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MEDALINE, born May 18, ISO3, in Mason county, Kentucky, married in San- gamon county Octobor, 1825, to William Alvey. See his name.
ANN R., born August 19, 1805, in Ma- son county, Kentucky, married in Sanga- mon county October, 1825, to James C. McNabb. See his name.
GAMES, born Feb. 29, 1SOS, in Ken- tucky, married in Sangaman county, Feb- ruary, 1833, to Mary Ridgeway. They had five children, and the family moved in 1847 overland to Oregon. Mr. Watson died in 1861, and his widow died in 1873. Four of their children reside near Kings Valley postoffice, Benton county, Oregon.
LUCRETIA, died July 13, 18to, in Mason county, Kentucky, married in San- gamon county, Jan. 20, 1846, to James W. Simpson. They had two children. LA- FAYETTE married Jennie Combs, and resides at Tallula, Illinois. CLIFTON L. resides with his mother. James W. Simpson died in August, 1862, and his widow resides near Tallula, Menard coun- ty, Illinois.
WILLIAM H., born Dec. 15, 1812, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, in 1838, to Agnes Lloyd. He died Sept. 26, 1842, near Middletown, Logan county, Illinois.
AMANDA P., born April 10, 1816, in Mason county, Kentucky, married Wm. S. Pickrell. See his name.
JOHN N., born Oct. 22, ISIS, in Ken-
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Arthur Watson died Sept. 29, 1827, and Mrs. Temperance Watson died Sept. 11, IS37, both near Springfield, Sangamon county, Illinois.
WATSON, JOHN B., born Feb. 10, ISoo, in York District, South Carolina, and came to Illinois with his father, settling somewhere in Randolph county. He was married in Kaskaskia, April 9, 1829, to Mary Gillis, who was born in Wilmington, Delaware, Jan. 31, IS14. They moved to Springfield, soon after they were married, Mr. Watson having been to Sangamon county, in 1827, to look at the country. Of their seven children, all born in Springfield, the eldest died in infancy.
MARGARET, born May 28, IS33, died in Springfield August 11, 1852.
MART L., born June 30, 1836, has been a school and music teacher for twenty years. She is teaching at present-1875- near Petersburg, Menard county, Illinois. GANE E. died in her sixth year.
ANNA L., born Sept. 11, 1842, is a music teacher in Springfield, Illinois.
ELLEN C., born April 25, 1845, died August 11, 1852.
GAMES G., born April 24, 1848, was married Sept. 2, 1875, to Lucy A. Mont- gomery, who was born Feb. 1, 1856, on Fancy creek, Sangamon county, Illinois. J. G. Watson, formerly a farmer, is now residing in Springfield, Illinois.
J. B. Watson taught school the first year he resided in Springfield. He was afterwards county surveyor and engineer of the Great Western railroad. He went to California in 1849 and returned in I852. Mr. Watson and his two daughters died of Asiatic cholera, August 11, 1852. Ellen C. died at half-past one o'clock A. M .; Margaret at half-past seven o'clock A. M., and their father died at half-past nine o'clock P. M. Mrs. Mary Watson's mother, Elizabeth Gillis, belonged to the Society of Friends, and she resided with her daughter in Springfield from about 1830 until her death, which occurred in August, IS52. She was buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery. John B. Watson's mother resided with her daughter-in-law in Springfield from IS54 until her death, which occurred in August, 1860. She was also buried at Oak Ridge Cemetery.
Mrs. Mary Watson was married Dec. 16, 1863, in Springfield, Illinois, to Hon. S. W. Robbins, a prominent lawyer and temperance advocate. They had two children, who died in infancy .. About IS60 Hon. S. W. Robbins and wife moved to their farm, seven miles northwest of Springfield, where he died, June 19, 1871, and she died Jan. 29, IS74,
WATSON, WILLIAM M., was born Oct. 16, 1So7, near Vincennes, Indiana. He was married June 14, 1831, in Jefferson county, Indiana, to Sarah Talbott, who was born August 5, IS14, in Millershurg, Kentucky. They moved to Shelbyville, Illinois, where they had one child, and moved to Springfield, arriving Sept. 24, 1834, where they had eight chil- dren. Of all their children-
GAMES W., born Dec. S, 1833, in Shelbyville, Illinois, married in Spring- field, Jan. 16, 1856, to Angeline Cook, who was born Sept. 3, 1833, in Butler county, Ohio. They have one child, OSCAR A., born in Springfield, Nov. 5, 1856. He is an accountant. James W. Watson is a boot and shoe maker, and since 1871 has been Tyler for the Masonic bodies in Springfield, Illinois.
