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WILLIAM H., born Feb. 19, 1829. He was killed, in his twenty-fifth year, by the accidental discharge of a gun.
FRANCIS M., born June 28, 1831, married Lucretia J. Trask, had three chil- dren, and she died, and he married Mrs. Lucinda Coleman, whose maiden name was Walton. They had seven children, and live in Missouri.
CORNELIUS . C., born Oct. 26, 1833, married, Nov. 22, 1855, to Martha E. Irwin, born Feb. 27, 1837. They had seven children, AZRO A., CHARLES R., CHURCHILL G., LOLA J., LEW- IS C., MARY E. and WILLIAM H., and live near Loami, Illinois. Elder C. C. Purvines is pastor of Liberty Baptist church .- 1874.
JAMES A., born July 23, 1835, mar- ried Margaret S. Purvines. He died, leaving two children. His widow married David Crezy, and lives in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
ALEXANDER F., born June 11, 1839, in Sangamon county, married, May 7, 1868, to Margaret S. Duncan, and have one child, GILBERT C. Dr. A. F. Purvines is a practicing physician, at Sal- isbury, Sangamon county, Illinois.
HOSHUA C., born June 9, IS42.
MARCIA A., born Jan. 11, 1846, married, Sept. 18, 1864, to John W. Foley. See his namc.
John G. Purvines died Jan. 1, 1863, in Sangamon county, on the fortieth anni- versary of his marriage, and his widow lives with her son-in-law Foley, at Pleas- ant Plains, Illinois .- 1874.
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PURVINES, ELIZABETH, born in Cabarras county, North Carolina, married John H. Plunkett. See his name.
PURVINES, MATILDA, born in North Carolina, married Samuel Irwin. Sce his name. She died in North Carolina.
PURVINES, MARGARET, born in North Carolina, married William Irwin. See his name.
PURVINES, JAMES, born about 1798, in Cabarras county, N. C., came to Sangamon county when a young man, married in Morgan county to Mary Cox, had eight children, moved to Bona- parte, Iowa, and died there.
PURVINES. SAMUEL, was born Aug. 1, ISO1, in Cabarras county, N. C., came to Sangamon county, when a young man, and was married to Mary Irwin, daughter of Samuel L. Irwin. Sce his name. They had eight children in Sangamon county-
TABITHA FANE, born Dec. IS, IS27, married Robert F. Hamilton. Sec his name.
LYDIA A., born Jan. 16, 1831, mar- ried, March, 1854, to John C. Bone. They had one child, MARY E., who married in Springfield, July, 1875, to Thomas Long, a native of Morgan coun- ty. They live in Chicago. Mrs. Lydia A. Bone died Ang., IS62.
ACHILLES NEWTON, born Dec. 1, 1832, in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug. S, 1862, for three years, in Co. F, 114th Ill. Inf., was appointed Orderly Sergt., Oet. 1, 1863, was wounded in the left ankle, at the battle of Guntown, Miss., June 10, 1864, but escaped capture, served to the end of the rebellion, and was honorably discharged, Aug. 3, 1865. He is unmarried-1873-and lives near Pleasant Plains, Illinois.
ELIZABETH M., born July 23, IS34, married, Feb. IS, 1861, to Thomas E. White, who was born June 13, 1832, in Bond county, Illinois. They have two children, LOLA A. and ROBERT E., and rèside near Pleasant Plains, Sanga- mon county, Illinois.
NANCY F., born Dec. 6, 1836, in Sangamon county, married, Feb. 4, 1864, to John C. Bone. They had four child- ren-JOHN C., Jun., died young. CHARLES R., CARRIE A. and OR-
LENA S. live with their parents. John C. Bone was born Sept. 7, 1817, in Ruth- erford county, Tenn., brought by his father to Sangamon county, who after a short stay moved to Rock creek, Menard county. J. C. Bone has been married four times: first to Catherine S. Foster, who died March 25, 1841. See Constan- tine Foster. Second, Elizabeth J. Pur- vines, who died August, 1852. Sec Alex- ander C. Purvines. Third, Lydia Ann Purvines, who died August, 1862. See Samuel Purvines. Fourth, Nancy F. Purvines, his present wife. John C. Bone has been a stoek raiser and dealer all his life, in Sangamon and Menard counties. He moved to Chicago, in October, IS72, and is now-1876-in the live stock com- mission business, at the Union Stock Yards.
