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Jacob Yocom died March S, 1848, in
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Sangamon county, Illinois, and Mrs. Mary Y'ocom died Dec. 23, 1864, in Lafayette, Y'amhill county, Oregon. She was buried at Pleasant Hill Church, Polk county, Oregon.
YOUNG, EZEKIEL, was born about 1795, in Trigg county, Kentucky, He was married in North Carolina to Sarah Coleman. They had five children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in 1827 on Rich- land creek, where one child was born. Two of their children only are in Sanga- mon county.
LUCINDA married Samuel Beardon. See his name.
ARCHIBALD, born April 21, IS28, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 18, 1850, to Elizabeth Wood, born in Sanga- mon county, (sister to Mrs. Wolgamott.) They had four children. EMMA died January, 1868, in her fourteenth year. LAURA died July, 1869, in her four- teenth year. MARY E. and IDA BELLE reside with their parents, near Woodside, Sangamon county, Illinois.
Ezekiel Young died May, 1853, and his widow died in 1864, both in Cass county, Illinois.
YOUNG, CASPER, was born June 8, 1798, at Hazelloch, on the river Mayn, Hesse Darmstadt, Germany. Susan Boll was born in 1So2, in the town of Florsheim, in Nassau, on the opposite side of the Mayn from Hazelloch. Casper Young and Susan Boll were married at Florsheim in 1821. They had four chil- dren in Germany and emigrated to America in 1835. They were seven weeks on the passage from Amsterdam to New York. Their first stoppage was at Coshocton, Ohio. From there they went to St. Louis, Missouri, by the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and tarried one year in St. Clair county, Illinois. In the fall of 1837 they arrived in Sangamon county, in the southeast corner of Woodside town- ship, where three children were born. Of their seven children --
MARGARET, born in Germany, married in Sangamon county to Frank Schick. They had two children. Gr Schick was a professor in a college in St. Louis. He is a lawyer. Mrs Schick died . in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois.
GARRED-called Charley-was born Dec. 17, IS25, at Florsheim, Nassau, Ger-
many. He was married in Sangamon county April IS, 1852, to Mrs. Sally White, whose maiden name was Gatton, a daughter of Charles Gatton. She had one child by her first marriage, MARY ANN, who is now the wife of Mr. Lyman, of Pana. Mr. and Mrs. Young had three children, REBECCA, WIL- LIAM R. and CATHARINE, and Mrs. Sally Young died Feb. 2, 1863. Mr. Young was married February, 186.4, to Ellen Abell. She died without chil- dren, Nov. 1, 1866. Mr. Young was mar- ried Oct. 1, 1867, at Lebanon, Kentucky, to Maggie E. Buckman. They reside one and a half miles north of Pawnee: Sangamon county, Illinois. Mr. Young has represented Pawnee township several terms in Sangamon county Board of Supervisors, and is one of the many suc- cessful farmers of Sangamon county.
MARY, born in Germany, married Henry Harschlier, has seven children, and lives in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois.
CATHARINE, born in Germany, married Frank Schick. They have six children, and live in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois.
MART EVE, born in Sangamon county, married Philip Schwigead. They had two children, and Mr. S. Died. The widow married Jacob Hundt, and lives in Mt. Pulaski, Illinois.
Casper Young moved to Mt. Pulaski in IS55. Mrs. Susan Young died June, 1867. Casper Young died Sept. 27, 1875, both in Mt. Pulaski, Logan county, Ill.
YOUNG, JAMES, was born Dec. 19, 17SS, in Wilkes county, North Carolina. His parents moved to Mont- gomery county, Kentucky, when he was a young man. He was there married Feb. 10, 1822, to Lucinda R. Cunning, who was born August 12, 1So4, in the same county. They had seven children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the full of 1838 in what is now Curran township, where three children were born. Of their chil- dren three died under five years. Of the other seven --
VIRGINIA, born Jan. 15, 1823, mal- ried John P. Lindsay, had six children. and died May 2, 1850, near Springfield. See his name in Omissions.
