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town of Sherman, where they had seven children. Of all their children --
MARTHA, born Oct. 26, 1814, in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county to William Branson. See his name.
FAMES W., horn Sept. 16, 1816, in Tennessee, was married in Sangamon county to Zarilda Taylor. They had four children. MELISSA married Charles Wood. They have one child, and live near Edinburg, Ill. PRISCILLA mar- ried James Wright. They have four children, and live near Riverton. JAS. M. married Ellen McGinnis. They have two children, and live three miles south- east of Williamsville. AMBROSE died Jan. 27, 1874, in Williams township. James W. Cooper went to Texas, hoping to improve his health, and died there in IS53. His widow died the next year in Sangamon county.
MINERVA, born Sept. 21, ISIS, in St. Clair county, Ill., was married in San- gamon county to Jesse Yocom. See his name.
MARGARET f., born Sept. 1, 1820, in St. Clair county, was married in Sanga- mon county to George W. Yocom. See his name. Three of their children, NETTIE, CLARA and MINNIE, died in the winter of 1876.
MARY, born July 28, 1822, in St. Clair county, was married in Sangamon county, Ill., Jan. 30, 1851, to John Wilson, who was born Feb. 1, 1821, in Dumfriesshire, Scotland. They have three children, ANN, JAMES M. and THOMAS H., and reside one and a half miles east of Riverton.
NANCY; horn May 7, 1825, in Sanga- mon county, married John Keagle. They have seven children. CHARLOTTE married Nathan Hussy. See his name. SIDNEY married Samuel Smith. She died, leaving one child, LETITIA, who married Silas Skinner and died. JOSEPH, SUSAN, HARLAN P. and HAR- RISA B., reside with their parents in Logan county, Ill.
REBECCA, born Aug. 11, 1827, in Sangamon county, married James Mills. She died Oct., 1871, in Sangamon county. James Mills died in the spring of 1874, in Moultrie county. Of their children : MARY F. married Samuel Harsh, and resides near Sullivan. LOUISA and
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EMMA reside near Sullivan, Moultrie county, III.
AMBROSE, born Sept. 13, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Dorothy Keagle. They have five children, MARY J., JOHN M., AUGUSTA, GEORGE E. L. and JAMES W., and reside near Brownsville, Mo.
DAVID D., born August 10, 1831, in Sangamon county, married Julict With- row. They have seven children, SUSIE, JAMES A., DOUGLAS, LEE, AU- GUSTA and EUGENE, and reside one and a half miles east of Sherman.
ROBERT, born July S, 1834, in San- gamon county, was married Feb. 9, 1869, to Lavina Garner, who was born in Wash- ington county, Indiana. They live near Sherman, Sangamon county, III.
MEREDITH, Jun., born Sept. 11, 1836, in Sangamon county, was married in March, 1873, to Mrs. Emma Jones, whose maiden name was Watson. They have one child, ANNA LEONORA, and reside in east St. Louis, III.
LOUISA, born Feb. 3, 1839, in San- gamon county, was married Dec. 26, 1855, to Isaac M. Raynolds, who was born in Pike county, Ohio. They have five child- ren, CHARLES M., JAMES A., POL- LY E., EDWIN S. and BERTHA M., and reside one and a half miles east of Sherman. The place was for many years a trading post for the Indians, and from about 1832 to 1856 was the family home- stead of the Coopers. Some of the younger members of the family remember a visit to their house by Abraham Lincoln on business. A large back log had just been put on. It was cut from the fork of a tree, and one limb projected quite a dis- tance up the chimney. The children were greatly amused to witness Mr. Lin- coln's interest in trying to determine how they brought it through the door and put it in the fireplace. Meredith Cooper, Sen., died Nov. 1, 1870, in Williams township, and his widow resides with their daughter, Mrs. Raynolds.
