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HARRISON, born in Kentucky, mar- ried in Sangamon county, to Nellie Bowles. They had eight children, born in Sanga- mon county, and moved to the vicinity of Medoc, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Baker died there in r872, and were buried in one grave.
POLLY, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Elias Williams. See his name.
PHOEBE, born April 5, 1816, in Ken- tucky, married in Sangamon county to Josiah B. Williams. See his name.
Mrs. Phobe Baker died July 3, 1845, and Isaac Baker died in Sept. IS4S, both in Sangamon county, south of Rochester. He was about 100 years of age.
BAKER, WILLIAM, was born about 1798, in Sevier county, Tenn. He came to St. Clair county, Ill., when a young man. Phebe Neeley was born Dec. 14, 1799, near Nashville, Tenn., and was taken to St. Clair county, Ill., when she was a young woman. Wm. Baker and Phehe Neeley were married about ISIS, near Belleville. They had one child born there, and the family moved to Horse creek, in what became Sangamon county, in the spring of 1819, in what is now Cotton Hill township, where seven children were born. They then moved to a mill on San- gamon river, three miles north of Roches- ter, where one child was born. Four of the children died under two years. Of the other five-
JAMES, born Jan., 1819, in St. Clair county, and raised on Horse creek, on the farm now owned by Samuel Galloway. William Enyert, who went to school with him, remembers having heard him say frequently, in their boyhood days, that he would join some Indian tribe at IS years of age. Between 1837 and '40 he went west, and came back in 1844, to see his mother, who then lived in Rochester. Hle said he had joined the Snake tribe of In-
dians, and after a stay of about six months, he returned to that tribe. But little was known of him until 1849, when a party of eight persons left Springfield for the gold regions of California. William Enyert says they found him at the crossing of Green river, keeping a ferry. He recog- nized Mr. Enyert readily, and treated him kindly. Mr. Enyert learned from him that he was a chief in the Snake tribe; had two wives, one with him and one at Fort Bridger, and two children by each. His daily receipts were from $500 to $600 at the ferry. He is yet living among the Indians, and is occasionally heard from by his friends. Mr. Enyert says that when he saw him he was full six feet tall, wore his hair long and straight, stood erect as any Indian, wore buckskin clothes, and in his general appearance looked very much like an Indian. Mr. Enyert had been a school-mate of his in this county. E. C. Matheny saw him under similar circumstances.
ADELIA, born in Sangamon county in IS21, died at 15 years of age.
YOHN, born in Sangamon county, re- sides among the Indians, near Fort Bridger, Wyoming territory. Went there a few years later than his brother James.
ELIZABETH, born in Sangamon county, Cotton Hill township, is unmar- ried and resides in Rochester; is the only member of the family residing in Sanga- mon county.
ELIZA, born in Sangamon county, died at 15 years of age.
William Baker went to Texas previous to 1844, started from there to California about 1852, and died on the road. Mrs. Phebe Baker died, August, 1861, in Rochester.
BALDWIN, JOHNSON, was born March 25, 1797, in Scott county, Ky .; was married in Gallatin county, Oct. 24, IS22, to Betsy Kendall. They had one child born in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., in company with her father, William Kendall, arriving Oct. 17, 1824, in what is now Curran town- ship, where eleven children were born; one died in infancy. Of their children-
MARY A., born Sept. 19, 1823, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Richard Bradley. See his name.
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ALISSA, or ALICE, born Nov. 17, 1S24, in Sangamon county, married John Wesley Elliott. See his name.
HARRIET, born March 4, 1827, in Sangamon county, married John M. Smith. See his name. Resides near Curran.
ELIZA, born Nov. 6, 1828, in San- gamon county, married Edward D. Camp- bell, and resides near Lancaster, or Mans- field, Texas.
WILLIAM, born Jan. 23, IS31, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 22, 1853, to Mary J. Parkinson. They had seven children. ADDIE C. died August 22, IS71, in her seventh year. LIZZIE died in infancy. ELLA M., EUNICE P., JAMES O. and OTIS J., (twins), and WILLIE O., reside with their parents, six miles west of Springfield.
NANCY, born May 4, 1833, in Sanga- mon county, married August 20, IS72, to John Mull, who was born Dec. 5, 1821, in Kentucky. They reside six miles southwest of Springfield.
