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COLUMBIA f. was married in Springfield Dec. 7, 1871, to Isaac C. Preston, of Maryland. They live in Es- sex, Page county, Iowa.
James M. Logan resides in Springfield. LOGAN, STEPHEN T., was born Feb. 24, 1800, in Franklin county, Ky. His parents moved to Lincoln county in 1802. Stephen T. attended school at Frankfort, and became a clerk in the office of the Secretary of State, under Martin D. Hardin, the father of Col. John J. Hardin, who fell at the bat- tle of Buena Vista, Mexico, in 1846. Although Stephen T. Logan was but thirteen years old at the time, it so hap- pened that in the discharge of his duties he issued all the commissions to the officers under Governor and Gen. Shelby in his" campaign to the northern frontier in the war of 1812. The office of the Secretary of State was kept in the third story of the capitol, which was burned soon after, and S. T. Logan came very near being burned with it. In 1817 he went to Glasgow, Ky., studied law and practiced there. He was married in Glasgow, in June, 1823, to America T. Bush, who was born there in 1806. They had four children in Glasgow, two of whom died young. Mr. Logan moved his family to Springfield, Ill., arriving May 16, 1832. They had four children in Springfield. Their chil- dren were two sons and four daughters. Both sons and two daughters are dead.
Mrs. America T. Logan died Feb. 24, 1868, and Stephen T. Logan resides in Springfield. He has lived in the same house forty years.
Stephen T. Logan was elected Judge of a circuit that included about one-fourth of the State. After serving a short time, he resigned in 1837. He was again elect- ed, in 1839, without his consent, but re- signed in a few weeks, both times because he could not live on the salary, and could do better by private practice. Judge Logan served four terms in the State Legislature, aud was a member of the State Constitutional Convention of 1847. early in life he established a reputation as one of the most able lawyers in the
country, and long enjoyed a lucrative practice. He retired several years ago, and is now in his seventy-seventh year. He was at one time a partner with Abra- ham Lincoln. Success never affected him - injuriously. His whole life has been plain and unostentatious.
LOGSDON, JOSEPH, was born about 1780, in Madison county, Ky. He was there married to a Miss Simmons. They had several children born in Ken- tucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in 1824, in what is now Ball township, near where St. Bernard church now stands. In 1832 or '33, he moved his family to Missouri, and from there to Texas. He died in IS48 on his road from Texas to California. He is partic- ularly remembered in the vicinity of St. Bernard church from the fact that the first religious services ever conducted by a Catholic priest in Sangamon county was held at his house, in 1829.
LOOSE, JACOB G., born about 1812, in Washington county, Penn., and came to Springfield, Ill., in 1836 or '7. He was married in Springfield, Dec. IS, 1845, to Elizabeth Iles. They had ten children in and near Springfield, three of whom died young. Of the other seven children-
SALLIE C., born Dec. 25, 1848, in Springfield, was married, Jan. 9, 1865, to Junius D. Crabb, a native of Harrison county, Ohio. They have five children, and reside adjoining Springfield on the south.
JESSIE V., born Nov. 2, 1850, in Springfield, was married there, Feb. 7, 1872, to Dr. Jacob S. Price, who was born in Kentucky. They have two children, and reside in Springfield, Illinois.
JOSEPH I., FRANK E., GEO. PASFIELD, ROBERT D. and ELIZABETH;the five latter live with their mother.
Jacob G. Loose died Nov. 4, 1874, and his widow and children reside two miles southwest of the State House, Springfield, Illinois.
When Mr. Loose came to Springfield, he first engaged as clerk in a dry goods store, and later engaged in business on his own account, at one time in partnership with Col. John Williams, again with E. B. Hawley. He afterwards purchased land and engaged in farming and stock
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raising, which he continued until he be- came the owner of seventeen hundred acres of land adjoining Springfield, sonth and southwest. Becoming satisfied that his land contained coal, he made arrange- ments with Mr. P. L. Howlett, who was then boring for coal at Riverton, to use his machinery, but afterwards decided not to wait, and sent to the oil regions of Pennsylvania, obtained a complete outfit, and commenced boring in June, 1866. He bored down to coal, satisfied himself that it would pay to mine it, and commenced sinking a shaft in September. He com- menced taking coal from the shaft in April, 1867, being the first shaft within fifteen miles of Springfield to supply the market with coal." The mine is 237 feet deep, reaching a bed of coal five feet ten inches in thickness. The entire cost when first fitted up, including steam engine, hoisting machinery, etc., was eighty thon- sand dollars. The mine is at the junction of the C. & A., and the T. W. & W. rail- roads, two miles south of the State house, and is yet owned by his heirs. This was only the beginning of the develop- ment of the underground treasures of Sangamon county. There are now- 1876-seven shafts in the county.
