky., aged seventy-one. Rev. D. D.
McKee, of Hanover, Indiana, aged sixty-
nine. Mrs. E. G. Hamilton, of Vinton,
Iowa, aged sixty-seven. Mrs. Cynthia A.
Reynolds, of Murrayville, 111., aged sixty-
six. Elder W. McKee, of Mexico, Mis-
souri, aged sixty-four.

VANDEVER, AARON, born
Feb. 7, 1785, in Virginia, was married in
Henry county, Kentucky, in June, 1805,
to Nancy French, who was born Nov. 19,
1789, in North Carolina. They had six
children in Kentucky, and moved in 1814
to Washington county, Indiana, where
four children were born, thence to Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, arriving in October,
1829, where they had one child. Of their
children —

SARAH, born June i, 1806, in Ken-
tucky, married and died in Indiana.

CARORINE and ELIZABETH,
twins, born March 2, 1808, in Kentucky,
both married, and' died in Indiana.

SOPHRON1A, born Feb. 14, 181 1, in
Kentucky, was married in Washington
county, Indiana, to Barnett Davis. They
have a large family, and live near Taylor-
ville, Christian county, Illinois.

THOMAS L., born July 25, 1813, in
Kentucky, died there.

HORATIO N., born March i, 1816,
in Washington county, Indiana, came
with his parents to Sangamon county,
October, 1829,. He was married in June,
1840, in Christian county, Illinois, to
Mary J. Rucker, who was born in Ken-
tucky. They have three children,
WILLIAM T., born August 22, 1842,
and EUGENE A, born August 27,
1853, are bankers in Taylorville, Christian
county, Illinois. ELIZABETH, born
Feb. 6, 1859, lives with her parents.

H. N. Vandever lesided in Sangamon
county until the organization of Christian
county, in March, 1839, when, without
moving, he was placed in Christian county,
the dividing line being near his farm. At
the first election which occurred, in March,

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1839, he was elected recorder for Christian
county, and appointed clerk of the circuit
court, also, holding the office until 1847.
He was elected representative to the state
legislature in 1842, raised a company for
the Mexican war, but the quota was full.
He was appointed by President Polk
quartermaster, with the rank of captain,
served two years, and during that time
was at the battle of Buena Vista. In
1849 he was elected judge of the Christian
county court, and filled the office by re-
election two terms of four years each.
He represented Christian and Mont-
gomery counties in the state legislature for
1 86 1 -2. He was a member of the consti-
tutional convention, and in 1862 was
elected state senator. In 1870 he was
elected judge of the circuit court to fill a
vacancy, re-elected in June, 1873, and is
now — 1876 — in office. H. N. Vandever
and family live in Taylorville, Illinois.

WILLIAM B., born in February,
1818, in Indiana, died in Illinois.

HARRIET, born Feb. 22, 1822, in
Indiana, died in Illinois.

AARON S., born Nov. 10, 1824, in
Indiana, died in Illinois.

ZIPPORAH, born in May, 1827, was
married March 25, 1847, to William T.
Duncan. Mrs. Zipporah Duncan died
Dec. 31, 1849, leaving one child,
AMANDA, who lives in Montgomery
county, Illinois.

LA VlNA, born May 21, 1834, in San-
gamon county, married Ransom Hargis.
She died Sept. 20, 1858, leaving two chil-
dren, WILLIAM R. and MARY J.,
living near Taylorville, Illinois.

Aaron Vandever died April, 1857, an(^
Mrs. Nancy Vandever died Aug. 7, 1 871, at
Taylorville, Christian county, Illinois.
Rev. Mr. Vandever was a distinguished
minister of the Old School Baptist Church,
known as the Regular Baptists.

VAN DOREN, JOSEPH,
was born February, 1790, in Somerset
county, New Jersey. Maria Conover
was born March, 1792,111 the same county,
and they were married there about 1809.
They had three children in that county,
and moved, in 1824, to Warren county,
Ohio, and from there to Sangamon county,
Illinois, arriving May 22, 1839, in what is
now Curran township. Of their three
children —

WILLIAM L., born February, 1810,

in New Jersey, married in 1832 in War-
ren county, Ohio, to Sarah Hagaman, had
one child, and moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1834, in
what is now Curran township, being the
first of the family to settle in the county.
They had six children born in Sangamon
county, and in 1845 moved to St. Louis,
Missouri, where Mrs. Van Doren died, in
October, 1848. In the spring of 1850 he
went to California, and there married, in
1853, to Cornelia Fulkerson. He came to
Springfield and kept the Chenery House
from 1866 to 1868, and in August of the
latter year returned to California, and re-
sides in Petaluma. His son, JOHN S.,
lives in Petaluma, and his daughter,
ANNA married John Rogers, and resides
near Petaluma Sonoma, county, California.

ABRAHAM, born March, 1814, in
New Jersey, married in 1837, in Warren
county, Ohio, to Delilah Jack. They had
one child in Ohio, and moved to San-
gamon county, Illinois, arriving July,
1838, in Curran township, where five
children were born. The family moved
to DeWitt county in 1855, and he died
there in the fall of 1858, leaving a widow
and two children, who reside near Clinton,
Illinois.

PETER C, born April 11, 1818, in
Somerset county, New Jersey, married
Oct. n, 1837, m Warren county, Ohio, to
Margaret Hathaway, who was born in
that county, April 13. 1820. Her great-
grand-parents, on the mother's side, bore
the name of Rogers. They emigrated
from Ireland, and soon after the vessel
sailed Mr. Rogers died at sea. A violent
storm caused the destruction of the ship's
stores, and in order to sustain life, three of
the passengers were in turn killed and
eaten. Mrs. Rogers had been selected by
lot, as the next one to be slain. She asked
for one hour to pray, which was granted,
and all the preparations made for taking
her life, the ship, meanwhile, carrying
signals of distress. When but a tew
minutes of the time remained, the sound
of a cannon came booming over the
waters, conveying the glad tidings that
they were discovered, and her life was
spared. On arriving in America she
settled in Warren county, Ohio, with her
only daughter, Elizabeth, who married
Patrick Meloy. Their daughter, Amy
Meloy, married Ebenezer Hathaway, and

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their daughter, Margaret Hathaway, mar-
ried Peter C. Van Doren. Mr. and Mrs.
Van Doren had one child in Ohio, and
moved to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving May 22, 1839, in what is now
Curran township, where eight children
were born. Of their nine children,
SARAH A., born Dec. 4, 1838, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county, Feb. 20,
1861, to Samuel Gibson, have three chil-
dren, EMMA M., PETER V. and WILLIAM

L., and reside at Monticello, Piatt county,
Illinois. JOHN M., born Jan. 15, 1841, in
Sangamon county, married Jan. i, 1865, to
Mary E. Sappington, have one child,
CHARLES L., and reside at Waynesville,
Illinois. EBENEZER H.. born Sept. 5,
1843, in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug.
20, 1862, for three years, in Co. B, i3Oth
111. Inf., served until August 15, 1865,
when he was honorably discharged at
New Orleans. He was married Nov. 13,
1867, to Frances I. McComas, and resides
two and a half miles south of Curran,
Sangamon county, Illinois. CORNE-
LIUS P'., born May 22, 1846, married
Sept. 30, 1868, to Eliza Stubbs, who was
born April n, 1845, in Warren county,
Ohio. They have one child, NETTIE,
(WILLIE died in infancy) and resides three
miles northwest of Curran, Illinois.
HANNAH M., born Nov. 20, 1848, in
Sangamon county, married Sept. 28, 1868,
to William C. Nixon, have two children,
FRANK v. and JOHN, and live on the farm
adjoining that on which her father was
raised, in Warren county, Ohio. MAR-
GARET H., born March 27, 1851, lives
with her parents. WILLIAM L., born
Feb. 20, 1853, married Dec. 16, 1873, to
Emma S. Darneille. MARY E., born
Dec. 3, 1856, married March 9, 1873, to
Hiram Alexander. See his name. AMY
j., born March 10, 1860, lives with her
parents. Peter C. Van Doren and wife
reside on the farm where his father settled
in 1839. It is three miles northwest of
Curran, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Joseph Van Doren died August 30, 1845,
and Mrs. Maria Van Doren died May i,
1864, both on the farm where they settled
in 1839. He was a soldier in a Light
Horse company from New Jersey, in the
war of 1812, and although he was about
fifty-five years of age, he went as a
teamster in the Mormon war of 1844 and
'45, in Illinois, was present and saw the

Mormon Prophet, Jo. Smith, and his
brother, Hyrum, shot dead.

VAN HOFF, HENRY, was
born in 1804, in the city of Philadelphia,
and came to Springfield, Illinois, in the
spring of 1838. He was for many years
engaged in the wagon and carriage making
business, with Obed Lewis. It was one
of the first establishments of the kind in
Springfield. Henry Van HofF was mar-
ried in Springfield, March 4, 1840, to
Susan A. Lewis. They had six children
in Springfield.

MARY A., born March 10, 1842, and
died Nov. 3, 1859.

HENRY L., born August 10, 1843,
enlisted April, 1865, on the first call for
seventy-five thousand men, for three
months, in Co. — , 7th 111. Inf., served full
time, re-enlisted August, 1862, in Co. G,
i I4th 111. Inf., for three years, was com-
missioned first lieutenant and promoted to
adjutant of the regiment in 1864, served
until August, 1865, when he was honor-
ably discnarged. He was married Oct.
26, 1871, in Laporte, Indiana, to Anna M.
Eraser, who was born March 6, 1847, m
Washington, D. C. They reside in
Springfield, Illinois.

ANNA, born July 9, 1845, resides with
her sister, Mrs. Hayden.

ADDIE, born July 20, 1847, was mar"
ried June 7, 1871, to MifHin Bell, who was
born Oct. 20, 1847, m Birmingham,
Chester county, Pennsylvania. They
have two children, SUSAN A. and
MARY E. Mr. Bell is an architect, and
is now — 1876 — assistant superintendent at
the new state house. He resides in Spring-
field, Illinois.

JULIA A., born August 26, 1849,
was married Sept. 15, 1870, to Albert C.
Hayden, who was born April 23, 1850, in
St. Louis, Missouri. They have two
children, WILLIAM H. and LEWIS
VAN H. Mr. Hayden is a member of
the firm of Lord & Hayden, china and
glassware merchants, Springfield, Illinois.

L1DE J., born Feb. 9, 1851, and
died Oct. 8, 1875, in Springfield, Illinois.

Henry Van HofF died Dec. 20, 1854, in
Springfield, and his widow was married
Nov. 19, 1857, to Rev. John G. Bergen,
D. D. See his name. He died, and she
resides in Springfield, Illinois.

VANMETER, ABRAHAM
D., was born Nov. 9, 1801, in Hardy

SAN GAM ON COUNTT.

county, Virginia. When he was a boy
his parents moved to Champaign county,
Ohio. He came to Sangamon county in
the spring of 1829, on business, expecting
to make but a temporary stay, but he was
married in 1830 to Nancy A. Hussey, and
settled in what is. now Fancy Creek town-
ship. They had seven children, namely

HENRT, born July 8, 1831, in Sanga-
mon county, married March 16, 1854, to
Mary G. Council. They had two living
children, CHARLES F. and THOMAS
D., and Mrs. Mary G. Van Meter died
April 5, 1862. Henry Van Meter studied
medicine and graduated at Rush Medical
College, Chicago, at the session of 1854
and '55. He commenced practice at Wil-
liamsville, in the spring of 1855, and con-
tinued until after the death of his wife.
September i, 1862, he was commissioned
assistant surgeon to the ii4th 111. Inf.
December 8, 1863, he was promoted to
surgeon of the regiment. He commenced
his duties before the regiment was organ-
ized, and was never on detached duty, but
remained with it until August 3, 1865,
when he was mustered out at Vicksburg.
Dr. Van Meter resumed practice at
Williamsville, and was married Feb. 13,
1867, to Mary F. Zane. They had three
children, JOHN R., ARTHUR L. and
HENRY Z. Dr. Henry Van Meter
died after a very brief illness, May, 1873.
His family resides in Williamsville, San-
gamon county, Illinois.

MART //., born in Sangamon county,
married Dr. Hiram J. Van Winkle, of
Morgan county. In the spring of 1864
he became assistant surgeon to the loth
Minn. Vol. Inf. He was with the regi-
ment in the field, taken sick, ordered
home, arrived at Williamsville, Feb. 27,
and died March i, 1865. His widow,
having no children, resides in Williams-
ville, Sangamon county, Illinois.

MARGARET A. married Thomas
W. Dean, and died Sept. 14, 1858.

HARRIET E. married June 13, 1866,
to Oren S. Webster, who was born Jan. 9,
1831, in Tompkins county, New York,
came to Sangamon county in 1861, and in
1862 enlisted in Co. B, 1301!! 111. Inf., for
three years. He was detailed as chief
clerk in the military postoffice, at Mem-
phis, Tennessee, and remained there until
he was mustered out in February, 1865.
He was elected in November, 1865, for

four years,, as superintendent of schools
for Sangamon county. They reside in
Williamsville, Sangamon county, Illinois.

CAROLINE died April 8, 1848, in
her sixth year.

JANE E. died July 29, 1853, in her
ninth year.

JAMES B. married Mary A. Thaxton.
They have one child, JAMES E., and
reside in the southeast corner of Menard
county, Illinois.

WILLIAM E. married Martha E.
Lester, and reside three and a half miles
northwest of Williamsville.

CHARLES C. resides with his pa-
rents— 1874.

Abraham Van Meter and his wife are
both living and reside in Fancy Creek
township, on the farm settled by her father,
Nathan Hussey, March 10,1819. Itisfive
miles west of Williamsville, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

VAN METER, SEYMOUR,
was born Feb. 14, 1807, in Champaign
county, Ohio, came to Sangamon county
in the fall of 1830, and lived in the family
of his brother, Abraham. He was a sol-
dier from Sangamon county in the Black-
hawk war of 1831 and '32, and after-
wards returned to Ohio, where he was
married August 5, 1834, to Catherine
Bishop, who was born April 8, 1810, in
Clarke county, Ohio. He came to San-
gamon county with his bride, in the fall,
and settled in Fancy Creek township,
where they had four children, namely,

JAMES H. died in his second year.

JOHN R., born Dec. 15. 1837, mar-
ried Jan. 22, 1872, to Elizabeth J. Cresse,
of Menard county. They have one child,
SEYMOUR, and reside on the farm
settled by his father in 1834, five miles
west of Williamsville, Sangamon county,
Illinois — 1874.

WILLIAM H., born Oct. 28, 1839,
enlisted in 1862, in Co. F, j^d 111. Inf., for
three years. In consequence of impaired
health he was transferred in 1863 to the
Veteran Reserve Corps, in which he
served to the end of the rebellion and was
honorably discharged. He married Kate
Clarey. They have one child, ABRA-
HAM, and live three miles northwest of
Elkhart, Logan county, Illinois.

CHLOE, born Jan. 6, 1843, married
George Prescott. They have one child,

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MARY E., and live four miles northwest
of Elkhart, Logan county, Illinois.

Mrs. Catharine Van Meter died April
2, 1858, and Mr. Van Meter was married
April 3, 1860, to Mrs. Mary A. E. Whit-
more, whose maiden name was Kaizer.
Seymour Van Meter died in Fancy Creek
township, Sept. 4, 1866, and his widow
resides in Logan county, Ohio.

VAN NATTEN, DANIEL,
was born March 3, 1800, in Fleming
county, Kentucky. He was married Dec.
25, 1818, in Bath county, to Deborah Fer-
guson. They had one child in Fleming
county, and the family moved to Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of
1825, in what is now Fancy Creek town-
ship, where five children were born. Of
their six children —

JOSEPH, born March 10, 1821, in
Fleming county, Kentucky, married in
Sangamon county, April 7, 1842, to Cur-
rency Stanley. They had nine children
all born in Sangamon county. NOR-
MAN A. enlisted in 1862 in Co. G, 73d
111. Inf., for three years, served full term
and was honorably discharged. He was
married after the war to Clarissa Tufts,
and lives in Fancy Creek township.
THOMAS M. enlisted for one hundred
days in Co. I, I33d 111. Inf., served five
months and was honorably discharged.
He married Annie Renney, and died May
4, 1872, leaving a widow and two children
near Springfield, Illinois. EMILY J.
married James Renney and resides in
Sangamon county. WARREN O. mar-
ried Christiana Bowen, and lives in Fancy
Creek township. MARTHA A.,
DANIEL W., JOHN N., JOSEPH J.
and CLARISSA O. live with their
parents, seven miles northwest of Spring-
field, Sangamon county, 111. JOSEPH
Van Natten enlisted in 1862, for three
years, in Co. G, 73d 111. Inf., served full
term, and was honorably discharged at the
close of the rebellion.

ELIZABE7^H, born in Sangamon
county, married Joseph Van Natten — a
relative of the family — have one child, and
live near Edina, Knox county, Missouri.

NELSON, born in Sangamon county,
married Elizabeth Patterson. He served
three years in a Missouri Union regiment,
was honorably discharged, and lives in
Knox county, Missouri.

DEBORAH, born in Sangamon

county, married Benjamin Ferguson, and
died in Fancy Creek township.

EDNA, born in Sangamon county,
and died in Texas at nineteen years of
age.

DANIEL, Jun., is married and lives
in Knox county, Missouri. He served
three years in a Missouri Union regiment
to aid in suppressing the rebellion.

All the Van Natten family moved to
Texas in 1858, and all the living returned
to Knox county, Missouri, in 1859, ex-
cept Joseph, who returned to Sangamon
county in 1860.

Daniel Van Natten died Oct. 16, 1869,
and his widow died March 4, 1871, both in
Knox county, Missouri.

VAN PATTEN, MINDERT,
was born Jan. 20, 1793, in Scoharrie coun-
ty, New York. Hannah Cooper was
born March 13, 1796, in Pennsylvania.
They were married Jan. 7, 1815, in
Somerset county, New Jersey, and had
ten children there. The family moved to
Sangamon county, arrriving at Spring-
field August 9, 1838, and soon after moved
to what is now Curran township. Of
their ten children —

MART A., born Oct. 3, 1815, in New
Jersey, married there to Joseph Rocka-
fellow, came to Sangamon county with
her parents, and went to Fairview, Fulton
county. They have seven children.

SARAH, born Jan. 26, 1818, in New
Jersey, married theie to Henry S. Frazee.
See his name.

CAROLINE, born Oct. 14, 1820,
married in Sangamon county to Ezra
C. Lyman. See his name.

AARON, born Nov. 17, 1822, in
Somerset county, New Jersey, married in
Sungamon county Nov. 28, 1844, to
Martha J. Tollev. who was born Jan. 11,
1826. They had" seven children. JAMES
M., born Sept. 2, 1845. CARRIE M.,
born Nov. i, 1848, married Feb. 17, 1870,
to Edward T. Bradford. See his name.
KATIE S., born March 7, 1851, married
Sept. 9, 1870, to Knox L. Cooper. See
his name, in the Talbott family sketch.
CHARLES M., WILLIAM H.,
MARY E., and LEIGH R. resides with
their mother. Aaron Van Patten died
Sept. 12, 1870, in Sangamon county,
Illinois, and his widow resides in Lincoln,
Illinois.

ELIZABETH, born March 26, 1825,

SANGAMON COUNT?.

in New Jersey, married in Sangatnon
county to William Pursell. See his
name.

JOHN, born and died in New Jersey,
aged four years.

NICHOLAS, born June 28, 1829, in
New Jersey, died in Sangamon county,
Sept. 24, 1844.

JOHN C., born Jan. 21, 1832, in
Somerset county, New Jersey, married
in Sangamon county Dec. 28, 1853, to
Rachel McCoy. They had six children,
two died under four years. EDWIN,
FRANK, EZRA and WILLIE live
with their parents. Rev. J. C. Van
Patten is connected with the Cumberland
Presbyterian Church. He resides one
and a half miles south of Farmingdale,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

JAMES L., born Sept. 15, 1834, in
New Jersey, died in Sangamon county,
March 26, 1857.

HANNAH H., born July 15, 1837, in
New Jersey, died in Springfield, Illinois.

Mrs. Hannah Van Patten died Jan. 9,
1861, and Mindert Van Patten died Aug.
17, 1861, both in Sangamon county. His
death was caused bv being thrown from a
horse.

VAN NORSTRAND, WIL-
LIAM, born about 1774, in Somerset
county, New Jersey, was married there
to Adaline Van Liew, who was born Dec.
24, 1777, in the same county. They had
five children, and Mrs. Adaline Van
Norstrand died in 1824 in Somerset county.
William Van Norstrand came to Sanga-
mon county on a visit to his son, Cornelius,
and daughter, Margaret A., and died in
Springfield, Dec. 22, 1839. Cornelius
Y;m Norstrand returned to New Jersey
and brought his sister, Maria, and his
brother, Frederick. Of the five children
of William and Adaline Van Norstrand —

MARIA, born Sept. 12, 1803, in Mid-
dlesex county, New Jersey, is unmarried,
and resides with her brother, Cornelius.

CORNELIUS, born Dec. 3, 1807, in
Somerset county, New Jersey, came to
Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in
July, 1837, and settled on Round Prairie,
four miles east of Springfield, Illinois.
He is unmarried and lives on the farm
where he settled in 1837.

MARGARET A., born Oct. 4, 1810,
in Somerset county, New Jersey, was
married in New Brunswick, New Jersey,

to Thomas Lewis. See his name. They
came to Sangamon county with her
brother, Cornelius, in 1837.

ISAA C, born May 29, 1813, in Mid-
dlesex county, New Jersey, went to
Louisiana in 1832 or '33, and was last
heard from in April, 1842, at New
Orleans, en route for Cuba. He was un-
married, and is supposed to be dead.

FREDERICK, born August 9, 1817,
in Middlesex county, New Jersey, came
to Sangamon county with his brother,
Cornelius, in 1841, and was married May
22, 1850, in same county, to Margaret J.
Blandon, who was born Sept. 6, 1827, in
Warren county, Pennsylvania. They
have fourchildren, WILLIAM, MARIA,
MAGGIE and ADDIE, and reside four
miles east of Springfield, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

V E A T C H, WI LLJ AM, born
about 1810, in Harrison county, Kentucky,
and was married there to Ursula Foster.
They came to Sangamon county in com-
pany with her brother, Evan Foster, in
1830, and lived on Lick creek until 1847,
when they moved to Mechanicsburg.
They had eight children, all born in San-
gamon county, Illinois.

MARY, died at 19 years of age.

MARTHA, was burned to death by
her clothes taking fire, when she was a
child.

J. WESLEY, born Nov. 7, 1836,
in Sangamon county, married April n,
1860, to Eliza Robbins. They have five
children, JOHN H., URSULA E., ANN
M., GEORGE T. and SARAH F., and
reside three miles southwest of Mechanics-
burg, Illinois.

WILLIAM, born in 1839, married
Sarah Anderson, have four children, and
live near Sweet Home, Nodaway county,
Missouri.

SAMUEL, born in Sangatnon county,
enlisted in the fall ot i86i,in Co. B, 3oth
111. Inf. for three years, re-enlisted as a vet-
eran, served to the end of the rebellion,
was honorably discharged, and died Janu-
ary, 1867, in Sangamon county, Illinois.

J AMES P., born in Sangamon coun-
ty, enlisted in 1861, in Co. B, 3Oth 111. Inf.
and died of disease at Vicksburg, in July,
1863.

SARAH A., born Feb. 4, 1845, in
Sangamon county, married Thomas Als-

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bury, has six children, and lives near
Sweet Home, Missouri.

JOELM., born in 1847, in Sangamon
county, enlisted in 1864, in Co. B, loth 111.
Cav., and was killed in the battle at Little
Rock, Arkansas, in the same year.

William Veath died March, 1852, and
Mrs. Ursula Veatch died in 1868, both in
Sangamon county, Illinois.

VIGAL, MATHIAS, was born
August 28, 1779, in Westmoreland county,
Pennsylvania. His father died, and his
mother married Adam Mung. They
moved to Jefferson county, Kentucky.
Mary Roney was born March 13, 1777, on
the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay,
Maryland, and was taken by her parents
to Jefferson county, near Louisville, Ken-
tucky. Mathias Vigal and Mary Roney
were married and had four children in
that county. They moved in 1820 to
Clark county, Indiana, and from there to
Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the
fall of 1830 in what is now Cotton Hill
township. Of their four children —

ELIZABETH, born July 9, 1801, in
Kentucky, was married in Indiana to
Samuel Slake. They had three children
and moved to Springfield, Illinois, in the
fall of 1828. In the spring of 1829 they
moved to what is now Cotton Hill town-
ship, where four children were born, and
Mrs. Slake died there July 25, 1855. Of
their children, three only are living.
WILLIAM is married, and lives in Tay-
lorville, Illinois. JOHN and GEORGE
are both married and live near Palmer,
Christian county, Illinois. Samuel Slake
is blind, and lives with his son, William,
in Taylorville, Illinois.

RA CHEL, born in 1803 in Kentucky,
died in Indiana, aged sixteen years.

WILLIAM W., born May 14, 1805,
in Jefferson county, Kentucky, came to
Sangamon county first in 1828. Since
that time he has lived in Springfield, and
Cotton Hill township, in the latter of
which he now lives, and is yet unmarried.

JOHN T., born April 8, 1808, near
Louisville, Kentucky, was married March
10, 1830, in Clarke county, Indiana, to
Hannah Coble, who was born in that
county May 20, 1811. They moved, in
company with his father, arriving in the
autumn of 1830, in what is now Cotton
Hill township, between Brush and Horse
ci'eeks. They had nine children in San-

gamon county. MELVINA, born May
22, 1831, married Thompson C. Spicer.
See his name. Mrs. Melvina Spicer died
Dec. 9, 1873. WILLIAM H., born Jan.
22, 1833, was married Oct. 31, 1855, to
Sarah A. Willian. They have six chil-
dren, MARC! A A., EVERETT A., METTA E.,
WILLIAM M., FREDERICK H. and ERMIN

CARROLL, and live in Cotton Hill town-
ship, one and a half miles south of New
City, Sangamon county, Illinois. W. H.
Vigal was a member of Sangamon County
Board of Supervisors in 1862, and is at
present a member. He has been township
treasurer since 1858. ALFRED, born
April 28, 1835, was married Dec. 17, 1857,
to Diana Carpenter, who was born Feb.
6, 1831, in Delaware county, Ohio. They
had six children, CLARA i., JOHN F., ADA-
LINE, the latter died Jan. 19, 1875, aged
twelve years, ANTONIO, EDWIN ULYSSUS
GRANT, and MARY L., and live near New
City, Sangamon county, Illinois. MARY
A., born April 30, 1837, married William
H. Boyd. See his name. JOHN F., born
July n, 1839, in Sangamon county, en-
listed August, 1862, for three years, in Co.
E, H4th 111. Inf., and was killed in battle
at Tupelo, Mississippi, July 15, 1864.
SARAH J., born August 25, 1841, died
June 22, 1864. NANCY C., born Oct.
20, 1843, died aged ten years. DAVID
M., born Nov. 2, 1846, is a teacner, and
lives near New City, Illinois. CHARLES
E., born March 10, 1852, was married
Jan. 7, 1875, to Mary A. Miller. They
have one child, LUTHER F. Mrs. Hannah
Vigal died May 12, 1853, and John T.
Vigal, lives where he settled in 1831, in
in Cotton Hill township, near New City,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

Mrs. Mary Vigal died March 13, 1837,
and Matthias Vigal died Dec. 25, 1862,
both in Cotton Hill township, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

VINEY ABRAHAM, born in
1781, in Greenbrier county, Virginia, was
married, either in that state or Kentucky,
to Rebecca Skiles, who was born Nov. n,
1781, in Pennsylvania. They had one
child in Virginia, and moved to Warren
county, Kentucky, where seven children
were born, thence to Sangamon county,
Illinois, arriving in the autumn of 1819,
on the south fork of Sangamon river,
fifteen miles south of where Springfield
now stands. Of their children —

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745

SARAH, born July 2, 1803, in Green-
brier county, Virginia, was taken by her
parents to Warren county, Kentucky, at
two years of age, and brought by them to
Sangamon county in 1819, where she
was married to Edward Clarke. See his
name.

WILLIAM S., born in Kentucky,
married Margaret Laughlin, and lives in
Iowa.

MART, born in Kentucky, was mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Ezekiel
Drennan. See his name. They moved
to Missouri and both died there.

. \.MANDA A., born March 2, 1810, in
Warren county, Kentucky, was married
in Sangamon county to Mathew P.
Kenney. See his name. She died July
9, 1876, in Sangamon county, Illinois. Her
son, Ninian C. Kenney, was married Nov.
15, 1876, to a daughter of F. Ewing
Dodds. See Dodds in Omissions.

CYNTHIA A., born in Kentucky,
died in Sangamon county, Illinois, aged
twenty-three years.

JOHN N., born July 13, 1813, in
Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county to Nancy Black, and both died.
His death occurred Jan. 5, 1871. He was
a preacher in connection with the Cum-
berland Presbyterian church.

REBECCA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Amos Rich-
ardson, and both died.

HENRY, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Catharine Kessler
and lives in Macoupin county, Illinois.

Abraham Viney died August 24, 1820,
and his widow married in 1823 or '24 to
Thomas Black, Sen. See his name.

VREDENBURGH, JOHN
S., was born March 11, 1809, in Somerset
county, New Jersey. The family moved
in 1821 to New York city, where he was
married, Sept. 22, 1832, to Ann E. Dore-
mus. She was born there Oct. 12, 1810.
They had two children in New York, and
moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, ar-
riving Julv 20, 1835, in what is now Cur-
ran township, where they had two children.
In 1837 they moved to Springfield, where
they had four children. Of their children:

MARIA V. D., born June 28, 1833, in
New York city, was married March 22,
1853, in Springfield, to Edward R. Ulrich,
who was born Oct. 10, 1829, in Duchess
county, New York. They had eight chil-

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dren, LOUIS, ANNA V., EDWARD
R., Jun., CATHARINE, CHARLES,
HENRIETTA, PAUL and MARIA.
Anna V. died March, 1876, in her nine-
teenth year. All the living children reside
with their parents in Springfield. Edward
R. Ulrich came to Springfield in 1841, and
was for many years a lumber merchant
there. He has since been engaged in stock
and grain dealing.

FRANCES D., born April, 1835, in
New York city, lives with her parents in
Springfield, Illinois.

PEJ^ER, born Feb. 7, 1837, 'n Sanga-
mon county, was married Dec. 27, 1866,
to Mary A. Canfield, daughter of Rev.
Josiah Canfield. She was born in New
Jersey. They live one and one-half miles
northwest of Curran, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

THOMAS D., born March 15, 1841,
in Sangamon county, was married in War-
saw, Illinois, May 22, 1866, to Maria
Reynolds. They have one child, WIL-
LIAM R. T. D. Vredenburgh is with
his father, in the lumber business, and re-
sides in Springfield, Illinois.

JOHNS., Jun., born Sept. i, 1844, in
Springfield, Illinois, was married Oct. I5»
1868, to Elizabeth H. Kilman, who was
born August 2, 1845, m Godfrey) Madison
county, Illinois. They have two adopted
children, and reside in Chicago, Illinois.

A NN E., born April 19,1850,111 Spring-
field, was married May 6, 1874, to James
Partridge. They live in Springfield, Illi-
nois.

MARGARET lives with her parents.

LA RUE, born in Springfield, Illinois,
is attending college in New Brunswick,
New Jersey — 1876.

John S. Vredenburgh was formerly[a far-
mer, but has been engaged in mercantile
pursuits in Springfield nearly forty years,
and is now in the lumber trade. He served
two terms as alderman, and one term, from
April, 1864, to April, 1865, as mayor of
the city. He now — November, 1876 —
resides in Springfield, Sangamon countv,
Illinois.

