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GEORGE W., born April S, 1823, married Elizabeth Primm, and died Aug. 14, 1845, about four months after marriage. His widow married Jacob Barnsback, and resides near Edwardsville.
MATILDA A., born May 3, IS25, married Andrew Lynch, had seven child- ren, and he died, and she married David Jones. They have two children, and re- side in Menard county.
ELIZABETH, born August 24, 1826, married James A. Turley, and he died Jan., 1852, leaving one child, ALMEDA, who married Joseph M. Smith, and re- sides near Cantrall. Mrs. Turley married George T. Sales. See his name.
JOHN, born August 30, IS28, married Jane Council, have six children, and live in Menard county.
DAVID, born June 17, 1830, married Jane Hornback, and both died, leaving three children.
ADALINE, born April 25, 1832, mar- ried William M. Blue. See his name.
STEPHEN E., born Nov. 1, 1834, died August 15, 1853.
GAMES, born July 17, 1837, mar- ried Eliza Hall, have four children, MARY E., IDA F., LUCY O. and HENRY A., and reside in Fancy creek township.
HENRY, born Oct. S, 1839, married Mary Primm. They have three children, WILLIAM A., ALLEN C. and JEN- NIE, and live near Cantrall.
Mrs. Lucy Cline died June 4, 1875, and John Cline lives in Cantrall.
CLINKENBEARD, WM., was born Feb. 12, ISOS, in Clarke county, Ky. He came to Sangamon county in IS25, remained one year, returned to Ken- tucky, and came back to Sangamon county in 1829. He was married April, 1835, to Lavina Elder. They had ten children in Sangamon county. The fourth, fifth and seventh died under six years. Of the other seven-
HULA A., born Sept. 15, 1836, mar- ried Edward L. Robinson, have three children, and live near Berry, Sangamon county.
WILLIAM H., horn August 13, IS38, in Sangamon county, married August 14, IS64, to Ann J. Brachear. They have two children, HARVEY and LESLIE, and live near Pleasant Gap, Bates county, Missouri.
MARY, born in Sangamon county, married Henry Bryant, have five children, and live near Pleasant Gap, Mo.
THOMAS married Martha Robbins, and resides near Pleasant Gap, Mo.
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JOSIAH, born March 12, 1852, re- sides in Buffalo, Sangamon county.
F. ALBERT and LEVI F. live with their parents.
William Clinkenbeard lived in Sanga- mon county until March, 1873, when he moved to Missouri, and resides near Pleas- ant Gap, Bates county.
CLOYD, DAVID, was born about 1766, in Botetourt county, Va. He was married there, moved to Culpepper county, and from there to Washington county, Ky., about 1815. He moved in company with his sons Thomas and Sam- uel, and his daughter Polly-who married Henry Lucas-to Sangamon county, ar- riving October, 1825, in what is now Cur- ran township. David Cloyd died about 1839, and his widow in 1844 or '5, both in Sangamon county.
CLOYD, THOMAS, son of David, was born Jan. 14, 1798, in Bote- tourt county, Va., and went with his par- ents to Washington county, Ky., in 1815. He was married there April 27, 1820, to Ann Withrow. They had three children in Kentucky, and in 1824 moved to Fayette county, Ill., where they had one child, and from there to Sangamon county, arriving October, 1825, in what is now Curran township, north of Lick creek, where they had two children. Of their six children-
ANN CORDELIA, born June 29, 1820, in Washington county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to, Rev. Charles D. Alsbury. See his name.
HOHIN CALVIN, born Sept. 6, 1821, in Washington county, Ky. He was married in Sangamon county to America Clements. They had two children, one of whom died young. DICEY married James II. Jones, and lives in Henry coun- ty, Mo. Mrs. America Cloyd dicd, and J. C. Cloyd married September, 1848, to Sophia L. Lanterman. They have cight children. CHARLES married Elizabeth J. Branham, has one child, ELIZA M., and live in Curran township. ELEANOR married Asbury M. Branham. They have three children, WILLIAM C., CORD F. and a daughter, and live in Curran town- ship. NANCY J., CORDELIA, WAL- LACE R., GORDON, AMANDA M. and JOHN C., Jun., live with their par- ents, three miles southeast of Curran.