JULIETT died in 1843, aged ten years.
MARY A., born and married in Spring- field to Edward Miles. He was killed by an accident on the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad in 1865. She resides with her parents in Springfield.
CHARLES H., born Dec. 11, 1839, in Springfield, married Sept. 14, 1874, in Gibson, Illinois, to Mrs. Mary Waddell, whose maiden name was Whitely, a native of Little Rock, Arkansas. Mr. Watson is an artist and lives in Springfield, Illinois.
SARAH lives with her parents.
DAVID died, aged thirteen years.
HESTER died, aged six years.
THEODORE resides with his pa- rents.
EMILY f., born May 20, 1852, in Springfield, married Dec. 22, 1870, to Mervin B. Converse, and resides in Springfield.
William M. Watson and wife reside in Springfield, Illinois.
WATSON, WILLIAM W., born April 1, 1794, in Sussex county, New Jersey, went in 1817 to Lexington, Ken-
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tucky, and was there married, March 15, ISIS, to Mrs. Maria Humerick house, whose maiden name was Cape. She was a na- tive of Lexington. In the autumn of 1818 they moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where they had five children, and Mrs. Maria Watson died there July 17, 1834. The family soon after moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where Mr. Watson was in busi- ness about two years, and in the autumn of 1836 moved to Springfield, Illinois. Of his five children-
BENGAMIN A., born Dec. 9, 1818, in Nashville, Tennessee, was married in Springfield, Illinois, Feb. 11, 1845, to Emily R. Planck. They had seven living children, all except the youngest, born in Springfield. WILLIAM W., born May 13, 1847, was married Oct. 25, 1871, in St. Charles, Illinois, to Augusta C. Tolman. They have two children, WILLIAM W., jun., and a boy babe. W. W. Watson transacts business in Chicago, and with his family resides at Washington Heights, Illi- nois. EMILY, born Oct. 12, 1849, was married Nov. 24, 1870, at Perry Springs, to Dr. A. B. Carey. They have one child, ALBERT WATSON, and reside at Pittsfield, Pike county, Illinois. JULIA, HATTIE CAPE, MOLLIE L., FANNIE and HARRY live with their father. Mrs. Emily R. Watson died July 30, 1871, at Perry Springs, Pike county, Illinois. Mr. Watson, with his unmarried children, re- sides there. Benjamin A. Watson was one of the ten young men who in 1840 trav- eled from Springfield, Illinois, to Nash- ville, Tennessee, to hear Henry Clay make a speech. Sec page 480.
ABIGAIL, born Nov. 5, 1822, in Nash- ville, Tennessee, was married in Spring- field June 27, 1843, to John G. Ives, and resides in Springfield, Illinois.
ANN MARIA, born Dec. 5, 1824, in Nashville, Tennessee, was married in Springfield, Illinois, to Thomas S. Little. See his name.
HESTER, born July 21, 1826, in Nash- ville, was married in Springfield, Illinois, to Thomas Billson. They had three chil- dren in Springfield. CORDELIA mar- ried George Wass, and lives in Paines- ville, Ohio. WILLIAM W., was mar- ried in Portland, Maine, to Alice Harford, and lives in St. Paul, Minnesota. BELLE F. lives with her brother William W. Thomas Billson went from Springfield to
California in 1849, and died there in 1850. Mrs. Hester Billson was married in Spring- field, Illinois, about 1856, to Chas. Reeves, of Cleveland, Ohio, and went there to re- side. They had two children, GEORGE, now living with his father in Cleveland, and EDWIN C., who lives with his aunt, Mrs. Thomas S. Little, in Springfield. Mrs. Hester Reeves died March 26, 1862, in Cleveland, Ohio.
CORDELIA, born March 16, 1828, in Nashville, Tennessee, was married in Springfield, Ill., to Noah Divelbiss. See his name.