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WADSWORTH, DANIEL,
was born May 15, 1799. in Winthrop,
Maine. He was married Dec. 3, 1823, to
Margaret F. Goodwin, who was born
Oct. 3, 1801, at Freeport, Maine. They

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had two living children in Maine, and
moved to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving in Auburn Nov. 17, 1840, where
they had two living children. Of their
four children —

EM1LT N., born Oct. 3, 1824, in
Maine, married in Sangamon county, Oct.
12, 1843, to Jehu Harlan, who was born
June u, 1818, near Hopkinsville, Ken-
tucky. They had four children, two of
whom died under ten years. EDWARD
T. died in 1873, aged twenty-four years.
MARGARET H., born August 31, 1851,
in Sangamon county, married August 16,
1870, to John H. C. Irwin, who was born
in Ballinasloe, Connaught, Ireland, July i,
1845, anc^ is third son of the late Rev.
Canon John Irwin, D. D., who after a
long service as clergyman in the Anglican
church, and the Protestant Episcopal
church in America, died in Canada, Feb.
12, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. Irwin have two
living children, GERTRUDE H. and GRACE
MAYNARD, and reside in Springfield,
Illinois. Mr. Irwin is city editor of the
Illinois State Jozirnal. Jehu Harlan
died Nov. 23, 1851, and Mrs. Emily
N. Harlan was married Nov. 13, 1853, to
William M. Corzine, who was born
March 14, 1834, in Marion county, North
Carolina. They have one child,
FRANKLIN W., and reside in Auburn,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

MOSES G., born Feb. 3, 1826, in
Hallowel, Maine, married in Sangamon
county, Sept. 23, 1847, to Elizabeth F.
W heeler. They had five children.
EUGENE W., born July n, 1848.
MARGARET C., born Sept. i, 1850,
married D. H. Tomlinson, and died
March 15, 1875, at Butler, DeKalb countv,
Indiana. FLORA E., born Dec. 5,
1852, married Jerry Ballenger, and resides
in Auburn, Illinois. SUSAN E. M., born
Jan. 14, 1855, married W. W. Lowry, of
Carlinville, Illinois. They have one child,
MINXIE, and reside in Auburn, Illinois.
JAMES F. D., born April 6, 1857.
Mrs. Wadsworth died May 4, 1857.
Moses G. Wadsworth was married Nov.
1 6, 1862, to Mary E. Day. They had six
children, two of whom died young.
HARRIE E., CHARLES L., MARY
F. and ADA C. reside with their parents
in Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.
M. G. Wadsworth was elected clerk of
Auburn township at its organization, and

served four years, was township collector
four years, has been secretary of Ark and
Anchor Masonic Lodge, 354, five years,
and is editor and proprietor of the Auburn
Citizen, one of the best weekly news-
papers in the State.

SARAH A., born Sept. 19, 1841, at
Auburn, married March 26, 1861, to John
N. Williams, who was born March i,
1839, in Indiana. They have four chil-
dren, REMIE A., SARAH A., MAUD
B. and CHARLES N., and reside in
Auburn, Illinois. Mr. Williams is a mer-
chant in that place.

ABBIE J., resides with her parents
in Auburn.

Daniel Wadsworth has been a member
of the Masonic fraternity since 1821. He
assisted in organizing the first Masonic
Royal Arch Chapter in the State of
Illinois, that of Springfield No. i. He
has been a member of the M. E. church
since 1822, and was postmaster many
years in Auburn. He is now — 1876 — in
his seventy-eighth year.

WADDELL, JpSIAH, was
born Sept. 26, 1804, in Ohio county, West
Virginia. He was there married, Jan. n,
1831, to Elizabeth Hall, of West Alexan-
der, Washington county, Penn. She was
a native of Virginia also. They moved to
Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving March
i, 1835, m wnat is now Cotton Hill town-
ship. He spent twenty years in farming
there. They have no children. They
have since 1855, and now live in Spring-
field, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WAGGONER, GEORGE,
was born in Pennsylvania, and when a
young man went to Licking county, Ohio.
He was married at Newark to Judea
Wertzbaugh, who was born in Canada.
They had eight children in Ohio, and
moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, ar-
riving in October, 1822, in what is now
Gardner township, south of Prairie creek,
where three children were born.

y0//7Vborn in Ohio, married in San-
gamon county to Julia A. Clark, had eight
children, and both died in Mason county,
Illinois.

ELIZA, born in Ohio, married in San-
gamon county to James Darrell, had eight
children, and he died and she married Hal-
sey Smith, who died and she married Free-
man Marshall, and lives in Havanna, Illi-
nois.

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ALFRED, born in Ohio, married Jane
Hinsley, have five children, and live at
Petersburg, Illinois.

OZIAS, born in Ohio, married Rebecca
J. Shepherd, had five children, and she
died, and he married Hannah Leonard,
had four children, two of whom died
young. Ozias Waggoner lives in the south-
west part of Springfield, Illinois.

"jf UL1A A., born in Ohio, married in
Sangamon county to John Carman, had
nine children, and Mr. Carman died in
March, 1866, in Christian county. His
family live near Nokomis, Montgomery
county, Illinois.

EFFIE, born Jan. 28, 1818, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county, to Thomas
Say re. See his name.

ELIZABETH, born in Ohio, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Martin S.
Morris, have ten children, and live in Sa-
vannah, Missouri.

HARR1E T married Zachariah Clarey,
have eleven children, and live in Kansas.

SARAH married Stephen Ewbank,
had eight children, and he died leaving his
family near Girard, Illinois.

GEORGE C. married Louisa Fuller,
and live near Cerro Gordo, Piatt county,
Illinois.

Mrs. Judea Waggoner died Jan. 3, 1863
or '4, and George Waggoner died. Both
buried at Petersburg, Illinois.

WALLACE, JAMES, was
born in 1776, in Pendleton district, South
Carolina, of Scotch Presbyterian parents.
They being Whigs were driven from their
home by the British and Tories previous
to his advent in the world, and he was
born in a camp. On arriving at the age of
manhood he went to Nova Scotia, and was
there married to Ann Doole. About 1816
he moved back to South Carolina. Having
lived where all men were free, on his re-
turn to his native State, it appeared to him
as though slavery was indeed " the sum of
all villanies," and he determined to seek a
land of freedom in which to bring up his
family. He accordingly moved to Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, arriving Novem-
ber 3, 1822, in what is now Au-
burn township, one mile south of the pres-
ent town of Auburn. Of his five sons
and six daughters, three only remained in
Sangamon county, namelv,

7<9//.Vand WILLIAM, twins, were
born June 17, 1808, in Nova Scotia, and

came, in 1822, with their father, to Sanga-
mon county.

JOHN, was married August 5, 1830,
in Sangamon county, to Eveline Rieger.
They had ten children in Sangamon coun-
ty. GEORGE W. married Charlotte Dil-
ner, who died, and he married Sarah Ar-
net, and lives in Missouri. ELIZABETH
A. married Jonathan S. Frazier, who died
leaving a son, CHARLES E. Mrs. Frazier
married Joseph H. Lockridge. See his
name. MARY J. married Thomas Black.
See his name. ELIZA married William
Crane, and lives in Elco, Nevada.
AMANDA married John N. Kenney.
See his name. WILLIAM and JAMES,
twins. The former married Minerva Cox,
and lives in Chatham, Illinois. The latter
married Jennie Chapman, and lives near
Auburn, Illinois— 1874. MARGARET
C. and DAVID F., twins. The former
married C. Columbus Cannon, and lives
in Auburn, Illinois. The latter married
Mary Kessler, and lives near Auburn, Illi-
nois. JOHN B. lives at Placerville, Cali-
fornia— 1874. John Wallace died Nov.
20, 1854, and Mrs. Eveline Wallace died
August 20, 1876, both near Auburn, Illi-
nois.

WILLIAM, was married in 1832 in
Sangamon county to Amanda Rusk. They
had four children in Springfield, namely:
BENJAMIN F., married Mary Gregory.
They have two children, GRACIE and
STELLA, and live in Keokuk, Iowa. JOHN
L., JANE E., and ADA ANN«live with
their father. Mrs. Amanda Wallace died
in 1848, and William Wallace was married
in 1849 to Mrs. Allender, who died in
1864. Mr. Wallace was married in 1865
to Mrs. Eliza J. Gard, a native of Clark
county, Ohio. They reside in Springfield,
Illinois.

MART ANN married Benjamen Kess-
ler. They brought up a family of several
children, and reside in Auburn, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

James Wallace moved in 1835 from
Sangamon to Macon county, Illinois, tak-
ing three sons and five daughters with
him. He died there about 1845.

WALLACE, JAMES, was
born between 1780 and '85 in South Caro-
lina. He was no relation to the other
James Wallace from the same state. He
was married there to Francis A. Benison.
They moved to North Carolina, thence to

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

northern Indiana, and from there to Henry
county, Kentucky. In 1818 they moved
to Shawneetown, Illinois, and in the spring
of 1819 he moved to what hecame Sanga-
mon county, settling on Lick creek. They
brought nine children, namely,

J OHN, married Minerva Myers, and
died in 1843 or '44, leaving a widow and
four children near Decatur, Illinois.

WILLIAM married Elizabeth Miller.
He died in Arkansas, leaving a widow
and three children.

ROSE ANN married Randall Davis,
who died in 1867 or '68, leaving his family
in Macon county, Illinois.

ELIZABEJ^H, born in South Caro-
lina, came with her father to Sangamon
county, was married in Macon county to
Edward Turpin. They have four chil-
dren, and live near Hopewell, Macon
county, Illinois.

SARAH died unmarried in Sangamon
county in 1831.

ISAAC and MELINDA, twins,
born August 22, 1815, in Indiana.

ISAAC was married April 13, 1837, m
Springfield, to Mrs. Eliza Hawker, whose
maiden name was Lindsay. They had
four living children, namely, SAMUEL,
married Frances Grissom, and lives in
Springfield, Illinois. HELEN married
F. M. Scott has four children and lives in
Mechanicsburg, Illinois. FRANCES
married Emery Mayfiel'd, has one child,
and lives near Auburn, Illinois. ALICE
married benjamin Kessler, Jun., and live
in Auburn, Illinois. Isaac Wallace and
wife reside in Springfield, Illinois.

MELINDA married in Macon county
to William Hanks, and both died there.

SAMUEL, born in Kentucky, is rnar-
lied, and lives near Tower Hill, Shelby
county, Illinois.

James Wallace died in Sangamon coun-
ty in 1822, and in 1832 his widow, with
some of her children, moved to Macon
county, where she died.

WALLACE, WILLIAM S.,
was born August 10, 1802, in Lancaster
county, Pennsylvania, and graduated April
8, 1824, at Jefferson Medical College at
Philadelphia. Dr. Wallace came to Spring-
field, Illinois, in 1836, and at once engaged
in the practice of his profession. He was
married May 21, 1839, in Springfield, to
Frances J. Todd, who was born in 1817 in
Lexington, Kentucky. See sketch of the

Todd family. Dr. Wallace and wife had
six children in Springfield, namely —

ELIZABETH, died in infancy.

MART J. was married Nov. 15, 1865,
in her native city, to Colonel John P.
Baker, who was born July 24, 1838, at
Kaskaskia, Illinois. Colonel and Mrs.
Baker have five children, MARY, WAL-
LACE F., FRANCIS J., MABEL and
FLORENCE, and reside in Springfield,
Illinois. John P. Baker graduated in 1856,
at Shurtleff College, at Upper Alton, Illi-
nois. He read law three years with his
father, Hon. David J. Baker, and was ad-
mitted to the bar. In March, 1861, he was
appointed by President Lincoln, second
lieutenant, in the 1st United States dra-
goons, placed on duty in Washington Citv,
and was at the battle of Bull's Run, July
21, 1 86 1. He served on staff duty at the
headquarters of the 6th Army Corps in
the Army of the Potomac, also on staff
duty as Inspector General of Savannah,
Georgia, in the early part of 1865. Lieu-
tenant Baker was promoted July 17, 1862,
to captain in the ist United States Cavalry,
brevetted April 9, 1864, major in the regu-
lar army for gallantry and meritorious ser-
vice at Pleasant Hill, Louisiana; also, bre-
vetted lieutenant colonel for gallant and
meritoritous services during the war. After
the suppression of the rebellion he served
with his regiment at the headquarters of
General Sheridan in Louisiana, and in
1865 was ordered from there to the
Pacific coast, spending three years in
Nevada and Oregon, campaigning
against the Indians. Colonel Baker re-
turned to Spiingfield and resigned his
commission in July, 1868. He then be-
came one of the proprietors and associate
editor with his brother, E. L. Baker, of
the Illinois State Journal. He with-
drew from the Journal in 1872, and has
since held the office of United States
assistant assessor and LTnited States
ganger for the Eighth district of Illinois.
WILLIAM F., FRANCES and
ED WARD D. live with their mother.
CHARLES E. died young.

Dr. William S. Wallace continued in
the practice of medicine a full quarter of a
century in Springfield, never making any
distinction between the rich and the poor
in his attentions. In 1861 he received
from the hands of his brother-in-law,
President Lincoln, the appointment of

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Paymaster in the United States Army.
He was on duty part of the time in
Springfield, Illinois, then in the depart-
ment of Missouri, and the remainder of
the time at the front on the lower Missis-
sippi river. By exposure and exhaustive
service in the south he became debilitated
and never regained his former vigor.
After the suppression of the rebellion he
was placed on the retired list and died
May 23, 1867, in Springfield, Illinois.
His widow, Mrs. Frances J. Wallace, re-
sides in Springfield,

WALL, ISAAC, was born about
1790, near the line between V irginia and
North Carolina. He was married in
North Carolina to Nancy Duncan, and
moved to Rockingham county, Tennessee,
and from there to Sangamon county,
Illinois, in what is now Auburn township,
in 1830. They had four children —

ELIJAH married Margaret Jones,
and died.

WILLIAM, born iu Tennessee, mar-
ried Nancy Haines, in Sangamon county,
joined the Mormons, moved to Salt Lake,
became one ot the twelve apostles, took
more wives, and raised a large family.

JOHNS OA" C. married four times,
and each wife died without children. He
enlisted in the ist 111. Cav. in 1861, was
captured at Lexington, Missouri, was re-
leased, and in 1863 he enlisted at Spring-
field, in Vaughn's Battery, and died at
Little Rock, Arkansas, April 5, 1864.

RICHARD C, born March 15, 1829,
in Rockingham county, Tennessee, mar-
ried Oct. 16, 1845, in Sangamon county, to
Mary Jones. They have six children.
SARAH married Green Dallas, has three
children, and lives in Cotton Hill township.
NANCY D., M E L I N D A A.,
EVELINE E., MARTHA A. and
ANDREW C. live with their parents
three and a half miles north of Pawnte,
in Cotton Hill township, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

Mrs. Nancy Wall died in 1833 or '34-
Isaac Wall is married again, and lives in
Missouri.

WALKER, DANIEL, was
born about 1781, in Fauquer county,
Virgiana, and was married about 1809, in
Loudon county, in the same state, to
Sarah Bail, a native of Chester county,
Pennsylvania, and of a Quaker family.
They had four children in Virginia, and

moved to Ohio, where four children were
born, and moved to Sangamon county,
Illinois, arriving in the spring of 1835, and
settled on Horse creek, in what is now
Pawnee township. Daniel Walker re-
turned to Ohio on business and died there
in the fall of 1835. Of their children, the
eldest son —

HAMPTON married in Ohio and
moved to Kentucky.

HIRAM, born April 10, 1811, in Lou-
don county, Virginia, came with the
family to Sangamon county in 1835, an<^
on the death of his father he assumed the
care of the family and prosecuted the
business of farming, part of the time in
Christian county. He continued in that
business until December, 1845, when he
moved to Springfield, Illinois. He has
for several years been engaged in the busi-
ness of dealing in real estate.

HARRIET married James Elder.
See his name,

L rDIA A. married Jesse H. Kent.
See his name.

WALKER, SAMUEL, was
born Dec. 8, 1777, in Campbell county,
Virginia. He was there married to
Martha Hannah, who was born March,
1790, in the same county. They had three
children in Virginia, and the family moved
to Rutherford county, Tennessee, in Octo-
ber, 1816, where four children were born,
and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving October, 1828, in what is now
Loami township, where they had two chil-
dren. Of the nine children —

WILLIAM, S., born Nov. 2, i8n, in
Virginia, married in Loami, Dec. 4, 1831,
to Clarissa Colburn. They had thirteen
children, four died under three years.
ACHSA J., born April 28, 1834, married
April 1855, to N. G. Estes, have six chil-
dren, and live in Loami, 111. SAMUEL
S., born April 22, 1836, enlisted August 6,
1862, in Co. F, 5ist 111. Inf. for three years,
was wounded at the battle of Chickamauga,
Sept. 19, 1863, recovered, served full term
and was honorably discharged June 16,
1865. He was married May i, 1870, to
Catharine Conrad, and lives in Loami, 111.
WILLIAM H. H., born August 3, 1840,
enlisted May i, 1864, in Co. E, i33d 111.
Inf. for one hundred days, served full term
and was honorably discharged. He was
married Jan. 10, 1867, to Elizabeth Swink,
have one child, SAMUEL s., and live one

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EA RL T SE TTLERS OF

and a half miles northwest of Loami, Illi-
nois. ELI J., born Oct. i, 1842, married
Sarah Swink, have one child, and live one
and a half miles northwest of Loami, Illi-
nois. EUNICE M., born Jan. 22, 184^,
married John G. Kelly, have three chil-
dren, and live in Loami, Illinois. EL-
MINA F. and LUCY A. live with their
parents. REBECCA A., born March 29,
1854, married Alfred Davis February 19,
1871, have one child, and live in Loami,
Illinois. LEVI F. lives with his parents
at Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JAMES R., born August 13, 1813,
died at eleven years.

THOMAS J ., born in Virginia June
2, 1816, married Elizabeth Denton, have
six children, and live in Cedar county, Mis-
souri.

GEORGE J., born July 29, 1819, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county,
Oct. 22, 1843, to Elizabeth Back, who was
born Dec. 25, 1827, in Garrard county,
Kentucky. They had eight children, four
of whom died in infancy. AMARINE,
born Jan. 7, 1854, married Robert J. Col-
lins, have one child, ALONZO D., and live
at Loami, Illinois. GEORGE W., LU-
ELLA and JOHN B. live with their
parents in Loami, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

SAMUEL C. died at twenty-one years
of age.

BE VERLT ^f'.,born Feb. 8, 1825, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county
to Elizabeth Cooley, have five children,
and live in Douglas county, Kansas.

THEOPH1LUS, born in Tennessee,
married in Sangamon county to Rhoda J.
Withrow, and died.

REBECCA, born August 12, 1829,
in Sangamon county, married William C.
Smith. See his name.

HIRAM W., born April 3, 1832, in
Sangamon county, married Martha E.
Scott, have three children, MARY,
LUCY A. and CHARLES F., and reside
near McMurray Chapel, in Ball township,
four miles southeast of Chatham, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

Samuel Walker died August 31, 1834,
and his widow died April, 1852, both in
Sangamon county, Illinois.

W ALTERS, LYDIA, (widow
of James Walters), was born in December,
1783, near Salem, Rowan county, North
Carolina. Her maiden name was Donner.

She was sister to George and Jacob
Donner. Her parents moved to Jessaminel
county, Kentucky, about iSri. She was
there married to James Walters. They
had nine children in Kentucky, and in
1829 the family moved to Decatur county,
Indiana. James Walters died there in
June, 1830. In 1839 Mrs. Walters moved
her family to Sangamon county and settled
in Auburn township. Of her children —

NOBLE married in Kentucky to
Elizabeth Davis, moved to Sangamon
county, and died in 1859.

GEORGE went to Texas and died
there.

MA TILDA is a cripple and blind, and
lives at the family homestead, in care of
her brother, Pollard K. — 1873.

POLLARD K. is unmarried, and
lives at the family homestead in Auburn
township, near the line of Macoupin
county — 1876. He lost a leg by a reaping
machine many years ago.

JOHN went to California and died
there.

JAMES married Nancy Baldwin, and
lives in Virden, Illinois.

WILLIAM T., born April 21, 1822,
in Kentucky, was married Jan. 17, 1858,
to Sarah Green. They have four living
children, WILLIAM A., CHARLES
H., LYDIA MAY and JOHN CAR-
ROLL, and live two and one-half miles
southwest of Lowder, Sangamon county,
Illinois — 1874.

MART ANN married James Clack,
and lives in Virden, Illinois.

Mrs. Lydia Walters died July i, 1871,111
Auburn township, in the eighty-eighth
year of her age.

WALTERS, GREEN B., was
born Oct. 28, 1808, in Jefferson county,
Kentucky, and was taken by his parents
to Decatur county, Indiana, when he was
about thirteen years of age. He came to
Sangamon county, Illinois, on a visit,
arriving Sept. 15, 1829, at the house of his
uncle, George Donner, and remained
fourteen months, shaking with the ague.
He returned to Indiana and was married
Dec. 25, 1833, to Elizabeth Griffiths. He
came to Illinois, first stopping in Logan
county, and then came to Sangamon
county, in 1840, and had nine living chil-
dren—

MARJ^HA was drowned, aged twelve
years.

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MARIA J. married George Walters,
and died, leaving one child, RHODA A.

RACHEL C. married John Penick,
and lives in Missouri.

JAMES W. is married and lives in
Indianapolis.

EMILY A, was married Oct. 22,
1 86 1, to Leonard Ledbrook, who was born
at Tipton, Staffordshire, England, and
came to Sangamon county in 1859. They
have one living child, MINNIE. Mr.
Ledbrook is a druggist in Chatham,
Illinois, and, with his family, resides there.

MAR T TV., GE OR GE W. , J OHN
F. and ED WARD BAKER live with
their mother.

Green B. Walters died April 12, 1875,
and his family lives two miles east of
Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WARD, JOHN, was born July
19, 1810, near Romney, Virginia. Mary
Shivers was born Feb. 8, 1814, near
Fredricktown, Maryland, and taken by
her parents, in 1830, to Virginia. John
Ward and Mary Shivers were married
near Romney, August 15, 1833. They
had two children in Virginia, and moved
to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving
Oct. 2, 1838, in what is now Cotton Hill
township, where five children were born,
the four youngest died under seven years.
Of the other four —

SARAH C., born June 22, 1835, in
Virginia, married in Sangamon county to
Isaac Snodgrass. See his name.

HARVEY, born Jan. 22, 1838, in
Virginia, died in Sangamon county in his
fifteenth year.

EMILY J., born June 28, 1842,111
Sangamon county, married Alfred N.
Funderburk. See his name.

John Ward died Nov. 8, 1852, and his
widow married Robert Snodgrass. See
liis name. He died and she was married
Sept. 15, 1859, to Lemuel Hall, as his
second wife. Lemuel Hall was from
Ohio. His daughter, Sarah S., born Feb.
19, 1844, is the wife of William H. Snod-
grass. See his name.

Lemuel Hall and wife reside in Cotton
Hill township, near New City, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

WASH, MILTON H., born
March 16, 1819, in Todd county, Kentucky,
and came to Springfield, Illinois, in 1839,
where he was married July 23, 1840, to
Mary J. Bryan. See Bryan sketch. They

had two children in Springfield,and moved
to St. Joseph, Missouri, arriving Oct. i,
1844, where they resided until 1859, when
they moved to Memphis, Tennessee, and
from there to St. Louis, Missouri, arriving
August 9, 1862. Milton H. Wash and
wife had seven living children. Of their
children —

JOHN M., born May n, 1841, in
Springfield, Illinois, was married Dec. 23,
1860, in Missouri, to Belle Townsend.
They had one daughter, R. E. LEE. J.
M. Wash was again married, Nov. 20,
1874, to Mrs. Matilda Webb, of Baltimore,
Maryland. They reside at No. 731 South
Seventh street, St. Louis, Missouri.

GEORGE B., born August 17, 1843,
at Springfield, Illinois, died in his fourth
year.

KATE A., born Dec. 23, 1845, at St.
Joseph, Missouri, died there in her fifth
year.

BENJAMIN S., born July 26, 1851,
at St. Joseph, Missouri, was married Feb.
22, 1875, to Sallie E. Kempland, of St.
Louis. They have one child, MARY
AMELIA, and reside at 1205 Wright
street, St. Louis, Missouri.

FRANK H., born August 8, 1853, in
St. Joseph, Missouri, was married Oct. i,
1874, in St. Louis, to Fannie L. Thorn-
burgh. They reside at 1925 Carr street,
St. Louis, Missouri.

AMELIA A., born June 15, 1855, at
St. Joseph, died at St. Louis, Missouri,
July 13, 1867.

MART W. died in her third year.

Milton H. Wash and wife reside at 1205
Wright street, St. Louis, Missouri.

WASHBURN, "WILLIAM,
was born Jan. 24, 1813, at Westminster,
Windham county, Vermont, and was
raised in Orange county, in the same state.
In 1832 he went to Seville, Medina coun-
ty, Ohio, and taught school there one
year, and in 1833 went to Shelby count v,
Kentucky, where he taught nearly seven
years. He was married there August 20,
1839, to Elizabeth R. Harding, who was
born in that ctunty August 27, 1820.
She is a niece of Mrs. Harriet Harding
Talbott. Sec Talbott. Mr. and Mrs.
Washburn had one child in Kentucky,
and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving Nov. i, 1840, in what is now
Gardner township, where five children
were born. Of their children —

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

OLIVIA /?., born August 20, 1840,
in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county,
aged two years.

WILLIAM H., born July 9, 1842, in
Sangamon county, was married there Dec.
21, 1875, to Alice Jane Hurt, and lives in
Philadelphia, Cass county, Illinois.

L UCIUS H. lives with his parents.

JAMES OTIS died Feb. 9, 1861, in
his fourteenth year.

MART L. and HARRIET E. reside
with their parents, two and one-half miles
southwest of Farmingdale, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

The Washburn family in the United
States all come from John Washburn,
who emigrated from Eversham, Worces-
ter county, England. He was in Dux-
bury, Massachusetts, as early as 1632, and
returning, sailed from England with his
family April 12, 1635, O. S. He brought
two sons, John, Jun., and Philip. John,
Jun., married in 1645 to Elizabeth
Mitchell. They had seven sons and four
daughters. It is from these that the
whole Washburn family in the United
States sprang. William Washburn has
the genealogy of his own branch of the
family in a continuous line from John
Washburn, of Eversham, England, to his
son, John, Jun., and his son, Joseph, first,
and his son, Joseph, second, and his son,
Seth, first, and his son Asa and his son,
Seth Washburn, second, who was twice
married, and had eight sons by the first,
and seven by the second marriage. Wil-
liam Washburn, whose name heads this
sketch, is his second son by the first wife.
William's brother, Asa R., married in
Morgan county, Illinois, to Barbara Craig,
moved to Sangamon county in 1852, and
died at Putney, Vermont, Sept. 12, 1867,
while there on a visit for his health. He
left a widow and three children in Curran
township, Sangamon countv, Illinois.

WATSON, ARTHUR, was
born in 1770, in Berkley county, Virginia,
and when a young man went to Mason
county, Kentucky. Temperance Robin-
son was born August, 1774, in Balti-
more county, about twenty miles from the
city of Baltimore, Maryland, and in 1794
her parents moved to Mason county, Ken-
tucky. Arthur Watson and Temperance
Robinson were married about 1796 in Ma-
son county, and had ten children there, the
eldest and youngest of whom died in Ken-

tucky. In 1812 Mr. Watson went from
Mason county as a soldier in the war with
England. The family moved to Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, arriving April 10,
1825, at Springfield. Mr. Watson soon
after entered the land now occupied by the
water works, watch factory, rolling mill,
north coal shaft, and Oak Ridge cemetery.
Of their children —

HIRAM A., born May 14, 1799, in
Mason county, Kentucky, died there in
1823.

SANFORD, born Jan. 28, 1801, in
Mason county, Kentucky, married in San-
gamon county, June 3, 1833, to Betsy Ann
Stevenson. They had one child, and the
mother and child died September, 1835.
He was married in 1842 in Morgan coun-
ty to Maria Elder, and in 1849 moved to
Oregon. Mr. Watson died July 6, 1870,
leaving a widow and four children, near
Bethel, Polk county, Oregon.

MEDALINE, born May 18, 1803, in
Mason county, Kentucky, married in San-
gamon county Octobor, 1825, to William
Alvey. See his name.

ANN R., born August 19, 1805, in Ma-
son county, Kentucky, married in Sanga-
mon county October, 1825, to James C.
McNabb. See his name.

JAMES, born Feb. 29, 1808, in Ken-
tucky, married in Sangaman county, Feb-
ruary, 1833, to Mary Ridgeway. They
had five children, and the family moved in
1847 overland to Oregon. Mr. Watson
died in i86ij and his widow died in 1873.
Four of their children reside near Kings
Vallev postoffice, Benton county, Oregon.

LUCRETIA, died July 13, 1810, in
Mason county, Kentucky, married in San-
gamon county, Jan. 20, 1846, to James W.
Simpson. They had two children. LA-
FAYETTE married Jennie Combs, and
resides at Tallula, Illinois. CLIFTON
L. resides with his mother. James W.
Simpson died in August, 1862, and his
widow resides near Tallula, Menard coun-
tv, Illinois.

WILLIAM H., born Dec. 15, 1812, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
in 1838, to Agnes Lloyd. He died Sept.
26, 1842, near Middletown, Logan county,
Illinois.

AMANDA P., born April 10, 1816, in
Mason county, Kentucky, married Wm.
S. Pickrell. See his name.

JOHN N., born Oct. 22, 1818, in Ken-

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tucky, died in Sangamon county June 16,

1835-

Arthur Watson died Sept. 29, 1827, and

Mrs. Temperance Watson died Sept. 11,
1837, both near Springfield, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

WATSON, JOHN B., born
Feb. 10, 1800, in York District, South
Carolina, and came to Illinois with his
father, settling somewhere in Randolph
county. He was married in Kaskaskia,
April 9, 1829, to Mary Gillis, who was
born in Wilmington, Delaware, Jan. 31,
1814. They moved to Springfield, soon
after they were married, Mr. Watson
having been to Sangamon county, in 1827,
to look at the. country. Of their seven
children, all born in Springfield, the eldest
died in infancy.

MARGARET, born May 28, 1833,
died in Springfield August 11, 1852.

MART L., born June 30, 1836, has
been a school and music teacher for twenty
years. She is teaching at present — 1875 —
near Petersburg, Menard county, Illinois.

JANE E. died in her sixth year.

ANNA L., born Sept. 11, 1842, is a
music teacher in Springfield, Illinois.

ELLEN C, born April 25, 1845, died
August ii, 1852.

JAMES G., born April 24, 1848, was
married Sept. 2, 1875, to Lucy A. Mont-
gomery, who was born Feb. i, 1856, on
Fancy creek, Sangamon county, Illinois.
J. G. Watson, formerly a farmer, is now
residing in Springfield, Illinois.

J. B. Watson taught school the first
year he resided in Springfield. He was
afterwards county surveyor and engineer
of the Great Western railroad. He went
to California in 1849 and returned in 1852.
Mr. Watson and his two daughters died
of Asiatic cholera, August n, 1852.
Ellen C. died at half- past one o'clock A. M. ;
Margaret at half-past seven o'clock A. M.,
and their father died at half-past nine
o'clock P. M. Mrs. Mary Watson's mother,
Elizabeth Gillis, belonged to the Society
of Friends, and she resided with her
daughter in Springfield from about 1830
until her death, which occurred in August,
1852. She was buried at Oak Ridge
Cemetery. John B. Watson's mother
resided with her daughter-in-law in
Springfield from 1854 until her death,
which occurred in August, 1860. She
was also buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery.

