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ORANGE P., born in Virginia, died in Sangamon county in infancy.
JOSEPH W., born March 11, 1837, in Sangamon county, was married April 12, 1860, to Susan E. Hardin. They have four children, MARY V., SARAH E., PRESLEY L. and MAHALA D., and reside near Taylorville.
MARY f., born March 16, 1840, in Sangamon county, married May 3, 1859, to Thomas W. Fleming. They had two children. MARY A. died July 27, 1874, and EMMA L. resides with her mother. Mr. Fleming died July 26, 1866. Mrs. Fleming was married Sept., 1871, to John L. Morgan, who was born in Sandusky, Ohio, and served three years in Co. E., 13th U. S. Inf. He was honorably dis- charged August 6, 1868. They reside near Zion Chapel, three miles north of Pawnee.
ANN E., born Feb. 13, 1842, in San- gamon county, married John Q. A. Hus- band. Sce his name.
ELIZA V., born March 30, 1851, in Sangamon county, married Feb. 9, 1870, to Nimrod Vickers. One child, FRANK, died in infancy. They reside in Christian county, four miles east of Pawnee.
Abraham Barrows died April 9, 1862, and Mrs. Mahala Barrows died Oct. 18, IS74, both at the family homestead, six miles south of Springfield.
BARROWS, JOSIAH, was born Sept. 17, 1793, in Thompson, Wind ham county, Conn. In 1798, his parents moved to Bridport, Vt., where Josiah was married Feb. 25, IS25, in Lebanon, New Hampshire, to Joanna Allen. She died Sept., IS26, in Vermont, and Mr. Barrows was married Jan., IS29, in Le- banon, N. H,, to Emily Young. She
died Nov., 1831, in Vermont, and he was married, July, 1836, in New Haven, Vt., to Mrs. T. M. Case, whose maiden name was Mills. They had two children in Vermont, and came to Illinois, arriving in Chatham, Sangamon county, Oct., 1839, where they had two children, and moved to Springfield about 1846. Of their child- ren-
MARY P., was born in Vermont in IS37, and was married Jan. 1, 1861, in Springfield, to John H. Morse. They have three children, JOHN, GEORGE and HORACE, and reside at Morse's Mills, Jefferson county, Mo. Mr. Morse was an avowed abolitionist, and during the war to suppress the rebellion, was much annoyed by the rebels. His store was robbed, but being warned, he had time to remove some of the lighter goods. Amid all his troubles he continued to flourish, and has several times represented his dis- trict in the State Senate of Missouri. He is always engaged in some public enter- prise.
SAMUEL M., born about IS38, in Vermont, raised in Sangamon county, Ill., married Sept. 1867, in Vineland, Jefferson county, Mo., to Ellen Morse. They have four children, JULIA, KATIE, ELLEN and ARTHUR. S. M. Barrows was a Union man, and subjected, like his brother- in-law, to annoyance during the war. He is Post Master, and resides at Morse's Mills, Mo.
LUCY, died in Springfield, aged about sixteen years.
ANNA, born in Springfield, resides with her sister, Mrs. Morse.
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LOUISA CASE, daughter of Mrs. Barrows by a former marriage, resides with her half-sister, Mrs. Morse.
Mrs. T. M. Barrows left Springfield to visit her daughter, Mrs. Morse, in Mis- souri, and died there, Nov. 1865.
Josiah Barrows, after the death of his wife, spent his winters in Missouri, and summers in Springfield, Ill., until 1875. He now resides with his children in Mis- souri.
BARROWS, LUCY, sister of Josiah and Franklin, was born March 14, 1797, in Woodstock, Conn. Came west in 1838. She resided in Sangamon and Morgan counties until Jan., 1841, when she was married to Erastus Wright. See his name.
BARROWS, FRANKLIN, brother to Lucy and Josiah, came to Spring- field Nov., 1855. They came too late to be classed as early settlers, Mr. Franklin Barrows and family continue to reside in Springfield.
Prentiss Barrows, the father of Josiah, Lucy and Franklin, was a soldier of the Revolution, under command of Benedict Arnold, and occupied the same building used as Gen. Arnold's headquarters. Prentiss Barrows was standing in the yard when Arnold left the Americans to join the British, and as he passed, something heavy in his pockets struck Barrows, and it was always believed that it was gold, a part of the price of his treason. Prentiss Barrows died in 1812, at Bridport, Vt., from disease contracted in the army of the Revolution.