NANCY, born Dec. 25, 1823, in Ken- tucky, married Jan. 2, 1840, to Robert Cummings. See his name.
MATTHEW, born Sept. 10, 1825, in Fayette county, Ill., married in Sangamon county, Oct. IS, 1848, to Fanny Clements. They have nine children. ROBERT T. . lives with his parents. ELIZA J. married William F. Smith. See his name. WM. O. lives with his parents. JULIA F. married May 27, 1873, to Benjamin F. Caldwell. See his name. MATTHEW F., ANN M., HENRIETTA, ALICE and SAMUEL, live with their parents in Chatham township.
THOMAS GORDON, born June 7, IS27, in Sangamon county, married Sept. 27, 1849, to Priscilla J. Baucom, who was born Dec. 31, 1831, in Madison county. They have three children, THOMAS, JOHN C. and ANNIE E., and live near Chatham. Although Thomas G. Cloy was but three and a half years old at the time, he remembers one incident connected with the " deep snow " of 1830-31. That was seeing his father drive a team over a stake and ridered fence, and it troubled him greatly, fearing that the team would go down through the snow and become stranded on the fence.
JOSEPH D., born Dec. 5, 1831, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 16, 1852, to Sarah M. Byers, who was born Oct. 13, 1833, in or near Shepherdstown, Va. They had nine children; one died young. MARY E., SARAH E., VIRGINIA B., JOSEPH D., Jun., THOMAS E., WILLIS, MARGARET F. and LAURA reside with their parents, half a mile north of Chatham.
Thomas Cloyd and wife now-June, 1873-reside near Woodside Station.
CLOYD, SAMUEL, brother to Thomas, was born Nov. 20, 1802, in Cul- peper county, Va. He was taken by his parents to Washington county in 1815, and to Sangamon county in 1825. He was married May 1, 1832, in Sangamon county to Eliza Clements. They had but one child-
MAR Y A., born Oct. 15, 1832, on Lick creek, Sangamon county, married March, 1860, to John S. Highmore. She died Sept. 9, 1872, leaving two children, ELIZA A. and MARY E., who live with their father in Rochester. Sce Bowling family.
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Samuel Cloyd died August 5, 1872, in Rochester, and his widow resides there.
COATS, RALPH J., born May 3, ISI7, in Wyoming county, New York, came to Springfield Oct. 9, 1840. He was married in Livingston county, Michigan, May 14, 1845, to Amanda N. Wood, who was born in Wyoming county, New York, April 8, 1823. They returned to Spring- field, III., where they had two children-
ABEL A., born August 4, 1846, in Springfield, enlisted May, 1864, in Co. E, 133d Ill. Inf., for one hundred days. Ile served fuff term and was honorably dis- charged with the regiment, Sept. 24, 1864. He was married in Springfield, Oct. 30, 1867, to Charlotte E. Gardnier, who was born April 30, 1850, in Carrolton, Green county, Ill. They have four children, all born in Springfield. NINA B., RALPH W., CHARLES A. and MERWIN W. Abel A. Coats is in the grocery business, with his father, and resides in Springfield.
PERSIS E., born Jan. 6, 1849, in Springfield, was married there, Nov. 19, 1868, to Charles D. Timothy, who was born Jan. 3, 1842, in Franklin Grove, Lee county, Ill. They have three children living, CLARA 1., WARREN A. and NETTIE B. Mr. Timothy enlisted Feb. 3, 1864, in Co. G, 75th III. Inf. On ar-
riving at Springfield he was detached under Gen. Oakes in the mustering in and out department, and was honorably discharged March, 1866. He was elected a member of the Board of Supervisors for 1875, and resides two and a half miles north of Springfield.
Ralph J. Coates was elected Alderman of Springfield in 1857, for three years, was re-elected in 1860, 1864 and 1871. He is now, and has been in the grocery busi- ness in Springfield, Ill., for eighteen years, and resides there.
R. J. Coates' father was a soldier in the war of 1812, for four months. He died in Springfield, Ill., August 9, 1874, at the age of eighty-seven years.
