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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.



DILLARD, WILLIAM, born April 16, 1786, in Virginia. Elizabeth Jacobs was born Oct. 14, 1791, in the same State. They had two children born there, and moved to Todd county, Ky., where four children were born, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving late in 1830, and settled three and a half miles west of Springfield. Of their children--

BENJAMIN F., born Aug. 10, 1810, in Virginia, married in Sangamon county, Feb. 11, 1836, to Mary Crowder. They had seven children, two of whom died young. EUSTACIA A., born Dec. 30, 1836, married June 6, 1861, to Edward Keyes. See his name. JOHN J., born Sept. 10, 1838, died Feb. 7, 1865. WILLIAM R., ?? Jan. 14, 1842, married Jan. 15, 1873, to Eliza J. Randall, who was born April 29, 1847, in Sangamon county. They live five miles northwest of Springfield. MARY E., born April 9, 1844, lives with her mother. RIAL MARTIN, born Jan. 22, 1847, married Feb. 9, 1871, to Lerue Kincaid, and live in Logan county, near Elkhart. B. F. Dillard died Sept. 5, 1868, near Elkbart, and his widow (in 1874) resides five miles southwest of Springfield, on the farm where they settled in 1837.

ADALINE, born March 17, 1813, married Lewis Tomlinson. See his name.

SARAH married James Hannah. They had two children, and he died. She and her children reside near Chester, Randolph county.

ELIZABETH married Henry Dye, and resides near Chester.

VIRGINIA married William Bradley, who died, leaving a widow and three children in DuQuoin.

MARIAN married James Hannah. They have two children, and reside in Perry county, Ill.

JOHN A. married Mary Hathaway, have four children, and reside near Chester, Randolph county.

Mrs. Elizabeth Dillard died Nov. 28, 1854, in Sangamon county, and William Dillard died Oct. 7, 1868, in Randolph county, Ill.



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