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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.




CROOKER, G. W., was born July 29, 1814, in Cheshire county, N. H. He was married February, 1839, in Amherst, Mass., to Lois K. Thayer, who was born there in 1814. They moved to Sangamon county in company with his father-in-law, Asahel Thayer, arriving at Chatham May 19, 1839. They had ten children, five of whom died in infancy and childhood. Of the other five children--

EDWARD A., born March 3, 1840, in Sangamon county, was attending Illinois College, at Jacksonville, when he died, aged nineteen years.

WILLIAM B., born March 9, 1842, in Chatham, enlisted in Co. I, 73d Ill. Vol. Int., was wounded at the battle of Perryville, and died at Taylorville, Ill., Aug. 11, 1865, aged twenty-three years.

SARAH T., born March 21, 1846, in Sangamon county, was married Sept. 1, 1864, to Dr. B. W. Fox, of Springfield. She died in Taylorville, May 15, 1869, leaving one child, LOIS F., who resides with her grand-parents in Taylorville Dr. B. W. Fox died June 20, 1875, at Quincy, Ill. His remains were buried at Taylorville.

GEORGE B., born Jan. 31, 1849, in Chatham, married Nannie Richardson. They have one child, EDWARD W., and reside at Taylorville.

ARTHUR H., born May 31, 1857, at Chatham, resides with his parents in Taylorville, to which place they moved from Chatham in 1867.

Mrs. Crooker gives a short account of the Chatham Ladies' Aid Society. It was organized Nov. 21, 1861, and disbanded early in '63. The socicty was small, but they made three large boxes of bedding and clothing suitable for tent and hospital, besides making up ten webs of domestic for the Springfield Soldiers' Aid Society.




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