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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.



EATON, JOHN, was born in 1791, in Bradford, Merrimack county, New Hampshire, and was married there in 1813 to Mary Cook, who was born at the same place in 1793. Mr. Eaton came to Springfield in June, 1838. The family came in 1840, and in 1841 moved to Petersburg, returning to Springfield in 1843. Of their children--

HIRAM G., born in 1814, in New Hampshire, came with the family to Springfield, married in 1850, at Fairfield, Iowa, and died about 1860, leaving a widow and three children, PAGE, BELLE and ALBERT, in Kansas.

MARY J., born in 1816, in Bradford, N. H., married in Springfield, Ill., to Francis Clinton, a native of Burlington, Vermont. They had two children in Springfield, LAURA married Maj. E. S. Johnson. See his name. MARY married Carl O. Wederkinch, and died April 10, 1875, in Colorado. Francis Clinton and wife both died in Springfield.

THOMAS S., born about 1818, in New Hampshire, came to Petersburg, Ill., in 1842, and died there in 1843.

PAGE, born Oct. 25, 1821, at Bradford, N. H., married May 25, 1852, in Springfield, Ill., to Margaret A. Lee, who was born August 12, 1832, in Delaware. They had six children, two of whom died under eight years. LELIA lives with her parents. KATE D., born June 8, 1855, married April 20, 1875, to Walter E. Powell, have one child, EMMA M., and live in Springfield. GRACE D. and WILLIE C. live with their parents in Springfield.

BENJAMIN C. married in New Hampshire, and remained there.

LOVENIA, born in 1825, at Bradford, N. H.. married in Springfield to Thomas Lee, and died.

JOHN B., born Dec. 15, 1827, in Bradford, N. H., married in Sangamon county June 16, 1853, to Mary P. Jones, a native of Tennessee. They had ten children. SUSIE died young. MARY J., married Thomas Lee. See his name with the Conant family. WILLIAM W., ANTIONETTE and ANTHONY--twins--CHARLEY, JESSIE, MAY, GRIFFITH and DAISY; the eight latter live with their parents. J. B. Eaton lived in Springfield from 1839 to 1854, when he moved to Christian county, and came back to Springfield in 1866. He is now farming and grain dealing at Edinburg, but resides in Springfield.

LOUISA A., born in 1832, in Bradford, N. H., lived in Sangamon county, and died in 1850, at Beardstown, Ill.

SARAH M., born in Bradford, N. H., married in Sangamon county to Joseph Patterson, a native of Pennsylvania. They have seven children, and reside near Winchester, Scott county, Ill.

John Eaton was a soldier in the war of 1812. Later in life he was a carpenter and builder, and was erecting a mill at Naples, Ill., and died there in 1846. His widow died April, 1854, in Springfield, Illinois.



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