HARBUR, LEVI, was born Nov. 21, 1797, in Garrard county, Ky. When he was a child his parents moved to Christian county, in the same State. He was there married, June 29, 1817, to Eleanor Ashley, and moved to Madison county, Ill., in Sept. following, accompanied by his wife and his brother Samuel. He left his brother in Madison county, and with his wife went to the southern part of Missouri, remaining one and a half years, and had one child there. He returned to Madison county, where Mrs.

Eleanor Harbur died, Sept. 10, 1819. Leaving his child in the care of a friend, he came to what is now Sangamon county, one and a quarter miles east of the town of Loami. He went eighty miles to Edwardsville, obtained a license, returned to the San-ga-ma country, and was married March 25, 1820, to Mary Sawyers. They had ten living children in Sangamon county. Of his children--

WILLIS, born April 24, 1818, in Southern Missouri, was married in Sangamon county to Elizabeth Darneille. They have five children, and live in Scotland county, Mo.

By the second wife--

DELILAH, born March 9, 1821, married Benjamin Wyckoff, had one child, and Mr. W. died, and she married Peter Ellicott. They have two living children, and live in Scotland county, Mo.

ELIZABETH, born Sept. 13, 1822, married Joseph Farrer, who died, leaving two children, and she married Lorenzo Garner, had several children, and she died near Warsaw, Ill.

REBECCA, born April 2, 1825, married Elza Boyer, had one child, and she and her husband both died.

MARY, born Jan. 8, 1827, married Turner Underwood. See his name. He died and she married Mr. Thompson, and resides at Hamburg, Fremont county, Iowa.

SAMUEL B., born Sept. 10, 1830, married Lucinda Thurman. They have seven children, and live in Greene county, Mo.

WILLIAM R., born Sept. 19, 1832, married Elizabeth Fisher, have six children, and live in Moultrie county, Ill.

NANCY JANE, born Sept. 6, 1835, married Robert Gray, had three children, and Mr. Gray died, and the widow married Miles Meacham, and lives in Warren county, Ill.

MARION D., born Sept. 21, 1842, married Martha Meacham. She died, leaving one child, and he married Sarah Meacham. They have one child, and live in Warren county, Ill.

SARAH A., born Feb. 16, 1845, married Martin Landgrebe, have four children, and live in Moultrie county, Ill.

LEVI M., born August 5, 1848, lives with his father.--1873.

Mrs. Mary Harbur died Sept. 8, 1857, and Levi Harbur was married Oct. 1, 1861, to Frances Young. They have two living children--

ELISHA Y. and

ORA ELLEN, live with their parents on the farm where Mr. H. settled in 1827. It is three miles south of New Berlin.

Levi Harbur says that the snow of 1830-31 was three feet four mches on an average, and that he resolved if it ever went off, Illinois would not hold him long. The snow went off, but he did not. I have measured a stump near where Mr. H. resides. It is white oak, eight feet high and two feet in diameter at the top. Mr. Harbur says he cut it not more than two feet above the snow, so that the snow must have been six feet deep at that place, but that was drifted. It will be seen that the two brothers spell the family name differently; each claim to be right.