History of the early settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois : "centennial record", Part 47

Author: Power, John Carroll, 1819-1894; Power, S. A. (Sarah A.), 1824-; Old Settlers' Society of Sangamon County (Ill.)
Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : E.A. Wilson & Co.
Number of Pages: 824

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MARGARET, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Nov. 26, 1840, to Cary A. Patterson. They have two children. MARTHA A. married John H. Gates, and lives in Auburn township. MARGARET J. married O. F. Bettis. See his name. C. A. Patterson and wife live in Auburn town- ship.

MARY died in Sangamon county in IS31.

GAMES W., born in Kentucky in 1816, and died in Sangamon county, July 6, 1864.

NATHAN, born in ISIS, in Adair county, Ky., married in Sangamon coun- ty, Dee. 26, 1844, to Margaret J. Baxter. They have six children, MARY J., JAMES B., THOMAS A., MARTHA, HENRY and LUCRETIA-the two latter twins. Nathan Fletcher resides three miles southwest of Auburn.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to James H. Bettis. See his name.

JOHN R., born in Kentucky, mar- ried in Sangamon county to Margaret J. Kessler. He died August, 1870, leaving a widow and three children, four miles west of Auburn.

REBECCA f., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to W. M. Essex, and lives in Macoupin county, Illinois.

NANCY, born in Sangamon county, married James R. Patterson. They had six children, and the whole family died in Auburn township.

James Fletcher and his wife both died in Sangamon county.

FLETCHER, JOHN, was born about 1774, in Rockbridge county, Va. Job Fletcher, whose name heads the fol- lowing sketch, was a younger brother of his. John Fletcher was married in 1803, in Augusta county, Va., to Elizabeth Me- Elvain, a native of Lancaster county, Penn., and sister of Samuel McElvain. See his name. Mr. and Mrs. Fletcher had three children in Virginia, and in 1806 emigrated to that part of Christian which became Todd county, Ky., where five children were born. They moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the spring of 1830 in what is now Ball town- ship. The family, including his son Job, with his wife and child, consisted of eleven persons, and their first place of resi- dence was a log cabin sixteen feet square, belonging to his brother Job, who had preceded him eleven years. Of their children ---

JOB, Jun., or Capt. Job, as he was ealled in consequence of his military com- mission from the Governor of Kentucky, and to distinguish him from his uncle Job,

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only eight years older, and who was called Esq. Job. Job, Jun., was born Aug. 27, ISoi, in Rockbridge county, Va., married Nov. 24, 1S25, in Todd county, Ky., to Frances Brown, who was born in Ken- tucky, and moved, in connection with his father, to Sangamon county, arriving in the spring of 1830 in what is now Ball township, where they had six children. Of their eight children-MARY E., born Aug. 12, 1826, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Jason N. McElvain. She died Aug. 3, 1875, near Nilwood, Ill. Mr. McElvain resides there. MAR- GARET F., born Oct. 25, 1S2S, died in her eleventh year. JOHN S., born April 28, 1830, died Jan. 11, 1854. WILLIAM D. died in his fourth vear. PRESTON B., born March 4, 1834, married Sarah Wright. They have two living children, ELIZABETH and LLOYD, and reside near Butler, Bates county, Mo. PAULINE K., born Feb. 15, 1837, married Feb. 22, 1853, to Francis Ewing Dodds. See his name. They live six miles southeast of Auburn. BENJAMIN F., born Dec. 17, 1839, in Sangamon county. He en- listed Aug., 1862, for three years in Co. B, 114th Ill. Inf., and was captured at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10. 1864. He spent several months in Andersonville prison, and witnessed the breaking out of a spring, and confirms all that is said about it by Stephen Bell. See his name. Mr. Fletcher was released at the end of the rebellion, and honorably discharged April, 1865. He was married Feb. 28, 1867, to Mary E. Drennan. They have two child- ren, CYRUS O. and MYRA F., and live at the homestead settled by his father in 1830, in Ball township, near Chatham. VIRGINIA A., born March 9, 1832, married March 20, 1860, to Charles G, Brown, who was born Oct. 4, 1829, in Jacksonville, Ill. They have two children, MARY C. and ROBERT F., and live in Paw- nee township, six miles southeast of Auburn. Job Fletcher, Jun., and his wife celebrated their golden wedding Nov. 24, 1875, at the residence of their daughter and son-in-law Dodds. They reside part of the time at the homestead where they sejtled in 1830, and part of the time with their daughters and sons-in-law, Mr. F. E. Dodds and Mr. C. G. Brown. Capt. Job Fletcher at one time sold sixteen wagon loads of smoked hams and shoulders, in

