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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.



HALL, DAVID, was born Dec. 25, 1799, in Shelby county, near Shelbyville, Ky. David Hall and Juliet Owen were there married, Dec. 23, 1823. They had six children in Shelby county, and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Sept. 23. 1834, at Mechanicsburg, and soon after settled about four miles further west, in the same township, where five children were born. Of their eleven children--

GEORGE M., born Oct. 10, 1824, in Kentucky, died in Mechanicsburg, Oct. 26, 1852.

MARY M., born Dec. 31, 1825, in Kentucky, married Sept. 18, 1845, in Sangamon county, to Wesley Hathaway. See his name.

OWEN, born Jan. 11, 1828, in Kentucky, died Nov. 6, 1847, in Sangamon county.

DAVID S., born Jan. 9, 1830, in Kentucky, married in Sangamon county, March 15, 1855, to Elizabeth J. Fullinwider. They had five children. The second, ADA G., died in her second year. GEORGIA E., CHARLIE B., EDWIN P. and JACOB F. live with their parents in Mechanicsburg.

WILLIAM, born Dec. 22, 1831, in Kentucky, married Sept. 30, 1856, in Sangamon county, to Sarah A. Mantle. They had one child, EVA MAY, who died at seven years of age. Mrs. Sarah A. Hall died in March, 1863, and William Hall was married June 13, 1871, in Shelby county, Ky., to Fannie Saunders, a native of that county. He is a merchant in Mechanicsburg, and resides there.

ALLEN, born Oct. 31, 1833, in Shelby county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, March 13, 1862, to Rachel A. Mantle, who was born Nov. 3, 1838, in Fayette county, Ohio. They have one child, CARRIE MAY, and reside in Mechanicsburg. Mr. Hall is a merchant there.

ISABEL, born Feb. 22, 1836, in Sangamon county, married John H. Fullinwider. See his name.

PRESTON, born Feb. 7, 1838, in Sangamon county, married March 12, 1867, at Mt. Sterling, Ky., to Sarah L. Davis, who was born there, August 28, 1840. They had four children, OWEN D., ELIZA E., HARRISON P. and ARVIL C. Mrs. Sarah L. Hall died in 1875, and Preston Hall lives near Mechanicsburg.

HENRY H., born Dec. 13, 1840, in Sangamon county, studied at the Hahneman Medical College, Chicago, and is a practicing physician at Pana.--1874.

HATTIE E., born April 12, 1844, in Sangamon county, married May 10, 1870, to John C. O'Conner. They had one child that died in infancy in 1872. J. C. O'Conner was born Feb. 16, 1845, at Fredonia, Licking county, Ohio. He enlisted August 4, 1862, for three years, in Co. C, 124th Ill. Inf., at Camp Butler. In August, 1863, he was detailed to take charge of the regimental medical stores, and was detailed in April, 1865, as Medical dispenser for Post Hospital, at Montgomery, Ala. He was mustered out with his regiment at Chicago, in Sept., 1865. He studied medicine at Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1867 and '8, and is now a druggist at Buffalo.

EVELINE O., born April 18, 1845, died August 28, 1849.

David Hall died April 25, 1864, in Mechanicsburg, and his widow, Mrs. Juliet Hall, resides with her daughter, Mrs. O'Conner, at Buffalo, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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