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PAULINA, 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 IS17, where three children were born, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving April, IS28, in what is now Chatham township, . thence to Cooper township, and from there to Loami township in IS30, 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, by 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.
GANE, born in Virginia, married Hol- lister Burr, and lives in Cherokee county, Kansas.
MELINDA, 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, IS22, in Tennessee, married July 28, 1844, in San- gamon county to Adna P. Colburn. See his name.
SALLY, born April IS, 1824, in, Tennessec, 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.
WILLIAM 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, 30th Ill. Inf., served full term, and was honorably discharged in 1864.
Stephen Sowell died June 11, 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 1, 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, horn 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. 1, 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 1Soo 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, Ill., 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.
NANCY, 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.
MARY E., born in Sangamon county, married Eli Drone. They have four chil- dren, and live in Pike county, Ill.
JOHN W., born in Sangamon county, married Mary Clements, and live in the southeast corner of Macoupin county, Ill.
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-
UPSHEAR D., 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, ISIS, 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 De Witt 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, De Witt 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. 1, 1825, in Clarke county, Indiana, married in Sangamon county Jan. IS, 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, Ill. 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 WV. Spicer died Nov. 26, 1862, and his widow married August S, 1866, to Nathan S. 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 hattle of Fort Donelson, Feb. 14, 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Spicer live near Cotton Hill P. O., Sangamon county, Illinois. ROSEANN, 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 Lemnel 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- nary of the Lutheran church, both located
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at Gettysburg, Pa. He also studied under two distinguished ministers, one at Otsego, 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. He was married April 11, 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, Ill., where they had two children, and in 1855 moved back to Springfield, where they had one child. Of their children-
MARY 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, Ill.
IDA M., born March 11, 1842, in Springfield, married Henry L. Sanford, They have three children, MARY S., ANNIE E. and FRANCIS S., and live near Elkhart, Logan county, Ill.
JOHN G., was born March 13, 1844, in Springfield. He enlisted Sept. 20, 1861, for three years in Co. B, 10th Ill. Cav., was appointed sergeant major and commissioned second lieutenant of Co. I, March, 13, 1862, and commissioned first licutentant 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, in Springfield, enlisted May 11, 1864, in Co. A, 133d Ill. 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, IIl.
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, Ill. Is of the firm of Springer Bros.
LAURA L., born Nov. 20, 1850, in Hillsboro, died Oct. 25, 1860, at Spring- field, Illinois.
ANNIE G., born Aug. 1, 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, when he moved to Hillsboro, Ill., 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 10th Ill. 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 county, Ill., and continued preaching until the fall of 1873, when he was elected su- perintendent of schools for Montgomery county, with his office at Hillsboro, Ill. 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,. 18oo, 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. Clair 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 Ill. 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.
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HELEN, horn 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 y., 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 coun- 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 office in Springfield, Illinois.
MARY, born Oct. 11, 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, in 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'S, 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 dicd 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- on lish Parliament buildings, 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 Oates, 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 Catholies were arrested, tried and convicted of conspiracy, or being con- eerned in the plot. Titus Oates 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- eused. Among their vietims 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 Oates he was committed to the Tower of London, October 30, 1678. Witnesses on the trial testified that Lord Stafford had ineited them to assassinate the King, and he was condemned and executed Dec. 29, 16So, 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 and 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 Naney 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, 178g, in Coventry, Kent county, Rhode Island, went with his father, Joseph Stafford, in 1804, to Essex county, New York, where he was married in ISIo 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 eounty, 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- mon county, in 1842. They had three children, namely, GARDNER AUGUS- TUS, of Watson, now Buffalo, Sangamon county, Ill., became second lieutenant of Co. L, Ioth Ill. 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 15th 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 Mechanicsburg, Ill., aged eighteen years. Mrs. Diadema Bruce died at Me- chanicsburg, Ill., 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.
THOMAS 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, Ill. 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. Dutcher. They live in Galesburg, Ill. He has been totally blind for several years.
ORSON N., born Sept. 11, 1816, in Willsboro, Essex county, N. Y. In IS29, 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, Ill., 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, 1855. 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 Fournal 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, hut spends the greater part of his time at St. Augustinc, Florida, engaged in the cultivation of oranges, lemons and other tropical fruits.
AMANDA MALVINA, born in
ISIS, in Essex county, N. Y., married in Rochester, Ill., 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, Ill. 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, Ill. MINNIE married Dr. Herbert Judd, and lives in Galesburg. Dr. S. D. Slater resides in Galesburg, Ill.
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, Ill. Mrs. Stafford died Sept. 26, 1867, and Amos Stafford died Nov. 26, 1867, both in Decatur, Ill.
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