St. Louis, at $1.So and $200 per one hundred pounds. It belonged to him- self and Eddin Lewis. They hauled it ninety miles, and paid fifty cents per hundred for the hauling. At that time coffee sold for fifty cents per pound, sugar twenty-five cents, and calico fifty cents per yard; corn was worth six and a quarter cents per bushel, gathered, or four cents in the field. Capt. F. says the whole prairie country abounded with a kind of green headed fly, that was a great pest. In hot weather it was hazard- ous to attempt to drive a team over the prairie. From the Sugar creek timber to Carlinville, about thirty miles, was nearly always driven in the night. Instances are related of horses having been killed by exposure to those flies. As the country improved, the land drained, and the grass pastured down, the flies disappeared.

ANDREW, born in Kentucky, was killed by a falling tree in 1809, in his eighth year.

WILLIAM, born in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county Sept. 19, 1830, three days after the death of his father, in his twenty-third year.

JOHN, born Nov. 26, 1SOS, in Todd county, Ky., married in Sangamon coun- ty, Ill., Jan. 28, 1834, to Theresa Abell. They had one child in Sangamon county, and moved, in 1839, to McDonough county, Ill., where they had one child. LUCRETIA B., born Dec. 26, 1835, in Sangamon county, died in her sixth year. JAMES A., born Oct. 26, 1839, in Mc- Donough county, and went with his father to Kansas in IS57. As wagon

master in the employ of the government, he crossed the plains ten times during the rebellion. He was married in 1871 to Miss Murray, has two children, GRACE E. and WALTER W., and live near Mound City, Linn county, Kansas. Mrs. Theresa Fletcher died in McDonough county, Ill., late in 1839. John Fletcher was married in the same county, March 9, IS41, to Sarah Bullington, who was born Jan. 31, IS17, in Orange county, Ind. They had six children in McDouough county, and, in 1857, moved to Linn county, Kansas, where they had one child. Of their seven children: JOHN S., born May 3, IS43, in McDonough county, Ill., resides with his mother, near Mound City, Kan. WILLIAM C., born March 10, 1845, in

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McDouough county, Ill., lives near Mound City, Kansas. LIZZIE J., born Jan. 22, 1 848, in McDonough county, Ill., married in 1867, in Kansas, to Zalmon Kincaid, a native of Ohio. They have three child- ren, RALPHI, CHARLIE Z. and JOHN C., and live at Pleasanton, Linn county, Kansas. Mr. Kincaid is a merchant there. JOB H., born August 28, 1849, is engaged in farming and stock raising near Mound City, Kansas. ALBERT A., born Nov. 7, 1851, in McDonough county, Ill., raised in Kansas, and, in 1873, went to New York City, and is engaged in business at No. 60, Fulton street. ADALINE R., born Nov. 26, 1858, in Kansas, lives with her mother. John Fletcher died Jan. S, 1864, near Mound City, Linn county, Kansas. His widow resides there. He spent several years as a school teacher, and was always interested in educational matters. He was a member of the Pres- byterian church, and superintended a Sun- day school. After his death his widow filled the latter position for several years.

MARGARET, born in 18II, in Todd county, Ky., married in Sangamon coun- ty, III., in 1833, to William Durley. He had previously been married to a Miss Mills, who died, leaving one child, Mil- dred M., born August 6, 1828, and who married George R. Laughton, in 1844, at Plattsville, Grant county, Wis. She died Jan. 8, 1864, leaving five children, George H., William R., Charles A., Adaline A. and Frank D., all of whom are living. William Durley died in 1835, and Mrs. Margaret Fletcher Durley died in 1836, leaving one child, ADELINE, who was born June 9, 1834, in Bloomington, Ill. She was married June 6, 1854, in Platts- ville, Grant county, Wis., to Rufus A. Rice, who was born August 29, 1820, in Monmouth, Kennebec county, Maine. They have two children, FRANCIS ALLEN, born July 4, 1860, and EDWIN LEWIS, born Dec. 28, 1864, both in Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Rice reside at No. 594, west Washington Street, Chicago, Il1.

