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THOMAS H. born May 12, IS17, in Kentucky, was married to Mary Ran- dolph. They went to Pike's Peak, where Mrs. Whitesides died, leaving four chil- dren, two of whom have since died. T. H. Whitesides resides near Mt. Pulaski, Logan county, Illinois.
CHARLES H. born March, IS19, in Fayette county, Kentucky, was married in Springfield to Emeline Sargent. They had five children, and moved to California in 1850. The last heard from them, in 1872, they were in the Sandwch Islands.
NICHOLAS B., born April IS, IS21, in Cumberland county, Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, April S, 1847, to Agnes J. Turley. They had five children, two of whom died young. EMILY C., born March 4, 1850, resides with her father. MARY E., born March 11, 1854, was married Jan. 19, 1873, to Wilson W. Yates, and resides near Plato, Iroquois county, Illinois. IDA A., born April 19, 1862, resides with her father. Mrs. Agnes J. Whitesides died May 19, 1863, and N. B. Whitesides resides four miles cast of Springfield, Illinois.
GEORGE G., born Feb. 23, 1824, in Cumberland county, Kentucky, brought up in Sangamon county, Illinois, and mar- ried Elizabeth A. Beiks. They had four children, SARAH E., ROBERT F., JOHN M. and WILLIAM A. Mrs. W. died, and G. G. Whitesides married Mrs. A. Benton, whose maiden name was
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Copeland. They had one child, MAGGIE R. Mrs. G. G. Whitesides had two children by her first marriage, LYDIA A. and EUNICE E. Benton. G. G. Whitesides and family reside in Logan county, north of Illiopolis, Illinois.
MARGARET C., born March 15, 1826, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, in I845.
MARY E., born May 15, 1828, in Cumberland county, Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, was married March 1, 1855, to Andrew Buckles. They had seven children, two died young. MARY T., FLORA A., EMMA L., HENRY S. and ROBERT E., and reside near Mt. Pulaski, Illinois.
MARION F., born August 28, IS30, in Cumberland county, Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, Jan. 1, IS52, to Anna E. Black. They had four children, three died in infancy. MARY, the eldest, resides with her parents. M. F. Whitesides and wife reside in Spring- field, Illinois.
Charles Whitesides died March 31, 1836, four miles northeast of Springfield, and his widow died June 25, 1855, in Logan county, Illinois.
WIKOFF, WILLIAM W., born March 23, ISOS, in Monmouth coun- ty, New Jersey. His parents moved to Warren county, Ohio, in ISIo. He was there married Dec. 24, 1829, to Sarah C. Sinnard, who was born in the same county Oct. 5, ISIO. They moved to Sanga- mon county, Ill., arriving June 19, 1837, on Richland creek, and in IS3S to Island Grove township, and in 1864 into what is now New Berlin township. They brought three children from Ohio, and had six in Sangamon county. Of their nine chil- dren -
ALBERT G., born Dec. 6, 1830, in Warren county, Ohio, married in Sanga- mon county, Dec. 14, 1854, to Ann E. Allen, who was born Dec. 14, IS37, in Morgan county, Illinois. They had five children. THOMAS J. died aged three years. CORDELIA K., DORA BELL, EDWIN A. and ALONZO H. live with their parents one and three-quarter miles southeast of Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois-IS74.
WILLIAM S., born Feb. 18, 1832, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county, Sept. IS, 1853, to Mary E. Allen. They have
eight children, and live near Hamburg, Fremont county, Iowa.
ALONZO H., born Oct. 16, 1835, in Ohio, married Dec. 24, 1857, to Ella Me- Donnell, have four children, and live in Hamburg, Iowa.
CATHARINE F., born July 24, 1839, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 24, IS61, to Thomas W. Taylor, and resides in Berlin, Illinois.
PETER P., born Oet. 10, IS41, in Sangamon county, married May 20, 1872, to Mary A. Cox, and live in Hamburg, Iowa.
THOMAS f., born July 4, 1844, died May 10, 1864.
JOHN M., MARY M., and MARTHA C., reside with their parents near New Berlin, Sangamon county, Illi- nois.
