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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.



HENTON, WILLIAM, was born Oct. 22, 1807, in Green county, Ky., taken by his parents to Washington county, Indiana, and from there to Bond county, Illinois, in 1818. In 1828 he came to Sangamon county, and was married Aug. 16, 1832, to Pauline Short. They had seven living children in Sangamon county, namely--

JAMES J., born Sept. 30, 1835, married Janette Barger, who died Nov. 21, 1864, leaving four children. Mr. Henton is married again, and lives near Linden, Kan.

MARY E., born Dec. 31, 1838, died March 4, 1859.

CATHARINE A., born Feb. 19, 1840, in Sangamon county, is unmarried and lives--1873--at the old homestead of her grandfather, Caleb Short. It is two and a half miles north of Curran.

THOMAS W., born Aug. 6, 1841, lives with his sister Catharine.

JOHN R., born Feb. 18, 1843, married Vinley A. Patterson, has two children, and lives near Linden, Osage county, Kansas.

ELIZABETH A., born Aug. 6, 1845, lives with her sister Catharine.

CHARLES G., born June 6, 1847, married Rebecca Taylor, has three children, and lives two and a half miles north of Curran.

William Henton died Nov. 1, 1848, and Mrs. Pauline Henton died Oct. 24, 1853, both in Sangamon county.



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