REBECCA, born in Kentucky, mar- ried in Sangamon county to David C. Brown. He died Oct., 1872, and she re- sides in Virden.

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, unmarried, in 1837.

YANE A. born in Kentucky, mar- ried Leroy M. Paden, and resides in Macoupin county, near Nilwood.

John Fletcher died Sept. 16, 1830, less than six months after bringing his family to the county. His widow survived him twenty-eight years, and died in the fall of 1858-he in Sangamon county, and she in Macoupin county.

FLETCHER, JOB, Sen., was born Nov. 11, 1793, in Rockbridge coun- tv, Va. His father died when he was an infant, and his mother moved with her elder son John, in the autumn of ISO8, to Logan county, Ky., and the next spring to that part of Christian which was afterwards Todd county. Job remained in the family of his brother John, attending school and teaching. He served as a soldier six months in the war of 1812, and as such assisted in burying the dead after the bat- tle of Tippecanoe, although he was not in the battle. Mary Kerchner was born May 25, 1789, in Augusta county, Va., and was taken by her parents to Todd county, Ky. Job Fletcher and Mary Kerechner were there married, Dec. 22, 1SIS. They had one child born in Ken- tucky, and moved to what became San- gamon county, Ill., arriving Nov. 11, 1819, in what is now Ball township, where they had six children. Of their children-

PERMIELIA A., born Ang. 5, 1819, in Christian county, Ky., was married in 1844 to Eddin Lewis. See his name. He died, and she was married, Feb. 4, 1856, to Larkin Lewis. See his name.

JAMES H., born Jan. 22, IS21, in Sangamon county, died in his twentieth vear.

JOHN, born April 11, 1822, in Sanga- mon county, went to Arkansas in 1853. He was married in 1854 to Mary Fletcher. He resided in Arkansas until after the battle of Prairie Grove, when they started for Illinois. Mrs. Fletcher died on the way, Dec. 27, 1862, leaving one child. Mr. Fletcher served his country in the Ist Ill. Cav., part of the time in the south and the remainder on the frontier against the Indians. He died in Bates county, Mo., April 10, 1874.

ELIZABETH, born Feb. 23, 1824, in Sangamon county, married Albert Stacy, a native of Montgomery county, Ill. They had three living children,

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MARY L., PERMELIA V. and AL- BERT E. Mr. Stacy died March 22, IS63, and his widow and three children resided on the farm settled by her father in 1819 until 1875, when she sold out and moved to the vicinity of Chanute, Neosho county, Kan.

TONAS L., born Sept. 1, 1826, in Sangamon county, was married April 22, 1851, to Amanda M. Short, of same county. They had three living child- ren, EMILY J., JAMES J. and EDWARD. Mr. F. and family moved to Kansas Sept. 1, 1859, and settled on Big creek while the land still belonged to the Osage Indians. Their title was not extinguished until 1867. Jonas L. Fletcher was appointed county clerk at the organi- zation of Neosho county, Nov. 4, 1864, served one and a half years, and was then elected for two years. Was admitted to the bar in 1867. In 1868 was elected probate judge of Neosho county for two years, and was re-elected in 1870 for two years. Judge Fletcher and family reside at Chanute, Neosho county, Kan.

ELIJAH I., born Dec. 4, 1827, in Sangamon county, died Sept. 5, 1846, in same county.

MARY died in her seventh vear.

Mrs. Mary Fletcher died July 14, 1850, and Job Fletcher died Sept. 4, 1872, both within half a mile of where they settled in 1819, in Ball township, near Sugar creek Cumberland Presbyterian church. On the very night of his arrival in the settlement, Mr. Fletcher was called to write the will of George Cox, who came the year before with the Drennan and Dodds families. That was the first will from what is now Sangamon county ever put on record, and was registered at Ed- wardsville.

