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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.



BARNES, EZRA, was born Sept. 6, 1806, at Groton, New London county, Ct. He started from Hartford with a team, and, in thirty-one days' driving, reached St. Louis, Nov. 13, and five days later came into Sangamon county, arriving Nov. 18, 1833. For 21 months he peddled clocks, after which he commenced farming, raising his first crop in 1836. He again peddled dry goods, and came near being drowned while crossing the Sangamon river north of Springfield. He was married, Dec. 6, 1838, to Elizabeth Mason. She was born Feb. 4, 1818. They had five children, all born in Sangamon county, namely:

EZRA, Jun., born April 30, 1842, in Sangamon county, married in 1872 at Preston City, Conn., to Prudence A. Browning. They reside five miles southwest of Chatham.

SETH A., born in Sangamon county, is a member of the firm of Barnes & Simpson, druggists, in Taylorville.

OLIVE F., born in Sangamon county, married Feb. 10, 1876, to George Bremer.

CHARLEY and

ANGELINE, reside with their parents in Ball township, two and a half miles south of Chatham.



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