BASHAW, MRS. ELLEN, whose maiden name was Reed, was born about 1774. Her parents were from Penn- sylvania. Ellen Reed was married in Bourbon county, Ky., to William Bashaw. He was a native of Virginia. They had three children, and Mr. Bashaw died in Bourbon county. Mrs. Bashaw, with her three sons, moved to Sangamon coun- ty, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1830, and settled three miles north of Rochester. Of her three children-
GAMES, born Jan. 18, 18oo, in Ken- tucky, married in Sangamon county, Jan. 17, 1832, to Mary McCune. They had ven children in Sangamon county, CINCINNATUS, ELEANOR, EMI- LY, HIRAM, CORDIANN, JAMES R. and WILLIAM M. James Bashaw
died in 1850, and his widow resides two miles north of Rochester.
WILLIAM S., born Nov., 1805, in Bourbon county, Ky., married in Sanga- mon county, in 1834, to Isabel Mccune. They had nine children; four died young. AMANDA, born April 6, 1835, married James A. James. See his name. JAMES, born Jan. 27, 1838, married Feb. 20, 1862, to Mary Bailey, who was born Jan. 26, 1844, in Hawkins county, Tenn. They have three children, LAURA 1., GEORGE A. and DOLLY, and reside in Clear Lake township, eight miles due east of Spring- field. HANNAH, married William Thomas, and resides one mile west of Dawson. CHARLES SPENCER and ALEXANDER reside in Clear Lake township. Mrs. Isabel Bashaw died July 27, 1861, and William S. Bashaw died Jan. 3, 1874, within one and a half miles of where he settled with his mother in 1830. Wm. S. Bashaw had been five years a Justice of the Peace, and was in office at the time of his death.
JAQUELIN, born Nov. 24, ISOS, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Eleanor Poor, had nine children, and he died in 1868. His widow married James McQuinn, and resides near Rochester.
Mrs. Ellen Bashaw died Sept., 1852, on the farm where she settle in 1830.
BATES, ISAAC, was born Oct. 14, 1796, in the town of Jaffrey, Cheshire county, New Hampshire, and when a young man, went to St. Lawrence county, N. Y. CHARLOTTE BRY- ANT was born Dec. 11. 1805, at Shore- ham, near White Hall, Vt., and taken by her parents to St. Lawrence county, N. Y. Isaac Bates and Charlotte Bryant were married and had six children in St. Law- rence county. The family moved to San- gamon county, Ill., in wagons, arriving June 30, 1837, at Springfield, and the next week (July 4), witnessed the laying of the corner stone of the State house, the work on which had just commenced. In 1839 he entered land north of the Sangamon river, moved there, and made a home in what is now Fancy creek township. Two children were born in Sangamon county. Of their children-
JOSEPH, born June 16, 1822, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., married in San- gamon county to Mrs. Rebecca Power, whose maiden name was Brown. Mrs.
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Bates had one child by her first marriage, MARY J. POWER. She married John B. Brown, and lives in Jefferson county, Kan. Mr. and Mrs. Bates have six child- ren. FIDELIA E. married Winfield S. Hay, and lives in Fancy creek township. ISAAC D., JAMES W., JOSEPH F., ZIMRI E., and JOHN CARROLL re- side with their parents in Fancy Creek township, 12 miles due north of Spring- field.
ORLANDO, born March 20, 1824, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., married in Sangamon county to Sarah Brown. They have three living children, JANE and CHARLOTTE, (twins.) JANE mar- ried William Stienberger, and lives near Mt. Pulaski. CHARLOTTE married Abram Larue, and lives near Williams- ville. EMMA lives with her parents in Williamsville.
NELSON, born April 13, 1826, in New York. He lost one arm by the ex- plosion of a gun when he was 14 years old. He married Melinda Ferguson, has three children, MINNIE J., WILLIAM, and FREDERICK, and lives in Peters- burg, Ill.
ALBERT, died, IS29, in infancy.
FIDELIA, died August 31, 1845, aged 15 years.
ZIMRI B., born Feb. 28, 1833, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., enlisted, Nov. 25, 1861, in Co. G., Ioth Ill. Cav., and was commissioned as Ist Lieutenant. He was promoted to Captain, Oct. 20, 1862. He served about four years, and resigned in Feb., 1865. He was married Sept. 23, 1866, in Sangamon county, to Hattie Stockdale, who was born April 2, 1846, in Pennsylvania. They have two child- ren, NORA M. and HOWARD R., and reside in Fancy Creek township, at the home settled by his parents in 1839.