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Mrs. Mary Watson was married • Dec.
16, 1863, in Springfield, Illinois, to Hon.
S. W. Robbins, a prominent lawyer and
temperance advocate. They had two
children, who died in infancy. About
1860 Hon. S. W. Robbins and wife moved
to their farm, seven miles northwest of
Springfield, where he died, June 19, 1871,
and she died Jan. 29, 1874,

WATSON, WILLIAM M.,
was born Oct. 16, 1807, near Vincennes,
Indiana. He was married June 14, 1831,
in Jefferson county, Indiana, to Sarah
Talbott, who was born August 5, 1814, in
Millersburg, Kentucky. They moved to
Shelbyville, Illinois, where they had one
child, and moved to Springfield, arriving
Sept. 24, 1834, where they had eight chil-
dren. Of all their children —

JAMES W., born Dec. 8, 1833, in
Shelbyville, Illinois, married in Spring-
field, Jan. 16, 1856, to Angeline Cook,
who was born Sept. 3, 1833, in Butler
county, Ohio. They have one child,
OSCAR A., born in Springfield, Nov.
5, 1856. He is an accountant. James W.
Watson is a boot and shoe maker, and
since 1871 has been Tyler for the Masonic
bodies in Springfield, Illinois.

JULIETT died in 1843, aged ten
years.

MA RT A., born and married in Spring-
field to Edward Miles. He was killed by
an accident on the Toledo, Wabash and
Western Railroad in 1865. She resides
with her parents in Springfield.

CHARLES H., born Dec. 11, 1839,
in Springfield, married Sept. 14, 1874, in
Gibson, Illinois, to Mrs. Mary Waddell,
whose maiden name was Whitely, a
native of Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr.
Watson is an artist and lives in Springfield,
Illinois.

SARAH lives with her parents.

DA VID died, aged thirteen years.

HESTER died, aged six years.

THEODORE resides with his pa-
rents.

EMILT J., born May 20, 1852, in
Springfield, married Dec. 22, 1870, to
Mervin B. Converse, and resides in
Springfield.

William M. Watson and wife reside in
Springfield, Illinois.

WATSON, WILLIAM W.,
born April i, 1794,111 Sussex county, New
Jersey, went in 1817 to Lexington, Ken-

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tucky, and was there married, March 15,
1818, to Mrs. Maria Humerickhouse,whbse
maiden name was Cape. She was a na-
tive of Lexington. In the autumn of 1818
they moved to Nashville, Tennessee,
where they had five children, and Mrs.
Maria Watson died there July 17, 1834.
The family soon after moved to St. Louis,
Missouri, where Mr. Watson was in busi-
ness about two years, and in the autumn of
1836 moved to Springfield, Illinois. Of his
five children

BENJAMIN A., born Dec. 9, 1818,
in Nashville, Tennessee, was married in
Springfield, Illinois, Feb. 11, 1845, *°
Emily R. Planck. They had seven living
children, all except the youngest, born in
Springfield. WILLIAM W., born May
13, 1847, was married Oct. 25, 1871, in St.
Charles, Illinois, to Augusta C. Tolman.
They have two children, WILLIAM \v.,
iun., and a boy babe. W. W. Watson
transacts business in Chicago, and with his
family resides at Washington Heights, Illi-
nois. EMILY, born Oct. 12, 1849, was
married Nov. 24, 1870, at Perry Springs,
to Dr. A. B. Carey. They have one child,
ALBERT WATSON, and reside at Pittsfield,
Pike county, Illinois. JULIA, HATTIE
CAPE, MOLLIE L., FANNIE and
HARRY live with their father. Mrs.
Emily R. Watson died July 30, 1871, at
Perry Springs, Pike county, Illinois. Mr.
Watson, with his unmarried children, re-
sides there. Benjamin A. Watson was one
of the ten young men who in 1840 trav-
eled from Springfield, Illinois, to Nash-
ville, Tennessee, to hear Henry Clay make
a speech. See page 480.

ABIGAIL, born Nov. 5, 1822, in Nash-
ville, Tennessee, was married in Spring-
field June 27, 1843, to John G. Ives, and
resides in Springfield, Illinois.

ANN MARIA, born Dec. 5, 1824, in
Nashville, Tennessee, was marrieJ in
Springfield, Illinois, to Thomas S. Little.
See his name,

HESTER,\>orn. July 21, 1826, in Nash-
ville, was married in Springfield, Illinois,
to Thomas Billson. Thev had three chil-
dren in Springfield. CORDELIA mar-
ried George Wass, and lives in Paines-
ville, Ohio. WILLIAM W., was mar-
ried in Portland, Maine, to Alice Harford,
and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. BELLE
F. lives with her brother William W.
Thomas Billson went from Springfield to

California in 1849, and died there in 1850-
Mrs. Hester Billson was married in Spring-
field, Illinois, about 1856, to Chas. Reeves,
of Cleveland, Ohio, and went there to re-
side. They had two children, GEORGE,
now living with his father in Cleveland,
and EDWIN C., who lives with his aunt,
Mrs. Thomas S. Little, in Springfield.
Mrs. Hester Reeves died March 26, 1862,
in Cleveland, Ohio.

CORDELIA, born March 16, 1828,
in Nashville, Tennessee, was married in
Springfield, 111., to Noah Divelbiss. See
his name,

William W. Watson was married May
19, 1842, in Springfield, Illinois, to Mrs.
Sarah Mottashed, whose maiden name was
Wiley. He died Nov. 2, 1874, in Spring-
field, and his widow lives in Decatur, Illi-
nois.

WATTS, BENJAMIN, born
Nov. 22, 1769, at Warwick, Franklin
county, Massachusetts, was the eldest
child of Nicholas Watts and Eunice
Newton, his wife. Mary Barbour was
born Jan. 4, 1771, in Warwick, Massachu-
setts. Benjamin Watts and Mary Bar-
bour were there married and moved to
Shoreham, thence to Windham, Vermont,
and from there to Lyman, Grafton county,
New Hampshire. They moved to San-
gamon county, Illinois, in the fall of 1837.
Of their sixteen children six died young.
Of the other ten who came to Sangamon
county —

JOSEPH, born Sept. i, 1793, in
Vermont, was married in Lyman, New
Hampshire, to Mahala Smith, came to
Sangamon county in 1838, and moved to
Menard county, Illinois, where they both
died, leaving five children. ALONZO
is married and lives in Iowa. GEORGE,
BENJAMIN, NEWELL and AUSTIN.

LTDIA, born July 9, 1798, in New
Hampshire, married Gideon Tripp. She
is a widow and lives near Farmingdale,
Illinois.

SALL T, born Jan. 26, 1800, in Lyman,
New Hampshire, married Joel Buckman.
See his name. Their only child, BEN-
JAMIN, is married, and lives near Farm-
ingdale, Illinois.

NICHOLAS, born Dec. 31, 1801, in
New Hampshire, married Elizabeth
Pallady. They have one child, BENJA-
MIN, who is married, and lives in Macon
county, Illinois. Nicholas Watts and

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family came to Sangamon county in 1842,
where he died May 9, 1843. His widow
married again.

CHARLES, born Jan. n, 1804, in
Lyman. Grafton county, New Hampshire,
was taken by his parents to St. Lawrence
county, New York, in 1821. He was
married at Brasher, in that county, Nov.
22, 1823, to Elizabeth Innes. They came
with one child, in a colony of fifty-two
persons, arriving in the fall of 1833, at
Old Sangamo. July 4, 1834, they moved
to a place one-fourth of a mile south of
the present Farmingdale station. Of their
ten children, ALEXANDER J., born
Oct. 29, 1831, in St. Lawrence county,
New York, brought up in Sangamon
county, Illinois, left for Oregon in 1851,
returned to Sangamon county in 1866,
and was married April 4, 1867, in Jack-
sonville, Illinois, to Alexina J. Lander.
They left the same month for Oregon.
Mrs. Alexina J. Watts died May 15, 1868,
near Applegate, Jackson county, Oregon.
Alexander G. Watts resides there, and is
county surveyor — 1874. ANN JANE,
born Dec. 31, 1833, in Sangamon county,
was married there Nov. 10, 18^3, to
Thomas P. Stacy, who was born May 2,
1827, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. They
have seven children, ELIZABETH A.,

MATHEW K., ALEXINA J., WILLIAM H.,

SALLIE M., THOMAS E. and GATES, and
reside in Jacksonville, 111. CHARLES
H., born Dec. 2, 1836, in Sangamon
county, lives near Farmingdale. EDWIN,
born June 14, 1839, in Sangamon county,
was married Oct. 19, 1871, to Laura E.
Rickard. They have one child, and live
five miles southwest of Farmingdale,
Sangamon county, Illinois. ALBERT
B., born Oct. 23, 1841, in Sangamon
county, was married Nov. 19, 1867, to
Amelia L. Dustin, who was born June 20,
1847, m Jacksonville, Illinois. They have
four children, ANNA j., LUCRETIA,
CHARLES and JAMES, and live three-
fourths of a mile northwest of Farming-
dale, Illinois. SAMUEL W., born Aug.
14, 1844, in Sangamon county, lives with
his parents. RICHARD N., born Jan.
13, 1848, in Sangamon county, was mar-
ried Jan. 19, 1871, to Ellen F. McDermott.
They have two children, and live in
Shelby county, near Assumption, Chris-
tian county, Illinois. THOMAS B.,
WILLIAM and MARY E. live with

their parents adjoining Farmingdale,
Sangamon county, Illinois, on the
south. Mr. and Mrs. Watts counted
twenty-nine of the fifty-two persons form-
ing the colony in which they came to San-
gamon county. About half of this colony
of fifty-two are now living — 1876.

ISAAC and BENJAMIN, twins,
born Nov. 26, 1808, at Lyman, New
Hampshire.

IS A A C was married in St. Lawrence
county, New York, Nov. 28, 1833, to
Jemima Nevin, who was born June 5,
1815, in county Down, Ireland. They had
two children in New York, and moved
to h-angamon county, Illinois, arriving
Oct. 7, 1838, in what is now Cartwright
township, where two children were born,
one of whom died in his fifth year. Of
the other three, GEORGIE K., born
Nov. 10, 1834, in New York, was married
in Sangamon county, August 10, 1864, to
Andrew Wilson. See his name. RUS-
SELL, born August 24, 1836, in New
York, was married August, 1871, in Iowa,
to Mary E. Hardin. They have one
child, ISAAC, and live at North Platte,
Nebraska, on the Union Pacific railroad.
JOHN N. Isaac Watts resides two miles
southwest of Farmingdale, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

BENJAMIN, Jun., was married in
St. Lawrence county, New York, to
Calista Jacobs, came to Sangamon county
in the fall of 1838. Their only child died
young, and Mrs. Watts died in 1840 or
'41. Benjamin Watts was married in
1842 to Orpha Bates. They had four
children, one of whom died young.
CALISTA P. and JAMES A. live with
their mother. BENJAMIN O. married
Sept. 26, 1876, to Miss Brown at Pleasant
Plains. Benjamin Watts, Jun., died Feb-
ruary, 1862, and his widow lives three
miles west of Pleasant Plains, Illinois.

I REN A and RUSSELL, twins,
born June 15, 1813, in New Hampshire.

IRENA married Isaac Holmes and he
died, leaving two children. His widow
married James Bates. See his name.

RUSSELL came to Sangamon coun-
ty in 1835, and was married March, 1839,
to Diantha Holmes. Thev had three
children, and moved in 1847 to Calapooga,
Lynn county, Oregon, where Mr. Watts
died Dec. 11,1854, leaving five children.
His widow has since married.

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Benjamin Watts, Sen., died Sept. 11,
1838, and Mrs. Mary Watts died two days
later, Sept. 13, 1838, both in Sangamon
county, Illinois.

WAY, JOHN, was born Sept. n,
1793, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His half
sister, Rebecca Way, six years younger
than himself, married Joseph Taylor, and
they are the parents of Bayard Taylor,
the world-renowned author, historian, poet
and traveler. The mother of John Way
died when he was a child, and his grand-
father Ash brought him up in Chester
county, Pennsylvania. Ann St. Clair was
born in Chester county, August 16, 1803.
john Way and Ann St. Clair were there
married in the spring of 1823. They had
two children in that county, and moved to
Philadelphia, where two children were
born, two of the four children died in in-
fancy. In the spring of 1838 Mr. Way
took his family to Chester county, and left
them there while he visited the western
country. He decided to make Springfield
his home, and wrote to his wife to come
on with the family. She fortunately
learned of a gentleman by the name of
Clendening who was coming west to visit
a married daughter. He drove a light
wagon, and Mrs. Way made arrangements
to come and bring her two children. Mr
Way rode on horseback to Paris, Edgar
couhty, Illinois, and met them there. The
whole party arrived at Springfield in No-
vember, 1838. Mr. Way was a plasterer,
and the public buildings and other im-
provements here called for his services.
Some ot his work in the Marine Insurance
Company's bank building, Springfield, is
likely to stand for many years to come.
They had six children in Springfield. Of
their eight children —

REBECCA, born May n, 1828, in
Chester county, Pennsylvania, died Feb.
9, 1846, at St. Louis, Missouri, while visit-
ing a relative of the family.

RA CHEL E., born June 19, 1824, in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, married Dec.
31, 1851, in Springfield, Illinois, to Chris-
tian Schwarberg. They have four chil-
dren. EDWARD J. married Emma
Kidd, and lives near Springfield. ANNIE,
GUSSIE and FRANK V., live with their
parents four and a half miles northwest of
Springfield, Illinois.

HARRIET S., born Oct. 7, 1839, in
Springfield, Illinois, was married there

Sept. 27, 1855, to John C. Stansbury, who
was born April 12, 1834, at Basking
Ridge, Somerset county, New Jersey, and
came to Springfield, June 27, 1854. They
have four children, ANNA M., was
married Sept. 24, 1873, to Arthur C. Ham-
mond. They have one child, WILLIE T.,
and live in Loami, Illinois. CHAR-
LOTTE E., ADA B. and FRANK H.,
live with their parents. Mr. Stansbury is
engaged in the business of carriage and
wagon manufacturing in Loami, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, and resides there.

CHARLOTTE E., born Dec. 20,
1841, in Springfield, married January, 1863,
to George Riley Stevens. They have
three children, ANNA, HARRIET and
FRANK, and live in Montgomery coun-
ty, Illinois.

JOHN C., born Feb. 25, 1844, in
Springfield, enlisted August, 1861, at St.
Louis, in what became Co. B, nth Mo.
Inf. for three years, was discharged on ac-
count of physical disability March, 1862.
He re-enlisted June, 1864, for 100 days in
an Illinois regiment, went to Rock Island
to guard prisoners, acted as commissary
clerk, served full time and was honorably
discharged, and lives in Montgomery coun-
ty, Illinois.

MART T., born_ Feb. 19, 1846, in
Springfield, married July, 1865,10 Preston
H. Souther. They have three children,
viz: MAUD, MABEL and HO WARD,
and reside at Topeka, Kansas.

EMMA T., born March 20, 1848, is
unmarried and resides at Glasgow, Mis-
souri.

J ULIA A., born June 20, 1850, mar-
ried November, 1865, to August Schwar-
berg, who died March, 1866. His widow
married November 10, 1869, to Benja-
min Vanderver. They have one child,
GRACIE, and reside at Coatsville, Penn-
sylvania.

Mrs. Ann Way died May 12, 1864, in
Springfield. John Way was married in
1869, to Mrs. Coverdill. She died August,
1871, and he died suddenly Jan. 18,1875,
at Gerard, Illinois.

WEAVER, LEV/ IS, was born
AugustS, 1798, near the river Rhine, in
Germany. He came to America when a
young man, and was married in Franklin
connty, Pennsylvania, to Savilla Earhart,
a native of Maryland. They had four
children in Pennsylvania. He started to

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move to Jefferson City, Missouri, but
changed his mind and came to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving in 1838 or '39,
near Springfield, where four children were
born. Of their children —

FREDERICK, born Sept. 23, 1829,
in Pennsylvania, died in Sangamon county,
Sept. 23, 1842.

LEWIS, Jun., born July 17, 1832,
in Pennsylvania, died in Sangamon county,
July 3, 1842.

•SAMUEL, born Oct. 16, 1834, in
Franklin county, Pennsylvania, married
Feb. 14, 1860, in Sangamon county, to
Maria Jane Lake, who was born March
13, 1843, in Knox county, Ohio. They
have six children, RACHEL L.JACOB
F., MARY C., PHILIP L. and JESSIE
E., and live in Cooper township, four miles
southwest of Mechanicsburg, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

JOHN .H., born June 13, 1837, in
Pennsylvania, married and lives near Illio-
polis, Illinois.

ELI, born Jan. 15, 1840, in Sangamon
county, married near Chatham to Anna
Haddon. They have one child, MARY
A., and live near Blue Mound, Macon
county, Illinois.

LOUISA, born Jan. 19, 1843, in San-
gamon county, married William R. Par-
ker, have two children, and live near
Eugene City, Oregon.

ELIZABETH, born Nov. 9, 1845, in
Sangamon county, married Henry M.
Johnson, and lives near Blue Mound, Ma-
con county, Illinois.

DANIEL, born Sept. 22, 1849, in San-
gamon county, lives with his brother,
Samuel.

Lewis Weaver died April 22, 1853, and
Mrs. Savilla Weaver died Oct. 14, 1864,
both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

WEBB, HIRAM LUTHER,
was born Nov. 12, 1799, in Rockingham,
Vermont. The Webb family was a very
old one in London and Weymouth, Eng-
land, at the time the Plymouth colony was
settled in Massachusetts. Two of them,
Francis and Thomas Webb, were active
members of the colony before it left Eng-
land, but it is not certain that they came
to America. Christopher Webb, of Wey-
mouth, came to America previous to
1645, and settled in Braintree, Massachu-
setts. The name of his wife is not
known, but they had six children. His

eldest son, Christopher, born probably in
England, about 1630, married Jan. 18,
1654 or '55, to Hannah Scott, lived in
Braintree, Massachusetts, and had nine
children. Their third child, Samuel, born
August 16, 1660, married December, 1686,
to Mary Adams, had four children, and
moved to Windham, Connecticut, in 1707,
where they had one child. Their second
child, Samuel, born May 14, 1690, mar-
ried Oct. 8, 1711, to Hannah Ripley,
grand-daughter of Governor William
Bradford. They had four children. Their
fourth child, Joshua, born Feb. 9, 1721,
married May 28, 1744, to Hannah Abbey.
They had four children in Windham,
Connecticut, and moved to Bellows Falls,
Vermont, about 175^ where the$ had
seven childred. The father, mother and
eleven children lived until the youngest
was forty-four years old. Joshua Webb,
being one of the first settlers in Vermont,
took an active part in the movement for
erecting it into a separate state, and was a
member of the state legislature for the
first twelve years of its existence. His
tenth child, Luther, born Oct. 24, 1763,
following the example of several of his
elder brothers, eagerly enlisted as soon as
he was old enough to be received in the
army of the Revolution, and served until
Independence was achieved. One of his
brothers was a colonel and another a
captain, but Luther, being the youngest,
served as a private. They all lived to be
very old, and were entitled each to a pen-
sion, but declined to apply for it, saying
they had fought for freedom and not for
money. Luther was married Feb. 9,
1792, to Dorothy Wheelock, and had
seven children. The fourth child, Hiram
Luther, whose name heads this sketch, was
married Dec. 15, 1823, in the town of
Walpole, New Hampshire, to Martha B.
Bates. She was born Sept. 30, 1799, in
the town of Jeffrey, Cheshire county,
New Hampshire. They made their home
in Rockingham, Vermont, until five chil-
dren were born, and started west, moving
in wagons, and at the end of six weeks,
which was the shortest trip made by any
one from that region of country, they
arrived in Sangamon county Nov. 13,
1834, and settled one mile west of the
present Farmingdale Station, where two
children were born. Of their children —
MARTHAS., born Dec. 6, 1824,111

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Rockingham, Vermont, resides with her
mother.

HARRIET J., born Feb. 26, 1827,
in Rockingham, Vermont, married in
. Sangamon county, August 9, 1848, to
Joseph E. Cobbey, who was born No-
vember, 1824, in Ohio. They have three
children, JOSEPH E.,Jun., THOMAS
D. and JAMES W., and live at Vinton,
Iowa.

JANE G., born Feb. 18, 1829, in Ver-
mont, married in Sangamon county, Jan.
I, 1857, to Edgar A. Kincaid, who was
born in 1825, in Kentucky. They have
four children, FRED L., MATTIE A.,
ALBERT E. and DICK BATES, and
reside near Athens, Menard county,
Illinois.

JOHN W., born Nov. 24, 1830, in
Vermont, died in Sangamon county, Oct.
22, 1847.

JAMES, born Jan. 12, 1833, in Rock-
ingham, Vermont, is unmarried, and re-
sides on the farm settled by his parents in
1834. It is one mile west of Farming-
dale, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOSEPH L., born August i, 1837,
in Sangamon county, graduated at the
Eclectic Medical College, of Cincinnati,
Ohio, married Oct. 30, 1873, in Beatrice,
Nebraska, to Louisa Kate Shepherd, and
is a practicing physician there.

HIRAM P., born March 14, 1842, in
Sangamon county, graduated at the State
University of Indiana, at Bloomington,
in the class of 1865, graduated in law in
1867, and was admitted to practice in
Springfield, Illinois, went to Nebraska
and was elected treasurer of Gage county in
1869, '71 and '73 for two years each term.
He is also engaged in the practice of law
and in banking in Beatrice. He was mar-
ried Oct. 20, 1873, to Jenett Maxfield, in
Beatrice, Nebraska, and resides there.

Hiram L. Webb died Oct. 21, 1847, an(^
his widow resides one mile west of Farm-
ingdale, Illinois, where the family settled
in 1834. Mr. Webb sold the first corn he
raised in the county at eight cents per
bushel in trade. He made several trips to
Chicago, one hundred and eighty-five
miles, with a wagon load of butter and
bacon, exchanged them for stores and
hardware, which he sold on his return
home, after supplying his own needs.
James says that his first business trans-
action, for himself and one of his brothers,

was to sell eggs at three cents per dozen,
and buy each of them a jack knife.

WEBB, JAMES G., was born
Feb. 3, 1792, near Winchester, Clarke
county, Kentucky. Elizabeth Petty was
born May 3, 1795, in the same county.
They were there married, and had two
children, and the family moved to Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, arriving in the
fall of 1826 in what is now Loami
township, south of Lick creek. In
1829 he sold his farm and moved to
Buffalo Hart Grove, and in 1831 bought
the same farm and moved back to Loami
township. Five children were born in
Sangamon county. Of the seven chil-
dren—

WILLIS R., born Sept. 18, 1830, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
to Emily Darneille. They had three chil-
dren, and the whole family died in Loami
township.

JOHN ^.,born Feb. 10,1834, in Ken-
tucky, raised in Sangamon county, married
Mary Ream, a native of Maine. He went
to Iowa and enlisted in 1861 in a cavalry
regiment for three years. He was wounded
in Arkansas in 1862 or '63, and was honor-
ably discharged on account of physical
disability occasioned by his wounds. They
live at Abington, Jefferson county, Iowa.

ELIZABETH, born August 9, 1827,
in Sangamon county, died unmarried,
Sept. 14, 1854, in Christian county, Illi-
nois.

CHARLOTTE, born Jan. 14, 1830,
in Loami township, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois, married Oct. 3, 1848, to James M.
Turpin, who was born May 10, 1828, in
Howai'd county, Missouri, and came with
his parents to Sangamon county in 1845.
He was a soldier in the Mexican war. He
enlisted in August, 1862, in Co. I, 73d
111. Inf. for three years, was elected second
lieutenant at the organization of the com-
pany, promoted to first lieutenant Dec. 6,
1862, served until after participating in the
battle of Chickamauga, when he resigned
on account of business engagements at
home. Mr. Turpin is now a merchant in
Loami, Illinois. He has represented his
township in the Sangamon County Board
of Supervisors.

ADIN, born July 12, 1833, 'n Sanga-
mon county, is unmarried, and resides near
Winchester, Kentucky.

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CAROLINE, born Oct. 1 1, 1834, died
Sept. 30, 1853.

JAMES G., Jun., born August 9,
1840, in Sangamop county, died January,
18^9, at Dccatur, Illinois.

Mrs. Elizabeth Webb died Sept. 10,

1843, and James G. Webb died March 12,

1844, both in Loami township. He was a
soldier from Kentucky in 1812, and taken
prisoner at the battle of River Raisin.

WEBB, WILLIAM, was born
about 1773 in Virginia, went to Ten-
nessee, and was married to Jane Hillis, in
Warren county. They had ten children.
The family moved to Petersburg, Illinois,
in the fall of 1830, and in 1835 moved to
Spring creek, eight miles west of Spring-
field. Of their children —

ROBERT, born in Tennessee, married
there to Elizabeth Lofton, came to Sanga-
mon county with his father, has seven chil-
dren, and lives near Oskaloosa, Iowa.

SALLY, deaf and dumb, lives with,
her brother Robert.

ELIZABETH, married in Tennessee
to Samuel Neal, and both died, leaving
three children.

WILLIAM, married in Sangamon
county to Innocent Brown, had five chil-
dren, and all moved west.

ISABEL married Samuel Blue. See
his name.

JANE, died in Petersburg, aged six-
teen years.

JOHN married Susannah Taylor in
Sangamon county, have six children, and
live near loka, Keokuk county, Iowa.

ANN, went to Iowa, married Calvin
Tandy, has six children, and live in Oska-
loosa, Iowa.

FANNIE, born July 26, 1826, married
David H. Blue. See his name.

ISAA C, married Ellen Osborn, have
ten children, and live in Jefferson county,
Iowa.

Mrs. Jane Webb died in Petersburg, Illi-
nois, and William Webb went to Keokuk
county, Iowa, and died there in 1848.

WEBER, GEORGE R., born
Mav 29, 1808, in Baltimore, Maryland.
His parents moved while he was an infant
to Shepherdstown, Jefferson county, Vir-
ginia, their former home, and where they
were married. George R., whose name
heads this sketch, was married in Shep-
herdstown, May i, 1832, to Susan Shep-
herd. They soon after moved to New

York city, where Mrs. Susan Weber died.
G. R. Weber returned to Shepherdstown,
Virginia, and from there came to Springs-
field, Illinois, arriving April 15, 1835. He
was married in Springfield, Illinois, Sep-
tember, 1836, to Catharine Welch. They
had eight children in Springfield.

MART E., was married in Springfield,
to Jacob English. The)- have six children,
and live in Howard county, Kansas.

EMMA, was married in Springfield to
Frank Child.

CATHARINE C., born Oct. 4, 1844,
was married in >pringfield, April 11, 1874,
to Isaac Short, who was born Sept. 5, 1839,
in South Bloomfield, Ohio. They reside
in Springfield, Illinois.

ANNA M. lives with her parents.
^ GEORGE W., born Nov. 27, 1850, in
Springfield, Illinois, was married April 27,
1876, in Taylorville, to Nemmie Shum-
way, daughter of the late Judge Shum-
way. George W. Weber is the editor
and publisher of the Taylorville Democrat,
and resides in Taylorville, Illinois.

JOHN R. and NOR VAL W. reside
in Springfield, and are conducting a job
printing office.

George R. Weber formed a partnership
with John S. Roberts in April, 1835, *or
the publication of the Illinois Republican.
When the state capital was removed from
Vandalia to Springfield, the State Reg-
ister office came with it, and that paper
and the Illinois Republican, being both .
democratic, were consolidated in 1839, the
proprietors becoming partners under the
name of Walters & Weber. This part-
nership continued until 1846, when Mr.
Weber sold out to Mr. Walters, and en-
listed in Co. A, 4th 111. Inf., under Colo-
nel E. D. Baker. While encamped on the
Rio Grande, in Mexico, news of Mr.
Walters' death reached there, and Mr.
Weber being interested in the state print-
ing, it was necessary for him to return.
He accordingly was detailed to return
home with those soldiers who were unfit
for duty, and was never recalled. Alter
the time expired for which he was elected
public printer, he severed his connection
with the office, and moved to his farm.
He, however, contributed articles which
appeared both as editorial and communi-
cated to the columns of the Republican.
Mr. Weber was also elected major in the
Mormon war. He served six months as

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state commissary in our late civil war, and
was appointed by President Lincoln as
commissary at Camp Butler, which posi-
tion he retained until the close of the re-
bellion. George R. Weber has now re-
tired ffom business, and resides in Spring-
field, Illinois.

WEBER, JOHN B., born April
7, 1810, in Shephjerdstown, Virginia, was
there married Sept. 23, 1832, to Sarah A.
Woltz, sister of John Woltz. See his
name. She was born in Shepherdstown,
March 20, 1812. They had two children
in Virginia, and moved to Springfield,
Illinois, arriving April 16, 1836, and had
eight children in Sangamon county. The
eldest died, aged two years.

ANDRE W 7., born Sept. 9, 1840, in
Springfield. At the first call for seventy-
five thousand men, by President Lincoln,
in April, 1861, he, with other young men
of Sangamon county, organized a • com-
pany, but the quota of Illinois was already
full. Andrew J. Weber was elected cap-
tain, and the company was sworn into the
United States service as the ist Reg. U.
S. Rifles. After a number of changes
it became Co. B, nth Mo. Inf. More
than nine-tenths of that regiment were
Illinois men. Company B united with
the regiment at St. Louis, July 20. 1861.
It was fully organized on the sixteenth of
August, and was in the battle of Frederick-
town, Missouri, Oct. 21, 1861. Captain
.Weber was promoted April 21, 1862, to
major of the regiment. In the absence of
higher officers he was in command of the
regiment at the battle of luka, Sept. 17,
and the battle of Corinth, Oct. 3 and 4,
1862, in which General, since Governor,
and now United States Senator Oglesby,
was shot and thought to be mortally
wounded. General Rosecrans, in his re-
port, says that the iith Missouri, under
Major Weber, led the skirmish which
opened the battle, October 3, and also led
the charge that drove the last rebel from
the field on the fourth. Major Weber
was promoted and commissioned lieutenant
colonel, March 20, 1863, and commis-
sioned colonel May 15, 1863. All his com-
missions were signed by Governor
Gamble, of Missouri. Colonel Weber
was wounded in the head by a cannon
ball, while on duty, on the Peninsula, in
front of Vicksburg, June 29, 1863. The
wound at first was not thought to be mor-

tal, but he died the next day, June 30.
According to militarv usage a single regi-
ment only would have acted as an escort,
but after the capture of Vicksburg, July
4, the whole brigade turned out and
escorted his remains to the steamer, by
which they were brought up the river,
conveyed to Springfield, and deposited in
Oak Ridge Cemetery, July 9, 1863. His
native city may well cherish, with pride,
the memory of this young hero, who rose
by talent, energy and industry to a position
far above his years, and yielded his young
and gifted life, a willing sacrifice on the
alter of his country. He was but twenty-
two years, eight months and seven days
old when he was commissioned colonel of
his regiment in the face of the enemy; an
incident unparalleled in the history of our
country.

GEORGE P., born Dec. 2, 1842, in
Springfield, 111., enlisted at the same time
and in the same company with his brother,
Andrew J. He was elected and appointed
orderly sergeant. When his brother was
promoted to the office of major, he was
promoted to second lieutenant of Co. B,
and after that promoted to first lieutenant
and adjutant of the regiment, the latter of
which he did not accept, being physically
unable to discharge its duties, which pre-
vented his re-enlisting as a veteran with
the regiment. He was honorably dis-
charged at St. Louis, May i, 1864. George
P. Weber was furloughed home with the
remains of his brother, Colonel Weber,
and was married July 28, 1863, to Vienna
Meader. They have four children,
MIRIAM M., SARAH A., TIMOTHY
and ELI, and resides four miles west of
Pawnee, Sangamon county, Illinois.

It is worthy of remark that when the
nth Missouri Infantry, composed as it
\vas of Illinois men, went through St.
Louis in 1 86 1, stones and other missiles
were thrown at the soldiers from the
windows. When they returned on fur-
lough, after re-enlistment, they were
greeted with bouquets of flowers, a grand
banquet, and were presented by the citi-
zens of St. Louis with a magnificent stand
of colors.