William W. Watson was married May 19, 1842, in Springfield, Illinois, to Mrs. Sarah Mottashed, whose maiden name was Wiley. He died Nov. 2, 1874, in Spring- field, and his widow lives in Decatur, Illi- nois.
WATTS, BENJAMIN, born Nov. 22, 1769, at Warwick, Franklin county, Massachusetts, was the eldest child of Nicholas Watts and Eunice Newton, his wife. Mary Barbour was born Jan. 4, 1771, in Warwick, Massachu- setts. Benjamin Watts and Mary Bar- bour were there married and moved to Shoreham, thence to Windham, Vermont, and from there to Lyman, Grafton county, New Hampshire. They moved to San- gamon county, Illinois, in the fall of 1837. Of their sixteen children six died young. Of the other ten who came to Sangamon county --
JOSEPH, born Sept. 1, 1793, in Vermont, was married in Lyman, New Hampshire, to Mahala Smith, came to Sangamon county in 1838, and moved to Menard county, Illinois, where they both died, leaving five children. ALONZO is married and lives in Iowa. GEORGE, BENJAMIN, NEWELL and AUSTIN.
LIDIA, born July 9, 1798, in New Hampshire, married Gideon Tripp. She is a widow and lives near Farmingdale, Illinois.
SALL 1, born Jan. 26, 1800, in Lyman, New Hampshire, married Joel Buckman. See his name. Their only child, BEN- JAMIN, is married, and lives near Farm- ingdale, Illinois.
NICHOLAS, born Dec. 31, 1801, in New Hampshire, married Elizabeth Pallady. They have one child, BENJA- MIN, who is married, and lives in Macon county, Illinois. Nicholas Watts and
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family came to Sangamon county in 1842, where he died May 9, 1843. His widow married again.
CHARLES, born Jan. 11, 1804, in Lyman, Grafton county, New Hampshire, was taken by his parents to St. Lawrence county, New York, in 1821. He was married at Brasher, in that county, Nov. 22, 1823, to Elizabeth Innes. They came with one child, in a colony of fifty-two persons, arriving in the fall of 1833, at Old Sangamo. July 4, 1834, they moved to a place one-fourth of a mile south of the present Farmingdale station. Of their ten children, ALEXANDER J., born Oct. 29, 1831, in St. Lawrence county, New York, brought up in Sangamon county, Illinois, left for Oregon in 1851, returned to Sangamon county in 1866, and was married April 4, 1867, in Jack- sonville, Illinois, to Alexina J. Lander. They left the same month for Oregon. Mrs. Alexina J. Watts died May 15, 1868, near Applegate, Jackson county, Oregon. Alexander G. Watts resides there, and is county surveyor-1874. ANN JANE, born Dec. 31, 1833, in Sangamon county, was married there Nov. 10, 1853, to Thomas P. Stacy, who was born May 2, 1827, in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. They have seven children, ELIZABETHI A., MATHEW K., ALEXINA J., WILLIAM H., SALLIE M., THOMAS E. and GATES, and reside in Jacksonville, Ill. CHARLES H., born Dec. 2, 1836, in Sangamon county, lives near Farmingdale. EDWIN, born June 14, 1839, in Sangamon county, was married Oct. 19, 1871, to Laura E. Rickard. They have one child, and live five miles southwest of Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois. ALBERT B., born Oct. 23, 1841, in Sangamon county, was married Nov. 19, 1867, to Amelia L. Dustin, who was born June 20, 1847, in Jacksonville, Illinois. They have four children, ANNA J., LUCRETIA, CHARLES and JAMES, and live three- fourths of a mile northwest of Farming- dale, Illinois. SAMUEL W., born Aug. 14, 1844, in Sangamon county, lives with his parents. RICHARD N., born Jan. 13, 1848, in Sangamon county, was mar- ried Jan. 19, 1871, to Ellen F. McDermott. They have two children, and live in Shelby county, near Assumption, Chris- tian county, Illinois. THOMAS B., WILLIAM and MARY E. live with
their parents adjoining Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois, on the south. Mr. and Mrs. Watts counted twenty-nine of the fifty-two persons form- ing the colony in which they came to San- gamon county. About half of this colony of fifty-two are now living-1876.
ISAAC and BENJAMIN, twins, born Nov. 26, 1808, at Lyman, New Hampshire.