IRA, died in Sangamon county, Oct., 1858, in his twelfth year.
PARTHENIA, born March 12, 1842, in Sangamon county, married William S. Constant. See his name.
JAMES M., born June 19, 1844, in Sangamon county, married Julia Constant. They have one child, ETHEL, and re- side in Williamsville.
Isaac Bates died April 23, 1855, in Fancy creek township. His widow re- sides with her daughter, Mrs. Constant. Mrs. Bates is a cousin to William Cullen
Bryant, the poet, and editor of the New York Post.
BATES, JAMES, was born March 2, 1803, in Cheshire county, N. H., raised at Potsdam, N. Y., and came with his brother Oliver to Sangamon county in 1833. He was married in the fall of 1842, to Eunice Watts who died in June, 1846. Mr. Bates was married in May, 1852, to Mrs. Irena Holmes, whose maiden name was Watts. She died in April, 1865. James Bates resides one mile northwest of Farmingdale. He never had any children.
BATES, OLIVER, was born in 1796, in Cheshire county, N. H. Moved, about 1806, to Potsdam, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., where he was married to Charity Buckman, Sept. S, IS24. She is a sister of Joel Buckman, and was born in Bethel, Vermont. They had three child- ren in New York, two of whom died young. They moved in a colony of 52 persons to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in 1833, and early in 1834 settled adjoin- ing the present Farmingdale Station, on the south, where three children were born. Of the four children-
ROXANA, born Oct. 23, 1832, in Potsdam, N. Y., was married in Sanga- mon county, Ill., April 6, 1853, to Jacob Foster. See his name.
ZURA, born Jan. 12, 1836, in Sanga- mon county, was married to Mrs. Josephine Ellis. They have three children, CHAS. B., ELIZABETH A. and ROXANA 1 .. , and reside in Taylorville, Ill.
BUCKMAN, born Nov. 6, 1840, in Sangamon county, was partially educated at Jacksonville, Ill., and graduated at the State University, Bloomington, Indiana. He began the study of law in Pekin, Ill., where he died July 13, 1864.
ELIZABETH, born Feb. 25, 1839, in Sangamon county, died at the residence of her sister, Mrs. Foster. Oliver Bates died in 1865, where he settled in 1834. His widow died in March 1869, at the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Foster.
BATTERTON, AMOR, was born May 3, 1772, in Loudon county, Va. Nancy Guthrie was born about 1776, in North Carolina, and her parents moved, when she was a child, to Madison county, Ky. They were there married and had one child, who was drowned in Kentucky river. They moved to Adair county. where they had nine children, and moved
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to Madison county, Ill., in IS18, and from there to Rock creek, in what is now Menard county, in IS20, thence to what is now Salisbury township, Sangamon coun- ty, in the spring of 1822, and settled one and a quarter miles northwest of where Salisbury now stands. Of their nine children-
DAVID, born Nov. 5, 1796, in Ken- tucky, married Nancy Yoakum. They had eight children, and Mr. B. died in Menard county. His family moved to Cass county, and his widow died there. Their children reside in Menard and Cass counties, and in Kansas. Mr. B. was ist Lieutenant in a Company in the Winne- bago war.
NELSON, born July 27, 1798, in Ken- tueky, married Betsy Davenport, had four children, and Mr. B. died in De Witt coun- ty. Their son WILLIAM was a soldier in an Illinois regiment, and died in 1863, in the army. MARY and NANCY are married, and reside in Minnesota. JAMES W. and his mother live in Missouri.
ANDERSON, born May 3, ISoo, in Kentucky, married Polly Robinson, who died, and he married again and went to Arkansas.