JAMES W. was born November 10,
1844, in Springfield, Illinois, enlisted Nov.
12, 1864, for one year, in his native city, in
the loth 111. Cav., served full term and was
honorably discharged Nov. 12, 1865, at

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San Antonio, Texas. Three days after his
discharge he started to come home on
horseback, in company with two other
members of the same regiment, William
M. Brown, of Sangamon county, and John
Ingalls, of Madison county, Illinois. They
were followed from San Antonio, and on
the 24th of November stopped at the house
of a man named Deasonand obtained their
dinners. That was in Rusk county, a few
miles from a very small village bearing the
local name of Rakepocket, but the post-
office is Pine Hill. After taking their
dinners they continued their journey, and
having passed through the village were
followed by four men, also on horseback,
who, after keeping near them about one
mile, to the vicinity of Sharon, in Panola
county, pretending to be in a hurry, the
four men rode rapidly, overtook and passed
the three travelers, when the four sudden-
ly wheeled their horses, and each present-
ing a revolver, called on the travelers to
surrender, which they did. Just at this
moment a lad on horseback, who had been
to mill, came near the parties, and seeing
the men arrayed facing each other, and all
on one side with deadly weapons drawn,
paused to see if he could ascertain the
cause of the strange spectacle. The boy
was then ordered by the desperadoes not
to remain any longer at the peril of his
life, and he moved on quickly. Passing a
turn in the ix>ad he halted and saw the
four drive the three off the road into the
woods. In a few moments more he heard
the report of fire arms, followed by pierc-
ing screams, and then all was still. The
boy reported that night to his parents, and
the next morning upon search being made
the three bodies were found, and decently
buried. The assassins obtained three
horses and equipments, and from a memo-
randum found it was thought they also got
$2,100 in money. The four inhuman
wretches were a one-armed desperado
named A. J. Smith, a man by the name of
Blackstock, and John and Jerry Deason,
the two latter sons of the man at whose
house the murdered men had taken their
last dinner.

A few months after this occurrence John
Deason came home sick and was secreted
in his father's house. He was discovered
and intelligence given to the soldiers at
Shreveport, when a small band of them
came upon and killed him on the spot.

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Terry was afterwards killed in Leon coun-
ty, Texas. Blackstock was killed in Rob-
ertson county, Texas. Smith fled to Miss-
issippi, and his fate is unknown. These
facts were obtained from a former citizen
of Sangamon county, who was at the time
living in the vicinity where the tragedy
was enacted, and into whose hands one of
the early sample sheets of this work had
fallen, and in which he saw the name of
James W. Weber.

BENJAMIN R. B., born in Sanga-
mon county, married Oct. 29, 1872, to
Sarah McCormick. They had one child,
L ALL AH ANN, who died in 1875.
They reside near Pawnee, Illinois.

CHARLES E., born in Sangamon
county, lives with his father.

Mrs. Sarah A. Weber died August 5,
1866. John B. Weber was married Nov.
28, 1867, to Mrs. Nancy J. Drennan,whose
maiden name was Dodds. They reside ad-
joining Pawnee, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

John B. Weber was engaged in the
manufacture ot cabinet furniture in Spring-
field and at Hewlett, now Riverton, from
1836 to 1841, when he lost his left hand by
a buzz saw. He was appointed by the
legislature of 1842 and '43 to copy the land
records of the state in numerical order,
which kept him employed until 1849. He
then went to California, and returned in
1851. He was quartermaster in the last
expedition of the Mormon war of 1846.
He was clerk in the commissary depart-
ment in raising the first six Illinois regi-
ments for the suppression of the rebellion.
He was elected sheriff and collector of
Sangamon county, and served from 1854
to 1856.

WEBER, PHILIP W., was
born near Shepherdstown, Virginia, Jan.
28, 1812. He went south in 1835, built a
mill in connection with others at Ray-
mond, Mississippi, sold out there and came
to Springfield in the Spring of 1837. ^e
was married in Springfield June ib, 1839,
to Amanda M. Shepherd. She was born
Nov. 8, 1811. They have six children, all
born in Sangamon county, namely —

JOHN P., born March 19, 1840, un-
married, and resides with his parents, near
Pawnee, Illinois.

MART E. lives with her parents.

WIL/JAM S., born March 11, 1844,
enlisted August, 1862, at Springfield, in

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one of two companies which were con-
solidated to form Co. K, I24th 111. Inf.,
but was left out on account of his being
young and small of his age. He went to
St. Louis in 1863, and made another un-
successful attempt. He was married Jan.
I, 1867, to Henrietta Lough. They have
two children, FRANK and ANDREW
J., and reside in the extreme southeast
corner of Pawnee township, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

AMANDA, born March 3, 1846, mar-
ried May 9, 1867, to John W. Blakey.
They have one living child, EDGAR L.,
and live in Pawnee, Illinois. Mr. Blakey
is a merchant there,

SARAH C. married Dec. 12, 1867, to
Baalam N. Brown. They have two chil-
dren, IDA BELL and FANNY MAY,
and live near Pawnee, Illinois.

EMMA S. lives with her parents.

Mr. Philip W. Weber went to Cali-
fornia in 1849 and returned in 1859, and
soon after, in connection with his brother,
John B., bought land and engaged in
farming. He now — November, 1876 —
resides on his farm, adjoining Pawnee,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

WEBER, JACOB J., was born
February, 1815, in Frederick City, Mary-
land. He came to Springfield in the fall
of 1837. He afterwards went to Fulton
county, where he engaged in business and
married Miss LaMasters. He came back
to Sangamon county in 1855 and engaged
in farming in Ball township. They had
six children —

JOHN H. died Sept. n, 1874, at
Beatrice, Nebraska, in the twenty-seventh
year of his age.

MART married Dec. 5, 1867, to James
T. Lamb. See his name,

VI R G1NIA married Charles L.
Megredy. See his name.

CARRIE lives with her uncle, John
B. Weber.

J OSEPH lives with his uncle, Philip
W, Weber.

Mrs. Weber died, and Jacob J. Weber
died suddenly, both on the farm in Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

WEBER, PETER S., was born
in 1817, in Frederick City, Maryland.
He came to Springfield in 1837, being tne
fifth brother, no two of whom came to-
gether. He •was married in Springfield
to Miss Adams. They removed to La-

Salle, and his wife died soon after while
on a visit to Springfield. He was married
in LaSalle twice, and moved to St. Louis
about 1850, and from there to New
Orleans. He died in that city of yellow
fever, August 25, 1853, leaving a widow
and one son, GEORGE W. They soon
after returned to her former home at
LaSalle, Illinois.

W E B E R, Mrs. ELIZA-
BETH, whose maiden name was Shutt,
came from Virginia to Springfield in

1844. She was the mother of George R.,
John B., Philip W., Jacob J. and Peter
S. Weber. She died Jan. 27, 1868, at the
house of her son, Philip W., which had
been her home for twenty years previons.

WEST, BENJAMIN, born
May 15, 1812, in Boston, Massachusetts.
He was educated at Harvard College, and
came to Sangamon county, Illinois, about
1835, and settled at Rochester. He was
married April 16, 1840, to Permelia A.
Taylor. They had three children in San-
gamon county, namely —

LOUISA, born Jan. 30, 1841, married
Benjamin T. Rice, a native of Cambridge,
Massachusetts. They have two children,
HELEN W. and NATHAN, and reside
at Millbury, Massachusetts — 1874.

FANNY, born May 2, 1843, died Dec-
n, 1 86 1, caused by swallowing her false
teeth, while asleep, on the night of the
9th of the same month. She died at the
house of her mother, Mrs. John North,
near Mechanicsburg, Illinois.

BENJAMIN, Jun., born Jan. 30,

1845, U1 Sangamon county, and was edu-
cated in the Lutheran College at Spring-
field. He went to New Hampshire to
visit his father's relatives, and from there
embarked on board the ship Syren, Nov.
1 6, 1 86 1, at Boston, for San Francisco.
The voyage was made around Cape Horn,
arriving at the latter city in March, 1862.
Captain Green, of the Syren, determined
to sail for the Phillippine Islands. On ar-
riving at the port of Manilla, the captain
interested himself in the welfare of young
Mr. \Vest, and secured for him a situation
in the shipping house of Russell & Stur-
gis, of Boston. That was in July, 1862.
After spending a year in their house at
Manilla he was placed in charge of a
branch house 150 miles distant on the
island of Yoilo. Soon after his arrival at
the latter place, he went in a pkasure boat

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with a small party of friends to a neigh-
boring island, and on their return the wind
capsized the boat some distance from the
shore. His comrades expected him to
cling to the wreck until they, who were
more experienced, could go to shore and
bring assistance. He attempted to swim
to shore also, and when they returned no
vestige of him could be found. He had
gone down alone and unseen. That was
on December 25, 1863.

Benjamin West was a lawyer, and was
one of the representatives of Sangamon
county in the state legislature at the session
of 1846 and '47. He died at Rochester
June 23, 1847, and his widow married
Erastus Woodruff, who died and she mar-
ried John North. See his name.

WEST, SAMUEL, was born
Nov. 8, 1813, in Boston, Massachusetts.
He came to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving in 1834 or '35 at Rochester. He
returned to Boston on a visit, accom-
panied by Mrs. Lucetta Stevens, whose
maiden name was Putnam. Her husband,
Samuel Stevens, having died in Rochester,
she was returning to her friends in New-
Hampshire. Samuel West and Mrs.
Stevens were married July 7, 1840, at
Unity, New Hampshire. They returned
to Rochester soon after. She had one
child by her first marriage, namely,

SAMUEL P. STEVENS, born
Oct. 27, 1838, in Sangamon county, mar-
ried at Rochester March 2, 1858, to Olive
J. Slater. They live at Avilla, Jasper
county, Missouri.

Mr. and Mrs. West had six children
in Rochester, namelv —

BENJAMIN P., born June 15, 1841,
died, aged eight years.

SAMUEL F., born May 28, 1843,
married Nov. 6, 1867, in Rochester, to
Margaret E. Barr. They have two chil-
dren, NELLIE E. and CHARLES F.,
and reside near Pawnee, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

MARTHA S., born Feb. 22, 1846,
married Dec. 7, 1865, to William Jameison
Cooper. See his name. She had four
children, and died April 26, 1873.

CHARLES, born August 16, 1848, in
Rochester, Illinois, married in 1872 to
Gertrude D., and lives near Arvilla,
Jasper county, Missouri.

LUCT, born Oct. 4, 1850, married
June 8, 1870, in Rochester to William

Everhart, who was born May i, 1843, m
London county, Virginia. They have
two children, FRED B. and NORA,
and reside in Rochester, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

LOUISA, born April 30, 1854, mar-
ried Charles Barr. They live in Roches-
ter, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Mrs. Lucetta West died Oct. 14, 1859,
in Rochester, Illinois. Samuel West was
married July 29, 1860, to Mrs. Zilpha
Kimball, whose maiden name was Put-
nam. He died Sept. 2, 1868, and his
widow resides in Springfield, Illinois.

WEST, ELIJAH, was born July
30, 1786, near Carlisle, Nicholas county,
Kentucky. He married Elizabeth Hen-
derson, had nine children in Kentucky,
and moved to Macoupin county, Illinois,
and from there to Sangamon county,
arriving in 1835, 'n Auburn township. Of
their children —

JESSE B. married Eliza J. Peeblei ,
in Iowa, and lives there.

MAHALA married Davidson Smith,
and lives in Wisconsin.

ELIJAH A. was married in Sanga-
mon county to Atha Organ. They had
four children. ATHA A. married Scott
Bumgarner, and lives in Auburn town-
ship. WILLIAM T., ELIJAH A., Jun.,
and MARGARET A. live with their
mother. Elijah A. West died Nov. 20,
1855, and his widow lives in Auburn
township, Sangamon county, Illinois.

JOHN H. died unmarried.

NATHAN A. went to Iowa, and mar-
ried Mary Peebler. They live in Oregon.

SARAH A. married John Allsbury,
and died in Piatt county, Illinois.

WILLIAM M. married Hannah J.
Landers, and lives in Auburn township,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

MILTON M. died unmarried.

ELIZABETH lives in Piatt county,
Illinois.

Elijah West died Jan. 8, 1840, and his
widow died also, both in Sangamon coun-
tv, Illinois.

"WHITED, JAMES, was born
Sept. 8, 1804, in Virginia. His parents
moved when he was an infant to Ferrtress
county, Tennessee. Lucy Thurman was
born in that county, August 23, 1811. They
were there married March 5, 1828, had
three children in Tennessee, and came to
Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving March

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28, 1838, in what is now Woodside town-
ship, where nine children were born, two
of whom died under thirteen years of age.

R1CHRD R., born in 1830, married
Mary Grissom, had three children, and he
was stabbed to death at a convivial party
in Sangamon county, Jan. 17, 1860. His
widow and children live at Albia, Monroe
county, Iowa.

MAR T H. married Thomas W. New-
lun, have three children, and live in Ball
township.

SUSANNAH died in 1850, aged 18
years.

JEANETTE, married Joseph New-
lun, have six children, and live near Wood-
side, Illinois.

JAMES V. married Miriam A. Tucker
and lives at the homestead near Chatham,
Illinois — 1874.

LUCT A. married William Knotts,
have five children, and lives in Chatham,
Illinois.

RUHAMA M. married William Car-
ter, and died Oct. 10, 1872, leaving two
children near Woodside, Illinois.

ROBERT H., born Dec. 9, 1851, mar-
ried, August 25, 1869, Agnes J. Showers,
have one child, CHARLES E., and live
near Woodside, Sangamon county, Illinois.

THOMAS A. and JANE R.B., live
near Woodside, Illinois.

James Whited died April 19, 1870, and
his widow died January, 1873, both in Ball
township, half a mile south of where they
settled in 1838.

WHITESIDES, CHARLES,
born 1785 in Virginia, and taken by his
parents to Fayette county, Kentucky.
They traveled in boats from Pittsburg
down the Ohio river to Limestone — now
Maysville — Kentucky. Charles White-
sides was married in 1810 in Fayette
county, Kentucky to Elizabeth Graves,
who was born in 1788 in that county.
They had five children in Fayette county,
and in 1819 moved to Cumberland county,
same state, where five children were born,
and the family moved to Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois, arriving June 30, 1831, in
Springfield. In 1833 they moved to the
vicinity of Williamsville, and in 1835
moved to German Prairie, northeast of
Springfield. Of their children —

JOHN M., born April 11, 1811, in
Fayette county, Kentucky, was married in
Cumberland county, same state, to Eliza-

beth Dawson. They had five children,
and Mrs. Whitesides died in Kentucky.
He and his children came to Sangamon
county in 1844, and now reside in Linn
county, Kansas.

EMILY, born in 1813 in Kentucky,
died in Sangamon county in 1833.

WILLIAM A., born Nov. 5, 1815, in
Fayette county, Kentucky, was married
in Sangamon county, Illinois, Feb. 19,
1846, to Honor A. Branch. They had
two children, ALBERT, born Dec. 27,

1846, died Dec. 7, 1860; LOUISIANA,
born Sept. n, 1849, was married Oct. 13,
1870, to Edmond Miller. See his name.
She died Nov. 23, 1871. Mrs. Rebecca
Branch, the mother of Mrs. Whitesides,
died at their house July 25, 1876. She
spent the last sixteen years of her life in
their family. William A. Whitesides and
family reside two miles northeast of
Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.

THOMAS H. born May 12, 1817, in
Kentucky, was married to Mary Ran-
dolph. They went to Pike's Peak, where
Mrs. Whitesides died, leaving four chil-
dren, two of whom have since died. T.
H. Whitesides resides near Mt. Pulaski,
Logan county, Illinois.

CHARLES H. born March, 1819, in
Fayette county, Kentucky, was married in
Springfield to Emeline Sargent. They
had five children, and moved to California
in 1850. The last heard from them, in
1872, they were in the Sandwch Islands.

NICHOLAS B., born April 18, 1821,
in Cumberland county, Kentucky, was
married in Sangamon county, April 8,

1847, to Agnes J. Turley. They had five
children, two of whom died young.
EMILY C., born March 4, 1850, resides
with her father. MARY E., born March
n, 1854, was married Jan. 19, 1873, to
Wilson W. Yates, and resides near Plato,
Iroquois county, Illinois. IDA A., born
April 19, 1862, resides with her father.
Mrs. Agnes J. Whitesides died May
19, 1863, and N. B. Whitesides resides
four miles east of Springfield, Illinois.

GEORGE G., born Feb. 23, 1824, in
Cumberland county, Kentucky, brought
up in Sangamon county, Illinois, and mar-
ried Elizabeth A. Berks. They had four
children, SARAH E., ROBERT F.,
JOHN M. and WILLIAM A. Mrs. W.
died, and G. G. Whitesides married Mrs.
A. Benton, whose maiden name was

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Copeland. They had one child, MAGGIE
R. Mrs. G. G. Whitesides had two
children hy her first marriage, LYDIA
A. and EUNICE E. Benton. G. G.
Whitesides and family reside in Logan
countv, north of Illiopolis, Illinois.

MARGARET C, horn March 15,
1826, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon
county, in 1845.

MART E., born May 15, 1828, in
Cumberland county, Kentucky, raised in
Sangamon county, was married March i,
18^5, to Andrew Buckles. They had
seven children, two died young. MARY
T., FLORA A., EMMA LM HENRY
S. and ROBERT E., and reside near Mt.
Pulaski, Illinois.

M ARION F., born August 28, 1830,
in Cumberland county, Kentucky, was
married in Sangamon county, Jan. i,
1852, to Anna E. Black. They had four
children, three died in infancy. MARY,
the eldest, resides with her parents. M.
F. Whitesides and wife reside in Spring-
field, Illinois.

Charles Whitesides died March 31,
1836, four miles northeast of Springfield,
and his widow died June 25, 1855, in
Logan county, Illinois.

WIKOFF, WILLIAM W.,
born March 23, 1808, in Monmouth coun-
ty, New Jersey. His parents moved to
Warren county, Ohio, in 1810. He was
there married Dec. 24, 1829, to Sarah C.
Sinnard, who was born in the same county
Oct. 5, 1810. They moved to Sanga-
mon county, 111., arriving June 19, 1837, on
Richland creek, and in 1838 to Island
Grove township^ and in 1864 into what is
now New Berlin township. They brought
three children from Ohio, and had six in
Sangamon county. Of their nine chil-
dren —

ALBERT G., born Dec. 6, 1830, in
Warren county, Ohio, married in Sanga-
mon county, Dec. 14, 1854, to Ann E.
Allen, who was born Dec. 14, 1837, *n
Morgan county, Illinois. They had five
children. THOMAS J. died aged three
years. CORDELIA K., DORA BELL,
EDWIN A. and ALONZO H. live with
their parents one and three-quarter miles
southeast of Berlin, Sangamon county,
Illinois — 1874.

WILLIAM Suborn Feb. 18, 1832, in
Ohio, married in Sangamon county, Sept.
18, 1853, to Mary E. Allen. They have

eight children, and live near Hamburg,
Fremont county, Iowa.

ALONZO H., born Oct. 16, 1835, in
Ohio, married Dec. 24, 1857, to Ella Mc-
Donnell, have four children, and live in
Hamburg, Iowa.

CA THARINE F., born July 24, 1839,
in Sangamon county, married Dec. 24,
1861, to Thomas W. Taylor, and resides in
Berlin, Illinois.

PETER P., born Oct. 10, 1841, in
Sangamon county, married May 20, 1872,
to Mary A. Cox, and live in Hamburg,
Iowa.

THOMAS J., born July 4, 1844, died
May 10, 1864.

JOHN M., MART M., and
MARTHA C., reside with their parents
near New Berlin, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

W. W. Wikoff was keeping tavern at
Palmyra, now called Mason, Warren coun-
ty, Ohio, at the time of the sudden change,
Dec. 20, 1836. He remembers that the cold
wave arrived there about nine o'clock P.
M. WThen he came to Illinois and con-
versed with the people, he found that the
change took place here about one o'clock
p. M. It had taken about eight hours to
travel 350 miles. See sudden change^
page 63.

WYCKOFF, SAMUEL, born
in 1781, in Loudon county, Virginia. He
moved in company with his parents to
Bourbon county, Kentucky, in 1808. He
was there married in 1812 to Rebecca
Darneille, who was born at Bryan Station,
Kentucky, in 1787. They had seven chil-
dren in Kentucky, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, arriving Oct. 12, 1822, in
what is now Chatham township, where two
children were born. Of all their children:

JULIA A., born in 1813, married
Stephen B. Neal. See his name.

JOHN THOMAS,\)orn 1814, married
1837 to Sarah Shelton, who died, and he
married Amanda Jacobs, and she died and
he married Jane Foster. She died and he
died in 1856, leaving one child.

SUSANNAH //., born July 7, 1815,
married Washington Hall. See his name.

MAHAL A J., born 1817, died aged
twenty-seven years.

LORENA, born 1818 in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Allen
Snyder. They have nine children, and
live at Mowequa, Shelby county, Illinois.

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BENJAMIN F., born July 19, 1819,
married Delilah Harbour, had one child,
and Mr. Wyckoff died August, 1843.

AS HER P., born Nov. 28, 1821, in
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county,
Oct. 15, 1840, to Sarah M. Gibson, who
was born April 24, 1817, in Todd county,
Kentncky, and came to Sangamon county
with her mother in 1828. The mother
died March 12,1859, at Wyandotte, Kan-
sas. Mr. and Mrs. W. had tea children,
among them three pair of twins. Six of
their children died under seven years of
age. Of the other four, JOHN W. lives
in Kansas. HENRY C. lives near
Chatham, Illinois. They were both sol-
diers in an Illinois regiment. MARY A.
married James Eaman, and lives in Otta-
wa, Kansas. WINFIELD S. was a sol-
dier in an Iowa regiment. Asher P.
Wyckoff and wife live in Kansas.

EMELINE,\>£>v\\ in Sangamon coun-
ty in 1824, married Henry Hall in 1843,
and both died leaving five children, near
Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

CHARLES H., born 1826, married
Emeline Rude, and live in Cedar county,
Missouri.

Samuel Wyckoff died March 18, 1850,
and his widow in March, 1853, both near
Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILCOX, JOHN, was born in
Maryland on the eastern shore of the
Chesapi-ake Bay. His parents died when
he was quite young, and to keep from
being bound out, he ran away, embarked
on a sailing vessel and went to the West
India islands, returning to Marvland, and
when he was sixteen or seventeen years
old went with a family to Virginia, and
from there to the vicinity of Danville,
Kentucky. He was married in Oldham
county, Kentucky, to Lucinda Oglesby.
She was born in London county, Virginia,
and her parents moved to that part of
Shelby which afterwards became Oldham
county, Kentucky. Her father, William
Oglesby, was a soldier in the Revolution.
John Wilcox and his wife had two chil-
dren in Oldham county, and moved to
Davidson county, Tennessee, where one
child was born, and then moved to Logan
county, Kentucky, where eight children
wei-e born. In 1818, the family moved to
St. Clair county, Illinois, and from there
to what became Sangamon county,
arriving in the fall of 1819, about six miles

east of where Springfield now stands, and
settled between the mouths of Sugar
creek and the south fork of Sangamon
river. Of their eleven children —

MAHALA, born in Kentucky and
married Thomas Moore. They had three
children, and she died August 18, 1855,
and Thomas Moore died April 28, 1866,
both near Berlin, Illinois.

STEPHEN, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in 1824 to Harriet Newell. They
had eight children. He died March 22,
1858, and his widow lives with her young-
est son, STEPHEN, near Blue Mound,
Macon county, Illinois.

ELLIS, born in Davidson county,
Tennessee, about 1790, married Feb. 24,
1824, in Simpson county, Kentucky, to
Ann Lewis, who was born Dec. 21, 1800,
in Pendleton district, South Carolina.
They had two children in Kentucky, and
moved to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving in 1828, in Island Grove, where
they had five living children, namely,
LUCINDA, born February 15, 1825,
in Simpson county, Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Thomas Rhea.
See his name. N E R I A H L., born
in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county,
aged ten years. THOMAS, born June
28, 1831, in Sangamon county, mar-
ried Catharine Ruble. They have eight
children, CHARLES L., ALBERT N., BENJA-
MIN F., MARY A., WALLACE B., FRANCIS,

CLARENCE and RUTH s., and live in Mor-
gan county, six miles west of Berlin, San-
gamon county, Illinois. JOHN F., born
Feb. 12, 1836, in Sangamon county, mar-
ried July 24, 1863, to Mary A. Rhea, had
one child which died in infancy, and Mrs.
Wilcox died May 16, 1865. He was mar-
ried August 7, 1866, to Fanny Scott.
They have three children, JAY GALE,
N. ELLIS and NELLIE, and live three-quar-
ters of a mile northwest of Loami, Illinois.
CHARLES H., born May 10, 1838, mar-
ried Sept. 11, 1864,10 Caroline Caruthers,
have two children, and lives with his
father. SAMUEL M. died Jan. 29, 1863,
in the twenty-third year of his age.
JOSIAH L., born Nov. 26, 1844, in San-
gamon county, married Mav, 1861, to Alice
V. Parker. They had one child, JOE A.,
and Mrs. Wilcox died Jan. 29, 1862. Dr.
Joe L. Wilcox was appointed, May 19,
1862, second assistant surgeon of the nth
111. Cav., was promoted May 19, 1863,10

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767

first assistant surgeon, served to the end of
the rebellion, v/hen he was mustered out
with his regiment, October, 1865. He
was married Nov. 9, 1865, to Jean F.
Patteson. They have thr.ee children,
mv i GHT, AUGUSTUS p. and ANNIE. Dr.
Wilcox was elected, November, 1874, as
one of the representatives of Sangamon
county in the twenty-ninth general
assembly of Illinois, and is a practicing
physician at Loami, Sangamon county,
Illinois. Ellis Wilcox and wife now —
1876 — reside where they settled in 1829.
It is five miles west of Berlin, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

.17. \RTHA died in her fourteenth year.

EDIJ^H, born in Kentucky, married
in Sangamon county to Duke Chilton,
and died, leaving her husband and two
children at Oneco, Stephenson county,
Illinois.

ELIZABETHAN ,aged twenty-two
years.

NANCY married Andrew Stice, and
died August, 1871, leaving her husband
and four children at Jacksonville, Illinois.

ELIZ A married William Oglesby and
died in 1843, leaving two sons, JOSEPH
and STEPHEN, near Belleville, Illinois.

WILLlAJM,\x>rb August 9, 1813, in
Logan county, Kentucky, raised in San-
gamon county, was a soldier in the Black-
hawk war, married Nov. 8, 1835, in Old-
ham county, Kentucky, to Nancy Ellis,
had five children, and Mrs. Wilcox died
Oct. 2, 1852, leaving two children,
ELLIS O. and GEORGE W. He was
married Nov. 9, 1856, to Marv Wilbourne.
They have two children, CHARLOTTE
and WILLIAM BEN. E., and reside
three miles west of Berlin, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

yOSjffiTA, born in Kentucky, raised
in Sangamon county, married twice, and
lives west of Berlin, Illinois.

FRANCES is unmarried and lives
with her brother-in-law, Stice, at Jackson-
ville, Illinois.

John Wilcox died about 1823, and his
widow died in 1842, both in Sangamon
county, Illinois.

WILCOCKSON, WIL-
LIAM, born August 8, 1789, in Rowan
county, North Carolina. Mary England,
sister to Rev. Stephen England, was born
March 14, 1786, in Virginia. Her pferentB
moved to Bath county, Kentucky, when

she was quite young. William Wilcock-
son and Mary England were there mar-
ried, had seven children, and moved to
Sangamon county, Illinois, in the fall of
1821, in company with their son-in-law,
George Power. They settled in what is
now Fancy creek township, where two
children were born. Of their children —

DA VID died in Kentucky, aged seven
years.

NANCT, born June 13, 1804, in Bath
county, Kentucky, married there to Geb.
Power. Sec his name.

MELINDA, born in Kentucky, was
twice married, is now a widow, Gibson,
and resides in Woodford county, Illinois.

JOHN married Caroline Spears. He
died leaving a widow and nine children in
Christian county, Illinois.

STEPHEN E., born in Bath county,
Kentucky, married in Sangamon county
to Mary J. Lake. They have eight chil-
dren, BAYLESS L., LUCY J., ELIZA
A., EMELINE F., CHARLES H.,
JAMES E., ELIZABETH C. and
JOHN S. The second and third are mar-
ried, and reside in Henry county, Missouri.
All the others reside with their parents
near Elkhart, Illinois.

LUCY married Hiram Powell, and
both died without children.

ELLEN married John Morgan, had
twelve children, and lives in Iowa.

WILLIAM B., born Oct. 15, 1822, in
Sangamon county, married September,
1848, to Clarinda Claypool, who was born
Nov. 17, 1823, in Champaign county, Ohio.
They had four children, and Mr. Wilcock-
son died very suddenly, April 26, 1856, near
Athens, Illinois. Of their children, LEVI
C. lives with his mother and manages the
farm. THOMAS R., is a student at Ann
Arbor, Michigan — 1874 — with the inten-
tion of making the law his profession.
JOHN W. and MARY E. reside with
thcjr" mother, two miles north of Cantrall,
amon county, Illinois.

GEURGE W., born in Sangamon
county, married Susan Brown. They had
seven children, and live in Lawrence coun-
ty, Missouri.

Mrs. Mary Wilcockson died August 10,
1860, and William Wilcockson died July
24, 1864, both in Fancy creek township,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

\VILEY. The origin of the family
in America was through a man of that

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

name who lived and died in the county of
Armagh, Ireland. His first name is not
preserved. It is not certainly known, but
believed by his descendants, that he was a
native of Scotland. He possessed consid-
erable property, and died earlv in life,
leaving as the executor of his will a brother,
who defrauded the children of their prop-
erty. Five of the children — probably all
there were — emigrated to New York city
in 1734 or '35. One of his sons, who, it is
thought, bore the name of Alexander, was
borr in 1711 in county Armagh, Ireland,
married in New York city to Jane Bell.
They had ten children, five of whom, two
sons and three daughters, grew to be men
and women. Their eldest son, Alexander,
born Feb. 6, 1745, in New York, was
eleven years old when his father died,
about 1756, one year after Braddock's de-
feat. He was apprenticed by his sister
Elizabeth — older than himself — to a tailor,
and continued in that business thirty years.
He married Elizabeth Carr, who was born
May 19, 1752. They had ten children.
He died Feb. 29, 1824, and she died Dec.
23, 1834. The eldest child, Alexander C.,
born June 22, 1770, in New York city,
married August 27, 1795, to Sarah Coe,
who was born Dec. 9, 1774. They had
ten children, six sons and four daughters.
Their daughter Sarah, born Nov. 24, 1802,
married July 4, 1824, to Jonathan Motta-
shed, in New York city. He died there
April i, 1832, and she married William
W. Watson. See his name. They had
a son, Alexander Wiley, also, but he never
came west. Their son —

WILEY, EDMUND. R., born
Feb. 1 8, 1808, in New York city, was mar-
ried there August 3, 1830, to Catharine
Beach. They had three children in New
York, and came to Springfield, Illinois, in
1835, where six children were born. Of
all their living children —

FRANCES, born July 29, 1831, in
New York, resides with her mother.

