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ELIZABETH, born May 9, 1815, in Ohio, was married in Sangamon county, to Barrett Ramsey. They moved to the Pacific coast in IS52, have five children, and live at Marysville, Baker county, Oregon.
DELILAH, born April 27, IS17, in Ohio, was married in Sangamon county, to Elijah Bradshaw. She died without children. Mr. B. was married again in the winter of IS75, and lives one mile east of Cotton Hill postoffice, Sangamon county.
ALEXANDER, born Feb. 23, 1819, in Ohio, was married in Sangamon county to Mary 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.
HENRY, born May 4, IS22, 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 IS31, in Ball township, east of Crow's mill, or Cotton Hill postoffice, Sangamon county, III.
NANCY, born May S, IS24, 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. IS, 1857, in Sangamon county, Ill., 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 runaway team two days previous. SAL- LIE IRVING, the sixth child, died August 13, 1874. WILLIE H., ETTIE 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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the fall of 1855 and returned in 1856. When the rebellion began he raised a company which became Co. E, 114th Ill. 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 Shoup died April 20, 1850, both on the farm where they settled in 1831, in Sangamon county, Illinois.
SHRYER, EPHRIAM, was born Nov. 1, 1813, in Christian county, Kentucky. He came to Spiingfield, Illi- nois, April 1, 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.
GAMES 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.
GULIA M. died aged twelve years.
HOHN T. lives near New Berlin, Illinois.
HARVEY W., ELLA MAY and EALMA 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, an I 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 moved 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.
MARY ANN, born August 9, 1809, in Scott county, Kentucky, married in Galla- tin county Feb. 1, 1831, to Henry Yates. See his name. She died May 11, 1835.
ANTHONY H., born August IS, ISII, in Scott county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Illinois, Feb. 23, IS37, 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 lives 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 Towil- 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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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, and 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, Ili., arriving October, 1829, in what is now Auburn township. Of their children-
CHRISTIANA, born in North Caro- lina, married in Sangamon county to Pe- ter Dick, moved to Cass county, Ill., and both died there.
ELIZABETH, born in North Caro- lina, married in Sangamon county, Ill., 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, Ill. GREEN B., married Elizabeth J. Wimer, who died, and he married Matilda Caroline Stout, and lives in Virden, Ill. MARTHA A., married Elias Owen, and for her second husband married William Luth. They live five miles south of Auburn, Ill. 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, Ill. MELINDA E., married James F. Miller. See his -S3
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, Ill. Micajah lives in Nevada- 1874. DAVID M., married Nancy E. Lowder- inilk, and live one mile east of Auburn. NANCY C., married John Miller, has two children, and lives near Auburn, Ill. 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.
JOSEPH, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Rachel Long, and lives in Iowa.
HENRY, Fun., was born July 19, 1814, in Muhlenberg county, Ky., and came in 1829, with his father, to Sangamon county. He was married in 1835 to 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, Ill. 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, - Ill. 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, Ill.
Mrs. Elizabeth Shutt died in 1840, and her husband, Henry Shutt, Sen., died in 1852, both in Auburn township, Sanga- mon county, Ill. He was in his eighty- ninth year.
SIMPSON, 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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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.
SIMPSON, RICHARD, brother to James, horn 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.
MARY married James R. Durbin. See his name.
SIMPSON, JOHN P., was horn 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, Illinois, 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.
BENGAMIN 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.
GAMES is unmarried, and lives in Montana.
MARY E., unmarried, and lives in Springfield, Illinois.
CAROLINE married Dennis Taylor. He died, leaving a widow and four chil- dren in Iowa.
HENRY 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 19th 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.
PERMELIA A., born April 14, 1825, in Sangamon county, married Wil- liam Correll. See his name.
SILAS B., born Oct. 10, 1831, died June IS, 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, to Clarissa Sayre. They had eight children in San- gamon county, namely-
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GAMES 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, Ill.
ISAAC N., born Nov. 26, 1838, en- listed October, 1861, in Co. G, 10th Ill. 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 f., 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. 25, 1864, to Benjamin Watts, a son of Nicholas Watts. They have three children, and live near War- rensburg, Macon county, Ill.
MARY M., born April 6, 1848, mar- ried Nov. 20, 1867, to Morris Hillyard, have three children, and reside near Cli- max, Greenwood county, Kansas.
GEMIMA Y., born Oct. 25, 1850, married in 1869 to David Gibson, has two children, and lives near Bolckow, Andrew county, Missouri.
GULIA A., born March 5, 1863, lives with her sister, Mrs. Watts.
LUCY M., born Aug. 20, 1857, lives with her aunt. Mrs. Beaumont, in Peters- burg, Ill.
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, Ill.
SIMPSON, WILLIAM, was born in ISO8, in Simpson county, Ky. He came to Sangamon county, Ill., in 1829, and was married to Elizabeth Willis, who was born May 17, 1806. They had six children in Sangamon county, namely :
MARTHA, born Aug. 6, 1837, married May 8, 1861, to Joel H. Ellis. See his name.
MARGARET f., born March 10, 1839, is unmarried, and lives at the south- east corner of Gardner township, at the homestead.
HENRIETTA, born Jan. 10, 1841, is unmarried, and lives near Sidney, Champaign county, Ill.
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, Ill.
Mrs. Elizabeth Simpson died Feb. 17, 1860, and William Simpson died March 30, 1872, both in Sangamon county, Ill.
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 from 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 .-
BETSY 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.
POLLY 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, Ill. 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.
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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 children. 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.
BLACKMAN, 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, Ill., in 1815. John Sims and Lu- cinda Duff were there married Jan. 13, IS19. 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-
LUCI; born Oct. S, IS20, married David P. Robison. See his name.
EMILY y., 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 W. 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, Ill.
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, 1835, 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, Ill. 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 f., 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 county, married John Allen, had one child, ELIZABETH, and the
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parents both died.
MARY S., born Dec. 19, 1843, mar- ried Moses O. Booker. They had one child, MARY O., and Mr. Booker en- listed August, 1862, for three years, in Co. A, 106th Ill. 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, 1 870.
NANCY, 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.
LYDIA 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 Y., 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, IS40, 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.
MARY 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.
SALLY married Isaac Lane, and lives near Havana, Illinois.
MATILDA married Wilson Logue, and live in Sidney, Iowa.
DANIEL, fun., married Jane Sims, has eight children, and lives in Kansas.
LUCINDA lives with her sister, Mrs. Sykes.
SUSAN 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. S, 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 of 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, Ill., 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 there in 1821 or '2, among the first settlers. Elijah Slater and wife had sey- enteen children-
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