COOPER, JOHN, born in 1772, married in South Carolina, and seven of his children were born there. He moved with his family to Jefferson county, Tenn Some of his children preceded him to Sangamon county. He came with his wife Elizabeth, and remaining children, about 1822, to what is now Cooper town-
ship. Nine daughters and three 'sons came to Sangamon county. The follow- ing are the names of the daughters, with the surnames of the men they married-
BETSY, Moffit; NANCY, Smith; MARY, Smith; LYDIA, Moore; RACHEL, Bragg; FANNY, Dicker- son; LUCY, Mathews; EDITH, Saun- ders; and SUSANNAH, Keagle.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cooper died March 10, 1845, and John Cooper died April 10, 1846, both in Cooper township. Of their three sons-
COOPER, EPHRIAM, brother to Rev. John and Jacob Cooper. He was born about 1802. in Jefferson county, Tenn., came to Illinois when a young man, married, raised a family in Christian county, and died there Feb. 20, 1847.
COOPER, JOHN, was born June 3, 1794, in South Carolina, and was taken hy his parents to Jefferson county, Tenn., where he was married to Susannah Peyton, had one child, YULIA G., and Mrs. Cooper died. Mr. Cooper was mar- ried in the same county to Susannah Giger, who was born Sept. 26, 1795, had two children in Tennessee, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving April 2, 1820, and settled two miles north of where Rochester now stands and one year later moved to what is now Cooper township, south of the Sangamon river. They had nine children in Sangamon county. Of all his children-
YULIA G., born Feb. 1, IS14, mar- ried in Sangamon county to John Weich. He died in 1840, leaving three children. JOHN C. died, aged seventeen. WIL- LIAM H. married Harriet Cooper. He enlisted in 1861 in Co. C, 27th Ill. Inf., for three years, re-enlisted as a veteran Jan. 1, 1864, and was severely wounded. He died January, 1870, and Mrs. Welch died later. They left two children. JAMES S. WELCH is a practicing phy- sician at Sullivan, Moultrie county, Il. Mrs. Julia G. Welch married Chesley Dickerson. They had one child. SUSAN- NAH married David Clark, and resides at Breckenridge. Chesley Dickerson died in 1846, and Mrs. Julia G. Dickerson married Daniel D. Johnson. Sce his name. They reside near Breckenridge.
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MARY A., born Aug. IS, 1817, in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county to Lewis Churchill. See his name.
WILEY S., born July 30, 1819, in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county to Eliza Clawson, and live in Shelbyville.
LEWIS W., born Aug. 5, 1822, in Sangamon county, married to Elizabeth Todd. He died July 19, 1872.
BENGAMIN H., born Nov. 11, 1824, died Aug. 1, 1841, aged seventeen.
PATRICK, born June 29, 1826, in Sangamon county, married Elizabeth Firey, have four children, JOHN H., JACOB P., MARY E. and LAURA B., and reside near Edinburg, Christian county, Ill.
FAMMIES M., born Aug. 3, 1828, in Sangamon county, married April, 1851, to Mary A. Sutcliffe. They had three children, and all died under five years. Mrs. Cooper died Dec. 29, 1858. James M. Cooper was married Feb. 14, 1860, at Rochester, to Susan Stier, who was born May 19, 1833, in Harrison county, Va. They had four children, EMELINE F., IDA B., JAMES F. and MARY MAUD, and reside in Cooper township, fives miles east of Rochester, on a part of the farm where his parents settled in IS21, and where Mr. Cooper was born.
MIVERVA f., born June 12, IS30, died in Sangamon county March 4, 1842.
SARAH A., born Nov. 2, 1832, in Sangamon county, married William T. Sudduth. See his name.
JOHN S., born Aug. 14, 1836, in Sangamon county, married to Minerva Ross, who was born in Ohio They have three children, AMY, SARAH ELIZA and ANNIE, and reside at Shelbyville, Illinois.
GEORGE G., born June S, 1839, in Sangamon county, died Nov. 10, 1842.
Mrs. Susannah Cooper died Sept. 21, I859, and Rev. John Cooper died January, 1860, both in Cooper township. He was a local minister in the M. E. church, and preached almost as regularly as the minis- ters in the traveling connection. He sol- emnized the marriage of many couple among the early settlers. He was a jus- tice of the peace and one of the county commissioners for many years, and when the township organization was affected his name was given to the township in
which he lived as a mark of respect to his memory.
