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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.



HARVEY, ABNER, was born April 13, 1804, in Adair county, Ky. Eliza A. Davis was born May 9, 1809, in Kentucky. They were married, had one child in Kentucky, and moved to what is now Irish Grove, Menard county, and from there to what is now Gardner township, Sangamon county, arriving in the spring of 1831, where five children were born. Of all their children--

THERESA, born July 18, 1829, in Kentucky, died in Sangamon county, aged twenty-two years.

JOHN F., born Dec. 10, 1831, in Sangamon county, married at Irish Grove, Nov. 11, 1857, to Lydia J. Stone, who was born there, July 25, 1835. They have five living children: MAUD O., HALLECK, AGNES, WILLIE and CORA, and reside in Urbana, Illinois.

ALFRED C., born Jan. 7, 1834, died aged seventeen years.

ELIZABETH J., born Oct. 15, 1835, in Sangamon county, married Dec. 19, 1856, to Sylvester M. Bailey, who was born Oct. 19, 1834, in Fairfield county, Ohio. They had seven children. MARION E. died in his second year. EVA MAY died in her ninth year. WALTER H., THERESA A., WILLIAM A., SARAH L. and MAUD E. The five latter reside with their parents. S. M. Bailey enlisted August, 1862, for three years, in Co. K, 115th Ill. Inf., was commissioned 1st Lieutenant at the organization of the company, and acted as Captain, but never was mustered, as he was soon after wounded at the battle of Chickamauga, Sept. 20, 1863, while in command of his company. He has since served three years as a member of the Sangamon county Board of Supervisors for Salisbury township, and now resides near Sylvandale, Labette county, Kansas.

OLIVER G., born July 20, 1838, in Sangamon county, married Josephine Reeves. They have three children, LILLIAN, FRANKLIN C. and PAUL CLIFFORD, and reside at Cantrall, Sangamon county.

MARY, born August 30, 1840, and died aged two years.

Abner Harvey died about 1840, and his widow died soon after, both in Sangamon county.



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