WILLIAM, born Dec. 14, ISOI, in Adair county, Ky., married Jan. 1, 1833, in Sangamon county, to Eliza Gaines. They had twelve children ; two died young. MADISON, born Oct. 20, 1833, enlisted, August 13, 1862, for three years, in Co. B., 114th Ill. Inf., was captured at Gun- town, Miss., June 11, 1864, was taken to Andersonville prison and escaped by falling in with Gen. Stoneman's men when they were about to be exchanged Sept. 14, 1864, and was mistaken for one of them. He left them at Atlanta, was furloughed home from Memphis, joined his regiment in Jan., 1865, served to the end of his term, and was honorably discharged, August 3, 1865. He was married April 24, 1864, in Sangamon county, to Cynthia S. Lemmon. They have three living children, MINNIE M., JENNIE, and a boy babe, and reside four and a half miles north of Salisbury. RICHARD, born July 19, 1836, married Permelia Miller, have three children, ADAM F., MURRAY, and ELIJAH, and re- side in Menard county. AMY C., born Feb. 19, 1838, married John R. Wells, have seven children, and reside in Macon county, Mo. ROBERT, born August 4,
IS39, enlisted for three years, August 13, 1862, in Co. B, 114th Ill. Inf., served full term, and was honorably discharged at Springfield, June 29, 1865. He died at home, August 16, IS6S, from the effects of camp diarrhea and sun stroke. HENRY CLAY, born Nov. 12, 1843, married Jan. 20, 1870, to Maria Maltby, who was born May 27, 1850, at Petersburg, Ill. They have one child, IDA MAY, and reside one mile west of Salisbury. MILDRED P., born May 4, 1846, married Daniel C. Pel- ham. See his name. MARIA, SARAH E., CHARLOTTE and GEORGE W., reside with their parents, one and a quar- ter miles west of Salisbury.
LEI'I, born August 20, 1804, in Ken- tueky, married in Sangamon county, March 3, 1831, to Dorcas Sackett. They had six children. MARY A. married Wm. Hines, have ten children, and reside two miles north of Salisbury. THOMAS S. married Lucy Duncan, have five child- ren, JASPER N., ALLIE J., FRANCIS M., GEORGE W. and ANDERSON D., and reside one and a half miles north of Salisbury. ELIAS married Ellen Duncan; have two children, HARVEY and ANNIE, and reside five miles north of Salisbury. AMAN- DA J. married Ira Brown, and resides two and a half miles north of Salisbury. WILLIAM H. married Mary E. Din- can, has one child, NORA, and resides with his parents, two miles north of Salisbury. Levi Batterton served in a .Sangamon county Company in the Winnebago war, and drew as a pension, twice, forty aeres of land.
MARY, born Dec. 14, 1So4, in Ken- . tucky, married Willoughby Randolph. They had four children. Their youngest son, LEVI, was a soldier in an lowa reg- iment, was wounded and died at the bat- tle of Pittsburg landing. The family re- side at Knoxville, fowa.
PRISCILLA, born Feb. 9, 1809, in Kentucky, married June 16, 1836, to Wil- liam Yoakum, who was born July 28, 1812, in Claiborne county, Tenn. They have one son, WILLIAM F., who mar- ried Mary Adams, and resides with his parents in Menard county, two miles north of Salisbury.
SUSANNAH T., born June 7, ISII, married Coleman Gaines. See his name. E. GEORGE, born June 26, 1814, in Adair county, Ky., married Jan. 19, 1843,
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in Menard county, to Huberty Clark. They had ten children; one died young. JOHN C. resides with his parents. ELISHA C. married Farinda Duncan. They have three children, EMMA J., ED- WARD L. and SYLVA V., and reside one mile southeast of Salisbury. PRISCIL- LA J. married Wm. Tozer, have three children, and reside five miles northwest of Salisbury. MARY A., MARTHA A., MORRIS M., LAURA A., GEO. M. and CHARLES L., reside with their parents, two miles north of Salisbury.
Mrs. Nancy Batterton died July 31, IS35, and Amor Batterton died August 4, 1835, both near Salisbury.
BEACH, JARED, was born Nov. 24, 1770, in Essex county, N. J., and was married there, Feb. 13, 1794, to Mary Harrison, who was born Sept. 18, 1775, in the same coumy. They moved to New York City, where they had five living children, and in 1835 moved to Spring- field, Ill. Of their children-
ELECTA, married in New York City to Henry Howell, moved west, and died, Feb., 1859, in Centreville, Iowa.
CATHARINE, born Sept. 12, 1805, in New York city, married there, August 3, 1830, to Edmund R. Wiley. See his name.
