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CATHARINE, born Oct. 26, 1818, in Ohio, died in Sangamon county, aged seventeen years.
SAMUEL, born Aug. 25, 1823, in Sangamon county, died in his seventeenth year.
Mrs. Susannah Boyd died Aug. 9, 1848, in Sangamon county.
BOYER, WILLIAM T., was born April 4, 1817, in Adair county, Ky. Sarah A. Jackson was born Dec. 7, 1820, in the same county. They were married Oct. 24, 1839, near Franklin, Morgan county, Ill. They had one child in Mor- gan county, and moved to what is now New Berlin township, arriving in 1840. They had ten children in Sangamon coun- ty. Four of their children died under ten years. Of the other six children-
SARAH A., born. Oct. 19, 1843, in Sangamon county, married March 14, 1867, to John Mitchell. They had four children, EMMA M. and LAURA A. died under five years. RHODA E. and ANNIE, and reside in Talkington town- ship, seven miles west of Auburn.
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MARY F., born Sept. S, 1845, in San- gamon county, married, March 30, 1863, to John H. Cox. They have three child- ren, WILLIAM H., GEORGE W. and CHARLEY, and reside near Franklin, Morgan county.
WILLIAM A., born Dec. 5, 1849, re- sides with his parents.
ELIZA f., born March 11, 1851, married William A. Young, Nov. 11, 1 869, have one child, INA, and reside in Talkington township, six and a quarter miles west of Auburn.
ANNIE M. and
YACOB C. reside with their parents, six miles southwest of Loami.
BOZARTH, WILLIAM H., was born about 1796, in Grayson county, Ky. Elizabeth Stewart was born in 1797, in the same county, and they were there married in IS19. They had four children born in Kentucky, and moved to Sanga- mon county, Ill., in Oct., 1825, on Spring creek, west of Springfield about two and a half miles. Mr. Bozarth was killed by a fall from a horse in December follow- ing, only two months after coming to the county. His widow returned to Ken- tucky, was there married to Rawley Mar- tin, returned to Sangamon county in the fall of 1830, and settled on Lick creek. In 1840 Mr. Martin moved to Warren county, Iowa. Of the four Bozarth children-
HIGGINSON married Mary Bozarth, in Grayson county, Ky., and remained there.
OLVER H. P. married Elizabeth Brooks, and resides in Grayson county, Ky.
ELI L., born in Grayson county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Artelia Peddicord. They had five children. AR- MINDA and MINER VA P. died young. Eli L. Bozarth died Oct. 29, 1868. His son, WILLIAM W., was drowned in Sugar creek, April 21, 1869. The other two children, VIOLA E. and PHOEBE, reside with their mother at the house of her father, Jonathan Peddecord, in Ball township.
ISAAC H., born in Grayson county, Ky., married Rhoda Seybold, and resides at Blandinville, McDonough county.
BRADFORD, JAMES M., was born Sept. 28, 1795, in Culpepper county, Va. His parents moved to Scott -17
county, Ky., when he was twelve years old. His commencement in business was trading down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers. He was married July 4, 1820, at Port Gibson, Miss., to Ann E. Barnes, who was born Sept. 10, 1So2, in North Carolina, and in 1807 was taken by her parents to Mississippi, where they settled. She was educated at Port Gibson in a French Catholic convent. After a resi- dence of three years there, they moved to Scott county, Ky., where they remained one year, and moved to Franklin county, near Frankfort, and within three miles of Dick Johnson's Indian school. They had four children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1834, in what is now Gardner town- ship. Of their four children-
THOMAS A., born August 2, 1821, at Port Gibson, Miss., brought by his par- ents to Sangamon county, was educated at McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill., grad- uated at that institution, and was mar- ried in Lebanon to Jane Baker. He went to Missouri and there enlisted in Co. B., Col. Doniphan's regiment, and marched overland to Mexico, in 1846. Col. Doni- phan had orders, on arriving at Chihuahua, to report to Gen. Wool. He was unable to learn the whereabouts of Gen. Wool, and Thomas A. Bradford was one of six men who volunteered to carry through the dispatches, which they delivered to Gen. Wool at Saltillo, having gone the distance of three hundred miles, through an ene- my's country, without the loss of a man. He was, with John Calhoun, engaged in the survey of public lands for the U. S. Government, and died Dec. 25, 1856, near Wyandotte, Kan., his wife and only child having died before.
