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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, HENRY, was born in 1774, near Hagerstown, Md., and married in Loudon county, Va., to Sally Harper, who was born about 1783. They had five children in Pittsylvania county, Va., and in 1816, the family moved to Martin county, Ind., where three children were born, thence to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Oct., 1828, in what is now Loami township. Of their eight children--

NANCY, born in 1801, in Virginia, married William Taylor, and had five children--GEORGE W., married Lucinda Turpin, have five children, and live in Christian county, Ill. LOUISA married Wm. Hays, have four children, and live in Shelby county, near Mowequa. SALLY JANE married Peter Workman. See his name. NANCY married Jacob Workman. See his name. MARY married Ezekiel Preston, have five children, and live in Mowequa, Ill. Wm. Taylor died Aug., 1830, and his widow married David Hays, had four children, and live in Christian county, near Mowequa.

AARON, born Dec. 25, 1802, in Virginia, married Feb. 10, 1825, to Nancy Hays, in Indiana, had two children there, and came with his father to Sangamon county, in 1828, where they had eight children. Of their children -- PRISCILLA A., born Sept. 21, 1825, married Henry Jacobs. See his name. ELIZA J., born Sept. 20, 1827, married William Hays. Mr. and Mrs. Hays died, leaving three children. JEANETTE died, aged fourteen years. ELIZA JANE married Charles I. Turpin, Jun. See his name. CAROLINE F. married Dennis Turpin. See his name. ELIZABETH D. married George Jacobs, and both died, in Christian county. HENRY W., WILLIAM and ALFRED T., died under four years. AARON, Jun., born Aug. 25, 1837, in Sangamon county, married Rebecca Turpin, had five children--ELMER E. died young. CHARLES D., THOMPSON A., JAMES M. and JOSEPH E., live with their parents near Loami. NANCY married Asa Turney, and lives in Morgan county. JOHN died at two, and SUSAN at eleven years old. Aaron Hall died Dec. 13, 1851. His widow married, July 6, 1852, to Wm. L. Dodd, and live three and one-half miles south of Loami.

THOMAS, born in Virginia, died in Indiana, aged fifteen years.

WASHINGTON, born May 8, 1809, in Pittsylvania county, Va., married in Sangamon county, Nov. 6, 1831 to Susannah H. Wyckoff. They had nine living children in Sangamon county. JULIA A., born April 23, 1833, married David E. Gibson. See his name. THOMAS M. died in his tenth year. JAMES WARREN, born Oct. 16, 1836, married Nov. 22, 1868, to Mary A. Dodd, who was born Dec. 13, 1842, in Bradley county, Tenn. They live four miles south of Loami. MARY J., born March 27, 1838, married Thomas Baker. See his name. SUSANNAH H. and JOHN W., twins, born Aug. 16, 1841. SUSANNAH H. married, Jan 22, 1858, to Thomas Cosser, a native of England. He went from Sangamon county to Navarro county, Texas, in Feb., 1860, and Mrs. Cosser went in September following. Mr. Cosser went into partnership with Maj. H. P. Darling, in the business of wool growing. Whilst engaged in sheep shearing, at Laredo, near Ft. McIntosh, Webb county, Tex., in April, 1866, Mr. Cosser, a Mr. Smith and a negro boy were killed by Indians, who made a raid on them and were gone before the soldiers in the fort were aware of their presence. Mr. Darling was killed at the same time, but some miles away. Mrs. Cosser, Mrs. Smith, and a daughter of Maj. Darling, buried the bodies with their own hands. Mrs. Cosser returned to Sangamon county, and was married to Thomas Baker. See his name. JOHN W. enlisted in 1862, for three years, in Co. I, 73d Ill. Inf., served full time and was honorably discharged. He was married in Oct., 1873, to Nancy J. Watts. They have one child, FRANK W., and live at Charleston, Ill. ALBERT T. died in his ninth year. CYRUS, born Jan. 5, 1856, and DAVID W., born Feb. 12, 1857, live with their father. Mrs. Susannah H. Hall died March 10, 1867, and Washington Hall resides three and one-half miles south of Loami, on the farm where he settled in 1832. He was the administrator of the estate of his brother-in-law, Wm. Taylor, in 1830. From that time to 1867 he administered on the estates of at least fifty of his deceased neighbors. He filled many local offices, and during the great rebellion, he three times enrolled the names of those subject to military duty in the townships of Talkington and Loami, for the United States Government.

THOMPSON, born Aug. 19, 1811, in Pittsylvania county, Va., married in Sangamon county, Jan. 17, 1839, to Eveline Jacobs. They had eight children, three died young. Of the other five--WILLIAM T., born Sept. 7, 1841, in Sangamon county, married Nov. 7, 1869, to Jennie Lowry, who was born May 3, 1849, in county Down, Ireland. They have two children, EVA A. and SAMUEL E., and reside four and one-half miles south of Loami. SARAH A. married Wm. G. Miller. See his name. AMANDA married James M. Joy, had two children, WARREN, died in infancy, and IDA E. lives with her parents in Loami township. MARY E. and GEORGE T. live with their parents, three and one-half miles south of Loami.

SALLY A., born in 1821, in Indiana, married in Sangamon county to Andrew Hays, have eight children, and live in Christian county, near Mowequa.

HENRY, Jun., born in 1823, in Indiana, married in Sangamon county to Emeline. Wyckoff, had six children, and Mrs. Hall died. Mr. Hall married Margaret McNeely, had three children, and he died in Loami township.

EMILY, born in 1828, in Indiana, married in Sangamon county to James Dobson. She died April 28, 1852.

Henry Hall died Dec. 24, 1846, and his widow died Oct. 22, 1860, both in Loami township.




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