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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.



FOSTER, PEYTON, was born about 1799, near Winchester, Scott county, Ky., and was married there to Polly Daniels, a native of the same county. They had six children in Kentucky, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., with his brother George, arriving in the year 1826 and settled in what is now Loami township, where four children were born. Of their nine children -

JEANETTE, born in Kentucky, married Edward Greenwood, See his name.

WILLIAM H., born in Kentucky, married Margaret Greenwood, and she died in Nebraska, on the road to the Pacific. He and his children live in California.

GEORGE W., born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Lucille Short. She had four children and died. He married again, and resides in Louisiana, Mo.

JOHN D., born in Scott county, Ky., married in Sangamon county to Eunice Miller. They had seven children. GEORGE W. served as Quartermaster Sergeant in the 22nd Mo. Inf. of which his father was Colonel. He was afterwards Orderly Sergeant in Co. 3, 39th Mo. Inf. He married Mary M. Scott, has five children, Emma D., William F., Ada, John D. and Dora B., and reside in Loami township. EMILY M. married Joseph P. Ringo, in Adair county, Mo., has six children, and resides in Oregon. PEYTON F. married Martha Dunn and has two children. LUCINA is married, and resides in Adair county, Missouri. LEONORA P. married William Canham. They have two children, William E. and Jennie, and live in Chatham township. JAMES H. B. lives in Chatham township. Mrs. Eunice Foster resides with her daughter, Mrs. Canham. John D. Foster is married to a second wife, has one child, and is a practicing attorney at Commerce, Scott county, Mo. He served one year - from 1856 to 1847 - in the 4th Ill. Inf., under Col. E. D. Baker, in the Mexican war. He was Colonel of the 22d Mo. Inf. in the war to suppress the rebellion.

PEYTON, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Maria Colburn. They have five children, and reside in Kansas.

POLLY, born in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county to Alfred C. Campbell. See his name.

JAMES was accidentally killed in infancy.

HIRAM B., born in Sangamon county, married Martha Ferguson, have two children, and reside in Macon county Mo.

JAMES M., born in Sangamon county, married and died.

Mrs. Polly Foster died January, 1872, and Peyton Foster died Sept. 7, 1872, both in Missouri.



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