COOPER, JACOB, was born Dec. 18, ISoo, in Jefferson county, Tenn., was married there to Anna Walden. One child was born in Tennessee, and they came to Sangamon county, Ill., with his brother, Rev. John Cooper, in IS19. Their second child was born in Sangamon county. One child died, and Mrs. Anna Cooper died Feb. 22, 1830. Jacob Cooper was married to Jane Kelly, daughter of William Kelly, of Springfield. They had five children. Of his children-
JOHN WESLEY was born Dec. 18, IS22, in Sangamon county ; went to Mis- souri when grown, and married there to Anna Waldron. He died there, leaving a widow and two children.
Children of the second marriage were- MELCINA A., born Nov. 22, 1830, in Sangamon county, married March 3, ISIS. to Milton D. McCoy. See his name.
MELVINA C., born Aug. 27, 1832, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 27, 1849, to Benjamin F. Stokes. See his name. She died Sept. 15, 1850.
ELZIRAH C., born May 29, 1834, married Benjamin F. Stokes. See his name.
ALMARINDA, born June 26, 1836, married Joseph A. Waddell. They have six children, and reside in Rochester town- ship.
WILLIAM HAMEISON, born Jan. 4, 1844, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 7, 1865, to Mattie S. West, of Rochester. They have two children, NORA BELL and MATTIE. Mrs. Mattie Cooper died April 25, 1873, and WVm. J. Cooper married Dec. 31, 1874, +0 Leonora O'Leary, of East. St. Louis. W. J. Cooper resides two miles south of Rochester.
Jacob Cooper died Aug. 22, 1864, and Mrs. Jane Cooper died Aug. 24, 1864, both in Sangamon county, Ill.
COOK, ELI, was born Nov. +, ISO9, in Butler county, Ohio, and married there, April 7, 1829. to Sarah Jones, who was born Feb. 2, ISog, in Preble county, Ohio. They moved to Indiana, and from there to Effingham county, Ill., thence to Springfield, in 1837. Of their nine child- ren, two died young, and of the other seven-
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EMELINE, born March 7, 1832, in Indiana, was married in Springfield, July 4, 1850, to William Morgan. Their only child, FRANKLIN, is a printer, and lives in Springfield. She married for a second time, April 22, 1857, to John Fuller. They have one child, CLARENCE. Mrs. Emeline Fuller is now a widow, and lives in Springfield.
ADALINE, born Sept. 6, 1833, in Effingham county, Ill., was married in Springfield, Oct. 28, 1850, to George Fessenden, a native of Boston, Mass. They have three children. AS.1, a tele- graph operator, lives in Springfield, Ill. JULIA and ISABEL, the two latter re- side with their mother, in Chicago.
ANGELINE, born Sept. 6, 1833, in Effingham county, Ill., was married in Springfield to James W. Watson. See his name.
H. FRANKLIN, born Sept. 14, 1836, in Butler county, Ohio, was married in Springfield, Dec. 23, 1858, to Lucinda Parker, adopted daughter of J. E. Roll. They had one living child, LEONARD, and Mrs. Lucinda Cook died Sept. 10, 1864. Mr. Cook was married in Spring- field, Aug. 1, 1872, to Rebecca E. Baird, a native of New Jersey. H. Franklin Cook is a commercial traveler, with resi- dence in Springfield.
MARY E., born May 20, 1833, in San- gamon county, was married in Spring- field, Sept. 24, 1863, to Charles H. Ed- mands, who was horn in Charlestown, Mass., Jan. 10, 1832. They had six child- ren; four died young. FREDERICK D. and GEORGE A. reside with their pa- rents, in Springfield, Ill. Hr. Edmands is a manufacturer and dealer in stoves and tinwarc.
JULIA R., born Dec. 16, 1839, in Springfield, was married Feb. 21, 1861, to James Gormley, of New Jersey. They have three children, DORA, MAY and AUSTIN, and live in Virginia City, Montana.
ELBRIDGE C., born June 29, 1841, in Springfield, is married, and lives in Cicero, Indiana.
Mr. Eli Cook was a hatter by trade, and followed that business in Springfield. He was Mayor of the city three terms, in IS46, '47 and '48. In 1849 he left for the Pacific coast, and died in Nevada City,
California, March 25, 1853. His widow resides in Springfield.
CORRELL, LEVI, was born June 22, 1767, in New Jersey. When a young man he went to Kentucky, and was married Nov. 6, 1794, in Bath county, to Mary Hicklin. They had eleven children, four of whom died young. Of the other seven-
JOSEPH, born Oct. S, 1795, died when a young man.
