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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.



HERRIN, JAMES, was born April 6, 1802, in Harrison county, Ky., was married in that county Aug. 1, 1833, to Mary A. McDaniel, and soon after started, in company with her parents, to Sangamon county, Ill., arriving Nov. 14, 1833, in what is now Clear Lake township, east of the Sangamon river. They had four children, all born in Sangamon county, namely--

DAVID C., born May 25, 1834, married May 22, 1862, to Sarah J. North. They have five children, ROBERT E., JAMES W., GEORGE E., DAVID A. and JESSE LEE, and reside three quarters of a mile northwest of Lanesville, Wheatfield Postoffice, Sangamon county, Iilinois.

WILLIAM F., born Nov. 18, 1836, married Sept. 10, 1863, to Mary A. North. They have four children, BELLE N., JAMES E., CHARLES F. and BURT A., and reside one and a half miles east of Buffalo, Sangamon county, Illinois.

HARRIET F., born Jan. 6, 1838, married in 1860 to Robert Hewitt, who was born in New Jersey. They have three children, MARY FRANCES, IMLA and JOHN E., and reside in Menard county, one and a half miles north of Ashland, Cass county, Illinois.

JOHN A., born Aug. 4, 1841, died at fifteen years old.

Mrs. Mary A. Herrin died March 25, 1868, in Clear Lake township, on the farm where they settled in 1835. James Herrin resides with his son, William F., near Buffalo, Sangamon county, Illinois.



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