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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.



HARGIS, THOMAS, was born in 1775, in West Virginia, and was married there about 1800 to Susan Riley. She was born in 1782. They had two children in Virginia, and moved to Cumberland county, Ky., where they had eight children, and then moved to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving in the fall of 1830 in what is now Fancy creek township. Of their ten children--

NANCY married James McDaniel, and died, leaving four children, who live with their father at West Point, Iowa.

ELIZABETH married Spencer Stone, had nine children, and Mr. S. died. Two of their children--JEFFERSON married Sarah Moran, and lives one mile east of Athens. SARAH married James B. Glascock. See his name. Mrs. Stone lives at Wapella, Ill.

JOHN C. died in Kentucky, at twenty-five years old.

SARAH married Jeremiah Dooley, moved to Galena, and she died, leaving three children there.

DORCAS married Jefferson Smith, moved to Wisconsin and died, leaving two children there.

WILLIAM married Nancy Strode. They had nine children, and moved to Doniphan county, Kan., in 1857, and he died there, One son, THOMAS J., was living in Sangamon county in 1862, and enlisted in Co. K, 115th Ill. Inf., for three years. He was wounded at the battle of Chicamauga, and discharged on account of physical disability. He was married, while a soldier, to Harriet Judd, and resides three miles east of Springfield. The family of William Hargis live near Troy, Kansas.

THOMAS married Druzilla Shepherd. He died, leaving a widow and four children, in Fulton county, Ill.

ALVA W. was killed in Kentucky by a cotton gin, at seven years of age.

MINERVA J. married John Smith, have nine children, and live in Fulton county, Ill.

AMANDA married Alonzo McCauley, have five children, and live in Fulton county.

SUSAN B. married James B. Strode. See his name.

Thomas Hargis established a pottery soon after he came into the county. He was a local preacher in the M. E. church in Kentucky, and joined the traveling connection in Illinois. He was in charge of a circuit at the time of his death, which took place in Fulton county in June, 1850. His widow died there in 1860.



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