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HIRAMI P., born in Essex county, New York, married in Sangamon county to Mrs. Eunice Black, whose maiden name was Eggleston. They 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.
HENRY 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. 11, 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, Ill., 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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LUCINDA 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.
MARY E., born Sept. 11, 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, Ill., April 2, 1857, to Sarah M. VanOrmann. They moved to Decatur, October, IS5S, 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, 116th Ill. 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, Ill.
Mrs. Rebecca Stafford died June 21, 1843, and 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 IS25. They had six children, namely-
DANIEL SATTLEY, 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 dicd April 11, 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. Mrs. 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, IS12, in Addison county, Vermont, married in Sangamon county, Ill., 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, Ill. Dr. Dickenson and his wife both died in Rochester.
WILLIAM P., born near Vincennes, 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 1, 1826, in Rochester, Sangamon county, Ill, married in 1847 to Kitty A. Baker. They have three living children, CHARES, NET- TIE and MARY, and live in Mt. Pulaski, Logan county, Ill.
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 ISI2 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 IS:S 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 31, 1847, to Julia A. Stafford. They had one child, JULIA A., born Dec. 6, 1847. She mar- ried Mitchell Dickerson. 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. 1, 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 there, 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
his widow lives one mile southeast of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.
STAFFORD, CHRISTO- PHER B., was born July 22, 1797, at 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- gamnon 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 ANN, born near Roch- ester, Sangamon county, and now lives at 925 east Carpenter street, Springfield, Ill.
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,
HENRY 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 W., and reside near Rochester. Henry C. Stafford died Feb. 2, 1834, in Sangamon county, and his widow married David Crouch. See his name.
STAFFORD, WILLIAM, was born 1799 at Coventry, Kent county,
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Rhode Island. He was a son of John Stafford, consequently a consin to Caleb, Oliver, Jewett, and Christopher B. William Stafford was married in Essex county, New York, to Prudence Putnani, who was born March 19 ISor, 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. 1, 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.
STALEY, DANIEL, was born Feb. 11, 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, horn Aug. 12, 1822, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Levi Campbell. See his name. He dicd and she married William B. McCray, and lives near Loami, Ill.
ELIZABETH, horn in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to George Owens, and she died Sept. 29, 1844.
MINERVA Y., born in Sangamon county, married George Owens. They have seven living children, and live in Macoupin county, near Scottville, Ill.
BARBARA F., married William Russell, and lives in Newton county, Mis- souri.
REBECCA, married James F. Ward. They had eight children, and Mrs. Ward (lied. 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, Ill.
MARY 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., ARNO 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, Ill.
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, Ill.
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, Ill .. arriving in the fall of 1829. Of their children-
ABRAHAM Campbell, born in ISIT 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 arc all four married and live in Illinois. Rev. Abraham Campbell lives now-1876- at St. Elmo, Fayette county, Ill.
SARAH Campbell, born Sept. 14, IS13, near Columbus, Ohio, and came in 1829 to Sangamon county, married John D. Swallow. They had three children. DANIEL E., born Jan. 11, 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 printer and lives in St. Louis, Missouri. SAMUEL 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.
DAVID, died aged fourteen years.
CURRENCY, born in Ohio, was married in Sangamon county to Joseph VanNatten. See his name.
AQUILLA W., born in Sangamon county, Ill., enlisted in 1862 for three years in the 1ooth Ill. 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 Lincoln, Ill.
Thomas Stanley died in 1837 in Sanga- mon county, and his widow lives with her daughter, Mrs. Joseph VanNatten, north of Springfield, Ill.
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, Ill., 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, Ill.
DIANA, born in Kentucky, was mar- ried in Sangamon county, Ill., 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.
SHELBY, born October, 1813, in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, Ill., 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, Ill. Shelby Starr died Aug. 8, 1855, in Sangamon county.
MINERVA, born Jan. 9, 1815, in Clarke county, Ky., married in 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, Ill.
AMANDA, born May 26, 1820, in Kentucky, married Sept. 26, 1840, to Ben- jamin Bell. See his name.
MARY 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, Ill.
Adam Starr died August 15, 1839, and his widow died in 1852, both at Buff- alo Hart grove,'Sangamon county, Ill.
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, IS21, to Mary Neal. They had two children in Kentucky, and the family moved to Sanga- mon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of I'd30, in what is now Chatham township, where three children were born. Of their five children ---
WILLIAM M., born Jan. 17, 1823, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Amanda A. Withrow. They
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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, Ill.
BARBARA ANN, born May 19, IS25, 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, Ill. 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, Ill., 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.
MARY f., 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, Ill.
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, Ill.
STEELE, Mrs. ELIZA- BETH R., whose maiden name was Robison, was born in Delaware, and taken by 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-
WILLIAMM 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, 116th Ill. 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.
NANCY A., born April 10, 1825, in Bath county, Ky., was brought by her mother to Sangamon county in 1833, mar- ried Aug. 4, 1844, to Wesley Lanham. See his name. He died Aug. 26, 1861, and she was married Jan. 29, 1868, to Wil liam Graham, who was born Jan. 13, ISOS, in Lincoln county, N. C .; lived in Todd county, Ky., from 1827 to 1839, when he moved to Morgan county, Ill., 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 with the Burns family. JOHN F., is unmarried and lives near Illiopolis. William Graham and wife re- side near Illiopolis, Sangamon county, Illinois.
ELIZABETH ., born April 4, 1827, in Kentucky, marricd in Sangamon county in 1845 to John 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, IS31, in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, went to California in 1849, and lost his 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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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, Ill., 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, Ill.
JAMES W., born in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, married Mary Allen, and have seven children. James IV. Stephenson was a soldier in an Illinois regiment, and now lives at Mexico, Au- drain county, Missouri.
FINNIS 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 Ill. Inf. He lives at Chandlerville, Ill.
ALEXANDER, died at seventeen years of age.
BENJAMIN F., born Oct. 3, 1823, in Wayne county, Ill., 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 182S, 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 14th Ill. Inf. He died August 30, 1871, and his widow and child reside in Menard county, three miles north of Salisbury, Ill.
ELVIRA A., born Dec. 7, 1824, in Wayne county, Ill., raised in Sangamon county, married May 29, IS54, to Aaron
R. Houghton, who was born Dec. 9, 1855, in Menard county, Ill., 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, Ill.
MARY E., died March 2, 184S, at nineteen years of age.
HARRIET, born Oct. 5, IS30, 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, Ill., 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, Ill.
STEVENSON, MILES, was born in Tennessee, and came to Sangamon county about IS22, 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, Ill. 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, Ill.
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