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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.



HOPPIN, CHARLES T., born June 8, 1817, in Madison county, N. Y., was married there to Eliza McConnell. They had one child and moved to Sangamon county, Ill., and settled near Chatham, where his brother Daniel then lived. They had two children in Sangamon county. Of their three living children -

SARAH L., born in Madison county, New York, married in Sangamon county, Ill., to E. F. Richmond. They have two children, CALISTA and CHARLES S., and live in Davenport, Iowa. Mr. Richmond is a lawyer in practice there. MARY E., born in Sangamon county, married Allen E. Parmenter, and died March 1870, in Sangamon county. Mr. Parmenter was born Dec. 30, 1842, in Madison county, New York. See his name in connection with the family of Daniel Hoppin.

CHARLES C., born in Sangamon county, lives with his father.

Mrs. Eliza Hoppin died in Oct, 1852, in Talkington township, and Charles T. Hoppin was married Feb., 1855, in Madison county, N. Y., to Phinetta G. Parmenter. They have seven children born in Sangamon county, GEORGE L., NETTIE A., KATE L., FLORENCE M., FREDDIE P., ANNIE F. and CARRIE P., and reside in Talkington township, seven miles west of Auburn.



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