Mr. F. had to buy corn for bread and to feed his stock until he could raise a crop. The nearest point at which he found any for sale was three miles south of Edwardsville. Mr. Fletcher bought of Major Iles the first window glass ever sold in Springfield, and the first ever put in a window in Sangamon county. He also believed that he taught the first school in the county, in a log cabin built for that purpose, in 1820 or '21, south of Sugar creek. A Sunday school was organized near where he lived in 1825, by Rev. J. M. Peck, and Mr. F. taught in that school

also. It was near where the Sugar creek Cumberland Presbyterian church now stands. William Drennan, Sen., was the first superintendent, and continued for about twenty years, as it became the Sun- day school connected with that church. His grandson, John L. Drennan, is now the superintendent. Job Fletcher and John Taylor were appointed justices of the peace. The first in what is now Sangamon county. As such, Mr. Fletcher organized the first election precinct in the county. That was in 1819 or '20, when it was part of Madison county. The titles of the Indians to the lands were all extin- guished before Mr. F. came into the county ; but two and a half years of the time allowed them to hunt was unexpired, and the country was full of them. They, how- ever, were all friendly. Mr. F. was pres- ent April 10, 1821, when the Commission- ers, William Drennan, Sen., Zachariah Peter and Rivers Cormack, located the county seat. He saw the stake driven, marked Z and D, declared to be the coun- ty seat, and named Springfield. Job

Fletcher was one of the representatives from Sangamon county at one session of the legislature in Vandalia. He was one of the Senators for the county at the ses- sion of 1836 and '7, which legislated for the removal of the State capital to Spring- field, and was consequently one of the " Long Nine." He served one term in the Senate after the removal to Spring- field.

FLETCHER, THOMAS P., was born in 1791, near Richmond, Va. His parents moved, when he was a boy, to Union county, Ky. He was there mar- ried to Marion Davis. They had six chil- dren in Kentucky, and moved to Sanga- mon county, Ill., arriving in 1828 in what is now Williams township, and in I831 moved to Tazewell county, and from there to Logan county, in 1836. The mother died in 1845, and the father in 1865. Their children, Thomas J., Melinda, Wil- liam D., Judith W., Rigdon S., Emily and James M., are married and live in different parts of the country. Two only are con- nected with old settlers families of Sanga- mon county.

ELIZABETH, born in Virginia, married Madison M. Merriman, See his name.

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BENGAMIN F., born March 28, 1834, in Tazewell county, married Corde- lia L. Merriman. They reside at the old homestead of her father, where he settled in 1829, two miles southwest of Williams- ville. B. F. Fletcher enlisted Aug., 1862, in Co. B, 130th Ill. Inf., for three years, served full term, and was honorably dis- charged in 1865.

FLORVILLE, WILLIAM, was born about 1806, at Cape Haytien, West India. When the revolution com- menced, in 1821 and 22, his god-mother took him to Baltimore, Md., and kept him in St. Mary's Convent until her death, when he was bound by the orphan's court to learn the trade of a barber. He then went to New Orleans, thence to St. Louis, and with others from St. Louis, on a hunting excursion, up the Mississippi, Illi- nois and Sangamon rivers, to New Salem, then in Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1831. It was late in the evening, and as he approached the village he fell in with a tall man, wearing a red flannel shirt and carrying an axe on his shoulder, just returning from his day's labor in the woods. They fell into an easy conversa- tion and walked to a little grocery store together. The tall man was Abraham Lincoln, who soon learned that the stranger was a barber, nearly out of money and aiming to reach Springfield. That was enough to enlist the good will of Mr. Lincoln, who took him to his boarding house, told the people his business and sit- uation. That opened the way for an evening's work among the boarders, and the next morning he started on his way rejoicing, and reached Springfield the sec- ond day. Mr. Florville was soon recog- nized by Dr. E. H. Merriman-See his sketch -- with whom he was acquainted in Baltimore and St. Louis. Dr. M. proved his friendship in various ways. Mr. Flor- ville spent some time in the employ of Gen. James D. Henry. He was married soon after his arrival to Phobe Rountree, who was born Feb. 4, 1811, near Glasgow, Ky. They had five living children, namely :

SAMUEL H., born May, 1832, in Springfield, married Oct. 26, 1874, at Waverly, to Mary Belle Greene, who was born in 1849 in Morgan county. She died Nov. 23, 1875. S. H. Florville is a barber, and lives in Springfield.

