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MARY T., born Sept. 13, 1806, in Danville, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Sept. 10, 1826, to Robert With- row. See his name.
SAMUEL, born in 1808 in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Margaret Pulliam. They had five children, and she died, in Iowa, leaving her children there.
JOHN N., born in 1810 in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Emily Waldrup. They had seven children. The living members of the family reside near Butler, Montgomery county, Illi- nois.
MAHALA D., born in 1813 in Ken- tucky, married in Sangamon county to George Moffatt. They had five children, and Mr. Moffatt died. She, with some of her children, live in Glasgow, Iowa.
THERZA or (THERESA), born in 1815 in Kentucky, married in Sanga- mon county to Brinsley Ball. They had eight children, and Mr. Ball went to California and died there. Mrs. Ball
and some of their children live near Galena, JoDaviess county, Illinois.
JAMES M., born in 1819 in Sanga- mon county, and married Milly A. Peter. They have four children, and live near Mattoon, Moultrie county, Illinois.
Mrs. Nancy Peter died, and Zachariah Peter married Mrs. Margaret Kelly, widow of John Kelly. See his name. They had one child-
PETER CARTWRIGHT, born in Sangamon county. He was a soldier from Sangamon county in the war with Mexico, in IS16 and '7. He went to Washington Territory, where he was married; went from there to California, and was killed by Indians, leaving a wid- ow and one child in California.
Mrs. Margaret Peter died, and Zacha- riah Peter married Mrs. Elizabeth Thomas, whose maiden name was Keyes. She died, and he married Eliza Gordan.
Zachariah Peter died Aug. 5, 1864, in Springfield, and was buried in Hutchin- son cemetery. His widow went to Cali- fornia.
Mr. Peter was one of the three com- missioners appointed to organize Sanga- mon county, and locate the tempory county seat. It was he and William Drennan who wrote their initials on the stake driven in the ground, and marked it Z., P. & D. That was the way the county seat was located, April 10, 1821, and called Springfield. See page 32.
PETTÚS, THOMAS P., was born March 31, 1790, in Nicholas county, Ky. He was married there, in 1830, to Mrs. Matilda W. Todd, whose maiden name was Bryan, a daughter of George Bryan. See his name. Mr. and Mrs. Pettus had two children, came to Sanga- mon county, in 1834, and settled in what is now Woodside township. Of their children-
AMANDA H., born June 24, 1832, in Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sanga- mon county to Shaw Pease. See his name.
MORGAN B., born Oct. 2, 1834, in Frankfort, Ky., married in Sangamon county, April 14, 1858, to Abigail Me- gredy. They have three living children, namely-FRANCES O., M. MALIN- DA and CHARLES ARCHIBALD. LAURA, the third child, died May 11, 1871, aged four years. Mr. Pettus, in
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IS66, moved from Sangamon county to Lincoln, Logan county, Illinois, where he now resides, and is engaged as contractor and builder.
Thomas P. Pettus died April 2, 1852, near Woodside, Sangamon county, and Mrs. Melinda W. Pettus died, Nov. 22, 1872, at the residence of her son, Morgan B. Pettus, in Lincoln, Logan county, Illi- nois.
PHELPS, ADNA, Sen., was born April 30, 1792, at Hebron, Grafton county, N. H. He was there married to Mary Colburn. They had eight children, all born in New Hampshire, three of whom died in infancy. Some of their children came to Sangamon county be- fore 1840. The parents did not come un- til July 23, 1844, when they arrived at Loami. Of their five children-
GONATHAN, born June, 1814, mar- ried in Massachusetts to Mrs. Nancy Pease, whose maiden name was Turrell. He was a Universalist preacher. He died Oct. S, 1862, at Loami. His widow re- sides with her daughter by her first hus- band, Mrs. D. S. Lombard, in Spring- field.
DAVID, born Dec., 1815, at Hebron, N. H., came to Loami in 1836 or '7, mar- ried Dec. 16, 1838, to Mehetabel Colburn, who died March 7, 1842, and Mr. Phelps was married Jan. 28, 1843, to Fanny Col- burn. They had two children; one died in infancy. He went to California in 1849. Their daughter, ELMINA, mar- ried A. J. McDonald, and lives at Grass Valley, Nevada county, California. David Phelps was crushed while going through a mine, of which he was part owner, July 6, and died July S, 1866. His widow married George Hutchinson, and lives in California.