ELIZABETH, born Jan. IS, 1797, in Harrison county, Ky., married March 23, 1820, to Jonathan McDaniel. See his name.
HUGH, born July 6, 1So4, in Harrison county, Ky. He was married May 2, IS26, in that county, to Mary Y. Sinclair. They had two children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1830 in what is now Mechan- icsburg township, where they had four children. Of their six children, ELIZA- BETH, born May 9, 1827, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Robert P. McDaniel. See his name. He died, and she married James H. McDaniel. See his name. CYRUS, born July 16, 1829, in Kentucky, came with his parents to Sangamon county, married at Concord, Morgan county, to Mary Brown. Cyrus Correll died Dec. 23, 1868, in Sangamon county, leaving one child, CORA, residing with her mother, who is the wife of Pierce Kiser, and lives in Mechanicsburg. COR- DELIA, born Feb. 23, 1833, in Sanga- mon county, married Feb. 18, 185S, to John M. Carpenter, who was born March 26, 1829, in Butler county, O., and came to Sangamon county in 1850. They have three children, WINFORD II., DORA B. and MINNIE c., and reside three and a half miles northeast of Buffalo. DAVID, born March 29, 1836, in Sangamon coun- ty, is unmarried, and resides two and a half miles south of Dawson. STEPHEN, born May 12, 1838, in Sangamon county, married March 12, 1868, to Ann M. Sem- ple, who was born Dec. 29, 1846, in Ire- land. They have two children, WILLIE and MARY D., and reside two and a half miles south of Dawson, at the family homestead. MARY, born Sept. 7, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Mar., 1864, to Jesse Wheelin. Mr. Whcelin died Feb. 1, 1871, and Mrs. W. died Aug. 21, 1871. Their only living child, CYRUS E., born July
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S, 1865, in Sangamon county, resides at the family homestead, two and a half miles.south of Dawson. Hugh Correll died June I, 1854, and his widow died Sept. 7, 1874, both where they settled in 1832, on the farm two and a half miles south of Dawson.
MARTHA, born March 13, 1806, in Kentucky, married Hugh McDonald. They had five children and moved to Texas, where Mr. McDonald and two sons, JAMES and THOMAS, and a daughter, MARTHA, died. Mrs. Mar- tha McDonald returned, and died in San- gamon county. MARY E. married Mr. Grider, and lives in Decatur, Texas. SUSAN died at Quiney Ill., September, 1875. ANNA resides with her uncle, Thomas Correll.
THOMAS, born Jan. 18, ISO8, in Har- rison county, Ky. He was there married. Oct. 7, 1830, to Sally McDaniel. (She was born Aug. 28, 18ri, in Clarke county, Ky.) They moved immediately after they were married to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1830 in Mechan- icsburg township, where they had eight children. Of their children, M. MAR- GARET, horn July 13, 1832, married Edwin Tomlin. See his name. WIL- LIAM FLETCHER, born Oct. 16, 1833, married Feb. 25, 1868, to E. Fannie Pur- viance. They have two children, FRANK and KATE, and reside in Macon county, III., two and a half miles southeast of Illi- opolis. D. SIMPSON, born Sept. 3, 1835, married Feb. 25, 1874, to Lizzie Peden, who was born Oct. 19, 1855, in Morgan county, O. They live two miles south of Illinois. WARNER H., born May 1, 1837, married Dec. 20, 1866, to Anna Simpson, who died in 1867, and he married March, IS71, to Lizzie St. Clair. They have three children, THOMAS, SAM- UEL and ESSIE MAY, and live near Pleas- ant Plains, Ill. CORNELIUS, born May 19, 1839, married March 12, 1863, to Carrie A. Cass. She was born Dec., 1845, and was a daughter of William Riley Cass. They had two children, FLORA C. and VIRGIL, and Mrs. Correll died April 1, 1866. Mr. Correll was mar- ried Nov. 16, 1869, to Lidie N. Davies, in Philadelphia. She was born there May 30, 1843, of Scotch and English parents, and graduated in 1865 in one of the insti- tutions of learning in her native city. They had three children, FANNY MARY, JESSIE
NEWTON and HEBER WILBER; the latter died in infancy, and Mrs. Lidie N. Correll died March 23, 1874. Cornelius Correll is a graduate in the Law department of Michigan University, Ann Arbor. He is now a member of the firm of Correll & Co., druggists, Springfield. JOHN, born June 5, 1841, resides with his parents. LEVI S., born Aug. 14, 1843. He is a graduate of the Medical department of Ann Arbor University, Michigan. He is member of the firm of Correll & Co., composed of the brothers Cornelius, John and Levi S., druggists, Springfield. Levi S. was mar- ried July 8, 1874, in Springfield, to Lou Freeman. They reside in Springfield. FANNIE, born August 22, 1846, in San- gamon county, married .Oct. 29, 1869, to Isaac Funk. They have two children, ARTHUR and MABEL; the latter died in in- fancy. They reside at Funk's Grove, near Shirley, McLean county. Thomas Correll and his wife reside within one mile of where they settled in 1830. It is two and a half miles southeast of Dawson.