EDITH, horn Feb. 26, 1837, in San- gamon county, married Feb. 13, IS73, to Wm. Dyer, and resides four miles north- west of Curran.
AGNES, born Dec. IS, IS3S, died Oct. 5, 1864.
EAIIL 1, born August 15, 1841, resides with her sister, Mrs. Dyer.
SUSAN, born Sept. 15, 1843, married Wm. B. Gilbert. They have two children and reside three miles north of Spring- field, on Athens road.
ELIZABETH died August 29, 1856, in her eleventh year.
Mrs. Betsey Baldwin died August 13, IS47, and Johnson Baldwin died Dec. 4, IS71, both in Sangamon county.
BALL, JOHN S., born about 1795, in Madison county, Ky. Went to Clarksville, Tenn., and from there to Eddyville, Ky., from there to Sangamon county, and after spending several years, returned to Kentucky; back to Sangamon county, then to JoDaviess county; from there to Missouri, where he left his family, went to California, and at the end of three years returned to his family in Missouri. Now resides with his sons in Morgan county. His son-
THOMAS H .. , married in Morgan county to Eliza A. Hodgson, has two
children, COLUMBUS A. and IDA BELL, and reside in Ball township.
BALL, JAPHET A, was born Tuly 5, 1Soo, in Madison county, Ky. When a young man he went to Clarkes- ville, Tenn., where he learned the trade of a blacksmith with his brother John S. From there he went with his brother to Eddyville, Caldwell county, Ky., and from there to Sangamon county, arriving late in Dec., 1825, in what is now Wood- side township. He was married Dec. 2, 182S, to Sarah Henderson. They had two children-
CLARISSA Y., born in Sangamon county, married Jeremiah Penicks. They had four children, and Mr. Penieks died. Mrs. Penicks and her children reside at Palmer, Christian county.
GAMMES H., died in his fourteenth year.
Mrs. Sarah Ball died March 12, IS32. Japhet A. Ball was married May, 1834, to Marinda Davis, who died April 12, 1855. Mr. Ball was married Sept. 30, 1863, to Melissa Morison. They have two child- ren-
JOHN M. and
FANNIE MI., and reside east of Sugar creek, in Ball township, four miles south- east of Chatham.
Japhet A. Ball enlisted July, 1827, in Col. Tom M. Neal's Battalion of mounted volunteers, to fight the Indians in the north part of the State. This was known as the Winnebago war. He again enlisted, and was commissioned by Gov. Reynolds as First Lieutenant, June IS, IS31. A treaty with Black Hawk, the chief, ter- minated hostilities. The Indians , com- menced depredations again, in the spring of 1832. J. A. Ball was commissioned by Gov. Reynolds, April 28, 1832, as Capt. of a Company in Long's Odd Battalion of Inf. It was mustered out in June, 1832, for the purpose of changing to a mounted organization, but that ended his military career. Mr. Ball served from 1843 to IS56 as Justice of the Peace. He was elected and commissioned by Gov. Bissell, Nov. 14, 1857, as Associate Judge of San- gamon county, for four years. The town- ship organization being adopted in 1860, terminated his official career. The town- ship of Ball was named for him.
Judge Ball says that on the first day of Jan., 1831, while the "deep snow " was
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falling, he killed fourteen deer. They would founder in the snow, and were easily taken. He built a saw mill on Sugar creek, and sold a large quantity of lumber at the mill, and at times kept teams running to Springfield. The scarci- ty of money for a few years after the financial crash of 1837, was very severe on the new settlements. The Judge says that during one of those years he did an extensive business in the lumber trade, and his total receipts in cash was exactly seventy-five cents.
BALL, SMITH, was born July 10, ISto, in Madison county, Ky., came to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving at the house of his brother, Japhet A., in 1829. He was married June 13, 1837, to Rebecca Moffatt. They had one child in Sanga- mon county, and in the fall of 1839 moved to Mt. Pleasant, Iowa. In the spring of IS40 he moved to Jefferson county, where they had six children. Of their seven children-
EMILY A., born March 27, 1838, in Sangamon county, was married in Iowa to William Case. They have six children, and reside in Marshall county, Iowa.