LYMAN, JOHN, was born Apr. 2, 1780, at Lebanon, New Hampshire. The Lyman family in America trace their origin to Richard Lyman, of High On- gar, near London, England, who emi- grated to America in 1631, and settled at Northampton, Mass. He had three sons, one of whom, Richard, removed to Lebanon, N. H. He had five sons, Eben- ezer, Thomas, David, John and Richard. John was married in 1731 to Hannah Burchard. They had one child, Mary, and Mrs. Lyman died. He married in 1747 to Mary Strong. They had one daughter and six sons. Four of their sons, John, Abel, Elijah and Josiah, moved to Brookfield, Vermont. Abel had six sons, five of whom-John, Azel, Alvan, Ezra and Cornelius -emigrated to Sangamon county, Illinois. It was the latter John whose name heads this sketch. He was married Nov. 13, 1804, at Lebanon, New Hampshire, to Martha Storrs, a native of that town. They made their home at Randolph, Vermont, until they had two living children. He was, mean- time, privately studying medicine, and
took his family to his father's house at Brookfield, while he attended medical lectures at Dartmouth college. Having completed his studies about ISOS, he com- menced practice at New Haven township, Vt. During the war of IS12, he was part of the time surgeon in the United States army, and was stationed at Swanton, Vt. In 1817, he removed to Williston, Vt., and in 1824 to Potsdam, N. Y. In 1832 he and his brother, Azel, traveled over the Western country; and in the fall of 1833, in company with fifty-two persons, including his four brothers, he removed to Sangamon county, and settled on Prairie creek, in what is now Gardner township, nine miles northwest of Springfield. They were eight weeks on the road, and observed the fourth commandment by resting every Sabbath and assembling for divine worship, which was conducted by Rev. Billious Pond, who fell in with the company at Oswego, N. Y. Dr. John Lyman and wife had eight children, three of whom died young. Of the other five-
HENRY P., born Aug. 10, 1805, at Randolph, Orange county, Vt., married Aug. 7, 1833, at Madrid, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., to Mercy Sanders, who was born Dec. 4, 1805, at Bethel, Windsor county, Vt. They started soon after marriage to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1833. They had four children in Sangamon county, namely: CALIS- TA M., born July 14, 1834, married March 5, 1864, to. R. C. Curtis, and re- sides in Waverly, Illinois. JOHN STORRS, born July 31, 1841, enlisted Ang. 9, 1862, for three years, in Co. G, IOIst Ill. Inf .; served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged June 22, 1865, at Springfield. He was married Sept. 13, 1870, to Mary Carrie Happer, who was born July 26, 1849, in Sangamon county. They have two child- ren, EDWARD H. and NELLIE C., and reside one and three-quarters miles northwest of Farmingdale-1576. SARAH A., born Jan. 16, 1844, married Aug. 15, 1865, to Rev. James D. Kerr. They have three children, HARRY P., JAMES M. and RALPH c., and reside at Nebraska City, Neb. He is pastor of the First Presbyterian church there-1876. GEORGE H., born Oct. 4, 1850, married Jan. 16, 1873, to Emelie Stewart, and resides at Carmi, Ill.
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-July, 1876. Henry P. Lyman and his wife reside at Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illinois-1876.
HANNAH, born Sept. 16, 1807, at Randolph, Vt., married Stephen Child. See his name.
BENJAMIN RUSH, born March 10, 1815, at New Haven, Vt., married in Sangamon county Dec., 1837, to Eliza Estabrook. They had three children, and Mr. Lyman died Feb. 16, 1847, in Sanga- mon county. His widow married Seth Child, and moved to Manhattan, Kansas, taking two of her children. Her son, LEWIS J. LYMAN, went there later, and is now-1876-a practicing physician at St. George, Pottawattomie county, Kansas.
