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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.




COLEMAN, MRS. ABIGAIL - whose maiden name was Robertson, was born in Surry county, N. C., and was married there to Theophilus Coleman, who was born in Virginia. They had four children in North Carolina. Mr. Coleman became a soldier in the war with England in 1812. He never returned, and his family never knew his fate. Mrs. Coleman, with her four children, moved in 1815 to Cumberland county, Ky., and to Sangamon county, Ill., arrived in the fall of 1820 on Richland creek, in what is now Salisbury township. Of her four children--

SARAH, born Jan. 6, 1801, in North Carolina, married in Kentucky to Joshua Crow, came with her mother to Sangamon county. They moved to Cass county, where she died many years ago, leaving seven children.

ELIZABETH, born May 19, 1804, in North Carolina, married John G. Purvines. See his name.




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