ELIZABETH E., born July 31, IS23, in Scott county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, May 24, 1840, to David Madison. He died two years later, leaving a son, JAMES B., who died at fourteen years of age. Mrs. Madison re- sides near Bradfordton, Sangamon county.
SUSAN, born May 25, 1825, in Ken- tucky, married June 11, 1858, in Sanga- mon county, to William G. Hawkins, who was born Sept. 14, IS27, in Boone county, Ky., but resided in St. Louis at the time of his marriage. They live in Sangamon county.
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MARTHA A., born May 26, 1832, in Kentucky, died while attending school in Springfield, August, 1848. Mrs. Ann E. Bradford died in Sangamon county, July S, 1835, and James M. Bradford was mar- ried, Dec. 27, 1836, to Arsenath Talbott. They had six children in Sangamon coun- ty, one of whom died in infancy. Of the other five children-
WILLIAM T., born June 8, IS3S, was married Oct. 1, 1861, to Grizella A. Parkinson. They had six children. The eldest, JAMES, and the fifth one, SUE HI., died under three years. ELIZA- BETH A., THOMAS P., LAURA M. and WILLIAM A., reside with their par- ents, in Gardner township.
HARRIET E., born Feb. 3, IS41, in Sangamon county, married Hiram E. Gardner. Sec his name.
ISABELLA M. resides with her mother in Springfield.
SARAH f., born Nov. 3, 1845, mar- ried William H. Parkinson. See his name.
EDWARD T., born May 19, 1850, was married, Feb. 17, 1870, to Carrie M. VanPatten. They have one child, ED- WARD M., and reside at Bradfordton. James M. Bradford died March 3, 1852, and his widow resided on the farm which has become Bradfordton, on the Ohio and Mississippi railroad, until April, IS74, when she moved to Springfield, and lives on north fifth street. James M. Bradford was a soldier in the war of 1812, from Scott county, Ky. He served one term in the General Assembly of Illinois, elected in the fall of IS40.
BRADFORD, JOHN S., was born June 9, 1815, in Philadelphia, Pa. His father was a native of Delaware, and died in Philadelphia in IS16. John S. learned the trade of a book-binder in his native city, and in 1835 started on foot for the City of Mexico. He walked to Pitts- burg, thence to Cincinnati by steamboat, from there to Dayton, O., and Rich- mond, Ind., working at his trade in all the places he passed through. At Rich- mond he was induced, in 1837, to join a corps of United States engineers who were then engaged in constructing what was called the National Road. It was a wagon road, built at the expense of the United States government. The law authorizing its construction was enacted
when the Democratic party was in power, with one of its cardinal tenets: opposition to all internal improvements by the gov- ernment; but President Jackson favored this because it was a military necessity. The road commenced at Cumberland, Md., crossed the Ohio river at Steuben- ville, passed through Columbus, O., Rich- mond, Indianapolis and Terre Haute, Ind., thence to Vandalia, Ill. At the latter point a determined contest arose between the people of the States of Illinois and Missouri, whether the point for crossing the Mississippi river should be Alton or St. Louis, the contestants fully believing that the future great city of the Mississippi valley depended on the decision of that question. Before it was settled the public mind became interested in railroads, and the National Road ended at Vandalia. The corps of engineers disbanded at the latter point. The State capital was then in transit from Vandalia to Springfield, and Mr. Bradford came here, arriving Decem- ber, 1810. In the spring of 1841 he bought the interest of Mr. Burchell in the book-bindery of Burchell and Johnson, and became one of the firm of Johnson and Bradford.
John S. Bradford was married July 15, IS41, in Brandenburg, Ky., to Adaline M. Semple, who was born Oct., IS17, in Cumberland county, Ky. Her brother, Hon. James Semple, was at that time Charge de Affaires to New Grenada, afterwards United States Senator from Illinois, and still later one of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State.