EDMUND R., Jun., born June 20,
1833, in New York, read law in Spring-
field, Illinois, and was admitted to the bar.
He practiced his profession in Decatur for
a short time and returned to Springfield.
In 1861 he was appointed adjutant of the
62d 111. Inf., and served one year. He was
major of 6ist (colored) Inf. for sixteen
months, lieutenant colonel of 3d Colored
Heavy Art. about six months, and colonel

of the 88th (colored) Inf. one year. Colo-
nel Wiley was clerk of Arkansas county
from Nov. 5, 1867, to Oct. 7, 1871, repre-
sented said county in the state legislature
of 1871 and '72, was elected sheriff in the
autumn of 1872, and served until October,
1874. Colonel E. R. Wiley was married
in Dewitt, Arkansas, Sept. 29, 1868, to La-
dora E. Rice, who was born Oct. 3, 1852,
at Springfield, Conway county, Arkansas.
' They have four children, ALFRED R.,
ANDREW E., CATHARINE and
DORA E., who reside with their parents.
E. R. Wiley is a farmer, and lived in
Dewitt, Arkansas, until 1876, when he
moved to Danville, Illinois.

MART A. resides with her mother.

AMELIA, born Jan. 17, 1837, in
Springfield, Illinois, was married there
May 3, 1866, to George White, who was
born July 2, 1840, in Pottsclam, New
York, and came to Springfield, Illinois, in
1865. They have three children, ED-
MUND R., GEORGE F. and HOW-
ARD W., and reside in Springfield, Illi-
nois.

ALEXANDER C. born Nov. 9,
1838, in Springfield, enlisted in Co. G,
H4th 111. Inf., was in the siege of Vicks-
burg, served seventeen months and was
appointed lieutenant of Co. E, 6ist United
States Colored Infantry. He was in the
battle of Tupello, Mississippi, served
nine months and was honorably dis-
charged Oct. 5, 1864, at Washington,
D. C. Lieutenant Wiley was deputy circuit
clerk of Arkansas county for six years.
He was married April 17, 1871, in DeWitt,
Arkansas, to Jennie Quertermous, who
was born in Hardin county, Kentucky.
They have two children, ROBERT E.
and FREDERICK H., who reside with
their parents in DeWitt, Arkansas county,
Arkansas.

RICHARD B., born Jan. 15,1841, in
Springfield, Illinois, enlisted in an Illinois
regiment during the rebellion; is
distinguished for his musical talent,
and is organist in the Chestnut street
Presbyterian church, Louisville, Kentucky.

NE7^TIE, born in 1844,111 Spring-
field, Illinois, is unmarried, and resides
with her mother.

ALFRED, born Sept. 7, 1848, in
Springfield, Illinois, was married near
Williamette, Arkansas, Sept. 7, 1876, to
Pattie M. Hubbard, daughter of Dr. B.

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769

C. Hubbard. Alfred Wiley was a farmer
and lived near DeWitt, Arkansas
until 1876, when he moved to Starr City,
Lincoln county, Arkansas, and engaged in
the practice of law.

Edmund R. Wiley, Sen., was in the cloth-
ing business in Springfield, until his death,
which occurred July 19, 1864. His
widow and daughters live in Springfield,
Illinois.

WILLARD, ALEXANDER
P., born April 8, 1815, in Vernon, Oneida
county, New York. He was married
June 3, 1837, m Chemung county, in the
same state to Louisa L. Higgie. They
came the same year to Springfield, Illinois,
where they had two children, one of whom
died young.

LUCY E., was born March, 1839, in
Springfield, married in her native city to
William D. Richardson. They have two
children and reside in Springfield, Illinois.
Mr. Richardson at the time of his marriage
was engaged in railroading. After that
he became a contractor and builder.
Among his largest contracts was the brick-
work on the Macoupin county court house,
the entire work of building the national
Lincoln monument, and the greater part of
the brick and stone work on the new state
house of Illinois, on which he has been
engaged from 1871 to the present time —
November, 1876.

Alexander P. Willard was in partner-
ship for a short time after coming to
Springfield with E. G.Johns. In 1841 he
formed a partnership with Robert B. Zim-
merman. See his name. They continued
in the business of painters and glaziers,
and dealers in materials connected with
their business until the death of Mr. Wil-
lard, which occurred very suddenly, May
5, 1865, in Springfield. Mrs. Willard re-
sides with her daughter, Mrs. Richardson,
in Springfield, Illinois.

W I L L I A M S, EDWARD,
was born June 3, 1789, in Hardin county,
Kentucky. Margaret Neal was born
April, 1788, in Nelson county, Kentucky.
The places of their birth were only about
six miles apart, and the parents of both
moved when they were children to Ohio
county, where they were married about
1806. They had five children in Ken-
tucky, and moved to Sangamon county,
Illinois, arriving December, 1826, in what
is now Gardner township, where two

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children were born, one died young. Of
their six children —

NANCY C., born April 4, 1808, in
Kentucky, married Dec. 19, 1872, in San-
gamon county to Christopher Atterberry,
and lives in Menard county, Illinois.

SAMUEL N., born in 1810 in Ken-
tucky, married Margaret Martin, and she
died. He married Mrs. Margaret D.
Ralston, whose maiden name was Peak.
They had four living children. Mr. W.
died Jan. 9, 1866, and his family lives in
Edinburg, Illinois.

CHARLES J/., born April 8, 1815,
was helpless from youth, and died at fifty-
two years of age.

JOHN V., born in 1818, married
Elizabeth J. Pierce. They have six chil-
dren, and reside near Taylorville, Illinois.

ED WARD L., born in 1824, in Ken-
tucky, married Susan H. Pearce in San-
gamon county, and had four children.
The parents and three of the children
died. Their only living child, REBEC-
CA A., married Samuel Cully, has one
son, and lives near Taylorville, Illinois.

STEPHEN W., born Feb. 9, 1827,
in Sangamon county, married July 25,
1850, to Abigail J. Fry, who was born
July 22, 1827, in Smith county, Tennessee.
They had two children, EDWARD H.
and NANCY J., and Mrs. W. died Nov.
8, 1857. He was married June 30, 1859,
to Elcy Davidson. They have five living
children, JOHN D., MARY M., MICA-
JAH, FRANCES M. and MARTHA
A., and reside in Christian county, near
Pawnee, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Mrs. Margaret Williams" died April 2,
1859, and Edward \Villiams died June 29,
1871, both in Gardner township, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

WILLIAMS, ELI AS, born Feb.
27, 1770, near Clarendon, Vermont, was
married in that state to Mary Boynton,
who was born July 19, 1773, at Plymouth,
Windsor county, Vermont. They had
four children there, and the family moved
to Essex county, New York, about 1804,
where two children were born, thence to
Hamilton county, Ohio, where one child
was born, and from there to Butler county,
in the same state, where three children
were born. In 1819 the family moved to
Wayne or Henry county, Indiana, and
from there to Sangamon county, Illinois,
arriving in February, 1822, in what is

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now Cotton Hill township, and the next
spring into what is now Rochester town-
ship. Of their children —

POLLTw&LTDIA died under four
years.

SAMUEL, born April 24, 1800, in
Windsor county, Vermont, came to San-
gamon county, Illinois, before the family
arrived in the autumn of 1821, and was
married April 5, 1832, to Jane L. Trotter.
They had five children in Sangamon
county, NANCY T., born Feb. 26, 1833,
married Henry P. Clark. See his name.
JANE L., born June i, 1835, married
Charles F. Humphreys. See his name.
ELIZA, born Feb. 1 2, 1837, and HENRY
H., born July 30, 1840. The two latter
live with their father. WILLIAM T.
died in his second year. Mrs. Jane L.
Williams died Oct. u, 1865, and Samuel
Williams lives one and a half miles south-
east of Rochester, Sangamon county,
Illinois. Mr. Williams became a member
of the Christian church, June 29, 1817, in
Ohio, and when he came to Sangamon
county, there being no church of his own
denomination, he united with the Method-
ists, with the understanding that he should
sever the connection when a suitable time
came for organizing one of his own. He
united with others in 1832 in consituting
the South Fork Christian church. About
that time he commenced preaching, and
has continued to do so to the present time.
He has received between one and two
hundred persons into the church, and has
baptized about five hundred, including his
assisting other ministers. He has prob-
ably married one hundred couple, and
taught school in Rochester, Illinois, be-
tween the years 1831 and 1837.

ELI AS, Jun., born Feb. 15, 1802, in
Vermont, was married in Sangamon
county, in 1831, to Polly Baker, daughter
of Isaac. They had eleven or twelve
children, and moved to Kansas, thence to
the vicinity of Nashville, Barton county,
Missouri, where they now live.

JOSEPH, born Oct. 2, 1804, in
Essex county, New York, was married in
Sangamon county, Illinois, to Judith
Delay. They had two children, who
both died young. Joseph Williams died
Oct. 14. 1850. His widow lives in Cotton
Hill township.

MAR T, born Dec. 18, 1806, in Essex
county, New York, was married in San-

gamon county in 1824 to Richard E.
Barker. They had one child, ELIAS,
who married Dorothy Bound. He died
in March, 1873. His widow and chil-
dren live near Clarksville, Illinois. R. E.
Barker died and his widow married
Andrew Johnson. See his natne. He
died and she married Greenberry Baker.
See his name.

IS I AH BOTNTON, born June 20,
1810, in Hamilton county, Ohio, was mar-
ried in Sangamon county April i, 1833, to
Phebe Baker. They had eleven children,
two died under five years. SUSAN,
born Jan. 19, 1834, in Sangamon county,
was married Nov. 10, 1853, to George W.
Whitecraft, who was born Sept. 26, 1830,
in Bath county, Kentucky, and brought
by his parents, in 1835, to what is now
Christian county, Illinois. In 1873 he
moved to Springfield, where he now re-
sides. MARY married James Martin.
See his name. JAMES H. married
Caroline Hedrick. They have three
children, and live near Taylorville, 111.
HARRIET married George Boyd. They
had two children, and live near Taylor-
ville, Illinois. MARTHA married A.
M. Council, has two children, and lives
near Edinburg, Illinois. AMOS S. mar-
ried Jane Hatler. They have one child,
and live in Cotton Hill township. SAN-
FORD, EDWARD and ABRAHAM
L. live with their parents in Cotton Hill
township, east of New City, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

SUSANNAH, born March 2, 1815, in
Hamilton county, Ohio, died in Sanga-
mon county, April 12, 1834.

AMOS, born May 10, 1818, in Butler
county, Ohio, was married in Sangamon
county to Caroline Deai'born. They had
two children. ELIAS enlisted in the i6th
111, Cav., in 1862, for three years, and was
captured at Cumberland Gap. He was
several months in Andersonville prison,
was exchanged, and died a few days later.
ISAIAH B. married and lives in Cincin-
nati, Appanoose county, Iowa. Amos
Williams went to California and died
there in March, 1850. His widow lives
with her son, Isaiah B., in Iowa.

Mrs. Mary Williams died May 15, 1850,
and Elias Williams died August 25, 1853,
both in Sangamon countv, Illinois.

WILLIAMS, JAMES M.,
was born April 30, 1810, in Rutherford

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county, North Carolina. He is a nephew
of Andrew Elliott. He came to Sanga-
mon county in company with Terry Brad-
ley, arriving at Springfield, Oct. 13, 1834.
He was married October, 1851, to Mary
Reford. They had six children in Sanga-
mon countv.

MART E. married Luther Jones, has
two children, CHARLES and MINNIE
F., and live near Salisbury, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

ELLEI\/ J., married May 23, 1872,
to William F. Irwin. See his name.

CHARLES HENRT, lives with his
father.

JAMES A., died aged fourteen years.
MAR? A. died aged eight years.
MARTHA died aged two years.

Mrs. Mary Williams died Nov. 28, 1866,
and J. M. Williams lives northeast of the
Sangamon river, in Salisbury township.

Mr. W. went hunting soon after com-
ing to the county, lost his way, and
was escorted to camp about nine o'clock
p. M. by a pack of howling wolves.

WILLIAMS, JOHN, was born
Sept. n, 1808, in Bath county, Kentucky.
His ancestors came from Wales and settled
in Greenbrier county, Virginia. James
Williams was born in that countv and
married Hannah Moppin, who was born
in 1776, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, of
Scotch-Irish parents, who were Presby-
terians. James Williams moved to Bath
county, Kentucky, and after partly raising
his family, moved to that part of Sanga-
mon which is now Menard county,
Illinois, arriving in 1823. James Williams
and wife lived and died in Menard county.
Their son, John, whose name heads this
sketch, attended school in a log school
house during the winter, and in the sum-
mer labored on his father's farm until
1822, when he obtained a situation in a
store in Owensville, Kentucky. At the
end of two years he came with some of
his father's former neighbors to Illinois,
and after spending two weeks with his
parents he came to Springfield, Oct. u,
1824, and entered into an agreement to
clerk for one year in the store of Major
Elijah lies for ten dollars per month. At
the end of the year Mr. lies gave him
$150, being thirty more than the contract
called for. His salary was raised to $200
and board, which was continued without
change for five years. At the end

ot that time his savings amounted to
three hundred dollars. Mr. lies, wishing
to retire from business, offered to sell his
stock to Mr. Williams, and give him one
year's time without interest. Mr. Wil-
liams preferred dividing it into four equal
payments. Having previously visited St.
Louis, on business for Mr. lies, he became
acquainted with the wholesale merchants
there, which he afterwards found to be
quite advantageous. That, with his three
hundred dollars, enabled him to keep up
his stock. By honorable dealing he re-
tained all the former patrons of Mr. lies,
and met every payment promptly.

John Williams was married March 31,
1840, in Springfield, to Lydia Porter, who
was born August 28, 1821, in Lima, Liv-
ingston county, New York. The wife of
Major lies was her half sister. Mr. and
Mrs. Williams had six children in Spring-
field, all now living, namely —

LOUISA ILES, ALBERT POR-
TER, JOHN EDWARD, JULIA
JATNE, GEORGE and HENRI
CARTER.

LOUISA /., born Dec. 22,1840, was
married in her native city, in 1859, to
George N. Black, who was born March
15, 1833, in Lee, Berkshire county, Mass.
Mr. and Mrs. Black have three children,
and reside in Springfield, Illinois.

George N. Black came to Springfield
in October, 1850, and engaged to clerk
for Colonel John Williams at fifteen
dollars per month, and board himself. In
1856 he was admitted as a partner in the
firm of John Williams & Co., dry goods
merchants, and has continued to the
present time. In addition to his mercan-
tile business, Mr. Black has been one of
the most persistent and efficient workers
in originating and prosecuting enterprises
calculated to advance the interests of
Springfield. Among the enterprises in
which he has taken an active part, was
the organization of the Leland hotel com-
pany; the Pana, Springfield and North-
western railroad company, of which he
became a director and secretary. That
became part of the S. & I. S. E., and is
now part of the O. & M. railroad.
He was one of the projectors of the
G., C. & S. railroad, and was one-
tenth owner of the same. He was one of
the principal movers in the Springfield
and Northwestern railroad, and in 1875

was appointed receiver of the same. He
is now — November, 1876 — in charge of the
road. He is one of the principal stock-
holders of the First National Bank, and
was cashier during the first year of its
existence. He was one of the stock-
holders who organized the Springfield
City railway company, March 3, 1866;
was elected treasurer, and continues to
hold that office to the present time. He
was one of the original movers in the
Springfield Watch company, organized
Jan. 26, 1870, and was elected treasurer of
the same, etc., etc.

JULIA JATNE was married in her
native city to Alfred Orendorff. See his
name, in the Omissions.

Colonel John Williams was nominated
as a candidate for congress in 1856, and
supported by the combined influence of
the remnant of the old Whig party, under
Fillmore, and of the newly organized
Republican party, under Fremont; but
was defeated, as he expected to be, his
object being to strengthen the state ticket,
with Governor Bissell at its head. He
was for six years treasurer of the Illinois
State Agricultural Society. In 1857 ne
became treasurer of the Illinois Stock Im-
porting company, for the introduction of
blooded stock. At the outbreak of the
rebellion, Colonel Williams was appointed,
by Governor Yates, commissary general
of Illinois, and discharged the duties of
that trust for years. He was appointed,
by President Lincoln, disbursing agent of
the United States government during the
building of the United States court house
and postoffice at Springfield. About
three hundred and twenty thousand dol-
lars passed through his hands in connec-
tion with that trust. After the death of
President Lincoln, Mr. Williams was
appointed one of the escort. He at once
proceeded to Washington and accom-
panied the remains to Springfield. He
was one of the original members of the
National Lincoln Monument Association,
and is now a member of its executive
committee. He has been identified with
the building of all the railroads to Spring-
field, but more particularly with the Gil-
man, Clinton and Springfield, and the
Springfield and Northwestern railroads,
the latter of which was built mainly
through his exertions. He is now presi-
dent of the Barclay coal mining company,

and also owns and operates a farm of over
one thousand acres, near Indian Point,
Menard county, Illinois.

He commenced private banking in con-
nection with his store, by his customers
depositing with him. The business grew
gradually for several years. When the
national banking law was enacted he
united with others in organizing the First
National Bank of Springfield, Dec. 12,
1863, and opened its doors for business
May i, 1864. He became president ot the
bank at its organization and continued in
that office ten years. For more than fifty-
two years he has been in the mercantile
business in Springfield, and is now in his
sixty-ninth year, still at the head of the
mercantile firm of John Williams & Co.
He has for many years been a member of
the First Presbyterian church of Spi'ing-
field, Illinois.

WILLIAMS, JOSEPH, a
younger brother to Colonel John Wil-
liams, was born in Bath county, Kentucky,
and with his parents came to Sangamon
county, Illinois, in 1823. After his brother
John went into business on his own ac-
count, he entered his store as a clerk, and a
few years later went into the mercantile
business for himself at Decatur, Illinois.
He was married Nov. 10, 1836, in Spring-
field to Huldah Francis. See Francis
family sketch. They had six sons, and
Mrs. Williams died Dec. 10, 1848, in Me-
nard county. Mr. Williams, with his sons,
started April 3, 1851, overland for Oregon,
and arrived there late in the fall. While
exploring the country in May, 1853, he
was killed by the Rogue river Indians
in Oregon. His children were all brought
back to Springfield by their uncle, Colonel
John Williams. Of the six—

JAMES E., born July 8, 1838, in
Springfield, Illinois, was married August
8, 1865, to Roscia King. They have three
children, JOSEPH, FRANCIS and
MATILDA. They lived at Irish Grove,
Menard county, Illinois, until 1876, when
they moved to Maryville, Nodaway coun-
ty, Missouri.

JEREMIAH H., born Nov. 14, 1839,
in Decatur, Illinois, was married Sept. 6,
1866, to Cynthia Scott. They have two
children, SAMUEL and JOHN. Mr.
Williams is a stock raiser, and resides near
Sweet Water postoffice, Menard county,
Illinois.

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SIMEON F., born July 12, 1841, in
Menard county, Illinois, and after the death
of both his parents he went to live with
his uncle, Charles Francis, at Laporte, In-
diana. He enlisted in 1861 in the 2oth Ind.
Inf., and died April 17, 1863, at Laporte,
of disease contracted in the army.

WILLIAM BUCK, born " May 29,
1843, in Menard county, Illinois, was mar-
ried Nov. i, 1870, to Ann M. Whitney.
They have two children, ANNIE I. and
WILLIAM H. W. B. Williams was en-
gaged in farming and stock raising near
Middletown, Logan county, Illinois, until
March, 1876, when he moved to Mary-
ville, Nodaway county, Missouri.

NE WTON A., born Oct. 17, 1845, in
Menard county, Illinois. He was married
Oct. 17, 1871, to Mary C. Cox. They
have two children, CHARLES and
LYDIA, and reside near Maryville, Mis-
souri.

JOHN C., born Dec. 28, 1846, in Me-
nard county, Illinois. He is a shipper and
resides at Indian Point, Sweet Water post
office, Menard county, Illinois.

WILLJAN, THOMAS, was
born Feb. 21, 1797, in Kent county, Dela-
ware. When he was two yeai'S old his
parents moved to Green county, Kentucky.
He was there married March 18, 1819, to
Mary Crowder. They had two children
in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving late in 1829, first
stopping where the family of Hon. Jesse
K. Dubcis now resides, west of Spring-
field. He entered land on Horse creek, in
what is now Cotton Hill township, and
moved on it in 1831. They had three
children in Sangamon county. Of their
five children —

MATILDA J., born Dec. 21, 1819, in
Green county, Kentucky, was married in
Sangamon county to Jackson Stout. See
his name. He died, and she was married
May 10, 1842, to Samuel Haines. See his
name.

WILLIAM C., born Jan. 4, 1822, in
Green county, Kentucky, was married Oct.
27, 1858, in Sangamon county, Illinois, to
Samantha C. Chapman, who was born
July 5, 1828, at Elsworth, Trumbull coun-
ty, Ohio. William C. Willian died Feb.
19, 1875, and Mrs. Samantha C. Willian
died April i, 1875, both in Cotton Hill
township, Sangamon county, Illinois. They
left an adopted son, ED WARD L. WIL-

LIAN, who lives in Cotton Hill town-
ship.

SARAH A., born August 29, 1833, in
Sangamon county, married William H.
Vigal. See his name..

NANCT J., born March 4, 1837, in
Sangamon county, was married Sept. 12,
1861, to Walter J. Barnes. They have
five children, namely, LOUIS M.,
CAREY E., THOMAS W.,WILLIAM
J. and MARY O. W. J. Barnes and
family reside near Edinburg, Christian
county, Illinois.

THOMAS 7., born June 25, 1840, in
Sangamon county, Illinois, enlisted April,
1861, in Co. G, 7th 111. Inf., for three
months, on the first call for 75,000 men,
and served full time. He re-enlisted Au-
gust, 1862, for three years in Co. K, i24th
111. Inf., and was commissioned first lieu-
tenant at the organization of the company.
He was taken sick at Camp Butler, and
died in Cotton Hill township, Nov. 5,
1862.

Mrs. Mary Willian died July 29, 1856,
and Thomas J. Willian married Sarah
Lambert. They have one child.

CHARLES ALBERT was born
Oct. 7, 1861, in Sangamon county, resides
with his sister, Mrs. Barnes, near Edin-
burg, Christian county, Illinois.

Mrs. Sarah Willian died Oct. 30, 1868,
in Christian county, Illinois, and Thomas
Willian lives with his daughter, Mrs.
Barnes, near Edinburg, Christian county,
Illinois.

Day Willian, the father of Thomas Wil-
lian, and Day Willian's brother, John,
came to Sangamon county with their fam-
ilies about 1829, remained a year or two,
became dissatisfied and returned to Ken-
Kentucky.

WILLIS, Mrs. HENRIET-
TA, whose maiden name was Earnest, a
sister to Jacob and Thomas Earnest. She
was born Sept. 15, 1783, in South Caro-
lina, and married in Simpson county, Ken-
tucky, to William Willis. They had seven
children, and Mr. Willis died in Kentucky.
Mrs. Willis, with her children, came to
Sangamon county about 1825. Of her
children —

RICHARD, spent ten or twelve years
in Sangamon county, and went to Iowa.
He left there in 1849 or '50, and was last
heard from in California.

ELIZABETH, born in Simpson

EA RL T SE TTLERS OF

county, Kentucky, married William Simp-
son. See his name.

Sl^ARLING, born in Kentucky,
married in Sangamon county to Sarah
Halliday, had children, moved to Knox
county, Illinois, and from there to Oregon.

WILLIAM went from Sangamon
county to Wisconsin, married there, and
died from injuries by a threshing machine.

MARTHA married in Sangamon coun-
ty to Samuel Jones, moved to Knox coun-
ty, had three children and he died. She
marrried Benjamin Sims, and she died.

THOMAS went from Sangamon coun-
ty to Iowa on business, and died there.

DRUCILLA, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried in Sangamon county to Asher Simp-
son. They have eight children, and reside
near Clinton, Dewitt county, Illinois.

Mrs. Henrietta Willis died August 10,
1846, in Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIS WILLIAM, was
born Sept. 23, 1775, in North Carolina.
His father, Jacob Willis, was born in
Wales, but whether he was married be-
fore or after coming to America is not
known to his descendants. He enlisted
in the Revolutionary army and was killed
in battle about 1780, leaving a widow and
the son, whose name heads this sketch.
His widow married James Phillips, and
about the year 1783 moved to the vicinity
of Crab Orchard, Kentucky, taking
William with them. He grew to man-
hood there, and then went to Adair coun-
ty, Kentucky, where he was married to
Elizabeth Steel. They had eight chil-
dren, and Mrs. Willis died October, 1822.
Mr. Willis was married to Martha Morri-
son. They had three children, and moved
to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in
the fall of 1830 in what is now Gardner
township. He brought all his children
except the three eldest sons. Of all his
children —

HENRY, born April 20, 1803, in Ken-
tucky, married June 7, 1825, to Rhoda
Cooley, had six children, and came to San-
gamon county in the fall of 1836. He
moved back to Kentucky one year later,
had three children there, and all returned
to Sangamon county in 1848, except their
only daughter, who died young. Of their
eight sons, JACOB married, and he and
his wife died, leaving a son, now in Texas.
JOHN married, has five children, and
lives in DeWitt county, 111. GEORGE

W. went to California in 1852, and has
not been heard of in eight years.
WILLIAM T., born Feb. 6, 1834, en-
listed August, 1862, in Co. B, i i4th 111.
Inf., for three years, was wounded at the
battle of Guntown, Mississippi, June 10,
1864, and died ten days later. EDMOND,
born Nov. 18, 1835 married June 7, 1869,
to Ellen M. Pitcher, have two children,
ADAM F. and CARLOS E., and live near
Salisbury, Illinois. JAMES D., born
June 10, 1838, enlisted in Co. D, 33d 111.
Inf., August, 1 86 1, for three years, served
full term, re-enlisted as a veteran in 1864,
married Elizabeth Hall, and died on ship-
board May 15, 1865, between Mobile and
New Orleans. ADAM C., born Jan. 10,
1840, enlisted August, 1861, in Co. D, 33d
111. Inf., for three years, served full term,
re-enlisted as a veteran January, 1864.
He was wounded by a railroad accident
near New Orleans, March i, 1865, and
died March 5, 1865. About three
hundred Union soldiers were killed
and wounded at the same time. PAR-
KER H., born Nov. 19, 1842, married
Mary A. R. Ward, have three children,
and live in Salisbury township. Henry
Willis and wife reside near Salisbury,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

LA VINA, born March 31, 1805, mar-
ried in Kentucky to John Cooley. They
came to Sangamon county with her father
and had eight children. Two of their
sons, WILLIS and JOSEPH Cooley,
were soldiers in the ii4th 111. Inf., and
both died of disease in the army at Mem-
phis, Tennessee. Three sons and three
daughters, all married, live in Kansas.
John Cooley died in Sangamon county,
and his widow lives with her children in
Kansas.

JACOB, born Jan. 24, 1807, in Adair
county, Kentucky, married there Jan. 29,
1828, to Lucinda T. Barger, a sister to Rev.
John S. Barger, of Bloomington, Illinois.
She was born May 20, 1814, in West
Virginia. They had two children in
Kentucky, and they moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving Oct. 8, 1833, in
what is now Gardner township, between
Richland and Prairie creeks, where they
had seven children. Of their children,
ANN E., born Nov. 4, 1829, married
James R. Stone, have four children, and
reside at \Vichita, Kansas. JAMES S. B.,
born July 9, 1833, in Kentucky, married

SANGAMON COUNTY.

in Sangamon county to Mary A. Camp-
bell. They have four children, and live
near Clinton, Illinois. SARAH E., born
May 30, 1835, married Jason Miller. See
his name. FRANCIS M., born Oct. 30,
1837, married Milicent Ann Turner, have
two children, and live atWapella, DeWitt
county, Illinois. JOHN W., born July
10, 1842, married Danelia W. Sayre, have
two children, and live near VVapella,
Illinois. LAURA B., born Feb. 9, 1844,
married William B. Capron, have three
children, and live near Wapella, Illinois.
MARY A., born Oct. 9, 1846, married
Henry C. Porter, have three children, and
live near Clinton, Illinois. VINCENT
H., born Oct. 9, 1846, married Helen M.
Wadleigh. He is a traveling preacher in
the M. E. church, and was on Twin Grove
circuit, near Bloomington, in 1873. EL-
BERT F., born Jan. 15, 1851, married
Oct. 8, 1872, to Laura A. Jameson, have
one child, and live in Gardner township.
Mrs. Lucinda T. Willis died Oct. 20, 1866,
and Jacob WTillis was married June 29,
1869, to Mrs. Charlotte R. Laborence, who
was previously Mrs. Capron, and whose
maiden name was Dodge. She was born
April 7, 1814, at Albany, New York, and
came to Sangamon county in 1854. She
had three children by her first marriage,
and five by her second. Of her children,
CATHARINE D. Capron married Jacob
Perlier, have six children, and lives near
Wapella, Illinois. WILLIAM D. Cap-
ron married Laura B. Willis, and resides
near Wapella. CHARLES S. Capron
married Mary Batterton, and lives near
Palmer, Illinois. RACHEL Laborence
married Oliver Ross. See his name.
CHARLOTTE D. married Edward East.
They had one child, and Mrs. Charlotte
D. East died Jan. 2, 1874, in Bates county,
Missouri, and her remains were brought
to Salisbury, Illinois, and buried there.
John A. Laborance lives at Colorado
Springs, California. Laura W. married
David East, and lives in Missouri, near
Metz, Kansas. Annie E. Laborance was
married Feb. 17, 1875, to Charles V.
Durgy, and lives ten miles south of Bloom-
ington, Illinois.

Jacob Willis died March 31, 1876, and
his widow lives at the homestead near
where Mr. Willis' father settled in 1833,
in Gardner township, near Cross Plains
post office, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM, Jun., born May 22, 1809,
married Melinda Thurman. They had
seven children, and she died March 24,
1852, and he married Tasty Daniels. They
had ten children, and he died. The family
reside in Logan county. William Willis,
Jun., has but one child living in Sangamon
county, namely, NANCY J., by the first
wife, married Asa W. Plunkett. See his
name. His son, JOHN M. Willis was a
soldier in Co. F, 114th 111. Inf., and died
at Memphis, Tennessee.

ELIZABETH, born Oct. 27, 1812,
married James M. Brown. See his name.

CLARISSA,born Dec. 28, 1814, mar-
ried Lewis Campbell. They have eight
children. Their daughter LEAH married
John Slater. See his name. Lewis
Campbell and family live near Athens,
Menard county, Illinois.

JOHN, born Jan. 5, 1818, married Car-
oline Pierce, had eight children, and lives
near Kirksville, Wapello county, Iowa.

NANCY, born Nov. 20, 1820, married
C. R. Pierce, have ten children, and lives
at Greenview, Menard county, Illinois.

MART, born May 3, 1824, married
Joseph Staklin, and she died at Beards-
town, Illinois, in 1846.

JANE, born July 19, 1825, married
Archie Town, have five children, and live
near Lincoln, Logan county, Illinois.

PARTHEN/A, born April 15, 1827,
married John Moore, have three living
children, and live at Wichita, Kansas.

MARIA MORRISON, step daughter
to William Willis, Sen., married in Ken-
tucky to William Ross. See his name.

Mrs. Martha Willis died in 1842, and
William Willis, Sen., died July 9, 1866,
both in Garden township, Sangamon coun-
ty. He was ninety years, nine months and
sixteen days old.

WILLS JOHN Q. Benoni Bell
married his daughter, and she died. Dr.
Jones married another, and she died. An-
other daughter, Mrs. Inslee lives in Sanga-
mon county.

WILSON, ROBERT L., was
born Sept. 11, 1805,111 Washington county,
Pennsylvania. His parents were Scotch-
Irish, their ancestors having emigrated
from Scotland and settled near the city of
Belfast, soon after the conquest of Ireland
by Oliver Cromwell in the sixteenth cen-
tury. In 1778 they sailed for America,
settling in York county, Pennsylvania.

