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On the ioth of May, 1875, he started alone on a trip of observation and sight-seeing in Europe. He left New York on the steamer Rhein, one of the Bremen line. He arrived at Southampton May 20th, and in London the same day, where he spent one week visiting objects of interest. From London to Dover, crossing the Straits to Calais, France, thence by way of Bolougne and Amiens to Paris, with its three millions of inhabitants. He spent three weeks in Paris, sight-seeing and gleaming knowledge from every source. From Paris he went by way of Fontain- blue up the river Seine, through Mount Cenis tunnel to Turin, Italy, and through Genoa, Pisa, Leghorn and other Italian cities to Romc, where he spent two weeks visiting objects of historicinterest. From
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Rome he went south to Naples, passed Appi Forum and the three taverns. He visited Mount Vesuvius, and looked into its crater of boiling lava. Spent one day each at Pompeii and Herculaneum, and re- turning to Rome, went to Florence, where he spent a few days. Crossed the Appe- nines to Venice, the city built two miles from the shore, in the Adriatic sea. As- cended the river Po, through Lombardy, and the city of Verona, to Milan. Crossed the Alps by way of the Simplon Pass, reaching an altitude of twelve thousand feet above the sea. Descended the river Rhone, and Lake Geneva to the city of Geneva and Berne, the capital of Switzer- land. From there he returned to Paris, thence to London, where he spent two weeks more. Visited other parts of En- gland, thence to Edinburg, Stirling and many points of interest in Scotland. Went through Ireland and Wales, thence to Liver- pool. Sailed on the steamer Baltic to New York and home. He was four months out, at a total cost of seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Hon. Robert L. Wilson is now-1876- engaged in a work similar to this- that of writing a history of Whiteside county, Illi- nois.
WILSON, JOHN L., was born March 6, 1816, in Bedford county, Tenn. In the fall of that year his parents moved to White county, Illinois, and after that to Bond and Montgomery counties. John L. came to Mechanicsburg in 1839, and was married in Sangamon county, June 18, 1843, to Margaret Gragg. They had four children in Sangamon county.
FAMMIES N., born March 25, 1844, died in his sixth year.
JOHN W., born April 30, 1847, lives with his parents.
MARTHA, born Jan. 17, 1850, mar- ried Clifton H. King. See his namc.
JASON, born Oct. 7, 1853, lives with his parents.
Elder John L. Wilson was ordained as a minister of the gospel by the Mechanics- burg congregation of the Christian Church in 1852. Heserved the church at Mechanics- burg half his time for the first two years, and the other half labored as an evangelist. For several years he has been wholly en- gaged as an evangelist, at the present time (1874) in Macon county. His family re- sides four and a half miles east of Me- -98
chanicsburg, Sangamon county, Illinois.
WILSON, SAMUEL M., was born Sept. 30, 1806, in Harford coun- ty, Maryland. He received his literary education at Jefferson College, Cannons- burgh, Pennsylvania, graduating there in 1831. He pursued his theological studies at Princeton College, New Jersey, and in April, 1836, was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of New Castle, Pennsyl- vania. In June, 1836, he took charge of the Presbyterian Church at Lithopolis, Fairfield county, Ohio, and was ordained by the Presbytery of Columbus, Ohio, in September, 1837. Jane Elder was born March 1, tSI4, in Centre county, Pennsyl- vania. Rev. Samuel M. Wilson and Jane Elder were married Dec. 27, 1836, in Franklin county Ohio. They had seven children at Lithopolis, Ohio, and after a pastorate of twenty-two years over that church, moved to Clinton, Dewitt county, Illinois, in response to a call from the Pres- byterian Church at that place. In August, IS58, Rev. Mr. Wilson received a unani- mous call to the Centre Church in Sanga- mon county, Illinois. He accepted the call, removed thither and entered upon its duties. Of their children-
MARGARET E., born March S, 1838, in Ohio, married in Sangamon coun- ty, September, 1859, to Rev. C. W. Fin- ley, of New London, Ohio. She died March 15, 1861, while on a visit to ber pa- rents in Sangamon county.
ANDRE W', born Oct. 1, IS39, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county, August 10, IS64, to Georgie K. Watts. They have four children, WILLIAM E., M. ANNIE, JENNIE and ANDREW, Jun., and reside at Kingsville, Shawnee county, Kansas-1874.
