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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.



ECKEL, JOHN C., was born Nov. 27, 1793, in Baltimore, Md., went to Jefferson county, Tenn., was a soldier in the war of 1812, and was married in his native county, Nov. 19, 1819, to Mary Geiger, who was born June 11, 1797. They moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving June, 1821, in what is now Cooper township. They had seven children in Sangamon county.

SUSANNAH, born in 1824, married John North. See his name.

CHARLES E., married Martha Ridgeway.

WILLIAM H., married Jane E. Slater.

GEORGE, died in his sixteenth year.

JOHN C., Jun., born May 13, 1831, was married to Arminda Tead.

MARIA L., born Jan. 3, 1836, married Henry Colley. They had six children, and she died.

MARY, born May 4, 1838, was married Nov. 4, 1858, in Sangamon county, to Lafayette Wilmot, and moved to Kansas in 1859. In 1866 they moved to Oregon. Mr. W. was wounded nineteen times in fighting with Indians on the route. He is brother to Miles H. Wilmot, of Illiopolis.

Mrs. Mary Eckel died July 1, 1845, and John C. Eckel was married to Mrs. Joannah Dickson, whose maiden name was Bird. They had two living children.

EDGAR and JANE, twins, were born June 30, 1846. Edgar was married Jan. 13, 1868, to Elizabeth Parkes. They have two children, WILLIAM H. and MARY J., and live in Cooper township near Clarksville. JANE resides with her mother.

John C. Eckel died May 29, 1857, in Sangamon county, and his widow resides in Cooper township, two and one-half miles southwest of Mechanicsburg.



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