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EARLY SETTLERS OF

In 1782 they moved to Washington coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, on pack horses, as there
had not then been any roads made across
the Allegheny mountains. From Wash-
ington county, where the subject of our
sketch was born, the family moved in 1810
to the vicinity of Zanesville, Ohio, where
his father died in 1821, and Robert L.,
then sixteen years of age, determined to
educate himself. He first qualified himself
for teaching a country school, and taught
until he laid up some money with which
he entered Franklin College, Ohio. He
sustained himself during his college course
in the same way, and graduated in four
years. In the fall of 1831 he went to Ken-
tucky, where he taught an academy and
studied law. He was married March 28,
1833, in Sharpsburg, Bath county, Ken-
tucky, to Eliza J. Kincaid, and admitted
to the bar as an attorney at law. They
soon after moved to Sangamon county,
Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1833 at
Athens. That not now being a part of
Sangamon county, he would not properly
be included as an early settler of this coun-
ty, but his having been one of the " Long
Nine " is a sufficient reason for including
his sketch here. Mr. Wilson was elected
in August, 1836, as one of the seven repre-
sentatives of bangamon county, who, with
the two Senators, made up what was
known as the " Long Nine " who served
in the legislature of 1836 '37, and secured
the removal of the capital of Illinois from
Vandalia to Springfield. See sketch
" Long Nine" He moved with his family
from Sangamon county in 1840,10 Sterling,
Whiteside county, where they now reside.
Mr. and Mrs. Wilson had six children.

MART JANE died, aged seven years.

SILAS R. died, aged thirty-four years.

LEE died, aged seventeen years.

ANN ELIZA, born Dec. 20, 1841.

EMMA E., born Nov. 10, 1843.

ROBERT H. born Nov. 27, 1847.
The three latter in Sterling, Illinois, where
they now reside.

Soon after Mr. Wilson moved to Sterl-
ing he was appointed clerk of the circuit
court, to which office he was elected five
times, serving continuously until Dec. i,
1860. Eight years of that time he served
as probate judge. He was in Washington,
D. C., when Fort Sumtertell, and enlisted
as a private in a battalion commanded by
Cassius M. Clay, and called the Clay

Guard. It numbered four hundred, most-
ly non-residents, and acted as night police,
guarding the city at the most critical time
in its history. As soon as the New York
7th regiment reached Washington, the
Clay Guard was relieved and mustered
out. Mr. Wilson returned to Sterling,
Illinois, and assisted in raising Co. A, 34th
111. Inf., and was elected captain, but de-
clined in favor of the first lieutenant. He
started for Washington on the 4th of July,
and called on President Lincoln on the 7th
to tender his services in any capacity where
he could be useful. Mr. Lincoln said he
had made out a list of his old friends be-
fore leaving Springfield, that he might ap-
point them to office, and said, " I have ap-
pointed all down to your name. Now,
what do you wish?" Mr. Wilson said he
thought he could discharge the duties of
quartermaster. Mr. Lincoln said, " I can
do better than that for you," and made him
paymaster. His appointment was made
out on the 6th, and he was confirmed by
the senate August 7, 1861. He was placed
on duty at Washington City, and was soon
after ordered to St. Louis. In the two
succeeding years he paid out nearly four
million dollars, principally in the west and
south. After the fall of Vicksburg he was
ordered to Springfield, Illinois, and pro-
moted to the rank of colonel for meritxn
rious services. He was mustered out NovJ
15, 1865. During nis four years and four1
months service he received and disbursed
about seven million dollars, to near one
hundred thousand soldiers, without a
shadow of suspicion against his character.
On the roth of May, 1875, he started alone
on a trip of observation and sight-seeing
in Europe. He left New York on the
steamer Rhein, one of the Bremen line.
He arrived at Southampton May 2Oth,and
in London the same day, where he spent
one week visiting objects of interest.
From London to Dover, crossing the
Straits to Calais, France, thence by way
of Bolougne and Amiens to Paris, with its
three millions of inhabitants. He spen;
three weeks in Paris, sight-seeing am'
gleaming knowledge from every source'
From Paris he went by way of Fontain-
blue up the river Seine, through Mount
Cenis tunnel to Turin, Italy, and through
Genoa, Pisa, Leghorn and other Italian
cities to Rome, where he spent two weeks
visiting objects of historic interest. From

SANGAMON COUNTY.

Rome he went south to Naples, passed
Appi Forum and the three taverns. He
visited Mount Vesuvius, and looked into
its crater of boiling lava. Spent one day
each at Pompeii and Herculaneum, and re-
turning to Rome, went to Florence, where
he spent a lew days. Crossed the Appe-
nines to Venice, the city built two miles
from the shore, in the Adriatic sea. As-
cended the river Po, through Lombardy,
and the city of Verona, to Milan. Crossed
the Alps by way of the Simplon Pass,
reaching an altitude of twelve thousand
feet above the sea. Descended the river
Rhone, and Lake Geneva to the city of
Geneva and Berne, the capital of Switzer-
land. From there he returned to Paris,
thence to London, where he spent two
weeks more. Visited other parts of En-
gland, thence to Edinburg, Stirling and
many points of interest in Scotland. Went
through Ireland and Wales,thence to Liver-
pool. Sailed on the steamer Baltic to New
York and home. He was four months
out, at a total cost of seven hundred and
fifty dollars.

Hon. Robert L. Wilson is now — 1876 —
engaged in a work similar to this — that of
writing a history of Whiteside county, Illi-
nois.

WILSON, JOHN L., was born
March 6, 1816, in Bedford county, Tenn.
'n the fall of that year his parents moved
vp White county, Illinois, and after that to
Bond and Montgomery counties. John
L. came to Mechanicsburg in 1839, and
was married in Sangamon county, June
1 8, 1843, to Margaret Gragg. They had
four children in Sangamon county.

JAMES 7V., born March 25, 1^844, died
in his sixth year.

JOHN W., born April 30, 1847, lives
with his parents.

MARTHA, born Jan. 17, 1850, mar-
ried Clifton H. King. See his name.

JASON, born Oct. 7, 1853, lives with
his parents.

,. Elder John L.Wilson was ordained as
jininister of the gospel by the Mechanics-
•i/irg congregation of the Christian Church
,\ 1852. He served the church at Mechanics-
uurg half his time for the first two years,
and the other half labored as an evangelist.
For several years he has been wholly en-
gaged as an evangelist, at the present time
(1874) in Macon county. His family re-
sides four and a half miles east of Me-

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chanicsburg, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILSON, SAMUEL M.,
was born Sept. 30, 1806, in Harford coun-
ty, Maryland. He received his literary
education at Jefferson College, Cannons-
burgh, Pennsylvania, graduating there
in 1831. He pursued his theological studies
at Princeton College, New Jersey, and
in April, 1836, was licensed to preach. by
the Presbytery of New Castle, Pennsyl-
vania. In June, 1836, he took charge of
the Presbyterian Church at Lithopolis,
Fairfield county, Ohio, and was ordained
by the Presbytery of Columbus, Ohio,
in September, 1837. Jane Elder was born
March i, 1814, in Centre county, Pennsyl-
vania. Rev. Samuel M. Wilson and Jane
Elder were married Dec. 27, 1836, in
Franklin county Ohio. They had seven
children at Lithopolis, Ohio, and after a
pastorate of twenty-two years over that
church, moved to Clinton, Dewitt county,
Illinois, in response to a call from the Pres-
byterian Church at that place. In August,
1858, Rev. Mr. Wilson received a unani-
mous call to the Centre Church in Sanga-
mon county, Illinois. He accepted the
call, removed thither and entered upon
its duties. Of their children —

MARGARET E., born March 8,
1838, in Ohio, married in Sangamon coun-
ty, September, 1859, to Rev. C. W. Fin-
ley, of New London, Ohio. She died
March 15, 1861, while on a visit to her pa-
rents in Sangamon county.

ANDRE VV, born Oct. i, 1839, in Ohio,
married in Sangamon county, August 10,
1864, to Georgie K. Watts. Thev have
four children, WILLIAM E., M.
ANNIE, JENNIE and ANDREW,
Jun., and reside at Kingsville, Shawnee
county, Kansas — 1874.

WILLIAM E., born May 28, 1841,
in Ohio, died .Feb. 17, 1866, from injuries
received by an accident on the Toledo,
Wabash and Western Railroad, at Mere-
dosia, Illinois.

THOMAS and MARTHA reside
with their father.

^fARr 7., died Dec. 6, 1848, in her
fourth year.

JANE died Feb. 3,1861, in her eleventh
year.

Mrs. Jane E. Wilson died July 29, 1868,
in Sangamon county, and Rev. Samuel
M. Wilson resides three and a half miles

EARL? SE'iTLERS OF

south of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon coun
ty, Illinois.

The Society of Old Settlers of Sanga-
mon County elected Rev. S. M. Wilson
as president of the society at their annual
meeting at Pleasant Plains August 29,
1873. He served one year and until his
successor was chosen at Crow's Mill, in
September, 1874. He thus became an old
settler by brevet.

WILSON, SAMUEL, was
born May 22, 1778, in Virginia. His
parents moved to Kentucky, and he was
married in Clarke county to Catharine
McFaran. They had two children in
Kentucky, and moved to Clarke county,
Ohio,where five children were born. They
moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, ar-
riving in the fall of 1828. Of their seven
children —

CLINTON, born Nov. 30, 1806, in
Clarke county, Kentucky, was married in
Sangamon county, December, 1831, to
Sally Shinkle. They had four children in
Sangamon county. LOUISA J., born
Sept. 13, 1832, married Alvin S. Taylor.
See his name. JAMES W., born Dec.
28, 1835, enlisted July 20, 1861, at Spring-
field, in what became Co. B, nth Mo. Inf.,
for three years. Mr. Wilson in company
with Andrew J. Weber and Jesse D.
Lloyd, raised the company, and when it
was mustered in, August 3, 1861, at St.
Louis, WTeber was elected captain, Lloyd
first, and Wilson second lieutenant. Mr.
Wilson was promoted April 21, 1862, to
first lieutenant. In November, 1862,
Lieutenant Wilson was detailed as signal
officer. He was on duty at Vicksburg,
Mississippi, at the time the rebels surren-
dered, July 4, 1863, and sent the following
dispatch, the original copy of which he
has in his possession. It is written in pen-
cil, on a piece of printing paper, in Gen-
eral Grant's own hand :

"GRANT'S HEADQUARTERS, July 3.
u Admiral Porter :

" The enemy have asked armistice to ar-
range terms of capitulation. Will you
please cease firing until notified, or hear
our batteries open. I shall fire a national
salute into the city at daylight if they do
not surrender. U. S. GRANT,

" Major General."

The result of that dispatch has gone
into history. Lieutenant Wilson served in

the Signal Corps until the expiration of
his term of service, and was honorably
discharged, August 15, 1864. He was
married September 29, 1864, in Sanga-
mon county, to Mary M. Morton,
and resides one and one-quarter miles
southest of Barclay, Sangamon county,
Illinois. MARY E., born March 6,
1838, married Alfred S. Constant. See
his name. CLINTON, Jun., born Nov.
29, 1841 — after the death of his father —
enlisted August 12, 1862, in Co. C, i i4th
111. Inf. He was severely wounded May
20, 1863, at Vicksburg, recovered, served
to the end of the rebellion, and was hon-
orably discharged with the regiment. He
was married Oct. 18, 1866, in Sangamon
county to Rebecca J. Bales, a native of
Madison county, Ohio. They have three
children, DORA M., JAMES A. and WILLIAM
o., and reside in Murry county, Minnesota,
near W'orthington, Noble county, in the
same state. Clinton Wilson was killed
May 21, 1841, by lightning, in Sangamon
county, while on an errand to the house of
a neighbor. His widow resides with her
son, James W., near Barclay, Sangamon
county, Illinois — 1874.

ELIZA, born March 1 1, 1809, in Keu-
tucky, married in Sangamon county, to
Ambrose Cooper. See his name.

ROBER7\ born Feb. 17, i8n,in Ohio,
died in Sangamon county, Nov. 27, 1829.

SABRIANA, born Oct. 16, 1815, in
Ohio, came to Sangamon county, with her
parents, went to Kentucky on a visit, was
there married to John McFaren, and died
leaving two children.

ISAAC C., born April n, 1817, in
Clarke county, Ohio, married in Sanga-
mon county March 6, 1857, to Sarah E.
Taylor. They have six living children,
CATHARINE, ALBERT, ELMER E.,
ELIZA E., NORA M., and ISAAC T.,
and reside one and a quarter miles south-
east of Barclay, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

MELISSA, born Dec. 7, 1820, in
Ohio, raised in Sangamon county, went to
Missouri on a visit, was there married to
Reuben L. Davis, and died there -Sept. 30,
1848, leaving one child, JAMES H., born
Sept. 21, 1848, near Rolla, Missouri. He
resides with his relatives near Barclay, Illi-
nois.

ELlj born March 25, 1827, in Ohio,

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779

was drowned in Sangamon county, Dec.
16, 1834.

Mrs. Catharine Wilson died March 20,
1834, and Samuel \Yilson died Oct. 21,
1858, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

W I LSO N, T H O M AS, was born
in 1785 in Buncombe county, North Caro-
lina. Elizabeth Gardner was born in 1786
in Patrick county, Virginia. Her parents
moved to Buncombe county, North Caro-
lina, when she was a child. Thomas
Wilson and Elizabeth Gardner were there
married about 1804 and had two children
in that county. They then moved to
Warren county, Tennessee. The earth-
quake of December, 1811, on the
Mississippi river so alarmed them that
early in 1812 they returned to North Caro-
lina. The government having purchased
the lands of the Cherokee Indians in East
Tennessee, they removed to Monroe
county, near Philadelphia, Loudon county,
in 1818, and soon after moved a short dis-
tance into Roane county. They moved
from there to Sangamon county, Illinois,
in the spring of 1830. Five children were
born in Tennessee. Of the seven chil-
dren—

GEORGE, born in Buncombe county,
North Carolina, Nov. 27, 1806, married in
Tennessee to Elizabeth McCoy, came to
Sangamon county, went to Missouri, and
from there to Texas.

RACHEL, born in 1809, in North
Carolina, married in Sangamon county to
Martin McCoy. They had three chil-
dren, JOSEPH, THOMAS and MARY.
Mrs. McCoy died in Springfield, and he
near Auburn, Illinois.

MART, born Jan. 3, 1812, in Bun-
combe county, North Carolina, married in
Sangamon county to Dr. Charles D.
N uckolls. See his name.

JACKSON, born in North Carolina,
married Susan Martin. They had one
child, WILLIAM, who married Adaline
Martin in Christian county, and now lives
in Missouri. Mrs. Susan Wilson died in
Christian county, and Jackson Wilson
lives in Texas.

NANCT, born in Tennessee, married
in Sangamon county to David Drennan.
See his name.

WILLIAM, born Jan. 18, 1819, in
Tennessee, raised in Illinois, married in
Missouri to Mary Murray, and lives in
Texas.

JAMES, born April 22, 1822, in
Monroe or Roane county, Tennessee,
came to Sangamon county in 1834, mar-
ried Margaret Nuckolls, who died, and he
married Elizabeth Courtney, who was
born in Jacksonville, Illinois, Feb. 25,
1838, and they reside in Ball township,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

Thomas Wilson died in the fall of 1830,
and his widow died September, 1845, both
in Sangamon county, Illinois.

W1MER, GEORGE, was born
near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and came
to what is now Auburn township, Sanga-
mon county, in 1818, brought up a family,
and lives now — 1873 — in Auburn, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

WINCH ELL, IRA, was born
March 22, 1818, in Franklin county, New
York. His parents died about 1825, and
he went to St. Lawrence county, and lived
a few years with a family near Potsdam,
and then spent a few months in Potsdam,
all without any guardianship, after the
death of his parents. He then engaged to
come west with a Mr. Ira Brown, who
had a large family of twelve persons.
They moved in two road wagons and a
one-horse wagon. Mr. Brown stopped
to visit a friend at Kirtland, Ohio. It was
just at the time of the Mormon hegira
from Kirtland to Nauvoo, Illinois. There
was great prejudice against the Mormons,
and Mr. Brown's large family and general
outfit looked so much like that of a Mor-
mon, as to cause him great inconvenience
in obtaining supplies. Mr. Winchell's
recollection of events connected with the
journey are quite interesting and amusing,
although the trip was very laborious.
They were nine weeks on the road,
arriving in Springfield in December, 1831.
Mr. Winchell traveled in different parts of
the country for ten or twelve years, but
always regarded Springfield as his home.
Ira Winchell and Alice Huddlestone were
married Feb. 18, 1842, in Macoupin county.
She was born May 29, 1823, near Colum-
bus, Ohio. Her parents moved from Grcrn-
brier county, Virginia, to Columbus, Ohio,
thence to Newport, Indiana, and from
there to Macoupin county, Illinois, before
the "deep snow." Mr. and Mrs. \Yin-
chell have one son —

DELMER, born August 22, 1856, in
Gardner township, Sangamon county, and
resides with his parents.

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BAR LI SETTLERS

Mr. Winchell moved from Springfield,
March, 1845, to a place one and a quarter
miles north of Farmingdale, Sangamon
county, Illinois, where he resides now —
1876. He has been engaged in farming
and blacksmithing to the present time.
^WINEMAN, PHILIP, born
Sept. 9, 1801, in Botetourt county, Vir-
ginia, came to Sangamon county, Illinois,
in the fall of 1823, settling in what is now
Auburn township. He was married to
Jane Crow, August u, 1825. She was
born in Kentucky. Of their children —

AMERICA, born August 16, 1826, in
Sangamon county, married John R. C.
Jones. They both died leaving one son,
PHILIP Jones, who married Molliejohn-
son, and lives one mile southeast of Au-
burn, Illinois.

STL VAN US y., born March 23,
1828, in Sangamon county, married Mrs.
Margaret E. Kessler June u, 1862. They
have one daughter, MARY A. DILLER,
and Mr. W. died in 1875. His widow
lives one and a half miles west of Auburn,
Illinois.

JA MES P., born Jan. 2, 1830.

WILLIAM H., born Nov. 3, 1832,
married Nancy Johnson, and lives one-half
mile east of Auburn, Illinois.

HATDEN S. B., born Nov. 15, 1834,
married Rhoda Evans, and lives one mile
east of Auburn, Illinois.

VIRGINIA E., born Oct. 19, 1836,
married George Bigler, and lives two miles
east of Auburn, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois.

MARGARET C, born Feb. 4, 1840,
married Jordan B. Organ. See his name.

Mrs. Jane Wineman died May 19, 1849,
and Phihp Wineman married Sarah A.
Morrell March 23, 1853. She was born
July 4, 1822, in Maine. Of their chil-
dren —

GEORGE F., born March 6, 1854.

CHARLES H., born Sept. 1/1855,
live with his parents.

I' I OLA M., born May 27, 1857, died
May 10, 1864.

MILLARD F., born Dec. 27, 1858,
died Sept. 13, 1868.

Philip Wineman and family reside near
Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WISE, FREDERICK, born
Oct. 15, 1797, in Nelson county, Ken-
tucky, in 1814 he went to the Southern
part of Illinois, and in the spring of 1820

came to Sangamon county in company
with Mason Fowler and his two sons, and
all worked to prepare a home. Mr. Fow-
ler returned for his family, and brought
them to Horse creek, Sangamon county, in
the fall of that year. In October, 1820,
F. Wise was married to Rebecca Fowler.
The day had been fixed for the marriage,
and a messenger went to Vandalia for the
license. By some unavoidable delay he
did not return in time. A justice of the
peace by the name of Clawson was ready
to solemnize the marriage. Wishing to
accommodate the young couple and
the invited guests, Mr. Clawson took
the ressponsibility to marry them,
and when the license came it was properly
endorsed and returned to the office where
it was issued, and all was right. They had
six children, and all except one born in
Sangamon countv. Of their children —

REBECCA'A., bom August 31, 1821,

in Sangamon county, married August 10,
1837, to Iames Snodgrass. See his name.

JACOB A/., born Feb. 7, 1827, in
Sangamon county. He enlisted in Spring-
field in June, 1846, in Co. A, 4th 111. Inf.,
served until October, 1846, when he was
discharged on account of physical disability-
at Matamoras, Mexico; married Dec. 13,
1846, in Springfield, to Nancy J. Millstead.
They had three children. AMANDA
A., married Dec. 7, 1873, to T. H. Gray.
She lives in Illiopolis. ALVTN A., mar-
ried Sept. 25, 1872, to Mary Mitchell, and
lives in Illiopolis. GEORGE lives in Il-
liopolis. Mrs. Nancy J. Wise died June
28, 1858. J. M. Wise was married to
Nancy E. Grider, and for his third wife
married May 2, 1866, to Mrs. Lydia Grif-
fith, whose maiden name was Bechtel.
She died July 18, 1868. J. M. Wise was
married Dec. 8, 1868, to Martha F. Grif-
fith. They have three children, MAY,
MASON and EDDIE, and reside in Illi-
opolis, Sangamon county, Illinois. J. M.
Wise enlisted February, 1865, in Co. K,
I52d 111. Inf. for one year, served until the
end of the rebellion, and was honorably
discharged with his regiment.

SARAH E., born August 23, 1831, in
Madison county, Illinois — the family hav-
ing moved there and returned before the
birth of the next child. She married in
Sangamon county, October, 1848, to Chas.
A. Sponsler, and has three living childien.
ALICE A. married George Washburn,

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781

and lives in Mount Pulaski. ARTILLA
J. and GEORGE live with their parents
in Mount Pulaski, Illinois.

FRANCIS M., born Feb. 8, 1834, in
Sangamon county, died in Macon county,
in May, 1859.

JOHN T., born July 16, 1840, in San-
gamon county, enlisted July, 1861, in Co.
A, 2ist 111. Inf., and was killed Dec. 31,
1862, at the battle of Stone river, Tennes-
see.

LOUISA J., born Feb. 6, 1843, in
Sangamon county, married May 13, 1863,
in Springfield, to William Boring, who
was born Dec. 20, 1837, in Triadelphia,
West Virginia, and came to Sangamon
county in 1860. He enlisted April 23,
1861, in Co. I, yth 111. Inf., under the first
call for seventy-five thousand men for three
months. He served his full term, and re-
enlisted in the same company and regi-
ment for three years. He was wounded
Feb. 15, 1862, at the battle of Fort Don-
aldson, which terminated in the amputa-
tion of his right leg above the knee. Mr.
and Mrs. Boring have three children,
SARAH J., ELLA and NELLIE, the
two latter twins, and reside in Illiopolis,
Illinois.

Mrs. Rebecca Wise died Feb. 27, 1849,
and her husband, Frederick Wise, died
August 16, 1850, both in Springfield, Illi-
nois.

WITHROW, JOSEPH, was
born about 1772 in Pennsylvania. His
parents moved when he was a young man
to Botetourt county, Virginia. He was
there married to Elizabeth McMullin.
They had eight children in Virginia, and
in 1811 moved to Washington county,
Kentucky, near Muldraughs Hill, where
two children were born. Mrs. Elizabeth
Withrow died there, and Joseph Withrow
married Susannah Landis. They had one
child in Kentucky, and moved to Sanga-
mon county, Illinois, arriving in 1825, in
what is now Woodside township, where
they had one child. Of all their children —

MARGARET, born in Virginia, was
married in Kentucky to Timothy Hays.
They moved in 182410 Vandalia, Illinois,
and the next year to Sangamon county,
where they both died, leaving several
children.

WILLIAM, born Oct. 14, 1793, in
Botetourt county, Virginia, was married
in 1818, in Washington county, Kentucky,

to Rhoda B. P rather. They had twelve
children, and moved with Thomas Cloyd,
in 1824, to Fayette county, Illinois, thence
to Sangamon county, in 1825, and settled
in Curran township, where two children
were born. Their only living child, R.
HARVEY, born Tune 18, 1825, in Van-
dalia, Illinois, was married June 18, 1849,
in Sangamon county, to Sarah E. Barbre.
They have nine children, JAMES w., SARAH

C., ANN M., LUELLA, LYDIA E., EMMA E.,
MARTHA C., GEORGE II. and FANNY MAY,

and live in Cooper township, two and one-
half miles southwest of Mechanicsburg.
Mrs. Rhoda Withrow died in 1827, and
William Withrow married Polly Smith.
They had two children. RHODA J.
married Theopholus Walker, who died,
and she married Patterson Ridgeway.
See his name. Mrs. Polly Withrow
died and William Withrow married Celia
Turpin. They had eight children, and
Mrs. Celia Withrow died, and William
Withrow married Mrs. Ann Barbre.
They had two children, and Mrs. Ann
Withrow died. His two sons, ISAAC
T. and NOAH W., are married and re-
side near Mechanicsburg. William With-
row resides two and a half miles south-
west of Mechanicsburg, Sangamon coun-
ty, Illinois.

ANNA, born Dec. 29, 1 795, in Virginia,
married Thomas Cloyd. See his name.

J OUN (\\e<\, aged twenty-t'iree years.

ROBERT, born Jan. 27, 1806, in
Botetourt county, Virginia, was married
in Sangamon county, Illinois, Sept. 10,
1826, to Mary T. Peter. They had five
living children, AMANDA A., born
Sept. i, 1829, was married Nov. 11, 1847,
to William M. Starr. See his name.
COLUMBIA, born Nov. 11, 1831, was
married Feb. 6, 1851, to Francis Al.
Johnson. See his name. They moved
from Onarga to Streator, Illinois, where
they now reside — 1876. GEORGE, born
August 29, 1836, married Mary Bridges.
They have six children, and live near
Clinton, Henry county, Missouri. SAN-
FORD, born April 20, 1839, married
Melissa E. Davis. They have four chil-
dren, NIXA, CHARLES, GEORGE, and GTY,

and live in Springfield, Illinois. HAR-
RISON, born Nov. 2, 1841, in Sangamon
countv, Illinois, enlisted July 20, 1861, at
Springfield, Illinois, in what became Co.
C, i ith Mo. Inf., for three years, was pro-

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moted to second lieutenant in 1863, served
full t^rm, and was honorably discharged
in 1864. He studied dentistry, and was
married Dec. 23, 1875, to Fannie Beau-
mont, in Springfield. Dr. Withrow is
practicing his profession in Petersburg,
Illinois, and resides there. Robert With-
row died Oct. 3, 1842, and Mrs. Mary T.
Withrow was married August, 1844, to
Samuel Graham, who was born in l8.il.,
in Pennsylvania. They had three chil-
dren, LEE R., born July 19, 1845, in
Sangamon county, enlisted at Chicago,
August 15, 1862, in Co. F, 5ist 111. Inf.,
for three years, served until the close of
the rebellion, and was honorably dis-
charged June 16, 1865. He was married
August 7, 1867, in Sangamon county, to
Martha j. Darneille. They have one
living child, MAUD IE, and live at Loami,
Sangamon county, Illinois. MARY F.
was married August, 1874, to William
N. Richardson, and lives at Streator,
LaSalle county, Illinois. ZACHARIAH
S. was married November, 1875, in
Springfield, to Susan Babcock, and live in
Decatur, Illinois. Samuel Graham died
Oct. i, 1850, and Mrs. Mary T. Graham
was married August 23, 1854, to Joseph
McKinley. She resides in Loami, San-
gamon county, Illinois.

P O L L Y 'died in Kentucky, aged about
twenty years.

MATHE W, born in Kentucky, mar-
ried Amelia Knotts. They have one child,
ELIZABETH, married William Cox,
and lives in Virden, Illinois. Mathew
Withrow lives eight miles west of Vir-
den, Macoupin county, Illinois.

SARAH married Dr. John Sudduth.
They have one child, and live at St.
Charles, Minnesota.

JAMES //., born in Botetourt coun-
ty, Virginia, Jan. 15, 1811, was married in
Sangamon county, Illinois, to Maria R.
Beauchamp. They had eight living chil-
dren. HARRIET J. married Charles
Yeamans, and died, leaving one child,
ANNIE M, who lives with her grand-
parents. MARTHA S. married L.
Dow Cantrill. They have three chil-
dren, and live at 112 West Allen street,
Springfield, Illinois. JULIETTE mar-
ried David D. Cooper. See his name.
WILLIAM C, born Feb. 15, 1842, was
married Oct. 5, 1865, to Arvilla Bissell,
who was born in Lewiston, Fulton coun-

ty, Illinois, June 29, 1844. They live two
miles east of Sherman, Sangamon county,
Illinois. ISAAC N. married Eliza Las-
well, who died, leaving two children, and
I. N. Withrow married Mary Crow.
They have two children, and reside at
509 South Ninth street, Springfield,
Illinois. NANCY A. married Richard
Laswell, who died, and she married
Thomas Keagle. They have three chil-
dren, and live in Williams township.
MATHEW lives with his parents. James
H. Withrow lives between Sherman and
Barclay in Sangamon county, Illinois —
1874. •

TAJ3ITHA was married in Sangamon
county, Illinois, to Alvah Graves. They
both died, leaving several children in
Macoupin county, Illinois.

CAROLINE married Edward bhane.
Thev both died, leaving three children.

ELIZABETH, the eldest bv the
second marriage, was born in Kentucky,
and married Joseph Drennan. See his
name.

ALMIRA, born in Sangamon county,
Illinois, married Israel Coverdell, and lives
in Gerard, Macoupin county, Illinois.

Mrs. Susannah Withrow died in 1844,
and Joseph Withrow, Sen., died in 1850,
both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

WOLGAMOT, JOHN, born in
Pennsylvania, and was married there Oct.
28, 1819, to Susannah Martin, a native of
Maryland. Thev had three children, and
Mrs. Wolgamot died. John Wolgamot
was married August 2, 1827, to Mary A.
Firey, a native of Maryland, also. They
had three children in Maryland, and moved
to Springfield, Illinois, arriving in 1837,
where they had three children. Of his
nine children —

NICHuLAS M., born August 12,
1820, in Hagerstown, Maryland, was mar-
ried there to Sarah Angle. They reside
in Fairview, Fulton county, Illinois.

ELLENORA,\^\\\ Nov. 14, 1822, in
Maryland, was married in Springfield, Illi-
nois, to W'illiam Kreigh. She died, and
Mr. Kreigh resides at Farmington, Illi-
nois.

6" USANNAH, born Dec. 12,1823, in
Maryland, came to Springfield with her
father, and was married Nov. 27, 1845, at
Fairview, Fulton county, Illinois, to Wil-
liam Davis, who was born Nov. 10, 1823,
in Huntingdon county, Pennsylvania, and

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moved to Fulton county, Illinois, with his
father in 1837. They had seven children.
SARAH R., horn Oct. 29, 1847, near
Fairview, Illinois, was married in Prairie
City, Sept. 20, 1867, to Samuel Barber.
They have four children, MINNIE B., LE-
TITIA E., ANNIE and .MARY E., and live in
Peoria, Illinois. JOHN E., born March,
8, 1851; SIMON G., born August i,
1853, WILLIAM H., born Sept. 10, 1855,
died June 23, 1857; GEORGE H., born
Dec. '14, 1857; EDWARD, born Dec. 28,
1859, and MATT1E, born June 26, 1862.
All the living reside with their parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Davis reside near Ludlow,
Champaign countv, Illinois.

MART ELIZABETH, born Jan.
28, 1829, in Hagerstown, Maryland, came
to Springfield with her parents in 1837,
and was married there August, 1^49, to
Dr. Henry Wohlgemuth. They had six
children, two of whom died young.
MARY ELLEN died in her twenty-
second year. HENRY, WILLIAM and
MINNIE reside with their parents in
Springfield, Illinois. Dr. Wohlgemuth
w..s born May 22, 1822, in Hanover, Ger-
many. He commenced the study of medi-
cine there, and after coming to Amarica,
and his arrival in Springfield, in Novem-
ber, 1845, continued his studies and com-
menced practice in Springfield in 1846.
lie graduated in 1854 at the Eclectic Med-
ical Institute at Cincinnati, Ohio. At the
organization of the State Eclectic Medical
Association of Illinois, he was elected
president of the same, and is also a mem-
ber of the National Eclectic Medical As-
sociation. He was elected city physician
of Springfield in 1856, and in 1861 and '62
county physician. In 1863, '64 and ,65 he
was a member of the city council, and was
a member of the board of education for
1866. In 1865 and '66 Dr. Wohlgemuth,
Colonel John Williams and Charles W.
Matheny composed the board of commis-
sioners who constructed the Springfielc'
water works. Dr. Wohlgemuth was a
member, and most of the time president,
of the board of managers of Oak Ridge
cemetery for twelve years, and it is but
simple justice to say that it is largely owing
to his persevering and intelligent labors
that this piece of land has been changed
from a rough and forbidding harbor for
wild animals to one of the most beautiful
cities of the dead in all our country.