LAURA, married in Massachusetts to James Herrin, had one child, and died in New Hampshire.
ADNA, fun., born Dec. 28, 1832. at Hebron, N. H., married Nov. 16, 1856, at Loami, to Martha Meigs, who was born Nov. 14, 1840, at an Indian trading post in Iowa. They had eight children, CLAR- ENCE E. and SHERMAN, third and seventh, died in infancy. The other six, LILLIAN A., DAVID B., MATILDA M., LAURA E., VIOLA and DAISY M. live with their parents, three miles west of Springfield, Ill. Adna Phelps
enlisted Aug. 5, 1862, for three years, in Co. 1, 73d Ill. Inf., was appointed Order- ly Sergt., promoted, May 15, 1863, to 2d Lieut., promoted Nov. 22, 1863, to Ist Lieut., served until June 12,, 1865, when he was honorably discharged.
MANDANA, born August 12, 1835, at East Lebanon, N. H., married at Loami to Isaac Colburn. See his name.
Adna Phelps, Sen., died March 5, 1852, and his widow died Feb. 13, 1859-he in Springfield and she in Loami.
PHILLIPS, MRS. CHAR- LOTTE, whose maiden name was Smith, a sister to Jonas Smith and Mrs. Ebenezer Colburn. She was born Dec. IS, 1799, in Suffolk county, L. I., New York, married in 1816, at Marietta, Ohio, to Burfit Goldsmith, a native of Mary- land. They had four children, and Mr. G. died in 1837 at Cincinnati. The wid- ow was married in 1838 to Joel D. Phil- lips. They had one child, and father and child died in 1854, in Tipton county, Ind. All her children are dead except her son, W. H. O. Goldsmith. He was a member of the Ist U. S. Dragoons for five years, and served through the war to suppress the rebellion. He is married, and lives in Rush county, Ind. Mrs. Phillips re- sides with her brother, Jonas Smith, at Loami, Illinois.
PHILLIPS, FRANCIS, was born in 1785, in Maryland. He went to Green county, Ky., and was there mar- ried, in ISIo, to Mary Duggin, a native of Virginia. They had five children in Kentucky, one of whom died young. The family moved to Sangamon county, arriving in 1829, near Springfield. Of their children-
MOREAU, born May 26, 1811, in Green county, Ky., came with his parents to Sangamon county in IS29, and was in the Black Hawk war in a Sangamon county company in IS31. He returned to Kentucky, and was married in Green county, in 1836, to Melissa Lee, a native of that county, also. They had nine chil- dren in Sangamon county, two of whom died young. F. MORTIMER, born Nov. 7, 1837, married in 1861 to Mattie A. Troxell, a native of Maryland. They have two children, ALICE BELL and WIL- LIE, and reside in Springfield. THOM- AS J., born Dec. 3, 1839, died April, 1871. MOREAU J., born Feb. 16, 1843,
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and WILLIAM O., born in 1846, re- side in Springfield with their parents. CHARLES J., born in 1848, married, Oct. 1873, to Etta Snow, a native of Maine. They have two children, BER- THA and ETTA, and reside in Springfield. MARY, born Sept., 1853, died March, 1873. URIAH EDWIN, born June, 1851, and ROBERT EMMET, born Feb. 8, 1858, reside with their parents, in Springfield. Moreau Phillips was one of the ten young men who went to Nash- ville, Tenn., to hear Henry Clay make a political speach in IS40. Sce sketch with name of f. H. MMatheney.
JEFFERSON, born in 1813, in Green county, Ky., married in Spring- field, in 1836, to Elizabeth Dillman, a native of Ohio. They had four children, two of whom died young. WILLIAM A. and FRANCIS reside at Winona, Illinois. Jefferson Phillips died about 1845.
MIARY, born in 1815, in Green coun- ty, Ky., married in Springfield, in 1836, to Stephen G. Ubanks. They had two children-SUSANNAH, born in Peters- burg, married there to Theodore S. Rog- ers. They reside near Zanesville, Mont- gomery county, Ill. MARGARET G., born Oet. 2, 1839, married, Jan. 30, 1860, to Wm. H. Wickersham. They have five children, LILLIE B., NETTIE, MAUDE, OLIVER and CHARLES S. Mr. Wieker- sham was born March 7, 1836, in Ver- sailles, Ky., learned the business of print- ing in the State fournal office, went to California, in 1853, returned to Spring- field in 1859, enlisted, Aug., 1862, for three years, in Co. C, 124th Ill. Inf., served until the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged. He is now engaged in the fournal office. Mrs. Ubanks died in IS45.
