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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.



ANTLE, REV. JOHN, was born April 15, 1789, in Cumberland county, Ky. Elizabeth Buchanan was born in Cumberland county, Pa. Her parents moved to Lincoln county, Ky., when she was seven years old. Her father died in that county, and she went to live with a married sister in Cumberland county. John Antle and Elizabeth Buchanan were there married. They had five children. The family them moved to Morgan county, Ill., in 1829, and from there to Sangamon county, arriving Jan. 9, 1830, in what is now Salisbury township. Of their children--

POLLY, born in 1810, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Henry Hadley, and she died.

SALLY, born Jan., 1811, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Sept., 1833, to Marshall Bragg. Mr. Bragg died, and his widow and three children reside in Keokuk county, Iowa. A married daughter resides in Logan county,Illinois.

HENRY, born Sept. 12, 1813, in Cumberland county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Jan. 18, 1837, to Nancy Duncan. They have eight living children. SARAH A. married Charles Bottroff, and resides in Cartwright township. SIDNEY D., ELY ANN, JAMES S., NATHAN McC., LURANA, MARTHA F. and MARSHAL B., reside with their parents, adjoining Salisbury on the west.

ANDREW J., born in 1815, in Cumberland county, Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Ann Dardon, Oct., 1840. They have one child, and reside near Scio, Linn county, Oregon.

MARTHA, born August 8, 1818, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, March, 1839, to Simon Stevens. They had five children, one died young. JOHN enlisted August, 1862, in Co. H., 114 Ill. Inf., for three years, and died in the army in 1863. MARSHALL A., GEO. S. and WILLARD T., reside with their mother. Mr. Stephens died in 1863, and his widow resides in Salisbury township.

Mrs. Elizabeth Antle died Sept., 1844, and John Antle died August 30, 1864, she in Menard county and he in Salisbury.

Rev. John Antle preached to five churches, called Separate Baptists. One each at Salisbury and McKinnie Settlement, in Sangamon county, Baker's Prairie and Sand Ridge, in Menard county, and one in Morgan county. The only pay he received or expected was the hope of reward in a better world.



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