MARY MM., born March 25, 1840, in Iowa, was married there to George B. Phillips. They have six children, and reside near Wooster, Iowa.
NANCY f., born August 30, 1842, lied aged 22 years.
GEORGE W., born June 7, 1847, in Jefferson county, Iowa, is a practicing lawyer, unmarried, and resides at Iowa City.
MARGARET C., born Dec. 10, 1847, in Iowa, was married there to Richard Fisher. They have two children, and reside near Wooster.
LEWIS C., born Jan. IS, IS52, and
FRANK P., born Feb. 25, 1854, re- side with their parents, near Wooster, . Jefferson county, Iowa.
BALL, WILLIAM, born in Madison county, Ky., came to Sangamon county about 1835, and moved to Jo Daviess county.
BALL, JANE, born in Madison county, Ky., married William Richardson, came to Sangamon county in 1829, and died in this county. Lewis B. Richard- son, of Auburn township, is her son.
BALL, BETHANY, born Aug. 13, 1796, in Madison county, Ky., mar- ried John Brawner. See his name.
BALL, POLLY, born in Ken- tucky, married in Sangamon county to John Rames, moved to Missouri, and both died therc.
BALL, ELIZABETH, born in Madison county, Ky., married William Brawner. See his name.
BALL, LUCY, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Daniel Morris, moved to Texas, and after resid- ing there ten years, returned to Sangamon county, and both died, leaving several children.
Mrs. Nancy Ball, mother of John S., Japhet A., Smith, William, Jane, Bethany, Polly, Elizabeth and Lucy, came with the last of her children to Sangamon county in IS29, and died at the house of her son, Japhet A., in 1846.
BANCROFT, ISAAC, was born April 29, 1776, near Boston, Mass. Mercy Coburn was born March 12, 1781, in Massachusetts, also. They were mar- ried March 5, 1799, and had two children in Massachusetts. They moved to St. Lawrence county, N. Y., where they had ten children, and moved to Springfield, Ill., arriving August 10, 1839. Of their children-
MERCY and
BETSY married and raised families. One of them died in Massachusetts. The other resides in Hainesville, Lake county, Illinois.
PRUDENCE, born in New York, died May 3, 1824, aged twenty-four years. HONATHAN C., born Feb. 2, 1So9, in New York, married Frances Stone. Mr. Bancroft died June 2, 1845, leaving a widow and three children in Springfield. His son, Coburn, died in 1870, in Spring- field.
ALMA S., born August 20, 1811, and died aged 23 years.
ISAAC, Jun., born May 6, 1815, in New York, married Mary Blackman. Ile is now e Congregational minister, and re- sides in Green county, Wis.
JOSEPH, born April 5, 1817, died Oct. 16, 1851.
TIMOTHY, born Feb. 26, 1819, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., is unmarried, and resides in Springfield.
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BENJAMIN, born March 3, 1821, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., married September 19, 1854, to Elizabeth C. Cass, who was born March 13, 1836, in Mont- gomery county, Ill. They had five child- ren, three of whom died young. ED- WARD T. and LUCINDA A. reside with their father. Mrs. E. C. Bancroft died Feb. 3, 1871, and Benj. Baneroft re- sides in Faney Creek township.
HARMAN H., born Feb. 1, 1823, died in Springfield in his 23d year.
Isaac Bancraft died Oet. 8, 1844, and his widow died Feb. 10, 1868, both in Spring- field.
BARBRE, ELI, was born July 25, 1798, in Kentucky. He was married about 1819, in Posey county, Ind., to Nancy Wilkinson, a native of Kentucky, also. They had four children in Indiana, and Mrs. Barbre died there, in 1828. Mr. Barbre moved to Edgar county, Ill., and was married there Jan. 17, 1829, to Anna Wilson. They had two children in Ed- gar county, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1835, in what is now Island Grove township, where they had two children. Of their nine children-
ISAAC, born August 10, 1820, in Ind., came to Sangamon county with his parents, returned to Indiana, married Nancy Ben- nett. He served three years in an Indiana regiment, for the 'suppression of the re- bellion, and resides in Posey county, Ind.