MARTHA, born March, 1817, mar- ried Lewis Judd, and died Dec., 1835, in Madison county, Illinois.
LAURA, born Jan. 14, 1819, married Augustin Curtis, and died Aug., 1847, at Waverly, Ill., leaving one daughter, LAURA, who married Wm. Brown, and died Jan., 1870. Mr. Brown lives in Waverly, Illinois.
Mrs. Martha Lyman died March S, 1862, and Dr. John Lyman died Aug. 4, 1865, after one hour's illness. Both died near Farmingdale, Sangamon county.
LYMAN, AZEL, was born Ang. 1, 1784, at Lebanon, Conn., and was taken by his parents two years later, to Brookfield, Vt. He was married in ISOS, in Randolph, Vt., to Roxana Fisk, who was born there, Dec. - 12, 1788. They moved to Potsdam, N. Y., in 1810, had three living children, and Mrs. Ly- man died there, June 7, 1829. He was married in 1830 at Potsdam, to Mary P. Bates, who was born there, Feb. 2, 1809. They moved to Sangamon county with his four brothers, arriving in 1833, at what is now
Farmingdale They had eight children, six of whom were born in Sangamon county. Four only of their children are living. Of his child- ren-
AZEL S., born in New York, mar- ried in Cincinnati, Ohio, raised a family, and resides in New York City. He in- vented a way of making paper from wood, a refrigerating vessel and a historical chart, all of which are valuable.
ROXANA, married, and died in Chicago about the time of the great fire.
MARY is unmarried, and resides with her brother, Azel S., in New York City. She was educated in Jacksonville by Rev. Theron Baldwin.
By the second wife --
ELLEN, born April 2, 1831, in Pots- dam, N. Y., married in Sangamon conn- ty, May 1, 1852, to S. Simonson, who was born March 22, 1824, in Norway. They have one child, and reside at Green Valley, Tazewell county, Illinois.
THERON B. married Miss Mundy, has three children, and lives in Tallula, Menard county.
ALMYRA, married, has two children, and resides with her mother.
OTTO married and resides near Green Valley Postoffice, Tazewell county.
Azel Lyman died Jan. 3, 1873, near Delavan, Ill., and his widow resides there. The family moved from Sangamon to Tazewell county in 1852. Azel Lyman was an active Sunday school worker. He established Sunday schools in thirty-five counties of Illinois.
LYMAN, ALVAN, born Mch. 5, 1786, at Brookfield, Vt. He was mar- ried, February, 1813, at Royalton, Vt., to Lucy Perrin, who was born there Dec. 22, 1790. They became acquainted in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., and returned to Vermont to be married. They had two children born and died in St. Law- rence county, N. Y., and moved with a colony of fifty persons to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1833 near Farmingdale. Mr. Lyman helped to haul the silver coin from Alton to Springfield, to establish the State Bank of Illinois. He arrived with one of four loads of coin, July 4, 1835. Alvan Lyman lived thirty- three years in Sangamon county, and died September, 1866, near Farmingdale. His widow resides with her niece, Mrs. T. H. Ferry, four miles southwest of Pleasant Plains .- 1874.
LYMAN, EZRA, born Feb. 23, 1789, at Brookfield, Vt. He went to Potsdam, N. Y., in May, 1809, and in ISII went back to Brookfield, Vt., and was married to Mercy Cushman. They made their home in Potsdam, until four children were born, one of whom, BET- SY, died at three years of age, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., in 1833, with a colony, and settled in what
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is now Gardner township. Of their child- ren-
EZRA C., born May 19, 1814, in Potsdam, N. Y., married in Sangamon county, March 28, 1840, to Caroline Van Patten. They had eight children in Sangamon county. ALVAN, born June 23, 1842, died, aged seven years. HAN- NAH H., born Oct. 14, 1844, married, Nov. 15, 1863, to Thomas H. Earnest. See his name. MARY E., born Feb. 23, 1846, married, Dec. 12, 1867, to Robert Morris, a native of New Jersey. They have two children, ETTIE C. and WILLIAM E., and reside near Maroa, Macon county. CORNELIUS, born Oct. 14, 1849. CUSHMAN, born Oct. 21, IS51. AL- VAN, born Jan. 31, 1853. JOHN D., born Oct. 7, 1856. LAURA A., born Oct. 16, 1858; the five latter reside with their parents, near Maroa, Macon county, Ill., where they moved from Sangamon county in I874.