Thomas Correll says that he raised a crop of corn in Kentucky, during the summer of 1830, and sold it for $75.00 He spent $5 00 in getting married, and brought the remaining $70.00 with him. He fed his father's stock during the winter of 1830 and '31, (being the winter of the "deep snow,") for which he received $30, making an even $100. With that money he came to Springfield and entered his first eighty acres of land. Having secured his land, he had not a cent of money to pay a hotel bill, and a man by the name of Constant hearing him relate his situation, kept him over night and trusted him for it. The ferryman at the Sangamon river took him over on the same terms, and that was the way he laid the foundation for his home. When they commenced keeping house they had neither a table nor chair. He made a shelf on the wall, and from that the first meal was taken standing. His wife's uncle, Henry McDaniel, was with them, and he praised her cooking, to keep her courage up. Mr. Correll, dur- ing the summer of 1831, rode eight miles to help David Riddle harvest his wheat, and returned home every night. He re- ceived sixty-two and a half cents per day for his labor. The first wheat he raised for himself he harvested with a reap hook, or sickle, tramped it out with horses,
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hauled it to St. Louis, one hundred miles, and sold it for fifty cents per bushel. As he accumulated some money, he bought fat hogs, and drove them to St. Louis. One year he made some money, and feel- ing liberal, he overpaid some of the men who helped him. The next year he lost all, and was thirty-seven and a half cents short in money to pay his hired help. One of those who had been overpaid by him the year before, would not suffer any reduction, and he had to raise the money in some other way. He thought that was not very encouraging, but his success in life since, makes the contrast very strik- ing.
SUSANNAH, born Oct. 9, 1809, in Kentucky, married Jacob Morgan. See his name.
SARAH, born Dec. 31, IS11, in Ken- tucky, married Jacob Constant. See his name.
Mrs. Mary H. Correll died July 10, 1816, in Kentucky, and Levi Correll was married July 17, 1817, to Mrs. Elizabeth Sinclair, whose maiden name was Phillips. She was born July 27, 1807, in Northum- berland county, Va. Her father died when she was quite young, and her mother, with her son and daughter, moved to Harrison county, Ky. Mr. and Mrs. Correll had two children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., ar- riving in the fall of 1830, in what is now Mechanicsburg township. Of their two children-
WILLIAM, born August 16, 1818, in Harrison county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, Dec. 7, 1848, to Per- melia A. Simpson. They had three children. CYRUS died in infancy. HENRY OWEN married Ada Elkin, and lives near Mechanicsburg. MARY EVA lives with her parents, three miles west of Mechanicsburg. William Correll says that himself and his half-brother, John Sinclair, broke forty acres of prairie in IS31, northeast of the old state house square, in Springfield. It included the land where Everybody's Mill, the jail, Opera House and Journal office now stand.
ELIZA, born Dec., 1821, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Talbott Lyon. They had four children, and Mr. Lyon and all the children died. Mrs. Lyon married in Sangamon county to
Gardner Bruce. They reside at Atchison, Kansas. Mrs. Elizabeth Correll has two children by her first husband, Mr. Sin- clair.
MARY 7. Sinclair, born July 27, 1So7, in Northumberland county, Va., married Hugh Correll. See his name.
JOHN Sinclair, born in ISOS, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Mrs. Miriam Massey, whose maiden name was Constant. They had several children, and the parents and all except two of the children are dead. Their daughter, Miriam, married Narcissus Rivaud, and reside at Kankakee. John Sinclair, Jun., went to South America, married a Spanish lady, and resides there.
