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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.



ENYART, SILAS, was born June 21, 1788, in Hardin county, Ky. He was married Nov. 6, 1806, to Martha Duckworth, who was born June 7, 1789, in the same county. They had eight children born in Kentucky, one died in infancy, and the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the spring of 1834 in what is now Gardner township, six miles west of Springfield. Of their children--

ELIZABETH, born in Kentucky, was married, in Sangamon county, to Zebulon Cantrill. See his name.

SARAH, born in Kentucky, was married in Sangamon county to Arthur B. McMurry. See his name.

POLLY, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Moses Laswell. See his name.

MATILDA, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to William H. Talbott. See his name.

REBECCA J., born in Kentucky, married N. E. Bateman. They had six children, namely, MARY E., SARAH J., JAMES W., CHARLES N., EDWARD E. and EMMA E. Mrs. Bateman resides with her daughter, Mrs. Albert V. Arnold, in Springfield.

JAMES, died in 1844, aged twenty-one years.

WILLIAM, born June 25, 1825, in Hardin county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county, Ill., Jan. 13, 1852, to Sarah Elder. They had four children in Sangamon county. LUCY E. died in her third year. MINERVA, married James Merriweather. They have one child, ALLEN, and reside in Cotton Hill township. EMMA and EFFIE, reside with their parents two and one-half miles north of Pawnee, in Cotton Hill township. William Enyart left Springfield March 25, 1849, for the gold fields of California, with eight others, only three of whom returned. William Enyart was gone two years and three months, and made enough to buy himself a good home. During his absence he had an interview with James Baker. See his name.

Mrs. Martha Enyart died in 1835, and Silas Enyart died in 1837, both in Sangamon county, Ill.



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