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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.



CANTRALL, WYATT, was born Dec. 20, 1790, in Bath county, Ky., the same year that his parents moved from Botetourt county, Va. He was married in Bath county to Sally England, and moved to Clarke county, O., where they had three children, and then moved, in company with Mrs. Cantrall's father, Stephen England, to St. Clair county, Ill., in the fall of 1818, and in the spring of 1819 to what is now Fancy Creek township, in Sangamon county, where they had six children. Of their nine children--

ELIZA, born Sept. 8, 1813, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to John McLemore. He died in 1871, leaving a widow and two children at Stirling, Whiteside county.

SAMUEL D., born Feb. 9, 1816, in Clarke county, O., married in Sangamon county, March 6, 1837, to Sarah S. Alexander. They had six living children. ALBERT A. married March 6, 1862, to Martha Hunt. He enlisted in Aug., 1862, in Co. C, 114 Ill. Inf., for three years, and was appointed Sergeant. He was captured at the battle of Guntown, Miss., in June, 1864, and was placed in the Andersonville prison pen, where he remained about five months, and after that was taken from one prison to another to prevent being released by the Union forces, and was paroled March 1, 1865, and died of starvation and exposure March 5, 1865, at Wilmington, N. C. WYATT E. married Grizella Holland. LUCINDA J. married B. F. Horn. HENRY married Emma E. Graham.

ELIZA married Henry Lake, son of Bayless, and MARGARET A. married Isaac Bates, son of Joseph. S. D. Cantrall lives two miles north of Cantrall.

DAVID P., born May 7, 1818, in Ohio, married in Sangamon county to Eleanor McLemore, had three children, and she died. He married Ursula Bull, has three children, and lives in Iowa.

ZEBULON, born Aug. 11, 1823, in Sangamon county, and died in 1840.

WIATT E., born March 22, 1825, in Sangamon county, died in 1841.

STEPHEN E., born April 20, 1827, in Sangamon county, married Caroline Blue. They have seven children, and live at Black Bob, Johnson county, Kan.

WILLIAM J., born July 28, 1829, in Sangamon county, married Lucy Kingsbury, who died, and he married Calista Neil, have three children, and lives at Black Bob, Kan.

POLLY ANN, born Sept. 17, 1832, in Sangamon county, married Thomas Hethcote, have one child, and live at Stirling, Whiteside county.

JOHN H., born Oct. 1, 1834, in Sangamon county, married Eleanor Stratton, have six children, and live in Iowa.

Mrs. Sally Cantrall died Aug. 1, 1840, in Sangamon county, and Wiatt Cantrall married in the fall of 1841 to Mrs. Polly Kingsbury, whose maiden name was Foster. They had one child--

JOSHUA P., born in 1843 in Sangamon county, married Grace Winters. They have one child, and live in Chase county, Kan.

Mrs. Polly Cantrall died about 1859, and Wiatt Cantrall resides at Stirling, Whiteside county.



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