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JAHALA, born in Sangamon county, married Wm. Fry, who was killed on the road south of Springfield, leaving four children. The widow and children live near Edinburg, Christian county, Illi- nois.
ALENANDER, born in Sangamon county, married to Mrs. Mary A. Pugh, and live near Edinburg, Christian county.
Mrs. Zilpha Jones died in 1850, and Thomas Jones married Polly Kelly, and he died about 1855-both in Sangamon county.
JONES, WILLIAM, Jun., was born about ISOS, in Kentucky. His father, James Jones, was a brother to Alexander,
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Robert, Thomas and William. William, Jun., came to Sangamon county, when a boy, with his uncle, Robert Jones. He was married in IS31 to Martha A. Lillard, who was born July 24, 1815, in Rocking- ham county, N. C., and came to Sanga- mon county in 1829. They had seven living children-
TEMPERANCE, born August 25, 1832, married April 8, 1852, to A. C. Campbell.
SARAH E., born Dec. 24, 1834, mar- ried in 1854 to W. C. Enix. They have three living children, and live near Mora- via, Monroe county, Iowa.
TABITHA A, born Nov. 6, 1837, married Alexander Elliott, August, 1853, have five living children, and live near Palmer, Christian county.
ROBERT A., born April 14, 1840, married March, IS62, to Rachel A. Sears, have three living children, and reside at Palmer, Illinois.
GAMES T., born July 10, 1845, in Sangamon county, is married and living in Washington Territory.
WILLIAM C., born April 28, IS4S, in Sangamon county, married Burnetta Hill, who died, and he married Alice M. Shadriek, and lives in Palmer, Christian county, Illinois.
NANCY f., born Jan. 10, 1851, mar- ried James P. Lawley. See his name.
William Jones, Jun., died in IS5S, in San- gamon county, and his widow, Mrs. Martha A. Jones resides near Palmer, Christian county, Illinois.
JONES, ANDREW, was born Jan. 10, 1783, in Culpepper county, Va. His parents died when he was quite young, and about ISOS he went to Bath county, Ky., and was there married, in IS12, to Eleanor Goodan, who was born March 16, 1793, in Pennsylvania, and was taken by her parents to Kentucky when she was young. They had five children in Bath county, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1825, on Round Prairie, where one child was born. Of their six child- ren-
RACHEL, born Sept. 8, 1814, in Bath county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county to George W. Poffenberger. Sce his name.
LEVI W., born April 26, 1817, in Bath county, Ky., was married in Sanga-
mon county, Feb. 23, 1837, to Grace Mc- Clees, who was born Feb. 22, IS17, in Bath county, Ky. They have three children. EMILY, born Nov. 28, 1837, married William Beadle. They have two children, ELIZA E. and WILLIAM A., and live in Springfield, ELIZABETH E., born Oct. 29, 1842, married William Un- derwood. They have three children, JOSEPH, CLARA and ETTIE F., and live near Santa Fe, Missouri. LEVI W., Jun., born Dec. 22, ISIS, lives with his parents, one and a half miles west of Rochester, Sangamon county, Illinois.
ELIZA, born Sept. 12, IS19, in Bath county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, Ill., to Samuel Miller. See his name.
DANIEL G., born Nov. 15, 1822, in Bath county, Ky., was married in IS49, in Sangamon county, to Amanda J. Brunk. She died Sept. 28, 1865, leaving two chil- dren. LAURA, born Feb. 3, 1852, died Jan. IS, 1870. GEORGE A., born May 31, 1860, lives with his father. Daniel G. Jones was married May, 1869, to Mary F. Rickard. They have two children, MARY R. and HELEN, and live four- teen miles south of Springfield, in Cotton Hill township.
EVELINE, born May 1, IS25, in Bath county, Ky., was married in Sanga- mon county, Ill., to Joseph E. McCoy. See his name.
JOHN A., born Oct. 4, 1829, in San- gamon county, was married there to Louisa Smith. They have four children, ARTHUR E., EVA E., GEORGE A. and LOUELLA, and live in Clinton, De Witt county, Illinois.
Andrew Jones died Oct. 20, 1854, and Mrs. Eleanor Jones died March S, IS59, both in Sangamon county, Illinois.