COE, EBENEZER, was born August 25, 1812, in Loudon county, Va., and came to Sangamon county, Ill., with George M. Green, in 1839. He went back to Virginia in the fall of 1843, and was married in Loudon county, Sept. 17, 1844, to Jane Grubb, a native of that county. He returned to Sangamon coun- ty in 1851. Mrs. Coe died near Roches-
ter, May 10, 1860. Mr. Coe was mar- ried March 26, 1861, in Loudon county, to Mrs. Julia A. Edwards, whose maiden name was Conard. They came soon after to Sangamon county, and Mrs. Coe died Dec. 22, 1869, leaving four children-
JOSEPH H., SAMUEL B., WIL- LIAMI C. and MARY C.
Ebenezer Coe was married Dec. 13, 1870, in Decatur Ill., to Harriet Lanham, who was born July 25, 1830, in Sangamon county. They live one mile east of Rochester.
COLEMAN. MRS. ABI- GAIL, whose maiden name was Rob- ertson, was born in Surry county, N. C., and was married there to Theophilus Coleman, who was born in Virginia. They had four children in North Caro- lina. Mr. Coleman became a soldier in the war with England in 1812. He never returned, and his family never knew his fate. Mrs. Coleman, with ber four child- ren, moved in 1815 to Cumberland county, Ky., and to Sangamon county, Ill., ar- rived in the fall of IS20 on Richland creek, in what is now Salisbury township. Of her four children-
SARAH, born Jan. 6, 1801, in North Carolina, married in Kentucky to Joshua Crow, came with her mother to Sanga- mon county. They moved to Cass county, where she died many years ago, leaving seven children.
ELIZABETH, born May 19, 1804, in North Carolina, married John G. Pur- vines. Sce his namc.
GANE, born Jan. 28, 1806, in North Carolina, married George K. Hamilton. See his name. He died, and she married Alexander C. Purvines! See his name.
YOHN R., born Feb. 29, 1808, in North Carolina, married Nancy Harris, had two children in Sangamon county, aud moved to Crawford county, Mo., where they had four children, and Mrs. Coleman died. He married again, had four children, and is now a widower and resides in Missouri.
Mrs. Abigail Coleman was married in Sangamon county in 1824, to Robert Hamilton. They had two children in Sangamon county-
MAHALA married Mr. Rice, bad one child, and Mr. Rice died. She married James Pease, had three children, and he
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died. Mrs. Mahala Pease resides near Cuba, Mo.
YAMES C. married in Missouri, en- listed in a Union regiment from that State, and died in the army.
Mrs. Abigail Hamilton died in Sanga- mon county, and Robert Hamilton died in Arkansas.
COLEMAN, JONATHAN B., was born Nov. 16, ISII, in Ruther- ford county, Tenn. When he was about seventeen years old he came to Sangamon county with his uncle, Charles K. Hutton, arriving in what is now Auburn township Oct. 15, 1827. He was married Nov. 10, 1835, to Mary Dodds. They had five living children, all born in Sangamon county, namely-
GAMES W., born Nov. 21, 1838, married Margaret Bowman, had two children, CHARLES U. and BELLE, and Mrs. C. died. Mr. Coleman mar- ricd Elizabeth Mengle. They have two children, and live in Christian county.
JOSEPH E., born March 5, 1841, enlisted July 15, 1861, in Springfield, for three years, in what became Co. B, 11th Mo. Inf. He served full term and was honorably discharged Aug. 12, 1864. He married Lydia Dawson. They have one child, LETA, and live in Springfield. Mr. Coleman is a traveling salesman for a queensware house in St. Louis.
WILLIAM H. married Fanny B. Taylor, and lives in Ball township.
ELIZABETH A. and
MARGARET E. live with their pa- rents, near the Sugar creck Cumb. Presb. church, in Ball township.
COLEY, WILLIS, was born Feb. 14, 1792, near Ballston Springs, N. Y., and when he was a child his pa- rents moved to Cazenovia, Madison coun- ty. Willis was there married in Feb., ISIS, to Lucinda Chapin. His father owned some land in the military tract be- tween the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. Soon after Willis was married his father sent him out to see it. He came on a raft down the Alleghany and Ohio rivers to Shawneetown, thence to St. Louis by keel boat. He went on foot to the mili- tary tract, and returned to Edwardsville July 4, 1819, he started from that placc, on foot and alone, for his home in New York. At Terre Haute, Ind., he secured cooked food, and traveled two hundred miles to
the Maumee river, without seeing any other human beings but Indians. He ar- rived at Cazenovia August 7, 1819. March 4, 1820, he started with his family, consisting of himself, wife and two child- ren, accompanied by five or six other fam- ilies. They moved by water +o Shawnee- town, Ill., where Mr. Coley lived three years. He then moved in a wagon, drawn by two yoke of oxen, and in March, IS23, arrived in what is now Loami township, where they had three children. Of their five children- -
ROBERT W., born in New York, married in Sangamon county to Rebecca A. Jarrett. She died Feb. 13, 1870, and Robert W. Coley died March, 1872. Their daughter LAVINA is the wife of John A. De Witt, and lives in Springfield. Their son WILLIS lives in Loami.
