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GEORGE W., born Jan. 2, 1820, in White county, Ill., married Sept. 28, 1843, in Sangamon county, to Jane Mitts. They had eleven children, namely : WILLIAM C., born Oct. 26, 1844, en- listed August, 1862, in Co. C, 114th III. Inf., for three years, served full term, and was honorably discharged Aug. 3, 1865. He was married April 1, 1869, in Illiopo- lis, to Melissa A. Meredith, who was born June 25, 1849, in Orange county, Ind. She died April 29, 1873. He lives three miles west of Illiopolis. MARY A. mar- ried Charles Sweet, have two children, WILLIAM and ANNIE, and live in Topeka, Kan. JOHN M., born June 7, 1851, married Sept. 21, 1871, in Sangamon county, to Elizabeth E. Hay, born June 9, 1850, in Holmes county, O., have two children, FLORA BELLE and ROBERT AR- THUR, and live four miles west of Illiopo- lis. NELSON L., ELIZABETH, CHARLES F., HENRY N., FLORA M., EMMA E., GEORGE G. and AN- NIE J., live with their parents, four miles west of Williamsville.
MARTHA A., born Jan. 30, 1822, in Sangamon county, married Stephen Yo- com. See his name.
SARAH, born Nov. 23, 1826, in San- gamon county, resides with her brother, Hardy F. M.
NANCY f., born May 27, 1828, mar- ried John Cline. See his name.
ELIZABETH, born April 3, 1830, married Oliver P. Canterbury. See his name.
WILLIAM R., born March 30, 1832, married March 23, 1871, to Nancy E. Wigginton, and live in Menard county, three and a quarter miles northwest of Williamsville.
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MARY G., born Feb. 26, 1834, mar- ried Dr. Henry Van Metre. See his name. NELSON L., born Jan. 18, 1839, mar- ried Mary Lynch. They have seven children, and reside in Menard county, four miles northwest of Williamsville.
HARDY F. M., born Feb. 10, 1841, enlisted August, 1862, in Co. C, 114th Ill. Inf., for three years, served full term, and was honorably discharged Aug. 3, 1865. He was married Feb. 10, 1870, to Charity Ray, who was born in Ohio Jan. 22, 1850. They have one living child, OLIVER P., and reside at the homestead settled by his father in 1821. It is in Faney Creek township, five miles west of Williamsville.
William Council died July 8, 1846, and his wife died Jan. 25, 1869, both in Sanga- mon county.
COUNCIL, HARDY, born Sept. 20, 1793, near Tarboro, N. C., was taken by his parents to Tennessee, thenee to Barren county, Ky., and from there to White county, near Carmi, Ill. He was there married, in 1818, to Jane Hanna, who was born Feb. 25, 1795, in Kentucky, They moved on horseback the next year to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in August, 1819, in what is now Faney creek township, preceding his brother William two years. Mrs. Council car- ried a sack of wheat on the horse she rode, besides many household implements. Mr. Council carried all he could in the way of tools and other articles necessary for farming. He commenced improve- ments by building a camp or rough cabin. He was unable to obtain a plow, but being anxious to raise some wheat for a begin- ning, he took a grubbing hoe, or old fash- ioned mattock, and dug up about one acre and a half, near the junction between prairie and timber, and on the ground thus prepared, sowed the wheat brought by his wife, and raised a good crop. When the land was surveyed and brought into market, there was a line between his cabin and where he raised his crop of wheat. He could only enter one piece, and he chose . that with the house on it. The land where the wheat grew was en- tered by another person, who never culti- vated it, but allowed a growth of young cottonwood trees to start on it, which has made quite a grove, that can be seen for several miles; many of the trees are more than two feet in diameter cach. Mr.
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Council and Robert MeClelland came together, and they eut an ample supply of grass, and stacked it for their horses and cattle. They knew nothing of the danger of prairie fires, and before they were aware of the importance of protecting it, their hay was all burned. They kept their stock alive by cutting down elm trees, so that they could eat the buds. Mr. and Mrs. Council had seven sons born at that place, two of whom died in infancy. Of the other five --
JOHN H., born May 19, 1822, mar- ried Edna Lake. They have five children, JAMES H., CHARLES F , JOHN W. and GEORGE R., the two latter twins, and ANNA F., and reside near where his father settled in 1819, three miles west of Sherman.