JONES, REUBEN, brother of Andrew and Levi, was born in Virginia, and married in Fleming county, Ky., to Jennie Bracken. They had four children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., in 1824, where Mrs. Jennie Jones died. Reuben Jones married again and moved to McLean county, Illinois. He died in southeastern Illinois.
JONES, LEVI, brother of An- drew and Reuben was born in Virginia, and married in Fleming county, Ky., to Fanny Shackleford. They had three children there, and came to Sangamon
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county in 1824. The parents settled on German Prairie, northeast of Springfield. Their three children married and moved to Iowa.
JONES, EMANUEL, was born Jan. 1, ISIS, in Fleming county, Ky. His parents moved in IS28 to Kaskaskia, Ill. He came in 1836 to Sangamon county, to join his two brothers, and was married early in 1837 to Eliza Shane. They had seven children, namely-
JOSIAH, born May 5, 1838, enlisted July 20, 1861, at Springfield, in what be- came Co. C, 11th Mo. Inf., for three years. He was wounded May 22, 1863, in one knee and one hand, at the assault on the rebel fortifications at Vicksburg. After recovering, he was transferred to the Vet. Res. Corps, and was detailed as a ward master and steward in the military hospital at Keokuk, Iowa, served full term, and was honorably discharged Aug. 5, 1864. He was married March 17, IS68, at Loami, to Laura E. Davis, and had three children. CARRIE, died in in- fancy. HARRY and ALICE live with their parents at Loami.
CATHARINE, born 1841, married George Brewer, and lives in Macon county.
FOHN, born 1844, enlisted in 1862 in Co. I, 63d Ill. Inf., for three years, and died at Columbus, Ky., in 1863.
CINTHIA, married Alexander Scott, and lives in Macon county.
WILLIAM lives at Decatur.
THOMAS and
MARTHA live with their mother.
Emanuel Jones moved from Loami to Macon ocunty in 1854, and died there Aug. 9, 1858. IIis widow, Mrs. Eliza Jones, and two youngest children, live in Shawnee- town, Illinois.
JONES, JAMES, elder brother to Emanuel and John, was born in Flem- ing county, Ky., was taken by his parents to Kaskaskia, Ill., in 1828, and came to San- gamon county in 1831. He was married in Sangamon county to Jane Snyder; raised a family, moved to Macon county, and now resides near Decatur.
JONES, JOHN, eldest brother to James aud Emanuel, was born in Fleming county, Ky., went to Kaskaskia, Ill., in 1 S28, from there to Sangamon county, with his brother James, in 1831, was married in Sangamon county, at fifty-five years of
age, to Emeline Shane, and both died without children.
JONES, ENOCH, was born in Maryland, came to Sangamon county among the carliest settlers, and located in Island Grove. He brought a wife and seven children. Six of his children were by a former wife, who had been a widow, Halliday, with four children. Her daugh- ter, Sarah Halliday, married Starling Willis. See his name. The whole fam- ily moved to Knox county, where the parents died.
JONES, HENRY, was born August 25, 1793, in Caroline county, Va. He was a soldier in the war of 1812. Mary F. Chiles was born Nov. 11, ISO1, in the same county, and they were mar- ried there, Jan. 9, 1819. They had six children in Virginia, and moved to Todd county, Ky., where two children were born. The family then moved to Sanga- mon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1834, in what is now Springfield town- ship, south of Sangamon river. Of their children-
SARAH A. M., born Oct. 16, 1819, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county to Thomas McKinnie. See his name.
WILLIAM B., born July 4, IS21, in Virginia, married Jan. 31, 1843, to Eliza- beth A. McKinnie, and live five miles west of Springfield.
HENRY H., born Sept. 17, 1822, died August 25, 1835.
MARY W., born Feb. 15, 1824, lives with her mother.
JOSEPH W. and RICHARD f., twins, born Sept. 14, 1825, in Virginia.
RICHARD f. married Melinda Browning, have three children, and live in Springfield. Ile is a cabinet maker.
JOSEPH W., married Lucy Rans- dell, have five children, RICHARD N., JOHN H., ELIJAH ARTHUR, WIL- LIAM E. and GEORGE E., and live in the northwest corner of Springfield town- ship.