W. W. Wikoff was keeping tavern at Palmyra, now called Mason, Warren coun- ty, Ohio, at the time of the sudden change, Dee. 20, 1836. He remembers that the cold wave arrived there about nine o'clock P. M. When he came to Illinois and con- versed with the people, he found that the change took place here about one o'clock P. M. It had taken about eight hours to travel 350 miles. See sudden change, page 65.
WYCKOFF, SAMUEL, born in 17SI, in Loudon county, Virginia. He moved in company with his parents to Bourbon county, Kentucky, in ISOS. He was there married in 1812 to Rebecca Darneille, who was born at Bryan Station, Kentucky, in 1787. They had seven chil- dren in Kentucky, and moved to Sanga- mon county, arriving Oet. 12, 1S22, in what is now Chatham township, wheretwo children were born. Of all their children :
JULIA A., born in 1813, married Stephen B. Neal. See his name.
JOHN THOMAS, born IS14, married IS37 to Sarah Shelton, who died, and he married Amanda Jacobs, and she died and he married Jane Foster. She died and he died in 1856, leaving one child.
SUSANNAH H., born July 7, 1815, married Washington Hall. See his name.
MAHALA f., born 1817, died aged twenty-seven years.
LORENA, born 1818 in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Allen Snyder. They have nine children, and live at Mowequa, Shelby county, Illinois.
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BENGAMIN F., born July 19, 1819, married Delilah Harbour, had one child, and Mr. Wyckoff died August, 1843.
ASHER P., born Nov. 28, 1821, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Oct. 15, 1840, to Sarah M. Gibson, who was born April 24, 1817, in Todd county, Kentucky, and came to Sangamon county with her mother in 1828. The mother died March 12, 1859, at Wyandotte, Kan- sas. Mr. and Mrs. W. had teu children, among them three pair of twins. Six of their children died under seven years of age. Of the other four, JOHN W. lives in Kansas. HENRY C. lives near Chatham, Illinois. They were both sol- diers in an Illinois regiment. MARY A. married James Eaman, and lives in Otta- wa, Kansas. WINFIELD S. was a sol- dier in an Iowa regiment. Asher P. Wyckoff and wife live in Kansas.
EMELINE, born in Sangamon coun- ty in 1824, married Henry Hall in 1843, and both died leaving five children, near Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois.
CHARLES H., born 1826, married Emeline Rude, and live in. Cedar county, Missouri.
Samuel Wyckoff died March 18, 1850, and his widow in March, 1853, both near Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.
WILCOX, JOHN, was born in Maryland on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay. His parents died when he was quite young, and to keep from being bound out, he ran away, embarked on a sailing vessel and went to the West India islands, returning to Maryland, and when he was sixteen or seventeen years old went with a family to Virginia, and from there to the vicinity of Danville, Kentucky. He was married in Oldham county, Kentucky, to Lucinda Oglesby. She was born in Loudon county, Virginia, and her parents moved to that part of Shelby which afterwards became Oldham county, Kentucky. Her father, William Oglesby, was a soldier in the Revolution. John Wilcox and his wife had two chil- dren in Oldham county, and moved to Davidson county, Tennessee, where one child was born, and then moved to Logan county, Kentucky, where eight children were born. In ISI8, the family moved to St. Clair county, Illinois, and from there to what became Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1819, about six miles
east of where Springfield now stands, and settled between the mouths of Sugar creek and the south fork of Sangamon river. Of their eleven children-
MAHALA, born in Kentucky and married Thomas Moore. They had three children, and she died August IS, 1855, and Thomas Moore died April 28, 1866, both near Berlin, Illinois.
STEPHEN, born in Kentucky, mar- ried in 1824 to Harriet Newell. They had eight children. He died March 22, 1858, and his widow lives with her young- est son, STEPHEN, near Blue Mound, Macon county, Illinois.