JOHN F., born April 6, 1839, in Sangamon county, married Francis J. Pirkins. They have two children, HAT- TIE B. and JESSIE E., and live in Cartwright township, near Richland sta- tion, Sangamon county, Illinois .- 1873.
RACHEL M., born Aug. 25, 1840, married James S. Zane. See his name.
SAMUEL S., born Feb. 26, 1844, is unmarried-1873-and lives near Pleasant Plains, Illinois.
Samuel Purvines died Sept. 26, 1852, and in less than one month-Oct. 20, IS52-his widow died; both near Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, Illinois.
PURVINES, NANCY, born in North Carolina, married in Sangamon county to Peter Shepherd, and lives near Quincy, Adams county, Illinois.
PURVINES, ELIZA, born in North Carolina, married in Sangamon county to Peter Lanterman. Sce his name.
PURVINES, JAMES S., was born Dec. 18, 1805, in Cabarras county, North Carolina. He was a cousin to David S., Alexander C., John G., etc., and came with some of his relatives to Sangamon county in 1820 or '21. After remaining six years he returned to North Carolina, visited some of his brothers and sisters in Georgia, and at the end of one year came back to Sangamon county. James S. Purvines was married in the fall of IS29 to Mary Ann Hughes, of Morgan county, Ill. They had eight children, namely-
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GEORGE C., died, aged [twenty years.
JOHN G. was drowned at nine years of age.
WILLIAM B. married Mrs. Mary Benner, whose maiden name was Fore- man. They have one child, and live in Menard county, three miles northwest . of Salisbury, Illinois.
FRANCIS M. married Permelia Wetherby, have one child, CARRIE, and live in Menard county, three and a half miles northwest of Salisbury, Sanga- mon county, Illinois.
MARGARET S. married James A. Purvines. See his name. He died, and she married David Crezy, has two child- ren, and lives in Nebraska City, Neh.
ELVIRA married Alexander Carper, and lives near Nebraska City, Neb.
MARTHA G. married Isaac N. Ball, has three children, BENJAMIN, MA- MIE and JAMES, and live in Menard county, three and a half miles northwest of Salisbury, Illinois.
ELIZABETH R. married George Anderson, and died.
Mrs. Mary A. Purvines died in 1849, and James S. Purvines married Martha Donovan, who died, in 1872, and he was married to Mrs. Harriet M. Harris, whose maiden name was Barzel, a native of Upper Canada. They reside in Menard county, three and a half miles northwest of Salisbury, Sangamon county, Illinois. -1873.
PURSELL, WILLIAM, was born Jan. 23, 1820, at White Park, near Belfast, Ireland. His parents emigrated to Bytown, now Ottawa City, Canada, in IS24. His mother died there, and he was taken to raise by Heraldus Eastabrook, of Vermont. He was brought by Mr. Eas- tabrook to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving at Old Sangamo, Oct. 25, 1833. William Pursell was married, Jan. 1, 1846, to Eli- zabeth Van Patten. They had thirteen children-
ROBERT H. died March 1, 1860, in his fourteenth year.
MARY A. died Jan. 16, 1860, in her twelfth year.
ALBERT H. died Nov. 1, 1871, in his twenty-second year.
JENNIE ADA died Dec. 28, 1859, in her second year.
JOHN C. died Dec. 4, 1871, aged ten years.
The other eight children-
CARRIE L., LAURA E., ALICE B., CHARLES W., HATTIE L., ROBERT R., FANNIE E. and JESSIE T. live with their parents, three and three-quarters miles southwest of Farmingdale, Sangamon county, Illi- nois.
Mr. Pursell was present at the organi- zation of the Sunday school in connection with Farmington Presbyterian church, in Dec., 1833. For forty years-until 1873- his connection with the school, as pupil, librarian, teacher and superintendent, con- tinued unbroken. He is one of the sub- stantial farmers of Sangamon county.
