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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.




DUNLAP, JOHN, was BORN May 15, 1785, probably in Pennsylvania, and went to Carter county, Tenn. Catharine Tipton was born Jan. 30, 1788, in Carter county, Tenn. They were married and had nine children there. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1828, in what is now Fancy creek township, where they had one child. Of their children

ISAAC C, born Jan. 2, 1806 in Tennessee see, was married there to Mary H. Bowers, and came with his father to Sangamon county. They had twelve children. Isaac Dunlap died August 2, 1867 and his widow resides in Fancy Creek township.

MARGARET born Jan. 2, 1808 married in Tennessee to Baptiste McNabb, came to Sangamon county with her father. They had four children, and he died. She married John McLoud. See his name.

SARAH, horn March 9, 1810 married Samuel T. Boyd. He died, and she married Thomas Vandevender who died, and she married Samuel T. Lacey, and resides in Logan county.

RUTH, born March 18, 1812 married in Tennessee to John E. Hedrick, came to Sangamon county with her father, and had ten children. The family are all in Missouri and Iowa.

TENNESSEE, born August 14, 1814 married Eliza Cutwright. He shot himself accidentally in 1840 in Logan county, leaving a wife and two children.

JAMES T., born Dec, 8, 1816 married Mary H. Brown. They had five children, and she died. He married Rosanna McCauley. They had six children. He Was a soldier in the Mexican war from Sangamon county. He moved to Missouri, and was Captain of a Company in a Union Regiment, and was captured at the battle of Pittsburg Landing, was exchanged after seven months imprisonment, returned home, and served one term in the Missouri Legislature in 1863, He went again in the army, and was killed at the battle of Franklin Tenn. in Dec., 1864, while acting as Captain of a Company.

SUSANNA born April 15, 1819, married Benjamin F. Brown. See his name.

JOHN R., born in Carter county, Tenn., April 24, 1821, married in Sangamon county, Dec. 10, 1840, to Emily A. Brown. They had ten children. ALMYRA married Theodore Allen, have two children, and reside in Sullivan county, Mo. WILLIAM T. enlisted in Co. H, 36th Iowa Inf. in 1862, contracted chronic diarrhea in camp, was sent to hospital at Keokuk, brought home by his parents, and died July 3, 1863. JAMES A. married Zerilda Richards, had two children, and she died. He married Sarah E. Elliott, and reside in Fancy Creek township. ROBERT T. married Nellie Richards, and resides in Randolph county, Mo. ELIZA J. married George D. Power. See his name. FRANKLIN P. resides with his parent,,. MARY C. died, aged five years. JOHN R., Jun., CLARENCE P. and OLIVE L. reside with their parents, two and a half miles west of Sherman, Sangamon county, Ill.

MARY A., born Sept. 29, 1823, married Alexander Doake. He died and she married Jer. Falconer, who died, and she lives near Decatur.

EDNA M., born Jan. 13, 1831, married John Johnson, who died, and she married Robert T. Brown. See his name.

John Dunlap died Feb. 14, 1856, and his widow died May 26, 1857, both in Sangamon county.




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