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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.



BRANCH, EDWARD, was born Dec., 1795, in Virginia, and when he was a child his parents moved to that part of Bourbon, which afterwards became Nicholas, county, Ky. He was there married Dec. 2, 1818, to Rebecca Cassity. They had four children in Kentucky, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving late in Oct., 1830, in what is now Rochester township, where they had two children. Of their six children--

ZERELDA E., born Nov. 19, 1821, in Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sangamon county May 16, 1839, to Joel Cantrill. See his name.

MARY J., born April 22, 1824, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Robert Archer, son of Moses. See his name. He died April, 1872, leaving a widow and three daughters near Grove City, Christian county.

HONOR A., born March 24, 1827, in Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to William A. Whitesides. See his name.

ELIZABETH A., born Jan. 9, 1830, in Nicholas county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, Sept. 25, 1848, to Joshua Graham. See his name.

LOUISIANA, born July 16, 1832, in Sangamon county, married Joseph Miller. See his name.

WILLIAM, born Feb. 28, 1835, in Sangamon county, died April 2, 1845.

Edward Branch died Aug. 1, 1835, and his widow resides with her daughter and son-in-law, Wm. A. Whitesides.



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