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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.



GRAGG, MRS. MARTHA, whose maiden name was Runnels, was born in Albermarle county, Va., and taken by her parents, when she was quite young, to Montgomery county, Ky., where she was married to John Gragg. They moved to Nicholas county, where Mr. Gragg died, leaving a widow and three children, who returned to her friends in Montgomery county, Ky., where the eldest--

JESSE, died, aged eighteen years.

Mrs. Gragg and her two children moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1838, near Mechanicsburg. Of the two children--

MARGARET, born Nov. 13, 1814, in Nicholas county, Ky., was married in Sangamon county to Elder John L. Wilson. See his name.

WILLIAM, born June 10, 1818, in Nicholas county, Ky., came to Sangamon county in 1838, and was married March 26, 1844, to Sophia McBride. They had four living children in Sangamon county, namely: THOMAS J., born Jan. 1, 1845, was married Jan. 20, 1870, in Sangamon county, to Lucinda Fry, who was born Nov. 6, 1850, in Shelby county, Ky. They have one living child, CLARA, and live five miles southeast of Mechanicsburg. JOHN H., born Aug. 17, 1847, was married May 31, 1871, to Matilda D, Blair, who was born Sept. 22, 1851, near Moro, Madison county, Ill. They have one child, WILLIAM B., and live four and a-half miles east of Mechanicsburg. WILLIAM, Jun., born June 10, 1851, was married, Feb. 8, 1876, at the house of Vincent Garretson, to Fanny Hissey, and live near Mechanicsburg. HARVEY, born Jan. 21, 1853, lives at the homestead. Mrs. Sophia Gragg died Dec. 26, 1872, and William Gragg died July 30, 1875, five miles southeast of Mechanicsburg, in Illiopolis township.

Mrs. Martha Gragg died Aug. 31, 1843, in Sangamon county.



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