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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.



BLACK, SAMUEL, was born July 2, 1798, in Augusta county, Va. Mildred Gaines, a niece of Mrs. Peter Cartwright, was born Oct. 4, 1802, in Charlotte county, Va. They were married, Feb. 20, 1822, near Hopkinsville, Ky., where their parents had emigrated when they were quite young. They had one child in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Nov. 19, 1825, in what is now Cartwright township, where they had two children, and in 1828 moved to Morgan county, where seven children were born. Of their children--

ELIZA, born Dec. 31, 1824, in Kentucky, married George Ragen, have seven children, and reside in Cass county, Iowa.

JAMES R., born July 5, 1826, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 13, 1863, to Arvilla M. McMurphy, who was born Nov. 25, 1833, in St. Lawrence county, N. Y. They have four children, VICTOR C., JENNIE M., IONA C. and ALBERT C., and reside one and a quarter miles north of Pleasant Plains, within half a mile of where he was born, on the farm of his grandfather, Rev. Richard Gaines.

WILLIAM, born April 5, 1828, in Sangamon county, married Jane Short, and died in three months after marriage.

SARAH B., born May 1, 1833, in Morgan county, married Tilman Sharp, has one child, and resides in Morgan county.

JOHN, born Dec. 3, 1830, just before the "deep snow," married Sarah Vaughn, have three children, LOU ELLA, J. W. and J. R., and reside in Morgan county.

AMY, born Feb. 5, 1839, died Sept. 8, 1869.

MARTHA G., born Feb. 4, 1835, is unmarried, and resides with her parents.

SAMUEL, Jun., born June 27, 1837, married, Dec. 2, 1860, to Mary Self, have two children, W. E. and C. S., and reside in Morgan county.

MARY J., born March 9, 1842, married, Sept. 20, 1861, to James Phillips, who died, and she married Wm. Self, and resides in Cass county.

MILDRED, born Jan. 7, 1845, married Samuel T. Mattix, has one child, and resides in Morgan county.

Samuel Black and his wife reside six miles north of Jacksonville, surrounded by most of their children. Mr. Black made his first trip to Sangamon county to move the mother of Rev. Peter Cartwright. He made, altogether, seven round trips with a six horse team, when there were no roads, in moving the Cartwright, Gaines and Black families.



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