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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.



JOHNSON, ELIAS, was born in Delaware, and went to Fayette county, Ky., when a young man. He was there married to Margery Martin, a native of Delaware also. They had four children in Kentucky, and moved to Clark county, Ind., where six children were born, and in 1830 the family moved to Sangamon county, Ill., and settled in what is now Cooper township. Of their children--

AARON, married in Indiana, moved to Texas, had four children, came to Sangamon county on a visit, and died in 1851 in Cooper township.

JOHN, born about 1805 in Casey county, Ky., went back from Indiana, and was married near Lexington to Elizabeth Martin; came to Sangamon county; his wife died. He married again, and died in 1866 in Sangamon county, leaving children by both marriages.

DANIEL, born Aug. 1, 1807, in Casey county, Ky., married in Sangamon county, in 1838, to Mary E. Ferguson. They had two children--one died young. ELIAS J., born April 10, 1841, in Sangamon county, enlisted Aug., 1862, for three years, in Co. E, 114th Ill. Inf., served full term, and was honorably discharged. He was married, Jan., 1869, to Mary M. Boyce, and lives near Breckenridge. Mrs. Mary E. Johnson died in Aug., 1845, and Daniel Johnson was married, April, 1846, to Sarah Young, who died in Sept., 1846. Daniel Johnson was married in Jan., 1851, to Mrs. Julia G. Dickerson, who had previously been Mrs. Welch, and whose maiden name was Cooper. They had four children; all died under seven years. They reside in Breckenridge, Sangamon county, Illinois.

WILLIAM B., born in 1809, in Casey county, Ky., came with his parents to Sangamon county, returned to Clark county, Ind., and was married there, in 1831, to Anna Huckleberry. They had six children in Sangamon county. TODD S. is married, and is a traveling preacher in the M. E. Church, and resides at Oconee, Ill.--1874. SARAH lives with her mother. EARLY S., MELVILLE C. and ASBURY C., have families, and live near Monticello, Ill. NORMAN A. lives with his mother. Wm. B. Johnson was a local preacher in the M. E. Church. He died in 1870, and his widow resides at Monticello, Piatt county, Ill--1874.

JAMES, born in Clark county, Ind., united with the M. E. Church, in Springfield, went to Texas, about 1850, and became a traveling preacher, and Presiding Elder in the M. E. Church, South; married there, and resides at Huntsville, Walker county, Texas--1874.

ELISHA, born July 16, 1814, in Clark county, Ind., married Sarah A. Hutchins, had three children in Sangamon county, and in the fall of 1847 moved to Arkansas, where they had three children--COLBERT R., born Jan. 28, 1843, in Sangamon county, married in Texas, and died there, leaving a widow and two children. MARY, born May 14, 1845, in Springfield, married Benj. A. Giger. See his name. ELIZABETH, born April 13, 1847, in Sangamon county, married in Springfield, Sept. 19, 1869, to John W. Corby, and lives in Springfield. MARGERY, born and died in Arkansas, aged fourteen. JAMES H., born April 25, 1854, in Arkansas, lives with his sister, Mrs. Giger. NANCY I. died, aged seven years. Mrs. S. A. Johnson died in 1857, in Arkansas. Elisha Johnson was married to Mrs. Jane L. Creger, moved back to Sangamon county in 1865, and died Dec., 1866, in Cooper township, leaving a widow and one child, who soon returned to Arkansas.

ZACHARIAH, born in 1816, in Indiana, married in Sangamon county to Delilah Todd, and had three children--SARAH A. and MARY E., twins, born Aug. 29, 1848. SARAH A. married Joseph Bardwell, and live near Breckenridge. MARY E. married Hosea B. Ross, and live near Rochester. JAMES F., born June 11, 1850, married Fannie Rhodes, and lives near Breckenridge. Z. Johnson died about 1855, and his widow married Joseph Johnson. See his name.

JOSEPH, born in Indiana, married in Sangamon county to Mrs. Delilah Johnson, whose maiden name was Todd. They had three children, and she died in 1866. He married Amanda J. Frazee. Joseph Johnson died in Cooper township, and his widow and one child live at Macon, Macon county, Illinois.

ELIAS H., born about 1830, in Indiana, died unmarried. in 1860.

ELIZABETH, and

SARAH A., born in Indiana, and died in Sangamon county, the former at twenty, and the latter aged four years.

Elias Johnson and Mrs. Margery Johnson both died in Cooper township, Sangamon county.



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