RICHARD H., born March 11, ISO8, in New York City, married there, in 1832, to Eliza H. Baldwin, who was born in 1814, in Cranberry, Middlesex county N. J. They had one child, and moved to Morgan county, Ill., where he taught school one year, and came to Springfield in 1834, and in 1835 united with E. R. Wiley in the mercantile busi- ness, as Wiley, Beach & Co. They es- 'tablished the first clothing store in Spring- field, which they continued many years. Mr. and Mrs. Beach had four children in Springfield. Of their five children, SARAH, born in 1833, in New York City, married in Springfield to George II. Nolte. They had three children, GEORGE E., RICRARD B. and MINNIE G. Mrs. Nolte died in 1862, in Beardstown. CATHARINE E., born in 1835, in Springfield, died in 1848 in Beardstown. MARY B., born in Springfield, resides with her father. MATILDA B., horn Feb. 28, 1839, in Springfield, married, April 14, 1868, to Rev. William E. Cald- well, of Lodi, Michigan. They have three
children, JENNIE, MINNIE and EDWARD, and reside at Clio, Geneseo county, Mich- igan. Mr. Caldwell is pastor of the Con- gregational church of that place. ED- WARD P., born May 27, 1841, in Spring- field, married May 11, 1865, to Julia E. Cone, and resides in Springfield. Mrs. Eliza H. Beach died Oct. 31, 1865, and Richard H. Beach was married, June 27, 1867, to Sarah Lavinia Pearson. They reside in Springfield.
ELIZA H., died April 14, 1865, in Centreville, Iowa.
AMELIA, born Sept. 21, 1816, mar- ried in 1843, in Springfield, to John Har- ris. She died May 22, 1845.
Mrs. Mary Beach died Dec. 17, 1836, and Jared Beach died March 4, 1852, both in Springfield.
BEACH. JOB A., was born April 5, 1780, in Morris county, N. J. Susan Hathaway was born Oct. 12, 1782, in the same county. They were married and had eight children in New Jersey, and in IS17 moved to Butler county, Ohio, and the next year to Dearborn county, Ind. Of three children born in the latter county, one died in infancy. Mrs. Susan Beach died there in Oct., 1822, and Job A. Beach was married, August 26, 1824, to Judith Connelly, who was born Dec. 2, 1805, in Washington county, Pa. They had five children in Indiana, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., in the fall of 1835, and settled south of Spring creek, in what is now Gardner township, where five children were born. Of the twenty children of Job A. Beach-
CHARLES, born Dec. 16, 1So1, in New Jersey, married in Ohio to Elizabeth McGilvey. She died, leaving one child, and, when last heard from, he lived in Rockville, Ind.
EUNICE, born April 7, 1803, in New Jersey, married in Indiana to Enoch Con- ger. They had six children, and moved to Oquawka, Ill., where the parents died.
F. MUNSON, born May 1, 1806, in Morris county, N. J., married near Carth- age, Hamilton county, Ohio, August 27, 1835, to Christiana M. Robinson. They came to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Sept. 19, 1836, in what is now Gardner township, where they had eleven children; two died young. CAROLINE, born June 3, 1837, married Jan, 15, 1857, to George Carr. She died April 5, 1860,
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leaving one child, BENJAMIN, who resides with his father, in Wisconsin. MARY A., born Jan. 23, 1839, married August 20, 1862, to Henry P. Hart. They have six children, HENRY E., WILLIAM M., MARY C., BENJAMIN S., JULIA P. and WAL- TER A., and reside five miles northwest of Springfield. Henry P. Hart enlisted August 9, 1862, for three years, in Co. H., 95th Ill. Inf., was corporal and postmas- ter in the Company, served until June 6, 1863, when he was promoted to Captain of a Company of U. S. colored troops. CORNELIA, born Jan. 15, 1841, mar- ried April 3, 1860, to Samuel Cook. They have four children, JAMES E., WILLIAM M., Joux and JENNIE, and reside in Chandler- ville, Ill. EDWARD M., born Oct. 6, IS43, enlisted August 20, 1862, for three years, in Co. B., 130th Ill. Inf. He was corporal and fifer the greater part of the time, served full term, and was honorably discharged August 15, 1865. He was married June 3, 1869, to Maggie Frazee. They have one child, LIBBIE G., and reside eight miles west of Springfield. VIR- GINIA, born July S, IS46, married Oct. 3, 1872, to Charles W. King. See his name. JULIA D., born April 6, 1848, married Oct. 24, 1870, to Hiram McC. Reed. Who was born Aug. 26, 1846, in Butler county, Ohio. They have one child, MAGGIE C., and reside near Berlin. JOSHUA M., born Oct. 4, 1852, died in his seventh year. JOSEPH W., born Dec. 14, 1855, and ALICE J., born Jan. 4, 1859, reside with their parents, eight miles west of Springfield.