ELLIS, born in Davidson county, Tennessee, about 1790, married Feh. 24, IS24, in Simpson county, Kentucky, to Ann Lewis, who was born Dec. 21, 1800, in Pendleton district, South Carolina. They had two children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in 1828, in Island Grove, where they had five living children, namely, LUCINDA, born February 15, 1825, in Simpson county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Thomas Rhea. See his name. NERIAH L., born in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, aged ten years. THOMAS, born June 28, 1831, in Sangamon county, mar- ried Catharine Ruble. They have eight children, CHARLES L., ALBERT N., BENJA- MIN F., MARY A., WALLACE B., FRANCIS, CLARENCE and RUTH S., and live in Mor- gan county, six miles west of Berlin, San- gamon county, Illinois. JOHN F., born Feb. 12, 1836, in Sangamon county, mar- ried July 24, 1863, to Mary A. Rhea, had one child which died in infancy, and Mrs. Wilcox died May 16, 1865. He was mar- ried August 7, 1866, to Fanny Scott. They have three children, JAY GALE, N. ELLIS and NELLIE, and live three-quar- ters of a mile northwest of Loami, Illinois. CHARLES H., born May 10, 1838, mar- ried Sept. 11, 1864, to Caroline Caruthers, have two children, and lives with his father. SAMUEL M. died Jan. 29, 1863, in the twenty-third year of his age. JOSIAH L., born Nov. 26, 1844, in San- gamon county, married May, 1861, to Alice V. Parker. They had one child, JOE A., and Mrs. Wilcox died Jan. 29, 1862. Dr. Joc L. Wilcox was appointed, May 19, 1862, second assistant surgeon of the uIth Ill. Cav., was promoted May 19, 1863, to
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first assistant surgeon, served to the end of the rebellion, when he was mustered out with his regiment, October, 1865. He was married Nov. 9, 1865, to Jean F. Patteson. They have three children, DWIGHT, AUGUSTUS P. and ANNIE. Dr. Wilcox was elected, November, 1874, as one of the representatives of Sangamon county in the twenty-ninth general assembly of Illinois, and is a practicing physician at Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois. Ellis Wilcox and wife now- 1876-reside where they settled in IS29. It is five miles west of Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois.
MARTHA died in her fourteenth year.
EDITH, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Duke Chilton, and died, leaving her husband and two children at Oneco, Stephenson county, Illinois.
ELIZABETH died ,aged twenty-two years.
NANCY married Andrew Stice, and lied August, 1871, leaving her husband and four children at Jacksonville, Illinois.
ELIZA married William Oglesby and died in 1843, leaving two sons, JOSEPH and STEPHEN, near Belleville, Illinois.
WILLIAM, born August 9, IS13, in Logan county, Kentucky, raised in San- gamon county, was a soldier in the Black- hawk war, married Nov. S, 1835, in Old- ham county, Kentucky, to Nancy Ellis, had five children, and Mrs. Wilcox died Oct. 2, 1852, leaving two children, ELLIS O. and GEORGE W. He was married Nov. 9, 1856, to Mary Wilbourne. They have two children, CHARLOTTE and WILLIAM BEN. E., and reside three miles west of Berlin, Sangamon county, Illinois.
JOSHUA, born in Kentucky, raised in Sangamon county, married twice, and lives west of Berlin, Illinois.
FRANCES is unmarried and lives with her brother-in-law, Stice, at Jackson- ville, Illinois.
John Wilcox died about 1823, and his widow died in 1842, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.
WILCOCKSON, WIL- LIAM, born August S, 1789, in Rowan county, North Carolina. Mary. England, sister to Rev. Stephen England, was born March 14, 1786, in Virginia. Her parents moved to Bath county, Kentucky, when
she was quite young. William Wilcock- son and Mary England were there mar- ried, had seven children, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, in the fall of 1821, in company with their son-in-law, George Power. They settled in what is now Fancy creek township, where two children were born. Of their children-
DAVID died in Kentucky, aged seven years.
NANCY, born June 13, 1804, in Bath county, Kentucky, married there to Geo. Power. Scc his name.
MELINDA, born in Kentucky, was twice married, is now a widow, Gibson, and resides in Woodford county, Illinois.
JOHN married Caroline Spears. He died leaving a widow and nine children in Christian county, Illinois.
STEPHEN E., born in Bath county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Mary J. Lake. They have eight chil- dren, BAYLESS L., LUCY J., ELIZA A., EMELINE F., CHARLES HI., JAMES E., ELIZABETH C. and JOHN S. The second and third are mar- ried, and reside in Henry county, Missouri. All the others reside with their parents near Elkhart, Illinois.
LUCY married Hiram Powell, and both died without children.
