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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.



BELL, BAILEY, was born Nov. 2, 1776, in Fauquier county, Va., and was there married to Nancy Foxworthy, who was born April 3, 1785. They had three children, and moved to Clarke county, Ky., in 1818, where two children were born, and thence to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in Nov., 1834, at Buffalo Hart Grove. Of their five children--

BAILEY F., born Dec. 30, 1807, in Fauquier county, Va., was married in Clarke county, Ky., Nov. 27, 1827, to Mahala Burns. They had one child in Kentucky, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1831, in Buffalo Hart Grove, where they had six children, and reside near Knoxville, Marion county, Iowa.

ARIE, born Oct. 11, 1811, in Fauquier county, Va., was married in Clarke county, Ky., Sept., 1834, to Thomas McGowan. They had five children, and reside near Buffalo Hart station.

JAMES, born Sept. 13, 1814, in Virginia, was married in Logan county, Ill., to Nancy Brown. They have seven children, and reside in Rosemont, Jasper county, Iowa.

BENJAMIN, born May 16, 1818, in Clarke county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, Sept. 26, 1840, to Amanda Starr. They had six children. MARY E., born April 9, 1843, married Hugh McGorey, and died Oct. 14, 1865. EMILY, born Dec. 7, 1845, died Sept. 11, 1862. THOMAS J., born Sept. 28, 1848, died in his third year. WILLIAM, born Nov. 29, 1851, BENJAMIN, Jun., born March 29, 1856, and FLORENCE, born August 20, 1860, reside with their parents, in Logan county, three miles east of Buffalo Hart station.

THOMAS J., born June 18, 1821, in Clarke county, Ky., was married in Illinois to Ann Allen. They have six children, CHARLES, ALBERT, CLARA, EMMA, ARTHUR, died in his tenth year, and LESLIE. Thomas J. Bell and family reside at Cornland, Ill.

Mrs. Nancy Bell died August 6, 1843, in Logan county, and Bailey Bell died Feb. 6, 1846, in Sangamon county, at Buffalo Hart Grove.



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