Soon after coming to Springfield, J. S. Bradford became Lieutenant in the " Springfield Cadets." They were or- dered to Nauvoo by Gov. Ford in 1845, serving two months in the " Mormon war. " In IS46 Mr. Bradford enlisted in Co. A, 4th Ill. Inf., under Col. E. D. Baker, and was appointed Quartermaster by Gov. Ford. A's such he accompanied the regiment to Mexico, where he started to go twelve years before with a book- binder's outfit. After his arrival in Mex- ico he was commissioned as commissary in the United States army. He was at the bombardment and capture of Vera Cruz, battle of Cerro Gordo and others, return- ing with the regiment to Springfield in 1847. The result of that war securing to us California and the discovery of gold,
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Mr. Bradford started from Springfield Jan. 1, 1849, by the Isthmus of Panama to California, and was eighty-seven days on the Pacific ocean, reaching San Fran- cisco May 20, 1849. He made Benicia his headquarters, and when the military commander of the department of the Pacific ordered a government to be formed for a new State, Mr. Bradford was elected to represent the district bound- ed by Oregon on the, north, Sacramento river on the east, Bay of San Francisco on the south, and the Pacific ocean on the west. That Legislature organized the State without ever having gone through a territorial probation, and divided it into counties. Mr. Bradford was elected in 1850 to represent a distriet composed of the five counties of Solano, Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino and Marin, being a portion of the district he represented in the first Legislature. His family re- sided in Springfield, and he retained his business relations with Mr. John- son also. He returned to Springfield in 1851, and since that has served the county of Sangamon, in 1857, as Superin- tendent of Publie Instruction; was one of the Commissioners to divide the county into townships and name them, served the city of Springfield as Treasurer, Alder- man and Mayor.
When Illinois was calied on for 6,000 of the 75,000 men to meet the rebels, Mr. Bradford was ap- pointed by Gov. Yates as commissary, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, his commission bearing date April 16, 1861, being the first commission issued by Gov. Yates in connection with the war to sup- press the rebellion. He prepared quarters for the first soldiers rendezvoused by the State, and called it Camp Yates.
J. S. Bradford severed his connection with the firm of Johnson & Bradford in 1869, and opened a book store in Spring- field, which he sold out in 1873, and moved to Aberdeen, Miss., returning to Springfield in Nov., 1875, where he now resides.
Mr. and Mrs. Bradford had seven child- ren in Springfield, namely --
WILLIAM, resides at Lake Station, Newton county, Miss.
OSCAR, born Sept. 28, 1845, in Springfield, was married in 1871, in Owensboro, Ky., to Mary Crutcher. They reside in St. Louis, Mo.
SUSAN A. resides with her parents, in Springfield.
EUGENE S. resides in St. Louis, Mo.
HOHN, ANTRIM C. and DON- ALD, reside with their parents in Spring- field.
BRADLEY, TERRY, was born in Rutherford county, North Carolina, and married there to Chloe Elliott, a sis- ter to Andrew Elliott. See his name. They had eleven children born in Ruther- ford county, N. C., and moved to Sanga -. mon county, Ill., arriving in what is now Gardner township, south of Spring creek, in 1834. Of their children-
SIMMONS, born March 3, 1811, in North Carolina, married March 2S, 1839, in Sangamon county, to Jane Doug- las. They had six children; three died young. WILLIAM H., born Jan. 5, 1840, married March 6, 1862, to Mary Rannebarger, who was born Jan. 13, 1842, near Columbus, O. They had three children. ELLA J. died, aged two years. EDWARD E. and LOTTIE B. reside with their parents, seven miles west of Spring- field. THOMAS LEVI and JOHN ELI, twins, born Nov. 22, 1842. THOMAS L., married Nov. 24, 1864, to Hannah J. Smith, have two children, and reside in Curran township. JOHN E., married July 9, 1868, to Nancy A. Sims, had one child, HIRAM J., and she died April, 1869. He was married Dec. 16, 1869, to Sarah O'Hara, and reside at Phil- adelphia, Cass county, Ill. Simmons Bradley died Nov. 18, 1866, and his wid- ow resides seven miles west of Spring- field.
WILLIAM, born March 26, 1812, in Rutherford county, N. C., and came with his parents to Sangamon county in 1834. He was married Aug., 1846, in Jasper county, Mo., to Elizabeth Ragan, a native of Kentucky. They came to Sangamon county and had six children, one of whom died young. In 1857 they returned to Missouri, where two children were born. Of the seven children, three are married; MOLLIE, the third child, born in Sanga- mon county, and married in Missouri, July 4, 1875, to J. J. Gates, a native of Pike county, Ill. William Bradley died Dee. 13, 1875. His widow and seven children, married and unmarried, reside near Carthage, Jasper county, Mo.