ELEANOR L., born June 30, IS29, in Kentucky, married Sept. S, 1853, in Sangamou county, to Levi Bowker, who was born April 27, 1823, in Cape May county, N. J. They have seven children, WILLIAM H., JOHN L., EDMUND F., MARY E., THOMAS E., JAMES M. and ALBERT CHILES, and reside five miles northwest of Springfield,
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JONATHAN F., born July 21, 1833,?^ MARY E., born Sept. 2, 1839, in in Kentucky, married Nov. 29, 1866, to Springfield, married Daniel Pottle. See his name. Martha E. Marshall, who was born Sept. 12, 1842, at Columbus, Ohio. They had two children, JENNIE B., the youngest, died in infancy. CHARLES HENRY lives with his parents, five and a half miles northwest of Springfield.
Henry Jones died Jan. 1, 1848, and his widow resides in the northwest corner of Springfield township, six miles from Springfield, Illinois.
JONES, STROTHER G., was born Dec. 18, 1813, in Lincoln county, Ky., and was taken by his parents in ISIS to Shelby county. His grandfather, Jo- siah Jones, was born in Wales, and was married there. His wife was of Scotch descent. They emigrated to America be- fore the Revolution. Strother G. says they were both sold to pay for their pas- sage across the ocean; that they were both in the battle of Bunker Hill, and that his grandmother received a wound in the breast. They afterwards settled in Rappahannock county, Va., and raised a family. Four of their sons emigrated to Kentucky. One of them, Josiah, walked the whole distance, without shoes or hat. His entire wardrobe consisted of a single garment, a sack made of tow linen, and fastened by a draw-string around the neck. He was married in Mercer county to Nancy Finley, a daughter of Col. Oba- diah Finley. Mrs. Finley's maiden name was Gaines. She was a sister to the mother of President Harrison. There is a family tradition, that in the carly trou- bles with the savages, in Kentucky, Mrs. Finley slew four Indians. Strother G. Jones was married July 10, 1834, in Mer- cer county, Ky., to Lucy Newton, who was born in that county March 5, 1817. They embarked at Louisville, on a steam- boat, and came by the Ohio, Mississippi and Illinois rivers to Beardstown, and from there by wagon road, stopping at the house of John B. Broadwell, at a place then called Clayville, one mile south of the present town of Pleasant Plains, ar- riving in Springfield March 16, 1836. They had four living children in Spring- field, namely ---
ELIZABETH A., born June 12, 1836, in Springfield, married, Sept. 4, 1853, to Nimrod Nooe. They have eight children, and live near Mattoon.
GAMES W., born July 15, 1846, in Springfield. He enlisted June 28, 1862, in Co. F, 70th Ill. Inf., for three months; served until Oct. 23, 1862, when he was honorably discharged. He enlisted in the Tith Mo. Inf., but was taken out by his father because he was under age. Hc was married, Oct. 12, 1865, to Sidney E. Taylor. They have two children, MAG- GIE and WILLIAM A., and live one and one-half miles northwest of Dawson.
LUCY E., born Aug. 30, 1850, in Springfield, married to Wm. A. Burns. See his name.
Strother G. Jones married, June 14, 1865, in Logan county, for his second wife, Lucy E. Cass. They have four child- ren-
MORRIS A., born at Morris, Grundy county, Illinois.
SHIRLEY A., EARNEST, STROTHER Y. and JESSIE MAY; the three latter born in Sanga- mon county, and all four live with their pa- rents, at Dawson.
S. G. Jones was City Marshal of Spring- field, under Mayor John Calhoun. Ile was justice of the peace and Postmaster at the same time, in Dawson. He took an active part in organizing the Old Settlers' Society, and was President of the same for two years-1868 and '9-and vice- President and acting-President the year after.
JONES, THOMAS, was born Angust 31, 1770, his descendents think in Virginia, and that he emigrated to Ken- tucky when a young man. He was mar- ried in Bourbon county, Ky., August 20, 1799, to .Polly Bryan, a daughter of the founder of Bryan's Station. They had cight children in Kentucky, four of whom died there. Mr. Jones came to Spring- field in the spring of 1834, and purchased a farm adjoining Springfield on the north. He built a house on the land which is now part of the residence of Judge S. T. Logan. He returned to Kentucky for his family, and found his wife sick. She died soon after, and Mr. Jones moved, with three of his children, to Springfield, arriving in Nov., 1834. Of those three children-
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SARAH, born Jan. 21, ISII, in Ken- tucky, was married there to N. G. Bal- dock. He died in Kentucky, and she came with her father to Sangamon county, where she was married in March, 1837, to Thomas P. Smith. They moved to Missouri, and both died there, leaving four children, namely: MARY, THOM- AS, AFFIA and JULIA-the latter dead. Mary returned to Illinois, where she married, and now resides in Menard county, Illinois.