ISAAC was married in St. Lawrence county, New York, Nov. 28, 1833, to Jemima Nevin, who was born June 5, 1815, in county Down, Ireland. They had two children in New York, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct. 7, 1838, in what is now Cartwright township, where two children were born, one of whom died in his fifth year. Of the other three, GEORGIE K., born Nov. 10, 1834, in New York, was married in Sangamon county, August 10, 1864, to Andrew Wilson. See his name. RUS- SELL, born August 24, 1836, in New York, was married August, 1871, in Iowa, to Mary E. Hardin. They have one child, ISAAC, and live at North Platte, Nebraska, on the Union Pacific railroad. JOHN N. Isaac Watts resides two miles southwest of Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois.
BENJAMIN, Fun., was married in St. Lawrence county, New York, to Calista Jacobs, came to Sangamon county in the fall of 1838. Their only child died young, and Mrs. Watts died in 1840 or 41. Benjamin Watts was married in 1842 to Orpha Bates. They had four children, one of whom died young. CALISTA P. and JAMES A. live with their mother. BENJAMIN O. married Sept. 26, 1876, to Miss Brown at Pleasant Plains. Benjamin Watts, Jun., died Feb- ruary, 1862, and his widow lives three miles west of Pleasant Plains, Illinois.
IRENA and RUSSELL, twins, born June 15, 1813, in New Hampshire.
IRENA married Isaac Holmes and he died, leaving two children. His widow married James Bates. See his name.
RUSSELL came to Sangamon coun- ty in I$35, and was married March, 1839, to Diantha Holmes. They had three children, and moved in 1847 to Calapooga, Lynn county, Oregon, where Mr. Watts died Dec. 11, 1854, leaving five children. His widow has since married.
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Benjamin Watts, Sen., died Sept. 11, 1838, and Mrs. Mary Watts died two days later, Sept. 13, 1838, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.
WAY, JOHN, was born Sept. 11, 1793, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. His half sister, Rebecca Way, six years younger than himself, married Joseph Taylor, and they are the parents of Bayard Taylor, the world-renowned author, historian, poet and traveler. The mother of John Way died when he was a child, and his grand- father Ash brought him up in Chester county, Pennsylvania. Ann St. Clair was born in Chester county, August 16, 1803. John Way and Ann St. Clair were there married in the spring of 1823. They had two children in that county, and moved to Philadelphia, where two children were born, two of the four children died in in- fancy. In the spring of 1838 Mr. Way took his family to Chester county, and left them there while he visited the western country. He decided to make Springfield his home, and wrote to his wife to come on with the family. She fortunately learned of a gentleman by the name of Clendening who was coming west to visit a married daughter. He drove a light wagon, and Mrs. Way made arrangements to come and bring her two children. Mr Way rode on horseback to Paris, Edgar county, Illinois, and met them there. The whole party arrived at Springfield in No- vember, 1838. Mr. Way was a plasterer, and the public buildings and other im- provements here called for his services. Some of his work in the Marine Insurance Company's bank building, Springfield, is likely to stand for many years to come. They had six children in Springfield. Of their eight children-
REBECCA, born May 11, 1828, in Chester county, Pennsylvania, died Feb. 9, 1846, at St. Louis, Missouri, while visit- ing a relative of the family.
RACHEL E., born June 19, 1824, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, married Dec. 31, 1851, in Springfield, Illinois, to Chris- tian Schwarberg. They have four chil- dren. EDWARD J. married Emma Kidd, and lives near Springfield. ANNIE, GUSSIE and FRANK V., live with their parents four and a half miles northwest of Springfield, Illinois.
HARRIET S., born Oct. 7, 1839, in Springfield, Illinois, was married there
Sept. 27, 1855, to John C. Stansbury, who was born April 12, 1834, at Basking Ridge, Somerset county, New Jersey, and came to Springfield, June 27, 1854. They have four children, ANNA M., was married Sept. 24, 1873, to Arthur C. Ham- mond. They have one child, WILLIE T., and live in Loami, Illinois. CHAR- LOTTE E., ADA B. and FRANK H., live with their parents. Mr. Stansbury is engaged in the business of carriage and wagon manufacturing in Loami, Sanga- mon county, Illinois, and resides there.