WILLIAM E., born May 28, 1841, in Ohio, died Feb. 17, 1866, from injuries received by an accident on the Toledo, Wabash and Western Railroad, at Mere- dosia, Illinois.
THOMAS and MARTHA reside with their father.
MART f., died Dec. 6, IS48, in her fourth year.
JANE died Feb. 3,1861, in her eleventh year.
Mrs. Jane E. Wilson died July 29, 1868, in Sangamon county, and Rev. Samuel M. Wilson resides three and a half miles
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south of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon coun ty, Illinois.
The Society of Old Settlers of Sanga- mon County elected Rev. S. M. Wilson as president of the society at their annual meeting at Pleasant Plains August 29, 1873. He served one year and until his successor was chosen at Crow's Mill, in September, 1874. He thus became an old settler by brevet.
WILSON. SAMUEL, was born May 22, 1778, in Virginia. His parents moved to Kentucky, and he was married in Clarke county to Catharine McFaran. They had two children in Kentucky, and moved to Clarke county, Ohio, where five children were born. They moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, ar- riving in the fall of 1828. Of their seven children-
CLINTON, born Nov. 30, 1806, in Clarke county, Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, December, 1831, to Sally Shinkle. They had four children in Sangamon county. LOUISA J., born Sept. 13, 1832, married Alvin S. Taylor. See his name. JAMES W., born Dec. 28, 1835, enlisted July 20, 1861, at Spring- field, in what became Co. B, 11th Mo. Inf., for three years. Mr. Wilson in company with Andrew J. Weber and Jesse D. Lloyd, raised the company, and when it was mustered in, August 3, 1861, at St. Louis, Weber was elected captain, Lloyd first, and Wilson second lieutenant. Mr. Wilson was promoted April 21, 1862, to first lieutenant. In November, 1862, Lieutenant Wilson was detailed as signal officer. He was on duty at Vicksburg, Mississippi, at the time the rebels surren- dered, July 4, 1863, and sent the following dispatch, the original copy of which he has in his possession. It is written in pen- cil, on a piece of printing paper, in Gen- eral Grant's own hand :
" GRANT'S HEADQUARTERS, July 3. " Admiral Porter :
" The enemy have asked armistice to ar- range terms of capitulation. Will you please cease firing until notified, or hear our batteries open. I shall fire a national salute into the city at daylight if they do not surrender. U. S. GRANT, " Major General."
The result of that dispatch has gone into history. Lieutenant Wilson served in
the Signal Corps until the expiration of his term of service, and was honorably discharged, August 15, 1864. He was married September 29, 1864, in Sanga- mon county, to Mary M. Morton, and resides one and one-quarter miles southest of Barclay, Sangamon county, Illinois. MARY E., born March 6, 1838, married Alfred S. Constant. See his name. CLINTON, Jun., born Nov. 29, 1841-after the death of his father- enlisted August 12, 1862, in Co. C, 114th Ill. Inf. He was severely wounded May 20, 1863, at Vicksburg, recovered, served to the end of the rebellion, and was hon- orably discharged with the regiment. He was married Oct. IS, 1866, in Sangamon county to Rebecca J. Bales, a native of Madison county, Ohio. They have three children, DORA M., JAMES A. and WILLIAM o., and reside in Murry county, Minnesota, near Worthington, Noble county, in the same state. Clinton Wilson was killed May 21, 1841, by lightning, in Sangamon county, while on an errand to the house of a neighbor. His widow resides with her son, James W., near Barclay, Sangamon county, Illinois-1874.
ELIZA, born March 11, 18og, in Keu- tucky, married in Sangamon county, to Ambrose Cooper. See his name.
ROBERT, born Feb. 17, ISLI, in Ohio, died in Sangamon county, Nov. 27, 1829.
SABRIANA, born Oct. 16, 1815, in Ohio, came to Sangamon county, with her parents, went to Kentucky on a visit, was there married to John McFaren, and died leaving two children.
ISAAC C., born April 11, 1817, in Clarke county, Ohio, married in Sanga- mon county March 6, 1857, to Sarah E. Taylor. They have six living children, CATHARINE, ALBERT, ELMER E., ELIZA E., NORA M., and ISAAC T., and reside one and a quarter miles south- east of Barclay, Sangamon county, Illi- nois.
