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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.



BRIDGES, GEORGE, was born in 1793, in Montgomery county, Ky. He was married there in 1816, to Rebecca Lockridge. They had four children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Nov. 3, 1835, in what is now Curran township, eight miles south of Springfield, where they had five children. Of their children--

JOHN M., born in 1819, in Kentucky, died unmarried, in Sangamon county, Nov. 14, 1865.

WILLIAM, born July 15, 1821, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, Sept. 2, 1852, to Mary E. White. They had two living children, HORACE W. and ALICE M., and Mrs. Mary E. Bridges died Sept. 17, 1871, and William Bridges was married in Feb., 1873, to Mrs. Helen Bird, whose maiden name was Ransom. The family moved west in Sept., 1873, and William Bridges died, Jan. 30, 1874, at Grass Valley, Nevada county, California, leaving his widow and two children there.

MARGARET H., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to J. M. Richardson, moved to Iowa, and died there, leaving three children.

ELIZABETH, born Oct. 14, 1827, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, to William Brownell. See his name.

MIRANDA, born March 27, 1831, in Kentucky, married George Brownell. See his name.

GEORGE H., born Nov. 14, 1840, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 22, 1860, in Sangamon county, to Rebecca Pyle, who was born in Sangamon county, July 6, 1850. They have four children, JOHN H., LAURA M., ADA A. and NORA L., and live in Springfield.

MARTIN C., born May 16, 1842, in Sangamon county. He enlisted August 15, 1862, in Co. B., 114th Ill. Inf., for three years. He was detailed as drummer at the organizatiou of the regiment, promoted, Jan. 1, 1865, to drum-major, and was honorably discharged, Aug. 15, 1865. He was married, Oct. 3, 1866, in Sangamon county, to Sarah E. Drennan. They have one child, DAVID JOSEPH, and reside near Woodside, on the farm where his parents settled in 1835.

Mrs. Rebecca Bridges died in 1848, and George Bridges died in 1849, both in Sangamon county.



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