WESLEY, born Nov. 21, 1824, was married April 14, 1853, to Martha A. Wigginton. They had twelve children, nine of whom died under thirteen years. the other three, JOHN, WILLIE and NELLIE reside with their parents in Williamsville.
WILLIAM F., born Jan. 21, 1828, married Rosanna England. They have seven children, MARY F., WILLIAM H., FLORA J., DAVID E., GEORGE A., NORA E. and U. S. GRANT, who reside with their parents in Menard county.
ROBERT, born March 23, 1831, mar- ried Ellen Cresce. They have three liv- ing children, JOHN W., MABEL and LILLIE M., and reside in Menard coun- ty, five miles northwest of Williamsville.
GEORGE W., born August 6, 1834, enlisted Oct. 25, 1862, in Co. B, 130th Ill. Inf., for three years, was transferred to Co. G, Ist New Orleans Vol. Inf., in which he was ed Lieut. He served in that capacity nearly one year after the close of the war, and was honorably dis- charged. He was married March 24, 1868, to Olivia L. Miller, who was born Feb. 17, 1851, in West Liberty, O. They have two children. CLIFFORD and IDA E., and reside at the homestead set- tled by his parents in 1819, in Fancy creck township.
Mrs. Jane Council died March 30, 1863, and Hardy Council died July 26, 1873, both in Sangamon county, Ill.
COWGILL, WILLIAM M., was born near Lebanon, Warren county,
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Ohio, and was married early in 1832, in Lebanon, to Clemantine Sayre, a native of the same county. They moved in the spring of that year to Springfield, Ill., and had five children, namely-
WILLIAM B., born March 29, 1833, in Springfield, and married in his native place May 16, 1855, to Margaret D. Sprigg, who was born Aug. IS, 1833, in Effingham county, Ill. They have three children, born in Springfield. WILLIAM C., born March 12, IS58; JOHN AL- BERT, Jan. 17, 1860, and DUNCAN S., Oct. 6, 1868, all reside with their parents in Springfield. William B. Cowgill is a dealer in real estate.
CATHARINE L., born in Spring- field, married June 30, 1852, to Daniel C. Brown. See his name.
ALBERT H., born in Springfield, married Mary L. Brown, and live in his native city.
MARY CLEMANTINE and
CORNELIA SATRE, reside in Springfield. The former is a teacher in the Bettie Stuart Institute.
William M. Cowgill was engaged in mercantile pursuits from 1832 to 1844, in Springfield, when he moved to Petersburg. Mrs. Clemantine S. Cow- gill died in 1854, and William M. Cowgill died in 1862, both in Petersburg, Menard county, Ill.
COX, GEORGE, was born in South Carolina, came to Sangamon county with William and Joseph Drennan, in March, ISIS, and died in November, 1819. His son, Jesse Cox, lives in Virden.
COX, SAMUEL, uncle to the Hampton brothers. He had two sons, Samuel and Sowell. Sowell owned the farm adjoining Mechanicsburg on the west. The house in which he lived was the only brick house between Decatur and Springfield. They came in 1825, and about IS38 moved to the vicinity of Pal- myra, Mo.
CRAFTON, WILEY, was born Jan. 25, ISO1, in Lunenburgh county, Va., went to Trimble county, Ky., where he was married in 1824 to Agnes Chalfant, who was born in that county about ISoI. They had two children in Kentucky, and moved, early in 1831, to Vandalia, Ill., where they had one child, and the same year moved to Sangamon county, Illinois. They returned, in a short time, to Ken-
tucky, then came back to Sangamon coun- ty, where they had four children. Of their children-
WILLIAM P., born May 25, 1826, in Trimble county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, Illinois, married Nov. 28, 1855, in St. Louis, Mo., to Eliza C. Har- rison. They have three children, PEY- TON L., AGNES E., and WILLIAM P., and reside in Springfield. Wm. P. Crafton was elected Police Magistrate at the Springfield city election, April, 1876.
THOMAS T., born May 27, 182S, in Trimble county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, married in Mt. Pleasant, Iowa, to Miss Dawson. They have two children, and reside in Atlantic, Cass county, Iowa.
MARY, born in 1831, at Vandalia, III., married Dr. J. L. Million, and resides in Springfield.
Wiley Crafton lives in Springfield.