MERCI S., born May 19, 1820, in New York, married in Sangamon county to Jeremiah D. Low. (He was one of the fifty-two colonists, and was a teacher.) They had three children-CORNELIA A. died in St. Louis, aged eleven years. LAURA T., born July 16, 1848, and CHARLES H., born Oct. 11, 1851, re- side with their parents, in Chicago.
ZERVIAH H., born about 1831, is unmarried, and resides with her brother, Ezra C.
Ezra Lyman died, Oct. 1, 1851, and Mrs. Mercy Lyman died in 1864, both in Sangamon county.
LYMAN, CORNELIUS, was born August 10, 1792, in Brookfield, Vt. He was there married, about 1814, to Betsy Cushman, and moved to Potsdam, N. Y., where they had two children. The family moved to Clinton county, and from there to Sangamon county, Ill., in 1833, as part of the colony of fifty-two persons. After residing in Sangamon county many years, they moved to Min- nesota with the first emigration, and set- tled at St. Croix Lake. Of their two sons-
CORNELIUS S., born in 1816, in New York, married at Chatham, Sanga- mon county, to Emily Kincaid. They have a large family, and reside near Still- water, Minn.
DAVID P., born in New York, mar- ried in Sangamon county to Ann J. Han- nah. They have a family, and reside near Stillwater, or Marine Mills, Minn.
Cornelius Lyman died Jan. 31, 1864, and his widow died, both near Stillwater, Minn.
LYON, HENSON, was born July 28, 1790, in Loudon county, Va., was taken by his parents about ISoo to Clark county, Ky. Nancy McCann was born Jan. 8, 1795, in Clark county, and they were there married Aug. 10, 1814. They moved to Shelbyville, where they had nine children, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Oct., 1834, in what was then called Portland, south of the Sangamon river, and seven miles northeast of Springfield, where one child was born. In March, 1835, they moved to a farm, two and one-half miles east of Springfield. Of their ten child- ren-
HARRISON D., born May 7, 1815, in Shelbyville, Ky., married in Sangamon county April 6, 1843, to Mary E. Hick- man. They had four living children. MARY E. lives with her parents. WILLIAM H. married March 12, 1874, to Sarah A. Day, a native of New York, and resides three miles northeast of Springfield. EUCLID F. and JAMES F. reside with their parents, three and one-half miles northeast of Springfield.
LUCINDA M., born Feb. 20, 1818, in Shelbyville, Ky., married there to Clif- ton L. Burge, and came to Sangamon coun- ty in 1836. She died July 27, 1860, leaving three children in Sangamon county. GEORGE W. married in Springfield to Martha Clarke, and lives in Ottawa, Kan- sas. SOPHRONIA E. married in Kan- sas to Willis P. Broadwell, and lives in Rockport, Boone county, Mo. CLIF- TON L., Jun., lives in Ottawa, Kansas.
GAMES O., born Oct. 15, 1821, in Kentucky, died, unmarried, in Spring- field, Feb. 5, 1860.
HESTER A. R., born Nov. 13, 1823, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon coun- ty to James S. Dawson. They have seven children, and live near Paris, Mo.
ELIZABETH M., born June 21, 1825, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Morgan Mace, and live near Ironton, Mo.
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HARVEY M,, born Feb. 25, 1827, in Ky., died Oct. 22, 1859, unmarried, in Springfield.
BENGAMIN N., born Oct. 26, 1829, in Kentucky, died, unmarried, in Spring- field, Sept. 5, 1857.
EUCLID F., born Sept. 27, 1830, in Kentucky, died, unmarried, near Spring- field, Feb. 22, 1848.
THOMAS L., born Sept. 28, 1832, in Kentucky, died, unmarried, at the house of his brother, Harrison D., Aug. 16, IS66.
CLIFTON B., born Jan. 15, 1835, in Sangamon county, died, unmarried, near Springfield, Feb. 21, 1857.