WILLIAM T., born May S, IS17, in Bourbon county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, Ill., April 12, ISto, to Lavina J. Merriman. They have two children born in Sangamon county. HENRIETTA B. married Dr. Thomas M. Helm. See his name. GEORGE B. married Frances W. Ellis. They have three children, WILLIAM, ALLIE and BELLE, and live with his parents, two and one-quarter miles west of Williams- ville.
THOMAS N. died, unmarried, Jan., 183S, in Sangamon county, Illinois.
Thomas Jones died Oct. 23, 1841, about three miles west of Williamsville, Sanga- mon county.
JUDD, EZEKIEL, was born Feb. 14, 1797, in Mason county, Ky., and was taken by his parents to Clermont county, Ohio. He was married in the adjoining county of Brown, to Delilah Lakin. They had two children in Brown county, and moved with his brother, Cor- ban, to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1S25 in what is now Clear Lake township, where they had several children. After a residence of nearly a quarter of a century in the county, he moved, about 1850, to Winchester, Scott county, Ill., where Mrs. Delilah Judd died. Ezeziel Judd and his four living children reside in Jackson, Michigan.
JUDD, REZIN, was born Dec. 26, 179S, in Mason county, Ky., and taken when a child to Clermont county, Ohio. He was married, in the adjoining county of Brown, Jan. 3, 1822, to Eve Shinkle, who was born in that county Dec. 2, IS04. They had two children, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1826, in what is now Clear Lake town- ship, where his brothers, Ezekiel and Corban, had settled the year before. They had eight children in Sangamon county-
ALBERT G. and MARY I. died, each in their fourth year.
ELIZA A., born Oct. IS, IS22, in Brown county, Ohio, married in Sanga- mon county to Thomas A. Magee. They had six living children. Mr. Magee died, in 1863, and his widow lives five miles south of Mechanicsburg, in Christian county, Illinois.
NELSON S., born Oct. 22, IS25, in Brown county, Ohio, married in Sanga- mon county, Nov. 15, 1849, to Susan Miller, who was born April 20, 1831, in Champaign county, Ohio. They have six living children, ELIZA J., SARAH E., GEORGE W., MARY M., ANNA E. and EMMA A., and live three miles southwest of Dawson, Sangamon county, Illinois.
JOHN A., born Sept. 6, 1S30, in Sangamon county, died Oct. 7, IS4S.
ARMINDA R., born April 17, 1833, in Sangamon county, married John H. Shankland. They have three children, and live in Riverton.
WILLIAM W., born Aug. 19, 1836, in Sangamon county. He served three months in Co. F, 7oth Ill. Inf .; and en- listed in May, 1864, for one hundred days, in Co. I, 133d Ill. Inf., served full term, and was honorably discharged. He is Postmaster, at Dawson, and lives with his mother-1874.
MARGARET E., born Feb. 13, IS39, in Sangamon county, married, May 30, 1871, to Robert Alls. He was born Dec. 2, 1833, in Montgomery county, Va., was married in Clinton county, Illinois, to Mary M. Potts, who died, leaving one child, REBECCA V. He was married in Sangamon county, Feb. 11, IS67, to Mrs. Maria L. Grabendich, whose maiden name was Morgan. See Morgan's name. She died, leaving one child, CHARLES A., and he married M. E . Judd. They have one child, REZIN A., and live near Dawson, Illinois.
MARQUIS L., born Dec. 23, 1841, in Sangamon county, enlisted in 1862, for three years, in Co. F, 70th Ill. Inf .; served full term, and was honorably discharged. He lives in Dawson.
REZIN A. V., born Dec. 16, 1846, in Sangamon county, and lives with his mother.
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Rezin Judd died, July 7, 1873, and his widow resides with her three sons, in Dawson, Sangamon county, Illinois.