WILLIAM, born in 1826, in Green county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, married about IS46, in Petersburg, Ill., to Margaret White. They had two children, FRANK and JEFFERSON, both liv- ing in Petersburg. William Phillips died in 1852, in Petersburg.
Mrs. Mary or Margaret? Phillips died in IS34, in Springfield. Francis Phillips went back to Kentucky, married a Mrs. Lambkin, came to Springfield on business, and was returning to Kentucky when he died on the road.
Francis Phillips was something of a genius. Farming and chair making was his main business, but he would do any kind of a job of painting, plain or orna- mental. A hotel sign painted by him for Archer G. Herndon, is remembered by some of the old men, who in their boy- hood days regarded it with an awe inspir- ing reverence that seems not to have left them to the present time. The name of the hotel was the "Indian Queen," and the sign was the painter's idea of that im- aginary personage.
PICKRELL, ABEL, was born March 14, 1782, in Loudon county, Va. His father died when he was quite young, and he was taken by his mother to Flem- ing county, Ky., about 1793. He went to Montgomery county, in the same State, when a young man, and was there married, in 1804, to Sarah Taylor, who was born Oct. 31, 1784, at a place called Red Stone Fort, Penn. Mr. Pickrell was a soldier in the war of 1812, and went from Montgomery county, Ky. They had six children in that county, and in the fall of ISIS, moved to Shelby county, in the same State, and from there moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of IS31, in what is now Wil- liams township. Of their children-
JESSE A., born June 13, 1805, in Montgomery county, Ky., came to San- gamon county, Illinois, arriving in the spring of 1828, being the first of the fiun- ily to come to the county, stopping in what is now Mechanicsburg township. He was married Dec. 18, 1828, in Sanga- mon county, to Elizabeth Churchill. They had ten living children in Sanga- mon county. WILLIAM O., born Feb. 27, 1830, in Sangamon county, married near Keokuk, Iowa, to Hannah Reed. They have seven children, IDA M., FAN- NIE H., JESSE, ELIZABETII, OLLIE and WALTER F., and reside near Ottawa, Kansas. ABEL GEORGE, born Feb. 19, 1832, in Sangamon county, enlisted July 20, 1861, in Co. C, 11th Mo. Inf., for three years, was commissioned Quar- termaster of the regular army, July 24, IS62, and mustered out August 15, 1864. He was married Dec. 27, 1864, in Jaek- sonville, Ill., to Emma II. Winn. Sec Branson family. They have three child- ren, CORILLA, ALICE and GERTRUDE, and reside one and a half miles south of Lanes-
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ville, or Wheatfield Postoffice, Sangamon county, Ill. MILLER H., born March 31, 1835, married in Sangamon county to Sophronia Fry. ANN M., born Sept. 14, 1840, married Sept. 25, 1866, to Henry H. Lee, who was born August 10, 1834, in Gallia county, Ohio, and died Aug. 10, IS67, in Sangamon county. She lives with her parents. MARY V., born Dec. 11, 1842, married Sept. 6, 1865, to Samuel T. Rogers. They have one child, ROBERT, and live at El Paso, Ill. AMANDA P., born August 31, IS44, married Walter F. Swift, Oct. 13, 1870. She died June 19, IS72, in Ottawa, Kansas. Mr. Swift married March 6, 1874, to Bertha Burk- hardt. Sec her name. JOHN C., born Oct. 27, 1846, enlisted July 26, 1864, for three years, in Co. B, 25th U. S. Inf .; served full time, a portion of it as Orderly on Gen. George H. Thomas' staff. He was honorably discharged July 26, 1867, and died at home, March 25, 1873. BEN- JAMIN F., born Dec. 10, 1848. M.
GERTRUDE, born Dec. 29, 1850, and SALLIE E., born March 6, 1855. The two latter live with their parents. Jesse A. Pickrell and family reside near Lanes- ville, or Wheatfield Postoffice, Sangamon county, Ill. He was among the earliest to introduce improved breeds of cattle, hogs and other stock into Sangamon county, and is one of the most extensive farmers and stock raisers in the county.