ALSEEN, born Dec., IS33, in Spring- field, married in I851 to Mahlon Chaver- ous. They had two living children. JULIA C., horn April 28, 1852, married April 27, 1871, to Clark Duncan, who was born Oet. 5, 1850, near Russelville, Ky. They have two children, ALSEEN and OTIS B., and live in Springfield. ADDIE lives with her mother. Mrs. Chaverous married Nov., 1863, to Richard Wright. They have three children, ED- WARD, MARTIN and CLIFFORD, and live in Springfield.

SINEET, born Sept., 1837, in Spring- field, married Gilbert Johnson. They had three children in Springfield. PHOEBE, born in 1855, married T. Adams, has one child, MABEL, and lives in Springfield. GILBERT, born Feb., 1857, and ANNIE, born in 1859, live with their mother. Gilbert Johnson died in IS58. Mrs. Sineet Johnson married Henry Scott. They had one child, ELIZA, and Mr. Scott enlisted in the army to suppress the the rebellion, and was never heard of after. Mrs. Sineet Scott married March 1, 1865, to Jordan Richardson. They have four children, JAMES, WILLIAM, GEORGE and THOMAS. Mr. Rich- ardson keeps a grocery store, and lives in Springfield.

TARTEEL, was born in IS39, in Springfield. In 1862 he went into the army under Maj. Gen. McClernand, was with him in all his campaigns, came home and died Oct. 2, 1864.

WILLIAM L., born March 10, 1840, in Springfield, married April 9, 1861, to Mary Jenkins. They have three living children, AQUILLA, URETTA and ELIZABETH, and live in Springfield.

William Florville died April 13, 1868, and Mrs. Phobe Florville was married May 10, 1873, to Reuben Coleman, and resides in Springfield.

FLYNN, CATHARINE, was born May 14, 1828, in Dublin, Ireland, came with her parents to America when she was seven years old. They first made their home in Amherst, Mass., and then went to Philadelphia. From there she came with the family of Asahel Thayer to Sangamon county, arriving in Chat- ham May 14, 1839. She was married July 27, 1847, to Jacob Leonard, who was born . June 17, 1822, in Stafford, Conn., and came to Chatham Sept. 14, 1844.

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They had two children --

CHARLES F., died Jan. 27, 1854, aged two and a half years.

RICHARD F., died August 27, 1862, in his second year. Jacob Leonard and wife reside in Chatham. He is a retired farmer.

FOLEY, WILLIAM C., born June 16, 1SOS, in Prince William county, V'a., and came to Springfield, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1838. He was married in Springfield, June 16, 1840, to Elizabeth E. Hutchinson. They had cight children, namely-

ANN V., born April S, 1841, resides with her parents.

JOHN W., born May IS, 1843, in Springfield, married Sept. 18, 1864, to Marcia A. Purvines. They have three children, ARTHUR C., CORA MAY, and a babe, and live at Pleasant Plains, Illinois.

ADDISON F: dicd, aged seven years.

ELIZABETH C. and FLORA S. live with their parents.

ADELIA S. married A. B. Mars. He is a telegraph operator, and lives in Springfield.

WILLIAM C. and THOMAS E. live with their parents in Springfield.

FORD, DANIEL, was born Feb. 22, 1796, in New Jersey. His pa- rents moved to Fayette county, Ky., when he was a boy. Mary Randolph was born in Fayette county, Ky., June 17, 1802. Daniel Ford and Mary Randolph were married there, May 11, 1820. Nine children were born in that county, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in Nov., 1838, in what is now Ball township, where two children were born. Four of those born in Kentucky, and one in Sangamon county, died under four years of age. Of the other six-

WILLIAM R., born July 3, 1824, in Kentucky, married in Illinois, Nov. 6, IS49, to Minerva J. Scott. They have two children. SARAH E. married Charles M. Shepherd. See his name. WILLIAM P. resides with his parents, in Ball township, fifteen miles south of Springfield.

ANN E., born in Kentucky, May 10, 1816, married John Patterson. They have eight children: MARY R., the second child, married Robert Scott. Sce his name. WILLIAM V., the eldest

child, JOHN R., AMANDA F., SAM- UEL E., ROBERT D., IDA MAY and NENA F. reside with their parents, thir- teen miles south of Springfield, on the George Lamb farm-1874.

