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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.



CLIFTON, ELIAS, was born in Sussex county, Delaware, and married there to Sally Carlisle, a native of the same county. They had five children in that county, two of whom died young. The family moved, in 1802, to Fayette county, Ky., where one child died, and in 1816 they moved to Clarke county, Ind., and from there to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Dec., 1834, in what is now Rochester township. Of their two children--

CLEMENT, born about 1794, in Delaware, married in Clarke county, Ind., to Nancy Martin. They came to Sangamon county a few years later than his father. Mrs. Clifton died in 1845. He went back to Indiana, and married Mrs. Susan Williams, whose maiden name was Huckleberry. They had one child, ELIAS, who died aged fifteen years. Mrs, Clifton died, and he married Melinda Alsop. She died in 1855, and he in 1857.

NANCY, born Oct. 31, 1800, in Sussex county, Delaware. She was married in Fayette county, Ky., April 27, 1816, to Uspshear D. Spicer. See his name. He died, and Mrs. Spicer married Adam Saftly. See his name.

Mrs. Sally Clifton died March 25, 1346, and Elias Clifton died Jan. 3, 1852, both in Sangamon county.



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