PYLE, NICHOLAS. The fam- ily came from England, and he was mar- ried in South Carolina, during the Amer- ican Revolution, to Ann Black, a sister of Thomas Black. Sce his name. Some of their children were born in South Caro- lina, and the family moved on pack horses to Christian county, Ky., where more children were born, making a total of fourteen sons and five daughters, some of whom married in Kentucky. The par- ents and part of the children moved to St. Clair county, Ill., where some of the children married. The aged couple, with their two youngest sons, came to Sangamon county in 1825, and settled about three miles east of Auburn. Of the two sons --
THOMPSON, born about 1804, in Christian county, Ky., married in Sanga- mon county, in 1828, to Margaret Mof- fitt. They had nine living children. MATILDA, born Jan. 26, 1829, died Jan. 4, 1845. WM. ALFRED, born Nov. 13, 1830, is unmarried, and lives with his mother. SARAH ANN, born April 10, 1832, married Solomon Taylor,
has five children, and resides in Macoup- in county, near Zanesville, Montgomery county, Ill. ELIZABETH J., born Jan. 26, 1834, married Samuel H. Meteer, have three children, and live near May Post- office, Martin county, Minn. GEORGE M. born April 22, 1837, married Susan Bridges, have three children, and live near Elgin, Howard county, Kansas. LAWSON, born July 7, 1842, married August 17, 1869, to Mary E. Shepherd, have one child, MILDRED, and live six
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miles south of Springfield, Ill. RE- BECCA, born July 6, 1844, married George Bridges. See his name. EL- LEN S., born Sept. 7, 1846, married Sept. 4, 1867, to George D. Crane, and live near Woodside, Illinois. EVE- LINE, born April 20, 1849, lives with her mother. Thompson Pyle died Dec. 19, 1870, and his widow resides near where they settled in 1828, six miles south of Springfield, Sangamon county, Illinois.
ALFRED, born Oct. 12, 1806, in Christian county, Ky., .and was the youngest of nineteen children. He was brought by his parents to Sangamon county in 1825, married in St. Clair county to Melinda Padfield. They had eight children, three died young. DAVID, born March S, IS38, married Harriet A. Scott, have three children, IDA C., ROBERT E. and DAVID H., and live eight miles south of Springfield, Ill. ARMINDA, born Oct. 13, 1839, married Thomas B. Shepherd. See his name. WILLIAM married Jennie Jackson, and both died. ANN married John H. Shepherd. See his name. LOUISA R. married John W. Nuckolls. See his name. Mrs. Melinda Pyle died Sept. 19 1849, and Alfred Pyle died March 3, 1852, both in St. Clair county, although they had spent the greater part of their lives in Sanga- mon county.
Nicholas Pyle died in 1829, in Sanga- mon county, and his widow died at the house of their son, Alfred, in St. Clair county, Illinois.
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RALSTON, WILLIAM, born in 1759, in Virginia, was a Revolutionary soldier, enlisting near the close of the war. He was then quite young for a sol- dier, but was at the siege and capture of Yorktown, and was present when Lord Cornwallis surrendered to Gen. Washing- ton. He was married in Virginia to Nancy McClure, and soon after moved to the vicinity of Crab Orchard, Kentucky, and later to the vicinity of Mt. Sterling, Montgomery county, in the same State. They had twelve children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, arriving in IS28, on Spring creek, accom-
panied by five of his children, and the sixth came a year or two later. The others remained in Kentucky. Of the six who came to Sangamon county-
WILLIAM, Fun., born May 20, 1796, in Montgomery county, Ky., was married there to Frances J. Massie, Sept. 13, IS25. They had one child that died in Kentucky, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Illinois, in 1828, set- tling on Spring creek in 1829, where seven children were born. MARY E. married Thomas Hessey, and died, leaving six children, who live with their father in Gardner township, Sangamon county, Illinois. EMILY M., born Dec. 30, 1831, was married, Nov. 24, 1850, to Jacob J. Brown. See his name. WIL- LIAM T. died May 26, 1858, in his twenty-fifth year. JOHN H. died June 9, 1861, in his twenty-sixth year. NAN- CY A., born Dec. 23, 1837, was married, Oct. 12, 1858, to Daniel Taylor. See his name. JAMES H., born Aug. 27, 1840, lives with his mother one and three-quar- ter miles south of Farmingdale, Sanga- mon county, Illinois. CHARLES F., born April 10, 1844, was married Dec. 3, 1867, in Sangamon county, to Clara A. Conklin, and live at Colorado Springs, Colorado. William Ralston, Jun., died Oct. 17, 1851, in Sangamon county, Ill., and his widow resides now-1873-on the farm where they settled in 1829, one and three-quarter miles south of Farming- dale, Sangamon county, Illinois. She has been a member of the Baptist church nearly half a century.