WILBOURN, born Oct. 23, 1821, is unmarried, and resides at the family home- stead near Curran, Illinois.
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ELIZABETH, born Oct. 21, 1826, married Wade Burch. See his name.
GAMES, born August 20, 1831, mar- ried Catharine Foster, have eight chil- dren, SILAS A., MARGARET, JAMES M., EUGENE, FRANCIS, ALBERTUS, NANCY and EMMA, and live near Chatham, Illinois.
SILAS Y., born March 1, 1834, is un- married, and lives in Fayette county, Illi- nois.
ANN E., born Oct. 15, IS37, married William B. Greenwood. See his name. He died and she married Benjamin Easley. See his name.
MARTHA C., born June 6, 1841, married Feb. 22, 1865, and has three chil- dren, FATIMA, ARTHUR and LEONA MAY, and live with their mother.
James Young died March 11, 1870, aged eighty-two years, and his widow resides on the farm where they settled in 1838, near Curran, Illinois-1874.
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ZANE. Three brothers of that name emigrated from England and settled in Gloucester county, New Jersey. It is not known whether or not they were related to Jonathan and Eb- enezer Zane, who explored the country about Wheeling, West Virginia, in 1769, and founded Zanesville, Ohio. Of the three brothers who settled in New Jersey, the first names are not preserved, but one of them had a son, Simeon. His son, Andrew, married Mary Franklin, a dis- tant relative of Benjamin Franklin. They brought up a large family in New Jersey. . Their eldest and youngest sons came to Sangamon county, namely-
ZANE, JOHN, born Nov. S, 1806, in Gloucester county, New Jersey, but was brought up in Cumberland county, in the same State. He was married Feb. 3, 1833, in Cape May county, to Eliza- beth Smith, who was born in that county April 13, 1812. They moved to Phila- delphia, where they had one living child, returned to New Jersey, where they had one child, and moved from there to San- gamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct. 15, 1839, in what is now Cartwright township,
where they had nine children. Of their eleven children-
GAMES S., born July 10, 1836, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, married in Sangamon county June 14, 1860, to Maria Rachel Purviance. See Purviance or Purvines family. They have four chil- dren, SAMUEL S., JOHN N., FRANK- LIN H. and MARY E. James S. Zane was elected in the fall of 1872 sheriff of Jasper county, Missouri, and resides at Carthage, the county seat.
RHODA S., born Sept. 13, 1838, in Cape May county, New Jersey, married in Sangamon county, April 21, 1859, to John T. Epler. She died March 21, 1871, leaving four children, CHARLES L., GEORGE A., MARY J. and RHODA E., who live with their father. John T. Epler is married again and resides two and a half miles south of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois.
MARY F., born March 25, 1841, in Sangamon county, married Feb. 13, 1867, to Dr. Henry VanMeter. See his name.
ELLEN S., born Dec. 20, 1842, in Sangamon county, married July 31, 1861, to Benjamin F. Jones. She died May 25, and he died August 27, 1867. They had two children. MARY J. died, aged three years. JOHN W., born Dec. 12, 1864, lives with his grandfather Zane.
ELIZABETH S., born May 7, 1844, married Dec. 28, 1871, to William S. Bullard. See his name.
ANDREW, born August 20, 1846, in Sangamon county, married Feb. 27, 1873, to Mary J. Hamilton, near Pleasant Plains, Illinois. They reside in Carthage, Jasper county, Missouri.
HOHN W., born Oct. 31, IS48.
JEREMIAH F., born Nov. 26, IS50. HANNAH M., born Dec. 25, 1852.
ROBERT H., born March 3, 1855; ALICE B., born April 25, 1859, the five latter live with their parents.
John Zane and wife reside four miles east of Mechanicsburg, Sangamon county, Illinois-1874.