Mrs. Nancy Lyon died Dec. 5, 1845, and Henson Lyon died Sept. 29, 1867, both near Springfield.
LYON, TALBOTT, was horn in 1So5, in Shelby county, Ky. He came to the house of his uncle, Henson Lyon, in Sangamon county, in 1834. He married Elizabeth Fullinwider; had six children, and she died; and he married Eliza Cor- rell, had four children, and he died Sept., IS45. His children are all dead, and his widow married, and lives in Atchison, Kansas.
LYON, ELIZABETH, sister to Talbott, born Dec. 21, 1823, in Shelby county, Ky., came to Sangamon county in IS40, married George T. Hickman. See his name.
LYNN, JAMES, was horn Feb. . 2.4, 1788, in Rowan county, N. C. In I Sog he went to Muhlenberg county, Ky., and when the war between the United States and England commenced, in 1812, he enlisted in a regiment at Russelville, Ky., and served eighteen months. He was severely wounded by a gunshot in Canada. After leaving the army he re-
turned to Muhlenberg county, Ky. Sarah DePoyster was born April 29, 1795, in Iredell county, N. C. When she was a child her parents moved to Butler county, Ky. James Lynn and Sarah De- Poyster were married Nov. 27, 1814, in Butler county, and at once visited his pa- rents in North Carolina, remaining one year, and in the fall of 1815 moved to Barren county, Ky., where they had four children, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in the fall of 1825; at the north end of Buffalo Hart Grove. Mrs. Lynn says that the country looked so
new and wild, it required three days to look around and consult before they could decide to unload their wagons. Her husband would willingly have gone back, but she would not consent to it. Indians were very numerous, but never did them any harm. They had four children in Sangamon county. Of their eight children --
MARY ANN, born Nov. 7, 1816, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Feb. 28, 1840, to Garrett Laughlin. They had eight children. JAMES H., born Dec. 6, 1842, and JOHN W., born Nov. 1, 1845, are unmarried, and reside with their parents. SARAH J., born April 9, IS48, married April 9, 1870, to Alexander McMurray, whs was born in 1843, in county Donegal, Ireland. She died Sept. 29, 1873. ISABEL, born March 14, 1850, married Jan. 13, 1869, to Samuel Remines, have two children, MINNIE and MARY. WILSON D., GEORGE P., GAR- RET F. and EMMA C .- the four latter live with their parents, half a mile south- west of Cornland, in Sangamon county.
R. PERRY, born July 20, 1819, in Barren county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, married May, 1865, at Sedalia, Mo., to Emily Dickson, a native of Ar- kansas. They had three children; two died in infancy. CATHARINE lives with her parents at the homestead settled by his father in 1825, near Buffalo Hart Station, Sangamon county, Illinois.
CALYOU GANE, born Feh. 2, 1822, in Kentucky, married March, 186S, in Sangamon county, to William Beck. They live in Vernon county, Mo., near Appleton, Kansas.
JOHN W., born May 24, 1824, in Barren county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, married Aug. 5, 1858, to Sarah Matthews, at Decatur, although they both lived at the time in Sangamon county. She was born Sept. 14, IS35, in Cler- mont county, Ohio. They had eight children; two died in infancy. LUE BELLE died March 23, IS71, in her twelfth year. The other five, ALICE A., SARAH F., CLARA D., MARY E. and ADA MARIA live with their pa- rents, two and a half miles east of Buffalo Hart Station, Sangamon county, Illi- nois.
MARTHA, born Dec. 29, 1826, in Sangamon county, died Sept. 25, IS30.
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SUSAN, born Feb. 2, 1829, in San- gamon county, married Feb., 1851, to Lewis Dyer. They have five children, and live in Vernon county, Mo., near Appleton, Kansas.
SARAH F., born May 4, 1834, in Sangamon county, married Sept., 1857, to Monroe Lynn, have one child, LAURA, and live at Niantic, Illinois.
MARIA K., born Sept. 22, IS36, married Feb., 1867, to John G. Lynn, and died June 11, 1870, in Missouri.
James Lynn died March 11, 1860. He carried the musket ball received in 1814, in Canada, in his flesh to the grave. His widow resides-1874-with her son, R. Perry Lynn, on the farm where herself and husband settled in 1825. It is half a mile northeast of Buffalo Hart Station.
