BIRD FAMILY, John Bird was born Jan. 1, 1767, in Essex county, N. J., and when a young man, went to Washington, Mason county, Ky. Abigail Auter was born May 26, 1780, in Essex county, N. J., also, and in 1798 went with her widowed mother and two sisters to Washington, Ky. John Bird and Abigail Auter were married there in 1801. They had ten children in Mason county, Ky., and the entire family moved, in 1825, to Harrison county. John Bird died there, of cholera, July 15, 1833. Their daughter, Sarah, who was married to Jesse Folks, died six days before her father, and their son John, in his thirteenth year, died seven days after his father, all of the same disease. Mrs. Bird, with some of her children, came to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Sept. 6, 1835, in what is now Mechanicsburg township. Her other children came the next year. Mrs. Abigail Bird died in Sangamon county. Of her eight children who came to the county--