CRAIG, WILLIAM, was horn in 1790, in Fayette county, Ky. He was married April 20, 1821, near Stanford, Lincoln county, to Mary P. Swope, who was born there June 20, 1794. In 1822 they moved to Williamson county, near Franklin, Tenn., where they had five child- ren. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the spring of 1832 in what is now Island Grove township, south of Spring creek, where they had two children. Of their seven children-
ANDREW E., born Feb. 22, 1822, in Tennessee, died April 20, 1861, in San- gamon county.
WILLIAM, Jun., born Aug. 24, 1823, in Tennessee, enlisted Aug. 15, IS62, for three years, in Co. A, 106th Ill. Inf., served full term, and was honorably dis- charged Aug. 12, IS65.
MARGARET P., born Feb. 4, 1827, in Tennessee, is unmarried, and resides at the family homestead.
JAMES P., born May, 1829, in Ten- nessee, died in Sangamon county Oct. 19, IS52.
JOHN B., born Nov., 1830, in Ten- nessee, died in Sangamon county Jan. 30, IS58.
MARY M., born June 14, 1836, in Sangamon county, married Oct. 11, 1867, to Ammi C. Cheever, who was born Nov. 16, 1825, in Boston, Mass. They have two children, MARY A. and WILLIS C., and reside at the family homestead, in
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Island Grove township, three miles north of Bates.
RICHARD B., born Aug. 1, 1837, in Sangamon county, resides at the family homestead.
William Craig died Oct. 2, 1847, and Mrs. Mary P. Craig died Dec. 25, 1871, both on the farm where they settled in IS32.
CRESSE, GEORGE, was born May 16, ISOS, in Cape May county, N. J., came to Springfield, Ill., in Aug., 1839. In the spring of 1841 he returned to New Jersey, and was there married, Sept. 2. IS41, to Maria Marcy, who was born Feb. 17, 1823, near Hartford, Conn. He came with his bride back to Sangamon county, arriving Nov. 10, 1841. They moved to Menard county, and had four children. The family moved back to Sangamon county, near Pleasant Plains, in 1857, where they had one child. Of their five children --
ELLEN, born in Menard county, married Robert Council. See his name.
EDWARD M., CATHARINE L., (is a teacher,) MATTHEW D., and CORDELIA S. reside with their father.
Mrs. Maria Cresse died April 22, 1862, and George Cresse, with his two sons and two daughters, reside adjoining Sherman on the northwest .- IS74.
CROOKER, G. W., was born July 29, 1814, in Cheshire county, N. H. Ile was married February, 1839, in Am- herst, Mass., to Lois K. Thayer, who was born there in 1814. They moved to San- gamon county in company with his father- in-law, Asahel Thayer, arriving at Chat- ham May 19, 1839. They had ten child- ren, five of whom died in infancy and childhood. Of the other five children -
EDWARD A., born March 3, 1840, in Sangamon county, was attending Illi- nois College, at Jacksonville, when he died, aged nineteen years.
WILLIAM B., born March 9, 1842, in Chatham, enlisted in Co. 1, 73d Ill. Vol. Int., was wounded at the battle of Perry- ville, and died at Taylorville, Ill., Ang. 11. 1865, aged twenty-three years.
SARAH T., born March 21, 1846, in Sangamon county, was married Sept. 1, 1864, to Dr. B. W. Fox, of Springfield. She died in Taylorville, May 15, 1869. leaving one child, LOIS F., who resides
with her grand-parents in Taylorville Dr. B. W. Fox died June 20, 1875, at Quincy, Ill. His remains were buried at Taylorville.
GEORGE B., born Jan. 31, 1849, in Chatham, married Nannie Richardson. They have one child, EDWARD W., and reside at Taylorville.
ARTHUR H., born May 31, 1857, at Chatham, resides with his parents in Tay- lorville, to which place they moved from Chatham in IS67.
Mrs. Crooker gives a short account of the Chatham Ladies' Aid Society. It was organized Nov. 21, 1861, and disbanded early in '63. The society was small, but they made three large boxes of bedding and clothing suitable for tent and hospital, besides making up ten webs of domestic for the Springfield Soldiers' Aid Society.
CROW, ROBERT, was born in 17SI, in Wythe county, Va. Margaret Kershner was born in 1787, in Augusta county, Va., where they were married, and soon after moved to Christian county, Ky. They had eight children there, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in IS22, in what is now Auburn township. Of their children ---
ยท HANE married Philip Wineman, and died. See his name.
DAVID, born in Kentucky, never married, and lives with his sister, Mrs. Moore.
EDWARD, born in ISto, in Ken- tucky, died unmarried, in Sangamon county, July 28, 186S.
WILLIAM D)., married July 17, 1846, to Julia A. Messick. They had seven children in Sangamon county. MAR- GARET E. married George E. Stoke, and resides in Ball township. WIL- LIAM T., JAMES G., ABRAHAM LINCOLN, CHARLES H., HER- BERT A. and ADA M. Wm. D. Crow died April 27, 1869, and his widow and children reside at Crow's mill.
MARY, born in Kentucky, married Wm. McAllister, and had one child. All three died at the family homestead, near Crow's mill.
ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Morrison M. Moore. See his name.
GRANDISON B., born in Chester county, Ky., was raised in Sangamon county, and went to Oregon in 1847, and
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in Sept., 1848, went to California, gold having been discovered there in June, ISIS. After spending eighteen years there, he returned to Sangamon county, in 1866, and now resides at the family home- stead, in Ball township .- 1874.
FRANCES M., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to George Armitage, and resides near Palmer City, Christian county.
Robert Crow died Sept., 1840, and his widow died Sept., 1851, both in Ball town- ship.
CROW, WILLIAM, was born March 5, 1793, in Botetourt county, Va. Three brothers, John, Thomas and An- drew Crow, came from Ireland to Amer- ica during the Revolutionary war. John was the father of him whose name heads this sketch. John Crow moved to Barren county, Ky., when William was a child. William Crow and Miriam Envart were married in Cumberland county, Ky., and had one child. In IS19 they moved to Madison county, Ill., where he was or- dained to preach the gospel by the recog- nized authorities of the Old School, or Regular Baptist, church. In the fall of 1820 he moved to what is now Salisbury, or Cartwright, township, in Sangamon county, north of Richland creek, where they had one child, and Mrs. Miriam Crow died, Aug. 7, 1823. William Crow was married in the fall of 1824, in Cum- berland county, Ky., to Susan Hall. On his return to Sangamon county, he sold out and settled in what is now the south- east corner of Cass county, where two children were born. Of his four children-
JEROME E., born Sept. 2, 1817, in Cumberland county, Ky., was brought by his parents to Sangamon county, married in Cass county, June 19, 1844, to Eliza J. Brockman. They have five children, two of whom are married, and all live with and near their parents, in the vicinity of Humboldt, Richardson county, Neb.
REBECCA W., born June 9, 1821, ia Sangamon county, and is believed to have been the first white child born on Richland creek. She was married Oct. 9, 1844, in Cass county, to Washington A. Mitchell, who was born Dec. 21, IS16, in Logan county, Ky. They have five children, WILLIAM I., CHARLES C., JOHN L., ALBERT J. and ANNAH E., and reside in the southeast corner of
Cass county, one mile southwest of Ash- land, Ill.
JOHN H., born March 14, 1826, in Cass county, married Sarah F. Dillon, of Sangamon county. They have three child- ren, and reside in Tecumseh, Neb. See Dillon family.
MARY A., born Dec. IS, IS28, mar- ried August, IS48, in Cass county, to James L. Beggs. They have eight child- ren, three of whom are married, and one of the married daughters resides in Chi- cago. Mr. and Mrs. Beggs reside in Ashland.
Mrs. Susan Crow died April 11, 1845, in Cass county, and Rev. William Crow died Aug. 22, 1865, at Brownsville, Neh. He preached from the time he came to Sangamon county until about 1860, a min- istry of forty years. He was known to all Baptists throughout central Illinois.
CROUCH, DAVID, born Sept. 29, 1814, in Nicholas county, Ky., came to Sangamon county, Rochester township, in August, 1834. He was married March 29, 1835, to Mrs. Clara Ann Stafford, whose maiden name was Gregory. They had five children in Sangamon county-
PRUDA ANN, born Jan. 26, 1837, married March IS, IS58, to John S. Craig, have two children, EMMA L. and MARY L., and live near Morrisonville.
DELIA ANN, born Jan. 25, 1840, married in Sangamon county Jan. S, IS57, to A. D. Young, born Feb. 28, 1837, in Shelby county, Ky. They have one child, JULIA D., born in Anderson county, Ky., and live one and a quarter miles south of Rochester.
JONATHAN G., born Jan. IS, 1843, married Nov. 26, 1867, to Margaret A. Bell. They have two children, FRED- DIE and EDDIE R., and live two miles south of Rochester.
WILLIAM H., born Oct. 15, 18.46, married March 16, 1872, to Emma Crouch. They live two miles west of Breckenridge.
KITTY A., born Oct. 1I, IS51, mar- ried Henry George. They have one child, and reside four iniles east of Pawnee.
David Crouch died Sept. 14, 1871, in Sangamon county, and his widow resides one and a quarter miles south of Roches- ter.
CROWL, JOSEPH, was born Sept. 3, 1794, in Shepherdstown, Va. Ile was a soldier from Maryland in the war
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of IS12, and was married Jan. 1, IS17, in Washington county, Md., to Mary A. Dillihunt, who was born Feb. 22, IS04, in Kent county, Md. They had ten children in Washington county, Md., three of whom died young. They moved to San- gamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of IS34, at Springfield, and the next spring moved to what is now Cooper township, south of the Sangamon river, where they had five children. Of their twelve child- ren-
MORDECAI, born July 20, IS20, in Maryland, married December, 1869, in Springfield, to Catharine E. Crowl, a native of Berkley county, Va. They re- side four miles southeast of Pawnee, in Christian county.
UPTON, born Feb. 7, 1822, in Mary- land, served one year from June, 1846, in the 4th Ill. Inf., under Col. E. D. Baker, in the Mexican war. He was married in 1850, in Sangamon county, to Sarah E. Taggart. They had one living child, MARY J., born April 22, 1858, married Feb. 10, 1874, in Springfield, to Eugene W. Renshaw, who was born June 25, 1851, in Decatur. He is a grandson of James, who was a brother to Samuel Ren- shaw. See his name. E. W. Renshaw lives one and a half miles northeast of Berry station. Upton Crowl died March S, 1872, and his widow resides one and a half miles northeast of Berry, or Clarks- ville.
CORNELIA, born Oct. IS, IS23, in Maryland, married in Sangamon county, April IS, 1839, to Stephen Hussey. See his name.
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MARY E., born Nov. 13, 1825, in Maryland, married in Sangamon county to William R. Ross. See his name.
JOSEPH F. and JACOB y. (twins), born Aug. 30, 1827, in Maryland; the latter died young.
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JOSEPH F. was raised in Sangamon county, went with his sister (Mrs. Hussey) to Oregon, and was married May, 1853, in Yamhill county, to Julia A. Shortridge. They had nine living children. Eight of their children were born in Oregon. They reside near Nashville, Barton coun- ty, Mo.
ROBERT F., born July 5, 1829, in Maryland, died in Sangamon county, Aug. 14, 1843.
MIRANDA, born Oct. 18, IS31, in Maryland, married in Sangamon county to Isaac T. Darnall. See his name. Hc died, and she married, Feb. 11, 1873, to George W. Taylor, and live in Cooper township.
VAN BASSETT, born April S, IS36, in Sangamon county, married in same county, Feb. 9, 1864, to Eliza Crowl. They have two children, and live in Chris- tian county, four miles southeast of Paw- nee.
VINTON, born June 12, IS3S, in San- gamon county, died April 19, 1852.
HELEN, born May 26, IS40, in San- gamon county, married Dec. 24, IS63, to Thomas F. Morris, who was born Nov. 12, IS34, in Clarke county, O. They have two children, MARY LIDA and ISAAC C., and reside in Cooper township, three and a half miles southwest of Mechanies- burg.
MARIA A., born Feb. 14, 1843, in Sangamon county, married May 11, 1867, to Samuel Carper, who was born April 30, 1829, in Shepherdstown, Va. They have three children, JOSEPH W., JOHN B. and MORDECAI I., and reside at the family homestead where her parents set- tled in 1835, in Cooper township. It is one and a half miles north of Berry sta- tion, or Clarksville.
WILLIAM H., born April 14, 1845, in Sangamon county, married January, ISTI, to Ella Miller. They have two children, and reside five miles southeast of Pawnee, in Christian county.
Joseph Crowl died Sept. 8, 1865, in Sangamon county, and his widow now (1874) resides on the farm where they set- tled in IS35. It is one and a half miles north of Berry station, or Clarksville.
CROSS, ALVIN, was born Oct., 1799, in Madison county, Ky. Margaret Forbes was born June 24, 1802, near Jonesboro, East Tenn. Her parents moved to Madison county, Ky., when she was three months old. In IS16 they moved to Humphreys county, Tenn. Alvin Cross went to that county, also, when he was a young man, and was there married, in Feb., 18IS, to Margaret Forbes. They had four children in Tennessee, and moved to Johnson county, Ill., where they had one child, and from there to Sangamon county, arriving Jan., 1829, in what is now Auburn township,
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where they had seven children. Three of their children died young-
SQUIRE, born in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county to Mrs. Elizabeth Pike, whose maiden name was Baker. They have three children, and live at Medoc, Jasper county, Mo.
MARY A., born in Tennessee, mar- ried in Sangamon county, to Samuel Mitchell, and died.
RILEY and LAVINA, twins, were born in Tenn.
RILEY enlisted in an Illinois regi- ment, at Springfield, for the Mexican war, in 1846, died in the army, and was buried on the Rio Grande in 1847.
LAVINA, married in Sangamon coun- ty to Andrew Williams, and died.
JOEL McD., born in 1827 or 'S, in Johnson county, Ill., raised in Sangamon county, went to California, married, has two children, and lives there.
REBECCA, born in Sangamon coun- ty, married John M. Jones, moved to Washington county, lowa, and died there, leaving seven children. She had a twin mate that died in infancy.
F. MARION, born Dec. 14, 1838, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 16, 1870, to Emily A. Hayden. They have one child, WILLIAM F., and live in Cotton Hill township, four miles north of Paw- nee.
LEROY, born in 1840, in Sangamon county, married Jan. S, 1863, to Candace A. Campbell. They had four children, JOSEPH A. and MINNIE died young. CLARK FORBES and FRANCES BELL reside with their parents, in Ball township, four miles northwest of Paw- nec. Leroy had a twin mate that died young.
ELIZABETH, born in Sangamon county, married Sept. 18, 186r, to Benja- min F. Davis, a native of Tazewell coun- ty, Ill. They have one living child, GEORGE W., and live two and a half miles southeast of Pawnee.
Alvin Cross died Feb., 1849, in Sanga- mon county, and Mrs. Margaret Cross re- sides with her daughter, Mrs. Davis.
CROWDER, PHILIP, was born May, 1759, near Petersburg, Va. He was married there to Susan Parish. They had five children born there. He then moved, in company with about forty families, to Greene county, Ky. They all
moved on pack horses, and camped near each other every night, with armed men standing guard around them, for protec- tion against the Indians. Mrs. Susan Crowder died in 1794 in Kentucky, and he was there married to Rachel Saunders. She had one child, and died there. Philip Crowder then married Sally Chandler. They had nine children, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in Nov., 1830, and settled three and a half miles southwest of Springfield. Of all his children-
REUBEN, born in Virginia, was married to Nancy Michael, and came to Sangamon county in 1825, preceding his father. They had fifteen children; three died young. ELIJAH died, aged twenty- one. MARTHA was married in Ken- tucky to James Robinson, moved to San- gamon county, thence to Macon county. Mr. R. died, and his family reside in Missouri. ELIZABETH married Peter Christian. They had two children, and Mr. C. died. His widow married Andrew Lockwood, and both died. MARY, born November, 1813, in Green county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county Feb. 11, 1836, to Benjamin F. Dillard. See his name. MATHEW married Susan Schoolen. They live in Macon county, Mo. THOMAS M., born July 25, ISIS, was married July 22, 1840, to Mary J. Dalby. They had seven child- ren; three died young. SARAHI A., born Jan. 12, 1842, was married Dec. 22, 1864, to Ole Nelson. They had three children, Mary J., Emma E. and Maggie M., and live near Springfield. HENRY, born June 19, 1844, was married June 8, 1871, to Margaret E. Williams. She died Oct. 3, 1871. He is a practicing physician. AGNES E., born April 6, 1847, was married April 13, 1865, to F. C. Arnold. They have two children, Fannie and AAlice, and live near San Jose, Mason county, Ill. MARY A. born Sept. 3, 1850, was married .Feb. 10, 1868, to Thomas W. Miller. They have one child, Anna M. DOUGLAS, WILLIAM A. and JAMES F., live with their parents. Thomas M. Crowder and family reside four miles west of Springfield. GREEN- BERRY married Sarah Scott, and both died, leaving two children, in Missouri. SUSAN married John Grabeal, who died, and she married Philip Meekum. They reside in Saline county, Mo.
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