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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.




ARCHER, ROBERT, was born Sept. 17, 1801, in Tennessee, and came with his brothers, Moses, Michael, Obadiah, their sister Jemima, and their mother, in 1821, to Sangamon county, where their brother William had settled the year before. Robert Archer and Matilda Duff were married Feb. 6, 1825, and had three children in Sangamon county. ELIZABETH J., born August 1, 1827, married Nov. 15, 1850, to Reuben Brown. See his name. BENNETT, C. D., born July 13, 1828, died Sept. 28, 1846. MARTHA T., born April 15, 1830, in Sangamon county, married Leadbetter Bradley. See his name. Robert Archer died October 17, 1859, and Matilda, his wife, died July 20, 1863, both in Sangamon county.




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