CHARLOTTE E., born Dec. 20, 1841, in Springfield, married January, 1863, to George Riley Stevens. They have three children, ANNA, HARRIET and FRANK, and live in Montgomery coun- ty, Illinois.
JOHN C., born Feb. 25, 1844, in Springfield, enlisted August, 1861, at St. Louis, in what hecame Co. B, 11th Mo. Inf. for three years, was discharged on ac- count of physical disability March, 1862. He re-enlisted June, 1864, for 100 days in an Illinois regiment, went to Rock Island to guard prisoners, acted as commissary clerk, served full time and was honorably discharged, and lives in Montgomery coun- ty, Illinois.
MARY T., born Feb. 19, 1846, in Springfield, married July, 1865, to Preston H. Souther. They have three children, viz: MAUD, MABEL and HOWARD, and reside at Topeka, Kansas.
EMMA T., born March 20, 1848, is unmarried and resides at Glasgow, Mis- souri.
JULIA A., born June 20, 1850, mar- ried November, 1865, to August Schwar- berg, who died March, 1866. His widow married November 10, 1869, to Benja- min Vanderver. They have one child, GRACIE, and reside at Coatsville, Penn- sylvania.
Mrs. Ann Way died May 12, 1864, in Springfield. John Way was married in 1869, to Mrs. Coverdill. She died August, 1871, and he died suddenly Jan. 18, 1875, at Gerard, Illinois.
WEAVER, LEWIS, was born August S, 1798, near the river Rhine, in Germany. He came to America when a young man, and was married in Franklin connty, Pennsylvania, to Savilla Earhart, a native of Maryland. They had four children in Pennsylvania. He started to
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move to Jefferson City, Missouri, but changed his mind and came to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in 1838 or '39, near Springfield, where four children were born. Of their children-
FREDERICK, born Sept. 23, 1829, in Pennsylvania, died in Sangamon county, Sept. 23, 1842.
LEWIS, fun., born July 17, 1832, in Pennsylvania, died in Sangamon county, July 3, 1842.
SAMUEL, born Oct. 16, 1834, in Franklin county, Pennsylvania, married Feb. 14, 1860, in Sangamon county, to Maria Jane Lake, who was born March 13, 1843, in Knox county, Ohio. They have six children, RACHEL L., JACOB F., MARY C., PHILIP L. and JESSIE E., and live in Cooper township, four miles southwest of Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, Illinois.
JOHN H., born June 13, 1837, in Pennsylvania, married and lives near Illio- polis, Illinois.
ELI, born Jan. 15, 1840, in Sangamon county, married near Chatham to Anna Haddon. They have one child, MARY A., and live near Blue Mound, Macon county, Illinois.
LOUISA, born Jan. 19, 1843, in San- gamon county, married William R. Par- ker, have two children, and live near Eugene City, Oregon.
ELIZABETH, born Nov. 9, 1845, in Sangamon county, married Henry M. Johnson, and lives near Blue Mound, Ma- con county, Illinois.
DANIEL, born Sept. 22, 1849, in San- gamon county, lives with his brother, Samuel.
Lewis Weaver died April 22, 1853, and Mrs. Savilla Weaver died Oct. 14, 1864, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.