JOSIAH, born in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county to Roxana Smith. They have eight children, and live in Hancock county, Illinois.
NATHANIEL, born in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county to Clemantine Kelly. They moved to Mis- souri, but returned during the rebellion to Sangamon county, where he died .. His widow and eight children live near Car- thage, Jasper county, Missouri.
· ELLEN, born in Kentucky, was mar- ried in Sangamon county, Illinois, to James Douglas. See his name.
SAMUEL, born in Kentucky, was married there to Nancy Ellis. They had two children in Kentucky, and came to Sangamon county in 1835. One child was born in Sangamon county, and one
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in Petersburg, Menard county, Illinois. Samuel Ralston and family reside in Washington, D. C.
JOSEPH, born Sept. 10, 1813, in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county, Ill., Nov. 13, 1833, to Mrs. Susan Earnest, whose maiden name was Ken- dall. They had two living children- MARGARET J. married David Vulga- mott, and have six children. They live in Fairfield, Jefferson county, Iowa. JOSEPH H., born Dec. 21, 1838, in San- gamon county, studied medicine in Spring- field, Illinois. was married, Sept., 1865, at Placerville, Idaho Territory, to Lida Keck. They have two children, HENRY H. and EMIL. Dr. Ralston and family re- side at Bentonsport, Van Buren county, lowa. Joseph Ralston died July 31, 1839, in Sangamon county, and his widow married James E. Reed. See his name.
William Ralston, Sen., died July, 1835, and his widow died eight or nine years later, both in Sangamon county, Illi- nois.
RAMES, NATHANIEL, was born April 19, 1806, in Tennessee. Sarah Ogden was born Oet. 18, 1806, in Logan county, Kentucky. They were married March 8, 1829, in St. Louis, Mo., had one child there, and moved to Spring- field, Ill., arriving April 16, 1830, where they had two children. Of their three children-
MARTHA T., born Dec. 17, 1829, in St. Louis, died in Springfield in her seventh year.
JOHN O., born August 20, 1831, in Springfield, married Oet. 7, 1852, to Mary J. Connelly, who died in 1854. Mr. Rames was married April 14, 1859, in St. Louis county, Mo., to Mary E. Redman, who was born there, June 14, 1839. They had six children in Spring- field; two died young. MATTIE M., CORA B., MARY J. and JOHN O., Jun., live with their parents. J. O. Rames was a member of the city council three years, and has been a member of the School Board since 1870, with the exception of two years. He has been engaged in harness making | for sev- enteen years, and resides in Spring- field, Illinois.
WILLIAM N., born May 22, 1834, in Springfield, died March, 1853.
Nathaniel Rames died Feb. 29, 1836, in Springfield, and his widow lives with her son, John O., in Springfield .- 1876.
RANDALL, THOMAS E., was born in 1785, in Virginia, was taken to Crab Orchard, Ky., when a child. He was married and had three children in Fleming county, Ky., and moved from there to Sangamon county, Ill., in 1827. His son-
MARSHAL S., born Jan. 26, 1813, in Fleming county, Ky., married in San- gamon county, in 1837, to Deborah Can- trall. They had twelve children. Their daughter, MARY J., married William G. Cantrall. See his name. Marshal S. Randall and family reside near Blue Mound Station, Christian county, Illinois.
RANSOM, JOHN G., was born April 27, 18OS, at Chazy, Clinton county, N. Y .. and was there married, Sept 30, 1830, to Lucy M. Gregory. They moved to Springfield, Ill., arriving June 6, 1835. Mr. Ransom commenced work as a jour- neyman wagon and carriage maker, and in a short time established the business on his own account. He made, as he be- lieves, the first buggy ever put up in Springfield. In 1838 Mr. Ransom moved to Chatham, which had just been laid out, and he was among the first to erect permanent buildings in the town. He engaged in carriage and wagon making there. In 1840 he moved to Whitehall, Ill., and back to Chatham in 1842. In 1845 he moved to Galena, Ill., where Mrs. Lucy M. Ransom died, Mar. 18, 1846, leaving three living children, with whom Mr. Ransom returned to Chatham. Of those children-
EDWARD H., born in Sangamon county, married Gazena A. Brurink. He was a soldier in Co. B, 114th Ill. Inf., and spent several months in prison at Ander- sonville, Georgia. The privation and disease contracted there caused his death in Feb., 1869. He left a widow and four children in Virden, Illinois.