JACOB H., born Jan. 21, 1831, in
Maryland, died March 2, 1862, in Spring-
field, Illinois.

WILLIAM JOSHUA, born Nov. 5,
1835, died Feb. 25, 1837.

MARGARET A^bm April 18,1838,
in Hagerstown, Maryland, was married in
Springfield to Judge John Race. They
reside in Decatur, Illinois.
^ JOHN F., born August 5, 1842, in
Springfield, was married Dec. i, 1864, to
Virginia A. Sparry, who was born Sept.
15, 1847, in Rushville, Illinois. They have
one child, MARY A., and live in Spring-
field, Illinois.

CHARLES W., born Feb. 22, 1851,
in Springfield, died there Nov. 16, 1864.
. EMERY, born April 28, 1853, in
Springfield, was married Feb. 23, 1876, to
Anna M. Fosselman, daughter of J.
B. Fosselman — druggist — of Springfield.
Mr. and Mrs. Wolgamot live in Spring-
field, Illinois.

John Wolgamot and Mrs. Susannah
Wolgamot both died in Springfield, 111.

WALGAMOT, SAMUEL,
born in 1776, in Washington county,
Maryland, WHS married there to Marx-
Beard, who was born Jan. 12, 1791, in the
same county. They had four children in
Maryland, and moved across the state line
into Franklin county, Pennsylvania, where
three children were born. They returned
to Maryland, and from there came to San-
gamon county, Illinois. They were seven
weeks on the way, arriving May 30, 1-840,
in what is now Woodside township. Of
their children —

ELIZAtiETH,\K>vn Jan. 5, 1812, in
Maryland, was married November, 1837,
to Samuel Stover. See his name.

MART, born March 3, 1813, in Marv-
land, was married April, 1840, to George
Baugh, and ditd Oct. 24, 1840, in Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

CATHARINE, born Dec. i, 1815, in
Pennsylvania, was married in Maryland,
January, 1840, to William E. Redman.
See Ins name.

JOHN B., horn April 5, 1819, in
Franklin county, Pennsylvania, was mar-
ried in Sangatnon county, Illinois, Jan. 19,
1843, to Anna M. Todd. They had one
living child, MARY J., born Jan. s, 18} |.
in Sangamon county, \\ as married Oct.
26, 1869, to John M. Baugh, who was
born Jan. 14, 1847. They had two chil-

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dren, MILTON A. and BRYAN o. Mr.
Baugh was killed by lightning, May 28,
1874, while working in his cornfield, near
Woodside, Sangamon county, Illinois.
His widow and children reside there.
Mrs. Anna M. Wolgamot died July 28,
1846, and John B. Wolgamot was married
Oct. 24, 1854, to Emily E. Wood. They
had seven children, three of whom died
under seven years of age. ANNIE M.,
ELIZABETH E , JOHN R. and BAR-
BARA reside with their father. Mrs.
Emily E. Walgamot died Feb. 21, 1869,
and John B. Walgamot was married Aug.
18, 1874, to Mrs. R. J. \Vidup, and resides
at Woodside, Sangamon county, Illinois.

RARBARA, born March 25, 1820, in
Pennsylvania, was married in Sangamon
county, Illinois, to Adam Johnson. See
his name in Omissions.

SAMUEL, Jun., bom Feb. 12, 1823,
in Pennsylvania, married Lydia Cressy,
who died, and he married Eliza Mahar.
They have one child, KATE, and reside
near Ottawa, Kansas.

ISABEL, born May i, 1825, in Penn-
sylvania, married Seldon C Whitney.
They have five children, BARBARA A.,
DAVID S., BETTIE, KATIE and
MAY, and reside near Ottawa, Kansas.

Samuel Walgamot died Sept. 3, 1868,
and his widow died Jan. 21, 1873, both in
Woodside township, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

WO MACK, GEORGE B.,

was born December, 1817, in Butler coun-
ty, Kentucky, and brought by his parents
to Wayne county, Illinois, in 1829. He
came to Sangamon county in 1839, and
married Jane Inslee. They had two chil-
dren in Sangamon county —

NANCY C. resides with her sister,
Mrs. Bell.

LOUISA L. married Stephen Bell.
See his name.

Mrs. Jane Womack died in Sangamon
county, and John B. Womack returned to
Wavne county, married Sasan Brown and
had four children. He died in Wayne
county about 1859.

WOLTZ, JOHN C., >vas born
June 5, 1818, in Shepherdstown, Virginia.
He started west partly to visit his sister,
Mrs. John B. Weber. He traveled by
stage to Pittsburg, thence by water the
whole length ot the Ohio river, up the
Mississippi river to St. Louis, thence to

and up the Illinois river to Naples, where
he ate his first meal in Illinois of corn
bread and venison, which he thought was
the best food he ever tasted. He traveled
on the first rail re ad built in Illinois to New
Berlin, and walked from there on the tim-
bers, four inches wide, laid ready to re-
ceive the flat rails, to Springfield, arriving
Nov. 7, 1840. Before he obtained employ-
ment his finances were reduced to three
ten cent pieces. He worked nearly two
years at carpenter and cabinet work, most-
ly at Riverton, without receiving a cent of
money, all the time vowing that when he
did obtain enough he would leave the
country, but an arrow from cupid's bow
wounded him before he obtained the re-
quisite amount, and he is now one of the
successful farmers of Sangamon county.
John C. Woltz was married Dec. 7, 1843,
to Sidney R. Halbert. They had seven
living children, namely —

VIRGINIA C., born Nov. 26, 1844,
in Sangamon county, married March 2,
1865, to William T. Summers, who was
born May 15, 1845, 'n J^racken county,
Kentucky. They have one child, WAL-
TER, and reside two miles northwest ot
Dawson, Illinois.

SARAH M., born Oct. 19, 1846, mar-
ried Dec. 24, 1869, to John M. Riddle.
See his name.

^fULIA E. resides with her parents.

JAMES P. died April 17, 1869, in his
sixteenth year.

J. CHARLES, MAGGIE H, and
Al^lCE IDA, reside with their parents
nearly equi-distant from Barclay, Daw-
son and Riverton, Sangamon county, Illi-
nois— 1874.

WOOD, SENECA, was born
Oct. i, 1806, in Springfield, Massachusetts,
and came to Island Grove, Sangamon
county, Illinois, in the fall of 1831. He
was married there in January, 1834, to
Sarah M. Todd, who was born in 1617, in
Bourbon county, Kentucky. They had
eight children, four of whom died young.
Of the other four —

CLARA L., born in 1837, marr'et'
William Wardell. He died, leaving one
child. Mrs. Wardell and her daughter,
ALICE, reside in Buffalo, .Sangamon
county, Illinois.

SENECA W., born March 7, 1840,
in Sangamon county. He was married
December, 1868, to Molly J. Allgate.

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She died Nov. 17, 1872, and he was mar-
ried Dec. 14, 1873, to Mary J. Allgate.
They live in Springfield, Illinois. Mr.
Wood is conductor on the Capital street
railroad.

LEWIS ARTHUR, born in 1846, in
Sangumon county, married Elizabeth
Hillman. They have two children,
FRANK and LEWIS, and live in
Spiingfield, Illinois.

KA TIE resides with her parents.

Seneca Wood spent a few years in
farming, then kept a hotel and stage stand
in Berlin, was postmaster there five years,
and justice of peace four years. In 1848
he moved to Springfield, where he now
resides — 1876.

WOOD, WILLIAM, was born
October, 1794, in Knox county, Tennes-
see. He went to Madison county, Illinois,
when he was a young man, and was there
married, in 1814, to Polly Cox. They
moved to what became Sangamon county,
arriving in the fall of 1818, in what is now
Auburn township. They had ten chil-
dren—

LUC1NDA married Andrew Gates.
See his name.

JOHN married Rebecca Bowen,
moved to Texas, and died there.

JAMES went to Texas, married
Electa Jenkins, and lives there.

ED WARD married Amanda Pitzer,
and died in Illinois.

SALL 7 married Peter Gates. See
his name.

GILBERT, married, and lives in
Missouri.

MA RGARE 7' married Juseph Camp-
bell, and lives in Virden, Illinois.

WILLIAM married Jane Bristow, and
lives in Iowa.

GEORGE married Isabella Easom,
and lives in Virden, Illinois.

E J A died in Virden, unmarried.

William Wood and his wife both died
in Sangamon county, Illinois.

WORKMAN, JOHN, was born
about 1787 or '88, in Alleganey county,
Maryland, married in Tennessee to Lvdia
Bilyeu. They had twenty-two children,
two of whom died in infancy. The} were
nearly all sons. Some of the children
married in Tennessee. The family became
Mormons and all moved in a body, the
parents, their twenty children, and nearly
as many grandchildren, through Sanga-

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mon county to Nauvoo, Illinois, about
1842. Some of the children left the Mor-
mons at Nauvoo, but the principal part of
the family went to Salt Lake city. Five
of the sons became Mormon preachers,
have been missionaries to England, and
are yet with the Mormons.

WORKMAN, STEPHEN
born in 1797, in' Alleganey county, Mary-
land. He went with his parents to Bour-
bon county, Kentucky, and there married
Effie Maddox, moved to Overtoil county,
Tennessee, with three children, about
1827. In 1829 he moved with his brother
William to Sangamon county. In 1831
he moved to Kentucky, and in 1834 re-
turned to Sangamon county, and settled
one and a half miles south of Loami, and
a few years later to Christian county, Illi-
nois.

W O R K M A N, WILLIAM,

brother to John, Stephen, David and
James. He was born April 8, 1799, in
Alleganey county, Marylad, and was taken
by his parents about 1809, to Bourbon coun-
ty, Ky. He was married March 23, 1819,
in Overtoil county, Tennessee, to Sarah
Bilyeu. She was born Nov. 26, 1801, in
Green county, Kentucky. They had four
children in Tennessee, and moved to San-
gamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct. i,
1829, in what is now Loami township,
south of Lick creek, where seven children
were born, two of whom died young. Of
the other nine —

PETER, born May 24, 1820, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county,
Jan. 28, 1841, to Sally Jane Taylor. They
had thirteen children, five died young.
NANCY married Samuel Workman.
He enlisted August, 1861, in Co. B, 3oth
111. Inf., and died at Cairo, Feb. 13, 1862,
leaving one child, SAMUEL M. His widow
married Jasper Bilyeu, and lives in Chris-
tian county, Illinois. LOUISA J. mar-
ried David Hays, has three children, and
lives in Christian county. SIMON P.
married Fanny J. Short. He is in Co. H,
i6th U. S. Inf. His wife and two chil-
dren live with their grandmother, Hug-
gins — 1874. MARY E. married Samuel
Harbour. See his name. They live
near Loami, Illinois. JACOB W., AL-
MYRA, STEPHEN and CAROLINE
live with their parents, two miles south
of Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

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EARL? SE'jTLERS OF

JA COB, born Dec. 8, 1822, in Tennes-
see, married in Sangamon county, March
19, 1846, to Nancy Taylor. They have
eight children. WILLIAM S. married
Elizabeth Williams, has two children, and
lives in Shelby county, Illinois. JACOB
H. married Nancy Harbour, have one
child, DENNIS, and live near Loami, Illi-
nois. STEPHEN, GEORGE P.,
PETER D., JOHN H., NANCY J., and
CHARLEY, reside with their parents,
two and three-quarter miles south of Loami,
Illinois.

JOHN, born July 6, 1824, in Overton
county, Tennessee, married in Sangamon
county, Sept. 23, 1850, to Caroline Camp-
bell. They had nine children, two died
young. SARAH E. and JOHN W. re-
side with their parents. KATIE A. mar-
ried Simon P. Campbell. See his name.
JOSIAH W., LUCINA, LILLIE C. and
MARY live with their parents, five miles
west of Chatham, Illinois.

STEPHEN, born Jan. 20, 1827, in
Tennessee, married in Sangamon county,
Feb. 22, 1847, to Mary S. Hays. He en-
listed August, 1861, for three years, in Co.
B, 30111 111. Inf., was discharged on ac-
count of physical disability, December,
1862. He moved to Harrison county,
Missouri, in September, 1865. He was
preparing to return to Illinois, and was
murdered April 2, 1869. The object of
the murderer was robbery, but he failed
in that. Mr. W. left a widow and seven
children. SALLY married George Ray,
and died in Missouri. ELIZABETH
married George C. Dean, a native of Sara-
toga county, New York. They have one
child, CHLOE M., and live in Loami town-
ship. Mr. Dean served eighteen months
in Co. F. ist Reg. Mich. Sharpshooters,
and was honorably discharged July 28,
1865. ADDISON B., PETER,
SOPHROMA, EMILY and STE-
PHEN D. live with their mother, near
Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.

DA I'll), born March 22, 1829, in
Sangamon county, married Feb. 6, 1849,
to Julia Bilyeu, ant1 died March 16, 1849.
Mis widow married Richard Workman.

ELIZABETH, born May 23, 1831,
in Sangamon county, married Josiah W.
Campbell. See his name.

ISAAC, born August 7, 1834, in San-
gamon county, married Feb. 14, 1856, to
Elizabeth Workman. Thev had three

children. SALLY married Peter Har-
bour. See his name, JOHN and
MARTHA reside with their father.
Mrs. W. died Sept. 25, 1860, and he was
married June 29, 1862, to Martha A.
Wedding, and have six children — WIL-
LI-AM H., ISAAC, MAYHEW, JO-
SEPH, MARY A. and ELIZABETH
and reside two miles south of Loami, San-
gamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM B., born August 14, 1837,
in Sangamon county, married May 22,
1857, to Lydia Bilyeu, who was born May
5, 1845, *n Overton county, Tennessee.
They had seven children. The first,
third and fifth died, SUSAN, in infancy,
ALICE, at five, and POLLY, at two
years of age. SARAH A., WILLIAM
F., CAROLINE and FRANCES re-
side with their parents, one mile south of
Loami, Illinois. By comparing dates it
will be seen that Mrs. Workman was
only twelve years and seventeen days old
when she was married. Their first child
was born Sept. 22, 1858, when she was
thirteen years and four months old. Miss
Sarah A., their eldest daughter, has quite
a talent for music and plays well on the
piano — 1874.

SAMUEL, born Oct. 17, 1845, mar-
ried Oct. 16, 1863, to Emily Hays. They
had two children. She and the children
died, and he married March 4, 1867, to
Anna Harbour. They have two living
children, JENNIE MAY and KATIE,
and reside one mile south of Loami,
Illinois.

William Workman and wife live on the
farm where they settled in 1829. It is one
mile south of Loami, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

WORKMAN, DAVID, born
Sept. 10, 1804, in Alleganey county, Mary-
land, raised in Bourbon county, Kentucky,
and married in Overton county, Tennes-
see, to Lydia Bilyeu. They had two chil-
dren in Tennessee, moved to Sangamon
country, in 1829, and settled near his brother
William in what is now Loami township.
They had twelve children in Snngamon
county. Of their fourteen children —

DIANA, born in Tennessee, married in
Sangamon county to Benjaman Workman
(no relative), have five children, and reside
near Fort Scott, Kansas.

JACOB, born in Tennessee, married
in Sangamon county to Anna Harbour,

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have ten children, and live near Fort
Scott, Kansas.

NANCY, born about 1830, in San Bu-
nion county, married John Bilyeu. They
have several children, and live near Scio,
Linn county, Oregon.

MICHAEL, born 1831 or '32, in San-
gamon county, married Mrs. Julia A.
Workman, whose maiden name was Bil-
yeu. She had four children, and died Jan.
12, 1859. He married Hannah Workman,
a distant relative. They have five chil-
dren, and live in Christian county, near
Mowequa, Shelby county, Illinois.

MINER VA, born Oct. 23, 1833, in
Sangamon county, married William P.
Carson. See his name.

SARAH married Sampson Bilyeu, and
died, leaving one child.

ELIZABEJ^H married John Carson.
See his name.. They have several chil-
dren, and live near Fort Scott, Kansas.

PE TER, born in Sangamon county,
married Martha Workman. He enlisted
in 1861 for three years in the nth Mo.
Inf., was accidentally shot through the
body in camp, and died at home in Sanga-
mon county, Nov. 18, 1865, leaving a
widow and three children, who reside- in
Christian county, Illinois.

DA V] D, born in Sangamon county,
married February, 1861, to Amelia Bilyeu,
in Sangamon county, moved at once to
Overton county, Tennessee, was there
pressed into the rebel army, and was placed
in command of a wagon train. Watching
his opportunity, he cut four mules from a
wagon, swam three of them across Green
river, and succeeded in reaching the Union
lines. He visited his old home in Sanga-
mon county, enlisted in Co. B, 3Oth 111.
Inf. for three years, in August, 1862, and
died at Jackson, Tennessee, Oct. 22, 1862.

LYJJIA married in Sangamon county
to Thomas Large, have several children,
and live near Fort Scott, Kansas.

MARY&\v<\, aged nine years.
WILLIAM R., born Sept. 10, 1849,
in Sangamon county, married Sept. 16,
1869, to Elizabeth J. Shubert. She was
born Feb 11, 1855,111 Ripley county, In-
diana. They have two children, DAVID
E. and JAMES M., and live near Loami,
Illinois.

HANNAH, born in Sangamon county,
married Robert Wilson, have two children,
and reside near Fort Scott, Kansas.

ISAA C, born in Sangamon county,
lives with his brother, Michael.

David Workman died Feb. 20, 1865, and
Mrs. Lydia Workman died Nov. 26, 1866,
both in Sangamon county, Illinois.

WORKMAN, JAMES, born
Dec. 17, 1806, in Alleganey county, Mary-
land, was taken about 1810 to Bourbon
county, Kentucky, by his father, Abraham
Workman, who was an elder brother to
John, Stephen, William and David. When
James was a young man he went from
Bourbon county to Overton county, Ten-
nessee, and was there married to Elizabeth
Bilyeu, had one child, and moved to San-
gamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall
of 1830, in what is now Loami township,
where one child was born. In 1831 he re-
turned to Tennessee, where one child was
born and Mrs. Workman died. Mr. W.
married there to Lydia Bilyeu. He moved
in 1841 to southwest Missouri, and in 1843
returned to Tennessee, where his wife died
without children. Mr. Workman married
there to Eliza Rayburn, returned to San-
gamon county, and settled where he did
in 1830. At the close of the rebellion he
returned to Tennessee. Three years later
he came back to Sangamon county. He
had seven children by his third wife.
Three died young. Of his children by the
first marriage —

JAMES ABRAHAM,\>ovn*Dec. 16,
1827, in Overton county, Tennessee, raised
partly in Sangamon county, married in
Tennessee, May 29, 1847, to Jemima
Kitchen, and had four children, JAMES
M., SARAH E., THOMAS C. and JE-
MIMA E. Mrs. Jemima Workman died
Nov. 10, 1858, and Mr. W. was married
May 20, 1860, to Adaline Buck. They
have five living children, WILLIAM D.,
NANCY A., REBECCA A., EMMA
E. and GEORGE H. Mr. Workman
was a justice of the peace and tax collector
in Overton county. Many of his loyal
friends had been killed, and his own life
threatened by the Ku-Klux, so he left there
and returned in 1866 to the vicinity of
Loami, Sangamon county, and now — 1874
— lives in Christian county, near M :\vc.-
qua, Shelby county, Illinois.

REBECCA, born August 16, 1830,
in Sangamon county, married Sept. 13,
1849, to Solomon Shelter, had eight living
children. WILLIAM was killed, aged 15
years, by a fall from a horse. ARJSSA

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married James Stanton, and resides near
Loami, Illinois. NANCY E., MINIZA
J., ANNA I., ELIZA A., ALBERT A.,
and EPSEY C. reside near Loami, Illi-
nois.

SAMUEL E,, born Feb. 9, 1833, in
Tennessee, married Nov. 15, 1851, to Isa-
bel Kitchen, and have seven children,
SARAH E., LYDIA J., JAMES D.,
NANCY A., ISABEL and MARY L.,
and reside one mile south of Loami, Illi-
nois. The living children of the third
wife, GEORGE W., WILLIAM B.,
BARNEY and DELIA A. M. reside with
their parents.

In 1872 James Workman and wife, with
their four children, moved to Christian
county, near Mowequa, Shelby county,
Illinois.

WRIGHT, CHARLES, was
born July 21, 1799, at Bernardstown,
Massachusetts, brought up in Vermont,
and came with his brother, Erastus, to
Springfield, arriving Nov. 21, 1821. He
taught school a few years in Sangamon
county, at one time in the neighborhood of
the Drennans, on Sugar creek.

He obtained a contract for surveying
government lands on the Wachita river,
went south, and worked at it two years.
He had his contract almost completed,
when he died of malignant billious fever,
at Monroe, Louisiana, Sept. 14, 1828.

WRIGHT, ERASTUS, was
born Jan. 21, 1779, at Bernardstown,
Massachusetts. The family is a very
ancient one for New England. Erastus
left a history of the family, which he al-
ways kept written up, giving the
genealogy of the family for nearly two
and a half centuries, beginning with
Deacon Samuel Wright, who came from
England and settled at Springfield, Massa-
chusetts, in 1641.

The parents of Erastus Wright left
Bernardstown, Massachusetts, and went
to Derby, Vermont, in 1802, that being at
the time pioneer ground. Erastus re-
mained with his father on the farm, with
no other advantages for education than
the country schools afforded, until the
spring of 1821, when he started west, in
company with his brother, Charles. They
traveled by such means as the country
afforded before the days of canals and
railroads, until they reached Buffalo, New
York. There they embarked on a

schooner for Fort Dearborn, now Chicago,
Illinois. From Fort Dearborn they
started on foot, making a preliminary
survey of the route now occupied by the
Illinois and Michigan canal, touching the
Illinois river near where LaSalle now
stands. They then descended the Illinois
river to Fort Clark, now Peoria, and from
there to Elkhart Grove, where Judge
Latham resided. On their way south they
stopped on Fancy creek, in what is now
Sangamon county, at the house of John
Dixon, who was one of the earliest settlers
in this county, but who afterwards went
north and laid out the town, now city, of
Dixon, on Rock river. From there they
came to Springfield, arriving Nov. 21,
1821. It had been selected as the county
seat on the loth of April before, but there
had not then been any town laid out. A
log court house had just been completed.
Mr. Wright describes the town, as it first
appeared to him, in these words:

" Elijah lies had about five hundred
dollars' worth of goods in a log cabin, ten
by fourteen; Charles R. Matheney and
Jonathan Kelly lived in log cabins not a
quarter of a mile distant. The Indians —
Kickapoos and Potawatamies — often came
along in squads, and when othfers had built
cabins near, called the place 'log town.'"

Mr. Wright went with Judge Latham
from Springfield to Elkhart Grove and
taught school there during the winter of
1821-2. He bought a claim of Levi Ellis
and entered it as soon as it came into the
market in 1823. From notes on the fly-
leaf of a New Testament, in the hand-
writing of Mr. Wright, he says: "I built
the first frame house in what is now the
city of Springfield."

In 1824 he built a park, and traded
eighty acres of land in Schuyler county
for an elk. Old citizens remember that
Mr. Wright rode that elk, and drove it in
harness, the same as a horse, although he
says in a note that he was rough to ride,
and not very kind in the harness. Mr.
Wright spent three or four years in the
lead mining region of Illinois and Wiscon-
sin, and while there laid out the town of
Mineral Point, Wisconsin, using a bed
cord for his chain. He was married June
15, 1831, in Fulton county, to Jane Gard-
ner, whose parents were from Saratoga,
New York. Mr. and Mrs. Wright had
three children.

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789

ELIZA ANN, born July 2, 1833, in
Springfield, was married Oct. 20, 1858, to
Rev. John A. Hamilton, of the Congre-
gational Church, and a native of Chester,
Massachusetts. They have one child,
JENNIE LOUISE, born August 26,
1859, at Keene, New Hampshire, at which
place Mr. Hamilton spent the early part of
his ministry, and was afterwards in charge
of th'^ Congregational church at Daven-
port, Iowa, which he resigned to make
the tour of Europe and the Holy Land,
in 1873. He is now — 1875 — settled as
pastor of the Congregational Church at
Norwalk, Connecticut.

JAMES G., born March 20, 1835, in
Springfield, married Sarah A. Wilbourn,
of Masor. county. He died Nov. 16, 1858,
at Lincoln, 111., leaving a widow and one
child, the latter has since died.

MARIA JANE, born Nov. 14, 1837,
in Springfield, wras married Dec. 23, 1856,
to Robert P. Johnston, who was born
April 30, 1828, at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
and came to Springfield in 1851. Mr. and
Mrs. Johnston had two children, LLOYD
ERASTUS and JAMES WRIGHT.
Mrs. Maria J.Johnston died very suddenly
August 16, 1862, in Springfield. The sons
reside with their father, who was married
Feb. 22, 1865, to Isabella Muirhead, of
Greenock, Scotland. They have four chil-
dren, MARGARET A., ISABELLA,
SUSIE and ROBERT P., Jun. R. P.
Johnston was for many years a partner of
P. C. Canedy, in the drug business, and is
now Assistant Secretary of State of Illi-
nois. He and his family reside in Spring-
field, Illinois.

Mrs. Jane G. Wright died Jan. 24, 1841.
and Erastus Wright married Lucy Bar-
rows, who died without children, April
22, 1867. Erastus Wrright was married
March 23, 1868, to Mrs. Lucy F. Carpen-
ter, whose maiden name was Johnson.
She was born and educated in Vermont,
and married Mr. Thomas Carpenter at
Lancaster, Erie county, Pennsylvania,
where she buried her husband and only
child, ARTHUR. She was married to
Mr. Wright at Lincoln, Illinois. He died
in Springfield, Illinois, Nov. 21, 1870, on
the forty-ninth anniversary of his resi-
dence in that city. His widow visited
Europe in 1873, and now — 1874 — resides in
Springfield, Illinois.

Erastus Wright was one of the earliest
teachers in Sangamon county, and taught
for many years. For ten years he filled
office of school commissioner of Sangamon
county. During that time a large amount
of money, derived from the sale of govern-
ment land for school purposes, passed
through his hands. He was one of the
earlest Abolitionists, and was always fear-
less in advocating its doctrines. He ac-
quired considerable wealth, and was liberal
towards all benevolent objects, and every
public enterprise was sure to elicit his co-
operation.

WRIGHT, DOCTOR N., Is a
son of Samuel Wright, an elder brother to
Charles and Erastus. The Dector is not
an early stttler, as he came to Springfieid
August 12, 1842. He has a family, and is
a practicing physician in Chatham, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

YATES, HENRY, was born
October 29, 1786, in Caroline county,
Virginia. Dr. Michael Yates, a native of
England, emigrated to America before
the Revolution and settled in Caroline
county, Virginia. He there married
Martha Marshall, a sister of John Mar-
shall, afterwards Chief Justice of the
United States. Their son, Abner, born
in Caroline county, married Mollie Hawes,
daughter of Thomas Hawes and Eliza-
beth Fisher, his wife. They had two chil-
dren, Henry, whose name heads this
sketch, and Martha, who married Henry
Ellis. See his name. Henry Yates was
taken by his parents, in 1788, from Caro-
line county, Virginia, to Fayette county,
Kentucky, where his father died. The
family moved to Woodford, thence to
vScott, and from there to Gallatin county,
in the same State, in 1804. Henry Yates,
Henry Ellis, and Colonel Robert Johnson
laid out a town on the Ohio river, and
Colonel Johnson . named it Fredericks-
burg, in honor of his native city of that
name in Virginia. It was at a later
period changed to Warsaw, and is the
county seat of Gallatin county. Henry
Yates returned to Caroline county,
Virginia, and was there married, July 11,
1809, to his cousin, Millicent Yates, who

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EARL1 SETTLERS OF

was born May 15, 1791. They went to
Gallatin county, Kentucky, where they
had eleven children, five of whom died
young, and Mrs. Millicent Yates died
April 19, 1830. Henry Yates married
Mary A. ShufF, and moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving in May, 1831, at
Springfield. In November, 1832, they
moved to Island Grove, where Berlin now
stands. They had one child there, and
Mrs. Mary A. Yates died May n, 1835.
Henry Yates was married Sept. 28, 1835,
to Elizabeth McMillan. They had six
children, one of whom died in childhood.
Of his twelve children, including the six
brought from Kentucky —

THOMAS, born March 14, 1811, in
Gallatin county, Kentucky, was married
March 29, 1837, at Berlin, Sangamon
county, Illinois, to Nancy Higgins, who
was born May 23, 1816, in Cumberland
county, Kentucky, and came with her
parents to Sangamon county in 1836.
Thomas and Nancy Yates had ten living
children. MARY F. married Anthony A.
Rhodes, and lives in Berlin, Illinois.
JAMES, born April 19, 1841, married
Barbara Dibert, and lives near New Ber-
lin, Illinois. ANN married Davis Hen-
derson, and lives near Berlin. MARTHA
M. married Nathan Elliott, and lives near
Berlin. GEORGE H. died in his fifteenth
year. SARAH lives with her father.
CATHARINE married Hugh Mc-
Laughlin, and lives near Berlin. JANE,
JOANNA and EMMA live with their
father. Mrs. Nancy Yates died Dec. 15,
1860, and Thomas Yates resides one mile
northwest of Berlin, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

RICHARD, born Jan. 18, 1815, in
Warsaw, Gallatin county, Kentucky, was
educated at Miami University, Oxford,
Ohio, Georgetown College, Kentucky,
and graduated at Illinois College, Jackson-
ville, Illinois, being the first graduate of
that institution. He studied law at Jack-
sonville, and attended lectures at Transyl-
vania University, Lexington, Kentucky.
Richard Yates and Catharine Geers were
married at Jacksonville, Illinois. They
had five children. WILLIAM was
killed by lightning at twelve or fourteen
years of age. MARY died young.
HENRY, CATHARINE and RICH-
ARD, Jun., live with their mother. Rich-
ard Yates was elected Governor of Illinois

in 1856. At the end of his term he was
elected United States Senator, serving six
years. He died suddenly, Nov. 27, 1873,
at Barnum's Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri,
and was buried Nov. 30, at Jacksonville,
Illinois. His widow and children reside
there.

ABNER, born August 4, 1819, in War-
saw, Kentucky, brought up in Sangamon
county, was married in 1851, in Jackson-
ville, Illinois, to Mary Geers. They have
two children, MARY and WILLIAM,
and reside in Jacksonville, Illinois.

MARTHA, born July 9, 1823, in War-
saw, Kentucky, was married in Sangamon
county, Illinois, to John W. Scott. See
his name.

JANE, born Oct. 23, 1825, at Warsaw,
Kentucky, was married Dec. 10, 1846, in
Sangamon county, to John F. Elliott, who
was born April 14, 1823, at Upper San-
dusky, Ohio. They had five children.
MILLICENT, the fourth child, died in
infancy. PHOEBE L., HENRY Y.,
CHARLES Y. and JOHN Y. reside with
their parents in New Berlin, Sangamon
county, Illinois. Mr. Elliott has for the
last few years represented Berlin township
in the Sangamon County Board of Super-
visors. He is one of the most substantial
farmers in the county.

MILLICENJ\ born Sept. 25, 1827,
in Warsaw, Kentucky, brought up in San-
gamon county, and married Wesley
Matthews. They have one child, MARY
E., and reside in Jacksonville, Illinois.