WILLIAM S., born March 28, 1807, in Montgomery county, Ky., came to Sangamon county in the fall of 1828, in company with his brother Jesse A., who had returned to Kentucky on a visit. W. S. Pickrell volunteered and served three terms in the Black Hawk war; one term in 1831 and two in 1832. He was Lieutenant, afterwards Major, and Lieu- tenant-Colonel of militia. He was mar- ried near Springfield, June 4, 1833, to Amanda P. Watson. See Watson fami- ly. They had ten living children. JAMES H., born March 20, 1834, in Sangamon county, was married Sept. 20, 1860, near Paris, Ky., to Margaret T. Bedford, who was born there, March 4, IS40. They had seven children; one died in infancy. AMANDA W., ANNA L., ELLEN II., HARVEY E., WILLIAM B. and JESSE G; the latter died August 5, 1876. The other five live their parents at Har- ristown, Macon county, Ill. ANNELI-
ZA, born August 20, 1839, was married Dec. 15, IS5S, to Harvey N. Edwards, who was born Nov. 9, 1824, in Madison county, N. Y. They reside in Spring- field, Ill. HATHAWAY, born Nov. 13, IS41, married Dr. George Pasfield. See his name. H. CLAY, born Jan. 27, 1844. LAURA, born Oct. 3, 1846. EMMA, born Jan. 11, 1849. WIL- LIAM, born Feb. 9, 1851, WATSON, born Oct. 4, 1853. ARTHUR, born Dec. 29, 1856. SCOTT, born Sept. 19, 1860. The last seven children reside at the homestead adjoining Mechanicsburg. William S. Pickrell died Feb. 4, 1870, and Mrs. Amanda P. Pickrell died Mar. 1, 1876, both on the farm where he set- tled in 1829. Wm. S. Pickrell entered the land on which Mechanicsburg now stands, laid out the original town, and made two additions afterwards. The first sale of lots took place Nov. 16, 1832. He was one of the most successful farm- ers and stock raisers of Sangamon county. His sons are all well trained to the same business.
OLIVER B., born Jan. 31, 18og, in Kentucky, died there Dee. S, 1829.
BENGAMIN F., born March 10, ISII, in Montgomery county, Ky., canie with his father to Sangamon county, and was married Oct. 5, 1834, to Mary A. ELKIN. They had three children. WILLIAM T., born March 6, 1836, was married in Ottawa, Kansas, to Virginia Whetstone. They have one child OTTOE K., and reside in Ottawa, Kansas. FRAN- CIS M., born Oct. 11, IS37, married near Williamsville, Ill., to Mary C. Poorman. They have two children, JOHN and PER- CY. ELIZA F., born Jan. 30, 1839, was married May, 1874, in Decatur, Ill., to John L. Routt, the present Governor of Colorado .- January, 1876. They reside in Denver, Colorado. B. F. Pickrell died August 28, 1838, in Sangamon county. His widow married Abner Riddle. Sec his name.
EVELINE, born April 1, '1813, in Montgomery county, Ky., married B. Logan Hall. See his namc.
DIARY A., born Oct. 11, 1815, in Montgomery county, Ky., married John Bice. Sce his name.
Mrs. Sarah Pickrell died April 9, 1861, and Abel Pickrell died Jan. 3, 1862, both
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PIERSON, MOSES, born June 7, 1802, in Warren county, near Lebanon, Ohio. Clarissa Morris was born June IS, ISOS, in the same county. They were married, Nov. 3, 1824, and had two living children there. They moved to Sanga- mon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1833, at Springfield, and a year or two later settled two and one-half miles north- east of Springfield. They came to the west hoping that Mrs. Pearson's health would be improved, but finding that it was not. They were returning to Ohio, and stopped at Paris, Ill., to visit some friends, when Mrs. Pierson suddenly died there, June 9, 1836. Mr. Pierson took his two children to their relatives in Ohio, and returned to Sangamon county, where he was married, Oct. IS, 1837, to Harriet Kilbourn, who was born Oct. IS, ISIS, near Chillicothe, Ohio. They had nine children in Sangamon county. Of all his children-
DAVID M., born Nov. 12, 1827, near Lebanon, Ohio, was married Dec. 27, 1865, in Sangamon county, to Celestia E. Wilson, who was born Sept. 5, 1839, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. They had two children. LAWRENCE L., the young- est, died in his second year. GILMAN M., born Oet. 9. 1866, resides with his parents, at his grandfather Wilson's, two miles northeast of Springfield.
