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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.
GREENAWALT, THOMAS B.
, was born in 1816 or '17, in Hardin county, Ky., and came with his brother Jacob to Sangamon county, in 1830. David B. and Lewis B. are younger brothers to Thomas B. and Jacob, but have not been in the county sufficient time to be included as "early settlers". Thomas B. married in Sangamon county to Mary E. Gatton. They had four living children in Sangamon county, namely:
WILLIAM R., born July 25, 1841, married Mary E. Burtle. They have five children, THOMAS B., JAMES F., MINNIE E., LAURA R., AND JOHN E., and live two miles southeast of Pawnee.
SARAH A. died at twelve years of age.
MARY F., married G. J. Boll. See his name.
JAMES R., lives with his brother Wm. R.
Thomas B. Greenawalt died Jan., 1848, and his widow died July 1849, both in Ball township.
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