MILTON, born April 25, 1SOS, in New Jersey, married, raised a family, and resides in Lawrenceburg, Ind.
EMELINE, born May 8, 1Sio, in New Jersey, married in Dearborn county, Ind., to Ezekiel Pettigrew, and both died in Park county, leaving seven children.
NANCY, born June 26, 1813, in New Jersey, married in Indiana to Jacob Daisy, moved to Arkansas, where he died, and she married again.
JANE, horn August 24, 1814, in New Jersey, married Ephraim Lawler. She died in Clay county, Ill., leaving four children near Louisville.
PRUDENCE, born Sept. 25, 1816, in New Jersey, married Wm. Bullion, in Park county, Ind., and died there.
ELIZABETH, born Jan 22, ISIS, in Indiana, died unmarried in 1869, at the house of her sister, Lavina, near Van- dalia.
LAVINA, born Nov. 30, 1820, in Dearborn county, Ind., married in Spring- field, Ill., to Stephen D. Perry. They have nine children, and reside near Shabo- nier, Fayette county. Of the second marriage-
ELIZA, born August 4, 1825, in In- diana, died, aged two years.
FOB ALLEN, Jun., born March 1, IS27, in Dearborn county, Ind., came with his parents to Sangamon county in IS35. He enlisted August, 1862, for three years, in Co. I, 130th Ill. Inf. He was under Gen. Banks in his expedition up Red River, was captured and taken to Camp Ford, at Tyler, Texas, and after six weeks imprisonment, news came that they were to be exchanged, and the rebel guards becoming less vigilant, he escaped and wandered 26 days before reaching the Union lines. His comrades remained fourteen months in the rebel prisons. Mr. Beach served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged in August, IS65. He is unmarried, and resides with his mother, eight miles west of Spring- field.
MARY A., born June 25, 1829, in In- diana, raised in Sangamon county, mar- ried in Knox county, Ill., to Jonathan Cacebeer, have one child, and reside at Wilton Junction, Iowa.
LUCY; born April 29, 1831, in Indiana. died in Sangamon county, aged sixteen years.
BENJAMIN F., born May 31, 1833, in Indiana, raised in Sangamon county, married in Knox county, Il., enlisted at Moline, served three years, re-enlisted as veteran, served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged. He moved to Springfield, Mo., and died there, May IS, 1869, leaving a widow and four child- rell.
SUSAN, born March 17, 1836, in San- gamon county, resides with her mother.
HARLAN P., born Nov. 20, 1838, in Sangamon county, married in Fayette county, to Ellen J. Tharp. He served as First Sargeant three years in the 111th Ill. Inf., was with Sherman in his march to the sea, served to the end of the rebel- lion, was honorably discharged, and died
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March 13, 1870, leaving a widow and one child in Fayette county.
MARTIN L., born Feb. 11, 1841, in Sangamon county, enlisted May, 1862, for three months, in Co. G., 68th Ill. Inf., and died of disease, Sept. 10, 1862, in Wash- ington City.
FRANCIS, born Oct. 1, 1843, died in infancy.
LOUISA R., born May 10, 1846, in Sangamon county, married Thomas D. Barnhart, had one child, and Mrs. B. died, Nov. 28, 1871, in Kansas.
Job A. Beach died April 11, 1849, in Sangamon county, and his widow resides eight miles west of Springfield, with her unmarried children.
BEARDON, SAMUEL L,, was born Feb. 27, 1827, in Christian coun- ty, Ky. His father moved to Christian county, Ill., in 1828. His mother dying soon after, his father gave him to John French, a friend of the family, who had moved to Chatham township, in Sanga- mon county. He was brought up by Mr. French. Samuel L. Beardon was married April 10, 1852, in Sangamon county, to Susan Gofor. They have four children-
GEORGE T., ISAAC N., SAM- UEL E., and IRA, and reside two and a half miles northeast of Auburn.
John French died in 1854, in Chatham township.
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BEAUCHAMP, JOSHUA, was born about 1782, in Washington conn- ty, Ky. He was married there to Catha- rine Payne. They had seven children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon coun- ty, Ill., arriving in what is now Woodside township, in the fall of 1827, where two children were born. Of the children-
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