WILLIAM, born Nov. 10, 1822, in Posey county, Ind., married in Sangamon county, Jan. 15, 1845, to Rebecca Smith, and had two children. She died, Oct. IS, IS47, leaving one child. He was married, Feb. 6, 1849, to Lucy M. Smith. They had nine children. Of all his children, NANCY J., by the first wife, married James McKee, has two children, LUCY A. and MARY H., and reside in Nodaway county, Mo. MARY A., married James A. Trimble. See his name. MARTHA, the twin mate to Mary, died in infancy. JOHN E., JAMES W., THOMAS F., GEORGE I., RICHARD S., SAMUEL M. and MARTHA C., reside with their parents, two miles cast of Curran. Wil- liam Barbre enlisted Sept., 1861, in Co. B., ioth Ill. Cav., for three . years. He was wagon master and Veterinary Sur- geon, and was honorably discharged in June, IS63.
CHARLOTTE, born 1824, in Indi- ana, married Wright Miller, has several children, and resides in Lynn county, Oregon.
CELIA D., born in 1826, in Indiana, married, successively, Edward Bennett, Charles Wiggins and James Cleveland, all of whom died, and she married Henry Atkinson, and resides in Clark county, III.
SARAH E., born July 5, 1831, in Edgar county, married in Sangamon county, to Harvey Withrow. Sce his name.
GAMES L., born March 4, 1834, in Edgar county, Ill., married, Dec. 28, 1854, to Lucinda Dixon. They had nine child- ren, four of whom died under four years. The latter five, WILLIAM E., AL- BERT F., MARY E., HARRIET C. W. and GEORGETTA, reside with their parents in Cooper township, three miles southwest of Mechanicsburg.
FOHN A., born Dec. 19, 1835, mar- ried March 5, 1857, to Margaret R. Mc- Kee, had six children, JAMES A., WM. E., EDWIN H., ANNAH L., JENNIE and GEORGE, reside with their parents, two and a half miles southwest of Mechan- icsburg. John A. Barbre enlisted Dec. 23, 1863, in Co. B, 10th Ill. Cav., for three years, served until Nov. 22, 1865, and was honorably discharged at San Antonio, Texas.
MARY C., born in 1837, in Sangamon county, married Rev. Geo. Keller.
Eli Barbre died in the fall of 1846, and his widow married Wm. Withrow. (Scc his name.) She died in the fall of 1871.
BARGER, ADAM, was born April 8, 1784, in Botetourt county, Va. He went, when a young man, to Kanawha county, West Va., and was there married, August 12, 1810, to Lucinda Nolan. They had ten children in Virginia, and moved in a family boat to Shawneetown, Ill. He took a farm wagon and two yoke of oxen, and hired another team at Shaw- neetown, and thus brought his family and two loads of household goods, arriving Oct., 1826, in what is now Loami town- ship, but then called Yankee Settlement, where they had three children. Of their children-
ALBARTES, born May 26, 18H1, in Kanawha county, West Va., married, Dec. 23, 1829, in Sangamon county, to Marga- ret F. Patrick. They had 13 children,
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JOHN A., born July 21, IS31, died in his 2Ist year. MAJOR E., enlisted, May 25, 1861, in Co. I., 14th Ill. Inf., for three years, served full term, and was honorably discharged, June, 1864, at Springfield. He is a lawyer, and resides at Loami. JANETTA, born June 2, 1834, married James J. Henton. (See his name.) SOPHIA, born Feb. 10, 1836, married Robert E. Berry. (See his name.) WIL- LIAM F., born Dec. 19, IS3S, enlisted, May, 1861, in Co. I, 14th Ill. Inf., for three years, re-enlisted as a veteran in an- other regiment, served to the end of the rebellion, was honorably discharged, and resides near Loami. JULIA A., born Dec. IS, 1840, married Morrison Brown, have four children, and reside in Loami township. JAMES N., born March 20, 1842, enlisted, in 1861, in Co. C, 11th Mo. Inf., for three years, was discharged on account of physical disability, acted as deputy provost-marshal at Springfield for a time, and enlisted in 152d Ill. Inf. Served to the end of the rebellion, married Mar- garet Hunter, has three children, and re- sides one mile southwest of Loami. CHARLES H., born Nov. IS, IS45, en- listed in Co. - , 16th Ill. Cav., in 1862, for three years. Served full term, and was honorably discharged. LEROY, born Feb. 20, 1847, resides with his father. GEORGE W., born June 10, 1849, mar- ricd Mollic Mckinney, have one child, and reside near Berry Station, Sangamon county. ALBERT, LUCINDA J. and HARRIET E. reside with their father. Mrs. M. F. Barger died Feb. 25, 1876, and Albartes Barger resides where he settled in 1831, near Loami.