AMELIA M. married William Mont- gomery. They have seven children, and live at Stonington, Christian county, Illi- nois .- 1874.
MARTHA married in Plattsburg, New York, to William L. Wood. They have one child, and live at? Stonington, Christian county, Illinois.
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John G. Ransom was married July 1, IS47, in Chatham, to Mrs. Elizabeth Bradley, whose maiden name was Hand. They had seven children, two of whom died young. Of the other five-
AUGUSTA E., born in Chatham, married Henry D. Cogswell, has one child, and lives in Bloomington, Illinois. -IS73.
EMMA, CHARLES, JOHN E. and MARIA . live with their parents. John G. Ransom and family reside in Chatham, Sangamon county, Illinois.
RANSOM, LORING, was born April 13, 1806, in Chazy, Clinton county, N. Y., and came with a colony of fifty- three persons to Sangamon county, arriv- ing at what is now Farmingdale, in Sept., 1833. He was married Oct. 29, 1839, at a place called Millville, north of Lick creek, and three miles west of Loami, to Mary Wariner, who was born April 20, 1817, in Barren county, Ky., and came to Sangamon county in the spring of 1834, with her father. Mr. and Mrs. Ransom had three living children-
ISABELLA W., born Sept. 13, IS40, in Chatham, married in Springfield, Feb. 24, 1861, to George W. Johnson, who was born Aug. 7, 1835, in Henniker, Merrimack county, N. H. He is an en- gineer on the G. C. & S. railroad, and re- sides in Springfield.
WILLIAM A., born Jan. 7, 1843, in Chatham, was married Nov. 23, 1872, in Hannibal, Mo., to Kittie Shelton Kiger, who was born July 29, 1843, in Nelson county, Va. They live in Springfield, Illinois.
ISAAC N., born May 12, 1846, in Springfield, married, Nov. 10, 1870, to Annie E. Crary, and live in Springfield, Illinois.
Loring Ransom was farming a few years and then went to Chatham, from there to Berlin, and from there to Spring- field, where he died, Sept. 13, 1867. Mrs. Mary Ransom resides with her children, in Springfield, Illinois.
RANSOM, LUTHER N., was born about 1Soo, at Chazy, Clinton coun- ty, N. Y. He was there married to Zer- viah Ransom. They had two children in New York, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., with a colony, arriving in Sept., 1833, at Farmington, in what is now Gardner township. In IS35 Mr.
R. sold out at that place, and entered two thousand one hundred acres of land eight or ten miles south of Springfield, and laid out the town of Chatham. In 1840 he moved to Springfield, where Mrs. R. died. Previous to this time Mr. R. had been a member of and an officer in the Presbyterian church, and was the princi- pal means of establishing the church in Chatham. After the death of his wife he adopted communist principles as expounded by Fourier, went to Economy, Ohio, and united with the Fourierite community there, believing it would be a good place to bring up his children. He was mar- ried while there to a widow lady, by whom he had one child. At a time of excessive high water in the Ohio river, late in 1847, a very large brick building, owned and occupied by the Fourierites, was surrounded by water, weakening the foundations, and it fell, burying in its ruins a large number of persons. The two eldest children and the wife of Mr. Ransom were among the lost. She had just handed her bahe out of a window, by which it was saved. Mr. Ransom was not at the place when the calamity camc, but he soon after took his babe, left the Fourierites, and joined the Shakers at Lebanon, Ohio. This was in IS48. He remained with the Shakers until August, 1859, when he took his son, ALBERT, and went to Lawrence, Kansas, where he resided until July, 1872, when he died, a spiritualist, and an open disbeliever of the Bible. He was an original abolition- ist, an uncompromising temperance man, scrupulously honest in his dealings, and it was believed by those who knew him well, that he was honest and conscientious in all he did. His erratic course was re- garded more as the manifestations of an unsettled mind than of a depraved dis- position.