ELLEN married John Morgan, had twelve children, and lives in Iowa.
WILLIAM B., born Oct. 15, 1822, in Sangamon county, married September, IS4S, to Clarinda Claypool, who was born Nov. 17, 1823, in Champaign county, Ohio. They had four children, and Mr. Wilcock- son died very suddenly, April 26, 1856, near Athens, Illinois. Of their children, LEVI C. lives with his mother and manages the farm. THOMAS R., is a student at Ann Arbor, Michigan-1874-with the inten- tion of making the law his profession. JOHN W. and MARY E. reside with their mother, two miles north of Cantrall, Sangamon county, Illinois.
GEORGE W., born in Sangamon county, married Susan Brown. They had seven children, and live in Lawrence coun- ty, Missouri.
Mrs. Mary Wilcockson died August 10, IS60, and William Wilcockson died July 24, 1864, both in Fancy creek township, Sangamon county, Illinois.
WILEY. The origin of the family in America was through a man of that
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name who lived and died in the county of Armagh, Ireland. His first name is not preserved. It is not certainly known, but believed by his descendants, that he was a native of Scotland. He possessed consid- erable property, and died early in life, leaving as the executor of his will a brother, who defrauded the children of their prop- erty. Five of the children-probably all there were-emigrated to New York city in 1734 or '35. One of his sons, who, it is thought, bore the name of Alexander, was borr. in 1711 in county Armagh, Ireland, married in New York city to Jane Bell. They had ten children, five of whom, two sons and three daughters, grew to be men and women. Their eldest son, Alexander, born Feb. 6, 1745, in New York, was eleven years old when his father died, about 1756, one year after Braddock's de- feat. He was apprenticed by his sister Elizabeth-older than himself-to a tailor, and continued in that business thirty years. He married Elizabeth Carr, who was born May 19, 1752. They had ten children. He died Feb. 29, 1824, and she died Dec. 23, 1834. The eldest child, Alexander C., born June 22, 1770, in New York city, married August 27, 1795, to Sarah Coe, who was born Dec. 9, 1774. They had ten children, six sons and four daughters. Their daughter Sarah, born Nov. 24, 1802, married July 4, 1824, to Jonathan Motta- shed, in New York city. He died there April 1, 1832, and she married William W. Watson. See his name. They had a son, Alexander Wiley, also, but he never came west. Their son-
WILEY, EDMUND. R., born Feb. IS, ISOS, in New York city, was mar- ried there August 3, 1830, to Catharine Beach. They had three children in New York, and came to Springfield, Illinois, in IS35, where six children were born. Of all their living children-
FRANCES, born July 29, 1831, in New York, resides with her mother.
EDMUND R., Fun., born June 20, IS33, in New York, read law in Spring- field, Ilhnois, and was admitted to the bar. He practiced his profession in Decatur for a short time and returned to Springfield. In 1861 he was appointed adjutant of the 62d Ill. Inf., and served one year. He was major of 6Ist (colored) Inf. for sixteen months, lieutenant colonel of 3d Colored Heavy Art. about six months, and colonel
of the SSth (colored) Inf. one year. Colo- nel Wiley was clerk of Arkansas county from Nov. 5, 1867, to Oct. 7, 1871, repre- sented said county in the state legislature of 1871 and '72, was elected sheriff in the autumn of 1872, and served until October, IS74. Colonel E. R. Wiley was married in Dewitt, Arkansas, Sept. 29, IS6S, to . La- dora E. Rice, who was born Oct. 3, 1852, at Springfield, Conway county, Arkansas. They have four children, ALFRED R., ANDREW E., CATHARINE and DORA E., who reside with their parents. E. R. Wiley is a farmer, and lived in Dewitt, Arkansas, until 1876, when he moved to Danville, Illinois.
MARY A. resides with her mother.
AMELIA, born Jan. 17, 1837, in Springfield, Illinois, was married there May 3, 1866, to George White, who was born July 2, 1840, in Pottsdam, New York, and came to Springfield, Illinois, in 1865. They have three children, ED- MUND R., GEORGE F. and HOW- ARD W., and reside in Springfield, Illi- nois.