ZANE CHARLES S., brother to John Zane, was born March 2, 1831, in Cumberland county, New Jersey. In the spring of 1850 he came to the vicinity of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illi- nois, where he worked at farm labor by the month. He afterwards attended Mc- Kendree college, at Lebanon, Illinois,
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teaching school in different parts of the State at intervals until July 15, 1856, when he came to Springfield. Having previously commenced the study of law, he continued and was admitted to practice in the spring of 1857. He was three times elected city attorney, in I858, 1860 and in 1865. In June, 1873, he was elected Judge of the judicial circuit, of which Sangamon county is a part, and is now-Decem- ber, 1876-in office. He was married in 1859 to Margaret D. Maxcy. They have six children, FERNETTA M., CHARLES W., HOHN M., OLI- VER W., MARGARET, FRANK- LIN A. and HERBERT S.
Judge Charles S. Zane was elected in November, 1876, a member of the Na- tional Lincoln Monument Association .. He, with his family, resides in Springfield, Sangamon county, Illinois.
ZIMMERMAN, ROBERT B., was born Oct. 5, ISII, in Centre coun- ty, Pennsylvania, and went from there to Elmira, New York, where he learned the business of a painter and chair maker. In the summer of 1835 he started west, travel- ing by stage, he missed his connections at Terre Haute, Indiana, and there being but one stage a week, rather than remain idle he and one or two others started on foot. Arriving at the Okaw river in Illinois they found a company of emigrants from Tennessee, numbering one hundred and twenty wagons, with a corresponding num- ber of men, women and children, all wait- ing until the men could construct a bridge for the teams to cross. They remained with the emigrants, riding and walking alternately, and reached Springfield Nov. IS, IS35. R. B. Zimmerman was married Dec. 25, IS3S, at Farmington, now Farm- indale, Sangamon county, to Susan P. Seeley. Mrs. Zimmerman died Oct. 30, I S40, leaving one child-
SUSAN L., born April 17, 1840, in Springfield, Illinois. She was married April 17, 1860, to Eugene L. Gross, who was born Dec. 25, 1836, in Starkville, Herkimer county, New York. Rev. Alba Gross, the father of Eugene L., is a preacher in connection with the Baptist Church, and came to Fulton county, Illi- nois, in 1844, but now resides in Chatham, Illinois. E. L. Gross studied law at Knox- ville, was admitted to the bar, and prac- ticed a short time at Mount Sterling, and
came to Springfield, in 1858. He revised and published the ordinances of the city of Springfield in 1865. In January, IS68, he compiled and published a digest of the criminal laws of Illinois. In February, IS68, he, in connection with his brother, Colonel William L. Gross, began their compilation of the Statutes of Illinois, which were published in the fall of the same year. Their last volume was pub- lished in 1869. The same year they pub- lished an index to all the laws of the State. In IS72 they compiled and published the second volume of Gross' Statutes. E. L. Gross, finding his health impaired, closed up his business, and in the spring of IS73 started on horseback and traveled through the Indian nation, thence to the Pacific coast, and returned by railroad, but that relentless destroyer,consumption,could not be induced to release its grasp. After returning home he lingered until June 4, IS74, when he breathed his last, leaving a widow and four children, LEIGHLA, FRED, SUSIE and BESSIE, all re- siding in Springfield, Illinois.
Robert B. Zimmerman was married Oct. 2, 1845, in Springfield, to Mary C. Townsend, who was born Nov. 7, 1821, in Caledonia county, Vermont. They had two children, both died young. In No- vember, IS49, Mr. and Mrs. Zimmerman adopted a daughter, LIZZIE, when she was but three months old. She was mar- ried Feb. 26, 1875, in Springfield, to Mar- tin V. Smith. They reside in East St. Louis, Illinois.
Robert B. Zimmerman and Alexander P. Willard were in partnership as paint- ers and dealers in painters' stock twenty- four years, and until the death of Mr. Willard. See his name. Mr. Zimmer- man is yet in business in which he has been more than forty-one years actively engaged in Springfield. He has seen it grow, and had much to do with its growth, from a very small village to a city of twenty-five thousand inhabitants, and from a county seat to be the capital of the fourth State in the American Union. He has been an active and efficient officer of the Second Presbyterian church for many years; and in proportion to his ability he has probably been the most liberal con- tributor to its funds. R. B. Zimmerman and wife reside in Springfield, Illinois.
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