The children of the second wife were —

HENRT Jun., born March 7, 1835,
at Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois, mar-
ried June 17, 1856, at Arenzville, Cass
county, Illinois, to Louisa Arenz, daughter
of Hon. Francis Arenz. She was born
June 14, 1836, at Beardstown, Illinois.
Henry Yates, Jun., and wife had five chil-
dren. NELLIE died in her ninth year.
GRACE A. died in her fifth year. HEN-
RIETTA, MARY L. and LAURA live
with their mother. Henry Yates. Jun,,
was a merchant in Berlin, sold out in order
to enter the army, and raised a company
in 1862, which became Co. A, io6th 111.
Inf. He was commissioned captain Sept.
17, 1862, promoted to lieutenant colonel,
April 10, 1863, to colonel, April 8, 1864,
and brevet brigadier general, August 26,
1866. He was accidentally shot in 1863,
sun-struck at Little Rock, and never re-

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gained his health. General Henry Yates
died Aug. 3, 1871, at Berlin. His widow
and children reside in Berlin, Sangatnon
county, Illinois.

Children by the third marriage —

WILL, born Tune n, 1837, at Berlin.
He enlisted in 1862 in the itth Mo. Inf.,
and was transferred to a cavalry regiment,
became lieutenant, and was in Grierson's
raid. Mr. Yates came home sick and died
Oct. 14, 1864.

JOHN, born Feb. i, 1839, in Sanga-
mon county, was married Oct. 8, 1864, to
Olivia Williams, who was born August 6,
1845, 'm Warsaw, Kentucky. They had
five children. OLIVIA, the fourth child,
died Nov. 10, 1872, in her third year.
MARY E., WILLIAM H., THOMAS
W. and JOHN reside with their parents,
one mile north of New Berlin, Illinois.

HA WES, born Oct. 4, 1840, in Sanga-
mon county, was married March 7, 1867,
to Mary R. Bevans, and resides in New
Berlin. Sangamon county, Illinois.

MART,\>ovn August i, 1842, in San-
gamon county, died unmarried at Jackson-
ville, Illinois, August 30, 1873.

MARSHALL, born May 23, 1845, in
Sangamon county, enlisted in 1862 in Co.
A, io6th 111. Inf., for three years, served
his full term and was honorably discharged.
He was employed in the custom house,
and died of apoplexy April 20, 1867, at
Xevv Orleans, Louisana.

Mrs. Elizabeth Yates died August 12,
1862, and her husband, Henry Yates, Sen.,
died Sept. 13, 1865, both at New Berlin,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

Henry Yates, Sen., having been one of
the proprietors of Warsaw, Kentucky.
He laid out the town of Berlin in 1833.
After the railroad was built, he laid out
the town of New Berlin, also.

, WILLIAM, was
born in 1791 in Virginia, and when he
was an infant his parents moved to Clai-
born county, -Tennessee, where his father
died. His mother moved her family,
about 1810, to Madison county, near
Edwardsville, Illinois. They moved next
to Montgomery county, and then to San-
gamon county, arriving June 10, 1819, at
the north side of Richland creek, in what
is now Salisbury township. William
Yoakum was married in 1821 to Sarah
Simmons. They had eight children —

JOHAr W., born in 1825, started to
California in 1849, and died on the way.

MART A., born in 1827, married Wil-
liam Penny, had six children, and he died
in Missouri. She lives near Salisbury,
Illinois.

GEORGE H., born in 1830, is un-
married, and lives near Salisbury, Illinois.

MARTHA J., born Dec. 30, 1852,
married Francis M. Duncan. See his
name.

JAMES C., unmarried, and lives in
Menard county, Illinois.

JSAA C R. is unmarried.

JESSE J. married Sarah Miller, and
lives at the family homestead, four miles
west of Salisbury, Illinois.

Mrs. Sarah Yoakum died in 1863, and
William Yoakum was married January,
1868, to Mrs. Letitia Henderson, whose
maiden name was Rice, and lives near
Salisbury, Illinois. The mother of Wil-
liam, James and Mathias Yoakum died in
Salisbury township.

YOAKUM MATTHI AS,
brother to William and James Yoakum,
was born either in Virginia or Claiborn
county, Tenneasee, came to Sangamon
county, Illinois, in 1819. He married
Elizabeth McHenry, and had eight chil-
dren—

HIRAM married Catharine Elmore,
and died in 1856, leaving one child,
WILLIAM.

MAR T married Eli Yoakum, and lives
in Crawford county, Kansas.

JESSE, born Nov. 10, 1831, in San-
gamon county, married Jan. 10, 1856, to
Margaret Thompson, and has five chil-
dren, GEORGE C., FRANKLIN T.,
WILLIAM R.., MARY C. and ED-
MUND, and live east of the Sangamon
river, near Salisbury, Illinois.

CATHARINE married Z. S. Cogdal,
has four children, and live near Salisbury,
Illinois.

ELIHU B. married Mary A. Cogdal,
has one child, and lives in Menard county,
Illinois.

THOMAS C., born August 14, 1840,
married May 17, 1865, to Barilla Hoag.
They had one child, MAUD. Mr.
Yoakum is postmaster at Salisbury, San-
gamon county, Illinois, is also a merchant,
and resides there.

RO13ER7^ C. lives with his mother.

EARLY SETTLERS OF

Matthias Yoakum died August 27, 1857,
and his widow lives in Menard county,
Illinois — 1874.

YOAKUM, JAMES, brother to
William and Matthias, was born in Vir-
ginia or Claiborn county, Tennessee, and
came with his mother to Sangamon coun-
ty. He married Julia Owens, and had
eleven children in Menard county, Illinois.
His sons —

GEORGE and NELSON were sol-
diers in the Mexican war, and both lost
their lives there in 1847.

WILLIAM was married June 16,
1836, to Priscilla Batterton. See Batter-
ton sketch. They have one son, WIL-
LIAM F., who married May Adams, and
lives near Salisbury, Illinois.

JOHN lives in Menard county, Illi-
nois.

IS A A C lives in Iowa.

James Yoakum died in Menard county,
Illinois.

YOCpM, JACOB, was born Dec.
17, 1787, in a fort or block-house in Bour-
bon county, near where the city of Lex-
ington, Kentucky, now stands. Mary
Booth was born Feb. 1 1, 1791, in the same
county. They were there married Nov.
15, 1810, and went to Alontgomery county,
in the same State, where eleven of their
children were born. They moved in 1827
to Marion county, Illinois, and from there
to Sangamon county, in the same State,
arriving Nov. 2, 1828, in what is now
Williams township, one and a half miles
cast of Sherman, where three children
were born. Of their children —

WILLIAM, born Sept. 18, 1811, in
Montgomery county, Kentucky, cams to
Sangamon county with his parents in 1828,
and served three months as a soldier in a
Sangamon county company in the Black
Hawk war of 1831-32. He was married
Dec. 17, 1834, in Sangamon county, Illi-
nois, to Sarah J. Merriman. They had
eleven chiidren. GEORGE S. enlisted
August, 1862, in Co. B, i3Oth 111. Inf. for •
three years, was taken prisoner April 8,
1864, with General Banks, up Red river,
and was thirteen months a prisoner at
Camp Ford or Tyler, Texas. He was
released at the close of the rebellion, and
honorably discharged June 17, 1865. He
married Nancy Wimmer. They have two
children, MATILDA and MARY ELLEN, and
live two miles south of Williamsville, Illi-

nois. MARY A. married Perry Sapp, a
native of Knox county, Ohio. They have
one child, LYMAN, and live near Williams-
ville, Illinois. Mr. Sapp enlisted August,
1862, in Co. B, 130111 111. Inf. He was at
home on recruiting service when his regi-
ment was captured, and thus escaped thir-
teen months of imprisonment. He was
honorably discharged at New Orleans,
August 22, 1865. JACOB enlisted August,
1862, in Co. B, i3<Dth 111. Inf., with his
brother, George S., and experienced all
that his brother did by imprisonment. Sec
his name. Jacob Yocom married Susan
Lanterman, and has three children, LULA,
MARY A. and SUSAN <;., and live two miles
south of Williamsville, Illinois. SARAH
married Jacob Y. Hussev. See his name.
LYMAN M. died Jan. 19, 1863, in his
nineteenth year. ELVIRA J. died March

9, 1863, in her fifteenth year. MADISON
M., CORDELIA E., REBECCA C.,
WILLIAM F., and CHARLES E. re-
side with their parents. William Yocom
resides two miles east of Sherman, Sanga-
mon county, Illinois.

SAMUEL, born Dec. 28, 1812, in Ken-
tucky, was married in Sangamon county,
Illinois, Feb. 15, 1838,10 Ann Cooper,who
was born July 18, 1818. They moved
overland to Oregon in 1851, and returned
by water in 1853. Of their seven children
three died in childhood. ALIDA, born
Sept. 6, 1840, married Clifton H. King.
See his name. She died March 27, 1866.
WILLIAM, born Nov. 13, 1843, enlisted
August, 1862, in Co. C, i I4th 111. Inf., for
three years, served full term and was hon-
orably discharged August 15, 1865, at
Camp Butler. He was married Sept. 22,
1869, to Mary Oliver, who was born April

10, 1850, in Ross county, Ohio. They
have one child, JOHN AV., and reside one
and a half miles northwest of Dawson,
Sangamon county, Illinois. REBECCA,
born Feb. 6, 1846, married John Horn.
See his name. THOMAS lives near
Barclay, Illinois. Mrs. Ann Yocom died
Nov. 21, 1858. Samuel Yocom was mar-
ried October, 1861, to Mrs. Nancy Shep-
herd, whose maiden name was Langston.
She died November, 1867. Samuel Yo-
com was married March 18, 1869, to Mrs.
Jane Hillman, widow of Richard S. Hill-
man. Her maiden name was Williamson.
They reside at Barclay, Sangamon county,
Illinois.

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793

GEORGE VV., born Feb. 18, 1814, in
Kentucky, was married Jan. 22, 1835, to
Margaret J. Cooper. They had fourteen
children, one died in infancy. Of their
thirteen children, JAMES E. died aged
seventeen years. MARY A. married
Henry F. Brown, a native of Putnam
county, Indiana. They had four children,
w n. K i AM s. died in his fourth year.

ALBERT W., JOIIX II. and FRAXK.MX t \K-

ROLL live with their parents, near Wil-
liamsville, Illinois. Mr. H. F. Brown
enlisted on the first call for seventy-five
thousand men, in 1861, in Co. H, loth Ind.
Inf., served three months, enlisted August
8, 1862, in Co. C, i I4th 111. Inf., for three
years, served full time, and was honorably
discharged August 15, 1865. AMANDA
J. married William Brown. They had
one child, ALICE. Mr. Brown enlisted
August, 1862, in Co. C, H4th 111. Inf., and
died without leaving Camp Butler. His
widow was married Oct. 8, 1874, to John
Smith. EMELINE was married No-
vember, 1865, to Samuel D. Rodgers.
See his name. JEFFERSON enlisted
August 12, 1862, in Co. C, 114111 111. Inf.,
for three years. He was detached and
placed in Co. E, ist 111. Light Artillery,
served fifteen months, returned to the
1 1 4th, served until August, 1865, when he
was honorably discharged. He married
Caroline Morton. They have one child,
and live near Williamsville, 111. ROBERT
F. enlisted in the 2d 111. Light Artillery,
served one and a half years, and was hon-
orably discharged. He married Nancy
J. Smith. She died Sept. 15, 1875, leav-
ing two children. He lives near Alt. Fleas-
ant, Henry county, Iowa. JESSE V.
married Marion Huston, a native of Scot-
land. They have two children, and live
near Williamsville, Illinois. JOHN W.
and POLLY L. live with their mother.
NETTIE V, died Nov. 4, 1875. CLARA
E. died Oct. 28, 1875, and MINNIE M.
died Nov. 14,1875. ELIZA R. died, aged
eleven years. George W. Yocom died
March 3, 1875, and his widow resides three
miles south of Williamsville, Sangamon
county, Illinois.

JESSE, born June 19,1815, in Ken-
tucky, was married in Sangamon county,
Illinois, to Minerva Cooper. He moved
in 1847 to the Pacific coast. They
have ten living children. JAMES A.
married Elizabeth Murray, and has seven

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living children. ZACHARIAH married
Ellen Benyfield, and has five children.
CAROLINE married George Y. Davis,
and has eight children. OLIVER mar-
ried Ann Robison. MARY married Le\ i
Zumwalt, and had four children. She and
the youngest child died. NANCY mar-
ried" Lyman M. Noble. TOMPKINS
is unmarried. MARTHA married Camp-
bell Hendrix. KITTIE married John
Dempsey. NETTIE V. lives with her
parents. Jesse Yocom and wife reside near
Lafayette, Yamhill county, Oregon.

SARAH, born Oct. 17, 1816, in Mont-
gomery county, Kentucky, married Wil-
liam S. Hussey. Sec his name.

STEPHEN, born Nov. 16, 1817, in
Kentucky, was married Dec. 28, 1843, 'n
Sangamon county, to Martha A. Coun-
cil.. They have four living children.
STEPHEN H., J un., died, aged fourteen
years. MARY S. is unmarried, and lives
in Williamsville, Illinois. WILLIAM J.
enlisted April 30, 1864, in Co. I, I33d ill.
Inf., for one hundred days, served more
than one hundred and forty days, and was
honorably discharged Sept. 24, 1864. He
resides with his parents — 1874. GEORGE
W. C., was married July, 1873, to Laura
Young, and lives near Chesnut, Logan
county, Illinois. JESSE F., resides with
his parents. Stephen Yocom and family
reside four miles south of Williamsville,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

ABEL, born Jan. 2, 1819, in Kentucky,
was married in Sangamon county to Jane
Robinson. They had three children.
JAMES W. enlisted Aug. 5, 1862, in Co.
B, i3Oth 111. Inf., for three years, served
full time, and was honorably discharged
August, 1865. He married Mary F. Mad-
den. They have three children, EDGAR E.,
ERNEST L. and MINXIE i ., and reside near
Illiopolis, Illinois. SARAH A. married
George A. Leigh. They have three chil-
dren, IIATTIE J., NETTIE L. and 1IAKKY,

and reside corner Twelfth and Carpenter
streets, Springfield, Illinois. JOHN H.
married Lottie Richmond, has two chil-
dren, LII.LIE and GIEBEKT i-., and lives near
Illiopolis, Illinois. Abel Yocom died
March, 1874, and his widow resides near
where Mr. Yoconvs lather settled in 1828,
near Williamsville, Illinois.

/•Vi'J/VA f.IN, born July 30, 1820, in
Montgomery county, Kentucky, was mar-
ried in Sangamon county, Illinois, to

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EARL? SE'lTLERS OF

Nancy J. Darnall. They had nine children.
ALLYN, born Nov. 12, 1843, in Sanga-
mon county, was married Nov. 29, 1865,
to Evaline Lady. They have three chil-
dren, and live near Sheridan, in Polk coun-
ty, Oregon. EVALINE, born Jan. 24,
1845, in Sangamon county, was married
Nov. 30, 1864, to James Brown. They
have four children, and reside in Sheridan,
Yamhill county, Oregon. MARILLA
J., born April 2, 1846, in Sangamon coun-
ty, was married May 7, 1868, to David A.
Carter. They have four children, and live
in Brownsville, Lane county, Oregon.
ELIZA L., born Nov. 25, 1848, in Sanga-
mon county, and lives near Salem,Oregon.
REBECCA H., born March 2, 1851, was
married Dec. 20, 1871, in Oregon, to John
W. Minto. They have two children, and
live in Salem, Oregon. MATILDA, born
April 20, 1855. LONAH, born Nov. 8,
1856, in Oregon, was drowned in the Wil-
liamette river, March 19, 1873. RETTA
L. and HARVEY. The last four were
born in Polk county, Oregon, and the un-
married children reside with their parents
in Salem, Marion county, Oregon.

ELIJAH, born Oct. 26, 1821, in
Montgomery county, Kentucky, was mar-
ried Jan. 7, 1852, in Petersburg, Menard
county, Illinois, to Caroline A. Higgins.
They moved to McLean county, and from
there to De Witt county, near Waynesville,
Illinois. They have three living children,
ALBERT L., ANNIE R. and ELIJAH
LINCOLN. Elijah Yocom died Feb. 2,
1873, of spotted fever, and his widow and
children resides on their farm near
Waynesville, Dewitt county, Illinois.

REBECCA, born March n, 1826, in
Kentucky, was married June i, 1848, in
Sangamon county, Illinois, to Clement
Passwaters. They removed to McLean
county, April, 1849, where seven children
were born. Of their six living children,
EMLIY J., born May 2, 1849, was mar-
ried March n, 1871, to Samuel Miller,
has two children, and lives near Hey worth,
Illinois. STEPHEN H., born Dec. i,
1850, was married Feb. 8, 1873, to Sarah
Lee, has two children, and live near
Heyworth, Illinois. WILLIAM F.,
ENOCH D., JAMES C. and JOHN L.
reside with their parents, near Heyworth,
McLean county, Illinois.

THOMAS y., born Nov. 2, 1828, in
Sangamon county, emigrated to Califor-

nia in the spring of 1847, sPent eleven
months in the gold mines. He was mar-
ried in Polk county, Oregon, in the spring
of 1851, to Elizabeth Tharp. They had
ten living children. MARGARET died
aged about thirteen years. SARAH mar-
ried John Thornton, and has two living
children. MARY married Robert Griffith,
and has one child. The other seven living
children of T. J. Yocom reside with their
parents near Bellevue, Yamhill county,
Oregon.

JAMES P., born April n, 1830, in
Sangamon county, Illinois. He left for
Oregon overland in the spring of 1851,
accompanied by his mother, two brothers
and his brother-in-law, William S. Hus-
sey, and arrived at their journey's end Oct.
4th, of the same year, and was within
three days of being six months on the road.
He settled on a donation land claim Oct.
8, 1851, in Yamhill county, Oregon. J.
P. Yocom was married in the latter coun-
ty June 18, 1857, t° Emeline Hussey, who
was born in Sangamon county, Illinois,
Jan. i, 1841. They had three children.
HENRIETTA, born Dec. 2, 1858, died
Dec. 4, 1874. MIRANDA died in her
seventh year. STEPHEN H., born Oct.
14, 1862, resides with his father. Mrs.
Emeline Yocom died April 23, 1863, and
James P. Yocom was married May 3, 1865,
to Mrs. Martha E. Potts, whose maiden
name was Beaman. She was born Sept.
n, 1836, in Pettis county, Missouri. They
have six children, all born in Yamhill
county, Oregon, ANNIE M., FRANK-
LIN B., VIRGINIA B., MARY,
GRANT and MINNIE, who reside with
their parents. J. P. Yocom left Oregon
Oct. 29, 1875, with his family, going by
the steamship Ajax to San Francisco,
thence by railroad to Bloomington, Illinois,
arriving Nov. 13, 1875, and now reside
four miles northeast of Heyworth, Mc-
Lean county, Illinois.

HA THA WA T, born Oct. 31, 1831, in
Sangamon county, 111., emigrated overland
to Oregon in the spring of 1850, was mar-
ried there March 7, 1852, to Mary Tharp.
They have six children. ELIZABETH
P. married Linsday Delashmint, and has
three children. CEMMONT, CARO-
LETTA, JOSEPH M., WILLIE and
EDDY, and live with their parents in
Bellevue, Yamhill county, Oregon.

Jacob Yocom died March 8, 1848, in

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Sangainon county, Illinois, and Mrs. Mary
Yocom died Dec. 23, 1864, in Lafayette,
Yamhill county, Oregon. She was buried
at Pleasant Hill Church, Polk county,
Oregon.

YOUNG, EZE KIEL, was born
about 1795, in Trigg county, Kentucky,
He was married in North Carolina to
Sarah Coleman. They had five children
in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving in 1827 on Rich-
land creek, where one child was born.
Two of their children only are in Sanga-
mon county.

LUC1NDA married Samuel Beardon.
See his name.

ARCHIBALD, born April 21, 1828,
in Sangamon county, married Nov. 18,
1850, to Elizabeth Wood, born in Sanga-
mon county, (sister to Mrs. Wolgamot.)
They had four children. EMMA died
January, 1868, in her fourteenth year.
LAURA died July, 1869, in her four-
teenth year. MARY E. and IDA
BELLE reside with their parents, near
Woodside, Sangamon county, Illinois.

Ezekiel Young died May, 1853, and his
widow died in 1864, both in Cass county,
Illinois.

YOUNG, CASPER, was born
June 8, 1798, at Hazelloch, on the river
Mayn, Hesse Darmstadt, Germany. Susan
Boll was born in 1802, in the town of
Florsheim, in Nassau, on the opposite side
of the Mayn from Hazelloch. Casper
Young and Susan Boll were married at
Florsheim in 1821. They had four chil-
dren in Germany and emigrated to
America in 1835. They were seven
weeks on the passage from Amsterdam to
New York. Their first stoppage was at
Coshocton, Ohio. From there they went
to St. Louis, Missouri, by the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers, and tarried one year in
St. Clair county, Illinois. In the fall of
1837 they arrived in Sangamon county, in
the southeast corner of Woodside town-
ship, where three children were born. Of
their seven children —

MARGARET, born in Germany,
married in Sangamon county to Frank
Schick. They had two children. G.
Schick was a professor in a college in St.
Louis. He is a lawyer. Mrs Schick died
in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois.

GARRED—ca\\e<\ Charley— was born
Dec. 17, 1825, at Florsheim, Nassau, Ger-

many. He was married in Sangamon
county April 18, 1852, to Mrs. Sally
White, whose maiden name was Gatton,
a daughter of Charles Gatton. She had
one child by her first marriage, MARY
ANN, who is now the wife of Mr.
Lyman, of Pana. Mr. and Mrs. Young
had three children, REBECCA, WIL-
LIAM R. and CATHARINE, and Mrs.
Sally Young died Feb. 2, 1863. Mr.
Young was married February, 1864,
to Ellen Abell. She died without chil-
dren, Nov. 4, 1866. Mr. Young was mar-
ried Oct. i, 1867, at Lebanon, Kentucky,
to Maggie E. Buckman. They reside
one and a half miles north of Pawnee,
Sangamon county, Illinois. Mr. Young
has represented Pawnee township several
terms in Sangamon county Board of
Supervisors, and is one of the many suc-
cessful farmers of Sangainon county.

MART, born in Germany, married
Henry Harschlier, has seven children, and
lives in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois.

CATHARINE, born in Germany,
married Frank Schick. They have six
children, and live in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois.
MART EVE, born in Sangamon
county, married Philip Schwigead. They
had two children, and Mr. S. Died. The
widow married Jacob Hundt, and lives in
Mt. Pulaski, Illinois.

Casper Young moved to Mt. Pulaski in
1855. Mrs. Susan Young died June,
1867. Casper Young died Sept. 27, 1875,
both in Mt. Pulaski, Logan county, 111.

YOUNG, JAMES, was born
Dec. 19, 1788, in Wilkes county, North
Carolina. His parents moved to Mont-
gomery county, Kentucky, when he was
a young man. He was there married
Feb. 10, 1822, to Lucinda R. Cunning,
who was born August 12, 1804, in the
same county. They had seven children
in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon
county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1838
in what is now Cumin township, where
three children were born. Of their chil-
dren three died under five years. Of the
other seven —

VIRGJNIA,\yorn Jan. 15, 1823, mar-
ried John P. Lindsay, had six children,
and died May 2, 1850, near Springfield.
See his name in Omissions.

WILBOURN, born Oct. 23, 1824, is
unmarried, and resides at the family home-
stead near Curran, Illinois.

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EARL1 SETTLERS OF

ELIZABETH, born Oct. 21, 1826,
married Wade Burch. See his name.

JAMES, born August 20, 1831, mar-
ried Catharine Foster, have eight chil-
dren, SILAS A., MARGARET,
JAMES M., EUGENE, FRANCIS,
ALBERTUS, NANCY and EMMA,
and live near Chatham, Illinois.

SILAS J., born March i, 1834, is un-
married, and lives in Fayette county, Illi-
nois.

ANN E., born Oct. 15, 1837, married
William B. Greenwood. See his name.
He died and she married Benjamin Easley.
See his name.

MARTHA C., born June 6, 1841,
married Feb. 22, 1865, and has three chil-
dren, F A T I M A, A R T H U R and
LEONA MAY, and live with their
mother.

James Young died March n, 1870, aged
eighty-two years, and his widow resides
on the farm where they settled in 1838,
near Curran, Illinois — 1874.

Z A N E. Three brothers ol that
name emigrated irom England and
settled in Gloucester county, New
Jersey. It is not known whether or not
they were related to Jonathan and Eb-
cnezer Zane, who explored the country
about Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1769,
and founded Zanesville, Ohio. Of the
three brothers who settled in New Jersey,
the first names are not preserved, but one
of them had a son, Simeon. His son,
Andrew, married Mary Franklin, a dis-
tant relative of Benjamin Franklin. They
brought up a large family in New Jersey.
Their eldest and youngest sons came to
Sangamon county, namely —

ZAN E, JC/HN, born Nov. 8, 1806,
in Gloucester county, New Jersey, but
was brought up in Cumberland county,
in the same State. He was married Feb.
3, 1833, in Cape May county, to Eliza-
beth Smith, who was born in that county
April 13, 1812. They moved to Phila-
delphia, where they had one living child,
returned to New Jersey, where they had
one child, ant1 moved from there to San-
gamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct. 15,
1839, in what is now Cartwright township,

where they had nine children. Of their
eleven children —

JAMES S., born July 10, 1836, in
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, married in
Sangamon county June 14, 1860, to Maria
Rachel Purviance. See Purviance or
Purvines family. They have four chil-
dren, SAMUEL S.JOHN N., FRANK-
LIN H. and MARY E. James S. Zane
was elected in the fall of 1872 sheriff of
Jasper county, Missouri, and resides at
Carthage, the county seat.

RHODA S., born Sept. 13, 1838, in
Cape May county, New Jersey, married
in Sangamon county, April 21, 1859, to
John T. Epler. She died March 21, 1871,
leaving four children, CHARLES L.,
GEORGE A., MAR\ J. and RHODA
E., who live with their father. John T.
Epler is married again and resides two
and a half miles south of Pleasant Plains,
Sangamon county, Illinois.

MART F., born March 25, 1841, in
Sangamon county, married Feb. 13, 1867,
to Dr. Henry Van Meter. See his name.

ELLEN S., born Dec. 20, 1842, in
Sangamon county, married July 31, 1861,
to Benjamin F. Jones. She died May 25,
and he died August 27, 1867. They had
two children. MARY J. died, aged
three years. JOHN W., born Dec. 12,
1864, lives with his grandfather Zane.

ELIZABETH S., born May 7, 1844,
married Dec. 28, 1871, to William S.
Bullard. See his name.

ANDRE W, born August 20, 1846, in
Sangamon county, married Feb. 27, 1873,
to Mary J. Hamilton, near Pleasant
Plains, Illinois. They reside in Carthage,
Jasper county, Missouri.

JOHN W., born Oct. 31, 1848.

JEREMIAH F., born Nov. 26, 1850.

'HANNAH M., born Dec. 25, 1852.

ROBERT H., born March 3, 1855;

ALICE B., born April 25, 1859, the
five latter live with their parents.

John Zane and wife reside four miles
east of Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county,
Illinois — 1874.'

ZANE CHARLES S., brother
to John Zane, was born March 2, 1831, in
Cumberland county, New Jersey. In the
spring of 1850 he came to the vicinity of
Pleasant Plains, Sangamon countv, Illi-
nois, where he worked at farm labor by
the month. He afterwards attended Mc-
Kendree college, at Lebanon, Illinois,

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teaching school in different parts of the
State at intervals until July 15, 1856,
when he came to Springfield. Having
previously commenced the study of law, he
continued and was admitted to practice in
the spring of 1857. He was three times
elected city attorney, in 1858, 1860 and in
1865. In June, 1873, he was elected Judge
of the judicial circuit, of which Sangamon
county is a part, and is now — Decem-
ber, 1876 — in office. He was married in
1859 to Margaret D. Maxcy. They have
six children, FERN ETTA M.,
CHARLES W., JOHN .)/., OLI-
VER W., MARGARET, FRANK-
LIN A. and HERBERT S.

Judge Charles S. Zane was elected in
November, 1876, a member of the Na-
tional Lincoln Monument Association.
He, with his family, resides in Springfield,
Sangamon countv, Illinois.

ZIMMERMAN, ROBERT
J3., was born Oct. 5, i8n,in Centre coun-
ty, Pennsylvania, and went from there to
Elmira, New York, where he learned the
business of a painter and chair maker. In
the summer of 1835 he started west, travel-
ing by stage, he missed his connections at
Terre Haute, Indiana, and there being but
one stage a week, rather than remain idle
he and one or two others started on foot.
Arriving at the Okaw river in Illinois
they found a company of emigrants from
Tennessee, numbering one hundred and
twenty wagons, with a corresponding num-
ber of men, women and children, all wait-
ing until the men could construct a bridge
for the teams tp cross. They remained
with the emigrants, riding and walking
alternately, and reached Springfield Nov.
18, 1835. R. B. Zimmerman was married
Dec, 25, 1838, at Farmington, now Farm-
indale, Sangamon county, to Susan P.
Seeley. Mrs. Zimmerman died Oct. 30,
1840, leaving one child —

SUSAN /,., born April 17, 1840, in
Springfield, Illinois. She was married
April 17, 1860, to Eugene L. Gross, who
was born Dec. 25, 1836, in Starkville,
Herkimer county, New York. Rev. Alba
Gross, the father of Eugene L., is a
preacher in connection with the Baptist
Church, and came to Fulton county, Illi-
nois, in 1844, but now resides in Chatham,
Illinois. E. L. Gross studied law at Knox-
ville, was admitted to the bar, and prac-
ticed a short time at Mount Sterling, and

came to Springfield, in 1858. He revised
and published the ordinances of the city of
Springfield in 1865. In January, 1868, he
compiled and published a digest of the
criminal laws of Illinois. In February,
1868, he, in connection with his brother,
Colonel William L. Gross, began their
compilation of the Statutes of Illinois,
which were published in the fall of the
same year. Their last volume was pub-
lished in 1869. The same year they pub-
lished an index to all the laws of the State.
In 1872 they compiled and published the
second volume of Gross' Statutes. E.
L. Gross, finding his health impaired,
closed up his_business, and in the spring of
1873 started on horseback and traveled
through the Indian nation, thence to the
Pacific coast, and returned by railroad, but
that relentless destroyer,consumption,could
not be induced to release its grasp. After
returning home he lingered until June 4,
1874, when he breathed his last, leaving a
widow and four children, LEIGHLA,
FRED, SUSIE and BESSIE, all re-
siding in Springfield, Illinois.

Robert B. Zimmerman was married
Oct. 2, 1845, 'n Springfield, to Marv C.
Townsend, who was born Nov. 7, 1821, in
Caledonia county, Vermont. They had
two children, both died young. In No-
vember, 1849, Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman
adopted a daughter, LIZZIE, when she
was but three months old. She was mar-
ried Feb. 26, 1875, in Springfield, to Mar-
tin V. Smith. They reside in East St.
Louis, Illinois.

Robert B. Zimmerman and Alexander
P. Willard were in partnership as paint-
ers and dealers in painters' stock twenty-
four years, and until the death of Mr.
Willard. See his name. Mr. Zimmer-
man is yet in business in which he has
been more than forty-one years actively
engaged in Springfield. He has seen it
grow, and had much to do with its growth,
from a very small village to a city of
twenty-five thousand inhabitants, and
from a county seat to be the capital of the
fourth State in the American Union. He
has been an active and efficient officer of
the Second Presbyterian church for many
years; and in proportion to his ability he
has probably been the most liberal con-
tributor to its funds. R. B. Zimmerman
and wife reside in Springfield, Illinois.

THE END.

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS-URBAN*

HISTORY OF THE EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAVO