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RIAL M., born April 11, 1821, in Greene county, Ky., brought up in Sangamon county, was married in Missouri to Ange- line Scott. They have seven children. Their daughter, LENORA, married Moses H. Moore. See his name. The other six children, WILLIAM A., MARY J., ISAAC M., ALZIRA M., LAURA A. and DAISY L., reside with their parents near MeKinney, Collin county, Texas. JAMES married Margaret Martin, and died January, 1876, near New Boston, Mo. REUBEN, Jun., went, in 1847, to Washington Terri- tory, married there, and his wife died. He resides near Olympia. AMANDA married John Martin. They had four children, and she died in Saline county, Mo. CATHARINE married Samuel Casebolt, and live near Miami, Saline county, Mo. Reuben Crowder died Sept. 8, 1835, near Springfield, and his widow married again. She is now a widow, and resides with the family of her son James, near New Boston, Macon county, Mo.
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MARTHA, born about 1785, near Petersburg, Va., was married in March, IS05, in Green county, Ky., to Lewis Walker, a native of Virginia. They had some children in Kentucky, and came to Illinois in 1832, and brought up a large family, some of whom are living in Clark and Coles counties. Their sixth child, JUDIAH, born Dec. 7, 1820, in Green county, Ky., came with her parents to Clark county, Ill., in 1832, and was mar- ried there Dec. 3, IS40, to James C. Rob- inson, who was born Aug. 19, 1823, in Edgar county, Ill. They have eight children, all born in Clark county, and the family moved to Springfield in 1869. Of their children, NATHANIEL P., born Jan. 25, 1842, was married in Marshall county, Ill., to Miss Benedict. SERE- NA, born Nov., 1843, married R. S. Briscoe. JAMES P., born May 23, 1845, married Dora Shaw, a daughter of Judge Shaw, of Olney, Ill. J. P. Robinson is a lawyer, and resides in Olney. AMANDA, born April 12, 1848, lives with her parents. RICHARD M., born August 6, 1851, is a practicing law- yer in Denver, Col. JENNIE and JUDIAH M. live with their parents in Spring- field. Hon. James C. Robinson studied law, and was admitted to the bar, in Marshall, Clarke county, Ill., in 1852 or '3. He was elected to Congress from
that district in 1858-'60 and '62. He was the Democratic candidate for Governor in 1864, but his party being in the minority, he was, not unexpectedly, defeated. He represented in Congress the district in which Springfield is situated, in 1870 and '72. He is now a member of the law firm of Robinson, Knapp & Shutt, of Spring- field.
SUSAV, born in Virginia, was mar- ried in Kentucky to Isaac Le Follett. They brought up a family in Kentucky, and both died there.
MATHE W, born in Virginia, married Elizabeth Scott. They had five or six children, and she died. He married Jane Laughlin. They had one child, and he died. His family reside in Oskaloosa, Iowa.
ELIZABETH, born May 31, 1790, in Virginia, married William Bradley. See his name.
HENRY, the only child by Phillp Crowder's second marriage, was born in Green county, Ky., went to East Tennes- see when a boy, and remained there.
MARY, born May 22, 1799, in Green county, Ky., and the eldest child by the third marriage, married Thomas Willian. See his name.
ABRAHAM, born in Kentucky, mar- ried and died without children.
JOHN C., born in Green county, Ky., was married there to Mary Laswell. They had two children there, and came to Sangamon county in 1826, preceding his father four years. Eight children were born in Sangamon county. Of their children, JAMES H., born Dec. 24, IS23, in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, April 10, 1849, to Mary A. Wright, who was born Nov. 7, 1831, in Adair county, Ky., and came to Sanga- mon county in 1839. They reside three and a half miles southwest of Springfield. SARAH J., born Dec. 12, 1825, in Ken- tucky, was married Jan., 1850, in Sanga- mon county, to E. J. Warren. They had seven children, and she died July 17, 1870. Two of her children, JOHN C. was drowned in 1874, THOMAS J. lives in Springfield. The other five reside with their father, near Mount Zion, Macon county, Ill. WILLIAM, born June 5, 1828, in Sanga- mon county, married Mary Wood. They had three children, and he died. NANCY, born Oct. 26, 1830, married John Harris, .
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and died. MARY E., born April 24, IS33, dicd, aged seventeen years. THOMAS J., born May 28, 1835, was married June 24, 1856, to Elizabeth F. Wright, and she died Nov., 1872. He re- sides at Wautiska, Sanders county, Neb., and is a Methodist minister. FRANCES, born May 21, 1838, married Jesse Per- kins. They have four children, and live in Williamsville. MARTHA A., born Sept. 25, 1840, married Theophilis Lud- lam. They have five children, and live near Decatur. MATILDA, born April 28, 1843, died in her fourth year. CATH- ARINE A., born Oct. 27, 1845, married July 15, 1865, to Alexander H. Wright, and lives in Springfield. Mrs. Mary Crowder died, and J. C. Crowder mar- ried Ursula Albans. They had four children; one died in infancy. HENRY C., burn April 21, 1855, died April 23, 1876. JOHN J. resides at Jacksonville. JOSEPH W. resides with his brother, James H. Mrs. Ursula Crowder died, and J. C. Crowder married Mrs. Eliza- beth Cox. They had one child, LUELLA, and T. C. Crowder died April 10, 1863. His widow resides at Berlin.
WILLIAM, born Feb. 11, 1So4, in Kentucky, was married there to Mary Fawcett. They had two children, born in Kentucky, and came to Sangamon county in company with his brother-in- law, Elisha Sanders, in the fall of 1829, where eight children were born. Of their children, ROBERT E. and JOHN, born in Kentucky, both married in San- gamon county, and died. MATILDA, horn Dec. 9, 1831, in Sangamon county, was married Oct. 10, 1855, to John J. Warren, who was born Nov. 3, 1831, in Shelby county, Il. They have seven living children, MARY A., WILLIAM C., THOMAS J., GEORGE B. M.C., ANDREW J., ROBERT E. and ISAAC W. Two of the children are married, and reside east of Pawnee. Those that are living and sin- gle reside with their parents, near Paw- nee. SARAH E. married Hiram White. JAMES M. died unmarried, aged twenty vears. WILLIAM C. married Ruth Tilley, and resides
in Palmer, Ill. AARON V. married Martha Ward, and lives in Christian county: ANGELINE and BENJAMIN F. died young. STAF- FORD and JESSE W. reside with their parents, near Pana.
FANNIE married William White, in Kentucky, came to Sangamon county in 1830, and soon returned to Kentucky.
CHANDLER, born in 1SOS, in Ken- tucky, married Lucinda Sanders. They had four children: JOHN married Cath- arine Stroude. They have three children, and live in Cotton Hill township. Chan- dler Crowder was drowned in 1839, while attempting to cross Sugar creek to reach his sick family.
HORATIO, born in Kentucky, came to Sangamon county in 1829. He mar- ried Sallie Woozley. They had two children in Sangamon county. NATHAN W., born Nov. 4, 1833, was married Dec. 28, 1853, to Margaret Todd. They have four children, JOHN H., GEORGE A., HENRY M. and JAMES I., and reside in Pawnee. SARAH J., born Oct. 12, 1835, was mar- ried Jan. 28, 1853, to Seth Underwood, who was born June 16, 1829, near Sparta, White county, Tenn. They have seven children, JOHN 11., SARAH F., AVERY C., THOMAS J., JEREMIAH, LEWIS ALFRED and WILLIE, and reside in Cotton Hill township, Sangamon county, Ill. Horatio Crowder died about 1835, and his widow married John M. Mathews. Sec his name. She died Dec. 28, 1850.
WASHINGTON, born July 9, 1813, in Green county, Ky., came with his father to Sangamon county in 1830. He was married Dec. 21, 1836, to Isabel Laughlin. They have seven children : JOHN F., (Dick), born Dec. 25, 1837, married April 12, 1860, to Jane E. Las- well. They had one child, ELMER E., who died in infancy, and Mrs. C. died May 7, 1863. Mr. C. was married Sept. 22, 1864, to Mary F. McMurry. They had three children, LUELLA B., GEORGIE M. and ESTELLA. Mrs. Mary F. Crowder died June 16, 1873, in Springfield. J. F. Crowder was married June 10, 1874, to Nannie Womack, have one child, CLIN- TON CARROLL, and live in Pawnee. MARY A. died in her eighth year. WILLIAM A., born April 16, 1843, married Nov. 30. 1865, to Isabel W. Lan- terman. They had four living children, HORACE A., CHARLES L., FRED'and ETHEL, and live in Springfield. LUCELIA J. died July 19, 1862, in her eighteenth year. SADIE E. and CHARLES W. live with their parents. GEORGE L. died May 11, 1870, in his eleventh year. Wash-
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ington Crowder and wife reside in Spring- field, Ill. See his account of the sudden change.
ALBERT G., born Oct. 16, 1816, in . Green county, Ky., came to Sangamon county with his parents in 1830. He was married Dec. 29, 1840, to Sarah A. Bart- lett. They had two children born in Sangamon county. MARY J. married W. W. Lapham. They have two child- ren, W. ALBERT and MINNIE F., and live at Decatur. FANNIE married John Jamison. He was born Sept. 24, 1834, in Glasgow, Scotland. They have three children, MARY F., SARAII and MARIA L. D. Mr. Jamison resides in Auburn. Albert G. Crowder died in 1847, and his widow died in 1848, both in Sangamon county.
Ini" , Crowder died February, 1844,
and-6 widow died in September follow-
ing, in Sangamon county. Philip Crowder was a soldier in the revolution. An elder brother, who had a family, was drafted, and Philip volunteered in his place. It was not long before the close of the war-when he was about sixteen years of age. His son Washington remembers hearing him repeatedly state that he was at the siege of Yorktown, and witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis; that he saw the British commander hand his sword to Washington, and that they wept and em- braced each other. Seeing Cornwallis so much affected, Washington said: " Never mind it; this is the fate of war. "
CUTTER .- The origin of the fam- ily in the west was with Seth Cutter, who was born in Boston, Mass., about 1760. Family tradition makes him a descendant of a family who came over in the May- flower in 1620. He was married in Boston to Mary Reed. In 1790 he joined a col- ony and decided to move west. One account says that his five eldest daughters rebelled, saying they would not go where they were in danger of being devoured by wild beasts or killed by Indians. Another account fails to mention that he had any daughters at the time, which leads to the inference that if such an incident took place, they were sisters, and not daughters. He had but one child (a son) in Massachu- setts. The colony went under the protec- tion of the United States army, command- ed by Gen. Anthony Wayne, who cstab- lished a military post where Cincinnati,
O., now stands. Seth Cutter opened a farm which became part of the city. Por- tions of it are yet in possession of some of his descendants, while other portions, al- though leased soon after his death (about 1800), the title still remains in the family. Cutter street indicates the locality where he settled. He brought one child-Seth R., of whom we will yet speak more fully -and had three daughters, at what be- came Cincinnati. Martha, who is believed to have been the first white child born in Cincinnati, became the wife of Abraham Price. Susan married Samuel Foster, of Petersburg, Ky., and Mary married Abraham McFaren. Mrs. Mary Reed Cutter died, and Seth Cutter married Roxena Shingledecker. They had three children. Abigail married William Bern- ard, Abijah became a farmer in Hamilton county, and Lorena, born Dec. 9, 1805, married September, 1823, to Nicholas Goshorn. One of their sons, A. T. Goshorn, is now (May, 1876,) Superintend- ent General of the Centennial Exhibition at Philadelphia. Seth Cutter was killed in Cincinnati about 1800, by the caving in of a well. His son-
SETH R. CUTTER, born Jan. I, 1785, in Boston, Mass., taken by his parents, in 1790, to Cincinnati, Ohio. After the death of his mother, and the second marriage of his father, he left home and went to Grainger county, Tenn., where he was married in June, ISO6, to Elizabeth Easley, daughter of William Easley. In December, 1809, he returned with his family to Cincinnati, where he engaged in the provision trade, mostly in New Orleans and Cuba. He continued in that business about twenty years. They had six children in Cincin- nati, and then moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in July, 1828, in what is now Loami township, where they had three children. Of their nine children-
SARAH, born Aug. 24, 1812, in Cin- cinnati, O., married in Sangamon county to John Calhoun. See his name.
ABIGAIL, born Nov. 10, 1814, in Cincinnati, O., married in Sangamon county to Frederick Hawn. See his name.
ALBERT, born Jan. 16, 1817, in Cin- cinnati, O. He was a confirmed invalid, and died in Sangamon county Jan. 30, 1841.
SUSANNAH, born March 19, 1827,
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in Cincinnati, O., married in Sangamon county to John C. Hall. See his name.
MARTHA A., born Sept. 10, 1821, in Cincinnati, O., married in Sangamon county, January, 1842, to Oliver Diefen- dorf. See his name. She died six weeks after marriage.
CAROLINE E., born Feb. 13, 1825, in Cincinnati, O., raised in Sangamon county, and married in her native city to Oliver Diefendorf. Sce his name.
WILLIAM F., born Oct. 8, 1828, in Sangamon county. He served from June, 1846, one year in the 4th Ill. Inf., under Col. E. D. Baker, in the war with Mexico. In 1848 he went to California, where he spent several years in mining, and died there of consumption.
JOHN W. and ELIZA., twins, born during the " deep snow," Jan. 11, 1831, in Sangamon county.
FOHN W. married in 1853 to Juliette Greening. They have five children: ALBERT lives with his parents. CAR- OLINE, born Jan., 1857, was married Jan., 1873, to James Mahanna, has one ehild, EDITH, and lives near Lake City, Ill. ANDREW, LAURA and OLI- VER live with their parents. John W. Cutter and wife live near Lake City, Moultrie county, Ill.
ELIZA, married March 24, 1857, at Weston, Mo., to Samuel A. Graham, who was born July 19, 1825, at Charlotte, Mecklenburg county, N. C. They have five children, EVA B., MARGA- RET, OLIVER, MARY, MALCOLM E. and ISABEL, and reside in Spring- field, Ill. Mr. Graham enlisted in Co. F, Georgia Battallion, Mounted Volunteers, in 1847, and served in the war with Mexi- co, until June, 1848, when he was honor- ably discharged, and came to Springfield, Ill. In 1863 he was elected to represent Loami township in the Sangamon county Board of Supervisors, and in Nov., 1867, was elected, for two years, Surveyor of Sangamon county.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cutter died Sept., 1835, in Sangamon county, and in May, 1836, Seth R. Cutter married Mary Prosser Wariner, who was born Mareh 18, 1808, in Henrico county, Va. Her parents were married in Virginia. Her mother inherited some slaves, but refused to keep them, and to evade the influence of slavery, moved to this county. Mr. Wariner was
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an old school, or regular Baptist preacher, and preached in the vicinity of Loami many years. Mr. Cutter and wife had , one child-
FRANCES A., born Feb. 12, 1837, in Sangamon county, married Mareh 16, 1856, to Abner Bowen. See his name. Mrs. Bowen has some embroidery work done by her mother nearly half a century ago.
Mrs. Mary P. W. Cutter died Feb. II, IS61, and Seth R. Cutter died Sept. S, 1869, both at the homestead settled by him in 1828, in Loami township.
Mr. Cutter was engaged in pork pack- ing in Cincinnati with Andrew Heredith. See his name. When they eame west they built a steam flouring mill about two miles northwest of Loami. A village ealled Millville grew up around it ... The mill, owners and village have all passed away.
CUMMINGS, THOMAS, was born about 1800, in Breckenridge county, Ky., married to Margaret Smith, came to Sangamon county, Ill., about the time his father-in-law (Thomas Smith) eame, in 1822. They had eight children, name- ly-
MAHALA died unmarried, at thirty- five years of age, in Sangamon eounty.
REBECCA . married John L. Smith. They had nineteen children, all except two of whom are living (1873). They had five sons who were Union sol- diers in Illinois regiments. The parents and nearly all their living children live in Logan county, five miles northeast of Williamsville.
ROBERT, born Sept. 12, 1817, in Washington county, Ky., was brought to Sangamon county when he was about five years old, married Jan. 2, 1840, to Nancy Cloyd. They had six children. THOMAS N. married Sarah B. C. Har- rison, have one living child, THOMAS O., and live in Woodside township. MAR- GARET A. died at two years old. AMANDA E. married Jacob Beam. See his name. MARY J. married Isaac M. Jones, and reside in Woodside township. JOSEPH R. and EMMA S. reside with their parents, one and a half miles north- west of Woodside station.
WESLEY E. married Melinda Ow- ens, had two children, and the parents
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both died. Their children live in Macou- pin county.
WILLIAM married Jane Owens. He died, leaving his widow and three child- ren, in Litchfield, Ill.
JOHN T. married Melinda Richard- son. She died, and he married Margaret Adams, has five children, and lives in Christian county. He is a traveling min- ister in the M. E. church.
ELIZABETH married John Kear- ley, had one child, and all died of cholera about 1850.
THOMAS H. married Mrs. Emma WVest, whose maiden name was Woods. She had two children by her first mar- riage, and they have three children, and live in Jersey county.
Thomas Cummings died September, 1846, and his widow died October, 1849, both in Sangamon county.
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DARNEILLE, JOHN, was born June S, 1791, in Bourbon county, Ky. He served fourteen months in the war of 1812-13, half the time as first Lieut., and was then promoted to Cap- tain. Margaret Norton was born Oct. 25, 1793, in Bourbon county, also. They werc married there, Feb. 20, 1814, and had three living children in Kentucky. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Nov., ISI9, in what is now Chat- ham township, first at a place called Tur- key Point, and in the spring of 1820, moved further up Lick creek, and made a permanent settlement five miles west of the present town of Chatham, where they had nine living children. Of their child- ren-
MARTHA, horn April 7, 1815, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Thomas S. Hunter. See his name.
CATHARINE, born Aug. 2, 1817, in Bourbon county, Ky., married in Sanga- mon county to David Alexander. Sec his name.
BENYAMIN F., born Jan. 1, 1819, in Bourbon county, Ky., married in San- gamon county, Dec. 17, 1840, to Mary Jacobs, who was born Oct. 1, 1821, in Clarke county, Ky. They had eight living children in Sangamon county ELIZABETH married Samuel C. Sump- ter, who was born in Sangamon county.
He enlisted July 20, 1861, at Springfield, for three years, in what became Co. C, 11th Mo. Inf .; reenlisted as a veteran, Jan., 1864, at LaGrange, Tenn., served until Jan. 15, 1866, when he was honorably dis- charged at St. Louis, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Sumpter have three children, CORA, DORA and HOMER A., and reside five miles west of Chatham. MARGARET C. mar- ried James M. Greening. See his name. MARTHA J. married Lee R. Graham. See his name. MARIA F. married John Garvey. See his name. LORIN- DA J. married Feb., 1875, to Col. John Watson, and live in Auburn. EMMA S. married Dec., 1873, to William Vandoren. See his name. JULIA A. and BENJ. F., Jun., reside with their mother. Ben- jamin F. Darneille died Dec. 5, 1872, and his widow resides six miles west of Chat- ham.
Mrs. Darneille relates some incidents both instructive and amusing, of her early married life. She says that when herself and husband went to set up housekeeping, he had but ten dollars. Cooking stoves were not in fashion, but they bought pots, skillets, pans, spoons, knives and forks, etc., thus securing their outfit, and had some money left. Lamps and burning fluids were unknown, and for nearly ten years their only candlesticks were made by tak- ing gourds and cutting off about half the bowl end, so that they would sit upright, and then cutting off the necks and insert- ing the candles. The first crop of oats Mr. Darnielle raised he hauled thirty bushels to Springfield, and gave the load even for eight yards of calico to make a dress for his wife.
THOMAS Y., born Oct. 4, 1820, in Sangamon county, married Martha Mc- Ginnis. They had two living children in Sangamon county. JOHN D., horn Nov. 29, 1848, married in Warsaw. Ky., to Jennie Brown, a native of that city, and resides there. They have two children, MELINDA and JAMES W. JAMES W., born in Sangamon county, Sept. 16, 1850, married Oct. 31, 1871, in Belvidere, Ill., to Belle Moulton, a native of Minneapolis, Minn. They have one child, MABEL,
and reside in Chicago. Mrs. Martha Darnielle died, and Mr. D. married Mrs. America Gibson, whose maiden name was Forrest. . Thos. J. Darnielle died Nov. 21, 1854, in Sangamon county. His widow
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married Jan. 13, 1859, to John R. Neal. See his name.
GAMES M., born Jan. 22, 1822, in Sangamon county, married Jan. 1, 1852, to Clarrissa Kinney. They have six child- ren, CAROLINE K., MAGGIE H., JOHN H., FLORENCE E., CHAS. A. and JAMES M., Jun., reside with their parents, in Chatham, Sangamon county, Ill.
EMILY, born July 28, 1823, in San- gamon county, married Willis Webb. They had two children, and the whole family died.
LORINDA, born Jan. 31, 1825, in Sangamon county, married William Mc- Ginnis. See his name.
ELIZABETH, born Dec. 10, 1826, in Sangamon county, married Abraham Gish, had two children. Mrs. G. and one of the children died. The other child, BENJAMIN F., resides with his father, in Auburn tomnship.
HENRY, died, aged fifteen years.
MARGARET, born Jan. 25, 1830, in Sangamon county, married James Hall. See his name.
HIRAM H., born May 16, 1833, died, aged twenty-one years.
JOHN W., born Feb. 3, 1836, in San- gamon county, married Melinda Drennan, had one child, and all died.
John Darneille died March 10, 1854, and his widow, Mrs. Margaret Darneille, died April 30, 1875, both on the farm where they settled in IS20.
John Darneille learned to write by fire- light, and in the absence of paper, peeled buckeye bark from the trees, and when it become dry, did his writing on that, until he learned to keep accounts of all his business transactions. He acquired such fame as an accurate and legible penman, that he became the neghborhood letter writer. He was on the first grand jury that was ever empanneled in Sangamon county, May 7, 1821. They held their deliberations, some sitting on a pile of rails, and some on gopher hills out on the prairie, within the present limits of Spring- field. He was elected as one of the Rep- resentatives of Sangamon county in the State Legislature of 1840, the first that ever assembled in Springfield.
DARNALL, AMELIA, whose maiden name was Yocom, sister to Jacob Yocom, was born October, 1793,
near Lexington, Ky., and was married there, August, 1813, to Samuel Darnall. Seven children were born in Kentucky, and they moved to Indiana, where they had one child, and moved in 1829 to Funk's Grove, McLean county, Ill., where they had one child. Mr. Darnall died August, 1830. Mrs. D., with her nine children, moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1830 in what is now Williams township. Of her children-
BENJAMIN F. died at twenty-one years of age.
EVELINE married Levi Smith, has eleven children, and live near Mt. Pleas- ant, Iowa.
SALLY died at sixteen years of age.
IIARVEY, born August 10, 1821, in Bourbon county, Ky., married in Sanga- mon county to Agnes Simpson. They have eight children. MARY married Stephen Hussey, and live in Logan county. WINFIELD SCOTT, JAMES M., JOHN F., STEPHEN H., JESSE HARVEY B. and LILLIE E., live with their parents near Barclay.
NANCY F. married Franklin Yocom. See his name.
HAMIES died at thirty-five years of age.
MELVINA married Thaddeus Evans, and died in Montgomery county, leaving six children.
ELIZABETH married David Bailey, has ten children, and live in Mason county.
REBECCA, born in Illinois, married March 6, 1866, to Oliver McGarvey, has one child, WILLIAM N., and she lives with her mother.
Mrs. Amelia Darnall resides (1874) one mile northeast of Barclay. She is more than eighty years old.
DARNALL, ISAAC T., born Oct. 17, 1809, in Montgomery county, Md., and came to Sangamon county in December, 1840, in Cooper township, south of the Sangamon river. He was married Dec. 14, 1852, to Miranda Crowl. They had five living children-
HILLERY W., JOSEPH E., BENJAMIN F., CHARLES A., and MARYLAND.
Isaac T. Darnall died Sept. 10, 1871. His children reside with their mother, who was married Feb. 11, 1873, to George W. Taylor. He was born Dec. 14, 1836,
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in Wayne county, Ind. They reside in Cooper township, three miles southwest of Mechanicsburg.
DAWSON, JOHN, was born Nov. 24, 1791, in Fairfax county, Va. His parents moved to Bracken county, Ky., in 1805. He enlisted in Bracken county in the war against England in 1812, and was wounded and captured at the battle of River Raisin. After being held as a prisoner in Canada by the Indians who had captured him, his friends paid a ransom for him, and he returned home. Cary Jones was born May 22, 1801, in Nicholas county, Ky. John Dawson and Cary Jones were married in Nicholas county, Oct. 9, IS17. They had one child in Nicholas county, and moved to Bracken county, where they had three children, and the family moved to Sangamon coun- ty, Ill., arriving Oct. 24, 1827, north of the Sangamon river, in Clear Lake township, where they had six children. Of their ten children-
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