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EARLY SETTLERS OF SANGAMON COUNTY - 1876
By John Carroll Power

These biographies were submitted by a researcher and evidently abstracted from the 1876 History of Sangamon County, IL. Errors could occur, so one should always verify the correctness by obtaining copies of vitals and performing all necessary research to document what is contained herein.



ALLISON, ISAAC F., was born July 2, 1801, in Virginia, and his parents moved to Mason county, Ky. He was married about 1827, to Deborah Callerman. They lived in Fleming county, Ky., a short time, and moved to Sangamon county, arriving in the fall of 1829, on Spring creek, where seven children were born.

JOHN, born in 1828, in Fleming county, Ky., raised in Sangamon county, enlisted in the 4th Ill. Inf., under Col. E. D. Baker, in 1846, and died the same year at Matamoras, Texas.

JOSEPH, born in Sangamon county; married Hannah Knudson and died, leaving a widow and three children.

SUSANNAH, died, aged twelve years.

ELIZABETH is unmarried, and resides in Kansas.

JAMES M., born April 13, 1840, in Sangamon county; enlisted August 5, 1861, in Co. A., 38th Ill. Inf.; discharged on account of physical disability, March 29, 1862. He re-enlisted, in Sept., 1862, for three years, in Co. K, 115 Ill. Inf.; was transferred, in 1864, to Co. A., First U. S. Engineers, and was honorably discharged with the regiment, Sept. 19, 1865. He was married Nov. 18, 1866, in Sangamon county, to Julia A. Dunham. They have two children, MARTHA D. and ALICE M., and reside five miles northeast of Springfield.

ELIJAH and MINERVA reside near Jacksonville, Neosho county, Kan.

JOHN W., born in Sangamon county, died June 29, 1868; aged 21 years.

Mrs. Deborah Allison died May 29, 1860, in Sangamon county, and Isaac F. Allison died December 22, 1869, in Crawford county, near Jacksonville, Neosho county, Kan.



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