CHARLOTTE, born August 15, 1819, in New York, married in Sangamon county to Reuben Moore, and moved to Texas in 1852. Reuben Moore died in 1863, leaving a widow and seven children. LUCINDA, ROBERT E., ELLEN and POLLY are married, and live in Texas. LAURA, their third child, mar- ried Lott Mason, and lives in Auburn, Sangamon county. EDGAR and WIL- LIE, the two youngest, live with their mother, near Mckinney, Collin county, Texas.
HUBBARD S., born in Sangamon county, married Mareh 4, 1852, to Susan Jacohs. They have two children, AN- NIS and MAY, and live in Oswego, La- bette county, Kansas.
JAMES M., born August 23, 1832, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 28, 1858, to Caroline Greenwood. She died six weeks after they were married. Mr. Coley married April 19, 1860, to America Gibson. They had two children, LEWIS B. and MARY F., the latter of whom died in her third year. J. M. Coley and wife live in Loami.
ANGELINE, born in Sangamon county, married Hugh Forrest, and both died.
Mrs. Lucinda Coley died at Loami, and Willis Coley was married Sept., 1851, to Mrs. Philena Jenkins, who was previous- ly Mrs. Kidder, and whose maiden name was Sprague, a native of Windham coun- ty, Vt. After a residence of just half a
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century at Loami, Willis Coley moved, in 1873, to Oswego, Kansas.
COLBURN, PAUL, was born about 1761, in Hollis, Hillsboro county, New Hampshire. He was married in Massachusetts, to Mehetibel Ball, who was born about 1757. They had eleven children born in Sterling, Worcester county, Mass. In ISog the family moved to the vicinity of Hebron, Grafton county, N. H., where they remained until Sept., IS15, when Paul Colburn and his wife, his son Isaac with his wife and two child- ren, his son William and his wife; they having been married but a few days, and his unmarried daughter, Isabel, started from Hebron in wagons to seek a new home in Ohio, at that time the " far west." On reaching Olean, at the Alleghany river, they found the river too low to bring all their goods on boats, as they had intended. They sold their wagons and teams, put their remaining goods and their families on a raft, and started down the river, reaching Pittsburg on the evening of Dec. 24, 1815. Ice was forming in the river, and they were compelled to stop there for the winter. While they were in Pittsburg, Paul Colburn was joined by his son Ebenezer, who had been serving in the United States army in the war with England, then just ended. In the spring of 1816, Isaac and Ebenezer went up the Alleghany river and made a raft of logs suitable for making shingles, and partially loaded it with hoop poles. They expected- to have gone down the Ohio river in June, but the whole season was one of un- usual low water, and December ar- rived before they reached Pittsburg with their raft. The whole party went down on the raft to Marietta, O., where they engaged in farming and other pur- suits. Ebenezer was married in Marietta, and in the spring of 1820 Paul Colburn and his wife, Isaac and his family, and Ebenezer and his wife, embarked on a raft, leaving William to close up the busi- ness at Marietta. They landed their raft at Louisville, Ky., and left Isaac there to work up and sell their lumber. The other members of the family continued down the river to Shawneetown; Paul Colburn, his wife and daughter remained there. Ebenezer and his wife went on to join some relatives of her's in Monroe county, Ill., about fifty miles south of St. Louis.
In August of that year Isaac Colburn and his wife died at Louisville within two days of each other, leaving six children among strangers, and on the first of No- vember Mrs. Mehitibel Colburn died at Shawneetown. About the time of her death William Colburn embarked with his family on a boat at Marietta, floated down to Louisville, and took on board four of his brother Isaac's children, one having died, and another been placed in a good home. He then went to Shawneetown and joined his bereaved father and sister, arriving Dec. 24, 1820.