Levi Correll died May 2, 1845, and Mrs. Elizabeth Correll died Nov. 10, 1852, both in Sangamon county.
COUNCIL, DAVID G., was born Jan. 15, 1817, in Montgomery county, Tenn. Came to what is now Christian county, Ill .; then to Sangamon county in the autumn of 1830. He came to Spring- field in IS3S, where he was married March 28, 1839, to Mary J. Donaldson, who was born in Kentucky in ISIS. They had seven children, namely-
LOUISA, born May 14, 1841, was married Dec. 28, 1865, to Jacob S. Wright, who was born June 11, 1841, in Owen county, Ind. They have one child, CHARLIE. Jacob S. Wright came to Springfield in August, 1866. His father was a soldier in the war of 1812; was wounded in the head during an engage- ment with the Indians, and but for the interposition of Tecumseh would have been killed. He was made prisoner, taken to Sandusky, and retained there until exchanged. J. S. Wright enlisted at Lin- coln, Ill., as a private, in Co. E, 7th Ill. Inf .; served three months, and re-enlisted in 1862 in Co. H, 106th Ill. Inf .; was at the siege and capture of Vicksburg, and in the expedition and capture of Little Rock, Ark .; served full time, and was honorably discharged in 1865, at Spring- field, Ill., where he now lives.
WILLIAM M., born Feb. 8, 1843, in Springfield, was married Jan. 5, 1864, to Mary E. Huffman, who was born May 11, 1845, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Mrs. Mary E. Council died Sept. 2, 1871, leaving two children, MINNIE and ARTHUR, who reside with their father. William M.
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Council was married June 9, 1875, in Springfield, to Jennie Barkley, who was born Sept. 1, 1841, in Lafayette, Christian county, Ky. W. M. Council lives in Springfield.
GAMES, born Feb. 9, 1845, in Spring- field, III., was married there, April 30, 1860, to Alsinda A. Shawn, who was born Sept. 4, 1848, in Newark, Ohio. She is a niece of Judge Shawn, of Me- nard county. They have two children, FRANK A. and FLORENCE A. James Council is a contractor and builder, and resides in Springfield, Ill.
DAVID'G., Jun., born Dec. 2, 1846, in Springfield, was married. there, July 15, 186S, to Mrs. Jennie Kimble, whose maiden name was Richmond. She was born in 1846, in Painesville, O. They have one child, OLIVE L., and live in Springfield, Ill.
MARY E., born June 15, 1851, in Springfield, was married there, August 12, 1869, to Thomas D. Hirst, who was born June 7, 1836, in Loudon county Va. They have two children, EDDIE L. and HARRY E. T. D. Hirst is running a plaining mill in Clinton, Ill., and lives there.
MARTHA Y .. born August 2, 1853, and ยท
JOHN T., born June 4, 1856, reside with their mother.
When D. G. Council came to Illinois, he left five sisters in Tennessee, whom he completely lost sight of. He accidentally heard that one sister had moved to Marion county, Ill. He visited her family, and after the close of the rebellion he visited his old home in Tennessee. He found his sisters still residing there with their fami- lies. Some of their sons had been in the Union army, and others had joined the rebels. One of his nephews from Chris- tian county, Ill., was a prisioner at one time, and guarded by another nephew. (The boys were own cousins.) Two of those who went in the rebel army were killed or died in the service, and the re- mainder were doing well, and still resided in Tennessee. D. G. Council was the pioneer of stair building in Springfield, and foreman for Hannan & Ragsdale in their extensive contracts. He died in Springfield, Ill., August 28, 1875, and his widow resides in the city.
COUNCIL, WILLIAM, born Oct. 1, 1791, near Tarboro, Edgecomb county, N. C. He was a brother to Hardy Council. About 1Soo the family moved to Tennessee, thence to Barren county, Ky., and from there to White county, III. William Council was there married, Nov., 1819, to Mary Graves, who was born June 15, 1802, in East Tennessee. They had one child, and moved to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1821 north of Springfield, and kept a ferry on Sanga- mon river near where Carpenter's mill now stands. They had nine children in Sangamon county, namely-
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