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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.



BATES, ISAAC, was born Oct. 14, 1796, in the town of Jaffrey, Cheshire county, New Hampshire, and when a young man, went to St. Lawrence county, N. Y. CHARLOTTE BRYANT was born Dec. 11, 1805, at Shoreham, near White Hall, Vt., and taken by her parents to St. Lawrence county, N. Y. Isaac Bates and Charlotte Bryant were married and had six children in St. Lawrence county. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., in wagons, arriving June 30, 1837, at Springfield, and the next week (July 4), witnessed the laying of the corner stone of the State house, the work on which had just commenced. In 1839 he entered land north of the Sangamon river, moved there, and made a home in what is now Fancy creek township. Two children were born in Sangamon county. Of their children--

JOSEPH, born June 16, 1822, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., married in Sangamon county to Mrs. Rebecca Power, whose maiden name was Brown. Mrs.

Bates had one child by her first marriage, MARY J. POWER. She married John B. Brown, and lives in Jefferson county, Kan. Mr. and Mrs. Bates have six children. FIDELIA E. married Winfield S. Hay, and lives in Fancy creek township. ISAAC D., JAMES W., JOSEPH F., ZIMRI E., and JOHN CARROLL reside with their parents in Fancy Creek township, 12 miles due north of Springfield.

ORLANDO, born March 20, 1824, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., married in Sangamon county to Sarah Brown. They have three living children, JANE and CHARLOTTE, (twins.) JANE married William Stienberger, and lives near Mt. Pulaski. CHARLOTTE married Abram Larue, and lives near Williamsville. EMMA lives with her parents in Williamsville.

NELSON, born April 13, 1826, in New York. he lost one arm by the explosion of a gun when he was 14 years old. He married Melinda Ferguson, has three children, MINNIE J., WILLIAM, and FREDERICK, and lives in Petersburg, Ill.

ALBERT, died, 1829, in infancy.

FIDELIA, died August 31, 1845, aged 15 years.

ZIMRI B., born Feb. 28, 1833, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y., enlisted, Nov. 25, 1861, in Co. G., 10th Ill. Cav., and was commissioned as 1st Lieutenant. He was promoted to Captain, Oct. 20, 1862. He served about four years, and resigned in Feb., 1865. He was married Sept. 23, 1866, in Sangamon county, to Hattie Stockdale, who was born April 2, 1846, in Pennsylvania. They have two children, NORA M. and HOWARD R., and reside in Fancy Creek township, at the home settled by his parents in 1839.

IRA, died in Sangamon county, Oct., 1858, in his twelfth year.

PARTHENIA, born March 12, 1842, in Sangamon county, married William S. Constant. See his name.

JAMES M., born June 19, 1844, in Sangamon county, married Julia Constant. They have one child, ETHEL, and reside in Williamsville.

Isaac Bates died April 23, 1855, in Fancy creek township. His widow resides with her daughter, Mrs. Constant. Mrs. Bates is a cousin to William Cullen Bryant, the poet, and editor of the New York Post.



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