MELISSA, born Dec. 7, 1820, in Ohio, raised in Sangamon county, went to Missouri on a visit, was there married to Reuben L. Davis, and died there Sept. 30, 1848, leaving one child, JAMES H., born Sept. 21, 1848, near Rolla, Missouri. He resides with his relatives near Barclay, Illi- nois.
ELI, born March 25, 1827, in Ohio,
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was drowned in Sangamon county, Dec. 16, IS34.
Mrs. Catharine Wilson died March 20, 1834, and Samuel Wilson died Oet. 21, IS58, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.
WILSON, THOMAS, was born in 1785 in Buncombe county, North Caro- lina. Elizabeth Gardner was born in 1786 in Patrick county, Virginia. Her parents moved to Buncombe county, North Caro- lina, when she was a child. Thomas Wilson and Elizabeth Gardner were there married about ISog and had two children in that county. They then moved to Warren county, Tennessee. The earth- quake of December, ISI1, on the Mississippi river so alarmed them that early in IS12 they returned to North Caro- lina. The government having purchased the lands of the Cherokee Indians in East Tennessee, they removed to Monroe county, near Philadelphia, Loudon county, in ISIS, and soon after moved a short dis- tance into Roane county. They moved from there to Sangamon county, Illinois, in the spring of 1830. Five children were born in Tennessee. Of the seven chil- dren ---
GEORGE, born in Buncombe county, North Carolina, Nov. 27, 1806, married in Tennessee to Elizabeth McCoy, came to Sangamon county, went to Missouri, and from there to Texas.
RACHEL, born in ISog, in North Carolina, married in Sangamon county to Martin McCoy. They had three chil- dren, JOSEPH, THOMAS and MARY. Mrs. McCoy died in Springfield, and he near Auburn, Illinois.
MARY, born Jan. 3, 1812, in Bun- combe county, North Carolina, married in Sangamon county to Dr. Charles D. Nuckolls. See his name.
JACKSON, born in North Carolina, married Susan Martin. They had one child, WILLIAM, who married Adaline Martin in Christian county, and now lives in Missouri. Mrs. Susan Wilson died in Christian county, and Jackson Wilson lives in Texas.
NANCY, born in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county to David Drennan. See his name.
WILLIAM, born Jan. 18, 1819, in Tennessee, raised in Illinois, married in Missouri to Mary Murray, and lives in Texas.
JAMES, born April 22, 1822, in Monroe or Roane county, Tennessee, came to Sangamon county in 1834, mar- ried Margaret Nuckolls, who died, and he married Elizabeth Courtney, who was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, Feb. 25, 1838, and they reside in Ball township, Sangamon county, Illinois.
Thomas Wilson died in the fall of 1830, and his widow died September, 1845, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.
WIMER, GEORGE, was born near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and came to what is now Auburn township, Sanga- mon county, in ISIS, brought up a family, and lives now-1873-in Auburn, Sanga- mon county, Illinois.
WINCHELL, IRA, was born March 22, ISIS, in Franklin county, New York. His parents died about 1825, and he went to St. Lawrence county, and lived a few years with a family near Potsdam, and then spent a few months in Potsdam, all without any guardianship, after the death of his parents. He then engaged to come west with a Mr. Ira Brown, who had a large family of twelve persons. They moved in two road wagons and a one-horse wagon. Mr. Brown stopped to visit a friend at Kirtland, Ohio. It was just at the time of the Mormon hegira from Kirtland to Nauvoo, Illinois. There was great prejudice against the Mormons, and Mr. Brown's large family and general outfit looked so much like that of a Mor- mon, as to cause him great inconvenience in obtaining supplies. Mr. Winehell's recollection of events connected with the journey are quite interesting and amusing, although the trip was very laborious. They were nine weeks on the road, arriving in Springfield in December, 1831. Mr. Winchell traveled in different parts of the country for ten or twelve years, but always regarded Springfield as his home. Ira Winchell and Alice Huddlestone were married Feb. 18, 1842, in Macoupin county. She was born May 29, 1823, near Colum- bus, Ohio. Her parents moved from Green- brier county, Virginia, to Columbus, Ohio, thenee to Newport, Indiana, and from there to Macoupin county, Illinois, before the "deep snow." Mr. and Mrs. Win- ehell have one son ---
DELMER, born August 22, 1856, in Gardner township, Sangamon county, and resides with his parents.