In March, 1821, Paul Colburn, his daughter Isabel, William Colburn, wife and three children, the four orphan child- ren of Isaac Colburn, and a Mr. Harris, started in a wagon drawn by four oxen for Morgan county. They traveled through rain, mud and unbridged streams for about five weeks, which brought them to the south side of Lick creek, on what is now Loami township, where they found an empty cabin. From sheer weariness they decided to stop, and Mr. Harris, the owner of the wagon and oxen, went on to Morgan county.
Soon after their arrival Wm. Colburn gave a rifle gun for a crop of corn just planted, and in that way began to provide food. He secured a team and went after his brother Ebenezer, and brought him and his wife to the settlement, arriving in October, 1821.
Having succeeded in bringing so many of his descendants to the new country, and witnessed their struggles to gain a foot- hold and provide themselves with homes, Paul Colburn died Feb. 27, 1825, near the present town of Loami. Of his children who came to Sangamon county, we will notice each under separate heads, begin- ning with the daughters-
COLBURN, SALLY, born June 15, 1789, in Sterling, Mass., married there to Daniel Woodworth. They came some years after the first of the family arrived. They lived many years i Springfield, and both died in Sangamon county. Their daughter-
LOUISA H., married Gershom Dor- rance. See his name.
SARAH, has been twice married, and lives in California.
An account is preserved of a ludicrous incident that transpired while Mr. Wood-
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worth lived in Springfield. A rain storm came on suddenly and caught him away from home. He started on a run, with his head down, hat drawn over his eyes, and body bent forward. It so happened that Governor Ford found him- self away from home in the same shower. Throwing himself in a similar attitude, he started on a run also; but there was this difference, they were running in opposite directions, and when both were at full speed, they came together with a square butt, like a couple of sheep. Each, on the spur of the moment, thought it was intentional on the part of the other, and each assumed a belligerent attitude, but before a blow was struck, both discovered that it was an accident, and with a hearty laugh, hurried on.
COLBURN, MARY, born Feb. 23, 1792, at Sterling, Mass., married Adna Phelps. See his name.
COLBURN, ISABEL, born Feb. 11, 1796, in Sterling, Mass., married in Sangamon county, to Adin E. Meacham. See his name.
COLBURN, ISAAC, born in Sterling, Mass., married in New Hamp- shire, and himself and wife died at Louis- ville, Ky., in 1821, leaving six children, one of whom died in infancy.
AZ UBA remained in the vicinity of Louisville, and married a Mr. Summers.
ASA came to Sangamon county in IS32, went to Galena in 1836, and two or three years later was killed by a lead mine caving in on him.
LAVINA came to Sangamon county in 1836, married in Springfield to Jacob Nott, who died, and she married John Letterhose, and died in Loami.
LUCY; married in Sangamon county to Levi Sweet. He died, leaving her a widow with five children at Scyene, Dallas county, Texas.
COLBURN, WILLIAM, brother to Isaac, Abel and Ebenezer, was born June 3, 1793, at Sterling, Mass., married Aug. 15, 1815, at Hebron, N. H., to Achsa Phelps, who was born at that place July 9, 1796. They came to San- gamon county, Ill., arriving April 5, 1821, in what is now Loami township. They had three children before moving to San- gamon county, and eleven after, the youngest of whom died in infancy. Of the thirteen children-
CLARISSA, born Oct. 27, 1816, at Pittsburg, Pa., married in Sangamon county, Dec. 3, 1831, to William S. Walker. See his name.
ABIGAIL, born April 29, 1818, at Marietta, O., married April 9, 1835, to Lawrence Underwood. See his name.
FANNY, born Jan. 4, 1820, at Marietta, O., married in Sangamon county, Jan. 28, 1843, to David Phelps. See his name.
MEHETIBEL, born Dec. 5, 1821, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 16, IS3S, to David Phelps. See his name.
SAMUEL PAUL, born Sept. 15, IS23, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 23, 1845, to Melinda Colburn, had one child that died in infancy, and Mrs. Col- burn died Dec. 23, 1865, and he married Nov. 14, 1866, to Mrs. Isabel Lucas, whose maiden name was Colburn. They reside in Loami.