SARAH LAVINIA, born April 4, 1831, near Lebanon, Ohio, was married in Sangamon county, June 27, 1867, to Rich- ard H. Beach. Sec his name.
Children of Moses Pierson by the see- ond marriage-
CLARISSA, born Aug. 27, 1838, in Sangamon county, married Lucius C. Francis. See his namc.
JOHN G., born Sept. 3, 1840, in Sangamon county, is unmarried, and re- sides at the family homestead, two and one-half miles northeast of Springfield.
GANE MMARY, born Sept. 30, 1842, resides at the family homestead.
THEODORE F., born June 7, 1844, enlisted Aug. 5, 1862, for three years, in Co. G, 114th Ill. Inf. He was taken pris- oner June, 1864, at the battle of Gun- town, Miss., spent four months in Ander- sonville prison, and taken from there to Savannah Ga., and parolled. On being
exchanged he returned to duty, at Benton Barracks, St. Louis, where he was honor- ably discharged, July 27, 1865. He was married at jacksonville, Ill., Sept. 15, 1874, to Josephine E. Morrison, who was born Nov., 1847, near Naples, Scott county, Ill. They reside four miles north of Illiopolis, Sangamon county, Illinois.
FRANK, born Sept. 25, 1846, resides four miles north of Illiopolis, Illinois.
JOSEPH, born March 22, IS48;
EDWARD, horn May 13, IS49;
GESSIE A., born Jan. 6, 1854, and
HARRIET, born Feb. 27, 1857, re- side at the family homestead, near Spring- field, Illinois.
Mrs. Harriet Pierson died Feb. IS, 1858, and Moses Pierson died Dec. 20, 1860, both on the farm where he settled in 1834 or '5, two and a half miles north- east of Springfield, Illinois.
PIKE, JOHN, was born in Vir- ginia, and when a young man went to Bourbon county, Ky., where he was mar- ried to Mary Moon. They had three children in Bourbon county. In the spring of 1828 Mr. Pike started, with his household goods loaded on a wagon made entirely of wood, each wheel being hewn from a solid piece of timber. It was drawn by a yoke of oxen, with one horse in the lead. The wagon was many times taken to pieces and formed into a raft to float the wife, children, and household goods across the unbridged streams. They traveled in that way until they reached Jacksonville. Ill. He was not satisfied with the country, and started back to Kentucky. On reaching White river, Ind., they halted, and again started for Illinois. Late in the fall of 1829 they stopped near the South Fork timber, about three miles south of the present town of Rochester. The weather being too cold to travel, and it was too late in the season to build, the family spent that winter in the tent they had used all sum- mer. In the spring of 1830 Mr. Pike had twenty aeres under cultivation. He also built a log cabin in the edge of the prairie, and lined it with elap boards. The next winter being the time of the "deep snow," when it fell the wind drift- ed it around the house until it was almost covered, thus making it very warm. Mr. Pike made rails at twenty-five cents per hundred, until he earned one hundred
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dollars, with which he entered his first eighty acres of land. That required the making of forty thousand rails. Mr. and Mrs. Pike had three children in Sanga- mon county. Of their six children-
MILTON, born in Bourbon county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, June 12, 1845, to Martha J. Porterfield. They had three children, and Mrs. Pike died March 25, 1855. He was married July 29, 1857, to Elizabeth M. Brownell. They have eight children, and reside in Auburn, Sangamon county, Illinois.
GEORGE H., born in Kentucky, lived with the family in Sangamon coun- ty until he was twenty-one years old. He was married in Bureau county, but if liv- ing, his residence is not known.
THOMAS, born in Kentucky, mar- ried in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Baker, and had two children. He mar- ried Mrs. Sarah J. Breckenridge, whose maiden name was Mathews, and lives near Edinburg, Illinois.
ELMIRA f., born in Sangamon county, married Isaac Baker, who died, leaving one child, and she married Samuel Woodrow, has two children, and lives at the place where her parents settled in IS29, three miles south of Rochester, Illi- nois.