AMANDA, born in Kentucky, mar- ried Josephus Parkinson. They had two children. IDA CORNELIA married Frank Shores, and resides in Chicago. KATE ELEANOR lives with her mother. Josephus Parkinson died May 11, 1866, and his widow resides in Chicago.

FOHN, born Jan. 13, 1834, in Ken- tucky, married Nov. 12, 1861, to Ara Holmes, who was born Jan. 31, 1843, in Brown county, Ohio. They have four children, ANNA L., CHARLES A., ALEX. E. and FREDDIE T., and live in Ball township-1874.

GEORGE W., born in Kentucky in 1837, died in Sangamon county, Feb. 12, I S58.

MARY, born in' Sangamon county, married Thomas J. Scott. See his name.

Daniel Ford died May 21, 1852, in San- gamon county, and his widow died April 2, 1864, at Macomb, Ill.

FORD, THOMAS, was born in Fauquier county, Va. Mary Paine was born there also. They were married and had eleven children in that county. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in 1835 in what is now Fancy creek township, two miles northwest of Sherman. Of their eleven children-

GAMES G., born Sept. 22, ISO1, came to Sangamon county with his father. He never married, and resides near Linden, Johnson county, Wis.

JOSEPH W., born in Virginia, died unmarried.

SAMUEL, born in Virginia, married Jane Evans, had one child, and all died in Sangamon county.

SARAH, born and married in Virginia to Patrick Welch, had two children, and Mr. W. died in Virginia. She and her two sons came to Sangamon county with her father. JOHN went to Missouri, married there, enlisted in the Union army, and died at Memphis, Tenn., in 1862 or '3. JAMES married Miss Beck, and lives near Elkhart. Mrs. Welch married Sanford Cherry, and resides near Elkhart, Ill.

DANIEL, born in Virginia, came to

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Sangamon county with his parents, is un- married, and resides near Linden, Wis.

ELIZA, born in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Sanford Cherry. They had four children, and she died in Sangamon county. Mr. Cherry married her sister, Mrs. Welch. They reside near Elkhart, Ill.

MARY, born in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to William Glascock. They have three children, and reside near Linden, Wisconsin.

SYLVESTER W., born Nov. 27, 1813, in Fauquier county, Va., married Dec. 26, 1837, to Amarilla Enos, in San- gamon county. They had seven children in Sangamon county. MARY C., born Jan. 24, 1839, died in her fifth year. ABNER T., born Oct. 4, 1840, enlisted August, 1862, in Co. I, 114th Ill. Inf., for three years, served full term, and was honorably discharged in 1865, married October, IS74, to Rebecca MeGinnis, near Williamsville. SARAH E., born July 12, IS42, married Daniel Pottle. See his name. WILLIAM H., born Sept. 22, IS45, enlisted July 20, 1861, at Spring- field, in what became Co. B, 11th Mo. Inf., and was drowned Sept. 2, 1861, while bathing in the Mississippi river near Cape Girardeau, Mo. SYLVESTER W., Jun., born Sept. 3, IS47, enlisted January, IS65, for one year, in Co. I, 114th Ill. Inf., served until the spring of 1866, and was honorably discharged. AMARILLA, born Nov. 28, 1850, and ARMINTA, born March 29, 1853, are unmarried, and reside with their mother. Sylvester Ford died July 10, 1866, and his widow resides three miles southeast of Buffalo Hart station.

WILLIAM, born in Virginia, came to Sangamon county with his parents, mar- ried in Wisconsin, and moved to Califor- nia.

THOMAS, Jun., born in Virginia, raised in Sangamon county, married in Wisconsin to Mary Perry, and live near Linden.

FRANCIS, born in Virginia, came to Sangamon county with his parents, mar- ried to Frances Adams in Wisconsin, and resides near Linden.

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History of the early settlers of Sangamon County, Illinois : "centennial record", Part 47

Author: Power, John Carroll, 1819-1894; Power, S. A. (Sarah A.), 1824-; Old Settlers' Society of Sangamon County (Ill.) Publication date: 1876 Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : E.A. Wilson & Co. Number of Pages: 824

Author: Power, John Carroll, 1819-1894; Power, S. A. (Sarah A.), 1824-; Old Settlers' Society of Sangamon County (Ill.)
Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Springfield, Ill. : E.A. Wilson & Co.
Number of Pages: 824