ALEXANDER C. born Nov. 9, 1838, in Springfield, enlisted in Co. G, 114th Ill. Inf., was in the siege of Vicks- burg, served seventeen months and was appointed lieutenant of Co. E, 6Ist United States Colored Infantry. He was in the battle of Tupello, Mississippi, served nine months and was honorably dis- charged Oet. 5, 1864, at Washington, D. C. Lieutenant Wiley was deputy circuit clerk of Arkansas county for six years. He was married April 17, 1871, in De Witt, Arkansas, to Jennie Quertermous, who was born in Hardin county, Kentucky. They have two children, ROBERT E. and FREDERICK H., who reside with their parents in De Witt, Arkansas county, Arkansas.
RICHARD B., born Jan. 15, 1841, in Springfield, Illinois, enlisted in an Illinois regiment during the
rebellion ; is distinguished for his musical talent, and is organist in the Chestnut street Presbyterian church, Louisville, Kentucky.
NETTIE, born in 1844, in Spring- field, Illinois, is unmarried, and resides with her mother.
ALFRED, born Sept. 7, IS48, in Springfield, Illinois, was married near Williamette, Arkansas, Sept. 7, 1876, to Pattic M. Hubbard, daughter of Dr. B.
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C. Hubbard. Alfred Wiley was a farmer and lived
near De Witt, Arkansas until 1876, when he moved to Starr City, Lincoln county, Arkansas, and engaged in the practice of law.
Edmund R. Wiley, Sen., was in the eloth- ing business in Springfield, until his death, which occurred July 19, 1864. His widow and daughters live in Springfield, Illinois.
WILLARD, ALEXANDER P., born April S, 1815, in Vernon, Oneida county, New York. He was married June 3, 1837, in Chemung county, in the same state to Louisa L. Higgie. They came the same year to Springfield, Illinois, where they had two children, one of whom died young.
LUCY E., was born March, 1839, in Springfield, married in her native city to William D. Richardson. They have two children and reside in Springfield, Illinois. Mr. Richardson at the time of his marriage was engaged in railroading. After that he became a contractor and builder. Among his largest contracts was the brick- work on the Macoupin county court house, the entire work of building the national Lincoln monument, and the greater part of the brick and stone work on the new state house of Illinois, on which he has been engaged from 1871 to the present time- November, 1876.
Alexander P. Willard was in partner- ship for a short time after coming to Springfield with E. G. Johns. In IS41 he formed a partnership with Robert B. Zim- merman. See his name. They continued in the business of painters and glaziers, and dealers in materials connected with their business until the death of Mr. Wil- lard, which occurred very suddenly, May 5, 1865, in Springfield. Mrs. Willard re- sides with her daughter, Mrs. Richardson, in Springfield, Illinois.
WILLIAMS, EDWARD, was born June 3, 1789, in Hardin county, Kentucky. Margaret Neal was born April, 17SS, in Nelson county, Kentucky. The places of their birth were only about six miles apart, and the parents of both moved when they were children to Ohio county, where they were married about ISO6. They had five children in Ken- tucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving December, 1826, in what is now Gardner township, where two
children were born, one died young. Of their six children --
NANCY C., born April 4, 1So8, in Kentucky, married Dec. 19, 1872, in San- gamon county to Christopher Atterberry, and lives in Menard county, Illinois.
SAMUEL N., born in 1810 in Ken- tucky, married Margaret Martin, and she died. He married Mrs. Margaret D. Ralston, whose maiden name was Peak. They had four living children. Mr. W. died Jan. 9, 1866, and his family lives in Edinburg, Illinois.
CHARLES M., horn April 8, 1815, was helpless from youth, and died at fifty- two years of age.
JOHN I ., born in 1818, married Elizabeth J. Pierce. They have six chil- dren, and reside near Taylorville, Illinois.
EDWARD L., born in 1824, in Ken- tueky, married Susan H. Pearce in San- gamon county, and had four children. The parents and three of the children died. Their only living child, REBEC- CA A., married Samuel Cully, has one son, and lives near Taylorville, Illinois.