JULIA A., born Oct. IS, IS12, in West Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Dr. J. R. Abel. (See his name.) Have three children, and reside in Taylor- ville.
THERESA, born May 13, ISI4, in Virginia, married Thomas Sowell. (See his name.)
ZEBULON, M. P., born Dec. 14, IS15, died in his 29th year.
SOPHIA, born April 12, 1817, married, her husband died, and the family reside in Cass county.
YOHN, born Oct. 31, 18IS, married Elizabeth Eustace, had four children, and he died. His widow married and lives in Wisconsin.
OLIVIA, born Oct. 28, 1820, married Morris Sweet. (Scc his name.)
MARY A., born July 23, 1822, mar- ried Wm. Weir. Had five children. She was killed by a runaway team, in Nebraska City. Family reside there.
HARRIET, born Feb. 26, 1824, mar- ried John McClure, who died, leaving a widow and eight children in Cass county.
GAMES M., born Jan. 9, 1826, in West Virginia, unmarried, and resides in Loami.
LETHE, born March 29, IS31, mar- ried, March 24, 1856, to Daniel Cuppy, have two children, MARY E. and HAR- RIET V., and reside at Loami. Mr. C. served three years in 11th Mo. Inf.
WILLIAM F., born Feb. 12, 1833, in Sangamon county, went to California, in 1856, resides in Nevada City, Cal.
Mrs. Lucinda Barger died August 1I, IS53, and Adam Barger married Mrs. Deborah Colburn, whose maiden name was Phelps. He died August 11, 1864, in Loami township. His widow resides with her children.
BARNETT, THOMPSON, was born Dec. 15, 1795, in Kentucky. Ann Patterson was born Sept. 29, 1803, in Holston county, Va. When she was two years old her parents moved to Adair county, Ky. Thompson Barnett and Ann Patterson were married there, Jan. 19, IS22. They had three children born in Kentucky, and moved to Illinois, ar- riving in the fall of 1829, at Irish Grove, Menard county, where one child was born. Thompson Barnett died Dec. 12, 1830, at Irish Grove. Mrs. Ann Barnett was mar- ried May 26, 1836, to Levi Cantrall, and brought her four children to his home in Fancy Creek township. Of her children by the first marriage-
NANCY* Y., born Nov. 25, 1822, in Adair county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to William D. Power. (See his name.)
ARMINTA M., born March 27, IS25, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun- ty, to Jefferson Vandergrift. They had four children, and she died. Mr. V. and his children reside in - , Wis.
MARY E., born August 29, 1829, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to James Hibbs. Mrs. Hibbs died, leaving one child, NANCY J., who married Dor- rell Primm, and resides in Menard county.
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J. THOMPSON, born April 20, 1830, at Irish Grove. He married and has five children, JAMES, EDDIE, NATHAN, ANN and MARY, and re- sides in Fancy Creek township.
For Mrs. Ann Barnett's further history. sce Levi Cantrall.
BARNES, EZRA, was born Sept. 6, 1806, at Groton, New London county, Ct. He started from Hartford with a team, and, in thirty-one days' driv- ing, reached St. Louis, Nov. 13, and five days later came into Sangamon county, arriving Nov. 18, 1833. For 21 months he peddled clocks, after which he com- menced farming, raising his first erop in 1836. He again peddled dry goods, and came near being drowned while crossing the Sangamon river north of Springfield. He was married, Dee. 6, 1838, to Eliza- beth Mason. She was born Feb. 4, 1818. They had five children, all born in San- gamon county, namely :
EZRA, Jun., born April 30, 1842, in Sangamon county, married in 1872 at Preston City, Conn., to Prudence A. Browning. They reside five miles south- west of Chatham.
SETH A., born in Sangamon county, is a member of the firm of Barnes & Simpson, druggists, in Taylorville.