JUDD, CORBAN C., born Nov. 16, 1800, in Marion county, Ky., was mar- ried in Brown county, Ohio, March 7, 1824, to Nancy Lakin. She was a twin sister of his brother Ezekiel's wife, with whom they moved to Sangamon county, 111., in the autumn of 1825. They had eight children-
MILTON Y., born June IS, 1825, in Ohio, was married in Sangamon county, about 1850, to Rebecca Miller. They had four children, MARY, NATHAN, ELIZABETH and SARILDA. Milton Y. Judd enlisted in Cincinnati, Ohio, for the Mexican war, served his term, and died, Nov. 5, 1872, in Minneapolis, Min- nesota. His widow and children live in Champaign county, Ohio.
ADDISON B., a twin brother of
MILTON 2., died near Mechanics- burg, Sangamon county, February 22, IS44.
MARIA L. died in infancy.
WILLIAM D., born June S, 1830, in Sangamon county, was married, about 1852, to Charlotte McCord, of Mt. Pleas- ant, Ill. He served three years in the Federal army, and died at Dewitt, Ohio, leaving four children-ADA J. and D. WILLIS, who live with J. S. Judd, in Whitehall, and MAMIE and BELLE, who are married, and live in St. Louis, Missouri.
CAROLINE AI., a twin sister of WILLIAM D., was married to James McFarland, in 1849, at Carrolton, Ill. He died, in 1858, leaving a widow and two daughters, DORA and BELL. Mrs. Caroline M. McFarland married John J. Bell, who died Jan. 1, 1875, leaving a widow and three children, JAMES, DA- VID and LEMPE, who live near Ber- dan, Greene county, Illinois.
FOIIN S., born April 30, IS35, in Platte Valley, Grant county, Wisconsin, accompanied his father and family to Whitehall, Ill., arriving in June, 1847. He was married there, Oct. 20, 185S, to Sarah E. Culver, of Whitehall, daughter of Rev. S. H. Culver, D. D. She died without issue, Feb. 4, 1862. John S. Judd enlisted June, 1862, as first Lieuten- ant, in Co. I, 91st Ill. Inf., returned home in 1865, and was married, Jan., 1866, to
Melissa J. Culver. She died April 29, 1869, without issue. J. S. Judd was married, June 20, 1870, to Melissa A. McCallister, of Whitehall. They have three children NORMAN W., HERMAM S. and CORBAN E. John S. Judd has been a leading merchant of Whitehall, Greene county, Ill., since IS5S.
MELINDA A., born about 1837, mar- ried Rev. John C. Wood, of Bunker Hill, Ill., in 1854 or '5. They have five child- ren, and live at Bunker Hill, Macoupin county, Illinois.
WATSON W., born about iS40, en- listed in 1861, and died in service Jan. 13, 1862, at Laclede Hotel, St. Louis, Mis- souri.
MARY E., was born about 1842, and died in 1853, at Waterloo, Iowa.
Corban C. Judd served as a soldier two terms, from Sangamon county, in the Black Hawk war. He served in the Mexican war, under Gen. Scott, and died at Pueblo, Mexico, Dec. 17, 1847. His wid- ow, Mrs. Nancy Judd died April 26, 1851. John S. Judd writes to the author that the four youngest children of Corban C. Judd were given a kind home by J. S. Hackney, one of the noblest sons of Illi- nois, formerly of Logan county.