STEPHEN W., born Feb. 9, 1827, in Sangamon county, married July 25, 1850, to Abigail J. Fry, who was born July 22, 1827, in Smith county, Tennessee. They had two children, EDWARD H. and NANCY J., and Mrs. W. died Nov. S, 1857. He was married June 30, 1859, to Elcy Davidson. They have five living children, JOHN D., MARY M., MICA- JAH, FRANCES M. and MARTHA A., and reside in Christian county, near Pawnee, Sangamon county, Illinois.
Mrs. Margaret Williams died April 2, 1859, and Edward Williams died June 29, IS71, both in Gardner township, Sanga- mon county, Illinois.
WILLIAMS, ELIAS, born Feb. 27, 1770, near Clarendon, Vermont, was married in that state to Mary Boynton, who was born July 19, 1773, at Plymouth, Windsor county, Vermont. They had four children there, and the family moved to Essex county, New York, about 1So4, where two children were born, thence to Hamilton county, Ohio, where one child was born, and from there to Butler county, in the same state, where three children were born. In ISI9 the family moved to Wayne or Henry county, Indiana, and from there to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in February, 1822, in what is
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now Cotton Hill township, and the next spring into what is now Rochester town- ship. Of their children-
POLLY and LYDIA died under four years.
SAMUEL, born April 24, 1800, in Windsor county, Vermont, came to San- gamon county, Illinois, before the family arrived in the autumn of 1821, and was married April 5, 1832, to Jane L. Trotter. They had five children in Sangamon county, NANCY T., born Feb. 26, 1833, married Henry P. Clark. See his name. JANE L., born June 1, 1835, married Charles F. Humphreys. See his name. ELIZA, born Feb. 12, 1837, and HENRY H., born July 30, 1840. The two latter live with their father. WILLIAM T .. died in his second year. Mrs. Jane L. Williams died Oct. 11, 1865, and Samuel Williams lives one and a half miles south- east of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois. Mr. Williams became a member of the Christian church, June 29, 1817, in Ohio, and when he came to Sangamon county, there being no church of his own denomination, he united with the Method- ists, with the understanding that he should sever the connection when a suitable time came for organizing one of his own. He united with others in 1832 in consituting the South Fork Christian church. About that time he commenced preaching, and has continued to do so to the present time. He has received between one and two hundred persons into the church, and has baptized about five hundred, including his assisting other ministers. He has prob- ably married one hundred couple, and taught school in Rochester, Illinois, be- tween the years 1831 and 1837.
ELIAS, fun., born Feb. 15, 1802, in Vermont, was married in Sangamon county, in 1831, to Polly Baker, daughter of Isaac. They had eleven or twelve children, and moved to Kansas, thence to the vicinity of Nashville, Barton county, Missouri, where they now live.
JOSEPH, born Oct. 2, 1804, in Essex county, New York, was married in Sangamon county, Illinois, to Judith Delay. They had two children, who both died young. Joseph Williams died Oct. 14. 1850. His widow lives in Cotton Hill township.
MARY, born Dec. 18, 1806, in Essex county, New York, was married in San-
gamon county in 1824 to Richard E. Barker. They had one child, ELIAS, who married Dorothy Bound. He died in March, 1873. His widow and chil- dren live near Clarksville, Illinois. R. E. Barker died and his widow married Andrew Johnson. See his name. He died and she married Greenberry Baker. See his name.
ISIAH BOYNTON, born June 20, 1810, in Hamilton county, Ohio, was mar- ried in Sangamon county April 1, 1833, to Phebe Baker. They had eleven children, two died under five years. SUSAN, born Jan. 19, 1834, in Sangamon county, was married Nov. 10, 1853, to George W. Whitecraft, who was born Sept. 26, 1830, in Bath county, Kentucky, and brought by his parents, in 1835, to what is now Christian county, Illinois. In 1873 he moved to Springfield, where he now re- sides. MARY married James Martin. See his name. JAMES H. married Caroline Hedrick. They have three children, and live near Taylorville, Ill. HARRIET married George Boyd. They had two children, and live near Taylor- ville, Illinois. MARTHA married A. M. Council, has two children, and lives near Edinburg, Illinois. AMOS S. mar- ried Jane Hatler. They have one child, and live in Cotton Hill township. SAN- FORD, EDWARD and ABRAHAM L. live with their parents in Cotton Hill township, east of New City, Sangamon county, Illinois.
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