WEBB, HIRAM LUTHER, was born Nov. 12, 1799, in Rockingham, Vermont. The Webb family was a very old one in London and Weymouth, Eng- land, at the time the Plymouth colony was settled in Massachusetts. Two of them, Francis and Thomas Webb, were active members of the colony before it left Eng- land, but it is not certain that they came to America. Christopher Webb, of Wey- mouth, came to America previous to 1645, and settled in Braintree, Massachu- setts. The name of his wife is not known, but they had six children. His
eldest son, Christopher, born probably in England, about 1630, married Jan. IS, 1654 or '55, to Hannah Scott, lived in Braintree, Massachusetts, and had nine children. Their third child, Samuel, born August 16, 1660, married December, 1686, to Mary Adams, had four children, and moved to Windham, Connecticut, in 1707, where they had one child. Their second child, Samuel, born May 14, 1690, mar- ried Oct. S, 1711, to Hannah Ripley, grand-daughter of Governor William Bradford. They had four children. Their fourth child, Joshua, born Feb. 9, 1721, married May 28, 1744, to Hannah Abbey. They had four children in Windham, Connecticut, and moved to Bellows Falls, Vermont, about 1751, where they had seven childred. The father, mother and eleven children lived until the youngest was forty-four years old. Joshua Webb, being one of the first settlers in Vermont, took an active part in the movement for erecting it into a separate state, and was a member of the state legislature for the first twelve years of its existence. His tenth child, Luther, born Oct. 24, 1763, following the example of several of his elder brothers, eagerly enlisted as soon as he was old enough to be received in the army of the Revolution, and served until Independence was achieved. One of his brothers was a colonel and another a captain, but Luther, being the youngest, served as a private. They all lived to be very old, and were entitled each to a pen- sion, but declined to apply for it, saying they had fought for freedom and not for money. Luther was married Feb. 9, 1792, to Dorothy Wheclock, and had seven children. The fourth child, Hiram Luther, whose name heads this sketch, was married Dec. 15, 1823, in the town of Walpole, New Hampshire, to Martha B. Bates. She was born Sept. 30, 1799, in the town of Jeffrey, Cheshire county, New Hampshire. They made their home in Rockingham, Vermont, until five chil- dren were born, and started west, moving in wagons, and at the end of six weeks, which was the shortest trip made by any one from that region of country, they arrived in Sangamon county Nov. 13, IS34, and settled one mile west of the present Farmingdale Station, where two children were born. Of their children-
MARTHA B., born Dec. 6, 1824, in
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Rockingham, Vermont, resides with her mother.
HARRIET ., born Feb. 26, IS27, in Rockingham, Vermont, married in Sangamon county, August 9, 1848, to Joseph E. Cobbey, who was born No- vember, 1824, in Ohio. They have three children, JOSEPH E., Jun., THOMAS D. and JAMES W., and live at Vinton, Iowa.
GANE G., born Feb. 18, 1829, in Ver- mont, married in Sangamon county, Jan. I, 1857, to Edgar A. Kincaid, who was born in 1825, in Kentucky. They have four children, FRED L., MATTIE A., ALBERT E. and DICK BATES, and reside near Athens, Menard county, Illinois.
JOHN W., born Nov. 24, 1830, in Vermont, died in Sangamon county, Oct. 22, 1847.
GAMES, born Jan. 12, 1833, in Rock- ingham, Vermont, is unmarried, and re- sides on the farm settled by his parents in 1834. It is one mile west of Farming- dale, Sangamon county, Illinois.
JOSEPH L., born August 1, 1837, in Sangamon county, graduated at the Eclectic Medical College, of Cincinnati, Ohio, married Oct. 30, 1873, in Beatrice, Nebraska, to Louisa Kate Shepherd, and is a practicing physician there.
HIRAM P., born March 14, IS42, in Sangamon county, graduated at the State University of Indiana, at Bloomington, in the class of 1865, graduated in law in 1867, and was admitted to practice in Springfield, Illinois, went to Nebraska and was elected treasurer of Gage county in 1869, '71 and '73 for two years each term. He is also engaged in the practice of law and in banking in Beatrice. He was mar- ried Oct. 20, 1873, to Jenett Maxfield, in Beatrice, Nebraska, and resides there.
Hiram L. Webb died Oct. 21, 1847, and his widow resides one mile west of Farm- ingdale, Illinois, where the family settled in 1834. Mr. Webb sold the first corn he raised in the county at eight cents per bushel in trade. He made several trips to Chicago, one hundred and eighty-five miles, with a wagon load of butter and bacon, exchanged them for stores and hardware, which he sold on his return home, after supplying his own needs. James says that his first business trans- action, for himself and one of his brothers,
was to sell eggs at three cents per dozen, and buy each of them a jack knife.
WEBB, JAMES G., was born Feb. 3, 1792, near Winchester, Clarke county, Kentucky. Elizabeth Petty was born May 3, 1795, in the same county. They were there married, and had two children, and the family moved to Sanga- mon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1826 in what is now Loami township, south of Lick creek. In IS29 he sold his farm and moved to Buffalo Hart Grove, and in 1831 bought the same farm and moved back to Loami township. Five children were born in Sangamon county. Of the seven chil-
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WILLIS R., born Sept. 18, 1830, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, to Emily Darneille. They had three chil- dren, and the whole family died in Loami township.
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