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SARAH, born in North Carolina, married in Sangamon connty to Caleb Darden. They had three children. Their son THOMAS was a soldier in an Illinois regiment, and died at Memphis, Tenn. The entire family are dead.
WINNIE, born in North Carolina, married in Sangamon county to William Brundage. They had three children, and moved to Dallas county, Tex., in 1854.
RICHARD, born in Rutherford coun- ty, N. C., came with his parents to San- gamon county, was married about 1844 to Mary A. Baldwin. They had four child- ren born in Sangamon county. Mrs. B. died Sept. 10, 1852, and the youngest child died soon after. Mr. B. moved in the fall of 1866, with his three children, to Kan- sas. Of his children, RICHARD J., born Dec. 8, 1845, in Sangamon county; SARAH C., born Feb. 9, 1848, in San- gamon county, married in 1870, in Kan- sas, to Franklin Campbell, and has one child, MARY E. WILLIAM B., born in Sangamon county. Richard Bradley and his three children reside near Fredonia, Wilson county, Kan.
JONATHAN, born in North Caro- lina, raised in Sangamon county, went to Texas, was pressed into the rebel service, and died there.
MELINDA, born in North Carolina, and died in Sangamon county at 26 or '7 years of age.
RIIODA, born in North Carolina, married in Sangamon county to John Brundage, moved to Texas and died there, leaving two children, who reside in Kan- sas.
ELIZABETH, born in North Caro- lina, married in Sangamon county to Abraham Duff, son of Charles Duff, re- sides since 1866 near Neodesha, Wilson county, Kan.
LEADBETTER, born March 17, 1826, in Rutherford county, N. C., came with his parents in 1834 to Sangamon county, married April 22, 1856, to Martha J. Archer. They have seven children, BENNETT C., ANNA, ELIZABETH, LOUIE, WALTER L., LAURIETTA and JACKSON, and reside four and a half miles west of Springfield, on the farm settled by his father in 1834.
MYRA, born in North Carolina, mar- ried in Sangamon county to William
King, who died, and she married Henry Morgan. See his name.
Terry Bradley died in 1835, and Mrs. Chloe Bradley died July 20, 1865, both in Sangamon county.
BRANCH, EDWARD, was born Dec., 1795, in Virginia, and when he was a child his parents moved to that part of Bourbon, which afterwards became Nicholas, county, Ky. He was there married Dec. 2, 1818, to Rebecca Cassity. They had four children in Kentucky, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving late in Oct., 1830, in what is now Rochester township, where they had two children. Of their six children-
ZERELDA E., born Nov. 19, 1821, in Nicholas county, Ky., married in San- gamon county May 16, 1839, to Joel Can- trill. See his name.
MARY G., born April 22, 1824, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Robert Archer, son of Moses. See his name. He died April, 1872, leaving a widow and three daughters near Grove City, Christian county.
HONOR A., born March 24, 1827, in Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sanga- mon county to William A. Whitesides. See his name.
ELIZABETH A., born Jan. 9, 1830, in Nicholas connty, Ky., married in San- gamon county, Sept. 25, 1848, to Joshua Graham. See his name.
LOUISIANA, born July 16, 1832, in Sangamon county, married Joseph Miller. See his name.
WILLIAM, born Feb. 28, 1835, in Sangamon county, died April 2, 1845.
Edward Branch died Aug. 1, 1835, and his widow resides with her daughter and son-in-law, Wm. A. Whitesides.
BRANSON, JOHN, was born Jan. 12, 1764, in North Carolina. He em- igrated, when a young man, to the vicinity of Charleston, S. C., and married Sarah Jones. They had six children in South Carolina, and moved to Ross county, O. From there to the vicinity of Xenia, Green county, Ohio, before the Indians had entirely left. They had five children there. Some of the elder children mar- ried and remained in Ohio, but Mr. Bran- son with the younger members of his fam- ily, moved to Sangamon county, Ill., ar- riving Oct., 1822, in what is now Fancy Creek township. Of all his children-
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ELI, born in South Carolina, married three times, died, leaving a family in Ful- ton county. His son, CALVIN, resides near Ipava, Fulton county.