RAPE, JOHN, was born about 1794, in South Carolina, and taken to Tennessee by his parents, at eight years old. He was a soldier from Tennessee, in the war of 1812, and arrived at New Orleans the day after the battle of Jan. 8, 1815. His father, Gustavus Rape, was a soldier from North Carolina during the war of the American Revolution. John Rape was married Aug. IS, ISIS, in Tennessee, had two children there, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving
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in what is now Cotton Hill township, in Feb., 1826, where they had five children. Of their children-
CATHARINE, born Dec. 31, IS21, in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county to Benjamin R. Ridgeway. See his name.
AMELIA, born May 29, 1823, in Tennessee, married in Sangamon county, Dec. 25, 1840, to Wesley Beam. See his name. He died, leaving five children, and she married, July 17, 1855, to James Howlett. They have six children, WIL- LIAM M., DANIEL N., AMELIA L. and MARTHA E., twins, JAMES F. and GEORGE B. McL. Mr. Howlett had three children by a former marriage. They reside in Cotton Hill township.
DANIEL, born March 30, 1826, in Sangamon county, married, July 7, 1853, to Myrah Snodgrass. They had three. children, CHARLES F., MOSES F. and FLETCHER E. Mrs. Rape died March 10, 1869, and he married, Sept. 2, 1869, to Mrs. Rebecca J. Hardin, whose maiden name was Snodgrass. They have one child, EDWIN, and live near New City, Sangamon county, Illinois.
JACOB, born Nov. 5, 1827, in San- gamon county, married, Dec. 26, 1850, to Rachel Beam. They have five chil- dren, THOMAS J., MELINDA J., CHARLES W., JOHN W. and LEW- IS M., and live in Cotton Ilill town- ship, two and one-half miles south of New City, Sangamon county, Illi- nois. Jacob Rape says that it was so difficult to obtain farming implements, that himself and a brother covered corn many days with wooden hoes, made for the purpose by their father.
ALFRED N., was born May 5, 1830, in Sangamon county. He enlisted, Aug. 12, 1862, in Co. K, 124th Ill. Inf., for three years, served full term, was in fif- teen battles, and was honorably discharg- ed, Aug. 15, 1865. He was married, Oct. 17, 1871, to Mary A. Constant. They had one child, WM. EDWARD, who died in infancy. They live three miles southwest of New City, in Cotton Hill township, Sangamon county, Illi- nois.
FRANCIS M., born Nov. 20, 1831, in Sangamon county, married Melvina Snodgrass, had two children, MARY D. and NANCY I., and Mrs. Rape died,
and he married, Oct. S, 1869, to Mary J Hayden, a grand-daughter of Penrod Vancil. They have two children, ROSA E. and FLORA E., and live in Cotton Hill township, near New City, Sanga- mon county, Illinois.
AMANDA, born Oct. 25, 1835, in Sangamon county, married, Aug. 5, 1852, to Preston Haines. They had three chil- dren-NANCY J., born April 9, 1855, married, June 9, 1873, to Benj. K. Haines. See his name. AMELIA C. and JOHN W. live with their mother. Pres- ton Haines enlisted in 1861, for three years, in Co. B, 11th Mo. Inf. He died Feb. 14, 1863, in Military Hospital, at Keokuk, Iowa. His widow married, June 14, IS71, to W. T. Williams, have one child, MARTIN L., and live in Cotton Hill township, Sangamon county, Illinois.
Mrs. Polly Rape died, July 19, 1838, and John Rape was married, Feb. 3, 1839, to Elizabeth Snodgrass. They had seven children in Sangamon county --
JOSEPH, born Jan. 25, 1840, mar- ried, March 7, 1872, to Frances M. Rea- vis, who was born Feb. 23, 1856, in Fay- ette county, Ill. They have one child, NOAH F., and live near New City, Sangamon county, Illinois.
JOHN, born Dec. 16, 1843, lives near New City, Illinois.
FAMMIES T., born Sept. 27, 1845, married Mary West, have two living children, and lives near Cotton Hill P. O., Sangamon county, Illinois.
MARY E., born Oct. IS, 1848, mar- ried, sept. 13, 1863, to Thomas McLoon, a native of Ireland. They have three children, MARY B., LAURA A. and JOHN E., and live near New City, Illi- nois.
SAMUEL D., born Jan. 20, 1853, lives with his mother.
NANCY E., born April 27, 1856, married, Feb. 19, 1874, to B. F. Young, and lives in Cotton Hill township.
EMILY Y., born Aug. 12, 1859, lives with her mother.
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