GREENWOOD, JOHN, was born in Virginia. His parents moved to Warren county, Ky., when he was quite young. He was a fellow student with Judge S. T. Logan, at Glasgow, Ky., and intended making the law his profession, but abandoned it. He was married in Barren county, Ky., to Tryphena Garrison, and had two living children there. The family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1831, in what is now Fancy Creek township. In the spring of 1832 they moved to Fort Clark, now Peoria, where Mrs. Greenwood died, May 26, 1832. Mr. G. returned with his two children to Sangamon county, and was married Nov. 20, 1832, to Mary Sale. They had one child there, and the family, except the eldest son, moved to Bush's ferry, on Rock river, in Lee county, Ill., where Mr. Greenwood was accidentally killed while raising a house for himself. His widow and children returned to Sangamon county, and she was three times married. She and all her husbands are dead. Of Mr. Greenwood's three children--

BASIL, born Sept. 29, 1819, in Barren county, near Glasgow, Ky., married Nov. 15, 1849, near Pleasant Plains, Sangamon county, to Eliza A. Townsend, who was born May 29, 1823, in Cape May county, N. J., and came with her parents to Sangamon county in 1841. Basil Greenwood and wife had five children: TRYPHENA A., born Sept. 27, 1850, in Sangamon county, was married April 28, 1870, to Charles Whitmer. They have one living child, NELLIE MAY, and live in Taylorville, Ill. PARTHENIA J. died in Springfield, aged five years. JOHN R., born Oct. 13, 1854. SARAH M, born Dec. 11, 1856, live with their parents. JULIA A., born July 8, 1859, in Sangamon county, was married Sept. 19 1875, to Asa H. Culver, formerly of Ohio. They live in Edinburg, Ill. Dr. Basil Greenwood and family reside in Edinburg. Christian county, Ill., where he is engaged in the practice of his profession. He was isolated from his relatives by the death of his mother, and fared exceedingly hard. When a boy he walked and led an ox from Illinois to Philadelphia for a drover, who failed there and left the boy without a cent of money, to work his way back as best he could. He apprenticed himself and learned the trade of a carpenter in Springfield. After spending twelve years without knowing where a single relative was, he accidentally met his brother John, and after a long interview, became satisfied that they were brothers, and for the first time learned that his father was dead. From the business of a carpenter he went to dealing in drugs and medicines, and then studied medicine. For the last twelve years he has been engaged in practicing his profession.

JOHN, Jun., born April 2, 1829, near Glasgow, Ky. He had both his hands seriously crippled when he was a child. He enlisted at Springfield, in May, 1846, in Co. I, 4th Ill. Inf., and served thirteen months in the Mexican war; was honorably discharged, and received one hundred and sixty acres of land. He was married in Springfield, August 7, 1854, to Emily Blakely, who was born Sept. 30, 1836, in Cincinnati, Ohio. They have three living children, ANNIE G., MINER V A A. and JOHN W., and reside at Williamsville.

By the second wife--

WILLIAM C., born August 24, 1833, in Sangamon county, married near Galena to Elizabeth Keithley. They have one living child, CHARLES E., and reside at 522 south Ninth street, Springfield, Illinois.