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MARY, born Feb. 2, 1821, in Mary- land, died in Sangamon county, aged eighteen years.
ABRAHAM and ISAAC, twins, born Nov. 2, 1824, in Washington county, Maryland. The former died in infancy.
ISAAC 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 Prather. 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. 1, 1823, in Wash- ington county, Maryland, came to Sanga- mon county in 1836, and was married in De Witt county to Ralph Rosencrans. She died November, 1867, leaving one child, SARAH, who married James Powell. They live near De Witt, De Witt county, Illinois.
JAMES, born Sept. 16, 1827, in Maryland, came to Sangamon county in 1836, enlisted in 1846 in the 4th Ill. Inf., served one year in the Mexican war, under Colonel E. D. Baker, and died in 1847, in 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 Truc. 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. Truc died, and Mrs. True, with four of her children, moved to Springfield, Illinois, in IS32. Of their children-
WILKINS raised a family in Kentucky and resides near Oconee, Illinois.
PATTY, 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 B., died in California.
WILLIAM married in Kentucky. Residence not known.
LEWIS lives near Moberly, Missouri.
MATILDA married in Springfield to Mossman Ballard, and died in California. JAMES married in Chicago, and lives at Durant, Illinois.
LUCINDA was born August 19, 1823, in Woodford county, Kentucky, came to Sangamon county in 1832, married in Springfield Nov. 12, 1843, to Willis H. Johnson. He was born Sept. 18, 18IS, 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 Ill. 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 married 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, Ill. GEORGE W., born June 15, 1848, was married Nov. 28, 1872, to Helen Maxon, in Blooming- ton, Illinois, and lives there. JOHN M., DRUSILLA J. 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 IS45 or '46.
JANE, born Feb. 10, IS26, 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, IS34, 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, IS2S, about six miles south of Springfield, in what is now Woodside township, where two children were born. Of their children-
JOHN married Ellen Haley and died in I848 or '49, and his widow married Milton Bridges. See his namc.
MELINDA married Jeremiah Adams. She died, leaving four children near Galena, Illinois.
JACOB died at seventeen years of age.
LAVICA married James L. South- wick. See his name.
HARNESS, born Oct. 9, 1SI6, in Bourbon county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, July 15, 1838, to Elizabeth IIall. They had eight children. WILLIAM, born April 10, IS40, died Sept. 14, 1862. SARAH C., born Jan. 26, 1843, lives with her parents. JAMES P., born Jan. 27, 1845, married Dec. 25, IS70, to Anna Staley. They have one child, WILLIAM, and live one and one- half miles west of Chatham, Illinois. JACOB, born July 2, IS4S, lives with his parents. MARIA L. died at five years of age. HARNESS, Jun., born Nov. 15, 1854, and OSCAR, born Feb. 7, IS56, 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 IS2S.
LOUISA f. married Thomas Chord, had ten children, and Mr. Chord died Jan. 20, 1874, leaving his family ncar Peters- burg, Illinois.
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NANCY Joseph Scales. They have ten children, and five in Wis- consin, near Galena, Illinois.
ELIZABETH, born March 10, IS23, 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, IS65, 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 IS2S, and where he was born. It is six miles south of Springfield, Illinois.
Mrs. Mildreth Trumbo died April 20, IS35, and Adam Trumbo married Mrs. Hannah Hall, whose maiden name was Cunningham. He died Oct. 6, 1856, and 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, ISIS. 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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MARY, born Nov. S, 1797, in Virginia, married in Indiana to William Harvey, moved to Christian county, Illinois, raised a family, and she died about 1869.
FOHN, 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, fun., born July 1, 1So8, 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, 18.47, 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, 18IS, 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.
TURPIN, 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 Withrow. See his name.
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URIAH, born in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, aged twenty-two years.
MARTHA, born 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.
NANCY, born in Kentucky, married Jefferson Back. They had nine children. The parents are 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 I., born Nov. 28, ISIS, in Kentucky, came with his mother to Sangamon county in 1831 or '32, married August II, 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, 73d Ill. 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. S, IS41, 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 I., Jun., born Feb. 24, 1849, enlisted in Co. E, 133d Ill. 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, IS51, married Dec. 21, IS70, 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. 11, 1853, lives with his mother-IS74. Charles I. Turpin, Sen., died April 1, 1869, in Sangamon county, and Mrs. Sarah Turpin resides one and one-half miles southwest of Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.
LUCINDA, 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 children, 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 S, IS2S, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 7, 1850, to William Kenney, who was born in IS27, in Harrison county, Kentucky, was a soldier from De Witt county, Illinois, for one year, from June, 1846, in Co. E, 4th Ill. 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 f., born Nov. IS, IS29, 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 New 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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It is two miles north of Sangamon Station, and four miles east of Springfield, Illinois.
GAMES, 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.
HENRY D., born Feb. 3, 1836, in Sangamon county, married Sept. 10, 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.
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THOMAS f., Fun., 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 of Springfield, Illinois.
WILLIAM, born Oct. 16, 1840, in Sangamon county, enlisted July 25, 1862, in Co. I, 114th Ill. 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 S, 1872. Mr. T. and his children live with his mother, five miles east of Springfield, Illinois-1874.
MARY, born Dec. 11, 18.42, 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 I S2S, five miles cast of Springfield, Illinois.
TWIST, JOHN, was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, went to Seneca Falls, when a young man, and was there married to Phobe 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, to Sarah A. Baricman, and moved in August, 1848, to De Witt county, Illinois. They had ten children, CICERO S., the sixth, and SARAH P., the eighth, died young. Of the other cight, 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, De Witt county, Illinois.
JOANNA, born Feb. 26, 1822, in San- gamon county, married Henry Johnson. See his name.
MILO, 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. 1I, 1836, in Sangamon county, Illinois. See name of James Stewart.
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UNDERWOOD, REUBEN, was born March 17, 1798, in Nicholas county, Kentucky. He was married in Bracken county, Kentucky, December 5, IS22, 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 in 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 IS59, at Rushville, 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, IS28, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, August 4, 1835.
THOMAS }., 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 Ill. Inf. He was elected second lieutenant, on the
organization of the company. After the battle of Perryville 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 IS33. Reuben Underwood's widowed mother came with him to Sangamon county, he being the only child. Her maiden name was Sarah Conway. 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, 17So, 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, IS29, in what is now Island Grove town- ship, where one child was born. Of their children-
GEORGE, born Jan. 27, ISII, 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.
LAWRENCE, born August 5, 1812, in Davidson county, Tennessee, married in Sangamon county, April 9, 1835, to 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. They have ten children, and live at Owaneco, Chris- tian county, Illinois. NATHAN T.
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born October 1, 1837, married Mary L. Dorrance, have six children, and live near Loami, Illinois. A ZUBA, born April 18, 1839, married August 13, IS62, to Benjamin F. Weeks, who was born July 6, 1841, in Belmont county, Ohio. They have two children, AMY A. and LAURA A., and reside in Loami, Illinois. Mr. Weeks enlisted August 2, 1862, in Co. F, 51st Ill. 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, IS41, married April 14, 1859, to Samuel M. Neal, have three children, and live near Springfield, Missouri. BARTON WV., born Sept. 26, 1842, lives near Spring- field, Missouri. JESSE T., born Sept. 4, 1847, married 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. DAVID 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.
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