MARGARET P., born April 7, 1825, in Sangamon county, married Sept. 21, 1845, to Lewis Cotterman. They had tivo children, WILLIAM A. and FAN- NIE, and Mrs. Cotterman died Sept. 6, 1853. Her children reside with their father near Linden, Osage county, Kan.
ISAAC, born Feb. 22, 1827, in Sanga- mon county, married August 17, 1854, to Julia A. Ensley. They had three child- ren. ACHSA E., born July 24, 1855, died in her eighth year. CHLOE E. and CHARLES E. live with their father. .Mrs. Julia A. Colburn died Dec. 25, 1859, and Mr. C. married Sept. 20, 1863, to Mandana Phelps. They had three child- ren, CORA A., CLARENCE E. and MARY O .; all died in infancy. Isaac Colburn and wife reside in Loami.
DANIEL W., born July 2, 1829, mar- ried Nov. 28, 1849, to Lucinda Huffmaster. They have eight children. SARAH married William Greer, has one child, and resides with her parents. FANNY mar- ried Christopher McLaughlin, who was born Feb. 10, 1846, in Montgomery county, Ky. They have two children, MINNIE and ANDREW, and reside at Loami. Mr. MeLaughlin enlisted Feb. 22, 1864, in Co. A, 106th Ill. Inf., for three years; was honorably discharged at Springfield, August 1, 1865. SUSAN M. married Thomas Huggin, and resides in Curran. JAMES E., MARY M., WINFIELD S., DAVID L. and
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LAURA A., reside with their parents, three miles south of Curran.
WILLIAM S., born Feb. 20, 1831, in Sangamon county, married July 8, 1853, in Fulton county, Ill., to Mary Ensley, who was born May 23, 1831, near Chillicothe, O. They had four children. MILLARD F. died in infancy. LINDA A., born March 11, 1856, married Dec. 26, 1872, to Lycurgus L. Smith, who was born June 20, 1849, at Mt. Pleasant O., and reside at Martin's Ferry, Belmont county, O. LUELLA R. and WILLIAM H. reside with their parents at Loami.
W. S. Colburn enlisted at Jacksonville, Ill., July 16, 1847, in Co. G, 16th United States Inf., for five years or during the war with Mexico, and was honorably dis- charged August, 1848, at Cincinnati, O. In the spring of 1850 he started for Cali- fornia, via the Isthmus of Panama. The vessel was bestormed and becalmed, so that he was on the Pacific ocean seven months from Panama to San Francisco. He has traveled in twenty-four States of the Union, and been on fourteen sea voyages. William S. Colburn enlisted June 27, 1864, in Co. F., 28th Ill. Inf., for three years; was honorably discharged August 2, 1865. He was detailed as clerk in the medical department soon after entering the army, was promoted to hospital steward, and served as such to the end of the rebel- lion.
EBENEZER, born April 9, 1833, in Sangamon county, married August 17, 1854, to Nancy A. Huffmaster. They had two children, ADNA P. and CLAR- ISSA A., and Mrs. Colburn died August 10, 1859, and Mr. C. was married August 8, 1862, to Elizabeth Davis. They have five children, DANIEL W., HENRY W., ALPHA D., JULIA A. and INA A., and live in Loami.
LEVI O., born Nov. 13, 1835, in San- gamon county, enlisted July 13, 1862, in Co. F, 5Ist Ill. Inf., for three years. He was Ist Sergt., and as such, commanded the company part of the time. He was wounded in the arm at the battle of Chick - amauga, served until June 27, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. Ile was married July 7, 1867, to Christiana Kin- ney. They have two children, BERTIIA O. and WILLIAM E., and live at Loami.
DAVID P., born Oct. 5, 1837, in San- gamon county, enlisted August 9, 1861, in Co. B, 30th Ill. Inf., for three years, re-enlisted as a veteran, Jan. 1, 1864. He was appointed 2nd Sergt. at the organiza- tion of the regiment; promoted to ist Sergt .; commissioned Ist Lieut., Jan. 20, 1865; commissioned Capt., May, 1865. Commanded the company from Oct. 4, 1864. He served until July 17, 1865, when he was honorably discharged. He was married April 12, 1866, to Tirzah Mengel. They have one child, LEONARD L., and reside at Loami.
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