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Mr. Winchell moved from Springfield, March, 1845, to a place one and a quarter miles north of Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois, where he resides now- 1876. He has been engaged in farming and blacksmithing to the present time.
WINEMAN, PHILIP, born Sept. 9, ISOI, in Botetourt county, Vir- ginia, came to Sangamon county, Illinois, in the fall of 1823, settling in what is now Auburn township. He was married to Jane Crow, August 11, 1S25. She was born in Kentucky. Of their children-
AMERICA, born August 16, 1826, in Sangamon county, married John R. C. Jones. They both died leaving one son, PHILIP Jones, who married Mollie John- son, and lives one mile southeast of Au- burn, Illinois.
SILVANUS f., born March 23, 182S, in Sangamon county, married Mrs. Margaret E. Kessler June 11, 1862. They have one daughter, MARY A. DILLER, and Mr. W. died in 1875. His widow lives one and a half miles west of Auburn, Illinois.
JAMES P., born Jan. 2, IS30.
WILLIAM H., born Nov. 3, 1832, married Nancy Johnson, and lives one-half mile east of Auburn, Illinois.
HAYDEN S. B., born Nov. 15, 1834, married Rhoda Evans, and lives one mile east of Auburn, Illinois.
VIRGINIA E., born Oct. 19, 1836, married George Bigler, and lives two miles east of Auburn, Sangamon county, Illi- nois.
MARGARET C., born Feb. 4, 1840, married Jordan B. Organ. See his name.
Mrs. Jane Wineman died May 19, 1849, and Philip Wineman married Sarah A. Morrell March 23, 1853. She was born July 4, 1822, in Maine. Of their chil- dren -
GEORGE F., born March 6, 1854.
CHARLES H., born Sept. 1, 1855, live with his parents.
VIOLA M., born May 27, 1857, died May 10, 1864.
MILLARD F., born Dec. 27, 1858, died Sept. 13, IS6S.
Philip Wineman and family reside near Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.
WISE, FREDERICK, born Oct. 15, 1797, in Nelson county, Ken- tucky. In iSig he went to the Southern part of Illinois, and in the spring of 1820
came to Sangamon county in company with Mason Fowler and his two sons, and all worked to prepare a home. Mr. Fow- ler returned for his family, and brought them to Horse creek, Sangamon county, in the fall of that year. In October, 1820, F. Wise was married to Rebecca Fowler. The day had been fixed for the marriage, and a messenger went to Vandalia for the license. By some unavoidable delay he did not return in time. A justice of the peace by the name of Clawson was ready to solemnize the marriage. Wishing to accommodate the young couple and the invited guests, Mr. Clawson took the ressponsibility to marry them, and when the license came it was properly endorsed and returned to the office where it was issued, and all was right. They had six children, and all except one born in Sangamon county. Of their children-
REBECCA A., born August 31, 1821, in Sangamon county, married August 10, 1837, to James Snodgrass. See his namc.
JACOB M., born Feb. 7, IS27, in Sangamon county. He enlisted in Spring- field in June, IS46, in Co. A, 4th III. Inf., served until October, 1846, when he was discharged on account of physical disability at Matamoras, Mexico; married Dec. 13, . 1846, in Springfield, to Nancy J. Millstead. They had three children. AMANDA A., married Dec. 7, 1873, to T. H. Gray. She lives in Illiopolis. ALVIN A., mar- ried Sept. 25, 1872, to Mary Mitchell, and lives in Illiopolis. GEORGE lives in Il- liopolis. Mrs. Nancy J. Wise died June 28, IS5S. J. M. Wise was married to Nancy E. Grider, and for his third wife married May 2, 1866, to Mrs. Lydia Grif- fith, whose maiden name was Bechtel. She died July 18, 186S. J. M. Wise was married Dec. S, IS6S, to Martha F. Grif- fith. They have three children, MAY, MASON and EDDIE, and reside in Illi- opolis, Sangamon county, Illinois. J. M. Wise enlisted February, 1865, in Co. K, 152d Ill. Inf. for one year, served until the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged with his regiment.