ANDREW, born in South Carolina, and married Susannah Wilkinson. They both died, leaving several children near Athens, Illinois.
WILLIAM, born Jan. 9, 1791, in North Carolina, and was taken by his par- ents to South Carolina, in 1793. In 1811 the family moved to Chilicothe, Ohio, where he was married to Sally M. Graves, in 1815. He moved to Indiana, and from there to Sangamon county, Ill., about the time his father came; moved to Galena, and from there to DeWitt county, III. They had seven children, and Mrs. Sally M. Branson died May 10, 1840, in De WVitt county. In December, 1840, he was mar- ried to Martha Cooper, in Sangamon county. In March, 1847, he moved to Sangamon county, and March 28, 1848, he started overland with his family and arrived Sept. 15, 1848, in Polk county, Oregon. He had eight children by the second marriage. He died Nov. 16, 1860. His widow married Michael Shelley, and died Dec. 24, 1868, near Independence, Polk county, Oregon. Nearly all the de- scendents of William Branson reside in the vicinity of Sheridan, Yamhill county, Oregon. His son, B. B. BRANSON, Jun., born Sept. 4, 1830, went with his father to Oregon, in 1848, married there, Sept. 15, 1854, to Eliza E. Dickey, who was born Jan. 19, 1834, in Tenn. They have eight living children. SARAH A., born July 3, 1855, married Nov. 6, 1873, to C. O. Burgess, and resides near Sheri- dan. JOSEPHINE, ELIZA JANE, EPHRIAM N., ELNORA SHERMAN, LAURA V., IDA M. and ORLEY R. reside with their parents, near Sheridan, Yamhill county, Oregon.
CATHARINE, born in South Caro- lina, married in Green county, Ohio, to Frederick Stipp. They came to Sanga- mon county, and two of their daughters reside in Springfield, namely: Mrs. Wood and Mrs. Moody. Mr. and Mrs. Stipp died several years since.
KEZIAH, born in South Carolina, married in Green county, Ohio, to Jesse Sutton. They came to Sangamon county in 1823, moved to Iowa, and both died, leaving several children in VanBuren county, Iowa.
JOHN, Jun., born Oct. 15, 1795, near Charleston, S. C. He was a teamster from Ohio during the war of 1812, and has a crippled hand from an injury re ceived while on duty. He was married, Sept. 12, 1817, in Clarke county, Ohio, to Ann Cantrall, daughter of Zebulon Can- trall, who was a brother of William G., Levi and Wyatt. They had one child, ZEBULON, born June 20, ISIS, in Clarke county, Ohio, married August, 1840, in Sangamon county, to Rachel Braugher, and soon after moved to Fulton county, where five children were born, namely: EMILY, CAROLINE, ISAAC, MARION and ZEBULON, jun. Zebulon Branson enlisted in the ro3d Ill. Inf. for three years, in 1862. He was ist Lieut., and was killed June 27, 1864, while leading his company in a charge on the rebel fortifications at Kennesaw Mountain. His family reside near Ipava, Fulton county. Mrs. Ann Branson died, and FOHN Branson was married, Sept. 12, 1822, in Champaign county, Ohio, to Miriam Thomas. They had five children, namely: THOMAS and CATHATINE, twins, born Dec. I, 1823; THOMAS married, Feb. 4, 1847, to Eliza C. Kiger, who was born March 13, 1830, in Winchester, Va. They had three children. MARIA T. died, aged ten years. CATHARINE w., born May 25, IS50, married March 25, 1869, to Thomas Neal. They had three children, namely : Charles N., died in infancy; Thomas and Coke reside with their parents, in Mitchel county, near Cawker City, Kansas. CHARLES, born March 11, 1852, re- sides with his mother. Thomas Branson died March 5, 1864, and his widow resides eight miles northwest of Springfield. CATHARINE, the other twin, married Rev. Hardin Wallace. They have two children, namely: Mrs. E. M. Sharp, of Mason City, Ill., and Mrs. Carlton Gatton, of Middletown, Ill. Mr. and Mrs. Wał- lace reside at Bath, Mason county, Ill. CAROLINE married Giles Woods. They have seven children, and reside near Waverly. MARIA married Samuel C. Woods. They have one child living, and Mrs. W. died, August 20, 1875. Mr. Woods resides near Waverly. EMILY married Rev. Joseph H. Hopkins. They had one child, and mother and child died in 1848, at Whitehall, Ill. Mrs. Miriam Branson died, and John Branson married,
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Nov. 8, 1840, to Mrs. Mary Humphreys, whose maiden name was McKinnie. They had two children. MINNIE mar- ried George P. Brahm. They had one son CLAUDE, and Mrs. B. died, May 17, IS72. Mr. Brahm, with his son, resides at Kinney, Logan county, Ill. JOHN L. enlisted in 1862, for three years, in the 13th Ill. Inf. Served about one year, and was discharged on account of physical disabil- ity. He married Nellie Cain. John Branson and wife reside one and a half miles northwest of Salisbury. He is in his eighty-first year.