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KANE, ANDREW J., was born Feb. 11, 1SIS, in Guilford county, North Carolina. His father died when he was an infant, and his mother, with her three children moved to Greene coun- ty, Ind., in 1830. Andrew J., when ap- proaching manhood, went to Indianapolis, where he remained several years, learning the trade of a carpenter. Mr. Kane next traveled by the way of Michigan City to Chicago. That place was such a misera- ble quagmire, he did not think it worth stopping at, and started for Springfield. He stopped one night at Irish grove, in Menard county, paid his last cent for lodging, and left without breakfast and without letting the family where he stop- ped know that it was because he had no money. When within five or six miles of his destination, his hunger prompted him to stop and ask for something to cat, stat- ing that he had no money. Breakfast was readily prepared, and enjoyed with a
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keen relish. He came on toward Spring- field, and found men building a bridge across the Sangamon river, where Car- penter's mill now stands. He obtained employment there, and when he received his first pay, he walked back to the house where he had been supplied with break- fast, and handed the man a twenty-five cent piece, and told him what it was for. The old gentleman turned to his wife, handed her the money, and said: "There, mammy, give him back a bit"-meaning a twelve and one-half cent piece. Mr. K. refused to take any change. The host was Nathan Hussey, whose name heads a sketch in this volume. Mr. Kane's arrival was in July, 1839. He was married May 13, 1847, to Caroline M. Beers. They had seven living child- ren-MATTIÈ E., CHARLES P., JULIA E., HENRY B., EUGENE S., CAMPBELL N., and BELLE C., all live with their parents. Charles P. is a practicing attorney, of the firm of Kane & Hazlett, Springfield. Henry B. is one of the letter-carriers em- ployed by the United States govern- ment. ·
Andrew J. Kane and wife reside in Springfield. He was ordained to preach the gospel in 1842, in connection with the Christian church, and has continued preaching to the present time- June, I 876.
KEAGLE, JOHN, was born July 14, 1794, near Harrisburg, Pa. He was married there to Mary A. Parker. They had two children in Pennsylvania, and moved to Ross county, Ohio, where they had six living children, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in 1835, in what is now Fancy Creek township. Of their eight children-
JOHN, Fun., born in Pennsylvania, married in Sangamon county to Adaline Cooper. They have six children. Their daughter CHARLOTTE married Nathan Hussey. See his name. John Keagle and family live in Logan county, Illinois.
TOSEPII, born Sept. 8, 18IS, in Pennsylvania, married in Sangamon coun- ty, in 1842, to Angeline Hall. They raised six children, and Mr. Keagle died in 1871. His widow lives near Barclay, Ilinois.
MARY married Robert Stringfield,
have three children, and live in Williams- ville.
SAMUEL, married Christiana Farris, and lives in Fancy Creek township.
DOROTHY married Ambrose Coop- cr. See his name.
LETITIA married James C. King, and lives in Logan county.
HARRISON lives in Logan county, Illinois.
Mrs. Mary Keagle died August, 1851, and John Keagle died June, 1872, both in Sangamon county, Ill.
KEEDY, JOHN A., was born in Pennsylvania, in the year 1Soo, was married in Maryland about 1830, to Susan Wolgamot, who was born in ISoo, in Washington county, Md. Two children were born in Maryland. The family moved to Springfield, Ill., in 1838, com- ing all the way in wagons. They brought with them the first carriage ever used in Sangamon county. They had one child in Springfield. Of the three children-
MARGARET, was born July 4, 1832, and was married in Springfield Sept. 19, 1855, to Amzi McWilliams, a native of Ohio, a lawyer by profession, and who was at one time State's Attorney for this circuit. They had one living child, FREDERICK V., born August 7, 1856, now attending school at Litchfield, Ill., and living with his uncle, Maj. Robt. Mc- Williams.
JOHN D., born July 15, 1832, in Washington county, Md., married in Springfield, Jan. IS, 1855, to Charlotte Opdycke, a daughter of Stacy B. Opdycke. See his name. She was born in Chester, Ill., March 19, 1835. They had five living child- ren, viz: STACY B. died at eight years of age. SUSAN, CHARLOTTE, JOHN D., Jun., and HANNAH live with their parents. John D. Keedy was several years Deputy Sheriff, is now serving his second term as Justice of the Peace in Springfield, where he resides .- 1876.
WILLIAM, born about 1839, in San- gamon county. He left home some time in 1863, in declining health. The family received one letter from him, from New York City, since which time they have heard nothing from him, but suppose that he is dead.
Mr. John A. Kcedy was alderman one term in 1846, and was for a while mer-
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chandising with Tinsley & Co. He died Sept. 27, 1854. His widow is still living in Springfield, Illinois.
KEIGWIN, STERRY S. born Oct. 11, ISO3, in Windham county, Connecticut. Susannah Morse was born Feb. 14, ISII, in Sutton, Massachusetts. They were married May 23, 1833, in Millberry, Mass., and made their home there until they had one child, and then moved to Illinois, first stopping in Me- Lean county, and then moved to Spring- field in May, IS3S, where one child was born. Of their two children-
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