SARAH E., born August 23, 1831, in Madison county, Illinois-the family hav- ing moved there and returned before the birth of the next child. She married in Sangamon county, October, 1848, to Chas. A. Sponsler, and has three living children. ALICE A. married George Washburn,
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and lives in Mount Pulaski. ARTILLA J. and GEORGE live with their parents in Mount Pulaski, Illinois.
FRANCIS MI., born Feb. S, 1834, in Sangamon county, died in Macon county, in May, IS59.
JOHN T., born July 16, 1840, in San- gamon county, enlisted July, 1861, in Co. A, 21st Ill. Inf., and was killed Dec. 31, 1862, at the battle of Stone river, Tennes- see.
LOUISA G., born Feb. 6, 1843, in Sangamon county, married May 13, 1863, in Springfield, to William Boring, who was born Dec. 20, 1837, in Triadelphia, West Virginia, and came to Sangamon county in 1860. He enlisted April 23, 1861, in Co. 1, 7th Ill. Inf., under the first call for seventy-five thousand men for three months. He served his full term, and re- enlisted in the same company and regi- ment for three years. He was wounded Feb. 15, 1862, at the battle of Fort Don- aldson, which terminated in the amputa- tion of his right leg above the knee. Mr. and Mrs. Boring have three children, SARAH J., ELLA and NELLIE, the two latter twins, and reside in Iliopolis, Illinois.
Mrs. Rebecca Wise died Feb. 27, 1849, and her husband, Frederick Wise, died August 16, 1850, both in Springfield, Illi- nois.
WITHROW, JOSEPH, was born about 1772 in Pennsylvania. His parents moved when he was a young man to Botetourt county, Virginia. He was there married to Elizabeth McMullin. They had eight children in Virginia, and in I811 moved to Washington county, Kentucky, near Muldraughs Hill, where two children were born. Mrs. Elizabeth Withrow died there, and Joseph Withrow married Susannah Landis. They had one child in Kentucky, and moved to Sanga- mon county, Illinois, arriving in 1825, in what is now Woodside township, where they had one child. Of all their children-
MARGARET, born in Virginia, was married in Kentucky to Timothy Hays. They moved in 1824 to Vandalia, Illinois, and the next year to Sangamon county, where they both died, leaving several children.
WILLIAM, born Oct. 14, 1793, in Botetourt county, Virginia, was married in ISIS, in Washington county, Kentucky,
to Rhoda B. Prather. They had twelve children, and moved with Thomas Cloyd, in 1824, to Fayette county, Illinois, thence to Sangamon county, in 1S25, and settled in Curran township, where two children were born. Their only living child, R. HARVEY, born Tune IS, 1825, in Van- dalia, Illinois, was married June 18, 1849, in Sangamon county, to Sarah E. Barbre. They have nine children, JAMES W., SARAH C., ANN M., LUELLA, LYDIA E., EMMA E., MARTHA C., GEORGE H. and FANNY MAY, and live in Cooper township, two and one- half miles southwest of Mechanicsburg. Mrs. Rhoda Withrow died in 1827, and William Withrow married Polly Smith. They had two children. RHODA J. married Theopholus Walker, who died, and she married Patterson Ridgeway. See his name. Mrs. Polly Withrow died and William Withrow married Celia Turpin. They had eight children, and Mrs. Celia Withrow died, and William Withrow married Mrs. Ann Barbre. They had two children, and Mrs. Ann Withrow died. His two sons, ISAAC T. and NOAH W., are married and re- side near Mechanicsburg. William With- row resides two and a half miles south- west of Mechanicsburg, Sangamon coun- ty, Illinois.
ANNA, horn Dec. 29, 1795, in Virginia, married Thomas Cloyd. See his name.
JOHN died, aged twenty-three years.