OLIVE F., born in Sangamon county, married Feb. 10, 1876, to George Bremer. CHARLEY and
ANGELINE, reside with their par- ents in Ball township, two and a half miles south of Chatham.
BARNES, DANIEL, was born Feb., 1So7, in Bucks county, Pa. He was married in 1832, in Lancaster county, to Margaret A. Richardson, who was born Jan., 1810, in that county. Mr. Barnes kept a book store and bindery in Harris- burg, and was the State binder for Penn- sylvania for five years. They had three children in Harrisburg. Mr. Barnes closed up his engagement as State binder in the spring of 1840, sold out his book store, and came west on horseback, look- ing for a location. He selected Spring- field as his future home, and was soon followed by his family. They had four children in Springfield, two of whom died young. Of the other five children-
ALBERT G., born Sept. 4, 1835, in Harrisburg, Pa., was with his father in Springfield from 1840 to 1855, when he -13
engaged in business in Taylorville. 1Ie was married August 27, 1861, near Me- chanicsburg, Ill., to Henrietta Branson. They have five living children, BENJ. LINCOLN, ALBERT G., Jun., MARY H., CLARA MAY and HARRY R., and reside in Taylorville, Ill. Mr. Barnes is engaged in the mercantile business and banking.
ALMOND F., born in 1837, in Har- risburg, Pa, raised in Springfield and Tay- lorville, married in 1863, in Quiney, Ill., to Nellie Harvey. They reside in Quincy.
HARRIET A., born in Harrisburg and died in 1859.
CHARLES E., born Dee. 19, 1842, in Springfield, married in Taylorville, Jan. 25, 1871, to Jeanette Overand, who was born August 24, 1855, in Hartford, Conn. They have one child, RALPII, and re- side in Taylorville. Mr. Barnes was in business with his father until the death of the latter, and is now a hardware mer- chant.
ANNA, born about 1844 or '5, in Springfield, married in St. Louis, Mo., to J. H. Pierson, and resides in Hearne, Robertson county, Texas.
Daniel Barnes sold dry goods in Spring- field, from 1842 to 1849. He was in busi- ness with his son, Charles E., until Jan. 10, IS68, when he died, in Taylorville. His widow resides there.
Gilbert Barnes, the father of Daniel, was born in 17So, in Bucks county, Pa. Ile was a soldier from that county in the war of 1812. He married and had seven children in the same county. Gilbert Barnes, and other members of his family, came to Springfield with the family of his son, Daniel, in 1840, but I have not been able to obtain a full history of the family.
BARRETT, DR. R. F., moved from Green county, Ky., to Sangamon county about the time of the "deep snow" of 1830 and '31, and settled on Spring ereek, in what is now Island Grove town- ship. He had a son born there, and in 1839 Dr. Barrett accepted the position of Professor of Materia Medica, in the Med- ical College of Missouri, and moved to St. Louis. His son-
ARTHUR B., born August 22, 1835, on Spring creek, Sangamon county, mar- ried in St. Louis to a Miss Sweringen. He was for seven years President of the company managing the St. Louis Fair, and
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it was largely through his influence that it acquired a reputation unsurpassed by any other institution of the kind in Amer- ica. He was also President of the Mis- souri Life Ins. Co. He was elected Mayor of St. Louis, was inuagurated April 13, and died April 24, 1875.
BARROW, ABRAHAM, was born Oct. 15, 1803, in Frederick county, Va. Mahala Larrick was born Nov. 14, ISog, in the same county. They were married there, Oct. 20, 1831. Two of their children were born in Berkley coun- tv, Va. They moved to Sangamon coun- ty, Ill., arriving Sept. 19, 1835, in what is now Cotton Hill township, where they had four children. Of their children-
JOHN T., born Feb. 27, 1833, in Berkley county, Va., was married, Dec. 12, 1861. in Christian county, Ill., to Eliza J. Ducker, who was born July 24, 1842, in Ohio. They had two children in San- gamon county. They moved to Sarpy county, Neb., Nov. 6, 1865. Three child- ren were born in Nebraska. They moved to Texas in 1870, and settled in Dallas county, where one child was born. Thence to Fort Worth, in Tarrant county, where two children were born. Of their eight children, six died in infancy. FLORA A. and CHARLES H., reside with their parents, at Fort Worth, Tarrant county, Texas.
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