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MALLORY, VALENTINE R., was born Dec. 16, 1798, near Paris, Bourbon county, Ky. He was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was at the battle of the river Thames. Nancy Dawson was born Sept. 20, 1So2, in Fairfax coun- ty, Va., and in 1S04 was taken by her pa- rents to Bracken county, Ky. V. R. Mallory and Nancy Dawson were there married, June 28, 1821. They had three children, and in March, IS27, united with the Baptist church. They moved, in company with her brother, John Dawson (see his name) to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving Oct. 22, 1827, in what is now Clear Lake township, where they had six children. Of all their child- ren-
WILLIAM A., was born Oct. 25, IS22, in Bracken county, Ky. At nine- teen years of age he commenced teaching school, and reading medicine, first under Dr. John Todd, of Springfield, then at Laporte, Ind. His first practice was at Beloit, Wisconsin, one year. He spent some time at Louisville Medical College, in 1846, and Cincinnati Eclectic Medical College, in 1847, and located at Fort Mad- ison, Iowa, in 1848. He was married at Denmark, five miles from Fort Madison, Lee county, Iowa, June 6, 1848, to Susan A. Johnson, who was born Feb. 21, 1824, at Bedford, Penn., of Scotch parents. Dr. Mallory and his wife had one child
in Iowa, and returned to Illinois. He commenced practice, in Springfield, Dec. 21, 1849. In Aug., IS52, he commenced publishing the Christian Sentinel. It was sold to Eureka College, in February, 1856. March 20, 1856, he went into the employ of the Illinois State Christian As- sociation, preaching and teaching at Pitts- field and Rushville, and then to the churches in Sangamon and Menard coun- ties, until the beginning of the rebellion, when he resumed the practice of medi- cine in Clear Lake township. In June, 1862, he was commissioned, by Governor Yates, as a recruiting officer, which cul- minated in the organization of the 114th Ill, Inf. Dr. Mallory became Captain of Co. C, at the organization of the regi- ment. He served until Sept. 11, 1863, when he resigned on account of ill health. On recovering, he resumed practice, preaching and Sunday school work, at Howlett, now Riverton. Dr. Mallory and his wife had two children in Sanga- mon county. Of their three children- ROLLIN V., born March 26, 1849, at West Point, Lee county, Iowa, married in Sangamon county, Sept., 1872, to Mi- randa Cantrall. They have one child, WILLIAM C., and live at Cantrall, Sanga- mon county. ALEXANDER J., born Apr. 28, 1857, and INA SUE, born March 16, 1863, reside with their parents, near Riverton, and within half a mile of where his parents settled, in 1827.
JOHN T., born April 27, 1825, in Bracken county, Ky., married in Sanga- mon county, April, IS47, to Elizabeth Myers. They had two children-CLA- RENCE A. married Mary Strode, and reside in Fancy Creek township. HERP L. is unmarried, and resides in Abilene, Kansas-1874. Mrs. Elizabeth Mallory died in Macon county. J. T. Mallory married Mrs. Ellen Simpson, whose maiden name was Holden. They have seven children, and live near Ottawa, Franklin county, Kansas.
ELIZABETH, born May 28, 1827, in Bracken county, Ky., married in San- gamon county, Jan. S, 1857, to John C. Anderson, who was born Dec. 2, 1833, near Bloomington, Ind. They had three children, ELIJAH H., CLARA M. and JOHN C. Mr. Anderson died Dec. 6, 1860, near Williamsville. His widow and child- ren reside with her mother, near Riverton.
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REUBEN, born Sept. 7, 1829, in Sangamon county, married, April, 1854, to Mary J. Nesbitt. They have seven children, and reside near Buffalo, Wilson county, Kansas.
EGBERT O., born Dec. 21, 1831, in Sangamon county, married, August, 1858, to Nancy A. Cantrall. They have five children. E. O. Mallory enlisted July, 1862, in Co. I, 114th Ill. Inf., for three years. He was elected Lieutenant at the organization of the company, promoted to Captain, in 1863; served as such to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably mustered out, at Springfield, in 1865. He moved to Knox county, Mo., and was elected Judge of the County Court of that county, and now resides near Greens- burg, Missouri.
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