BRITTIN, EVANS E., was born Oct. 28, 1791, in Bucks county, Pa. His father died when he was quite young. His mother, with her seven children, moved to Virginia, and from there to Ross county, O., in 1800. Evans E. was there married, Sept. 18, 1818, to Mary J. England. They had one child, and moved to what became Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the spring of 1820, in what is now Fancy creek township, where they had eight living children. Of their children--

STEPHEN, born Aug. 20, 1819, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Jane McClelland. He died Nov. 28, 1862, and she died in 1864, both in Sangamon county, leaving several children.

MIRANDA, born Jan. 12, 1824, in Sangamon county, married John Canterberry. See his name.

ELIJAH, born Nov. 12, 1825, in Sangamon county, married Martha Canterberry. He died March 5, 1873, leaving a widow and two children in Marion county, Iowa.

JAMES M.

EVANS E., Jun., born Nov. 26, 1829, married Melissa Peeler, had two children, and she died. He married Elizabeth Ridgeway. They have four children, and reside near Williamsville.

WASHINGTON, born July 4, 1832, married Eliza Mallory. He died, leaving one child, LAURA E., and his widow married Thomas Glascock. See his name.

HENRY, born Jan. 8, 1835, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 9, 1856, to Nancy Mallory. They had twelve children, six of whom died young. JOHN E., HENRY E., ALBERT L., EMMA N., WILLIAM A. and ROGER E., reside with their parents. Henry Brittin lives near Cantrall, on the farm settled by his father in 1820.

MARY J., born Aug. 3, 1837, married Thomas Glascock, and she died. See his name.

ELEANOR.

Mrs. Mary J. Brittin died Aug, 11, 1846, and Evans E. Brittin resides with his children. He has twice been a pioneer. He remembers that when his mother's family moved to Ohio, they had to go into Kentucky, sometimes a hundred and fifty miles, for breadstuff. After raising grain, it was three years before they had a grist ground. All that time they beat hominy, and sifted out the finest for bread, or grated the corn and made bread in that way. Coming to Sangamon county was a renewal of that kind of life. St. Louis was the nearest point at which they could buy farming tools, salt and all other articles. For grinding meal and flour they went to the American bottom, east of St. Louis. Mr. Brittin has hauled wheat to Springfield and sold it for twenty-five cents per bushel, and has known corn to be hauled twenty-five miles and sold for six and a quarter cents per bushel in trade.

The Christian Church, organized May 15, 1820, the first in Sangamon county, built its first house of worship on Mr. Brittin's farm, near the present town of Cantrall.