THOMAS, born Feb., 1798, in South Carolina, was married Aug. 12, IS29, in Clark county, O., to Eleanor Thomas, and came to Sangamon county with his father in 1822. They had three children, and Mrs. B, died in Sangamon county Jan 24, IS40. Thomas Branson married Louisa Colc. They had five children, and in IS57 moved to Texas. Of Mr. B.'s children by the first marriage, ADA- LINE, born Oct. 9, 1833, was married Oct. 3, 1849, to W. S. Dunham, of Waynesville, De Witt county, Ill., where she died May 29, 1852. ALIDA, born Sept. 21, 1837, in Sangamon county, Ill., is unmarried, and resides in Mansfield, Texas. REBECCA, born Nov. 30, 1839, in Saugamon county, married Lieut. Frank King, U. S. A., in Dallas county, Texas, Oct. 14, 1862. Lieut. King was killed in Louisiana, May S, 1864. Mrs. King was married Nov. 2, 1865, to Rev. D. D. Leech, in Dallas county, Texas, and she died Aug. 23, 1866, in Ellis coun- ty, Texas, leaving one child, FRANK K., born Aug. 22, 1866, in Ellis county, and resides with his aunt Alida, in Tarrant county, Texas.
Of the children of the second marriage, ELEANOR, born March 10, 1842, was married Dec. 24, 1862, to Samuel Uhl, of the 12th Texan Dragoons. They have five children, viz: SUE E., ADDIE C., LOUISA, CHARLES and ALMA. and reside in Dallas county. Texas. EMILY, born May 21, 1 844, in Sangamon county, married April 10, 1867, to Thomas Uhl, in Dallas coun- ty, Texas. They have one child, WIL- LIAM S., and reside in Dallas county. THOMAS C., born April 27, 1848, in Sangamon county, Ill., was married July 1, 1875, to Virginia Hill, in Dallas county, where they now reside. BENJAMIN
L., born Oct. 7, 1850, in Sangamon coun- ty, is unmarried, and resides in Lancaster, Dallas county, Texas. AUGUSTA, born June 13, 1853, in Sangamon county, mar- ried Aug. 24, 1873, to F. Fox, and resides in Slate Spring, Miss. Thomas Branson died Oct. 21, 1864, and Mrs. Lonisa Bran- son died July 5, 1865, both near Lancaster, Dallas county, Texas.
MARY, born in Green county, O., married in Sangamon county, Ill., Sept. 23, 1824, to Abraham Onstott. They have five children. Mrs. Onstott died June, IS75. The family reside in Clinton, Be Witt county.
REBECCA, born in Ohio, married Elijah Harper, and died, leaving several children in Clark county O.
BENGAMIN B., born Feb., ISIo, in Ross county, O., married in Mechanics- burg, Sangamon county, Ill., May, 1837, to Mary Thompson. They have two children, viz: HENRIETTA, born Aug. 27, 1839, on Fancy creek, Sangamon county, married in Mechanicsburg, Aug. 27, 1861, to A. G. Barnes. See his name. HENRY, born Dec. 2, 1842, on Fancy creek, married June, 1867, in Jacksonville, Ill., to Clara L. Lathrop. They have two children, and reside at Ottawa, Kan. Benj. B. Branson and wife reside in Jack- sonville, Ill.
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