LUCINDA, born Nov. 29, 1833, in Sangamon county, married John F. Jones. They had one child, CHARLES T., who married Missouri Reavis, and lives at Campbellsburg, Ill. J. F. Jones died, and his widow married Edward George. See his name.
WILLIAM, born in Sangamon coun- ty, married Alvira White, and lives in Kansas.
John Pike died in 1833 or '4, in Sanga- mon county. His widow married in 1836 to James Martin. They had one child ---
NANCY, who married Jefferson Smith, and lives two and a half miles south of Dawson, Sangamon county, Illi- nois.
Mrs. Mary Martin died in 1858.
PIPPIN, JOSEPH, was born April 2, 1782, in Cecil county, Md., and taken by his parents to Russell county, Va. He was there married, Dec. 12, 1812, to Sarah Haines, sister to Christo- pher Haines. See his name. She was born in Russell county, June 5, 1785. In
August, 1813, they moved to Allen coun- ty, Ky., where they had ten children, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Nov. 10, IS30, in what is now Cotton Hill township, where one child was born. Of their children-
MARGARET, married to John Ash- ford, and died, leaving a family in Ken- tucky.
TELITHA, born Sept. 29, 1815, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to James A. Snodgrass. See his name. MARY, born in Kentucky, and died in Sangamon county, aged twenty years.
CHRISTOPHER, born Oct. 12, IS19, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, Feb. 14, 1848.
MARTHA A., born April 11, 1821, and
JOHN L., born March 10, 1823, in Kentucky, both live with their mother.
WILLIAM died under five years.
JESSE, born Feb. 11, 1827, in Allen county, Ky., married in Sangamon coun- ty, June 25, 1862, to Isabel Craig. She was born August 28, 1840, in Glasgow, Scotland. They had five children; two died under six years. MARY E., JOHN A. and Burgess R. live with their parents, near New City, Sangamon county, Illi- nois.
CATHARINE, born Feb. 14, IS29, married Jackson Ryan. She died Jan. 7, IS49 ..
NANCY A., born Feb. 11, 1830, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to John Benjamin.
MELINDA f., born March 5, 1833, in Sangamon county, married John Allen, and she died Sept. 2, IS65.
Joseph Pippin died August 10, 1873, in his ninety-second year. His widow lives in Cotton Hill township, near where they settled in '1830. Their married life ex- tended over more than sixty years.
PIRKINS, EDWARD, was born March 15, 1791, on the river Yad- kin, Wilkes county, North Carolina. His parents moved, when he was quite young, to Adair county, . Ky. He was married Aug. 20, 1812, in Campbell county, Tenn., to Anna Pierce, who was born March 28, 1796, in Blount county, Tenn. They made their home in Camp- bell county, Tenn., until they had four children, and they moved in company with the family of his father-in-law, Rob-
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ert Pierce, to Madison county, Ill., arriv- ing in the fall of 1819. The next spring the two families moved to Sangamon county, arriving in April, 1820, on Rich- land creek, in what is now Cartwright township, where seven children were born. Of their eleven children-
POLLY, born June 25, 1813, in Campbell county, Tenn., married Tave- ner B. Anderson. See his name.
LEAH, born March 29, 1815, in Campbell county, Tenn., married in San- gamon county, Dec. 16, 1841, to James W. Beekman, who was born Dec. 9, 1816, in Somerset county, N. J. They had five children, all born in Sangamon county. MARY E., born Dec. 7, 1842, died Feb. 4, 1847. CORNELIUS T., born Oct. 16, 1846, died Nov. 11, 1867. JANE E. and SARAH L., twins, born Mar. 26, 1850. JANE E. married, Sept. 18, 1872, to Thomas C. Richardson, had one child, MARY L., who died in infancy. They reside with Mrs. Richardson's father. SARAH L. married, Oct. 12, 1871, to Winfield S. Caldwell, and reside in Menard county, five miles north of Pleasant Plains. WILLIAM E., mar- ried Jan. 1, 1874, to Julia S. Harrison. She died, leaving one child, EDWARD J. Mr. Beekman resides with his father. Mrs. Leah Beekman died, Feb. 21, IS73. James W. Beekman resides three and one-half miles northeast of Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illi- nois.
ELIZA, born Dec. 25, 1816, in Camp- bell county, Tenn., married in Sangamon county to Edmund Crafton. They had nine children, and Mrs. Crafton died, in 1869, in Springfield.
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