ROBERT, born Jan. 27, 1800, in Botetourt county, Virginia, was married in Sangamon county, Illinois, Sept. 10, 1S26, to Mary T. Peter. They had five living children, AMANDA A., born Sept. 1, 1829, was married Nov. 11, 1847, to William M. Starr. See his name. COLUMBIA, born Nov. 11, IS31, was married Feb. 6, 1851, to Francis M. Johnson. See his name. They moved from Onarga to Streator, Illinois, where they now reside-1876. GEORGE, born August 29, 1836, married Mary Bridges. They have six children, and live near Clinton, Henry county, Missouri. SAN- FORD, born April 20, 1839, married Melissa E. Davis. They have four chil- dren, NINA, CHARLES, GEORGE, and GUY, and live in Springfield, Illinois. HAR- RISON, born Nov. 2, 1841, in Sangamon county, Illinois, enlisted July 20, 1861, at Springfield, Illinois, in what became Co. C, 11th Mo. Inf., for three years, was pro-
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moted to second lieutenant in 1863, served full term, and was honorably discharged in 1864. He studied dentistry, and was married Dec. 23, 1875, to Fannie Beau- mont, in Springfield. Dr. Withrow is practicing his profession in Petersburg, Illinois, and resides there. Robert With- row died Oct. 3, 1842, and Mrs. Mary T. Withrow was married August, 1844, to Samuel Graham, who was born in 1811, in Pennsylvania. They had three chil- dren, LEE R., born July 19, 1845, in Sangamon county, enlisted at Chicago, August 15, 1862, in Co. F, 51st Ill. Inf., for three years, served until the close of the rebellion, and was honorably dis- charged June 16, 1865. He was married August 7, 1867, in Sangamon county, to Martha J. Darneille. They have one living child, MAUDIE, and live at Loami, Sangamon county, Illinois. MARY F. was married August, 1874, to William N. Richardson, and lives at Streator, LaSalle county, Illinois. ZACHARIAH S. was married November, 1875, in Springfield, to Susan Babcock, and live in Decatur, Illinois. Samuel Graham died Oct. 1, 1850, and Mrs. Mary T. Graham was married August 23, 1854, to Joseph Mckinley. She resides in Loami, San- gamon county, Illinois.
POLLY died in Kentucky, aged about twenty years.
MATHE W, born in Kentucky, mar- ried Amelia Knotts. They have one child, ELIZABETH, married William Cox, and lives in Virden, Illinois. Mathew Withrow lives eight miles west of Vir- den, Macoupin county, Illinois.
SARAH married Dr. John Sudduth. They have one child, and live at St. Charles, Minnesota.
JAMES H., born in Botetourt coun- ty, Virginia, Jan. 15, 1811, was married in Sangamon county, Illinois, to Maria R. Beauchamp. They had eight living chil- dren. HARRIET J. married Charles Yeamans, and died, leaving one child, ANNIE M, who lives with her grand- parents. MARTHA S. married L. Dow Cantrill. They have three chil- dren, and live at 112 West Allen street, Springfield, Illinois. JULIETTE mar- ried David D. Cooper. See his name. WILLIAM C., born Feb. 15, IS42, was married Oct. 5, 1865, to Arvilla Bissell, who was born in Lewiston, Fulton coun-
ty, Illinois, June 29, 1844. They live two miles east of Sherman, Sangamon county, Illinois. ISAAC N. married Eliza Las- well, who died, leaving two children, and I. N. Withrow married Mary Crow. They have two children, and reside at 509 South Ninth street, Springfield, Illinois. NANCY A. married Richard Laswell, who died, and she married Thomas Keagle. They have three chil- dren, and live in Williams township. MATHEW lives with his parents. James H. Withrow lives between Sherman and Barclay in Sangamon county, Illinois -- 1874.
TABITHA was married in Sangamon county, Illinois, to Alvah Graves. They both died, leaving several children in Macoupin county, Illinois.
CAROLINE married Edward Shane. They both died, leaving three children.
ELIZABETH, the eldest by the second marriage, was born in Kentucky, and married Joseph Drennan. See his name.
ALMIRA, born in Sangamon county, Illinois, married Israel Coverdell, and lives in Gerard, Macoupin county, Illinois.
Mrs. Susannah Withrow died in 1844, and Joseph Withrow, Sen., died in 1850, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.
WOLGAMOT, JOHN, born in Pennsylvania, and was married there Oct. 28, 1819, to Susannah Martin, a native of Maryland. They had three children, and Mrs. Wolgamot died. John Wolgamot was married August 2, 1827, to Mary A. Firey, a native of Maryland, also. They had three children in Maryland, and moved to Springfield, Illinois, arriving in 1837, where they had three children. Of his nine children ---
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