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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.



FORTUNE, THOMAS E., brother to Benjamin, was born Feb. 11, 1791, in Nelson county, Va., married Miss Wright. They had one child, and Mrs. F. died there. Mr. Fortune and his only child went with his father to Anderson county, Ky. He moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving, in 1834, at Mechanicsburg. His daughter--

ELIZABETH J. B., born Sept. 12, 1813, in Nelson county, Va., married in 1831 in Anderson county, Ky., to Samuel Butts. They had one child born in Ky., and came with her father to Mechanicsburg, in 1834, where they had two children, and Mr. Butts died. His widow married Dec. 18, 1853, in Mechanicsburg, to Barnabas Barrows. They have one child. Of her four children. JULIA F. BUTTS, born Dec. 8, 1832, in Ky., married in Mechanicsburg to Isaac Allen, have four children, and live in Jacksonville. ANN E. BUTTS, born Jan. 8, 1837, in Mechanicsburg, married March 14, 1866, to Joseph Barrows, have three children, and reside near Jacksonville. THOMAS S. BUTTS, born Sept. 20, 1840, in Mechanicsburg, was last heard from, in 1872, at Montana City. CHARLES BARROWS resides with his parents near Jacksonville.

Thomas E. Fortune was in the mercantile business, in Mechanicsburg, for many years, and left there about the close of the rebellion. He resides with his granddaughter, Ann E. Barrows, near Jacksonville.



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